From: "Alexandra Charpentier"
Title: Aftermath
By: Alexandra/Heather
First Posted: Sept. 26, 1999 (12:03 am *snicker*)
Catergories: ANGST, JJ HR, DBN HR, FAMILY
Rating: PG, it's very sad
Archivers and homepagers: have fun, but as always you can ask for the Word
copy which is much neater.
Based on an idea from "Beseiged in Paradise"
AFTERMATH by Alexandra/Heather
Alladnra Bannon couldn't stop the series of images, sounds, and thoughts
that played over and over in her head, like a broken record.
She could feel them panic as the oxygen tanks ran out. They were too far
below. They tried to swim for the surface. Allandra, on her canoe, had tried
to kinesis the two men up faster. Not fast enough. Then a whale, a humpback,
swam directly over them. They fell out of consciousness, the last thoughts
of consciousness ringing in their minds
Dr. Quest: *I love you Jonny*
Race: *I love you Jessie*
It had happened so fast. "*I'm so sorry!*" she sent and sobbed loudly at
the same time.
Hadji had sensed what was going on and was bringing Jonny's glider down.
Allandra jumped into the water and took her father and Dr. Quest flew out
of the wather by kinesis (she didn't care now if anybody saw her) to the
beach. She set them down and closed their eyes, sobbing.
"*No...no...no...*" she cried. Then she saw the others in her mind.
Allandra sensed Hadji crying silently, Jessie and Jonny getting the news,
their cries and grief. Hadji steered the boat to the beach as Jessie and
Jonny hugged each other and cried.
Allandra was overwhelmed. The only thing she could do is cut off the link
from Hadji. He had enough grief of his own to deal with without Allandra's,
Jessie's, and Jonny's.
She remembered the incredible sadness and gut-wrenching sobs as all of them
took Race's and Dr. Quest's pulses to be sure, and cried even harder.
Allandra told them of Dr. Quest's and Race's last thoughts, and, it being
too much for Jessie, Jessie fainted.
She came to in Jonny's arms on a couch at the hotel.
"Why did it happen?" Jessie asked.
"I don't know," said Jonny.
"We're orphans now," said Jessie.
"This is for all intents and purposes the third time for me," Allandra
remembered. "The assassination of my Janai parents, the death of my
may-as-well-be human mother, and now Daddy."
"Twice for me," said Jessie, who NEVER talked about her pre-Bannon family.
"Another father gone, and nothing I could do," lamented Hadji.
"It's complete for me now, I'm all alone," said Jonny.
There were, of course, Estella and Neela, but nobody thought of them at the
moment.
She remembered the funeral a few days later. Estella and Neela were there
then. There were many tears shed at the huge double-funeral and many
journalists and photogrphers. After a story was made up to hide Allandra's
psychic abilities, they were violent with any others who tried to approach.
The four of them were never alone, and shut out everybody but each other.
They went back to Maine. Hadji started going to school, so he wouldn't be
alone during the day. They took all the same classes, despite the age
difference.
They bagan to speak more, about things other than those of sorrow and
grief. But everything they did, everywhere in Maine they went, would remind
them somehow of Race and Dr. Quest. There was some fighting, especially
between Jessie and Allandra, but they always ended with heartfelt apologies.
"We can't stay here," Hadji said after one particularly torturous day.
Allandra, Jonny and Jessie agreed.
They went to the computer and had it take a city from all the cities in the
United States except Hawaii and Maine.
This is the name the computer wpit out: Titusville, Florida.
"Now y'all'll *all* be Florida crackers," Allandra commented, and got a
courtesy laugh, not real.
And that's how they found themselves at Titusville High School, all taking
junior classed, and a few freshman classes the school required for
graduation. They still had a general attitude of 'whatever' and still kept
to themselves much. Allandra had to use force telepathy to get them into the
same classes. With Lara's Janai powers (i.e. Allandra's past life) it was
not only possible but easy.
In their first class, Career Research, they almost got in a fight with the
teacher after a comment he had made about "working in the Hadji Mart all
your life."
"Take it back," Allandra, Jessie and Jonny had said, low and savage.
"Calm yourselves my friends," Hadji said, "There is no offense given..."
"...where none is taken," they finished quietly with him. That had settled
that.
In thir second-block class, English, they were reading "The Tragedy of
Romeo And Juliet."
"More death," Jessie lamented.
"Suicide," came the voice of someone who had overheard.
"Come on," Allandra said with Floridian optimisim she didn't feel, "that's
the play you made fun of me with."
