Gargoyles:
The Wolf Adventures
Blood Sisters 2:
Reunions
Part 3
By Silverbolt
E-mail: Silverbolt2012@hotmail.com
The Wolf and Aaron Conners Created by Silverbolt
All the characters appearing in Gargoyles and Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles are copyright Buena Vista Television/The Walt Disney Company. No infringement of these copyrights is intended, and is not authorised by the copyright holder. All original characters are the property of Silverbolt.
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First off thanks once again to Storyseeker for helping me do scenes for my fics and for proof reading (Thanks very much buddy!) *^_^*
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Previously on Gargoyles…
"You're not Dominique are you?" the young woman said slowly, tearing her eyes away from the scars.
WHO IS DOMINQUE?
"Dominique Destine... she's the CEO of this company"
Rebecca gave an annoyed pout she hated being compared to someone she had never seen herself WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP MISTAKING ME FOR HER?
"Well to be frank... if it weren't for your difference in your hair, eyes and skin... the two of you could be considered as twins!"
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But as that dream went through her mind again one question did come up, the voice called Rebecca her sister… but if she was… what happened to her?
Did she really have a sister?
But an even bigger question came up.
Was she still… alive?
Did that monster get her as well?
Rebecca put a hand to her cheek feeling tears trickle down them.
She started to go back inside.
She wanted to know who she was, she wanted the life she had left behind, and she wanted her family…
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"Hey Becky, what's all the commotion?" Aaron asked, as he saw the young rookie dash past her.
"There's been another bank robbery." Becky growled.
"What? Another one?" Aaron gasped.
"Yeah, that's the third time this has happened this week and we think it's the same guy." Becky put a hand to her head "Someone entered the vaults without setting off the alarms, they left no finger prints and they took half the money in the vault."
"What about the security cameras?" Aaron asked.
"They were destroyed, we didn't even see what destroyed them." Becky sighed.
"Yeesh," was Aaron's reply.
"Yeah I know, and there was absolutely no sigh of entry, it was like whoever did this teleported in and out or something."
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DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? Rebecca wrote hopefully.
"I… Uh… no." Elisa said. Somehow she didn't think it was a good idea to tell Rebecca that she was a clone. "But we know someone who might be able to help you.
Rebecca perked up a little REALLY? THEY CAN TELL ME WHO I AM? Rebecca did a little happy dance much to the surprise of the two detectives.
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"Uh… Rebecca there's something you should know," Elisa said stepping forwards "Delilah was cloned from me and a gargoyle called Demona, otherwise know as… Dominique Destine."
Rebecca started to go pale.
"And the blood test I just did, shows you have exactly the same blood type, as Delilah. You are in fact… Delilah's sister. Congratulations." He said with a smile
Delilah beamed a tearful smile. "We're sisters." Delilah said joyfully "you and me… we're family, real family! We're together again and nothing will take us apart!"
Rebecca backed away from the hug, Delilah tried to give her, shaking her head in disbelief, as the puzzle pieces started to slot together.
No!
It couldn't be true!
She couldn't be a clone!
No!
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~Blood Sisters 2: Reunions~
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Rebecca backed away from Delilah, shaking her head, furiously. It couldn't be possible?!
It couldn't be true.
She wasn't a clone!
She was real!
"Sister… what's wrong?" Delilah asked with concern, as she tried to get closer to her twin, but it just caused the human to step away even further.
Rebecca backed away and bumped into Hollywood who, like the other clones, was smiling happily. "You are Delilah's sister, that make you ours too." He said, as he tried to hug her with his huge orange tree trunk arms.
Rebecca jumped away out of his hug and punched him right in the face, sending him flying into the other clones.
Everyone stared at her, gargoyle, mutate and werewolf alike, in surprise.
Rebecca felt tears stream down her cheeks; she wanted to scream, wanted everyone to go away! Wanted to say that this was just some stupid dream she was having! Wanted to be sure that in a few minutes, Amy would wake her up and give her a cup of tea and make everything better.
She had to get away.
She ran, she didn't know where she was running to, but she just ran anyway, ran from everyone, ran from the people who were telling her lies!
"Sister wait!" Delilah cried, as she tried to go after the distressed woman, but was stopped when Elisa pulled her back by the arm.
"Let her go, Delilah. She's just upset, it can't be easy for her to find out what she really is?"
"All the more reason to be with her." The female clone shouted. She pulled out of Elisa's grip and ran past Angela with a hostile shove, as she followed after her sister.
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Rebecca continued to run into the darkness of the unused parts of the Labyrinth. All the while, remembering the earliest thing she could remember.
It was dark, her neck was hurting and she could hear a man's voice saying something…
"See you around… Mistake."
Mistake…?
Mistake!
MISTAKE!!!!!!
That's what she was!
That's all she ever was!
She wasn't real! She wasn't even meant to exist!
No!
She couldn't think like that, she WAS real! She wasn't a clone, she had a real family, and she had a past!
Didn't she?
Rebecca started to slow down, as she started to get tired, breathing deeply. She had to rest a moment, had to think. She sat down by the wall and pulled her legs up to her knees and before she knew it, she was crying again.
It was a lie; they were lying to her!
"Rebecca?" The mute looked up to see Delilah standing a few feet away, looking at her with a sad smile. She stood up and backed away, she didn't want to talk to this… thing.
Delilah capped her wings, as she stepped closer to her sister, "It's hard, I know, finding out what you really are."
Rebecca shook her head wildly, as she wrote on a piece of paper LIES!
Delilah gave a deep sigh "I understand this is a shock for you… it's a shock for me too, I never knew you were real… never knew I had someone like me."
Rebecca bared her teeth I'M NOT LIKE YOU! I'M NOT A GARGOYLE! I'M NOT A CLONE! I'M REAL!
"I am real!" Delilah said in an annoyed tone, "I was just brought into this world differently."
The mute put her hands to her ears; she didn't want to listen to this!
Delilah gave her human twin a desperate look "Please, I… I just want to get to know you." She put her hands out towards Rebecca "You have to understand, we're family…" Her eyes were imploring "You and me…We're… we're sis-"
* SLAP! *
Delilah froze, as Rebecca stood back and looked at Delilah with blazing red eyes in anger, her hand raised in warning. The white haired clone put a shaky hand to her reddening cheek where her twin sisters' hand had connected. She looked at the black and red haired woman in shock and disbelief. "I… d-don't understand…" She whispered tearfully, as her eyes watered up. "You were supposed to understand." She started to back away, tears streaming down her cheeks. "We're sisters… WE'RE SISTERS!" She wailed, as she turned and ran away from the human, crying all the way home.
Rebecca just watched the gargoyle run away, not bothering to go after and apologise for what she did. She was so angry! Angrier than she had ever been in her whole life, and yet… as she looked at the hand she had used to hit the female, somehow… she didn't feel right about doing it.
She stared at her hands curiously. That was odd, why were they red? She looked at the walls, they were red too, like they had been bathed in a red light or something, but she didn't see as lights anywhere.
She didn't realise the light source from coming from her own eyes.
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"Do you think Delilah found her?" Aaron asked, "her sister dashed out of here pretty fast."
"I hope Rebecca gets over it, I'm sure it must be hard to understand the truth if all this time, she didn't know she was a clone?" Sighed Angela.
"Oh I'm sure she'll..." Aaron stopped in mid sentence when he saw Delilah run in the room, tears pouring down her cheeks, as she cried into her lovers out stretched arms. "Delilah...? What's wrong? What happened?"
"She didn't want to know me Aaron!" The poor clone wailed "I tried to make her understand and-and sh-she slapped muh-me!" She buried her tear-covered face into Aaron's shoulder "She doesn't want me! She doesn't want ME!" She wept
Elisa hesitated at first, but knelt down and put her hands on her clone's shoulders "Delilah... I'm sorry." She whispered.
The white haired gargoyles turned her head to look at her; her eyes going red and puffy all ready "Why didn't she want to know me?" She wept hoarsely "I didn't do anything to her."
"I know honey." Elisa said, as her eye just caught the last bit of retreating red and black hair, dash away behind a corner.
Elisa stood up, she didn't really want to leave Delilah in this state and the tears in her eyes reminded her of how she looked when she cried herself, but she had to talk to this woman, for Delilah's sake.
