Never trust playing cards
A/N: Alright I know the title is a little weird but you'll see in a second why I named it that. I don't own any of this. Also this is going to get a lot longer. Yeah I know it's already long. Sorry about that. But I'm crossing my fingers Zeta Project is coming back late January.
Ro fell asleep on the ride home. He stepped up to the house pressing Ro's hand to the finger print lock. It opened. He pulled open the door. He shut and locked it shifting Ro in his arms. He walked up the stairs silently. He pushed open Ro's door to her room.
He laid Ro on her bed. He stood there watching her for a few moments before sitting down beside Ro. He touched her hair lightly hoping he wouldn't wake her up. He smiled as moved her so he could lie beside her. Ro was already dreaming off in a far off place. But she felt somewhat safer in a set of arms.
It was her brother years younger. He was walking along the beach giving her a piggyback ride. They walked with a group of children. They were all together back then. It was before they all got split up. Ro could see two teens fighting ahead of her. Her brother just sighed turning to his friend Milo. "Do they ever stop fighting?"
"Nope. Marica's winning though."
"Orin never wins even if he wins."
"I know what you mean."
Soon it switched. She was standing in the ocean water. She could feel the warm water fly past and back her ankles. Two men, looking like soldiers walked down the beach. One man with a small blonde hair girl. The other man with a chocolate brown hair girl. Both of them had tan complexions as she could tell probably from living on the beach.
"I think the beach wore them out."
"Yeah I think so."
"Today is something I'm gonna remember on the battlefield when I'm surrounded by the gunfire."
"We're leaving in two days."
"Yep I'm going to miss my little princess."
"Me too old friend." The man with the red head girl kissed her gently on the forehead. The other man shifted the girl in his arms holding her tightly.
"I love you baby." He whispered softly in her ear. "Don't you ever forget."
Ro closed her eyes blinking away the tears. Ro saw the little blonde hair girl sitting on the porch of their house. "Daddy can I go for a walk on the beach."
"Sure thing honey." They both walked along it. The girl went ahead. She had a small basket and picked up different seashells on the beach.
A boy was watching her walk along the beach. He had seen her before many times before. His father was on the same team as him and he had often seen her at parties and other things. He stepped up to her and tapped her on the shoulder. She jumped up.
"Sorry to startle you."
"Oh look what I did now." She looked at the shells that had scattered all around the sand. She picked them up.
"I've seen you before at a party I think."
"Really I haven't seen you before."
"You were at the beach yesterday right? With Marica and Orin?"
"Yeah."
"I was wondering if you would like to play. I meant to ask yesterday but Scott was playing with you."
"Sure what's your name?" She shrugged having nothing better to do.
"Luthor. What's yours?"
"Rose."
"I like it."
"Thank you." She smiled. Ro had seen that face before. He took her hand.
"Here I'll show you something." He picked her up easily and spun her around. She felt dizzy and held on to his shoulder tightly. He put her down. "Isn't that the best feeling in the world?"
"Yeah." They had soon decided to play tag. He helped her out by going slow. Since she was a girl and a few years younger than he was. They looked up as they heard the sound of planes flying relatively low. Soon afterwards sirens went off. Luthor had taken her hand and ran swiftly into the forest. He didn't like the looks of this. Soon there were sounds of bombshells being dropped. Gunshots filled the air. They both ran as fast as they could.
Soon the sound of a whistle could be heard. It was seconds before the loudest frightening sound ever made. The blast knocked her first in a tree and Luthor right behind her. He laid over her protecting her. She cried to herself.
That was the longest day in her entire life. She had woken up from the darkness with her head pounding and all she could remember was Luthor telling her to run. She had to keep running. She was to never stop running. She still hadn't.
That night she was barely holding onto her life. "Luthor stay awake."
"I can't Rose I'm too tired, too cold, too weak."
"Luthor no don't sleep. Don't sleep. Please don't go to sleep Luthor."
"Rose I know we will meet again. Don't forget about me." His eyes went blank. His eyes had only one question. Why had he died? What did he do to deserve to die?
The next morning they found her barely holding on. "Guys we have a live one here."
"Help me."
"We are sweetheart. You're gonna be alright and we're going to find your family." The soldier told her that over and over again. In her mind she didn't know any family. She couldn't recall ever having any. She was alone in this world. Luthor left her after trying so hard to protect her. She clutched the soldier's shoulder crying to herself. She had lost everything that she knew that day.
Ro woke up crying to herself. She touched her face. It was just old dreams coming again. They seemed to get more detailed each time. Zee blinked as he woke up.
"Ro what's wrong?"
"Nothing Zee just a nightmare."
"Are you gonna be alright?"
"Yeah I'm fine." She curled closer to him. She needed to be close to something. She was going insane. Zee wasn't Luthor. Luthor had been dead for twelve years. Zee was a synthoid. There was no possible way that he could be in anyway Luthor.
Zee just held her remembering she would have nightmares when they traveled together. She would never talk about them. All he knew was that Ro was scared. He would try to calm her down. But he knew as much now as he did back then about comforting Ro. Which didn't help much.
Later that morning Zee was getting ready to leave. Zee sat beside Ro trying to say goodbye to her but of course she wasn't making it any easier for him. He had to leave that morning. He was going to leave alone. "Zee let me go with you. I don't need to finish highschool." She asked in a begging tone.
"Ro you should at least try. All that work you did would have been a waste of time."
"Okay fine, here let's draw cards." She asked desperately.
"What for?"
"If I get a higher card I can come with you. If you get a higher card I'll stay here and finish school."
"What is an ace worth? One or the most?" He asked making the rules knowledgeable.
"One." She said hoping she got a higher card. It was so much more boring here without him around. He nodded now knowing what each card is worth.
"Okay. Do you want me to shuffle them or do you want to shuffle them?"
"I'll shuffle them since you might be able to cheat somehow."
"Okay go ahead." He said sitting back. He wasn't shocked that Ro thought he would cheat. He watched as she shuffled them thoroughly. She set them down.
"Alright draw your card." He picked one in the middle. She picked one out. "Show your cards."
They both flipped it around so the other could see. Ro had a queen of diamonds and Zee had the king of clubs. "Sorry Ro it's for your own good."
"It's alright I'll try it next time."
"Okay. I'll be ready." She walked with him to his car. He smiled as she hugged him.
"Bye Zee. Promise you'll come back?"
"Yeah I promise Ro."
"See ya around Zee."
"Bye Ro." He drove off. He waved to her as he went around the corner. He smiled to himself as he looked at his card. He almost felt bad for tricking her. He used his hologram to make it a king of clubs. He really got the ace of hearts. But he wouldn't tell her that. She might kill him for it if she ever found out.
