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Forlay: It is? *hugs* I feel so loved! And I'm still not totally well, but I'll try to get better so I can write more chapters soon!
Alisha: I did? Sorry. Here's the next chappie! (Yes, CHAPPIE)
Nina: *laughs* I'll try. After the series is done. But I'll try!
Jinako-chan: Oh vey? That's what Erek and Marco said. Then Marco attempted to attack me. X_x But Erek held him back, so I'm not dead. ^^;
Unreflected Image: Cool new name, girl. And I ignore the insanity. *pokes at fangirl goo* Get up, dammit! I didn't work on this chapter for nothing, you know!
Alikat: Nightie's cool, too! But Pietro still rocks! (I wonder how long we'll be debating this for...)
fangrlwlotsofideas: You love me? *sniff* I - I - *bursts into tears* *blubbers* I LOVE YOU TOO! And go to Forlay's site. It rocks! *peace sign* P.S. Hahaha I bought earplugs.
Teika: Here's what the other 'morphs think!
Lauren: Nope, not just you. I think it'd be funny. Maybe I'll try it... *hears screams from the background* What?
Early: Your review was confusing... but there's no Ellimist this chapter... though everyone's OOC... X_x
Pippin's Overused Toothbrush: For the love of cheese? *flexes claws* Cheese mean mice and mice mean kitty food... *drool* ...Erm, anyways... Withdrawls?! Oh, God! Here's the next chapter!
Chapter Ten
|Marco's POV|
Erek? What is going on? I do not believe that two human males are accepted doing that together. Or so it was mentioned on The Young And The Restless.
Erek and I leaped away from each other, blushing furiously.
Okay, maybe I *did* care if someone walked into the hologram.
"Ax, we, uh... I - I - I'm not under the control of that drug anymore!" I said brightly, leaning as far back into the tree as I could. Erek resumed his hologram. Or just dropped it all together, I wasn't sure which.
Strange to have him human.
Ah! This is strange. The effect was not meant to wear off for at least fifteen more days. A pause. Erek. Have you found a way to produce two holograms at a time? I am sure that you were human when I walked in on the two of you pressing your mouth parts together.
Erek grinned, blushed, and suppressed a laugh. "I'd appreciate it if you didn't mention that to Jake. And yes, I was human. No, it wasn't a hologram. I had a run-in with the Ellimist. I'll explain it to you all when the others come."
They will arrive in approximately three of your minutes.
"They are not *my* minutes, Ax. They are *everybody's* minutes. This is Earth. They are your minutes too, now." I told him. An ongoing joke between us.
He turned a stalk eye my way. Or thirty-five gatans. The Andalite minute, to crudely translate.
"Ah. Well, then, these are my minutes. And a very fine few minutes, indeed."
Ax said something about 'undecipherable human humour' and walked away.
Erek rolled his eyes. "You people, and I use the term loosely, are not dead yet because...?"
"Hey, the Yeerks think I'm cute. They're not going to kill a cute guy and his average-looking friends."
He laughed. "I dunno. Jake's cute." He teased, wrapping his arms around my waist. I pouted.
"Cuter than me?"
"No one," He breathed in my ear. "Is cute than *my* Marco."
I snorted playfully. "*Your* Marco? Hardly. You're mine." I tried to get out of his hold.
And found I couldn't.
"Hey!"
"No, you would be mine."
I struggled in a pseudo-attempt to escape. Erek didn't even move, holding onto me like I was just standing there.
"Awwww, now isn't this cute!" Rachel said with a slight sneer. "Big, strong Marco can't get away from Erek."
I stopped struggling, and Erek released me.
"I'd like to see you get out of the Hulk's son's hold, Xena."
"You're... normal!" She said, surprised. Then, "Or rather, normal for you."
I rolled my eyes. "Oh, thanks. Glad to see you missed me."
"How?" Jake asked, looking at me with a 'you'd better tell me now or I'll be forced to injure you severly' look.
I sighed. "Sit down, Big Jake. And I'll explain. Or rather, Erek'll explain. He knows the full story."
Jake looked at Erek questionaningly, but sat down. The others followed suit, Tobias perched on Rachel's shoulder. Ax came running over to us.
Hello, Prince Jake.
"Hi, Ax. Don't call me Prince."
"Yeah, hi!" I said with a grin. "Pull up a chair. Or whatever you Andalites do."
I do not see a chair.
Jake glared at me. "Just listen to Erek, Ax."
I shrugged, and turned to Erek. "Your show."
|Erek's POV|
I didn't quite know where to start. But I figured that I should leave out the part about Marco and I till the end, so I began with showing them that I was human.