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Rebecca stepped away and left her hiding place. She didn't know why she had gone back, but part of her was upset by her actions towards the white haired gargoyle. She broke into a run but tripped over instantly over a piece of fallen brick. She rubbed her head and gave a silent groan. She blinked a little and gave a gasp as she saw her reflection in a nearby puddle of water. Her eyes were glowing red!
She shook her head in disbelief, red eyes? No! How could she have red eyes? But then she remembered once seeing a picture of gargoyles with eyes that glowed…
NO! It was more proof! More proof of what she was!
But she didn't want to believe it, something must just be wrong with her eyes. She started rubbing furiously trying to make them stop glowing.
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Elisa walked up behind the distressed clone silently, watching as she saw the poor woman sitting on the ground and rubbing her eyes. She spoke, uneasily whilst stepping closer "Rebecca?" she said softly.
Rebecca didn't move. She kept trying to rub the red out of her eyes.
Elisa spoke louder "Rebecca?" Rebecca continued to rub her eyes frantically, if she rubbed any more she was going to damage herself. "Stop!" Elisa said sternly as she grabbed Rebecca's hands and looked at her sadly as she stepped in front of her half clone.
Rebecca looked at her with distress in her red eyes.
The raven-haired detective had to silence a gasp when she saw Rebecca's eyes were glowing. "I know that this has been a terrible shock to you, but its really not all that bad!"
Rebecca nodded her head to say it was
Elisa gave a sigh "The clones are slow, but they're good people, despite how they were made and… your sister Delilah... she loves you!"
Rebecca bared her teeth at the name.
SHES NOT MY SISTER! She quickly wrote on her note pad. SHE'S A MONSTER.
"She cares for you and wants you to be with her!" Elisa protested "The only monster here is Thailog and." She paused, knowing that Thailog was really alive was going to be difficult to tell her and Delilah, but she wasn't going to tell them, none of them had to know, he couldn't do anything in his physical condition without the use of a cane. "…And she is your sister!!!! You and she were born from the same tube at the same time. That makes you twins!"
Rebecca raised her hand to slap Elisa when she heard the detective use the word 'tube'. She wasn't born in a tube!
Elisa grabbed her arm before the mute woman could bring it down on her face "Don't. Even. Think about it!!!" Elisa warned, "I've had a hard enough day without needing this"
Rebecca gave her a hard stare.
I WANT TO GO HOME NOW! She wrote.
"All right," Elisa sighed, "I'll take you home." She looked at Rebecca sadly, "But would you at least say goodbye to Delilah? You owe her that much... you really hurt her."
Rebecca shook her head defiantly.
Elisa gave a sigh "Very well! Come on then." She said as she waved her clone in the direction of her car.
"Why do you hate Delilah so much?" The detective asked Rebecca after the two had got in the car and drove off to Rebecca's home. "What has she done to you that's so terrible?"
Rebecca thought for a moment whilst trying not to look in the mirrors of the car because her eyes were still glowing red I'M NOT A CLONE She wrote defiantly.
Elisa thought about the comment and suddenly, she thought of something "that's right!" She exclaimed, "You're not! And neither is Delilah!"
Rebecca stared at her in confusion.
"My god!" Elisa has far off look in her eyes, thank goodness there were hardly any cars on the road! "It just occurred to me!"
She looked at Rebecca happily "Rebecca! Do you know what the difference is between a clone and… and an ordinary person?
Rebecca shook her head.
"Well, a clone, for lack of a better word, is a copy of a person... they were grown by a single strand of DNA, from their originals." Elisa explained. "Like Brentwood was grown by a strand of Lexington's DNA so naturally, he grew up to be just like him!"
Rebecca showed Elisa a question mark, unsure of what Elisa was getting at.
"But an ordinary person like me was... grown by two strands of DNA! My mother's and father's"
WHAT IS YOUR POINT?
"... And you and Delilah!!!" Elisa exclaimed, "You and Delilah weren't grown by one strand like the rest of the clones! You were grown from two!!! Demona's and mine!"
YOUR POINT?
"It means.... You're not really a clone at all!" Elisa smiled "You and Delilah were conceived from me and Demona!" Elisa paused for a moment as she shuddered at the thought "The only difference between you and other ordinary people is that you weren't born from a human mother or hatched from a gargoyle egg. Your growth was accelerated so you would reach adulthood in just a few months!"
SO? YOU THINK I CARE? Rebecca wrote angrily, YOU'RE SAYING THAT I WASN'T BORN! THAT I WAS CREATED IN A STUPID LAB!
"Of course you were born! You were just born different, so were Delilah and the others!"
I WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST! Rebecca wrote, her eyes were beginning to get brighter and brighter. BUT SHE WAS!
"Can you say the same for all of us?"
"When a pair or twins are born and one of them dies... was the one who survived supposed to exist and the other was supposed to die?" Elisa asked.
NO ONE EVEN CARED WHAT HAPPENED TO ME. Rebecca wrote miserably.
"Delilah cared!" Elisa said
NO ONE KNEW I EXISTED
"She did, but... Thailog did something to her; he erased her memory or something. I don't know what." Elisa said, "She only just started to remember a short time ago"
HE HURT ME
"I know honey!" The detective said with sympathy "and it was wrong... so wrong."
SHUT UP! The mute wrote YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ME EITHER!
"Of course I care!" Elisa protested "What kind of a mother would I be if I didn't care?" She said slowly "Why do you think I came looking for you?"
Rebecca stared at Elisa YOU ARE MY. She hesitated before writing the next word MOTHER?
Elisa gave a small, shy smile "I'm… one of them, I'm guessing that's my body you have anyway."
Rebecca wrinkled her nose in disgust at the thought of having two mothers.
"Be grateful that you didn't have two fathers!!! Now that is something I'd like to see." Elisa chuckled.
Rebecca looked at Elisa furiously I SHOULDN'T HAVE 2 MOTHERS! OR 2 FATHERS!
Elisa took on a serious tone "Rebecca! I know this... family reunion wasn't the one you were expecting?! But the clones are good people, if a little different..."
I DON'T CARE
"...I know, but the point is, whether or not you shouldn't have... you do!" Elisa could see that Rebecca wasn't listening "and the clones and Delilah are your family, whether you want to believe it or not! And they care about you a great deal!
Rebecca folded her arms and looked away with her nose up in the air.
"Rebecca!" Elisa said with a growl "I know this isn't what you wanted to hear, but.... It wouldn't have made any difference if you had met Delilah or not! You would still be the same person that you are now!" She said, "You're no different than what you were before you met Delilah. The only difference is, now... you have a family and a sister and you know about your past, which is what you wanted anyway."
IT'S NOT THE ONE I WANTED
"Not everyone gets what they wanted Rebecca!!!" Elisa said rather loudly "Look at my friend Aaron, the werewolf! He lost both his parents... his father was forced to change him into a werewolf to save his life when some bad people killed him! And then they murdered his father!" She looked at her clone and still saw she wasn't getting through to her. "And my brother Derek!!! Do you think he enjoys being the way he is??? He was an ordinary man until that bastard Sevarius came and mutated him and the other mutates as well including Claw who won't even speak because the whole experience was just too traumatic for him
Rebecca looked down at her feet, tears rolling down her cheeks YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND
Elisa stopped the car and took her offspring's hands in her own "Then make me understand???" Elisa said loudly… desperately "I can't even begin to imagine what this must be like for you?! But... that ship has sailed now Rebecca! Now, you know the truth and nothing you say or do is going to change it! So, all you can do now... is deal with it!" Elisa's voice softened "but you don't have to do it alone… I'm here for you!"
I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP! Rebecca scribbled down with haste I DON'T NEED ANYONES HELP HUMAN! Rebecca stared at the last word in shock... why did she write that word?
Elisa also looked at the word with shock as well "I guess you're more like Demona than I thought." Elisa said quietly "And of course, you need help! Everyone needs help, no matter how small or great the problem is?!" She rubbed her clone's hand urgently "what about your friend... Amy? Are you gonna turn her away too?"
Rebecca didn't answer.
"Let me ask you this... suppose that it wasn't you who was the clone and it was one of your buddies instead??? Would you think any different of them?
Rebecca bit her lip but still didn't answer as she saw her apartment building in the distance and pointed to it.
