PianZoe: *comes into room with large grin, wearing six braids in hair* Yippee, I'm Georgia now! Yay!
Serap-89: *rolls eyes* Yeah, all you have to have now is silver hair and emerald eyes and the same outfit she has.
PianZoe: *points to eyes* Heeeeeeeello, have you ever seen my eyes? They're emerald!
Serap-89: *examines cousin's eyes and smirks* Well, I wouldn't say EMERALD, more of a dull jade.
PianZoe: *glares at cousin* YOU DON'T OWN WA3 OR WA2 OR WA1 OR DTD!
Serap-89: *glares back* WELL, YOU DON'T OWN WA3 OR WA2 OR WA1 OR WA4!
PianZoe: *smirks* You don't own all of WA4 the fan-fic, and it's only a fan-fic, which is actually quite a great fic, but...
Serap-89: -_- Pooyfoof. You're right. Destiny owns half of it and edits it... *sticks out tongue at cousin* Know it all annoying booger basket of a cousin... *realizes something* 0_0 WE MUST HAVE SWITCHED ATTITUDES! You're acting like me!
PianZoe: Oh shut up. *zips cousin's mouth and cousin glares* ^_^ Now we're back to normal.
After the Doctor had taken Anthony to take care of him, the group of seven walked into the waiting room, and all sat down, Jet and Virginia next to each other on a couch, on the opposite side of the room from Georgia, Aleksey, and Kenji who were all sitting on a couch, and Kaitlyn and Meira were sitting at a table, playing some type of card game.
They sat there for a while in silence, except for the slight conversation between Meira and Kaitlyn, until Georgia looked away from the window, to Jet and Virginia, who were already looking to the twins and Georgia, examining them, because they had only seen them for a year of each one of their lives. "Why did you guys leave and never come back?" Georgia asked, and Jet and Virginia looked to each other, then back to Georgia, Aleksey, and Kenji, who were now all looking at them.
"Well, you see, Gallows Caradine - one of our old teammates, who we haven't seen since twelve years ago - had accepted a mission for us, and this mission was here, at Ballack Rise. Well, we couldn't take you and risk your life, so we left you with Emilia, not once thinking that we wouldn't return. Well, the mission was a hoax, just to lure us to Ballack Rise, so Janus Cascade's Mother and Sister, Kylie and Janice, could get back at us for killing Janus. They captured our whole team, and then about a year later Kylie died of an illness. So then we tried to escape, but your father and I got trapped as we tried, and we gave Aleksey and Kenji to Clive to get them out of there, and that's when Clive and Gallows escaped. Well, I have been hoping that they escaped." Virginia explained, and Georgia's eyes dropped to the floorboards.
"Oh..." she sighed, and looked back up, to see that they were both staring at her and the twins. "So... What exactly did Janice and Kylie do to you and the others while you were there? Why didn't you escape? And... and... oh I can't think, there's so many questions popping into my head. Why didn't you just stay and not accept the mission anyway?" she asked, suddenly feeling slightly miffed at her parents. Virginia sighed, and her head drooped down, with her eyes closed.
"Well, in order of your questions; They just kept us in a confined area in Den of Miasma, and they made sure that we had no weapons so we couldn't fight the monsters that came our way. The only way we survived that was fighting them with our bare hands. The reason why your father and I didn't escape with the others was because we were already tagging a little ways behind, and then Janice shot at me, and Jet, who had been in front of me, stopped and helped me up, making sure that neither I nor Aleksey were injured. Well, that made us more behind, and Janice and Kylie caught us. So then we called out for Clive to come back and take Aleksey and Kenji away from us and to get them out of there. And the reason that we accepted the mission was because we thought that it would be something we could handle easily after what we had been through, and that we would be back soon." Virginia stated, her voice slightly shaking at parts in her explanation.
Georgia stood up, and walked over to them, with a sad look on her face. "Why couldn't just Clive and Gallows have taken the mission? Why you two also? Why? You could have stayed! I missed you guys so much! Sure, Emilia was wonderful to me, but not a real mother! Not at all!" she exclaimed, and flopped down on the couch, right next to Virginia, who looked to Georgia with a sympathetic look.