"Well, first of all, I have to show you something." I extended my hologram around us, and still my body was human. Of course.
They stared.
"You're... human!" Cassie blurted out, looking shocked. She reached out to touch my arm, looking even more shocked when she touched skin and not metal. Marco brushed her hand away.
"Mine." He said with a grin. They all looked at him.
"Anyway." Jake said, looking equally shocked. "How did you become human?"
"The Ellimist decided he needed a make-over. Being human is very fashionable these days." Marco smiled, with pseudo-innocence.
"The Ellimist made me human," I explained. "On two conditions. One, only my body would become human. I would be pure Chee for everything else. Chee strength, Chee senses, and Chee programming. I can even use the Chee- net still.
"The second condition involved Marco. I will die the very second he does. I will not live a minute longer."
Long pause.
Why Marco? Tobias asked finally, breaking the silence.
Marco's grin became wider. "Well, you see, that medicine forces me to show all the emotions that I normally wouldn't. Anyone understand?"
A moment's pause...
"Marco... all that affection towards Erek...." Cassie said, looking rather amazed.
"No way." Rachel stated, looking disbelievingly at Marco. "No. Way. This is another one of your jokes, isn't it?"
Marco smiled. And leaned over and kissed me. Quickly, but sweetly. I could feel myself blushing like an idiot, and put up a hologram of my face *not* blushing.
"Ooooookaaaaaay. Marco has gone officially insane." Rachel said. She looked straight at Marco, her expression unreadable. "You are so lucky that Erek can't hit you."
"Why would I?" I asked.
"Because," Rachel said matter-of-factly. "Marco kisses are right up there with having a Yeerk in your brain."
Erek appeared to be enjoying this act called kissing when I saw them earlier. Ax put in. Not helpfully.
Jake sighed wearily. "Okay. Okay. Let's just skip this part, shall we? Why did the Ellimist turn you human?" He directed the last question at me, not even looking at Marco. Marco himself looked slightly hurt.
"I... wasn't allowed to tell some things." I answered slowly. "But... it was because... he said that you all had someone that... supplied you with... love. Or at least, that's how he put it."
Supplied? Love? Tobia asked incredulously.
"Yes. He said, as an example, you and Rachel." I told him. "Jake and Cassie. Even Ax and Estrid, for a little while."
I noticed Ax's face turn slightly purple. This would have been a human way of expressing extreme anger, but I suppose it was an Andalite blush.
I found it rather amusing.
|Jake's POV|
I just sat there as Erek told us everything. It was almost... unreal. That sounds so strange coming from me, especially after everything I've been through. The Animorphs have been through. But this...
My best friend, in love with an android?
Former android, granted, but an android nonetheless.
I watched Erek's face as he spoke. I supposed it was covered by his hologram. But I don't think any of us missed the way he smiled when he told us how some things, and people, were destined to be. None of us missed how Marco slowly but subtly slid himself into Erek's lap. None of us missed of incredibly happy the two of them were.
Not even me. Not even me, the cold, fearless leader.
We left them after awhile, Rachel unusually silent. She seemed to be thinking things over. Tobias and Ax were silent as well, but that was normal for them. Cassie looked happy. It made me wonder if she had known it all along.
Me, I was expressionless. Or, at lest, my face was. Inside, everything Erek had said kept going over and over in my mind. It was like a cycle that I couldn't escape from.
I morphed later on, and entered the Chee underground as a fly. None of them noticed. I could see through all the holograms, if they were up. I didn't take me long to find Erek and Marco.
They were together.
They weren't kissing, or hugging. Marco was just sitting quietly in his lap, resting his head against Erek's chest. Erek himself was running his fingers absently through Marco's hair. Every now and then, Erek or Marco would whisper something to the other, and then one of them would smile. But mostly, they just sat silently in each other's embrace.
Content with each other.
It was something I envied with all my soul.
I wanted that contentedness, that peace that I couldn't have. I wanted that second of completeness that would never be mine.
I wanted something I couldn't have. I wanted that wonderful feeling of having a soulmate that understood you.
But I was happy for Marco, all the sme, even if his choice was strange. And I was happy for Erek, too.
But still, I envy them.
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I feel so bad that this took so long. But I was seriously sick. I did have this done, but I was home sick for three days (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) and Wednesday I coughed up disturbing amounts of blood. I went to the hospital, where they said something was wrong (big name, can't remember). So that took up that day. And tonight I had loads of homework to catch up on. Altogether, 306 math questions, seven language sheets, two French pages, a Health project and a History map. Woo. Fun.
I hate school right now. -_-;
Review, please? *chibi eyes*
Oh, sh*t. Just coughed up more blood. Have to call my mom. Bye.