Elisa sighed in defeat but started the car again and drove over to the building.
She looked at Rebecca as she neared the build. "Rebecca… please think about all that I've said tonight. If not for Delilah's sake then for your own. Please?
As soon as the car stopped Rebecca got out. She put a piece of paper on the seat that she had been sitting in. MAYBE
Elisa smiled "That's all I ask."
Rebecca suddenly remembered that her eyes were still glowing red as she quickly moved back into the car to hide.
"You have to calm down Rebecca!" Elisa said soothingly "Gargoyle eyes only glow like that when they're really angry"
I AM CALM!
"Then why are your eyes still glowing?" She asked with a smirk. She could really begin to see the Demona arrogance appearing in Rebecca.
I DON'T KNOW THEY WON'T STOP!
"You're obviously still tense... you need to fully calm down. Just take some deep breaths, think of Christmas or something nice."
Rebecca tried her best to calm down as best she could but it was no use, her eyes were still burning bright red. She looked at a pair of sunglasses on Elisa's dashboard hopefully.
"Huh??? Oh.... Yeah, if you want?" she said, as she handed them over.
I DON'T WANT AMY TO SEE ME LIKE THIS.
"If you wish," Elisa sighed "but... you can't keep this from her forever Rebecca... she's going to find out eventually."
Rebecca nodded, but she couldn't and wouldn't tell Elisa the truth that she was scared of telling Amy! She was afraid of how her friend would react; knowing that the person she had been living with wasn't actually a real person.
"Do you... want me to talk to Amy for you?" Elisa asked kindly.
Rebecca shook her head wildly to say no. If her friend Amy were ever going to find out the truth, it would be from her, and her alone.
"All right! Tell her I said hi anyway, and tell her that I hope she's doing fine?" The raven-haired woman just thought of something else "Hey can I borrow some paper?" Elisa asked.
Rebecca watched as Elisa quickly scribbled something on the paper that she had been given.
"Here." The detective said as she handed back the paper, which now had a number on it. "That's my phone number, if you change your mind just give me a call." Rebecca pointed to her throat saying that she wouldn't be able to use it. "Or get your friend Amy to do it, just… please? If you change your mind?"
Rebecca just nodded her head as she donned the sunglasses and stepped away from the car again, giving a little wave after Elisa had driven off.
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"I'm getting worried" Said Amy, as she looked out the window again to see if she could Rebecca anywhere.
"Oh don't be." Said a woman with orange-red hair, as she sipped a cup of tea, lazily. "She's probably just gone out for a walk or something."
"She usually leaves me a note telling me where she's gone." Amy sighed.
"Well maybe she just forgot?" Leo said, as he bit into an apple.
"You mother her too much." The other woman replied with a grin.
"I do not Maxine!" Amy protested. "I just hope she put her scarf on though…"
"If you say so." Maxine said with a grin, before sipping her tea again.
"I'm just getting a little bit worried OK? She's been acting kind of strange lately, been drawing nothing, but gargoyles."
"Look who's talking, you used to go on and on about how all the people in the whole city supposedly transformed into gargoyles, including yourself."
"You turned into one as well." Amy said with a growl. She didn't like Maxine making fun of what she thought had happened that one night.
"Well it's amazing how you seem to be able to think we changed even though nobody else seems to remember."
"You were there though," Amy said "Remember? We were down in the subway that night and then we were eyeing up those guys in loin clothes?" Amy smirked at the memory.
"Well obviously I don't." Maxine said as she crossed her arms "Besides how is it that it's only you that remembers and the rest of us don't?" She smirked.
Amy looked down at the floor "I… I don't know, I mean I knew I was a gargoyle but… but it felt like it was normal, like I had always been one… that everyone had always been one."
"Riiiiight." Maxine snorted.
"Come on Amy it's like when you said everyone turned to stone, why didn't you?" Leo asked.
"People said it was because they saw something on TV, I guess whatever happened didn't affect me because I bust mine after I knocked it over." She said. "I went to answer my door after you knocked on it and when I did I saw you, my sister and Maxine just standing there and you were stone statues." She said sadly "I couldn't get out because you guys were standing in the doorway and when I tried to ring someone on the phone no one answered. I didn't know what to do, but when the sun came up you guys changed back."
"It's a shame you didn't know what else was going on in the city." Leo said grimly "You could have told us what happened to all those missing people."
"I still say it was aliens." Maxine said.
"Oh sure, don't believe me about what happened, but make up something stupid anyway. Besides if it was aliens why couldn't they have abducted you as well?" Amy growled.
"Oh now that's just being rude." The red hair said, "You're still peed off with me because I helped to get Rebecca a job aren't you?"
"You got her a job in a frikken strip club!" Amy snapped.
"Well she needed money for your stupid birthday present, I just helped her get some." Maxine grinned.
"Look, I don't care that you do it yourself, but getting Rebecca to do it as well was just… just…"
"Hey, she enjoyed it." Maxine said with a nasty grin.
Amy bared her teeth "Why I orta…" She would have done something to if Rebecca hadn't opened the door at the exact same time. "Rebecca!" Amy exclaimed. "Where have you been? I've been worried sick about you! And where on earth did you get those sunglasses?" She asked angrily.
Rebecca looked at her for a moment before running into the bedroom with tears running down her cheeks.
"Rebecca wait! Come back this instant!" Amy ordered as she tried to follow after her friend, but the mute slammed the door in her face and quickly locked it. "Rebecca open this door this instant!" Amy shouted as she banged her fist against the wood.
"Uh… I think I should go." Maxine said as she put her cup down on the table and stood up to leave.
Leo got up as well and showed her the door before going back and tried to persuade Rebecca as well to come out, but inside Rebecca wasn't listening…
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Rebecca stood in the middle of the room, slowly taking deep breaths as the anger started to grow inside her again.
To her, her life had always been like a Christmas present with colourful wrapping and a pretty bow that made you wonder exactly what the mysterious package actually contained? But now it was Christmas day and the wrapping was off and now the life that she had so long been waiting to have, was nothing more… than a hand knitted jumper.
She didn't have a life, she was just a clone…
A clone who was never meant to exist, a thing that wasn't meant to have been given the spark of life.
Just a worthless accident!
Nobody cared for her, nobody had given birth to her, and nobody from her mysterious past had loved her. She didn't have any real parents, or any friends who had been searching for her! No childhood, no first steps or first words or learning to ride her first bike, no pets, no brothers or sis…
Rebecca looked down at the floor, sadly, as she felt a stab of guilt sweep through her as she remembered hitting Delilah. But Delilah deserved to be hit… didn't she?
The mute looked up again and stared at the mirror that was standing in front of, her reflection stared back at her, mocking her, telling her that the face she wore wasn't hers but someone else's!
Rebecca started breathing deeper, trying to calm down, but the mirror… all the mirrors in the room, were laughing at her! Mocking her! Telling her she was a freak! A monster! An ACCIDENT!!!!!!
Rebecca smashed the mirror, broke it into as many pieces as she could, then the other mirrors! All of them! She wanted them to SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As soon as she had smashed all of them she grabbed some lipstick and started writing on the wall in big black letters.
I'M A FAKE! I'M A FAKE! I'M A FAKE! I'M A FAKE!
She wrote those few words a couple of more times before throwing the lipstick on the floor, diving onto her bed and started to weep into the pillow as the bedroom door smashed open.
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"Rebecca, come on! Please come out!" Amy begged "I'm sorry I shouted at you!"
"Yeah, come on elf, what's wrong?" Leo asked through the door as well.
They suddenly heard the unmistakable sound of glass breaking. Then… silence!
"Oh my god!" Amy cried fearing the worst "Leo do something!"
With that Leo took a running leap at the door, shoulder first as he tried to break open the door. On the third attempt it opened with an all mighty crack!
"Rebecca if you've hurt yourself I'll…" Amy paused mid sentence as she stepped into the room seeing Rebecca on the bed, her head in the pillows and the whole room covered in fragments of mirrors.
"Hoo… boy…" Leo whispered "This'll take some cleaning up."
"Rebecca! What the hell have you done?!" Amy shouted, "Look at this mess!"
Rebecca did nothing, she just continued to cry into the pillow.
"Rebecca explain yourself!" Amy demanded.
Rebecca raised up two fingers in response.