"Oh yeah!" said Jessie. "Falst upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backward..."
"Okay, okay," said Allandra.
"Poor Mercutio," Jonny said, "murdered in cold blood-"
"Murder!" Allandra said suddenly.
"What?" started Hadji but then they all realized what she meant.
"Surd!" they all said at the same time.
"I'll kill him myself," Jonny said, standing up.
"This isn't a time for venegance, Jonny," said Jessie, taking Jonny's hand.
"Let's not write the Book of Rage," said Hadji.
"Would you both just stop it!" said Jonny loudly, not thinking.
"This isn't working," said Allandra. (By now the whole class is watching.)
"We can't stay here hiding like cowards from the truth, yes Surd will be
punished, but save that for when we're thinking straight."
"You're right," said Jonny, sitting down, "we can't hide from-"
"Daddy!" whispered Allandra. "Dr. Quest! They're alive! Or, rather...I'm
not sure, but their conscious minds are still at work!"
"That's impossible! You felt them die! You brought them up from the water!
We took their pulses one...by one!" Jessie was crying.
Allandra cried too, tears of joy. Hadji felt it too.
"It is an awakening," Hadji explained.
"Yes," Allandra said. "When they died they were lost among the voices of
the dead. But they were strong. They got out! I heard my name called, since
I would be the one to hear, in both their voices!"
"You HAVE to do a force now," said Jonny. A 'force' is force telepathy,
where you- duh- force open the mind to other people's thoughts.
"Of course. Let's split."
They left amid the shocked silence of their one-time classmates and
teacher.
They ran all the way to the dock on the Indian River. They sat down in
front of each other, cross-legged, as if there were a board game in front of
them.
"Hold hands," Allandra commanded.
It is a very complicated thing, a force telepathy. Unless you've
experienced one it's hard to explain due to lack of a frame of reference.
Jessie and Jonny gasped as the breakthrough happened. They could hear in
their minds the thoughts of each other, of Hadji and Allandra, and- their
dads!
*Welcome home,* Allandra sent to Race and Dr. Quest.
*Thank you,* Race and Dr. Quest chorused.
*We missed you so much,* sent Dr. Quest.
*We missed you too,* sent Jonny. *Way to go Al!*
*Hey, only one person can call me that,* Allandra sent, *and he's back.*
****THE END****
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Title: Aftermath
By: Alexandra/Heather
First Posted: Sept. 26, 1999 (12:03 am *snicker*)
Catergories: ANGST, JJ HR, DBN HR, FAMILY
Rating: PG, it's very sad
Archivers and homepagers: have fun, but as always you can ask for the Word
copy which is much neater.
Based on an idea from "Beseiged in Paradise"
AFTERMATH by Alexandra/Heather
Alladnra Bannon couldn't stop the series of images, sounds, and thoughts
that played over and over in her head, like a broken record.
She could feel them panic as the oxygen tanks ran out. They were too far
below. They tried to swim for the surface. Allandra, on her canoe, had tried
to kinesis the two men up faster. Not fast enough. Then a whale, a humpback,
swam directly over them. They fell out of consciousness, the last thoughts
of consciousness ringing in their minds
Dr. Quest: *I love you Jonny*
Race: *I love you Jessie*
It had happened so fast. "*I'm so sorry!*" she sent and sobbed loudly at
the same time.
Hadji had sensed what was going on and was bringing Jonny's glider down.
Allandra jumped into the water and took her father and Dr. Quest flew out
of the wather by kinesis (she didn't care now if anybody saw her) to the
beach. She set them down and closed their eyes, sobbing.
"*No...no...no...*" she cried. Then she saw the others in her mind.
Allandra sensed Hadji crying silently, Jessie and Jonny getting the news,
their cries and grief. Hadji steered the boat to the beach as Jessie and
Jonny hugged each other and cried.
Allandra was overwhelmed. The only thing she could do is cut off the link
from Hadji. He had enough grief of his own to deal with without Allandra's,
Jessie's, and Jonny's.
She remembered the incredible sadness and gut-wrenching sobs as all of them
took Race's and Dr. Quest's pulses to be sure, and cried even harder.
Allandra told them of Dr. Quest's and Race's last thoughts, and, it being
too much for Jessie, Jessie fainted.
She came to in Jonny's arms on a couch at the hotel.
"Why did it happen?" Jessie asked.
"I don't know," said Jonny.
"We're orphans now," said Jessie.
"This is for all intents and purposes the third time for me," Allandra
remembered. "The assassination of my Janai parents, the death of my
may-as-well-be human mother, and now Daddy."