Forlay: It is? *hugs* I feel so loved! And I'm still not totally well, but I'll try to get better so I can write more chapters soon!
Alisha: I did? Sorry. Here's the next chappie! (Yes, CHAPPIE)
Nina: *laughs* I'll try. After the series is done. But I'll try!
Jinako-chan: Oh vey? That's what Erek and Marco said. Then Marco attempted to attack me. X_x But Erek held him back, so I'm not dead. ^^;
Unreflected Image: Cool new name, girl. And I ignore the insanity. *pokes at fangirl goo* Get up, dammit! I didn't work on this chapter for nothing, you know!
Alikat: Nightie's cool, too! But Pietro still rocks! (I wonder how long we'll be debating this for...)
fangrlwlotsofideas: You love me? *sniff* I - I - *bursts into tears* *blubbers* I LOVE YOU TOO! And go to Forlay's site. It rocks! *peace sign* P.S. Hahaha I bought earplugs.
Teika: Here's what the other 'morphs think!
Lauren: Nope, not just you. I think it'd be funny. Maybe I'll try it... *hears screams from the background* What?
Early: Your review was confusing... but there's no Ellimist this chapter... though everyone's OOC... X_x
Pippin's Overused Toothbrush: For the love of cheese? *flexes claws* Cheese mean mice and mice mean kitty food... *drool* ...Erm, anyways... Withdrawls?! Oh, God! Here's the next chapter!
Chapter Ten
|Marco's POV|
Erek? What is going on? I do not believe that two human males are accepted doing that together. Or so it was mentioned on The Young And The Restless.
Erek and I leaped away from each other, blushing furiously.
Okay, maybe I *did* care if someone walked into the hologram.
"Ax, we, uh... I - I - I'm not under the control of that drug anymore!" I said brightly, leaning as far back into the tree as I could. Erek resumed his hologram. Or just dropped it all together, I wasn't sure which.
Strange to have him human.
Ah! This is strange. The effect was not meant to wear off for at least fifteen more days. A pause. Erek. Have you found a way to produce two holograms at a time? I am sure that you were human when I walked in on the two of you pressing your mouth parts together.
Erek grinned, blushed, and suppressed a laugh. "I'd appreciate it if you didn't mention that to Jake. And yes, I was human. No, it wasn't a hologram. I had a run-in with the Ellimist. I'll explain it to you all when the others come."
They will arrive in approximately three of your minutes.
"They are not *my* minutes, Ax. They are *everybody's* minutes. This is Earth. They are your minutes too, now." I told him. An ongoing joke between us.
He turned a stalk eye my way. Or thirty-five gatans. The Andalite minute, to crudely translate.
"Ah. Well, then, these are my minutes. And a very fine few minutes, indeed."
Ax said something about 'undecipherable human humour' and walked away.
Erek rolled his eyes. "You people, and I use the term loosely, are not dead yet because...?"
"Hey, the Yeerks think I'm cute. They're not going to kill a cute guy and his average-looking friends."
He laughed. "I dunno. Jake's cute." He teased, wrapping his arms around my waist. I pouted.
"Cuter than me?"
"No one," He breathed in my ear. "Is cute than *my* Marco."
I snorted playfully. "*Your* Marco? Hardly. You're mine." I tried to get out of his hold.
And found I couldn't.
"Hey!"
"No, you would be mine."
I struggled in a pseudo-attempt to escape. Erek didn't even move, holding onto me like I was just standing there.
"Awwww, now isn't this cute!" Rachel said with a slight sneer. "Big, strong Marco can't get away from Erek."
I stopped struggling, and Erek released me.
"I'd like to see you get out of the Hulk's son's hold, Xena."
"You're... normal!" She said, surprised. Then, "Or rather, normal for you."
I rolled my eyes. "Oh, thanks. Glad to see you missed me."
"How?" Jake asked, looking at me with a 'you'd better tell me now or I'll be forced to injure you severly' look.
I sighed. "Sit down, Big Jake. And I'll explain. Or rather, Erek'll explain. He knows the full story."
Jake looked at Erek questionaningly, but sat down. The others followed suit, Tobias perched on Rachel's shoulder. Ax came running over to us.
Hello, Prince Jake.
"Hi, Ax. Don't call me Prince."
"Yeah, hi!" I said with a grin. "Pull up a chair. Or whatever you Andalites do."
I do not see a chair.
Jake glared at me. "Just listen to Erek, Ax."
I shrugged, and turned to Erek. "Your show."
|Erek's POV|
I didn't quite know where to start. But I figured that I should leave out the part about Marco and I till the end, so I began with showing them that I was human.