"We had to take it, because I was the leader of the group. And Georgia, you are sounding very selfish right about now, because the same thing would have happened to Gallows and Clive if it had just been them going, so then Kaitlyn would have lost her father anyway and all of Gallows' family members would have lost him also." Virginia chided her daughter, and it was the first time she had ever chided a single one of her children. Georgia looked down, and closed her eyes. Soon, her shoulders began to shake from slight sobs, and Virginia embraced her daughter. "Oh Georgia, we would have loved for us to have been with you your entire life, but we just couldn't."
"I... I know, it's just that... I was always pitied because I had no parents, and... and every single one of the people I ever knew had their parents... I felt left out of everything because I had no parents." Georgia cried against her mother as she embraced her back, and soon she felt her father's arms encircle both of them. Then from the side, she felt two sets of arms embrace them, and she knew it was Aleksey and Kenji. They stayed like that for a few minutes, until it got a little TOO mushy for Aleksey and he pulled away, brushing himself off, and looking as if he was grossed out but happy at the same time.
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Anthony awoke to the pleasant smell of an apple. He slightly smiled, and slowly began to open his eyes. "Mmm..." he mumbled to the delicious smell, and heard someone crunch into the apple he smelled, and the smell slightly became stronger then lessened again. Once his vision completely focused, he saw that it was Georgia sitting down on the floor next to his bed, eating an apple. He slightly half smiled, staring at the back of her head, examining every little color in her hair. It seemed like since Janice had began to attack Georgia, he had changed and almost couldn't do without seeing her.
He sighed, breathing against the back of Georgia's head, and making a slight part where he had breathed. She turned her head around to him, and when she saw his eyes open, she smiled. "Good morning, Anthony." she greeted, and Anthony yawned, patting his mouth.
"Morning, Georgia." he greeted, looking up at the ceiling, and sighed. They stared there for a few moments, until Georgia sighed, taking another bite of her apple.
As soon as she downed the bite, she asked, "So, Anthony, do you remember what happened the other day... after you were practically killed?" she stared at him, as he just stared up at the ceiling. It seemed as if he was deep in thought. She took another bite of her apple, and watched as Anthony sighed and shook his head.
"No, all I remember is you sitting there, holding me up, then you picking me up and bringing me out to that Lombardia dragon." he stated, and Georgia slightly smiled, looking down at the apple in her hands. She looked back up to him, to see that he was looking at her. She smiled at him, then motioned to her apple.
"Do you want an apple?" she asked, and Anthony shook his head, then tried sitting up, but as he did, Georgia pushed him back down, shaking her head. "Ah, ah, ah, Mr. Tough guy, you have to stay in bed for at least another day. The Doctor said so himself." she said, half smiling at Anthony's sneer. He examined himself, to find that he had many, many bandages on his legs and normal arm, and a large bandage on his stomach. Obviously for the place that Janice had hit him with the bayonet. "You got hurt so badly that the Doctor said that you might have to get a bionic leg, but he luckily saved both of your legs, but you might not be able to walk for a day or so." she stated, and Anthony groaned, covering his face with his normal hand.
"At least it wasn't you," he mumbled under his breath, but Georgia heard it, and smiled. She wrapped her arms around him in an embrace, and expected Anthony to push her off, but he just let her do it. When she began to pull away, she felt his arms also wrap around her, and that startled her. She smiled, hugging him again, this time with him hugging back. When she pulled away, she looked at him with a curious look. He just shrugged, looking to the side, as if to avoid her face.
"Why did you hug me back?" she asked, and Anthony just shrugged, kind of smiling. She tried to see his face, but unsuccessfully, so she patted his cheek, making him look to her, except he was now scowling.
"I don't know, maybe you're just getting to me." he answered, rolling over to where his whole body was facing her. She just sighed, rolled her eyes, and bent closer to his face, making him slightly back away. "Uh, Georgia..."
"What?" she asked, pulling her face away from his. Suddenly they heard a shout come from outside the door, and Georgia looked to the door, to see it slightly open, and Virginia poked her head in. Georgia smiled at her mother, then looked to Anthony, and said, "I'll be back in later, all right?" Anthony nodded his head, with a yawn. Georgia stood, dusting her skirt off, and walked out of the room, meeting up with her mother.
"So, Georgia, you and Anthony are together, correct?" Virginia asked when Georgia reached her, and when Georgia heard the question, her cheeks went aflame. She looked at her mother with wide eyes, and then she smiled and looked down at her hands.
