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They two approached Mark and told him about how they had incredible speed that could take them into the town very quickly and get Jesse to a place where he could be treated. Jesse agreed on one condition, that he would be taken by Clark and Jesse would be taken by Raina. He still didn't trust Clark very much so he would go with Clark to keep Jesse safe with Raina. Mark had very little trust for Clark in fact, but, he reasoned, it was the only way that Jesse would survive. There was only a very slim chance of the boys surviving on their own.
Clark also didn't seem to have much trust in the boys, but he saw how he had acted toward them and realized that they never really did anything to him; it was just the human race in general that he hated. He picked up Mark as Raina picked up Jesse and they went speeding off. 'This is fun,' Clark thought. The two were unofficially racing each other to get to the city the quickest. They both were there in a matter of minutes Raina barely taking the lead. They stopped when they saw the first houses. Mark got down and walked up to a young woman that was sweeping the porch.
"Where is the closest hospital?" He asked politely and the woman pointed them in the direction they were going.
"Go down this street for about two miles then turn left. You will be able to see it from there."
"Thanks," Mark said as Clark grabbed him up again and they speed off.
Little did they know that the lady was going back inside to call the police. The one named Clark looked very familiar to her, and they way they speed off, she knew they weren't human. She could hardly stop herself from trembling as she dialed.
Meanwhile, Clark and Raina had reached the hospital with the guidance of Mark. They stopped speeding when they got to the entrance of the emergency room. Jesse was quickly taken to a back room to be treated as the other three waited in the lobby. After about fifteen minutes a doctor came out.
"How is he?" Mark asked nearly jumping out of his seat.
"He'll be ok. It looks like he took quite a beating. What happened?" He asked looking around at the three suspiciously. Raina hadn't anticipated questions on how Jesse got hurt and an awkward silence followed.
Finally Raina spoke up. "We brought him here didn't we? That ought to count for something. We are sorry now for what we did." A glance at Clark showed Raina that he was nodding his head. He really did appear sorry, and yet there was something else about him. He was starting to realize that these humans acted just like his species when he was younger. As long as they thought they were human they were treated well.
The doctor retreated into the back rooms where he was alerted to the fact that at least two of those he just spoke to were not human at all. They weren't sure about the third one. Eric had been a doctor for what seemed like forever to him and this had never happened before. He doubted it had happened anywhere before or he would have heard about it. Maybe he would be famous just for talking to the aliens. His mind swam with possibilities. All around him people from the swat team were forming. Eric wondered if this was the same alien that had gotten loose all those years ago. If it was, had he brought back reinforcements to get back at them?
The same doctor reappeared after another half hour. "Could we talk outside for a couple minutes?" He said as he led them outside. Raina noticed a strange change in how he acted toward them, but it was probably nothing. The bright sun blinded them for only a couple seconds, but it was enough.
"Get down on the ground!" Someone yelled. Over twenty military guns were pointed in their direction. The doctor led them into a trap. Clark looked around for the doctor but he was nowhere in sight. Clark found this amusing, since they couldn't hurt him, but it also made him mad. They wanted to capture him again and this time they wanted Raina and Mark too. I guess they think Mark may be an alien too since he was with us, Clark reasoned. The only problem was the gunmen did have leverage with Mark. Mark would be killed by these people if they started firing. Raina and Mark quickly lowered themselves to the ground and after a slight hesitation and prompting from Raina Clark followed. He tried to convince himself this was for good, so the humans wouldn't think of aliens as being scary and such, but this was starting to frighten him. He tried to convince himself that they could get out of anything that these humans put them in, but the butterflies didn't seem to stop fluttering around in his stomach.
When they were lifted from the ground Mark seemed petrified. "I didn't do anything! Why are you taking me?"
Raina seemed to intervene for Mark's sake. "He isn't one of us you know. He's human just like you, and just like his brother Jesse." The men looked skeptical so Raina continued. "Just try taking a blood test on him and you'll see. Why is it that we frighten you so? We are not here to harm you. As an old movie from your world goes, 'we come in peace.'" The only response Raina got was Mark being pulled away from Raina and Clark and jabbed with a needle. The three of them were taken by plane to a place the humans kept calling Area 51.
The plane took quite a while but Raina, Mark, and Clark played along with their game. Except this time Raina and Clark didn't just play along to help the humans discover what aliens generally were like but to protect Mark. He was the first human to actually trust, or semi-trust an alien. The plane was heavily guarded by military personnel of all kinds as if they expected that the two Merdans couldn't escape if they had wanted to. When they reached their destination Mark was separated from the other two and taken to a room where Raina, using her ability to see through things, saw that he was being asked question upon question about the two Merdans that he had encountered.
Raina and Clark were taken into a room that had security to the extent that there was little room for movement. A man with dark black hair watched them with interest as Raina was strapped down to a table. The men moved to take Clark but this was getting to be too much for him. It was almost like what had happened when he was little, and he wasn't about to let it happened again. Two of the men trying to get him down went flying across the room. Just like that guns started going off around them aimed for Clark. Raina felt sorry for him in a way because this brought back all the memories and fears he had when he was little but Raina still wished he could have suppressed those emotions for the greater good of humans. Raina ripped the straps that bound her just as the military realized that their guns weren't doing any good. There was a sense of panic in the room as Clark just stood there watching their attempt to hurt him with mere guns. There was a mad rush for the door that halted as quickly as it had begun when the saw Raina standing in the doorway. It took only seconds for the hard core military men to be as frightened as little children hoping that there aren't monsters in their closet. Clark came to stand next to her his fear almost gone.
Maybe they will listen to me now, Raina thought. They don't have anywhere else to go. "We aren't here to hurt you." Raina began.
"Then what's your little alien friend doing hurting our guys." A brave man in back spoke up as he supported one of the guys who Clark had hit.
"You probably won't believe me when I say that Clark," she nodded toward him at her side, "is actually frightened of you, because of what you put him through when he was only a little kid. What if one of your kids stumbled onto our world at the age of six? Don't you think that kid would be afraid of us if we did to them what you did to Clark?"
"What did we do to the boy?" Someone in the back asked.
"You don't know?" There was a pause as many of the men shook their heads.
"Why don't you just ask him?" Clark pointed to a man near the front that looked like he wanted to disappear at this particular instant. Raina could tell Clark's anger was starting to get the best of him and she stepped in front of him to prevent Clark from hurting the man. It wouldn't help their cause any if a human got hurt because of them.
Raina wasn't quite sure how to convince these humans that they wouldn't harm them purposefully, or not in the way Clark had when he was angry, so she left it at that. She whispered to Clark that they were going back. "What about Mark?" Clark's question surprised her. He actually seemed worried about the boy when earlier in the day he had hurt his brother.
"He's human. Once we're gone they won't be questioned too much. They only know so much about us." And with that Clark and Raina speed back to their ship that Raina had brought. They climbed inside it and Raina started the ships ascent. This ship was much more advanced than the ship Clark had landed in and they made the way back to their home planet in a matter of only a few hours. Clark had gone through a lot in the previous years but as the ship glided down to the ground she knew that his torture would not continue on her world. On Merdan, Clark was somewhat of a celebrity. Anyone with powers such as his was considered very special. Here he knew that they would still be treated differently but in a good way. They were the stars of Merdan, and they were home.
THE END
Authors Note: Ok. Parts of this are really cheesy and I know it, but it was probably the first story I have every finished and have actually enjoyed writing. I really like reviews so PLEASE review.