"Rebecca!" Amy exclaimed, "What's wrong with you?" She asked as she stepped closer towards her friend.
Rebecca sat up still wearing her sunglasses and wrote on a piece of paper LEAVE ME ALONE!
"What? Why?" Amy asked.
YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW ME!
"What on earth are you talking about? Of course I want know you! What makes you think I don't?" Amy sat down on the bed next to her friend. "And why are wearing those sunglasses anyway? Come on take them off." She moved her hands towards her mute friend's face to take them off but Rebecca swatted the hands away. "O…Kay? Don't take them off then." Amy said as she backed off the bed a little. She hadn't seen Rebecca act like this since she had first moved in with her.
"Come on elf you can tell us what's wrong." Leo said, "We're your friends."
Rebecca looked up at Leo. Friends? Would they still be friends if she told them the truth?
I DON'T WANT TO TELL YOU She wrote YOU'LL HATE ME!
"Excuse me? Rebecca what are you talking about? Why are we going to hate you? Have you done something?" She gave Rebecca a hard look "Have you been stripping again?"
Rebecca shook her head wildly to say she hadn't.
"Then what?"
Rebecca hesitantly wrote on a piece of paper I KNOW WHO I AM
"What??????" both Amy and Leo cried at the same time "You know who you are???????"
Rebecca nodded sadly.
"Rebecca… Well that's… that's great!" Amy said as she hugged Rebecca excitedly. "…Isn't it?" She asked as she slowly began to stop smiling when she saw the water dripping from underneath the sunglasses. "Rebecca? Wh-why are you crying? Aren't you happy?"
Rebecca shook her head as she pushed Amy away and buried her face into her hands.
Amy looked at Leo with worried expression before gently putting a hand on her friend's shoulder. "Rebecca… what's wrong? Is there something you want to tell us? Like How did you find out? Do you have any family? What's your real name?"
Rebecca shook her head.
"Rebecca you can tell us who you are, surely it can't be that bad can it?"
Rebecca nodded her head to say that it was.
"Rebecca, please?" Amy begged "Please tell us who you are?"
Rebecca shook her head again ^ No! ^ She said in sign language ^ you'll hate me! ^
"You're a murderer aren't you?" Amy said slowly as she stared at her friend "Is that what you are?" She took a look around to see if she could see any weapons concealed anywhere around the room.
Rebecca shook her head to say she wasn't.
"Then what?" Amy cried as she looked at the mute, she was getting suspicious of who Rebecca was, "Who are you then? A bank robber? A rapist? A lawyer? A thief of some sort?"
Rebecca shook her head to all those things. ^ I'm not real! I was never real! ^
"Of course you're real!" Amy said "If you weren't then could I do this?" The Goth wannabe flicked Rebecca on the forehead. "You see?" She said as she watched Rebecca rub her head.
Amy held out her arms. "Do you want an Amy hug?" She asked with a kind little smile.
An Amy hug?
Yes, Amy hugs always made Rebecca feel so warm and safe. The mute woman slowly moved her body towards Amy and lowered her head to Amy's chest so she could hear her heart beat as Amy wrapped her arms round the poor woman's body, stroking the silky hair gently.
"Girl, I…I don't care who you were." Amy said softly. "You're not that person anymore, You're Rebecca… my best friend. The person who I thought I could trust the most, the person who I've shared all my secrets with." She hesitated as she took a quick glance at Leo before what she said next "You're the person who I… who I spent the most magical night of my entire life with."
"Say what?" Leo said in surprise.
Amy took no notice of Leo's comment as she looked deeply into her friend's eyes "I love you Rebecca, you have, you always will be my best friend." She slowly moved forwards as if to kiss Rebecca but seemed to hesitantly stop at the last moment and just hugged her instead.
"Please just tell us who you are Rebecca." Amy whispered "Please?"
Rebecca felt tears trickle down her cheeks ^ Do you promise you won't hate me? ^ She asked.
"I could never hate you." Amy smiled "I never hated you when you wrote on the walls, I never hated you when you tried to eat my pet rat, Ron, God rest his stinky soul." She gave another kind smile "I never hated you when you took that job as a stripper, sure I was angry but I never hated you." She hugged Rebecca again "I never hated you when you put me in hospital after that whole push you out of the way of the car incident, and I never hated you when you caught me mast…" she paused when she saw the raised eyebrow on Leo's face. "Uh… never mind, The point is that I'll never hate you, never!"
Rebecca took a deep breath, it was now or never ^ My name is Rebecca ^ She signed.
"It is?" Her two friends gasped at the same time.
"So that's why you chose that name, it was never anything to do with my sister, it was because it was your old name." Amy smiled "So what's your last name?"
Rebecca shook her head ^ I don't have a last name ^ She signed.
"Pardon?" Amy said, confused "how can you not have a last name?"
^ Because I'm not supposed to exist ^ She closed her eyes as she did the next signs ^ I'm a clone. ^
Amy stared at Rebecca in shock "What?" She exclaimed, "Yuh-you're a clone? What do you mean you're a clone? How can you be a clone?" She stared at Rebecca "You can't be serious?"
Rebecca stood up and removed her sunglasses to reveal to the horror of Amy, her glowing red eyes.
"Oh my GOD!" Amy screamed "What the hell are you?!"
Rebecca took a step back in fear.
They hated her! They thought she was a monster!
She ran into the bathroom next door and locked the door.
"No, Rebecca wait!" Amy cried as she tried to stop Rebecca running way.
*****
Rebecca sat by the door rocking back and forth, tears flowing down her cheeks as the reality sunk in.
They hated her.
The look on Amy's face when she saw Rebecca's was unmistakable to that of fear and hate.
"Rebecca come out." Amy pleaded "Please?"
Rebecca pushed a note under the door. NO! YOU HATE ME!
"No I don't!" Amy said as she read the note.
YES YOU DO! YOU THINK I'M DISGUSTING! AN ABOMINATION!
"Rebecca!" Amy exclaimed. "I… I didn't say that!"
Rebecca posted her reply BUT YOU THOUGHT IT!
"I…" Amy wasn't sure what to say.
YOU SEE? YOU HATE ME!
"I… I don't!" Amy cried. She waited for a reply, but Rebecca didn't give one. "Rebecca… How did you think I was supposed to react? I didn't expect you to tell me you were a clone, I didn't guess that you were one, how could I?! That technology isn't supposed to work! And I certainly wasn't exactly expecting your eyes to glow like that."
BECAUSE I'M NOT ALL HUMAN
"huh?????" Leo gasped.
"Yeah... what Leo said!" Amy said "Huh????" But then Amy suddenly remembered about seeing a picture of the gargoyles "Oh my... you're... you're part garg aren't you?"
YES
"That explains the red eyes!" Amy muttered "and why you're so strong!" She gave a small laugh "It kinda makes everything about you make sense, why you didn't know anything, why you couldn't remember your past…"
PLEASE DON'T HATE ME! Rebecca wrote
I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! She kept putting different pieces of paper with the same words on them. I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY!
"Hate you????" Amy exclaimed "Why would I hate you?" She stepped closer to the door "I admit that finding out you're part garg is a bit of a shock, but... you're still the same person!"
BUT YOU HATE ME! Rebecca wrote.
YOU HAVE TO HATE ME! She wrote desperately
WHY DON'T YOU HATE ME???
"WE.DO.NOT.HATE.YOU!!!!" Amy shouted. "It is a shock but..." She said as she started to calm down a little, "you're still the same woman that we took in! who coloured the walls! and who drew pictures of us! The woman that I ate ice cream and Chinese with and got sick with."
BUT I'M A CLONE She wrote
"So is that sheep Dolly, but you don't hear her complaining."
I'M NOT REAL!
"who says you're not real?" Amy asked.
ME! She wrote angrily, I SAY!
"Rebecca, open the door!" Amy ordered
"I want to do something."
ARE YOU GOING TO HURT ME?
"No, of course not!"
"HA! Like Amy would be able to hurt you anyway!" Leo laughed before Amy slapped him on the face.
DO YOU PROMISE? Rebecca asked.
"Of course I promise!"
After a few moments the door unlocked and Rebecca peaked around it.
Amy smiled and held out her hand for Rebecca to take. "Feel better?" She asked.
The mute shook her head sadly.