"I don't think so... because, well, I don't think he likes me the way I like him... I mean, he is always calling me a dumb bimbo... and is always annoyed at me for some strange reason." she said, rubbing her arm. When she looked up, she saw Virginia looking straight ahead and nodding her head, her eyes closed and her mouth curled up in a smile.
"Yes, but that could just be a cover for his real feelings for you, you know. That's the way it was with your father and me. He was always acting mean and tough, and he called me a bimbo a few times. But whenever I was threatened like when we were fighting different people, like Janus, Janice's brother, and really tough monsters, Jet would always heal or protect me. Oh, and this one time when I wasn't really paying attention to where I was running, Jet pushed me out of the way from being smashed, risking his own life." Virginia sighed, opened her eyes, and looked at her daughter, who had a smile on her face and was nodding her head.
"Yeah, Meira's mother told me about that." Georgia stated, and Virginia stopped in her tracks, looking at Georgia with an odd look. Georgia smiled, and nodded her head, petting one of her six braids. "Didn't I tell you? Meira's mom is Maya Schroedinger, the one that I heard that you fought and ended up basically on each other's sides." she stated, and Virginia just stared at her daughter in shock, as if she had said something unthinkable.
"That's amazing. I knew she looked familiar." Virginia stated, shaking her head in amazement. As soon as Virginia came out of her shock, the two continued to walk down the hall towards another room where practically everybody was. As they walked into that room, they saw that Meira was eating on one of Kaitlyn's jelly rolls, Kaitlyn was talking to David (The Doctor, and also the one kid with the black leather jacket with the flames and the brown/red hair from WA3) and was fully enjoying herself, Kenji was outside, Aleksey was sitting across the room from Meira staring at her as if in a trance, and Jet was staring out the window, eating one of Kaitlyn's jelly rolls. Virginia looked directly at Jet, smiled, and walked over to him.
"Why hello there, whatcha doin', away from everybody else, like you always used to be? Still the Mr. Anti-social that I married 19 years ago. Oh yay, I thought since we'd been away from people so long that you might have changed; I'm glad you didn't." she said when she got to Jet, who looked up to her, slightly startled. Virginia turned around, and flopped down onto Jet's lap, making him drop the jelly roll he was eating onto the floor. She wrapped her arms around him, squeezed him, and looked down at him. "So, what were you doing before I so rudely interrupted?" she asked, with a smile. Jet sighed and looked up at her, wrapping one of his arms around her waist.
"Just eating a jelly roll that Kaitlyn baked," he looked down at the floor where the half eaten jelly roll laid, and he sighed, "And that is now on the floor." he said, and Virginia looked down at it, then back up at Jet, with a slight chuckle, squeezing him again.
"I'm sure you love me more than that jelly roll... isn't that correct?" she asked, and felt Jet shrug. She looked down at him, to see a smirk on his face. She narrowed one of her eyes, and gave him a suspicious look.
"Well I don't know, the jelly roll doesn't knock itself out of my hand so it can sit on my lap, and it does taste pretty good..." he said, and Virginia stuck out her lower lip in a pout. He shook his head, now normally smiling, and pulled Virginia's face closer to his. "But you taste better." somehow, Virginia knew he would say that, and she had already begun to smile. He pulled her forward into a kiss, and as he did so, they heard someone make a gagging noise. Obviously it was Aleksey.
Georgia took a seat close to Kaitlyn and David, but they didn't seem to notice. David was talking, and Kaitlyn was leaned in close to him with a dreamy look in her eyes, soaking up every word he said. Once Georgia really noticed how Kaitlyn seemed to be attracted to this man, and vice versa, she decided she would go sit somewhere else. She sat down on a chair by itself, that was near the door, and she could hear Kenji outside talking with some of the other children his age; most of them asking him questions about being an actual Drifter and actually fighting real monsters. Georgia laughed at this, and then sighed, looking to her parents, who were both happily conversing together. She was so happy that they found them, and she wouldn't have found them without Anthony.
