Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Dark Angel story or characters but this
story and the new characters within it are all mine.
A/N: Hey people!
This is the next instalment. Hope you like it!
I'm actually quite proud of the writing in it so please tell me what you guys think!!! The next coupla chapters are just clearing things up.
So please read and review!!!
Hope you like it!
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"Eurgh! I can't do this anymore." The dark haired transgenic muttered to herself as she stabbed the food that sat helplessly on her plate.
"Can't do what anymore?" the voice sat next to her and followed her gaze to the far table. "Oh."
"I thought I could do this....." she took a stab at her food again, ".....but I just can't."
He sighed as he watched her move her plate forward and place her head on the table.
"Life sucks." Her muffled statement was dry.
He put an arm around her in a comforting way. The days had been flying away from them in an unusual scream of routine that the X5s just weren't used to. Paperwork was getting sky high as everyone put their efforts in bringing in supplies or, most importantly, working on the coming Coming. Everyone was working twenty hour days; either watching international news, studying history books or hacking into top security systems; that they were all exhausted and........and absolutely and completely bored. The weather copied their feelings by holding its grey status non-stop for the past week, each day getting that bit greyer. The nights were no better. The wind howled an achingly eerie song that kept them awake for the few precious hours they were meant to be asleep.
"You're just grumpy 'cos you haven't got any sleep." His voice was light between bites, as he rubbed her back soothingly with his free hand.
"No, I'm grumpy 'cos my life sucks." She deadpanned.
For days she had tried determinedly to carry on as if she felt nothing for him, that everything was just like it always had been but it was just too heartbreaking to see him everyday, to see them everyday. She wanted him to be happy but this was taking a toll on her already crumbling heart. Ember, 'Night and her other kids took it upon themselves to keep her spirits high and she felt eternally blessed to have them in her life. But secretly she was glad that her days were so long because her nights were unbearable. At least during the day she had help to handle......everything and......and she could be close to him......work with him. At night all she heard was the ethereal melody that the wind hauntingly wept forcing her to remember times lost at her one time prison.............manticore. The manticore where she had loved, lost and loved again.
"Ember....." she said, turning her head so that her cheek was on the table.
He stopped mid bite and said, "Hmm. What?"
"I think I'm going to leave."
Immediate choking followed that sentence as Ember began coughing and spluttering whilst trying to hit his back and speak all at once. Hazel sat up and patted his back helpfully and handed him a napkin.
After getting over his coughing fit, he said in a low urgent tone, "You cannot be serious."
She only shrugged her shoulders.
"Haze, you can't leave." He pleaded with her.
"Ember, crap is gonna happen here." She began as Ember interrupted, "So you're gonna leave!?!"
She paused and took a look at her friend, "That's not the reason and you know it. I was gonna say that.......maybe I could start up a transgenic place in a safer place......maybe Canada."
"But......you can't.....you....." he was at a loss for words and that was very bizarre for him.
"Some transgenics are already based in Canada. I could maybe go and start up safe houses along the way. You guys here can send over transgenics in little groups to live a better life there......in fresher air and sunny climates." She carried on with her train of thought.
Ember moved in closer and whispered, "Don't let them win."
She snapped her face back and said stiffly, "I'm not."
"Then stay!"
"I can't!" she cried hushing the room for a moment. The regular grumbling resumed and she whispered, "This......I just.......I just need some space."
"Please don't do this." He had taken her hand in both of his, "What about the kids?"
The petite transgenic gaze unfocused.
"What about 'Night and Ray and Em and all the others." He knew he had hit a raw nerve.
She began to shake her head, not listening, "Don't do this to me, Ember."
He carried on, pushing the notion, "They love you, Haze. You can't leave them."
"'Night will look after them." Her voice was small.
"They need you." She was breaking, he knew it.
"No they don't." Her voice perked up and Ember watched her, confused.
"What? Yes...." She interrupted his tirade, "No they don't. I taught them well. Now they will look after the rest just as well."
She got up.
Ember caught her by the hand. "Hazel, please promise me you'll think about it before you just up ship."
She nodded before leaving the canteen and a stupefied friend behind.
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Everything was so dull. The walk to the infirmary from the canteen was short but it was long enough for the weather put a 'downer' on her day. As she walked through the courtyard, the hellish heavens opened and the rain poured like bittersweet liqueur onto her even more bittersweet self. Each step forward led her to decide what her next step was. All she needed was a sign.
"Chlo!" she called as she entered the quiet space.
"Hey babes." She said in easy greeting before her smile turned upside down and said in a far more sombre tone, "Aah, the results."
"Yep." Replied Hazel as she hopped onto a free bed and swung her legs in impatient anticipation.
