Ugh!!!!! This is the THIRD, count 'em, THIRD time I've retyped this because
the computers are all fuckers and they ruined me floppy disks!
Sorry I haven't updated for sooooo long..................was that long? 0.0
I've got the idea for the last chapter but I have a feeling you dudes and dudettes are gonna hate it -_-
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Losing The Grip of The Rules
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The sun glowed through the curtained window, making the guest room glow a little. The light slowly got brighter, warming up the faces of the two boys who occupied the bed.
Jonas felt the light start irritating his closed eyes. He turned away and opened his eyes a little slowly. Asher's sleeping face faced him; he looked like a young innocent child this way, Jonas smiled lightly kissed his forehead before sitting up.
A hand reached out and grabbed his arm.
"Huh? Oh, sorry did I wake you?" he looked back at the waking boy.
"No, the light got to me," he yawned, sitting up and stretching, Jonas blushed lightly.
"Did you sleep well?"
"Yep, this bed is comfy," he smiled sleepily; he leaned over and kissed Jonas.
"Did we wake up too early? It seems kind of early."
"Dunno," he shrugged and yawned again. "Did you hear something last night?"
"Like what?"
"Footsteps."
"No, I guess I'm a heavy sleeper."
"Poor little thing," he teased, nuzzling into the other teens neck.
"Little?"
"Mhmm," he kissed him again, he didn't expect Jonas to deepen it. Their tongues explored each others mouths; it seemed to go on for hours when it was really a lot shorter.
Asher trailed his kisses slowly towards Jonas' neck, lightly sucking and licking it, the other boy sighed at the feeling, half noticing that he was already getting aroused.
He pulled him closer to him, wanting more of the heated feeling. Asher gently lied Jonas back, unbuttoning his shirt as he kept going down, he was getting aroused too.
Last time he was at the bottom, now he wanted to be on top.
Jonas groaned lightly when Asher started to suck on his nipples, it sent heat go up his spine, he took off the other boys shirt, feeling the warmth against his hands.
He took both Jonas' pants and underwear off at the same time, barely noticing his lover doing the same thing to him. He rubbed his erection against Jonas' and they both groaned loudly. He was pulled closer by the other boy, making their erections to collide again, making them groan louder.
Jonas grinned slightly. "Looks like you're the one on top this time."
'Yeah,' he kissed him and trailed down again, sliding his hands up the other boys legs, spreading them.
He groaned and arched his back as Asher took him whole in his mouth, sucking gently at first, then harder before getting him out. Jonas panted a little, wishing that Asher hadn't stopped.
He trailed his kisses up towards Jonas' neck, his hand going down towards the other boys entrance.
He gasped when a finger entered him; he gasped again when another finger went in and started stretching him, making him pant a little faster.
Asher kissed Jonas again and looked into his eyes, taking his fingers out and positioning himself.
'Ready?'
He nodded and cried out in pleasure and pain when Asher entered him slowly, arching his back again.
'I'm not hurting you am I?'
'Not really,' he laughed a little.
'Good,' he smiled and started to slowly go out then in, getting Jonas to fall into beat and go a little faster, beads of sweat rolling down their skin as they groaned in rapture.
'Deeper.'
He did as he was told and went deeper into Jonas, hitting a sensitive spot making the boy cry out in ecstasy, holding him closer, their beat getting harder and faster.
Asher came first, then Jonas, cum spilling over his stomach. He got out of Jonas and kissed him before lying next to him.
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Fiona walked out of her room, dressed and ready to see her mother this afternoon, or was it already afternoon?
She heard voices in the room next door and wondered if she should tell them to get ready.
"Oh, good you're awake," Rosemary sighed happily and walked to her, "I'm gonna get the living room cleaned up a bit before your parents come, could you tell everyone to get ready?"
"Yeah, sure," she had no choice now, "thanks for talking to me last night, it kind of cleared up a few things for me."
Rosemary smiled. "No problem," she walked down the hall and down the stairs.
Fiona turned to the door and opened it. "Rose-oh my-" she quickly closed the door and stared at it in shock.
Seeing two naked bodies was not something she was thinking of seeing today. Especially since they were boys, her closest friends, sweaty, and kissing...............
She felt something warm and sort of wet in the upper level between her legs. She blushed and hurried to the nearest bathroom, slamming the door shut.
Another door opened and Adrian's head stuck out. "Who's thar?" he said sleepily.
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"Alis?" Dr. Bann looked at the profile in confusion, "could you bring in Albert? I need to ask him a few questions."
Alis left quickly and quietly.
"This doesn't make any sense," she muttered, frowning as she reread the profile.
The door opened and Albert walked inside a little nervously. "Uh, yes?"
"Oh, hello, sit, please," she faced the boy, "don't worry I just need to ask you a few things."
"Like what?"
"Well I've been reading your profile and I've noticed something very strange."
"What is it?"
"Well, you DO know that you were a victim in that community explosion?"
"Yeah. I remember some of it," he shrugged.
"You do know that the explosion happened nearly twenty eight years ago."
"Really? It feels a lot longer."
"What?"
"It feels a lot longer, never mind."
"Well, you should be thirty nine years old, not eleven."
