Ok I'm not wasting my time, or yours for that matter and so I'm just going
to post it. PS sorry it so hella long. I got grounded.
Lydecker Plural
Part 24
Once we were outside Manticore I was shaking with fear. I didn't want to go back there and be the guinea pig. I wanted to be free and to live. I wanted to have a life, maybe some kids and have a family. But who was I kidding? I could never have kids and even if I did they would be freaks of nature...just like their mom.
"I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go." I said quietly and in a daze.
"Here, hold this." Matt told Strong as he got up and went back to where I was laying.
We just starred at each other for a bit. I know I had tears running down my face from both fear and sadness.
"I'll miss you." I said.
"And I love you." He said wiping the tears off my cheeks.
"I love you too. Matt, listen, I want you to move on with your life if I'm not out of there in two years."
"No." He held back the tears.
"Do it. For me." I tried to sit up but failed. Matt helped me get up. "Please." I begged.
"You'll be back with me. You won't be reprogrammed, right?"
"Never." I leaned forward and kissed him, transferring all my love for him in that sweet kiss. Matt kissed me back softly.
We broke apart and he dried my tears before kissing me once more, this time on my forehead. He started to get back to pilot the plane but I stopped him. "Tell my friends I'll miss them. I'm going to be missing everything once I'm better. The next mission I have I'll skip town and come back to you. Just stay in Anacortes unless you have to run. Tell Zack to change numbers."
He nodded, "I'll miss you, love." A tear slid down his face and he got back in the pilot's seat.
I laid back down and waited for the guys to open the doors and hook me up to the cable and send me down to the guards who were about to fire on the helicopter. Strong got me out of the helicopter and I began to descend to the hell I had come to avoid and hate.
A few feet above the ground I swallowed the lump in my throat and dried my tears. I put a stronger mask on my face and shoved all the feelings and hormones out of me the best I could. I was lucky I was very strong mentally. Otherwise I would not have been able to accomplish the task as well as I did. I let my anger and hate take over my sadness and fear.
Up above they cut the cable and sent it flying away careful not to hit me. They hovered there for about five seconds. *Go. Go. Go right now Matt.* I thought then I saw Ebeling force the chopper to move some way and Matt took it over and flew off at top speed.
The soldiers pointed the barrels of their guns at my body. If there was a time to be as strong as I had to be, then was it. "X5-792 reporting for duty. And maybe a cure for this thing I have going on." I said my voice steady and my eyes as hard as stone.
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(2021)
(Seattle compound)
BOOM!
I jump out of bed and look around trying to see what was happening. I had no idea. All I knew was I smelled smoke and when I tried to open the doors they wouldn't budge. I went over to my bunk and pulled a pistol out from under my pillow. I pulled my jacket on and harnessed the gun in the inside. I zipped it up and made sure no one could see it.
I went over to the steel door that had the tiny window, "Uh.is anyone there? I need some help!" I called down the empty hallway. I waited a minute before I finally started to think of what I could do to get out.
I looked around at the ceiling for an air duct I could climb through but they didn't have one handy. "HEY!!! SOMEONE!" I yelled down the halls. I tried to open the doors but they were locked. "Open up you little."
CLICK.
The door opens up and I sigh a breath of relief and run out of there as fast as I could. I didn't have any idea what was going on but I did know that I wanted out and the smoke was getting thicker.
There was a guard waiting for me but now I had two more years of training on my shoulders and I easily snapped his neck. I looked up at the ten foot high fence and-
WHOOSH!
I cleared it with the fence's top five feet below me. When I landed I ran. I ran as fast as I could and I didn't stop until I was at least three miles away from Manticore. I couldn't believe I was finally leaving Manticore once again. Yeah they kept me alive and young and kicked the Progeria but they made me forget. They made me forget my life and my name and everything I had before.
I know I had a life out here somewhere but I just can't remember it. I know I had a name by Lydecker decided that he would have to get the freedom out of me. Then he left around the time I was transported up to the Seattle's compound. I decided I would work with Manticore because A) he left me there without another thought and B) if I didn't it was another round of Psy-Ops. I didn't like Psy-Ops.that's what made me forget about my life and my name. Now I'm X5-792.
