This story is one written in Shadowfox's story GW: The Great Reurn done by
Trel Armstrong , not a side ficlet or anything just a story written by the
C in her spare time. And since I had nothing written when i put that in her
POV I figured it wouldn't hurt to take on one more project and make this
based on her opinion of the outcome and besides the point that she wrote it
.... it really doesn't have anything to do with the story.
Enjoy.
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Another day to trudge through thought Trel , of course the day before she'd had a laugh , it had once again become time to think about things like school and although she had lost one year of education due to a small misunderstanding on her own part it had not taken much persuading for her to join back into the mundane masses destined for the educational facilities.
It was now four years after the insanity had started and almost every avenue they could think of had been exhausted in their attempts to return to the world they had once been in. But with that they still were not willing to just give up , if a 7 year old could manage to make a machine and pull a terrorist out of thin air then surely 6 very determined youths could find some way to do it.
She had enjoyed the trip down here , the flight very much different from the kind she wanted , but at least it was warm and soon she'd have company she thought as the cab pulled up to the address she had handed him that she wrote down the day before. It looked huge compared to what she had been living in before but with 6 people living in one place it was going to have to be big after all.
Grabbing her huge green duffel bag and a suitcase her father had bought her she walked up to the door , this was something she hadn't thought about before ..... how was she to get into this place , after all it was rather hard to send a key via e-mail.
She rang knocked on the door hoping someone was there to meet them but the inside sounded hollow , she set the bags down and waited , looking around her new neighborhood , so far the small town looked decent and from what she found out it wasn't going to be all that horrible , after all it wasn't that far from the three S's as Niki would put it , sun , sand , and surf ..... sweet.
Nikita's mom had insisted on driving down , she had never really gotten over the events that were almost four years ago , and living near ground zero who would blame her , of course Trel always thought there was more then just that but Niki's mom Judy had always been good hearted , even if she still called her Angel instead of Trel. They had offered Trel to go with them but Trel declined quickly , besides the long drive it would be from New York to California that poor car didn't look like it would have enough room for just those two with all the things they'd packed up , poor Mrs. Swiftrider was afraid they'd need something or had more of another thing which soon ended as a car load of appliances and kitchen utilities. It made her laugh when they waved bye and left , cramped up in the car singing road tunes and looking like they were just going to have a short trip.
Her own mother had not been able to get any time off work which had been sad but she was use to doing things for herself , she had managed almost a year on her own which really had not pleased anyone when it came down to it but she had sent her love and some money along as did her father. He had been most impressed when she cracked down to the books and managed a scholarship , and she knew he had always been the one pushing her to do something with her life instead of ending like him , working the rest of his life as a painter.
Of course none of them would have had a place to move into had it not been for Matt and his Dad , they had taken the time out to come all the way down here to find a place suitable , which meant it was bound to be the coolest thing to be found. It really had been amazing how all the parents seemed to accept their friendship as it was , as far as they knew these were 6 people who had never really met or anything and now they were all going to the same college , having met over the Internet and between phone calls and talking online had developed a strong friendship , but then what they didn't know surely couldn't hurt the group.
The location could not have been better but they all had Jason to thank for that , ,in his searching for what everyone wanted he ran across this one ..... Diablo Valley College , of course no one believed him at first , it sounded like a video game but after he started dropping the info on them there was little doubt it was real. Lord only knew how he had persuaded Savanna into helping him research this whole place out though but the more the group thought about it the more it was liked.
Amy had been the one that had resisted the longest , although she would never have said why to anyone else it was finally revealed that she was worried about what Mark and Craig were going to do without her , she had become much like a mother figure and definitely had the right stuff it seemed , but her brothers were not babies and now they were 17and 15 , they were more then able to fend for themselves , of course the offer to have them move in as well had been made but in the end it was Mark and Craig that made the decision for her , her mood that night had been somber when she informed the rest of the group so no one had pressed her , if she needed to talk about it they all knew she'd do it in her own time.
Finally a truck pulled up in front of the building , the black hair giving away its occupant as she smiled , it seemed like they had finally started arriving as Matt got out of the driver's side of the truck and came to the door. "Hey , long time no see"
It had been awhile since they'd all been together , with living in different areas it seemed impossible to catch up with everyone and although they usually managed at least one group meeting where everyone came in a year the feeling of being as they once were was finally starting to grow." Nice set of wheels Matt , definitely not the Skyline of old but I guess you made due huh ?"
