Georgia quickly recovered from almost falling face first onto the floor, and grinned wide "You met my parents before?" she asked, sounding completely excited. Kaitlyn nodded her head, holding the side of it, with her eyes still two times as big as they were supposed to be. She looked quickly down to the floor below her feet, then back up to Georgia.
"I can't believe it! I thought they might have liked each other, but... I didn't know they had a daughter!" she exclaimed, confusing Georgia more. 'I can't believe it. I knew she looked familiar! She looks just like her dad with her mom's eyes! I can't believe it... I gotta tell mom when I get back, she'll be shocked! Hey, wait a minute...' she looked to Georgia's holsters, and her mouth slightly turned up in a smile. "Yeah, I met your parents before! My father, Clive Winslett, was one of their teammates when I was 5 and 6."
Georgia gasped, and covered her mouth with her hand. "Oh man, I can't believe it!" she was grinning wider than she had been. "Oh man, oh man, I just barely become a Drifter to find my parents, and I meet someone that has met my parents before! That's amazing!" she exclaimed loudly, then noticed then look on Kaitlyn's face. It looked like she was deep in thought. "What's wrong?"
Kaitlyn slightly jumped, and looked back directly at Georgia. "Hey, you said you're a Drifter now? And that you're searching for your parents?"
"Yes. Why?"
"Well, I'm a Drifter, and I've been searching for my father since I was able to use an ARM, which was when I was 14, ten years ago. And, since my father and your parents were lost at the same time at the same place, then we should become a team!" she exclaimed, clasping her hands together, beaming brightly. Georgia's eyes widened, and she grinned wider.
"You mean it!? Yay! Wow, I just barely became a Drifter, and now I'm on a team, although it's only you and me!" she cheered, shaking hands with Kaitlyn yet again.
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About 4 hours later, Georgia woke up to the train stopping. She sat up, and stretched, while yawning. She looked to where Kaitlyn was sitting, to see her stand up and stretch, patting her mouth. "Not a long trip, but I had hardly any sleep last night." she said, then looked down to Georgia, and held out her hand to her. Georgia took it, and Kaitlyn helped her to her feet.
"Thank you," she said, then walked to the door, and opened it, looking out to see a stampede of people going this way and that. When Kaitlyn was ready, she stepped out into the hallway, ready to leave. But, just as she did, someone rammed right into her, knocking the both of them down. Kaitlyn just stood there, staring down at the two on the floor.
The one that had knocked Georgia down sat up, and dusted himself off. He scowled, and looked to Georgia, who hadn't gotten up yet. "Hey, next time, watch it!" he spat, his voice strangely familiar to Georgia. She sat up, dusted herself off, and looked up to see the guy who had knocked her down back at Midland Station. She gasped, and blinked at him, while he just looked at her with the scowl. "Oh, it's you. The one that was standing in my way back at Midland Station. What are you trying to do? Make me angry or something?" he stood up, and began walking away from the two women.
Georgia stood up, her fists balled, and shouted at him, "HEY!! Both times it was your fault, Mr... uh..." she trailed off, and furrowed her eyebrows. "Oh well, it doesn't matter if I don't know your name, it was your fault, BOTH TIMES!!" by now, her fists were shaking. She had never been that angry, and over what? A stupid guy blaming her for something he did. but, she didn't know why, this guy although she only met him twice, pushed the wrong button at the wrong time. He spun around, and raised an eyebrow at her.
"Oh yeah? Well, both times, it seems that you were standing RIGHT in MY path, and there was absolutely no way around you." he argued, pointing a finger at her and smirking. She let out an aggravated noise from her throat, and walked closer to him, worrying Kaitlyn to the point of heading back into the compartment.
"Oh, you are so rude! You could have said 'excuse me, miss, could you please move over a little bit so I can get in?' but no, you had to push me against the door, knocking all the air out of me. Doesn't the first sound nicer?" she screeched, making people quickly go around her, careful not to glance her way.
The guy narrowed his eyes. "Yes, it does, but I don't care. Never will, either, missy. Now, if we ever meet again, if you're in my way, I'll do the same thing. Hear me?" he said, in an almost inaudible voice. She slowly nodded her head, then sighed.
"And if we do meet again, we better know each other's names. I'm Georgia Enduro." she said, and the guy let out a slight laugh. "What?"
"Interesting name. Anyway, my name is Anthony Bernadette, and I hope you and that friend of your's are careful. You don't want to hurt yourselves, you know." he said, then spun around, and stormed off in the direction of the doors. Kaitlyn came out of the compartment, and ran up to Georgia, frowning.
"The nerve of that man! We may be women, but we're great Drifters! Aren't we, Georgia?" Kaitlyn said, looking to the younger girl. Georgia slightly nodded, then continued in the direction of the doors, followed by Kaitlyn.
They walked out of the train station, and Kaitlyn brought out a whistle. Georgia looked at it strangely. "What is that for?" she asked, and Kaitlyn brought it up to her lips, to blow on it. Soon after, a white horse with brown and black blotches on it came galloping up. Kaitlyn quickly hopped on, then motioned for Georgia to do the same. "Thanks. I was getting tired of just walking."