"Twice for me," said Jessie, who NEVER talked about her pre-Bannon family.
"Another father gone, and nothing I could do," lamented Hadji.
"It's complete for me now, I'm all alone," said Jonny.
There were, of course, Estella and Neela, but nobody thought of them at the
moment.
She remembered the funeral a few days later. Estella and Neela were there
then. There were many tears shed at the huge double-funeral and many
journalists and photogrphers. After a story was made up to hide Allandra's
psychic abilities, they were violent with any others who tried to approach.
The four of them were never alone, and shut out everybody but each other.
They went back to Maine. Hadji started going to school, so he wouldn't be
alone during the day. They took all the same classes, despite the age
difference.
They bagan to speak more, about things other than those of sorrow and
grief. But everything they did, everywhere in Maine they went, would remind
them somehow of Race and Dr. Quest. There was some fighting, especially
between Jessie and Allandra, but they always ended with heartfelt apologies.
"We can't stay here," Hadji said after one particularly torturous day.
Allandra, Jonny and Jessie agreed.
They went to the computer and had it take a city from all the cities in the
United States except Hawaii and Maine.
This is the name the computer wpit out: Titusville, Florida.
"Now y'all'll *all* be Florida crackers," Allandra commented, and got a
courtesy laugh, not real.
And that's how they found themselves at Titusville High School, all taking
junior classed, and a few freshman classes the school required for
graduation. They still had a general attitude of 'whatever' and still kept
to themselves much. Allandra had to use force telepathy to get them into the
same classes. With Lara's Janai powers (i.e. Allandra's past life) it was
not only possible but easy.
In their first class, Career Research, they almost got in a fight with the
teacher after a comment he had made about "working in the Hadji Mart all
your life."
"Take it back," Allandra, Jessie and Jonny had said, low and savage.
"Calm yourselves my friends," Hadji said, "There is no offense given..."
"...where none is taken," they finished quietly with him. That had settled
that.
In thir second-block class, English, they were reading "The Tragedy of
Romeo And Juliet."
"More death," Jessie lamented.
"Suicide," came the voice of someone who had overheard.
"Come on," Allandra said with Floridian optimisim she didn't feel, "that's
the play you made fun of me with."
"Oh yeah!" said Jessie. "Falst upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backward..."
"Okay, okay," said Allandra.
"Poor Mercutio," Jonny said, "murdered in cold blood-"
"Murder!" Allandra said suddenly.
"What?" started Hadji but then they all realized what she meant.
"Surd!" they all said at the same time.
"I'll kill him myself," Jonny said, standing up.
"This isn't a time for venegance, Jonny," said Jessie, taking Jonny's hand.
"Let's not write the Book of Rage," said Hadji.
"Would you both just stop it!" said Jonny loudly, not thinking.
"This isn't working," said Allandra. (By now the whole class is watching.)
"We can't stay here hiding like cowards from the truth, yes Surd will be
punished, but save that for when we're thinking straight."
"You're right," said Jonny, sitting down, "we can't hide from-"
"Daddy!" whispered Allandra. "Dr. Quest! They're alive! Or, rather...I'm
not sure, but their conscious minds are still at work!"
"That's impossible! You felt them die! You brought them up from the water!
We took their pulses one...by one!" Jessie was crying.
Allandra cried too, tears of joy. Hadji felt it too.
"It is an awakening," Hadji explained.
"Yes," Allandra said. "When they died they were lost among the voices of
the dead. But they were strong. They got out! I heard my name called, since
I would be the one to hear, in both their voices!"
"You HAVE to do a force now," said Jonny. A 'force' is force telepathy,
where you- duh- force open the mind to other people's thoughts.
"Of course. Let's split."
They left amid the shocked silence of their one-time classmates and
teacher.
They ran all the way to the dock on the Indian River. They sat down in
front of each other, cross-legged, as if there were a board game in front of
them.
"Hold hands," Allandra commanded.
It is a very complicated thing, a force telepathy. Unless you've
experienced one it's hard to explain due to lack of a frame of reference.
Jessie and Jonny gasped as the breakthrough happened. They could hear in
their minds the thoughts of each other, of Hadji and Allandra, and- their
dads!
*Welcome home,* Allandra sent to Race and Dr. Quest.
*Thank you,* Race and Dr. Quest chorused.
*We missed you so much,* sent Dr. Quest.
*We missed you too,* sent Jonny. *Way to go Al!*
*Hey, only one person can call me that,* Allandra sent, *and he's back.*
****THE END****
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