"The strange thing is that, I think I died in my first community."
"Died? First Community?"
"Well, there was this board with nails on it; there was some kind of liquid on it. It stabbed me in the back and I fell into darkness. The next thing I knew I was with a group of babies. I was separated from them, sent to a whole bunch of different families in different communities."
"You would have already gone through your ceremony of twelve."
"I never did, I was switched to different families every time it reached that day."
"But what about celebrating once you got to your new family?"
"I couldn't, I'd end up arriving to them a week after the ceremonies."
"But wouldn't there be a private-"
"It didn't happen to me," he shrugged, "now here's my question. If I'm thirty something years old then why do I look like an eleven year old?"
"There ARE diseases of staying short, it's in the bones and-"
"But I look young. Wouldn't I look like a thirty year old man but short?"
"I don't understand that either. We can do blood tests on you, if you want, see if we can find anything that can answer why you look so young."
"I doubt you'll find the answer," he said quietly.
"Pardon?"
"It's just that, well lately I've been walking through things, and I kept hearing voices. I think they're from the past, but I can't recognize most of the voices."
"We'll try to find something out."
"Right, sure."
"You can go back to the testing area."
"'Kay," he stood up and walked to the door, "if you think you're dying, does you're whole life flash before your eyes?"
"That's what everybody says."
"It didn't happen to me. I guess I wasn't afraid for myself," he left leaving the doctor confused.
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"Ok, good, I'll tell them right now, bye" Rosemary hung up the phone and turned to the children, "that was Tara, she says your mothers AND fathers will be coming here in a few minutes, they're on their way."
"Fathers?" Lily blinked, "wait, so let me get this straight. We're also meeting our biological fathers? The men who had sex with our mothers?"
"Uh, yeah that pretty much says it all."
"Are they nice?"
"They must be," she shrugged.
"Oh great, now I'm more nervous," said Aurora, laughing a little.
Benjamin walked in the living room. "Oh, everyone's here."
"You didn't want us to be?" Tom raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, no, I just noted that."
"Ok then...............so now what? We took a shower, ate breakfast, I'm already getting kind of bored," said Ben.
"Jump around and play with dolls," Philippa suggested dully.
Ben made a face. "Why?"
"Hey, Rosemary? I uhh............have an embarrassing question to ask you," Fiona whispered.
"Shoot."
"Shoot what?"
"Never mind, what's the question?"
"Uhh..................well, remember when you told me to tell everyone to get ready?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I kind of walked in on Jonas and Asher and uh............well this weird feeling seemed to go down to my uh to my-"
"Whoa, wait," Rosemary put a hand to her forehead and let out an airy laugh, "you walked in on Jonas and Asher? What did you feel?"
"I don't know, but I think I peed on myself because I felt something wet between my legs so uhh...............," she blushed, too embarrassed to speak.
"Don't worry, you didn't piss on yourself," she turned Fiona away from everyone else, "I'll try to explain it to you as clearly as I can."
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++ "STEPHEN!" she didn't scream for her mother, she was screaming for her brother, he stood in front of her in shock, his body was paralyzed as he watched his younger sister burn. "HELP ME PLEASE!!!" ++
"AMANDA!" he reached out grabbing nothing. Albert looked around; he was back in the testing area.
Everyone looked at him in surprise. "Albert?" Katharine walked up to her friend.
He calmed down and collapsed to his knees, trying to breathe normally. "Amanda," he whispered numbly.
"Who's Amanda?" Katharine kneeled down in front of him, a hand on his shoulder.
"My biological sister."
"Oh my gosh!" shouted Tara looking towards the wall. "Look!"
Everyone looked at the wall, shocked showered them all.
There was the image of a child on fire on the wall, colored in chalk. It was so detailed that it looked like an actual little girl caught on fire.
Albert looked up at the image and started to remember the screams and shrieks of burning people that day. He felt like his skin was burning, he screamed in pain and fell forward on the floor, screaming in agony.
One of the testers caught on to what was happening and quickly shot his hand towards the boy burning in invisible flames. Water shot out of his hand and hit Albert everywhere, he calmed down and lay on the floor, catching his breath.
The image on the wall melted away like it was washed away with water.
Tara was the first of ten testers who hurried over to aid Albert.
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There was a knock on the door Rosemary answered it. "They're here," she told the children, opening the door.
Instead of happiness and excitement, the children felt very nervous, because now they would see their biological parents, the people who they weren't with ever since they were born.
A group of adults walked inside, they all looked equally nervous as they looked at every boy and girl.
"I thought I'd never see you again," a red haired woman whispered quietly as her eyes started to shine with tears.
"Lily?"
She looked up at a plump woman who seemed the calmest and nicest out of all the other parents. A tall man stood beside her, smiling down at her. She could immediately see the physical similarities between her and them.
The plump woman half ran to Lily and gave her a warm bear hug.
Throughout her young life, Lily experienced a few hugs, out of them all she loved the one her mother was giving her and quickly hugged her back.
The lady faced her; a few tears escaped her eyes. "You're eyes are still the same as I remember them."
"How did you know my name?"
"Because I heard the names the giver of names gave you and your brother and sister."