Amy gave a sigh and gently pulled Rebecca to her and gives her a hug. "Rebecca! I… I can't even begin to imagine what this must be like for you." She said softly "But just remember that we are here for you! And it doesn't matter where you came from or how you came to be..." She wiped a tear from her friends eye "You're our friend and nothing else matters!" Amy rocked Rebecca in her arms until her sobs gradually died down into stifles and then hiccups.
"You know Rebecca… in a way I'm glad you are what you are."
Rebecca looked at her in confusion.
Amy gave a happy nod "I'm happy because… well… because everything that you've done, everything you know, it's because of me." Amy's smile grew. "I taught you everything you know… and… and it makes me proud… it makes me proud of myself that I could do that and I'm proud of you." Her smile got even bigger as she put her hands on her friends shoulders "Now I know how a mother feels about her child when she's grown up to become such a wonderful person."
Rebecca stared at Amy and flung her arms round her friend and started to hug Amy with joy just a little too hard.
"Re...Rebecca... air???????" Amy said shakily.
Rebecca let go, smiling a little sheepishly. ^ Sorry ^
"its okay " She said breathing heavily. She took in a few more big gulps of air "Okay!" She said after a while "Now... tell me exactly what happened?"
^ People came here ^ She explained.
^ They wanted to talk to you. ^ She signed ^ But they wanted me really and they took me to a place underground and there were giant talking cats and they were very friendly. ^
Amy blinked "Giant talking cats???" Rebecca nodded "Damnit! I'm allergic to cats as well."
^ But then I saw these gargoyles down there as well and there was a female one and she looked really familiar ^
"Do you remember where you saw the woman before?"
^ She was helping me when we found that wolf ^
"Oh her!" Amy said, remembering the gargoyle.
"Yeah I haven't seen Harry since then"
"Humph! Good riddance I say." Amy muttered. "I never liked him! The guy probably peed his pants out of fear and then did a runner."
"Go on Rebecca," Leo said, "what happened next?"
^ They told me I was cloned from some people ^ She signed sadly
"Uh… Rebecca? Who... now you don't have to tell us if u don't want to, but... who precisely are you cloned from?" Amy asked.
Rebecca bit her lip ^ You know them ^
"Oh god! Its not that old bat that I work for… the one who you grabbed by the chest, remember?"
The mute shook her head to say it wasn't.
"Thank god!" Amy said with a sigh of relief.
^ Do you know Elisa Maza? ^
Amy's face went pale as she remembered the last time she met someone with that name. "Yes...I remember her... was she the one who came here?"
The red and black haired woman nodded.
^ I was cloned from her ^
"HER?????" The Goth cried "You were cloned from her????" She took a step back to take a better look at Rebecca "well.... You do have her figure, I guess, and your skin is almost the same tone as hers…"
^ But I don't look like her ^
"Yeah, I was about to say that." She said "So who was the other person that you're cloned from?"
^ Amy, why did you not ever realise? ^ She signed ^ Why did you not ever notice? ^
"Never notice what???" Amy asked curiously.
^ My face! ^ She signed with annoyance ^ Didn't it ever look familiar to you? You work for her company! You two work in the same building! ^
Amy just looked blankly at her "Rebecca... what are you talking about?"
^ Didn't you ever notice that I look like Dominique Destine? ^
Amy gasped and blinked a number of times before speaking "Miss destine????" She gasped "You're cloned from her????" Amy looked like she was going to kick herself as Rebecca nodded to say she was cloned from the red head. "I've… I've never met Miss destine." Amy said quietly.
^ You never saw her? ^ Rebecca signed ^ But she's your boss! ^
"No. She… she works on the top floor and I work in the middle one... my boss was the one who always went to speak to her and everything, but I never actually got to see her." Amy put a hand to her brow and rubbed it "I can't believe it, I was working in the same damn building as her as well! I'm so stupid!"
^ She is where I got my gargoyle traits from… apparently ^ She signed
"A GARGOYLE?????" Leo cried.
"MISS DESTINE IS A GARGOYLE?????" Amy cried. "How can that be???"
^ I don't know ^
Amy scratched her chin in thought "Well... This explains why she never works late at night, and why no one ever sees her at night for that matter!"
^ But they say that Delilah and me are twins and since she's a garg… ^ Rebecca went pale when she realised that she mentioned Delilah's name.
"Delilah???" Amy inquired "Who's Delilah?"
^ My… ^ Rebecca hesitated ^ She's my sister ^
"Your sister???" Amy cried, things were getting more surprising about Rebecca by the minute "You have a sister? A twin sister?"
Rebecca looked at the floor and nodded.
"Well… well that's wonderful!" She said happily "It means that you've got some family after all!"
"So who is she?" Leo asked, "what's she like?"
"Does she look like you?" Amy asked.
She shook her head ^ She's a gargoyle ^
"Ahh…" Amy said, still a little shocked "Soooo.... What's she like? When are we gonna meet her?
Rebecca went even paler.
Amy looked at her friend with concern "Rebecca?"
^ I don't think you will want to meet her ^
"What on earth are you talking about? Of course we want to meet her!" Amy exclaimed.
"Yeah elf, I mean she's you're sister so that makes her family!" Leo said with a smile.
^ You just don't! ^
Amy looked closely at Rebecca "Why? What happened?"
She shook her head, tears in her eyes.
"Rebecca? Did something else happen that you're not telling us about?" Amy asked as she put a hand on her friends' shoulder.
^ I did something… something bad! ^
Amy blinked a few more times "what?"
Rebecca continued to look down at the floor ^ She tried to talk to me, tried to be friends with me and I wouldn't listen… I was so confused and I… I lost my temper and... ^
Amy took her hand off Rebecca's shoulder "You hit her, didn't you." She said flatly. Her eyes showed disbelief.
Rebecca looked up and nodded her head, she tried to move closer to Amy, hoping she would give her another hug, but Amy stepped away from her.
"Don't touch me." Amy said angrily.
Rebecca stared at her in disbelief.
"Rebecca how could you do such a thing?" Amy shouted "I raised you not to do such things and you… and you go and blow your chance with meeting your family!"
Rebecca couldn't believe what she was hearing, Amy was supposed to make her feel better, not make her feel worse.
"You should be ashamed of yourself, no I won't hug you!" Amy snapped as she stepped away from Rebecca's open arms.
"Amy's right elf," Leo sighed "that was pretty low."
Rebecca shook her head in confusion why weren't they defending her?
"It sounded like your sister liked you Rebecca." Amy said angrily "She probably wanted you to be friends with her… I WOULD HAVE KILLED FOR A BETTER RELATIONSHIP WITH MY OWN SISTER!" Amy turned round and ran to the door, but stopped just to look at Rebecca with angry tears "WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD REBECCA! I HOPE YOU'RE VERY LONELY!" With that she stormed out of the room.
Rebecca's lip trembled as she looked desperately at Leo, hoping he would say something comforting.
"Sorry elf," He said as he shook his head sadly "I'm going to have to agree with Amy on this one, you shouldn't have done what you did."
Amy feel to her knees, putting her hands together to plead to Leo to stay as he left the room and closed the door as best as he could.
Rebecca sat on the floor, more tears flowing down her cheeks. She stood up, he eyes getting brighter and brighter as she used her rage against the room. She attacked everything in sight, hitting the walls, stamping her feet, clawing at the pillows until she wore herself out and fell onto the bed exhausted, still filled with anger as she drifted off to sleep…
*****
Rebecca stood in the darkness, everything was so black and there seemed to be no end to place she was.
She started to walk, trying to find a way out of the place, walking very far, yet feeling like she hadn't moved at all.
She stopped as she saw something coming towards her.
It was Amy!
She seemed to be floating backwards towards the mute.
Rebecca rushed towards her friend, hoping that Amy would comfort her, but something seemed to be wrong. The Goth, still hiding her face was laughing, but the laugh was changing from that of a happy laugh to that of a horrible, wicked laugh that was slowly starting to sound more and more male.
Rebecca knew that this person, whoever they were wasn't Amy.
"I'm not Amy!" The Amy look-a-like said with an evil laugh as it turned around to reveal not Amy's face but that of a man, or to be more precise, a GARGOYLE male with glowing red eyes and navy blue skin!
His hair changed from spiky black to snow white and his body grew and became more muscular, tearing the Goth clothes as huge wings and a tail burst through them.