"Well, first of all, I have to show you something." I extended my hologram around us, and still my body was human. Of course.
They stared.
"You're... human!" Cassie blurted out, looking shocked. She reached out to touch my arm, looking even more shocked when she touched skin and not metal. Marco brushed her hand away.
"Mine." He said with a grin. They all looked at him.
"Anyway." Jake said, looking equally shocked. "How did you become human?"
"The Ellimist decided he needed a make-over. Being human is very fashionable these days." Marco smiled, with pseudo-innocence.
"The Ellimist made me human," I explained. "On two conditions. One, only my body would become human. I would be pure Chee for everything else. Chee strength, Chee senses, and Chee programming. I can even use the Chee- net still.
"The second condition involved Marco. I will die the very second he does. I will not live a minute longer."
Long pause.
Why Marco? Tobias asked finally, breaking the silence.
Marco's grin became wider. "Well, you see, that medicine forces me to show all the emotions that I normally wouldn't. Anyone understand?"
A moment's pause...
"Marco... all that affection towards Erek...." Cassie said, looking rather amazed.
"No way." Rachel stated, looking disbelievingly at Marco. "No. Way. This is another one of your jokes, isn't it?"
Marco smiled. And leaned over and kissed me. Quickly, but sweetly. I could feel myself blushing like an idiot, and put up a hologram of my face *not* blushing.
"Ooooookaaaaaay. Marco has gone officially insane." Rachel said. She looked straight at Marco, her expression unreadable. "You are so lucky that Erek can't hit you."
"Why would I?" I asked.
"Because," Rachel said matter-of-factly. "Marco kisses are right up there with having a Yeerk in your brain."
Erek appeared to be enjoying this act called kissing when I saw them earlier. Ax put in. Not helpfully.
Jake sighed wearily. "Okay. Okay. Let's just skip this part, shall we? Why did the Ellimist turn you human?" He directed the last question at me, not even looking at Marco. Marco himself looked slightly hurt.
"I... wasn't allowed to tell some things." I answered slowly. "But... it was because... he said that you all had someone that... supplied you with... love. Or at least, that's how he put it."
Supplied? Love? Tobia asked incredulously.
"Yes. He said, as an example, you and Rachel." I told him. "Jake and Cassie. Even Ax and Estrid, for a little while."
I noticed Ax's face turn slightly purple. This would have been a human way of expressing extreme anger, but I suppose it was an Andalite blush.
I found it rather amusing.
|Jake's POV|
I just sat there as Erek told us everything. It was almost... unreal. That sounds so strange coming from me, especially after everything I've been through. The Animorphs have been through. But this...
My best friend, in love with an android?
Former android, granted, but an android nonetheless.
I watched Erek's face as he spoke. I supposed it was covered by his hologram. But I don't think any of us missed the way he smiled when he told us how some things, and people, were destined to be. None of us missed how Marco slowly but subtly slid himself into Erek's lap. None of us missed of incredibly happy the two of them were.
Not even me. Not even me, the cold, fearless leader.
We left them after awhile, Rachel unusually silent. She seemed to be thinking things over. Tobias and Ax were silent as well, but that was normal for them. Cassie looked happy. It made me wonder if she had known it all along.
Me, I was expressionless. Or, at lest, my face was. Inside, everything Erek had said kept going over and over in my mind. It was like a cycle that I couldn't escape from.
I morphed later on, and entered the Chee underground as a fly. None of them noticed. I could see through all the holograms, if they were up. I didn't take me long to find Erek and Marco.
They were together.
They weren't kissing, or hugging. Marco was just sitting quietly in his lap, resting his head against Erek's chest. Erek himself was running his fingers absently through Marco's hair. Every now and then, Erek or Marco would whisper something to the other, and then one of them would smile. But mostly, they just sat silently in each other's embrace.
Content with each other.
It was something I envied with all my soul.
I wanted that contentedness, that peace that I couldn't have. I wanted that second of completeness that would never be mine.
I wanted something I couldn't have. I wanted that wonderful feeling of having a soulmate that understood you.
But I was happy for Marco, all the sme, even if his choice was strange. And I was happy for Erek, too.
But still, I envy them.
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I feel so bad that this took so long. But I was seriously sick. I did have this done, but I was home sick for three days (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) and Wednesday I coughed up disturbing amounts of blood. I went to the hospital, where they said something was wrong (big name, can't remember). So that took up that day. And tonight I had loads of homework to catch up on. Altogether, 306 math questions, seven language sheets, two French pages, a Health project and a History map. Woo. Fun.
I hate school right now. -_-;
Review, please? *chibi eyes*
Oh, sh*t. Just coughed up more blood. Have to call my mom. Bye.