"I have a...............who?"
"Can't you tell? It's Lori and Adam."
"What?" the two children blinked, they looked at each other and realized the sudden resemblance.
"Come on over here and give me a hug!" their mother said cheerfully, her arms outstretched. The two children hesitantly walked over to her and she hugged them, they liked the hug as much as Lily did.
The three looked up at their father. "So...............you're our father?" Lily asked a bit nervously and curiously.
He nodded and kneeled down in front of them. "It's part of the reason why I was released."
"You were released?"
"Because I refused to have a child with another woman, I fell in love with your mother. Back then, the rules were different."
"So, you were released because you fell in love with mom?" Lily asked, her mother's face brightened even more when she heard her say 'mom'.
"Yeah. Love was a word that was never used, so people assumed that it would be a crime to fall in love with someone."
"That's harsh," muttered Adam.
"That rule's still sort of the same," Lori said.
"But why were you released? What did you do?" asked Lily.
"Well," Lily's mother sat down on the floor, "we all didn't want to give you away so we went against the rules to try and get you back but we were released instead. So we've been here, waiting you to come but we were losing hope because years just kept passing and you never came until now."
"Ben? Brad?" said a neon pink haired woman, "hi."
The two looked up at her curiously and blinked in surprise at the color of her hair.
"Gabriel, Darien, come see your brothers."
"Remember me," Gabriel said happily, walking up to the confused fours.
"You're our brothers?" Ben asked, looking at Gabriel and Darien.
"Whoa," whispered Brad, "you look just like me."
"Darien's your twin," the woman said a little cheerfully, "when I found out he was released I thought he was dead but-"
"You're the-" Jonas looked at Brad then at Darien, "but you-I saw you- "
"He did die but when he reached Elsewhere he lived again," the woman said in a calm happy voice.
"Why were you released?" Brad asked slowly.
"Mom said it was because you were heavier than me," shrugged Damien.
"You were," Jonas tried to forget the day he saw the baby twin die just because he was lighter than his brother.
"Jonas? Oh my, you're already a grown boy, I feel like an old woman!" laughed a thin young woman with blonde hair.
"Hm?" he turned to her, if she was a man they would look like twins, a man stood next to her, his eyes only matched Jonas'.
"Hi there, heh," the woman laughed a little nervously, she nervously waved to herself and the man, "I'm you're mom and this is your dad," she seemed to be hiding the urge to cry.
"Hi!" he didn't know what else to do so he smiled.
"Oooh!" tears escaped and she hugged him tightly, "all these years and I never knew how you grew up, stupid community and their blasted rules!"
"It's ok, I'm here, finally," he gently hugged her back.
"Yes you are. It's been what? Sixteen years?" said his father who was fighting the urge to cry too.
"Yeah."
"I was so scared that day I was supposed to meet you, then they took you back and I've never felt so alone in my life," the mother whispered.
"We were gonna get you back here but someone put some kind of barrier so that we couldn't go back to the community," said his father.
"Oh, uhhh............before we start reconciling and all, I have to tell you something first," he let go of his mother and turned to Asher who was talking to his own parents who looked hyper and nervous at the same time, Stewart and Adrian were with them too. "Asher!"
He looked over at him questioningly, Jonas nodded towards his parents. "Oh, uhhhh.........mom, dad-"
"Oh you don't know how happy those words make me feel," his mother said happily, laughing a little.
"Heh, listen I need to tell you both something important, uh............come," he walked to Jonas and his parents.
"What is it?" Jonas' mother asked, "is this a friend?" she asked looking at Asher.
"No, see, he's actually..................more than that," answered Jonas. Stewart and Adrian watched curiously.
"Oh, so you too are a couple?" his father asked, his son nodded. "Oh, ok then."
"You're both-four-ok with it?" asked Asher.
"Of course, what did you think we were homophobes? This is Elsewhere, everything's accepted...............well............except maybe doodoo," assured Asher's mother, Asher laughed.
"How long have you been together?" asked Asher's father.
"A long time," Stewart answered.
"It was a week before we planned to escape," Jonas answered, blushing lightly.
"I can understand the reason you escaped," smiled his mother warmly.
Fiona watched as Bruno talked to his mother and father, Daniel watching happily.
"How are you doing so far?" asked the red haired woman.
"Huh? Oh, pretty well, I think...............it's just that, well, I don't know how I can ever understand what's been happening to me."
"It's alright. It's the boy over there, he was your brother?"
"Yeah. Four years with him and seeing him separate from me feels like a bit of my life has been taken away."
"His family lives next door, he's only a few footsteps away from our home."
Fiona nodded, "right," she turned to her, "so you're my mother, I don't have a father?"
"He wasn't released, he wasn't an evolved one."
"So he's like everyone else in the community?"
"Actually he's a jerk, you wouldn't have liked him."
"Oh," she looked down a little.
"I'm sorry," she put a comforting arm on her daughters shoulder, "I feel like I owe you an apology. Ever since I was pregnant with you I kept promising you in my mind that I'd never let anyone take you away. Now that nearly sixteen years have passed and we've never seen each other, I feel like I've broken the promise so badly that it'll never be repaired."