She sighed, once her thoughts hit Anthony, and she leaned backwards, looking up at the ceiling. She still was confused about how much Virginia said that Anthony was like Jet. How could he be like her own father? This was ridiculous, her thoughts kept drifting to Anthony instead of to how to fight Janice and when she would strike again. And if Janice would try that same stunt again, killing one of them, like she had almost killed Anthony. Why had Anthony saved her anyway? Sure, she knew that he had feelings and was considerate on the inside, but she didn't think that he would actually not be too self-conscious to actually risk his own life to save HER. There her thoughts went again, to Anthony. She scowled, and closed her eyes, sneering at her thoughts. She pounded her fists against the chair's armrests, and growled lightly under her breath.
"Georgia, are you all right? You seem angry." she heard her mother's voice, and she nodded her head, slightly smiling. She opened her eyes, and looked down to see that all the others in the room were staring at her. She smiled in an embarrassed manner, stood up, and walked out of the room quickly. As she did so, she heard someone stand up and follow her. She scowled at this fact, and when she got into another room, she spun around, to see her mother standing there with a worried look. "I was just wondering if you were all right because you had growled so loudly I thought that everyone in Boot Hill could hear you." Virginia said, placing her hands on her hips and glaring at her daughter, who sighed and looked down at her feet.
"I thought I had just growled under my breath. I didn't meant to startle everyone." Georgia said, almost in a monotone, and then Virginia lifted her (Georgia's) head up, making her (Georgia) look directly into her (Virginia's) eyes.
"No, no, it's not that, don't worry, it didn't startle any one, I was just exaggerating, I was the only one who heard you. They just looked over when I asked if you were all right. Now, why did you growl?" Virginia asked, and Georgia just sighed, looking towards Anthony's room.
"It's just that... every single one of my thoughts drift to Anthony. I was getting annoyed at it. I'm afraid that the only way I'll stop thinking of him is if I confess that I like him more than a friend or a teammate..." she said, and trailed off, looking down at the floor. Virginia sighed, and nodded her head, hugging Georgia, who was completely silent and unmoving.
"I think you will have to some time, but I don't know if it will get him out of your head. In fact, if he says that he returns the feelings, he might be on your mind more often. And, when you say that you love him, you don't have to make it so complicated, I'll understand." Virginia laughed, pulling away from her daughter, who was slightly chuckling, but very light chuckles.
"Yeah... I know... but... but I just am not used to saying to ANYONE that I love them..." she said, and looked back towards Anthony's bedroom door. She turned towards it completely, and sighed, taking a step forward. "Mom, you can go back into the room with the others." she motioned towards the other room, and Virginia nodded her head, smiling.
When she walked into the room with the others, she smiled wide and made a couple of circles with both of her fists, as if she was still a teenager, not thirty-seven. She then walked over to a chair, and sat down, all eyes on her. When she flopped down on the chair, she sighed, and said, "Well, it seems that Georgia is going actually confess to Anthony that she loves him." when she looked around the room, she saw that Meira and Kaitlyn were excitedly squealing (a/n: the way my cousins (Serap-89 and Destiny) and I do when we think of a new fan-fic idea), Aleksey seemed not to have been fazed (in fact he was yawning), and Jet was smiling.
Back in Anthony's room, Georgia had just walked in, to see Anthony fast asleep, on his left side, facing the wall. She walked over to one of the beds, and sat down, to wait until he woke up, although that would probably be a while from then. Then suddenly she heard Anthony mutter something, startling her, and she sat up straighter, as if it had made her more alert. She heard him mutter something again, and it sounded like he was either unhappy, angry, or scared. From the sound of the first mutter, she figured he was unhappy rather than the latter two. Then he turned over quickly, a slightly worried look on his face. Georgia bit her lip, and stood up, to walk closer to him, either to comfort him or to wake him up if he got too restless.
He muttered something a little louder, but it was still inaudible, and he turned over onto his back. He looked angry now, and this was beginning to make Georgia think that Anthony was having a really terrible nightmare, so she shook him, to wake him up. When she did, his eyes opened instantly, and he slightly jerked, then noticed that he was still lying in a bed in the room he had been before. He sighed shakily, and closed his eyes, not noticing Georgia, who was looking at him with a concerned look.
"Are you all right?" Georgia asked, shocking Anthony so that he jumped up, then cringed from the pain that shot through him, and he then looked to Georgia with wide eyes. She pushed him back down after he had sat up, and she was giving him a strict look. "I told you not to sit up. Even if you get startled." she chided, then half smiled, and Anthony just closed his eyes again, sighing.