I was put in with all the other X5's but they still weren't allowed to know that Lydecker was my dad. I never even thought about it. I was like all the others just I had different genes. It was better this way because at least I had someone worthy to train with.
I knew I had to go north so I ran. I ran as fast as I could without looking behind. About a mile away from Manticore I came across I-5. I thought about walking along the road but then I saw all the military cars they had out there. I slinked back into the bush I was peering out of and ran back away from the road.
A few hours later it became difficult. I had run out of forest to run in and hit the urban area. I calmly walked out of the forest line like I belonged there but I looked around every once in a while looking for any military action. Luckily there was none.
I walked for a while when I came across a stop sign. There was someone there waiting.he was riding a Kawasaki Eliminator. I rushed down behind the guy and hopped on.
"What the-" I put the spare helmet on.
"Keep going and I won't kill you." I hissed pulling my gun out of my pocket and ramming it into his back.
The guy nodded and drove off. "Drive north. Don't hit the highway until you have to. And once we have to go through the check point I'm your girlfriend, got it?"
He was silent.
"Got it?" I push the gun deeper into his skin.
"Yes!" he yelped.
"Good."
He drove for ten minutes before he turned to look at me for a second.
"Where are we going?"
"I'll ask the questions. We're going north. That's all I know." I was silent for a bit. "What's your designation?"
"Designation?"
"Name." I said quickly.
"Uh, Conan."
Conan. What a funny name. "Just keep going."
"What's your name?" he asked.
I would have smacked him but he was the one driving and I didn't want to be a smudge on the roan, "No questions." I thought for a moment of the names I've heard before. Unfortunately I couldn't think of one so I began to look around. I saw my answer in a house window. Angel.
"It's okay if you don't want to tell me. Especially if it's gonna get me dead." He said shakily.
"My name's Angel." I said immediately after he said that. "You won't die unless you give a hint away about me hijacking you."
"We're going to be coming onto the freeway soon. You're my girlfriend named Angel."
"Good." I said.
Not five minutes after that I was forced to put my gun away and get comfortable with Conan due to the fact that we were going to have to talk to the guard.
"Be good." I warned quietly but forcefully.
"I need to see a sector pass." Conan handed the guard his pass. Apparently he checked out because the guard asked another question, "Where are you going?"
"My sister's having a baby. My girlfriend, Angel, and I are going to see her."
I smiled and kissed the back of his lower neck. Then I looked up at the guard and smiled, "I'm going to be an aunt. Aren't I Conan?" I played perfectly.
"Yes, love." He turned to look at me.
I smiled at him and gave him a light kiss on the lips.
"You can go." The guard said giving us a look that said 'do that some other time'.
Conan drove off leaving the guard to mess with the other cars. "How often do you hijack people?" He asked.
"This is really my first time. I'm just a really good actor. And you ask another question I'll shoot you."
We drove in silence for about two hours and a half when I got the weirdest urge to go into a town called Mount Vernon.
"Get off here." I ordered. We got off I-5 and I just knew where I was going. "Go up the hill." He did. "Turn left." I commanded at Lincoln Grocery.
A few blocks down I had him stop in front of a old house. Apparently no one had lived there in a few years and it was showing. I got off the bike and pulled Conan off with me.
"What are we doing?" he asked as I dragged him behind me.
I ignored him and kicked open the door. Nothing was in there but I looked around all the same. I didn't find anything but if I were to open a cupboard or a closet I would smell something familiar. It hit me. Me. That's what the smell was; it was me. I probably used to live here before Manticore.
Conan studied me as I looked around frantically. "Do I know you?" he asked at last.
I gave him a left hook to the jaw. "You don't know me and don't ask questions." I growled as he stumbled back.
"Shit." He muttered rubbing his jaw.
"Let's go." I pulled him along and we got back on the bike.
"I need gas." He said at last.
"Well then lets go get some." I hissed.
"Okay. Look there's an station a few streets up and I can get some there."
"Great. Now, go."