"I'm here now," she smiled as two tears escaped, "I won't be taken away again."
There was a knock on the door, Rosemary got to the door and opened it. Tara and Katharine stood side by side, a little confused at what was happening inside.
"Is this Katharine?" asked Rosemary.
"Yes it is, go on inside Katharine, you're parents are probably looking for you," Tara said sweetly to the nervous girl.
She walked inside and looked around feeling like she was in a new world. "Oh boy," she muttered when she realized she didn't know what to do.
She caught herself in a bear hug with her mother and father.
"Where's the other evolved one?" Rosemary asked.
"He's back at the testing area, there's something wrong with him-not mentally or anything-it's just that we just found out he was dead years ago in that community explosion, the doctors and testers are doing anything they can to help get the memories out of him."
"Memories?"
"Of his first community, apparently, a lot of odd things happen when he remembers about it."
"Well then, when can he see his family?"
"He can't he'll have to live with Katharine's family."
"Oh, is he ok?"
"Yes, for now, anyway, I'd better be off," she left and Rosemary closed the door, turning back to the living room she realized how many people were here.
She hurried off into the kitchen, seeing if she had enough snacks for them all.
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He watched as other people were tested for their powers. Everything seemed to go by so quickly; he could believe that just yesterday he was back in his family unit having dinner with his parents.
'They're not really my parents,' he thought as he looked down at the floor, 'I was just assigned to them, like everyone else.'
++ Children ran around playing happily in an unusual way. Some flew, others ran quickly, and even a few turned invisible or jumped very high. ++
Albert sat up and a raised an eyebrow slightly. 'I don't remember seeing that in my life.'
++ "Phantom Spirit.................." ++
Something inside him seemed go on as a trigger, he felt lighter and calm. He looked up at the testing area again, wondering what a phantom spirit was.
"Albert?" Tara walked over to him but he didn't seem to notice her, she tapped him in the shoulder, "Albert?"
"Who?" he looked up at her then realized he was Albert. "Oh, what is it?"
"Dr. Bann wants to see you. Are you alright?"
"Yeah, just spacing off too much," he stood up and walked with Tara to Dr. Banns office.
"You're gonna be living with Katharine once we're done with the blood tests."
"Alright."
Tara looked at the pale boy worriedly but opened the door, letting him inside.
"Oh, Albert, or Stephen...............Kevin? Tyler? Whatever, I'll just call you Albert," said Dr. Bann when she read Alberts new profile. "How are you doing so far?"
"Nothing's happened yet," he lied.
"Good," she sat on her chair and took off her glasses, "I've checked out your community's computers, they're accurate so that means you really did die in your first community."
"Then why am I here?"
"I'm not sure. You said that the nails on the board that hit your back was spilled with a chemical or something?"
"Yeah."
"That's probably why you're here. That chemical was probably what caused the explosion; some of it must have gotten into your system and kept you alive when you should really be dead."
"..............................Huh?"
"You were supposed to die but the chemical in the nails saved your life."
"Or maybe I already am dead."
"You're not, then how can you be here?"
"I don't know, maybe I'm a zombie-"
"With a pulse."
Albert looked at the desk nervously. "Uhh............"
"See, you're not dead."
"I am dead," he looked out the window, the walls, the bookshelf, anywhere but at the doctor, "because I don't have a pulse."
"What?" she laughed.
"Really, try and find one," he showed her his wrist, she tried to feel for a pulse but didn't feel one.
"Wait a minute," she quickly took out her stethoscope and tried to find Alberts pulse, nothing came, "no wait...............that's impossible you should have a pulse."
"Well I don't, I never did after that board hit me."
"Then what are you? A very clean zombie? A phantom?"
The word phantom hit Albert again. He felt light again, and it felt like his vision was beginning to become clearer.
He looked around and saw something strange. There were faded gray words on everything including the doctor. He picked up a mug and saw the word 'mug' written everywhere on it horizontally.
"Albert?"
He looked up at the doctor; she didn't seem real anymore, it was like the words were trying to tell him something.
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Rosemary put all the snacks orderly on the two large trays and carefully walked out of the kitchen back into the living room.
"Ok, does anyone-whoa!" almost everyone crowded around her, grabbing a snack or more, by the time they left there was one snack left, "never mind," she said flippantly, "I'll go make more," she nearly stumbled on her way back into the kitchen.
'Hey Ro-'
She gasped in surprise when she heard the voice in her head.
'Shh! It's ok, it's ok, calm down.'
"I AM calm, I just gasped," she looked around, "who are you?"
'Black Hawk, oh don't bother looking for me, I'm in a different world.'
"Wha-how are you talking to me?"
'Um...............I'm an evolved one too?'
"Oh. Ok then. Why are you talking to me?"
'I need you do to do this huge favor for me.'
"What kind of a favor?"
'I need you to take Fiona, Jonas, Asher-'
"What? They just met their parents, why do I need to-"
'Don't worry, take the parents with you too, you'll understand when you arrive.'
"Arrive where?"
'My world. Please do this for me, my people can't go into your world, this really isn't a trick.'
"Ok I believe you...............I think."
"I need you to take Jonas, Asher, Fiona..............."