"What are you doing back? I though you were going to let me sleep and go and visit." he said, and Georgia scratched the back of her head, looking to the side. She chuckled, and shook her head, looking back to Anthony who was just lying there with his eyes closed, on his back.
"I came back in to... to see if you were all right, and I saw that you were having a nightmare. So, what was the nightmare about? If it's not too weird a question..." she asked, and Anthony just turned onto his side as if to ignore her. She frowned, and tried turning him over, but he put up too big of a fight, so she stopped and crossed her arms. "It's all right, you don't have to tell me, I was just wondering, and you didn't have to give me the silent treatment. Goodbye!" she stood up, turned on her heel, and began storming towards the door. Then she heard him mutter something to her, but she didn't hear it, so she turned back around to him. "Hmm? What was that?"
"Fine, I'll tell you, but since it was more of a flashback, I'll give you the shorter version." he said, much louder this time, and Georgia smiled, then walked over to the side of his bed. She sat down at the edge of the bed, and Anthony began to tell the summery of his dream. "Well, um... Wow this is hard... Easy for you, hard for me... anyway... uh... Well, for one thing, the reason why I have a bionic arm, is because I was born with no arm there. My dream started when I was about one year old or so. I was just crawling around the town of Quartly, which is quite far from here, and a woman with blue hair found me. I had a note with me, and it said why I was abandoned. It was because I had been born with no arm and my supposed 'parents' wanted a child with all limbs, so then that woman raised me for a while, until I was about seven and she couldn't take care of me any more, so she got me a bionic arm so I could defend myself. Then I had to take care of myself for the rest of my life, and that's the whole dream. Well, at the end of the dream I was about to beat this person who I had a picture of who was my real mother to a bloody pulp."
Georgia's eyes were widened, and she looked completely in shock. "Oh my... that is so sad... I'm so sorry Anthony, I didn't know." she said, placing one of her hands on his normal hand, and slightly patting it. He scowled, and pulled his hand away from her.
"It's FINE; I'm fine, you don't have to waste your stinking sympathy." he spat, rolling over to face away from her. She growled at him, and rolled him over, then slapped him, shocking him. "What'd you do that for!?" he exclaimed, holding his normal hand against his now swelling cheek. He rubbed it for a minute, noticing the fact that it was swelling. He growled at her, scowling extremely deeply. She still had her angry expression, but now it seemed more relaxed.
"I did it because you're were being just plain irritating! I was doing the polite thing, but you had to go and not accept it!" she shouted at him, and stood up, dusting herself off. "Well I'm leaving this room since you CAN'T leave it." she spat at him, then turned on her heal, and stormed out of the room, her fists balled and her teeth clenched. She stormed into the room where everybody else was, and over to the chair she had been in before, to flop down into it with her arms crossed.
The others stared at her for a minute, until Virginia shook out of her slight shock, and bit her lower lip. "What happened? Did you confess?" she asked, and Georgia just scoffed, rolling her eyes.
"I would have, but instead I slapped him, because of something he said." she growled, crossing her legs, and Virginia gave her daughter a confused look.
"What did he say?" she asked, and Georgia just closed her eyes, sighing.
"Well, he told me about his nightmare that he was having when I got in there, but it was more like a flashback of his entire life, and then I showed him sympathy 'cause he had it much worse than I did. he told me not to 'waste my stinking sympathy,' which made me angry, and I slapped him." she explained, and Virginia nodded her head with a sigh. She had an expression that showed that she knew exactly what Georgia was talking about.
"Well, it sounds like he needed it, by the way you explained it." she said, and just after she did, a loud thumping came on the door. She walked over to the door, and opened it, to see a young red haired boy holding a note in his right hand. He handed it to her, and she checked who it was for. It was for all of them. She thanked the boy, and he ran off, towards some other kids around his age. She ripped it open, read it, and her eyes widened. "That Janice has gone too far now!! Here, I'll read to you what this says:
"To the Enduros and their teammates,
Take a good guess who this is. One good guess. If you guessed Janice Cascade, you are correct. How is Bernadette? Still dead? Well of course he is, I killed him and you obviously had no way to revive him. Ha, ha, ha! That's not the point, now is it? The point is, I have taken the younger Enduro twin, and you will have to come and rescue him, but I am not going to make the mistake of telling you where I am this time. This time, you are going to have to guess. You here me? Take another good guess.
Janice Cascade."