They galloped towards the south, until they came to a small town, that Georgia heard about only once. Humphry's Peak. They jumped off the horse, and Kaitlyn gave it a carrot. "Here you go, Mehri, a nice carrot." she patted it's mane, then she turned to Georgia with a giant grin, like the one she had when she first met Georgia. "Ok, I'm hungry, and my mother should be home. I'm sure she'll be surprised to see you!" she exclaimed, and walked into the town, soon followed by Georgia.
She glanced about, to see some people staring at her. She sped up a tad, and tried to not notice people staring at her. She almost closed her eyes, but always pried them back open, so she wouldn't trip on anything, like she usually did anyway. She looked around again, to see Kaitlyn walk into a house with a blue roof. She sped up more, and ran into the house, panting from the run.
"Mother, I'm home! And I have a guest!" Kaitlyn called out, quickly walking into the kitchen. Georgia just stood there, leaning against the wall, with her arms crossed. Man, she didn't feel like she should be there. She felt like she should be back at Emilia's ARMs shop, re-arranging ammunition cases, to confuse Em. She sighed, and looked upwards.
Soon, she heard two sets of feet walking out of the kitchen. She opened her eyes, and looked down, to see Kaitlyn and a woman that looked around 48 or 49. The woman was smiling wide, and had a tray of cookies in her hands. "Hello, you must be Georgia." the woman said, and Georgia nodded her head, glancing down at the cookies and realizing how hungry she was. "I'm Catherine. Would you like a cookie?" she offered, and Georgia grinned widely, grabbing a cookie, and practically shoving it in her mouth.
Kaitlyn and Georgia sat down at the table, both quite silent. Georgia sighed, and rested her head on the table, thinking about what Emilia told her about where her parents had gone to. She hadn't quite heard the name of the town correctly, but she told Georgia that she thought they said Ballack Rise.
Kaitlyn looked at Georgia oddly. She sighed, and looked up, to see her mom walk in with a plate of some kind of meat with a gravy on it. Kaitlyn smiled, and tapped Georgia on the head, snapping her out of her thoughts. "What did you fix, mom? Whatever it is, it looks delicious!" Kaitlyn exclaimed, standing up and looking at the plate. She looked into the kitchen, then began heading that way. "I'll help you carry the rest out, sound good?" she asked, disappearing into the kitchen.
Catherine soon walked back in, then they both walked out, each with one thing in their hands. "Oh boy, mom, you sure fixed a lot for just us three!" Kaitlyn exclaimed happily, placing the bowl she had on the table. It wasn't a big bowl, just big enough to hold enough mashed potatoes for 1 and a half servings for each person. Catherine set her plate down, and looked at her daughter, smiling.
"Actually, it's just a very little more than enough, honey." she corrected, then sat down in unison with her daughter. Georgia felt slightly out of place, so she scooped just enough food onto her plate, with her eyes watching her hands, but not glancing at anything else. She dug her spoon into her food, and took a bite, not glancing up once. "So, Georgia, I heard that you are Jet and Virginia's daughter."
Georgia looked up, and nodded her head, as she finished off the bite she had taken. "Yeah, but I can't really remember them. In fact, the only way I remember them is from the little bit of info Emilia, my mother figure, told me about them." she said solemnly, with a sigh. She took another bite, looking back down to her plate. "That's the reason I became a Drifter; to find them. I don't know if it will even work, but, hey, I gotta try. And I don't know if they're even alive still!" she said, and could feel the stinging sensation in her eyes that she hadn't felt since she was younger.
Catherine gave her a sympathetic look, and patted her back. "Now, don't go making yourself think they aren't. They might still be alive, and might have just lost their way back or something."
"It's not that I don't think they're alive, 'cause I do, it's just that I'm afraid of what I might find, if I find anything. And I'm afraid I might be wrong about them being alive..." she sighed, and took another slow bite. Catherine nodded her head, and retracted her hand. Suddenly, a white cat with a black ear jumped up on Georgia's lap.
"Sielje, get down! You have your own food over there!" Kaitlyn exclaimed to the cat, knocking it off Georgia's lap, making her laugh, which startled Catherine and Kaitlyn.
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Georgia and Kaitlyn walked out of the town, into the sun, to see that Mehri was with another horse, that looked like it had been abandoned long ago, but looked tame. It had a very little bit of white but was mostly a light brown. The two females looked to each other, then back at the horse. Slowly, to not scare the horse, Georgia began walking up to it. When she got to it, all it did was look at her. She placed her hand on it's mane, and slid it down to it's back, while the horse just stood there as if it was used to it.
Kaitlyn had to laugh at this. "Well waddya' know! We found a tame horse! Cool!" she laughed, walking over to Georgia and the two horses who were just standing there next to each other. Kaitlyn quickly got up onto Mehri, and looked to Georgia, who was thinking about keeping the horse. "So, what are you going to name it?"
"Khalil," she retorted, without even really thinking about it, then slowly climbed onto Khalil, who stayed as still as Mehri. As soon as Georgia got comfortable, they took off in a direction, that was unknown to both of them.
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Now, before I made it sound like it was all me that wrote this, but it really wasn't. You know the best friend I told you to email? Well, she gave me the idea for the fic, but I came up with some of the plot, so, I basically just wrote it down with my own words. Please email my friend and tell her if you like it also! Please!