The beautiful blue transgenic walked up to her holding a file in her hands.
"Look babes........" Chloe began.
"It was positive wasn't it?" the question was straightforward.
A simple nod sealed her decision.
The transhuman swept her friend into a hug, "It'll be okay."
Hazel nodded as tears flooded her hazel eyes.
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"You're going to leave!?!" 'Night's yell reverberated through their dance hall.
Hazel stepped forward, her hands out to show no threat. She spoke relaxingly, "'Night chill."
"Chill!!?!" he exclaimed before she hushed him again although as he silenced a low murmur of noise erupted from their audience.
"You'll see me again." She explained carefully.
"Damn right we will." Ray spoke up as she stood with hands on hips. Her straight face broke into a smile. She walked forwards and took her 'sister's' hands in her own. "I love you, Hazel. We......." She said indicating the kids behind her, ".......we all love you and want you to be happy."
"Why do you have to leave to be happy?" His voice was childlike.
"Oh babe, look I have to go and get this set up so that when you and Ray decide to have a family......" she watched the two turn bright red, ".......you can come down to my camp and live a stress free life, breathing the fresh air, eating jam."
"Eating jam?" asked a thoroughly amused 'Night.
She smiled, "I don't know........whatever. Important thing: do you forgive me?"
He smiled and hugged her tightly, "Yeah......I mean you gotta do what you do, right?"
She nodded.
"And we will see you again?" asked Em, whose eyes glistened with tears.
"You know it." She said as she ruffled the girl's hair.
As she turned to leave she heard Ray's voice ring out, "Does Ember know?"
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"Don't go." His voice pleaded.
"Ember, I've made up my mind." She said from her seat on the couch, as she watched him pace up and down and then back again.
"You can't do this." He muttered.
"Why?" she asked genuinely interested but also a little pissed off.
He stopped at her question and knelt down to her, "We'll be split up again." He whispered softly.
She was lost for words.
"The unit's finally together......and if you go, we'll be split up again." He said again.
"What's this?" his voice was sad.
Her eyes shot up.
"Were you going to tell me or just leave?" his face was neutral but his eyes betrayed his sorrow.
"Alec....." the rest of the words died on her lips.
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A/N: Did ya like it? Tell me in a review.
I'm trying my best to get it along but I seem to be adding more and more things so I don't seem to be going anywhere but I'll try my best to hurry it up.
until next time......
unspoken-beauty
A/N: Hey people!
This is the next instalment. Hope you like it!
I'm actually quite proud of the writing in it so please tell me what you guys think!!! The next coupla chapters are just clearing things up.
So please read and review!!!
Hope you like it!
*******************************************************************
"Eurgh! I can't do this anymore." The dark haired transgenic muttered to herself as she stabbed the food that sat helplessly on her plate.
"Can't do what anymore?" the voice sat next to her and followed her gaze to the far table. "Oh."
"I thought I could do this....." she took a stab at her food again, ".....but I just can't."
He sighed as he watched her move her plate forward and place her head on the table.
"Life sucks." Her muffled statement was dry.
He put an arm around her in a comforting way. The days had been flying away from them in an unusual scream of routine that the X5s just weren't used to. Paperwork was getting sky high as everyone put their efforts in bringing in supplies or, most importantly, working on the coming Coming. Everyone was working twenty hour days; either watching international news, studying history books or hacking into top security systems; that they were all exhausted and........and absolutely and completely bored. The weather copied their feelings by holding its grey status non-stop for the past week, each day getting that bit greyer. The nights were no better. The wind howled an achingly eerie song that kept them awake for the few precious hours they were meant to be asleep.
"You're just grumpy 'cos you haven't got any sleep." His voice was light between bites, as he rubbed her back soothingly with his free hand.
"No, I'm grumpy 'cos my life sucks." She deadpanned.
For days she had tried determinedly to carry on as if she felt nothing for him, that everything was just like it always had been but it was just too heartbreaking to see him everyday, to see them everyday. She wanted him to be happy but this was taking a toll on her already crumbling heart. Ember, 'Night and her other kids took it upon themselves to keep her spirits high and she felt eternally blessed to have them in her life. But secretly she was glad that her days were so long because her nights were unbearable. At least during the day she had help to handle......everything and......and she could be close to him......work with him. At night all she heard was the ethereal melody that the wind hauntingly wept forcing her to remember times lost at her one time prison.............manticore. The manticore where she had loved, lost and loved again.
"Ember....." she said, turning her head so that her cheek was on the table.
He stopped mid bite and said, "Hmm. What?"
"I think I'm going to leave."
Immediate choking followed that sentence as Ember began coughing and spluttering whilst trying to hit his back and speak all at once. Hazel sat up and patted his back helpfully and handed him a napkin.