Matt just laughed and turned the door knob , he had left it open incase someone had happened to show while he grabbed his breakfast , he had managed to make it here last night and unload his own stuff but had managed very little sleep , it seemed so empty and quiet that it was eerie. He had liked this one the most as it was the biggest thing they had found , it had once been a warehouse for a company that had gone bankrupt , the landlady had bought it up and remodeled it for use by students , after all it really was such a short distance from the college that it would have been a shame to use it for anything else. She had been more then happy to rent the whole thing out too as he had 5 other friends that were coming to the same college and it was definitely big enough for them.
"Well , what do you think , think it's big enough?" He finally asked , having watched her as she took the whole thing in.
"Man , that has to be the biggest living room I have ever seen , we send you apartment shopping and you get us a bloody mansion fit for a Gundam" she laughed , the kitchen wasn't much smaller and the rooms he showed her were definitely going to look bare with what little she had brought , sure all she wanted was a couch and a table for the lap top , maybe something for her stereo but she certainly had not packed enough to fill this place.
"Well grab a room and stow your gear , we're likely going to have our hands full with getting everything sorted away" he said as he headed into the kitchen to eat his cooling breakfast.
She picked the one furthest from the door and hoped it was insulated as she did put the music up loud sometimes , dropped the suitcase and gently lowered the green bag to the ground , it having carried her lap top and stereo packed round with clothes to keep it from any damage , of course she had once filled a garbage bag and put it in there and still had room for a few things.
She left the unpacking till later , wanting to explore the building a little more as she shut the door and took her time checking out the bathroom , ,then wandered to the roof top stairway , going up and propping the door open to look out over the massive roof top which would definitely make for a great party setting , that was if they had time.
It was almost noon by the time the next vehicle had pulled up , a U-haul truck had come bearing Savanna and Jason along with Savanna's Dad who had drove it down. But neither Matt nor Trel was expecting the surprise when they opened the back and Amy jumped out , happy to get out and stretch her legs after the long ride in an easy chair that had been contributed to the college kids by Savanna's Grandfather. The girls danced around in a happy greeting while Matt and Jason just shook their heads and each others hand , waiting for the excitement to die down some before they all pitched in to unload the truck.
They had only managed to get the truck half unloaded when the final member of the group arrived , ,the big blue station wagon that had carried half a house load itself had finally pulled up which started another happy break. It seemed Niki's mom had stopped to grab lunch and no one was going to disagree with a hot chicken dinner at the moment , soon enough lunch was over and both loads had been emptied into their new place.
It was still rather bare , but that wasn't going to last for long , Judy had grabbed Nikita and pulled her out to the car , having mentioned that there was nothing to clean the toilet properly with. Trel grabbed Amy up to go looking up some extra furniture like a few sofa beds as they were definitely going to need something to cover up all the bare spots in the apartment , of course Trel was not about to mention that they had both arrived without beds so those were going to be top priority , leaving Jason and Savanna to get their own beds set up with Matt's help.
By evenings end all had been settled , both Jason and Savanna had taken rooms on the bottom floor , Jason having the first room and the closest to the living room , Savanna had taken the one between Jason and Trel , Amy had followed Matt's lead and found a quiet room upstairs above Trel's room and Nikita had grabbed the one with all the windows , her herbs in mind and the lighting having been perfect for growing them all.
Amy and Trel had managed to find three couches for the living room , a futon for Trel's room and a bed for Amy's room , plus a few coffee tables and a television which had just been brought in to a pawn shop , the people were moving and needed to get rid of it all and were glad to take three hundred just to be rid of it.
Savanna's Dad had left shortly after the truck had been unloaded to get it back on the same day but Niki's mom stayed the night as it was a long drive back home which suited everyone but their first actual meal was more like a party then dinner. Jason had finally recharged from moving everything and was up to his usual mischief decorating the rafters with everything from a disco ball to Christmas lights and ignoring Savanna as she kept telling him he was going to fall. Matt looked up from the game in time to see Jason's arm slip , leaving him hanging by his legs , of course Jason just acted like a monkey and hauled himself back up which left their leader to smile and go back to his game. Niki was in the greenhouse / pool area enjoying the idea of being able to turn it into a jungle of her own choosing , Amy enjoying herself in the hot tub as Trel had kept checking the phones to see when they were finally going to turn them on , a whole night without the Internet was killing her.
It had been Mrs. Swiftwind that suggested getting some sleep , it had been a hard day and for some it had been more then just one day that they had gone without a good night's worth of sleep and that the morning was bound to be as busy getting their classes selected and exploring the new grounds to coordinate themselves with the whole campus , plus there was also the town they'd need to get familiar with and get groceries since that seemed to have slipped everyone's mind so far.