We got the gas and then we went down the hill. But when he was about to get back onto the freeway I stopped him. Just as I had followed my instincts to my old house I did that again and gave him directions and about an hour and a half later we ended up in a small town called Anacortes.
"Go up 12th to K Avenue. Turn a left." He did. "STOP!" I called right as he turned. That was it. That house was what I was looking for. I knew it down in my gut. I took my helmet off and put it on the back of Conan's bike.
"What are you going to do with them?" Conan asked.
"Who?"
"The people who live there. Don't kill them or hurt them."
"It depends."
"It doesn't depend on anything. You kill them I'll turn you in."
I ignored him and walked toward the old white house. Walking up to it I found myself unsure of what was in there. I was in some sort of daze or something because I barely acknowledged Conan following behind me. Letting my senses take over I found that the house was almost empty.
CRASH!
The sound of glass breaking made me jump. Conan pushed past me and walked on in. I watched as Conan went up to a guy that was sitting there on the ground starring at something.
"Hey, buddy." Conan said sitting down hiding the other guy from my view. "Where's-"
"She's at the store."
Conan nodded. I took this time and walked in.
Flashback
A guy came in through the door as I lay there on the floor.
"Do I really look that ugly?" I asked with a small smile.
His response was rushing to my side and supporting my neck. "Geneva, I've seen this before." he said gently.
"Where?" I asked.
"It's called Progeria. It's an aging disease and this hospital hasn't have the equipment to help you. Even if they did it'd be too expensive on our salary."
End Flashback
"Matt." I whispered so quiet I almost didn't hear myself say it. He was my- he was my everything. I loved him and when I got the Progeria it had been hell for me to watch him go. But I had allowed myself to be reprogrammed. I never thought that we would be together again.
Just then I realized I was slowly getting more and more information back. I just shut my mind and let it all come flooding into my mind. My bike. Conan. Ella. Cammie. Geisbreght. Pino. Strong. Courier. Ebeling. For some reason it was the people that rushed in first.
"JUST GO!" Matt's shouting brought me back to Earth. He shoved Conan away and put his head in his hands.
Conan stood up and looked at him thoughtfully and with a hint of pity. But after a second he left. I looked at Matt and realized he hadn't shaved in what looked like weeks and it looked like he hadn't taken a shower in a long while. He smelled like bourbon and well bourbon. I realized I had tears silently falling down my face.
I walked forward through the threshold and knelt down beside Matt. I took one hand and put it over his hand and then lifted his face up to face me. I brought my face down to his and gave him a gentle kiss.
I took my hand off his eyes and allowed him to see me. The second his eyes saw me tears flooded over his eyes and he collapsed in a fit of tears. His arms were around my lower back and he had his head rested on my lap.
"Don't leave me. Don't leave me. Don't leave me. Don't leave me. Don't leave me." he kept crying out.
"Shhh, I won't. I'm right here." I rocked him back and forth. I began to just let my tears out in full blast. "God I missed you."
Matt sat up suddenly. "No. This isn't real." He shook his head and I understood what was going through his brain. He thought he was dreaming.
I smiled warmly. "Matt, listen," I got closer to him and he leaned on my shoulder, "Go take a shower and shave and when you get out I'll be right out here."
Matt looked up at me with curiosity in his eyes. I sighed, "Don't make me drag you in there strip you and push you in the shower."
Again he didn't say anything.
"Listen, I promise I will be waiting in this house. Go take a quick shower and then we can go out for lunch or something." I smiled at him and helped him to his feet.
Matt nodded then went to the cupboard and grabbed a towel for him to use. Before he shut the door I gave him a smile. When the water turned on I turned back the all forgotten Conan.
"Hey Conan."
"I know you don't I?"
I nodded, "It's Geneva."
Conan's eyes went huge. "But.. They told me you were kidnapped and were presumably dead."
I smiled. "Well it's a long story, and it's one I can't tell you. But I forgot who I was until now. I was freed from the place I was at. Now I'm all better.well except for the fact that I know a lot about the military now."
"So some military wannabe's kidnapped you and trained you in the way of the military?"
I nodded. "But I'm back now so that's all good."
"Yeah."