Rebecca's eyes widened in terror as she recognised the gargoyle from that of her other dreams. She tried to get away but her feet were sinking into the now tar like floor, all the while the monster was getting bigger and bigger and continued to laugh maniacally.
Rebecca tried to scrabble away, tried so hard to get away but she continued to sink. She turned and wished she could have screamed as something began to sliver out from under the gargoyle's loincloth and wriggled over the ground towards her.
She grabbed onto the floor, but all that did was cause her to start sinking into the floor.
The thing that had came from the monster sprang at Rebecca and wrapped itself around her neck.
She tried Desperately to pull it off but it was wrapped around too tightly.
She opened her eyes in terror at the prospect of dying when she saw a winged figure step out of the darkness.
It was Delilah!
She just stood there, watching as Rebecca held her arms out hoping that Delilah would save her.
"Why?" Delilah asked. "Why should I help you?"
Rebecca stared at her as the monster gargoyle started to pull her down into the floor.
"I showed you kindness." Delilah said coldly "I gave you acceptance… LOVE!" Delilah's eyes went red and her face showed nothing but hatred as she started to grow until her form engulfed Rebecca's vision. "I WANTED YOU AND ME TO BE FRIENDS! SISTERS! BUT YOU'RE SELFISH! YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYONE BUT YOURSELF!"
Rebecca shook her head, using her hands to plead for Delilah to help her, to try and say she was sorry, but Delilah disappeared back into the darkness as Rebecca sank out of sight.
*****
Rebecca fell and dropped onto the floor with a bump.
Where the heck was she now?
She seemed to be in a cell of some sort, and as she got up and touched the walls, they felt… familiar?
She looked around the cells and saw lying on the wooden bench that was connected to the wall, the stone statue of Delilah.
She went to touch it when she heard what sounded like someone crying.
She moved her gaze towards the opposite corner of the wall and took a step back in shock when she saw who was crouched in the corner looking up at her with tears rolling down her cheeks.
It was herself! Wearing nothing but a few pieces of rag.
The ragged double stood up and looked at Rebecca angrily. "Why you do this?" She asked.
Rebecca's eyes widened, was that what she really sounded like?
"Why you hurt friend Delilah?" The talking double demanded "What she do to you?"
Rebecca looked away, why was everyone trying to get her to know Delilah.
"Because she is sister… family…" Her double replied.
You can hear my thoughts? Rebecca thought in amazement.
"I can." Talking Rebecca replied, nodding.
Then why is everyone trying to make me get to know Delilah?
"Because she is kin."
She's not my kin! Rebecca thought angrily She means nothing to me!
"SHE DOES!" The primitive clone screamed "She is our sister! You loved her! She cares for you and she's the only family you have!" She started to calm down. "She kept you warm." She said softly.
Rebecca looked at Delilah, she felt like Delilah had done something for her, something very brave, but she was unsure of what exactly.
"You will be alone," The woman warned the mute "You will die unhappy… both of you…"
The room and ragged Rebecca and the statue of Delilah started to disintegrate.
"But you are afraid…"
Mute Rebecca held up her hands and saw that they were disintegrating as well.
"I HOPE YOU WILL BE ALONE NOW!" Talking Rebecca screamed, her eyes going yellow for a second before she disappeared. "YOU DESERVE TO BE ALONE, JUST LIKE DEMONA!"
No! Wait! Please! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Her body started to tear apart I'm SORRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
*****
Rebecca woke up with a start and sat up in bed, sweat pouring from her brow. She looked towards the window and saw that it was day outside.
She got out of bed and stepped carefully over the mess that she made last night and went into the bathroom, and took a shower, trying not to think about the nightmare, but she couldn't help it.
The worst thing was now that she was thinking about Delilah, she had been horrible to her whit haired twin and she had done nothing to her.
She stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around her form and moved to the unbroken mirror on the wall and stared to dry her hair. She stopped when she suddenly realised that something was different in her appearances… mainly the fact that her eyes weren't glowing anymore.
She rubbed her eyes and gave a sigh of relief at this.
She put her clothes back on and sat back on the bed, trying to think things over.
Her stomach was churning from the guilt she was feeling about what she did and she wished it would go away.
Not only that but as she looked at her ear ring before she put it back on, she began to think about the hurt look on her sister's face.
Part of her… no all of her wanted to see Delilah again. See her, tell how sorry she was… try an make it up.
She pulled out of her pocket that Elisa had given her and went into the other room where Amy was.
*****
Rebecca crept into the room silently, moving closer towards Amy.
Her Goth friend was sleeping on the couch, snoring loudly, her arms and legs spread out and made the position she was in looked very uncomfortable.
Rebecca knelt down and shook her by the shoulder, trying to wake her up.
When Amy didn't wake up Rebecca held the woman's nose and covered her mouth
Amy opened her eyes in fright when she couldn't breath and she started flapping her arms and legs around widely.
Rebecca let go and just looked at her sadly.
"What the heck was that for?" Amy barked.
Rebecca just shrugged.
"Well what do you want?" Amy said with a hint of annoyance.
^ I want to see Delilah ^ Rebecca signed.
"Oh so now you want to see her?" The Goth said coldly. "You sure she'll want to see you though?"
Rebecca looked at the floor, her face filled with shame ^ I'm sorry ^
"I'm not the one you should be apologising to." Amy said slowly.
^ I know ^
"I'm sorry I shouted Rebecca I was just…" Amy bit her lip "Well you know about me and my sister, it just upset me that you've got one and you didn't try to get to know her, I don't want you ending up with a sibling relationship like the one I had." She sighed.
Rebecca held up Elisa's phone number to Amy's face.
"What's this?" Amy asked as she took the piece of paper from the mute and looked at it.
^ It's Elisa's phone number, she said to ring her if I changed my mind. ^ She blushed at little ^ Could you ring her? ^
Amy thought for a moment before nodding "OK, fine."
Amy got up and picked up the phone and dialled the number…
*****
Fifteen minutes later…
"… OK, thanks Elisa, yeah I'll tell her that, see you later, bye." Amy put down the phone and smiled at her mute friend. "Well I've just talked to her and she's agreed for you to talk to Delilah… but not where you met her last night, she's getting someone to take her some where else."
^ Where? ^ Rebecca asked.
Amy grinned, "It's a surprise." She said with a wink. "We'll get going in a little while after we call on Leo, but first how about some breakfast?"
Rebecca nodded in agreement.
As they sat down to eat Rebecca asked Amy a question ^ Amy… ^ she started ^ Did Leo say anything before he left about when you said about us sharing that…? ^
Amy gave a wicked smile "That one night? Yeah he did."
^ And…? ^
"I told him we stayed up all night watching Disney films." She smirked. She saw the surprise on Rebecca's face "Well we did once didn't we? It was the one I was talking about after all." Amy said winking with a devilish smile "Why? Which one did were you thinking of?" She smirked.
Amy burst out laughing as Rebecca just gave a big cheesy grin.
*****
Castle Wyvern, near sun set…
"I can't believe this," Leo said as he looked over the edge of the castle, almost loosing his sunglasses in the process. "This is so cool!"
"Yeah I've got to agree I always wondered what it was like up here." Said Amy.
Rebecca just looked around the castle in wonder, she felt like this was the place where she belonged but she didn't tell that to Elisa who was giving her and the others a guided tour.
"I'm glad you like this place." Elisa said as she and the others got to the very top of the castle where there were many statues of gargoyles.
"Are these them?" Amy asked as she pointed towards them.
"Yup." Elisa said as she nodded her head "Thought they won't wake up until sunset." She looked towards the sun and saw that it was almost down. "I'll take you to Delilah." She said to Rebecca, Leo and Amy.
As they walked to one of the towers Elisa looked at a piece of paper that Rebecca had given her. She gave a sad nod "Yes… yes, she was very upset when she went to sleep. I don't think she would have stopped crying if she hadn't turned to stone."
Rebecca looked away, ashamed until they finally reached the top where a lone statue of a female gargoyle stood with a an unhappy look on her face and a hand that seemed to show that she had been rubbing her eyes as she had entered her stone sleep.
"Is that your sister?" Amy asked in awe as she stepped forward to take a good look at the clone. "She looks like you." She said to Elisa.