After a small laugh session it had been agreed , Matt had not slept well the night before , both Nikita and her mom had been on the road taking turns driving and the others , although not as bad off still had to get use to sleeping in a new place so it was bound to be a rough night for everyone.
Enjoy.
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Another day to trudge through thought Trel , of course the day before she'd had a laugh , it had once again become time to think about things like school and although she had lost one year of education due to a small misunderstanding on her own part it had not taken much persuading for her to join back into the mundane masses destined for the educational facilities.
It was now four years after the insanity had started and almost every avenue they could think of had been exhausted in their attempts to return to the world they had once been in. But with that they still were not willing to just give up , if a 7 year old could manage to make a machine and pull a terrorist out of thin air then surely 6 very determined youths could find some way to do it.
She had enjoyed the trip down here , the flight very much different from the kind she wanted , but at least it was warm and soon she'd have company she thought as the cab pulled up to the address she had handed him that she wrote down the day before. It looked huge compared to what she had been living in before but with 6 people living in one place it was going to have to be big after all.
Grabbing her huge green duffel bag and a suitcase her father had bought her she walked up to the door , this was something she hadn't thought about before ..... how was she to get into this place , after all it was rather hard to send a key via e-mail.
She rang knocked on the door hoping someone was there to meet them but the inside sounded hollow , she set the bags down and waited , looking around her new neighborhood , so far the small town looked decent and from what she found out it wasn't going to be all that horrible , after all it wasn't that far from the three S's as Niki would put it , sun , sand , and surf ..... sweet.
Nikita's mom had insisted on driving down , she had never really gotten over the events that were almost four years ago , and living near ground zero who would blame her , of course Trel always thought there was more then just that but Niki's mom Judy had always been good hearted , even if she still called her Angel instead of Trel. They had offered Trel to go with them but Trel declined quickly , besides the long drive it would be from New York to California that poor car didn't look like it would have enough room for just those two with all the things they'd packed up , poor Mrs. Swiftrider was afraid they'd need something or had more of another thing which soon ended as a car load of appliances and kitchen utilities. It made her laugh when they waved bye and left , cramped up in the car singing road tunes and looking like they were just going to have a short trip.
Her own mother had not been able to get any time off work which had been sad but she was use to doing things for herself , she had managed almost a year on her own which really had not pleased anyone when it came down to it but she had sent her love and some money along as did her father. He had been most impressed when she cracked down to the books and managed a scholarship , and she knew he had always been the one pushing her to do something with her life instead of ending like him , working the rest of his life as a painter.
Of course none of them would have had a place to move into had it not been for Matt and his Dad , they had taken the time out to come all the way down here to find a place suitable , which meant it was bound to be the coolest thing to be found. It really had been amazing how all the parents seemed to accept their friendship as it was , as far as they knew these were 6 people who had never really met or anything and now they were all going to the same college , having met over the Internet and between phone calls and talking online had developed a strong friendship , but then what they didn't know surely couldn't hurt the group.
The location could not have been better but they all had Jason to thank for that , ,in his searching for what everyone wanted he ran across this one ..... Diablo Valley College , of course no one believed him at first , it sounded like a video game but after he started dropping the info on them there was little doubt it was real. Lord only knew how he had persuaded Savanna into helping him research this whole place out though but the more the group thought about it the more it was liked.
Amy had been the one that had resisted the longest , although she would never have said why to anyone else it was finally revealed that she was worried about what Mark and Craig were going to do without her , she had become much like a mother figure and definitely had the right stuff it seemed , but her brothers were not babies and now they were 17and 15 , they were more then able to fend for themselves , of course the offer to have them move in as well had been made but in the end it was Mark and Craig that made the decision for her , her mood that night had been somber when she informed the rest of the group so no one had pressed her , if she needed to talk about it they all knew she'd do it in her own time.
Finally a truck pulled up in front of the building , the black hair giving away its occupant as she smiled , it seemed like they had finally started arriving as Matt got out of the driver's side of the truck and came to the door. "Hey , long time no see"
It had been awhile since they'd all been together , with living in different areas it seemed impossible to catch up with everyone and although they usually managed at least one group meeting where everyone came in a year the feeling of being as they once were was finally starting to grow." Nice set of wheels Matt , definitely not the Skyline of old but I guess you made due huh ?"
Matt just laughed and turned the door knob , he had left it open incase someone had happened to show while he grabbed his breakfast , he had managed to make it here last night and unload his own stuff but had managed very little sleep , it seemed so empty and quiet that it was eerie. He had liked this one the most as it was the biggest thing they had found , it had once been a warehouse for a company that had gone bankrupt , the landlady had bought it up and remodeled it for use by students , after all it really was such a short distance from the college that it would have been a shame to use it for anything else. She had been more then happy to rent the whole thing out too as he had 5 other friends that were coming to the same college and it was definitely big enough for them.