A weird silence drifted between us.
"So. There any chance I could get my job back?"
Lydecker Plural
Part 24
Once we were outside Manticore I was shaking with fear. I didn't want to go back there and be the guinea pig. I wanted to be free and to live. I wanted to have a life, maybe some kids and have a family. But who was I kidding? I could never have kids and even if I did they would be freaks of nature...just like their mom.
"I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go." I said quietly and in a daze.
"Here, hold this." Matt told Strong as he got up and went back to where I was laying.
We just starred at each other for a bit. I know I had tears running down my face from both fear and sadness.
"I'll miss you." I said.
"And I love you." He said wiping the tears off my cheeks.
"I love you too. Matt, listen, I want you to move on with your life if I'm not out of there in two years."
"No." He held back the tears.
"Do it. For me." I tried to sit up but failed. Matt helped me get up. "Please." I begged.
"You'll be back with me. You won't be reprogrammed, right?"
"Never." I leaned forward and kissed him, transferring all my love for him in that sweet kiss. Matt kissed me back softly.
We broke apart and he dried my tears before kissing me once more, this time on my forehead. He started to get back to pilot the plane but I stopped him. "Tell my friends I'll miss them. I'm going to be missing everything once I'm better. The next mission I have I'll skip town and come back to you. Just stay in Anacortes unless you have to run. Tell Zack to change numbers."
He nodded, "I'll miss you, love." A tear slid down his face and he got back in the pilot's seat.
I laid back down and waited for the guys to open the doors and hook me up to the cable and send me down to the guards who were about to fire on the helicopter. Strong got me out of the helicopter and I began to descend to the hell I had come to avoid and hate.
A few feet above the ground I swallowed the lump in my throat and dried my tears. I put a stronger mask on my face and shoved all the feelings and hormones out of me the best I could. I was lucky I was very strong mentally. Otherwise I would not have been able to accomplish the task as well as I did. I let my anger and hate take over my sadness and fear.
Up above they cut the cable and sent it flying away careful not to hit me. They hovered there for about five seconds. *Go. Go. Go right now Matt.* I thought then I saw Ebeling force the chopper to move some way and Matt took it over and flew off at top speed.
The soldiers pointed the barrels of their guns at my body. If there was a time to be as strong as I had to be, then was it. "X5-792 reporting for duty. And maybe a cure for this thing I have going on." I said my voice steady and my eyes as hard as stone.
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(2021)
(Seattle compound)
BOOM!
I jump out of bed and look around trying to see what was happening. I had no idea. All I knew was I smelled smoke and when I tried to open the doors they wouldn't budge. I went over to my bunk and pulled a pistol out from under my pillow. I pulled my jacket on and harnessed the gun in the inside. I zipped it up and made sure no one could see it.
I went over to the steel door that had the tiny window, "Uh.is anyone there? I need some help!" I called down the empty hallway. I waited a minute before I finally started to think of what I could do to get out.
I looked around at the ceiling for an air duct I could climb through but they didn't have one handy. "HEY!!! SOMEONE!" I yelled down the halls. I tried to open the doors but they were locked. "Open up you little."
CLICK.
The door opens up and I sigh a breath of relief and run out of there as fast as I could. I didn't have any idea what was going on but I did know that I wanted out and the smoke was getting thicker.
There was a guard waiting for me but now I had two more years of training on my shoulders and I easily snapped his neck. I looked up at the ten foot high fence and-
WHOOSH!
I cleared it with the fence's top five feet below me. When I landed I ran. I ran as fast as I could and I didn't stop until I was at least three miles away from Manticore. I couldn't believe I was finally leaving Manticore once again. Yeah they kept me alive and young and kicked the Progeria but they made me forget. They made me forget my life and my name and everything I had before.
I know I had a life out here somewhere but I just can't remember it. I know I had a name by Lydecker decided that he would have to get the freedom out of me. Then he left around the time I was transported up to the Seattle's compound. I decided I would work with Manticore because A) he left me there without another thought and B) if I didn't it was another round of Psy-Ops. I didn't like Psy-Ops.that's what made me forget about my life and my name. Now I'm X5-792.