After getting over his coughing fit, he said in a low urgent tone, "You cannot be serious."
She only shrugged her shoulders.
"Haze, you can't leave." He pleaded with her.
"Ember, crap is gonna happen here." She began as Ember interrupted, "So you're gonna leave!?!"
She paused and took a look at her friend, "That's not the reason and you know it. I was gonna say that.......maybe I could start up a transgenic place in a safer place......maybe Canada."
"But......you can't.....you....." he was at a loss for words and that was very bizarre for him.
"Some transgenics are already based in Canada. I could maybe go and start up safe houses along the way. You guys here can send over transgenics in little groups to live a better life there......in fresher air and sunny climates." She carried on with her train of thought.
Ember moved in closer and whispered, "Don't let them win."
She snapped her face back and said stiffly, "I'm not."
"Then stay!"
"I can't!" she cried hushing the room for a moment. The regular grumbling resumed and she whispered, "This......I just.......I just need some space."
"Please don't do this." He had taken her hand in both of his, "What about the kids?"
The petite transgenic gaze unfocused.
"What about 'Night and Ray and Em and all the others." He knew he had hit a raw nerve.
She began to shake her head, not listening, "Don't do this to me, Ember."
He carried on, pushing the notion, "They love you, Haze. You can't leave them."
"'Night will look after them." Her voice was small.
"They need you." She was breaking, he knew it.
"No they don't." Her voice perked up and Ember watched her, confused.
"What? Yes...." She interrupted his tirade, "No they don't. I taught them well. Now they will look after the rest just as well."
She got up.
Ember caught her by the hand. "Hazel, please promise me you'll think about it before you just up ship."
She nodded before leaving the canteen and a stupefied friend behind.
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Everything was so dull. The walk to the infirmary from the canteen was short but it was long enough for the weather put a 'downer' on her day. As she walked through the courtyard, the hellish heavens opened and the rain poured like bittersweet liqueur onto her even more bittersweet self. Each step forward led her to decide what her next step was. All she needed was a sign.
"Chlo!" she called as she entered the quiet space.
"Hey babes." She said in easy greeting before her smile turned upside down and said in a far more sombre tone, "Aah, the results."
"Yep." Replied Hazel as she hopped onto a free bed and swung her legs in impatient anticipation.
The beautiful blue transgenic walked up to her holding a file in her hands.
"Look babes........" Chloe began.
"It was positive wasn't it?" the question was straightforward.
A simple nod sealed her decision.
The transhuman swept her friend into a hug, "It'll be okay."
Hazel nodded as tears flooded her hazel eyes.
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"You're going to leave!?!" 'Night's yell reverberated through their dance hall.
Hazel stepped forward, her hands out to show no threat. She spoke relaxingly, "'Night chill."
"Chill!!?!" he exclaimed before she hushed him again although as he silenced a low murmur of noise erupted from their audience.
"You'll see me again." She explained carefully.
"Damn right we will." Ray spoke up as she stood with hands on hips. Her straight face broke into a smile. She walked forwards and took her 'sister's' hands in her own. "I love you, Hazel. We......." She said indicating the kids behind her, ".......we all love you and want you to be happy."
"Why do you have to leave to be happy?" His voice was childlike.
"Oh babe, look I have to go and get this set up so that when you and Ray decide to have a family......" she watched the two turn bright red, ".......you can come down to my camp and live a stress free life, breathing the fresh air, eating jam."
"Eating jam?" asked a thoroughly amused 'Night.
She smiled, "I don't know........whatever. Important thing: do you forgive me?"
He smiled and hugged her tightly, "Yeah......I mean you gotta do what you do, right?"
She nodded.
"And we will see you again?" asked Em, whose eyes glistened with tears.
"You know it." She said as she ruffled the girl's hair.
As she turned to leave she heard Ray's voice ring out, "Does Ember know?"
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"Don't go." His voice pleaded.
"Ember, I've made up my mind." She said from her seat on the couch, as she watched him pace up and down and then back again.
"You can't do this." He muttered.
"Why?" she asked genuinely interested but also a little pissed off.
He stopped at her question and knelt down to her, "We'll be split up again." He whispered softly.
She was lost for words.
"The unit's finally together......and if you go, we'll be split up again." He said again.
"What's this?" his voice was sad.
Her eyes shot up.
"Were you going to tell me or just leave?" his face was neutral but his eyes betrayed his sorrow.
"Alec....." the rest of the words died on her lips.
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A/N: Did ya like it? Tell me in a review.
I'm trying my best to get it along but I seem to be adding more and more things so I don't seem to be going anywhere but I'll try my best to hurry it up.
until next time......
unspoken-beauty