"Well , what do you think , think it's big enough?" He finally asked , having watched her as she took the whole thing in.
"Man , that has to be the biggest living room I have ever seen , we send you apartment shopping and you get us a bloody mansion fit for a Gundam" she laughed , the kitchen wasn't much smaller and the rooms he showed her were definitely going to look bare with what little she had brought , sure all she wanted was a couch and a table for the lap top , maybe something for her stereo but she certainly had not packed enough to fill this place.
"Well grab a room and stow your gear , we're likely going to have our hands full with getting everything sorted away" he said as he headed into the kitchen to eat his cooling breakfast.
She picked the one furthest from the door and hoped it was insulated as she did put the music up loud sometimes , dropped the suitcase and gently lowered the green bag to the ground , it having carried her lap top and stereo packed round with clothes to keep it from any damage , of course she had once filled a garbage bag and put it in there and still had room for a few things.
She left the unpacking till later , wanting to explore the building a little more as she shut the door and took her time checking out the bathroom , ,then wandered to the roof top stairway , going up and propping the door open to look out over the massive roof top which would definitely make for a great party setting , that was if they had time.
It was almost noon by the time the next vehicle had pulled up , a U-haul truck had come bearing Savanna and Jason along with Savanna's Dad who had drove it down. But neither Matt nor Trel was expecting the surprise when they opened the back and Amy jumped out , happy to get out and stretch her legs after the long ride in an easy chair that had been contributed to the college kids by Savanna's Grandfather. The girls danced around in a happy greeting while Matt and Jason just shook their heads and each others hand , waiting for the excitement to die down some before they all pitched in to unload the truck.
They had only managed to get the truck half unloaded when the final member of the group arrived , ,the big blue station wagon that had carried half a house load itself had finally pulled up which started another happy break. It seemed Niki's mom had stopped to grab lunch and no one was going to disagree with a hot chicken dinner at the moment , soon enough lunch was over and both loads had been emptied into their new place.
It was still rather bare , but that wasn't going to last for long , Judy had grabbed Nikita and pulled her out to the car , having mentioned that there was nothing to clean the toilet properly with. Trel grabbed Amy up to go looking up some extra furniture like a few sofa beds as they were definitely going to need something to cover up all the bare spots in the apartment , of course Trel was not about to mention that they had both arrived without beds so those were going to be top priority , leaving Jason and Savanna to get their own beds set up with Matt's help.
By evenings end all had been settled , both Jason and Savanna had taken rooms on the bottom floor , Jason having the first room and the closest to the living room , Savanna had taken the one between Jason and Trel , Amy had followed Matt's lead and found a quiet room upstairs above Trel's room and Nikita had grabbed the one with all the windows , her herbs in mind and the lighting having been perfect for growing them all.
Amy and Trel had managed to find three couches for the living room , a futon for Trel's room and a bed for Amy's room , plus a few coffee tables and a television which had just been brought in to a pawn shop , the people were moving and needed to get rid of it all and were glad to take three hundred just to be rid of it.
Savanna's Dad had left shortly after the truck had been unloaded to get it back on the same day but Niki's mom stayed the night as it was a long drive back home which suited everyone but their first actual meal was more like a party then dinner. Jason had finally recharged from moving everything and was up to his usual mischief decorating the rafters with everything from a disco ball to Christmas lights and ignoring Savanna as she kept telling him he was going to fall. Matt looked up from the game in time to see Jason's arm slip , leaving him hanging by his legs , of course Jason just acted like a monkey and hauled himself back up which left their leader to smile and go back to his game. Niki was in the greenhouse / pool area enjoying the idea of being able to turn it into a jungle of her own choosing , Amy enjoying herself in the hot tub as Trel had kept checking the phones to see when they were finally going to turn them on , a whole night without the Internet was killing her.
It had been Mrs. Swiftwind that suggested getting some sleep , it had been a hard day and for some it had been more then just one day that they had gone without a good night's worth of sleep and that the morning was bound to be as busy getting their classes selected and exploring the new grounds to coordinate themselves with the whole campus , plus there was also the town they'd need to get familiar with and get groceries since that seemed to have slipped everyone's mind so far.
After a small laugh session it had been agreed , Matt had not slept well the night before , both Nikita and her mom had been on the road taking turns driving and the others , although not as bad off still had to get use to sleeping in a new place so it was bound to be a rough night for everyone.