I was put in with all the other X5's but they still weren't allowed to know that Lydecker was my dad. I never even thought about it. I was like all the others just I had different genes. It was better this way because at least I had someone worthy to train with.
I knew I had to go north so I ran. I ran as fast as I could without looking behind. About a mile away from Manticore I came across I-5. I thought about walking along the road but then I saw all the military cars they had out there. I slinked back into the bush I was peering out of and ran back away from the road.
A few hours later it became difficult. I had run out of forest to run in and hit the urban area. I calmly walked out of the forest line like I belonged there but I looked around every once in a while looking for any military action. Luckily there was none.
I walked for a while when I came across a stop sign. There was someone there waiting.he was riding a Kawasaki Eliminator. I rushed down behind the guy and hopped on.
"What the-" I put the spare helmet on.
"Keep going and I won't kill you." I hissed pulling my gun out of my pocket and ramming it into his back.
The guy nodded and drove off. "Drive north. Don't hit the highway until you have to. And once we have to go through the check point I'm your girlfriend, got it?"
He was silent.
"Got it?" I push the gun deeper into his skin.
"Yes!" he yelped.
"Good."
He drove for ten minutes before he turned to look at me for a second.
"Where are we going?"
"I'll ask the questions. We're going north. That's all I know." I was silent for a bit. "What's your designation?"
"Designation?"
"Name." I said quickly.
"Uh, Conan."
Conan. What a funny name. "Just keep going."
"What's your name?" he asked.
I would have smacked him but he was the one driving and I didn't want to be a smudge on the roan, "No questions." I thought for a moment of the names I've heard before. Unfortunately I couldn't think of one so I began to look around. I saw my answer in a house window. Angel.
"It's okay if you don't want to tell me. Especially if it's gonna get me dead." He said shakily.
"My name's Angel." I said immediately after he said that. "You won't die unless you give a hint away about me hijacking you."
"We're going to be coming onto the freeway soon. You're my girlfriend named Angel."
"Good." I said.
Not five minutes after that I was forced to put my gun away and get comfortable with Conan due to the fact that we were going to have to talk to the guard.
"Be good." I warned quietly but forcefully.
"I need to see a sector pass." Conan handed the guard his pass. Apparently he checked out because the guard asked another question, "Where are you going?"
"My sister's having a baby. My girlfriend, Angel, and I are going to see her."
I smiled and kissed the back of his lower neck. Then I looked up at the guard and smiled, "I'm going to be an aunt. Aren't I Conan?" I played perfectly.
"Yes, love." He turned to look at me.
I smiled at him and gave him a light kiss on the lips.
"You can go." The guard said giving us a look that said 'do that some other time'.
Conan drove off leaving the guard to mess with the other cars. "How often do you hijack people?" He asked.
"This is really my first time. I'm just a really good actor. And you ask another question I'll shoot you."
We drove in silence for about two hours and a half when I got the weirdest urge to go into a town called Mount Vernon.
"Get off here." I ordered. We got off I-5 and I just knew where I was going. "Go up the hill." He did. "Turn left." I commanded at Lincoln Grocery.
A few blocks down I had him stop in front of a old house. Apparently no one had lived there in a few years and it was showing. I got off the bike and pulled Conan off with me.
"What are we doing?" he asked as I dragged him behind me.
I ignored him and kicked open the door. Nothing was in there but I looked around all the same. I didn't find anything but if I were to open a cupboard or a closet I would smell something familiar. It hit me. Me. That's what the smell was; it was me. I probably used to live here before Manticore.
Conan studied me as I looked around frantically. "Do I know you?" he asked at last.
I gave him a left hook to the jaw. "You don't know me and don't ask questions." I growled as he stumbled back.
"Shit." He muttered rubbing his jaw.
"Let's go." I pulled him along and we got back on the bike.
"I need gas." He said at last.
"Well then lets go get some." I hissed.
"Okay. Look there's an station a few streets up and I can get some there."
"Great. Now, go."
We got the gas and then we went down the hill. But when he was about to get back onto the freeway I stopped him. Just as I had followed my instincts to my old house I did that again and gave him directions and about an hour and a half later we ended up in a small town called Anacortes.
