Disclaimer: I don't own the pretender. No infringement is intended… Blah blah blah I don't want to hurt anybody. Don't you hate the disclaimers?
A/n: Ok this story may sound familiar. I had the idea for this story for a long time, but there was always one thing that was missing. How the girl came to be what she is (Don't worry you will understand later on) Anyway one day I was reading fanfiction and I saw one that looked really good (Elf 17) anyway I read it and it had what I needed to pull my story together. I asked ShadowElfBard and she said that I could barrow it. I thank you so much ShadowElfBard!! If you guys ever want a good story to read… Elf 17 and Silent Feelings they are both really really good and by ShadowElfBard. So that is why this story may sound a lot like Elf 17. Hope you enjoy. Oh and please please please read and review!! Enjoy!
P.S. things in %% are thoughts
2:30 am
Takara's room
George Hill Rd.
Blue Cove, Delaware
She was chained down. She did not know how she got here. One second she was in her bed sleeping the next second she woke up here. A man, he would have been cute in any other circumstances, comes over and looks down at her. "What do you want with me?"
The man waves a syringe in front of her face. "I don't think that I should tell you that… at least not yet." He pushes the needle into one of her veins. He walks away. Then the pain starts. It started in her fingers and toes and ran up legs and arms, ripping through her chest and slamming into her head. Agonizing pain, touching every nerve in her body and ripping her muscles apart. She screamed, and screamed, and screamed until the flames of pain reached her lungs then she whimpered and withered on the metal table, wishing the pain to go away and let her rest. Every muscle in her body felt like it was being ripped apart. Just when she felt like she could not bear it anymore. She woke up, covered in sweat and breathing heavily.
Takara sat up in bed thinking. There was no way that she could go back to sleep tonight after that. There was something weird about that nightmare. She had had it for awhile now, a week maybe. The thing was that the nightmare seemed so real. All her nightmares seemed real but this one was different. In this one she could smell things and feel things. It was almost more like a memory than a nightmare, a bad memory. She shrugged it off and went over to her computer to check to catch up on her music downloads. To her surprise J-man was on ICQ. She met him online about a month ago. She was careful to make sure that he did not hit on her, but so far he hasn't done anything like that. She decided to talk to him.
Takara: hey
J-man: You're up late
Takara: I couldn't sleep. Nightmares
J-man: I see not fun
Takara: No they're really weird too
J-man: how so?
Takara: I swear that they are memories but I can not remember every actually being in the place in my dreams or what happened after I wake up, but in the dream I can feel and smell. I don't think that I can do that in my other dreams.
J-man: That is weird. Do you want to talk about it?
Takara: Nah it will only bring back those horrible feelings. So why are you up so late?
J-man: How did you know that I was in the same time zone as you?
Takara: I figured that you worked from eight to five, and that chances are you would not get online before dinner because you said that you were going out to dinner last time we talked. I also figured that if you were going to eat that you would not be back until nine. If you were with a lady It would be more like twelve. As for the time zone thing I had no idea you were in the same time zone as me.
J-man: Haha looks like I just gave myself away huh?
Takara: haha you could say that.
J-man: Well you said that you liked to take walks by the ocean so I knew that you would probably be somewhere on the coast. I figured that you would be on the internet most likely at night and if that was the case then you would live on the east coast compared to the time zone I was in at the time.
Takara: Wait wait wait… the time zone you were in at the time? Why does that sound so weird?
J-man: Let's just say that there is a couple of people in this world that would do anything to have my head on a silver platter, so to speak. I move a lot.
Takara: Why don't you just go to the authorities?
J-man: Uh let's just say, no can do. It's complicated. Maybe I will explain it to you sometime.
Takara: Man that must stinks
J-man: Haha I don't know it's kinda fun, escape and evade, it does get tiring after awhile though.
Takara: Hey well I think that I am gonna go back to bed. I am starting to get tired after talking to you. I have school in the morning too. So talk to you later.
J-man: Am I really that boring? Well I had better get some research done. Talk to you later.
2:30 am
Holiday Inn
New York City, New York
Jarod sat at his lab top. Argyle came into the room. He and Jarod 'happened to run into each other' in Atlantic City. Since then Argyle has been with Jarod traveling around for awhile. Jarod made Argyle promise that he would go back home after three weeks. Who knew if that promise would be kept. Argyle looked over Jarod's shoulder at the computer. "What's up J-dawg?" Jarod closed his laptop so that Argyle could not see what he was working on.