"Yeah I know." Elisa said as she rubbed her arm uncomfortably. She saw the sun was just a few moments from setting. "I'd better go and tell the others." She looked at Delilah then at Rebecca "Good luck." She said quietly as she left down the stairs.
Rebecca sat on the wall and waited until she heard a cracking sound that was coming from the statue. She watched in amazement like Leo and Amy were doing as Delilah broke out of her stone skin with a mighty roar.
"Woah…" Amy whispered as She watched Delilah stretch her limbs and gave a loud yawn.
Delilah opened her eyes and stared around in confusion. What was she doing here? The last thing she remembered was going to sleep in the labyrinth and now she was standing on top of the castle?
"Uh… hi." Amy said nervously.
Delilah span round and stared at her, then Leo. "Who are you?" She asked quietly.
"My name's Amy, and this is Leo," The Goth said waving towards Leo. "We're friends of Rebecca."
Delilah's eyes turned towards Rebecca "Oh… it's you." She said coldly "What do you want?"
Rebecca made some signs and Amy translated "I've come to talk to you." Amy said.
"Well, I don't want to talk to you." She said acidly as she turned away and spread her wings ready to glide off.
"No wait!" Amy translated. "Please I've come to talk to you." Amy watched her friend's signs "And to say I'm sorry."
"SORRY?!" Delilah screamed, her eyes blazing as she bared her teeth at the three. Amy and Leo stepped back a little in fright. "HOW DARE YOU SAY YOU'RE SORRY!?" she pointed at Rebecca "I did nothing to you and you hit me!"
"I was upset." Amy said for Rebecca "I so confused." Rebecca stepped towards Delilah with pleading eyes "Please, I'm sorry, I want to get to know you, I'm sorry!"
"It's too late for that." Delilah hissed "I wanted to get to know you and you turned me away." Her eyes started to glow again "I hate you!" She put her face in her hands and wept "I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!"
Rebecca looked at Delilah, she wanted to comfort her, but she didn't think that her twin would let her.
She had failed.
Now she had nothing left to live for.
She pulled out a piece of paper and wrote something on it. She walked over to Delilah and forced the paper into her hand.
Delilah just gave her a hard stare as she watched Rebecca back away from her, watched as Rebecca got up onto the wall on the tower and stood up.
"Rebecca… what are you doing?" Amy asked the mute nervously "Don't do what I think you're going to do."
But it was too late.
Rebecca looked into the eyes of her twin sadly and stepped backwards off the wall, down to the streets below.
"NO!" Amy screamed as she attempted to grab her falling friend, but if Leo hadn't pulled her back she would have gone over as well. "REBECCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Delilah just stared in horror.
Why had Rebecca done that?
She looked at the crumpled piece of paper.
It said I LOVE YOU
Delilah's eyes widened as she looked towards Amy, and felt something in her heart move "No!" She whispered as she stood up "Sister! I'm coming!" She cried as she jumped over the side…
*****
Rebecca fell.
She gave a sigh as she plummeted towards the ground at a great speed.
At least the pain wouldn't last long.
At least she wouldn't cause anymore pain to anyone, at least the mistake that was her life would be erased, and she wasn't meant to exist anyway so it didn't matter if she died or not.
She looked down to see the ground starting to come up to meet her. She looked up to see the castle shooting into the sky and an angel coming to grab her as the world went black…
*****
"She's dead! She's dead!" Amy cried into Leo's chest "She killed herself! It was my fault I should have stopped her! I killed Rebecca again!" She sobbed.
"Amy! AMY!" Leo shouted, "It's not your fault! Shut UP! I…" He stopped as he and Amy heard something dig into the walls of the castle.
They looked over to see Delilah climbing up the side of the castle, holding Rebecca tightly.
"Oh thank you! Thank you!" Amy wept as she hugged Delilah after the gargoyle had put down the unconscious mute.
Rebecca slowly opened her eyes to see that Amy and Delilah were looking at her.
"Why did you do it!" Delilah demanded "Why did you jump off that building?"
^ I wanted to… know. ^ Rebecca said in sign language, which Amy told Delilah even though the Goth couldn't believe it herself.
"Know what?" The clone asked.
Rebecca stood up ^ I thought you wouldn't want me, that my life was pointless, ^ Rebecca smiled as Amy told Delilah ^ But you saved me, you do want me! ^
"I…" Delilah rubbed her arm "I just couldn't let you die..."
Rebecca flung her arms round her twin much to the surprise of Delilah, but slowly she wrapped her own arms round the mute and started to cry.
"My sister." She wept "My very own family! My… very own big sister!"
Rebecca looked at Delilah, surprised at the comment.
Her? A big sister?
She nodded happily and pulled Delilah into another hug.
Yes.
She liked the sound of that.
*****
I guess I'm not needed anymore… Amy thought as she walked away from the reunited sisters.
*****
"*Sniff* I love a happy ending, don't you?" Leo asked as he got something in his eye. "Amy?" He looked around, but Amy was gone.
*****
Amy hugged her knees once she found a place to sit on the floor and started to cry. She was alone again; she'd lost her best friend now that she had her family back. Rebecca probably wouldn't even want to know her now.
"Excuse me… are you Amy Hart?" Asked a female voice.
Amy looked up and gave a gasp, as she looked into the eyes of a lavender skinned gargoyle who had leaned down and had put a hand on the human's shoulder.
"Y-yes, I'm Amy." She said quietly.
"I'm pleased to meet you Amy, my name's Angela." The lavender gargoyle said with a smile.
"Yeah… hi…" Amy mumbled, she didn't really feel like talking at the moment.
"Why are you crying?" Angela asked with concern.
"It-it's nothing." Amy said wiping the tears out of her eyes with the back of her sleeve, smudging her mascara.
"I don't understand, aren't you happy Rebecca has her family now?"
Amy was strangely quiet, as she looked down at the floor, "Well yeah I…" She stopped and hung her head "No… I'm not."
"But why?"
"Because… because she probably won't want to live with me anymore, this castle is a nice place, and… and she'll probably want to be with her family all the time now." Amy looked at Angela carefully. "You look familiar, do I know you?"
"I'm the daughter of the woman who Rebecca was cloned from."
"Wo… so you're the mysterious daughter of Dominique Destine? That would explain why we never see much of you." Amy said. "Wait a minute… does this mean that you and Rebecca are sist…?"
"No…" Angela said quickly shaking her head "I think it's best not to think like that, I don't think Delilah wishes to share her sister with me… or anyone." She gave a sigh "Delilah doesn't get on well with me, or Demona, well she tried to get my mother to accept her, but I don't think it worked out very well." She said sadly.
"Oh…" Amy looked a little surprised "I didn't know Dominique Destine was a gargoyle."
"Oh yes, an immortal one in fact."
"Immortal?" Amy exclaimed "How old is she really then?"
"Over a thousand years old." The lavender gargoyle said casually.
"Whoa… that's… old!" Amy said in awe.
"I suppose it is." She looked at Amy with concern "Are you sure you're all right?"
"Yeah I-I guess, it's just…" She paused and stared at the gargoyles walking into the corridor.
"Hello," The Japanese gargoyle greeted bowing politely.
"Uh, yeah hi." Amy mumbled, as she wasn't feeling too comfortable with all these gargoyles staring at her. She looked at the brick red gargoyle curiously, "You look… familiar somehow." She said slowly, as she looked at the others including the large light blue one and the smallish coloured mustard yellow one.
"I don't recall meeting you though." Brooklyn said.
"The subway!" She cried snapping her fingers, "That was it! I saw you in the subway once!"
"We don't use the subways" Broadway said, "we only ever used it when we was…?" His eyes opened wide, as a sudden thought struck his mind "Hey… you wouldn't happen to have been with a blonde and a red head when you saw us would you?" He asked.
Amy nodded shyly.
"Gee I always wondered what happened to you guys and… Wing…? Are you all right?" Lex asked concerned as he saw Wings eyes blaze red.
"You!" Wing snarled "You're a Quarryman!" She accused with a pointing talon. "I saw you once before I met the clan, you were getting into your Quarrymen clothes in an alley."
"What?????" Lex cried, his eyes glowing a bright white as he and the other's stared at Amy "You're a Quarryman??????"
