Title: Unknowingly Drawn Home

By: messymissy

(For other information, go to part 1.)

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Everyone froze at the sound of the little girl's voice. Tension filled the air and even more grief, but everyone tried their best to conceal the emotions that they felt inside of them. They all wanted so much to support the little girl and put on as brave as a face as they could until she was finally told of what had happened.

Alec had just whirled around and had just stared at her in surprise right after he heard her speak. Sorrow, sadness, and guilt filled him as he looked at her, but he forced himself to look normal. He didn't know what to do. Alec didn't expect to see the little four-year-old just then. He didn't even have enough time to think about what to say yet.

"Emi!" Alec cried out after a few seconds. He then went over to her and asked, "What are you doing here right now? Aren't you suppose to be in the infirmary?"

"I'm suppose to be in the infirmary? What do you mean I have to be in the infirmary, Uncle Alecky?? I don't have to be there if I don't want to be. Nothing said that I had to be there," Emi replied.

As Emi spoke, she didn't sound like any average four-year-old. Her speech was much more advanced and intellectual than normal children of her age. She spoke in a way that was quite unusual for children her age. The way she spoke gave off a sense of young intellect and a feel of being more advanced to those that do not know her or her kind and were not use to young children developing so quickly and efficiently. Then again, unusual development rates were expected among the children of the transgenics because of their parent's/parents' advanced built and capabilities.

"You know what I mean, Emily," Alec said to her. "Please stop doing that right now. This is not the time to be playing these word games. Now, why are you here instead of at the infirmary?"

"Fine," she said. "The reason to why I'm here instead of in the infirmary with my dad is because Aunty JoJo said that he'll be just fine after he heals and that nothing's wrong beyond his battle wounds and some blood loss. I know that Daddy's getting better because I can see his wounds slowly heal when I was watching him and he's looking better, but he's just not up yet. I'm here now because it's been a long time since we were brought back here and I wanted to see if Mommy's back yet. Besides, Auntie JoJo told me to come down here to check to see if there's any information about anything because Auntie's busy checking Daddy and running tests on him while Nicole's busy playing nurse. She also sent me because I was getting fidgety with all the waiting."

As Emi was explaining her reasons to Alec, she had scanned the room and noticed that her mother was nowhere to be seen. She then asked, "So where's Mommy? It looks like everyone's back from the mission, but I don't see her. Where is she?"

Everyone looked at one another nervously not sure of what to do. They knew that she had to be told of what happened, but no one had a clue of how to break it to her.

Alec sighed and thought, 'Poor Emi. This is just going to hurt her so bad. I don't want to be the bearer of bad news for her, but I have to tell her now. It's no use to put off telling her because she would find out about what happened sooner or later.'

Alec walked up closer to Emi and knelt down beside her with his hands on her shoulders. He took a deep breath and said quietly to her, "Your mother isn't here, Emi."

"Oh," she replied. "If she's not here, does that mean that she's back in our quarters?"

"No, Emi," Alec said sadly.

Emi then realized that everyone in the room was awfully quiet and took a closer look at all of their expressions. She saw that everyone was staring at her with sad eyes and solemn expressions on their faces.

Emi then turned and faced Alec again. Fear was now written on her face. She said trembling, "Something's wrong isn't it? What happened? Why's everyone looking at me funny? Where is Mommy? Did something happen to her?" Her voice got softer and softer as she spoke.

The room was silent and no one said a word.

Tears were now in Emi's big, brown eyes for she had guessed the meaning of the silence.

"You're all hiding something from me aren't you? Something did happen to Mommy. Please tell me," she begged as a tear slipped down from her cheek.

Alec swallowed a lump that was in his throat. He wished that there was an easier way to explain to Emi about what happened to her mother, but there wasn't. It hurt him to have to break the news to her. Alec didn't want to have to hurt Emi, but he had to tell her.

He hesitated as he started to tell her about what happened. "Emi, your mother, she's... she's..." Alec started to say.

"Auntie Maxie's gone, Emi," a little boy about a year older than Emi said quietly in a mournful voice. He never cried before, but it looked as though he had been crying just now. He choked as he said, "And she's never going to be able to come back to us again because of what those bad people did to her."

"Maxwell!" Jace cried out in dismay.

"What? It's true mom! As much as we all don't want to believe it, she is gone. Slowly breaking the news to Emi isn't going to help the pain. It's useless to beat around the bush. It's going to hurt her no matter what we do. Besides, I think that she already figured out what happened anyway. Or at least has the gist of it," the little boy replied.

Emi just stood in a stunned silence after she had heard what Maxwell, or Xwell as everyone usually called him, had said. Tears were flowing violently from her eyes, but she took no notice of them and just stood there. Emi knew now that her mother was gone. Pain filled her as she realized her loss and it filled her heart with despair, sorrow, grief, and all of the other feelings of hurt and sadness. Her feelings affected her so much that no response came from her of the news except for the strong flow of her tears. Besides that, Emi stood nearly as frozen as a statue. No sound came from her and her expression was blank, save the tears. She was staring off at a distance unseeingly, and she looked like she was trapped within herself and her emotions unable to escape.

Alec, who still had his hands on Emi, saw that she was gazing off in space in despair so he shook her gently and called her name.

"Emi... Emi... Emi, please snap out of it and talk to me," Alec said looking worried.

As Alec called her, Emi's eyes started to refocus again through the tears. She then came out of the paralyzed state that she had been in.

"How are you feeling, Emi?" Alec asked her.

Her face filled with multiple emotions all at once. All in which has one way or another a link to her painful sadness.

Emi then sobbed and said brokenly, "How do... you... think... I feel?"

With that Emi threw herself at Alec and she broke down in his arms, her body shaking with her heartbroken sobs.

Everyone that were in the building had gathered around Emi heavyheartedly.

Joshua, Krit, Jace, Zane, Brin, Little Max, and Syl with Greg approached Emi and Alec and they all hugged Emi and held her as she cried over her mother's death.

Everyone else soon followed, and Emi was enveloped in the arms of the people of Terminal City.

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You know, I'm actually satisfied with this part of the story. I hope that I did the emotions all right in this! Am I moving too slow with the plot?

steph: Hi! I'm glad that you like this story! Don't worry, Jondy will be in the next part! What would you like to know about her in this anyway?

sohna: Alec just told Emi. Well, Little Max did anyway. Now he gets to tell Zack and I don't know how he's going to tell him yet. I might make it like what I did in this part. I haven't planned any war or peace efforts between the regular people and the transgenics yet. I have to get to Max first, which I already have something more or less planned.

serotonin: You'll see how I have Max come back from the dead. It's actually pretty simple and isn't anything magical or anything. I don't know exactly how that's going to turn out though since I'm not even there yet. You know how sometimes a way that you want the story to go kind of changes as you write it out right? I have an idea that might or might not work though. Thanks for reading!

sophie: Here's the next part to this fic! Part four was kind of sad huh? Yeah... Well, I think that this one might just be a little sadder. What do you think?

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