"Nothing, So what are you doing up?" Argyle turned away. Jarod could see that he was fully dressed with his new leather jacket still on. %He must have just got in %
"Uh I couldn't sleep knowing that you were still out there," Said Argyle as he tried to slink away.
Jarod laughed, "So you got all dressed up real nice and went out and looked for me? I am pretending to be a gangster not a punk." Jarod speaks a little louder as if addressing a crowd. "Who thinks Argyle went out to pick up girls and is just getting back?" Argyle turned to Jarod.
"Alright so what I went to scout out some places to pick up chicks. So what? Anyway what are your doing up huh?" Jarod snickered, knowing that Argyle was trying hard to beat him at his game.
"Breaking into the police database to do a background check on the lead gangsters."
"Oh well, I bet that is what you are doing!" Argyle walked out of the room in a huff trying to hold on to some of his dignity.
5:30 am
Takara's Room
George Hill Rd.
Blue Cove, Delaware
%I swear you think that they could knock first period back an hour so some people could get some more sleep. % Takara hit her alarm clock to shut it up and dragged herself out of her bed. She slowly trudged towards the bathroom. % I swear if Nick even so mach as tries to talk to me he is dead meat. I am so not in a good mood today. %
12:55 noon
Turtle Bay Jr. Sr. High School
Blue Cove, Delaware
"Hey Kara are you feelin ok?" Asked a short chestnut haired girl by the name of Maggie. Takara took her head out of her hands long enough to look at Maggie.
"Yeah I'm fine I just have a huge headache." Maggie watched helplessly as her best friend put her head back in her hands. She knew that her unusually tall friend did not like medicine and only took it when she really needed it.
"Aren't you gonna eat your lunch?" Asked Jessie butting in to the conversation, refearing to the lunch sitting untouched in front of Kara.
"Nah, you can have it. I'm not hungry," mumbled Kara not bothering to even look up this time. % Man this is not like Kara. She is usually up and all bouncy even when she is sick these headaches have really been getting to her lately. They must be pretty bad. % Thought Maggie as she glance again at Kara with her head now on the lunch room table. The bell rang to go to seventh period and everybody got up and moved to their classrooms. % Huh I hope I can make it trough the rest of the day without passin out. % Thought Kara she got up slowly from her table and dragged herself to her next class, reading,. That class would not be too hard to get through. Ms. Miller was really nice and she understood kids enough to know that we want to have fun in life too, not just learn and study.
1:00 pm
107 Ms. Miller's Room
Turtle Bay Jr. Sr. High School
Blue Cove, Delaware
"Zoning out, other wise called meditation is as deep as you can go in separating your mind from your body. Most religion's do it and doctors are starting to use it instead of atheistic to plaice pain in patients. In rare cases some say that they can go as deep as actually becoming someone else. It is said that they can get so disconnected form their own body that they can gain someone else's morals and make the exact same decisions that that person would in a situation. What do you think about this theory?" Asked Ms. Miller.
"Personally I think that there is no way someone could do that. I mean really if there was one thing that was mistaken when you were trying to become that person then everything that you thought about them would be wrong. There is no way someone could do that and get accurate results" Kara countered this out burst of one of the students with a rebuttal of her own.
"I think that it is completely possible. If you spend a lot of time with someone you tend to start doing and reacting the same as that person does. All that these people can do is simulate this person's morals more quickly. It would not surprise me at at all to find someone that could do that."
"Nice come back Kara." Ms. Miller looked at Kara oddly. % huh that was rather odd. Nobody in all of my classes today actually thought that it was possible. This is the academic class but still I never even thought about it that way. % The bell rang and Kara walked ever so slowly to her next class with her head down, trying not to make her headache and worse. % I swear if I got these headaches any more often I would rather a hammer being taken to my head. %
1:40 pm
Gym lockers
Turtle Bay Jr. Sr. High School
Blue Cove, Delaware
"Haha and so then instead of actually telling her that the whole thing was a joke they decided to just leave her hanging. Now she is all mad at them and is cursing their names to high heavens."