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Ugh, this chapter kind of sucks, especially the parent part -_-;
REVIEW PLEASE!
I've got the idea for the last chapter but I have a feeling you dudes and dudettes are gonna hate it -_-
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Losing The Grip of The Rules
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The sun glowed through the curtained window, making the guest room glow a little. The light slowly got brighter, warming up the faces of the two boys who occupied the bed.
Jonas felt the light start irritating his closed eyes. He turned away and opened his eyes a little slowly. Asher's sleeping face faced him; he looked like a young innocent child this way, Jonas smiled lightly kissed his forehead before sitting up.
A hand reached out and grabbed his arm.
"Huh? Oh, sorry did I wake you?" he looked back at the waking boy.
"No, the light got to me," he yawned, sitting up and stretching, Jonas blushed lightly.
"Did you sleep well?"
"Yep, this bed is comfy," he smiled sleepily; he leaned over and kissed Jonas.
"Did we wake up too early? It seems kind of early."
"Dunno," he shrugged and yawned again. "Did you hear something last night?"
"Like what?"
"Footsteps."
"No, I guess I'm a heavy sleeper."
"Poor little thing," he teased, nuzzling into the other teens neck.
"Little?"
"Mhmm," he kissed him again, he didn't expect Jonas to deepen it. Their tongues explored each others mouths; it seemed to go on for hours when it was really a lot shorter.
Asher trailed his kisses slowly towards Jonas' neck, lightly sucking and licking it, the other boy sighed at the feeling, half noticing that he was already getting aroused.
He pulled him closer to him, wanting more of the heated feeling. Asher gently lied Jonas back, unbuttoning his shirt as he kept going down, he was getting aroused too.
Last time he was at the bottom, now he wanted to be on top.
Jonas groaned lightly when Asher started to suck on his nipples, it sent heat go up his spine, he took off the other boys shirt, feeling the warmth against his hands.
He took both Jonas' pants and underwear off at the same time, barely noticing his lover doing the same thing to him. He rubbed his erection against Jonas' and they both groaned loudly. He was pulled closer by the other boy, making their erections to collide again, making them groan louder.
Jonas grinned slightly. "Looks like you're the one on top this time."
'Yeah,' he kissed him and trailed down again, sliding his hands up the other boys legs, spreading them.
He groaned and arched his back as Asher took him whole in his mouth, sucking gently at first, then harder before getting him out. Jonas panted a little, wishing that Asher hadn't stopped.
He trailed his kisses up towards Jonas' neck, his hand going down towards the other boys entrance.
He gasped when a finger entered him; he gasped again when another finger went in and started stretching him, making him pant a little faster.
Asher kissed Jonas again and looked into his eyes, taking his fingers out and positioning himself.
'Ready?'
He nodded and cried out in pleasure and pain when Asher entered him slowly, arching his back again.
'I'm not hurting you am I?'
'Not really,' he laughed a little.
'Good,' he smiled and started to slowly go out then in, getting Jonas to fall into beat and go a little faster, beads of sweat rolling down their skin as they groaned in rapture.
'Deeper.'
He did as he was told and went deeper into Jonas, hitting a sensitive spot making the boy cry out in ecstasy, holding him closer, their beat getting harder and faster.
Asher came first, then Jonas, cum spilling over his stomach. He got out of Jonas and kissed him before lying next to him.
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Fiona walked out of her room, dressed and ready to see her mother this afternoon, or was it already afternoon?
She heard voices in the room next door and wondered if she should tell them to get ready.
"Oh, good you're awake," Rosemary sighed happily and walked to her, "I'm gonna get the living room cleaned up a bit before your parents come, could you tell everyone to get ready?"
"Yeah, sure," she had no choice now, "thanks for talking to me last night, it kind of cleared up a few things for me."
Rosemary smiled. "No problem," she walked down the hall and down the stairs.
Fiona turned to the door and opened it. "Rose-oh my-" she quickly closed the door and stared at it in shock.
Seeing two naked bodies was not something she was thinking of seeing today. Especially since they were boys, her closest friends, sweaty, and kissing...............
She felt something warm and sort of wet in the upper level between her legs. She blushed and hurried to the nearest bathroom, slamming the door shut.
Another door opened and Adrian's head stuck out. "Who's thar?" he said sleepily.
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"Alis?" Dr. Bann looked at the profile in confusion, "could you bring in Albert? I need to ask him a few questions."
Alis left quickly and quietly.
"This doesn't make any sense," she muttered, frowning as she reread the profile.
The door opened and Albert walked inside a little nervously. "Uh, yes?"
"Oh, hello, sit, please," she faced the boy, "don't worry I just need to ask you a few things."
"Like what?"
"Well I've been reading your profile and I've noticed something very strange."
"What is it?"
"Well, you DO know that you were a victim in that community explosion?"
"Yeah. I remember some of it," he shrugged.
"You do know that the explosion happened nearly twenty eight years ago."
"Really? It feels a lot longer."
"What?"
"It feels a lot longer, never mind."
"Well, you should be thirty nine years old, not eleven."
"The strange thing is that, I think I died in my first community."
"Died? First Community?"