"It-it's not what you think!" Amy said as she backed away a bit "I've got nothing against you guys, it was-it was just helping me and…"
"And what?" Wing sneered baring her talons menacingly.
"Look those guys are jerks!" Amy snapped "I only just joined to help Rebecca OKAY!" Amy gave Wing a hard stare "I wanted to help my friend, some gargoyle with white hair threw her in a Dumpster and left her for dead. She had no idea who she was, where she came from and then the Quarrymen come along and me and Rebecca thought that we could use them to find the one who hurt her in the first place. We never, ever tried to hurt you guys. Never!" Amy took angry deep breaths ready to lash at anyone else who tried to insult her when Angela put a hand on her shoulder.
"We understand… we've just had some bad experiences with those people that's all."
"Yeah, uh… sorry." Broadway apologised.
"So… what about the other two you were with? What's that red head like?" Brooklyn asked before Sata said something loud in Japanese but it didn't sound nice.
"Actually if you wanna know… Maxine, that's her name, well she's… a stripper."
"Oh… that's… nice." Broadway said "And how about the blonde? What's she doing these days?"
"Broadway…" Angela mocked warned with a small laugh, but then she saw the unhappy look in the Goth's eyes. "Amy, what' wrong?"
"The blonde one was my sister," Amy said as tears formed in her eyes "but… she's dead now."
Everyone was silent.
"I'm so sorry." Angela said as she gave Amy a little hug.
"She was killed in a hit and run, but maybe she deserved it, she was a drug user." Amy said coldly.
Angela looked at her in horror, "how could you say such a thing? She was your sister." She exclaimed.
"You didn't know her though." Amy said "She took drugs, she stole things to pay for her damn habit, she hated me, she hated my parents… she stole money from me, she beat me up when she was drunk for Gods sake!" Amy shouted as tears flowed down her cheeks "I hated Rebecca! She never treated me like a sister should! She was cruel and spiteful, and then I caught her stealing money from my purse and then we had a fight, she ran away and… and… then she died and…" Amy bit her lip "And it was my fault, she died because of me." She wept "It was all my fault." She gave a sniff "But then Rebecca came along and everything was all right."
"Wait, wait, wait." Brooklyn said "You named that clone after your dead sister?" He gave a look of disgust.
"I didn't name her, she chose that name herself!" She growled "Do you think I wanted her to have that name? But she didn't want anything else so I let her." Amy smiled "When I met Rebecca, everything felt better. I was happy with my life, I didn't feel alone." She gave a sigh "I never had many friends, but Rebecca was perfect, she loved me… no one ever told me they loved me before. It was the first real message she ever gave me." Her lip trembled as she remembered the happy look her friend had when she had given Amy the letter.
"And… I love her." Amy sobbed "God I love her so much, she's the best friend I've ever had!" She cried, loudly, into Angela's shoulder
Angela looked at Amy oddly "are you two… lovers?" She asked.
Amy blushed a little "does it really look like that?" She asked with a sad sort of smirk.
"Well I…."
"We're not." Amy said sternly "We're just friends… the best of friends and I…. And I-I don't want to loose her!" She howled "I don't wanna loose her! I don't! I don't! But I am! She's never going to want me now! She's got what she wants and now she won't-won't want me-ee-ee-eeeeeeeee!" She sobbed as she broke down on Angela who tried so desperately to calm the young woman down until two gentle hands pulled Amy by the shoulders and turned her round.
"Ruh-Rebecca?" Amy whispered tearfully as she looked into the eyes of her best friend.
^ How dare you? ^ Rebecca signed angrily ^ How dare you think such things? ^
"I-I just…"
^ I will NEVER leave you! ^ Rebecca took her sister's hand and placed it into Amy's own. ^ We are friends… family ^ She hugged Amy ^ I love you. ^
Rebecca wrote the word FAMILY to Delilah and then pointed to Amy.
Delilah nodded her head, understanding with a smile as she held Amy's hand. "You are Rebecca's friend… her family… that makes us family too." She said as she and Rebecca pulled Amy into a long loving hug.
Elisa watched with Aaron and Leo from a distance. She saw a that a new family was born that night, and somehow she knew, as she watched the three, that nothing would ever break it up.
*****
Destine Manor, the next night…
Demona was at her desk, going over a few documents of some of the projects that her company was doing when she heard her Balcony doors opening quietly.
"Demona?" Said the familiar voice of Elisa. The azure gargoyle turned round, her eyes blazed red as she was thinking about demanding why the detective had come into her home unannounced when she realised when she saw who was standing there that is wasn't actually Elisa but the white-haired gargoyle clone Delilah.
"You!" Demona snarled as she stood up, baring her teeth as she eyes burned ruby red and her wings flapped out angrily. "What do you think you're doing here?" She demanded.
Strangely Delilah didn't flinch at Demona's behaviour. She just smiled.
"What are you smiling about you worthless clone?" Demona shouted "and why are you here anyway?"
"To say thank you." Delilah said happily, as she stepped forwards, almost oblivious to the fact that Demona would, undoubtedly, rip her apart.
"What for?" Demona snapped "I haven't done anything!"
"You helped me find my sister Demona."
Demona's eyes dimmed for a split second "y-you found her?" She asked before her eyes went red again. "Why should I care if you've found another one of your forgeries? I had nothing to do with it!"
Delilah shook her head with a sad smile "I know you did Demona, even if you do deny it." Delilah stepped a little bit closer.
"I said get out!" Demona shouted.
"Not until I do something first." The clone said with a grin as she once again stepped closer "thank you." She whispered and before Demona could do anything Delilah gave her a hug and kissed her on the cheek before stepping away with happy tears in her eyes. "Thank you." She said again.
Demona was speechless for a moment. "Just… just get out of here!" Demona said with a lump in her throat as she watched Delilah smile at her again.
"I only came to say thank you Demona, I'll do what you ask now." Delilah sighed as she left through the doors, closing them and glided away, leaving Demona to just stand in her room with her hand on the cheek that Delilah had kissed her on.
*****
Epilogue…
Vortexx bent down onto one knee, as he stood in front of a fire that was burning brightly, as it danced. Two burning red eyes shone out of it.
"IS EVERYTHING GOING TO PLAN?" Asked a dark voice that felt like every word was laced with darkness.
Vortexx looked down at the floor "It is my lord." He said, "the spy has been placed. Soon the identity of that accursed werewolf will be mine and so will the gargoyles. Though, destroying them is a bonus, I wouldn't have bothered with them if they hadn't allied themselves with him."
"I WOULD HAVE WANTED YOU TO DESTROY THEM ANYWAY." Said the voice "THEY WILL PROVE TO BE A THREAT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. ESPECIALLY ONE OF THEM."
"This could have all be avoided if you had just told me who The Wolf was." Vortexx sneered.
"NO… MY 'CREATOR' PLACED A SPELL OVER HIM PREVENTING US FROM REVEALING HIS TRUE IDENTITY."
"but couldn't you just…"
"SILENCE!" Boomed the voice angrily, as he threw Vortexx across the room with a thought "DO NOT QUESTION ME VORTEXX, REMEMBER I CAN, AS EASILY RETURN YOU TO THE VOID, AS I BROUGHT YOU BACK FROM IT."
"No! Not the void." Vortexx cried "anything but that!"
"GOOD…" Replied the voice "REMEMBER? I HAVE THE POWER TO RETURN WHAT WAS STOLEN FROM YOU AS WELL." The silhouette of a female appeared in the flames before it disappeared again. "THAT IS OUR BARGAIN." The eyes grew bigger "THERE IS… ONE MORE THING I REQUIRE FROM YOU VORTEXX." He said "THE TIME OF THE REBIRTH OF MY FALLEN ALLY IS APROACHING, EVERYTHING IS READY EXCEPT… THE HOST."
"The Host, my lord?" Vortexx asked.
"MY 'CREATOR' DESTROYED MY ALLIES BODY, A LONG TIME AGO, BUT NOT HER SPIRIT. WE HAVE CHOSEN THE HOST, WHICH WILL BE USED TO CARRY HER, BUT WE NEED YOU TO… ACQUIRE IT FOR US."
"Just show me what it is my lord and I will get it for you."
The flames reformed themselves to become the body of the host. Vortexx smiled "as you wish… Dark Fire." He said with a horrible smile, as he looked at the shape of a bat wing lioness…
The End