"Man I am so fat."
"No you're not. Now I, am fat."
"Dude guys none of you are fat."
"Haha you have room to talk you are as thin as a tooth pick Kara."
"Man you have a hairy stomach Kara." Kara looked down at her stomach, completely embarrassed.
"Huh I guess I do I never noticed that before. Huh" Kara quickly put on her gym shirt so that maybe no one else would notice her abnormal hairy stomach. %What the heck is happening to me first I get all these headaches now I have a furry stomach that I never knew I had. Not to mention I have been having to clip my nails like twice I week lately. I swear that is really weird. %
12:00 midnight
Takara's room
George Hill Rd.
Blue Cove, Delaware
Kara awoke breathing heavily again. She had the nightmare again but that was not what woke her up. She always woke up when she got to a certain part in the nightmare. This time she woke up before that. There was something else wrong. Kara looked over to see her computer on and booted up to the Internet. %Huh I thought for sure that I had turned my computer off before I went to bed. % She went over to turn it off and saw that J-man was on again. She decided to drop in on him real quick.
Takara: You know that we should really stop these late night talks. So why are you up so late again tonight?
J-man: Oh I got a new job and I am just doin a bit of research for it.
Takara: That must stink having to move from job to job.
J-man: Actually the coming part is not that bad it is just the leaving that stinks.
Takara: Well I had better get back to bed I went to shut off my PC and you were on so I am going to go back to bed so that I will not be completely zonked tomorrow. .Huh we are supposed to get a brad new substitute that no one has had before in our school.
J-man: Ok I guess I will talk to you tomorrow
Jarod busted out laughing at Kara's last statement.
The next day
Psychology room 118
Turtle Bay Jr. Sr. High School
Blue Cove, Delaware
"Good morning class. My name is Ja.. Uh.. Mr. Port."
TBC
A/N Hey what do you guys think? Do you like it hate it? Tell me! BTW this story does have a Center part in it. It will probably be in the next chapter. Please R&R because I have only had like eight reviews for my other stories. I am getting depressed because of it I mean really I put my sweat and blood (eewwee) into the fan fics and then I do not even get to know if you guys like it? Please tell me! R&R!!
A/n: Ok this story may sound familiar. I had the idea for this story for a long time, but there was always one thing that was missing. How the girl came to be what she is (Don't worry you will understand later on) Anyway one day I was reading fanfiction and I saw one that looked really good (Elf 17) anyway I read it and it had what I needed to pull my story together. I asked ShadowElfBard and she said that I could barrow it. I thank you so much ShadowElfBard!! If you guys ever want a good story to read… Elf 17 and Silent Feelings they are both really really good and by ShadowElfBard. So that is why this story may sound a lot like Elf 17. Hope you enjoy. Oh and please please please read and review!! Enjoy!
P.S. things in %% are thoughts
2:30 am
Takara's room
George Hill Rd.
Blue Cove, Delaware
She was chained down. She did not know how she got here. One second she was in her bed sleeping the next second she woke up here. A man, he would have been cute in any other circumstances, comes over and looks down at her. "What do you want with me?"
The man waves a syringe in front of her face. "I don't think that I should tell you that… at least not yet." He pushes the needle into one of her veins. He walks away. Then the pain starts. It started in her fingers and toes and ran up legs and arms, ripping through her chest and slamming into her head. Agonizing pain, touching every nerve in her body and ripping her muscles apart. She screamed, and screamed, and screamed until the flames of pain reached her lungs then she whimpered and withered on the metal table, wishing the pain to go away and let her rest. Every muscle in her body felt like it was being ripped apart. Just when she felt like she could not bear it anymore. She woke up, covered in sweat and breathing heavily.
Takara sat up in bed thinking. There was no way that she could go back to sleep tonight after that. There was something weird about that nightmare. She had had it for awhile now, a week maybe. The thing was that the nightmare seemed so real. All her nightmares seemed real but this one was different. In this one she could smell things and feel things. It was almost more like a memory than a nightmare, a bad memory. She shrugged it off and went over to her computer to check to catch up on her music downloads. To her surprise J-man was on ICQ. She met him online about a month ago. She was careful to make sure that he did not hit on her, but so far he hasn't done anything like that. She decided to talk to him.