"Well, there was this board with nails on it; there was some kind of liquid on it. It stabbed me in the back and I fell into darkness. The next thing I knew I was with a group of babies. I was separated from them, sent to a whole bunch of different families in different communities."
"You would have already gone through your ceremony of twelve."
"I never did, I was switched to different families every time it reached that day."
"But what about celebrating once you got to your new family?"
"I couldn't, I'd end up arriving to them a week after the ceremonies."
"But wouldn't there be a private-"
"It didn't happen to me," he shrugged, "now here's my question. If I'm thirty something years old then why do I look like an eleven year old?"
"There ARE diseases of staying short, it's in the bones and-"
"But I look young. Wouldn't I look like a thirty year old man but short?"
"I don't understand that either. We can do blood tests on you, if you want, see if we can find anything that can answer why you look so young."
"I doubt you'll find the answer," he said quietly.
"Pardon?"
"It's just that, well lately I've been walking through things, and I kept hearing voices. I think they're from the past, but I can't recognize most of the voices."
"We'll try to find something out."
"Right, sure."
"You can go back to the testing area."
"'Kay," he stood up and walked to the door, "if you think you're dying, does you're whole life flash before your eyes?"
"That's what everybody says."
"It didn't happen to me. I guess I wasn't afraid for myself," he left leaving the doctor confused.
+ + +
"Ok, good, I'll tell them right now, bye" Rosemary hung up the phone and turned to the children, "that was Tara, she says your mothers AND fathers will be coming here in a few minutes, they're on their way."
"Fathers?" Lily blinked, "wait, so let me get this straight. We're also meeting our biological fathers? The men who had sex with our mothers?"
"Uh, yeah that pretty much says it all."
"Are they nice?"
"They must be," she shrugged.
"Oh great, now I'm more nervous," said Aurora, laughing a little.
Benjamin walked in the living room. "Oh, everyone's here."
"You didn't want us to be?" Tom raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, no, I just noted that."
"Ok then...............so now what? We took a shower, ate breakfast, I'm already getting kind of bored," said Ben.
"Jump around and play with dolls," Philippa suggested dully.
Ben made a face. "Why?"
"Hey, Rosemary? I uhh............have an embarrassing question to ask you," Fiona whispered.
"Shoot."
"Shoot what?"
"Never mind, what's the question?"
"Uhh..................well, remember when you told me to tell everyone to get ready?"
"Yeah."
"Well, I kind of walked in on Jonas and Asher and uh............well this weird feeling seemed to go down to my uh to my-"
"Whoa, wait," Rosemary put a hand to her forehead and let out an airy laugh, "you walked in on Jonas and Asher? What did you feel?"
"I don't know, but I think I peed on myself because I felt something wet between my legs so uhh...............," she blushed, too embarrassed to speak.
"Don't worry, you didn't piss on yourself," she turned Fiona away from everyone else, "I'll try to explain it to you as clearly as I can."
+ + +
++ "STEPHEN!" she didn't scream for her mother, she was screaming for her brother, he stood in front of her in shock, his body was paralyzed as he watched his younger sister burn. "HELP ME PLEASE!!!" ++
"AMANDA!" he reached out grabbing nothing. Albert looked around; he was back in the testing area.
Everyone looked at him in surprise. "Albert?" Katharine walked up to her friend.
He calmed down and collapsed to his knees, trying to breathe normally. "Amanda," he whispered numbly.
"Who's Amanda?" Katharine kneeled down in front of him, a hand on his shoulder.
"My biological sister."
"Oh my gosh!" shouted Tara looking towards the wall. "Look!"
Everyone looked at the wall, shocked showered them all.
There was the image of a child on fire on the wall, colored in chalk. It was so detailed that it looked like an actual little girl caught on fire.
Albert looked up at the image and started to remember the screams and shrieks of burning people that day. He felt like his skin was burning, he screamed in pain and fell forward on the floor, screaming in agony.
One of the testers caught on to what was happening and quickly shot his hand towards the boy burning in invisible flames. Water shot out of his hand and hit Albert everywhere, he calmed down and lay on the floor, catching his breath.
The image on the wall melted away like it was washed away with water.
Tara was the first of ten testers who hurried over to aid Albert.
+ + +
There was a knock on the door Rosemary answered it. "They're here," she told the children, opening the door.
Instead of happiness and excitement, the children felt very nervous, because now they would see their biological parents, the people who they weren't with ever since they were born.
A group of adults walked inside, they all looked equally nervous as they looked at every boy and girl.
"I thought I'd never see you again," a red haired woman whispered quietly as her eyes started to shine with tears.
"Lily?"
She looked up at a plump woman who seemed the calmest and nicest out of all the other parents. A tall man stood beside her, smiling down at her. She could immediately see the physical similarities between her and them.
The plump woman half ran to Lily and gave her a warm bear hug.
Throughout her young life, Lily experienced a few hugs, out of them all she loved the one her mother was giving her and quickly hugged her back.
The lady faced her; a few tears escaped her eyes. "You're eyes are still the same as I remember them."
"How did you know my name?"
"Because I heard the names the giver of names gave you and your brother and sister."
"I have a...............who?"
"Can't you tell? It's Lori and Adam."