"Go up 12th to K Avenue. Turn a left." He did. "STOP!" I called right as he turned. That was it. That house was what I was looking for. I knew it down in my gut. I took my helmet off and put it on the back of Conan's bike.
"What are you going to do with them?" Conan asked.
"Who?"
"The people who live there. Don't kill them or hurt them."
"It depends."
"It doesn't depend on anything. You kill them I'll turn you in."
I ignored him and walked toward the old white house. Walking up to it I found myself unsure of what was in there. I was in some sort of daze or something because I barely acknowledged Conan following behind me. Letting my senses take over I found that the house was almost empty.
CRASH!
The sound of glass breaking made me jump. Conan pushed past me and walked on in. I watched as Conan went up to a guy that was sitting there on the ground starring at something.
"Hey, buddy." Conan said sitting down hiding the other guy from my view. "Where's-"
"She's at the store."
Conan nodded. I took this time and walked in.
Flashback
A guy came in through the door as I lay there on the floor.
"Do I really look that ugly?" I asked with a small smile.
His response was rushing to my side and supporting my neck. "Geneva, I've seen this before." he said gently.
"Where?" I asked.
"It's called Progeria. It's an aging disease and this hospital hasn't have the equipment to help you. Even if they did it'd be too expensive on our salary."
End Flashback
"Matt." I whispered so quiet I almost didn't hear myself say it. He was my- he was my everything. I loved him and when I got the Progeria it had been hell for me to watch him go. But I had allowed myself to be reprogrammed. I never thought that we would be together again.
Just then I realized I was slowly getting more and more information back. I just shut my mind and let it all come flooding into my mind. My bike. Conan. Ella. Cammie. Geisbreght. Pino. Strong. Courier. Ebeling. For some reason it was the people that rushed in first.
"JUST GO!" Matt's shouting brought me back to Earth. He shoved Conan away and put his head in his hands.
Conan stood up and looked at him thoughtfully and with a hint of pity. But after a second he left. I looked at Matt and realized he hadn't shaved in what looked like weeks and it looked like he hadn't taken a shower in a long while. He smelled like bourbon and well bourbon. I realized I had tears silently falling down my face.
I walked forward through the threshold and knelt down beside Matt. I took one hand and put it over his hand and then lifted his face up to face me. I brought my face down to his and gave him a gentle kiss.
I took my hand off his eyes and allowed him to see me. The second his eyes saw me tears flooded over his eyes and he collapsed in a fit of tears. His arms were around my lower back and he had his head rested on my lap.
"Don't leave me. Don't leave me. Don't leave me. Don't leave me. Don't leave me." he kept crying out.
"Shhh, I won't. I'm right here." I rocked him back and forth. I began to just let my tears out in full blast. "God I missed you."
Matt sat up suddenly. "No. This isn't real." He shook his head and I understood what was going through his brain. He thought he was dreaming.
I smiled warmly. "Matt, listen," I got closer to him and he leaned on my shoulder, "Go take a shower and shave and when you get out I'll be right out here."
Matt looked up at me with curiosity in his eyes. I sighed, "Don't make me drag you in there strip you and push you in the shower."
Again he didn't say anything.
"Listen, I promise I will be waiting in this house. Go take a quick shower and then we can go out for lunch or something." I smiled at him and helped him to his feet.
Matt nodded then went to the cupboard and grabbed a towel for him to use. Before he shut the door I gave him a smile. When the water turned on I turned back the all forgotten Conan.
"Hey Conan."
"I know you don't I?"
I nodded, "It's Geneva."
Conan's eyes went huge. "But.. They told me you were kidnapped and were presumably dead."
I smiled. "Well it's a long story, and it's one I can't tell you. But I forgot who I was until now. I was freed from the place I was at. Now I'm all better.well except for the fact that I know a lot about the military now."
"So some military wannabe's kidnapped you and trained you in the way of the military?"
I nodded. "But I'm back now so that's all good."
"Yeah."
A weird silence drifted between us.
"So. There any chance I could get my job back?"