Takara: hey
J-man: You're up late
Takara: I couldn't sleep. Nightmares
J-man: I see not fun
Takara: No they're really weird too
J-man: how so?
Takara: I swear that they are memories but I can not remember every actually being in the place in my dreams or what happened after I wake up, but in the dream I can feel and smell. I don't think that I can do that in my other dreams.
J-man: That is weird. Do you want to talk about it?
Takara: Nah it will only bring back those horrible feelings. So why are you up so late?
J-man: How did you know that I was in the same time zone as you?
Takara: I figured that you worked from eight to five, and that chances are you would not get online before dinner because you said that you were going out to dinner last time we talked. I also figured that if you were going to eat that you would not be back until nine. If you were with a lady It would be more like twelve. As for the time zone thing I had no idea you were in the same time zone as me.
J-man: Haha looks like I just gave myself away huh?
Takara: haha you could say that.
J-man: Well you said that you liked to take walks by the ocean so I knew that you would probably be somewhere on the coast. I figured that you would be on the internet most likely at night and if that was the case then you would live on the east coast compared to the time zone I was in at the time.
Takara: Wait wait wait… the time zone you were in at the time? Why does that sound so weird?
J-man: Let's just say that there is a couple of people in this world that would do anything to have my head on a silver platter, so to speak. I move a lot.
Takara: Why don't you just go to the authorities?
J-man: Uh let's just say, no can do. It's complicated. Maybe I will explain it to you sometime.
Takara: Man that must stinks
J-man: Haha I don't know it's kinda fun, escape and evade, it does get tiring after awhile though.
Takara: Hey well I think that I am gonna go back to bed. I am starting to get tired after talking to you. I have school in the morning too. So talk to you later.
J-man: Am I really that boring? Well I had better get some research done. Talk to you later.
2:30 am
Holiday Inn
New York City, New York
Jarod sat at his lab top. Argyle came into the room. He and Jarod 'happened to run into each other' in Atlantic City. Since then Argyle has been with Jarod traveling around for awhile. Jarod made Argyle promise that he would go back home after three weeks. Who knew if that promise would be kept. Argyle looked over Jarod's shoulder at the computer. "What's up J-dawg?" Jarod closed his laptop so that Argyle could not see what he was working on.
"Nothing, So what are you doing up?" Argyle turned away. Jarod could see that he was fully dressed with his new leather jacket still on. %He must have just got in %
"Uh I couldn't sleep knowing that you were still out there," Said Argyle as he tried to slink away.
Jarod laughed, "So you got all dressed up real nice and went out and looked for me? I am pretending to be a gangster not a punk." Jarod speaks a little louder as if addressing a crowd. "Who thinks Argyle went out to pick up girls and is just getting back?" Argyle turned to Jarod.
"Alright so what I went to scout out some places to pick up chicks. So what? Anyway what are your doing up huh?" Jarod snickered, knowing that Argyle was trying hard to beat him at his game.
"Breaking into the police database to do a background check on the lead gangsters."
"Oh well, I bet that is what you are doing!" Argyle walked out of the room in a huff trying to hold on to some of his dignity.
5:30 am
Takara's Room
George Hill Rd.
Blue Cove, Delaware
%I swear you think that they could knock first period back an hour so some people could get some more sleep. % Takara hit her alarm clock to shut it up and dragged herself out of her bed. She slowly trudged towards the bathroom. % I swear if Nick even so mach as tries to talk to me he is dead meat. I am so not in a good mood today. %
12:55 noon
Turtle Bay Jr. Sr. High School
Blue Cove, Delaware
"Hey Kara are you feelin ok?" Asked a short chestnut haired girl by the name of Maggie. Takara took her head out of her hands long enough to look at Maggie.
"Yeah I'm fine I just have a huge headache." Maggie watched helplessly as her best friend put her head back in her hands. She knew that her unusually tall friend did not like medicine and only took it when she really needed it.
"Aren't you gonna eat your lunch?" Asked Jessie butting in to the conversation, refearing to the lunch sitting untouched in front of Kara.