"What?" the two children blinked, they looked at each other and realized the sudden resemblance.
"Come on over here and give me a hug!" their mother said cheerfully, her arms outstretched. The two children hesitantly walked over to her and she hugged them, they liked the hug as much as Lily did.
The three looked up at their father. "So...............you're our father?" Lily asked a bit nervously and curiously.
He nodded and kneeled down in front of them. "It's part of the reason why I was released."
"You were released?"
"Because I refused to have a child with another woman, I fell in love with your mother. Back then, the rules were different."
"So, you were released because you fell in love with mom?" Lily asked, her mother's face brightened even more when she heard her say 'mom'.
"Yeah. Love was a word that was never used, so people assumed that it would be a crime to fall in love with someone."
"That's harsh," muttered Adam.
"That rule's still sort of the same," Lori said.
"But why were you released? What did you do?" asked Lily.
"Well," Lily's mother sat down on the floor, "we all didn't want to give you away so we went against the rules to try and get you back but we were released instead. So we've been here, waiting you to come but we were losing hope because years just kept passing and you never came until now."
"Ben? Brad?" said a neon pink haired woman, "hi."
The two looked up at her curiously and blinked in surprise at the color of her hair.
"Gabriel, Darien, come see your brothers."
"Remember me," Gabriel said happily, walking up to the confused fours.
"You're our brothers?" Ben asked, looking at Gabriel and Darien.
"Whoa," whispered Brad, "you look just like me."
"Darien's your twin," the woman said a little cheerfully, "when I found out he was released I thought he was dead but-"
"You're the-" Jonas looked at Brad then at Darien, "but you-I saw you- "
"He did die but when he reached Elsewhere he lived again," the woman said in a calm happy voice.
"Why were you released?" Brad asked slowly.
"Mom said it was because you were heavier than me," shrugged Damien.
"You were," Jonas tried to forget the day he saw the baby twin die just because he was lighter than his brother.
"Jonas? Oh my, you're already a grown boy, I feel like an old woman!" laughed a thin young woman with blonde hair.
"Hm?" he turned to her, if she was a man they would look like twins, a man stood next to her, his eyes only matched Jonas'.
"Hi there, heh," the woman laughed a little nervously, she nervously waved to herself and the man, "I'm you're mom and this is your dad," she seemed to be hiding the urge to cry.
"Hi!" he didn't know what else to do so he smiled.
"Oooh!" tears escaped and she hugged him tightly, "all these years and I never knew how you grew up, stupid community and their blasted rules!"
"It's ok, I'm here, finally," he gently hugged her back.
"Yes you are. It's been what? Sixteen years?" said his father who was fighting the urge to cry too.
"Yeah."
"I was so scared that day I was supposed to meet you, then they took you back and I've never felt so alone in my life," the mother whispered.
"We were gonna get you back here but someone put some kind of barrier so that we couldn't go back to the community," said his father.
"Oh, uhhh............before we start reconciling and all, I have to tell you something first," he let go of his mother and turned to Asher who was talking to his own parents who looked hyper and nervous at the same time, Stewart and Adrian were with them too. "Asher!"
He looked over at him questioningly, Jonas nodded towards his parents. "Oh, uhhhh.........mom, dad-"
"Oh you don't know how happy those words make me feel," his mother said happily, laughing a little.
"Heh, listen I need to tell you both something important, uh............come," he walked to Jonas and his parents.
"What is it?" Jonas' mother asked, "is this a friend?" she asked looking at Asher.
"No, see, he's actually..................more than that," answered Jonas. Stewart and Adrian watched curiously.
"Oh, so you too are a couple?" his father asked, his son nodded. "Oh, ok then."
"You're both-four-ok with it?" asked Asher.
"Of course, what did you think we were homophobes? This is Elsewhere, everything's accepted...............well............except maybe doodoo," assured Asher's mother, Asher laughed.
"How long have you been together?" asked Asher's father.
"A long time," Stewart answered.
"It was a week before we planned to escape," Jonas answered, blushing lightly.
"I can understand the reason you escaped," smiled his mother warmly.
Fiona watched as Bruno talked to his mother and father, Daniel watching happily.
"How are you doing so far?" asked the red haired woman.
"Huh? Oh, pretty well, I think...............it's just that, well, I don't know how I can ever understand what's been happening to me."
"It's alright. It's the boy over there, he was your brother?"
"Yeah. Four years with him and seeing him separate from me feels like a bit of my life has been taken away."
"His family lives next door, he's only a few footsteps away from our home."
Fiona nodded, "right," she turned to her, "so you're my mother, I don't have a father?"
"He wasn't released, he wasn't an evolved one."
"So he's like everyone else in the community?"
"Actually he's a jerk, you wouldn't have liked him."
"Oh," she looked down a little.
"I'm sorry," she put a comforting arm on her daughters shoulder, "I feel like I owe you an apology. Ever since I was pregnant with you I kept promising you in my mind that I'd never let anyone take you away. Now that nearly sixteen years have passed and we've never seen each other, I feel like I've broken the promise so badly that it'll never be repaired."
"I'm here now," she smiled as two tears escaped, "I won't be taken away again."
There was a knock on the door, Rosemary got to the door and opened it. Tara and Katharine stood side by side, a little confused at what was happening inside.
"Is this Katharine?" asked Rosemary.
"Yes it is, go on inside Katharine, you're parents are probably looking for you," Tara said sweetly to the nervous girl.
She walked inside and looked around feeling like she was in a new world. "Oh boy," she muttered when she realized she didn't know what to do.
She caught herself in a bear hug with her mother and father.
"Where's the other evolved one?" Rosemary asked.
"He's back at the testing area, there's something wrong with him-not mentally or anything-it's just that we just found out he was dead years ago in that community explosion, the doctors and testers are doing anything they can to help get the memories out of him."
"Memories?"
"Of his first community, apparently, a lot of odd things happen when he remembers about it."
"Well then, when can he see his family?"
"He can't he'll have to live with Katharine's family."
"Oh, is he ok?"
"Yes, for now, anyway, I'd better be off," she left and Rosemary closed the door, turning back to the living room she realized how many people were here.
She hurried off into the kitchen, seeing if she had enough snacks for them all.
+ + +
He watched as other people were tested for their powers. Everything seemed to go by so quickly; he could believe that just yesterday he was back in his family unit having dinner with his parents.
'They're not really my parents,' he thought as he looked down at the floor, 'I was just assigned to them, like everyone else.'
++ Children ran around playing happily in an unusual way. Some flew, others ran quickly, and even a few turned invisible or jumped very high. ++
Albert sat up and a raised an eyebrow slightly. 'I don't remember seeing that in my life.'
++ "Phantom Spirit.................." ++
Something inside him seemed go on as a trigger, he felt lighter and calm. He looked up at the testing area again, wondering what a phantom spirit was.
"Albert?" Tara walked over to him but he didn't seem to notice her, she tapped him in the shoulder, "Albert?"
"Who?" he looked up at her then realized he was Albert. "Oh, what is it?"
"Dr. Bann wants to see you. Are you alright?"
"Yeah, just spacing off too much," he stood up and walked with Tara to Dr. Banns office.
"You're gonna be living with Katharine once we're done with the blood tests."
"Alright."
Tara looked at the pale boy worriedly but opened the door, letting him inside.
"Oh, Albert, or Stephen...............Kevin? Tyler? Whatever, I'll just call you Albert," said Dr. Bann when she read Alberts new profile. "How are you doing so far?"
"Nothing's happened yet," he lied.
"Good," she sat on her chair and took off her glasses, "I've checked out your community's computers, they're accurate so that means you really did die in your first community."
"Then why am I here?"
"I'm not sure. You said that the nails on the board that hit your back was spilled with a chemical or something?"
"Yeah."
"That's probably why you're here. That chemical was probably what caused the explosion; some of it must have gotten into your system and kept you alive when you should really be dead."
"..............................Huh?"
"You were supposed to die but the chemical in the nails saved your life."
"Or maybe I already am dead."
"You're not, then how can you be here?"
"I don't know, maybe I'm a zombie-"
"With a pulse."
Albert looked at the desk nervously. "Uhh............"
"See, you're not dead."
"I am dead," he looked out the window, the walls, the bookshelf, anywhere but at the doctor, "because I don't have a pulse."
"What?" she laughed.
"Really, try and find one," he showed her his wrist, she tried to feel for a pulse but didn't feel one.
"Wait a minute," she quickly took out her stethoscope and tried to find Alberts pulse, nothing came, "no wait...............that's impossible you should have a pulse."
"Well I don't, I never did after that board hit me."
"Then what are you? A very clean zombie? A phantom?"
The word phantom hit Albert again. He felt light again, and it felt like his vision was beginning to become clearer.
He looked around and saw something strange. There were faded gray words on everything including the doctor. He picked up a mug and saw the word 'mug' written everywhere on it horizontally.
"Albert?"
He looked up at the doctor; she didn't seem real anymore, it was like the words were trying to tell him something.
+ + +
Rosemary put all the snacks orderly on the two large trays and carefully walked out of the kitchen back into the living room.
"Ok, does anyone-whoa!" almost everyone crowded around her, grabbing a snack or more, by the time they left there was one snack left, "never mind," she said flippantly, "I'll go make more," she nearly stumbled on her way back into the kitchen.
'Hey Ro-'
She gasped in surprise when she heard the voice in her head.
'Shh! It's ok, it's ok, calm down.'
"I AM calm, I just gasped," she looked around, "who are you?"
'Black Hawk, oh don't bother looking for me, I'm in a different world.'
"Wha-how are you talking to me?"
'Um...............I'm an evolved one too?'
"Oh. Ok then. Why are you talking to me?"
'I need you do to do this huge favor for me.'
"What kind of a favor?"
'I need you to take Fiona, Jonas, Asher-'
"What? They just met their parents, why do I need to-"
'Don't worry, take the parents with you too, you'll understand when you arrive.'
"Arrive where?"
'My world. Please do this for me, my people can't go into your world, this really isn't a trick.'
"Ok I believe you...............I think."
"I need you to take Jonas, Asher, Fiona..............."
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Ugh, this chapter kind of sucks, especially the parent part -_-;
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