"Nah, you can have it. I'm not hungry," mumbled Kara not bothering to even look up this time. % Man this is not like Kara. She is usually up and all bouncy even when she is sick these headaches have really been getting to her lately. They must be pretty bad. % Thought Maggie as she glance again at Kara with her head now on the lunch room table. The bell rang to go to seventh period and everybody got up and moved to their classrooms. % Huh I hope I can make it trough the rest of the day without passin out. % Thought Kara she got up slowly from her table and dragged herself to her next class, reading,. That class would not be too hard to get through. Ms. Miller was really nice and she understood kids enough to know that we want to have fun in life too, not just learn and study.
1:00 pm
107 Ms. Miller's Room
Turtle Bay Jr. Sr. High School
Blue Cove, Delaware
"Zoning out, other wise called meditation is as deep as you can go in separating your mind from your body. Most religion's do it and doctors are starting to use it instead of atheistic to plaice pain in patients. In rare cases some say that they can go as deep as actually becoming someone else. It is said that they can get so disconnected form their own body that they can gain someone else's morals and make the exact same decisions that that person would in a situation. What do you think about this theory?" Asked Ms. Miller.
"Personally I think that there is no way someone could do that. I mean really if there was one thing that was mistaken when you were trying to become that person then everything that you thought about them would be wrong. There is no way someone could do that and get accurate results" Kara countered this out burst of one of the students with a rebuttal of her own.
"I think that it is completely possible. If you spend a lot of time with someone you tend to start doing and reacting the same as that person does. All that these people can do is simulate this person's morals more quickly. It would not surprise me at at all to find someone that could do that."
"Nice come back Kara." Ms. Miller looked at Kara oddly. % huh that was rather odd. Nobody in all of my classes today actually thought that it was possible. This is the academic class but still I never even thought about it that way. % The bell rang and Kara walked ever so slowly to her next class with her head down, trying not to make her headache and worse. % I swear if I got these headaches any more often I would rather a hammer being taken to my head. %
1:40 pm
Gym lockers
Turtle Bay Jr. Sr. High School
Blue Cove, Delaware
"Haha and so then instead of actually telling her that the whole thing was a joke they decided to just leave her hanging. Now she is all mad at them and is cursing their names to high heavens."
"Man I am so fat."
"No you're not. Now I, am fat."
"Dude guys none of you are fat."
"Haha you have room to talk you are as thin as a tooth pick Kara."
"Man you have a hairy stomach Kara." Kara looked down at her stomach, completely embarrassed.
"Huh I guess I do I never noticed that before. Huh" Kara quickly put on her gym shirt so that maybe no one else would notice her abnormal hairy stomach. %What the heck is happening to me first I get all these headaches now I have a furry stomach that I never knew I had. Not to mention I have been having to clip my nails like twice I week lately. I swear that is really weird. %
12:00 midnight
Takara's room
George Hill Rd.
Blue Cove, Delaware
Kara awoke breathing heavily again. She had the nightmare again but that was not what woke her up. She always woke up when she got to a certain part in the nightmare. This time she woke up before that. There was something else wrong. Kara looked over to see her computer on and booted up to the Internet. %Huh I thought for sure that I had turned my computer off before I went to bed. % She went over to turn it off and saw that J-man was on again. She decided to drop in on him real quick.
Takara: You know that we should really stop these late night talks. So why are you up so late again tonight?
J-man: Oh I got a new job and I am just doin a bit of research for it.
Takara: That must stink having to move from job to job.
J-man: Actually the coming part is not that bad it is just the leaving that stinks.
Takara: Well I had better get back to bed I went to shut off my PC and you were on so I am going to go back to bed so that I will not be completely zonked tomorrow. .Huh we are supposed to get a brad new substitute that no one has had before in our school.
J-man: Ok I guess I will talk to you tomorrow
Jarod busted out laughing at Kara's last statement.
The next day
Psychology room 118
Turtle Bay Jr. Sr. High School
Blue Cove, Delaware
"Good morning class. My name is Ja.. Uh.. Mr. Port."
TBC
A/N Hey what do you guys think? Do you like it hate it? Tell me! BTW this story does have a Center part in it. It will probably be in the next chapter. Please R&R because I have only had like eight reviews for my other stories. I am getting depressed because of it I mean really I put my sweat and blood (eewwee) into the fan fics and then I do not even get to know if you guys like it? Please tell me! R&R!!