Honored Memories
By: Kryptonite
A/N: I got inspired just not soon… Sorry. Course y'all are probably tired of me saying sorry and I'm not even going to bother trying to tell you why I've been so lax in my duties as a writer… Let's just say I've been spending most of my free time at school. On with the story.
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" What's going on?" A few of the boys in the tight circle turned to sneer at Harper before turning back to watching whatever was happening. Harper stepped forward, managing to peer over the boys' shoulders.
" Get out of here Seamus." Someone muttered, pushing him back but not fast enough to stop him from seeing the broken and bloody body on the ground.
" What the- Caelan!" Harper tried to push his thin body through the wall of bigger boys.
" Seamus, just leave before you get hurt." Harper ignored the boy's warnings, doing his best to push his way next to his sister. She turned her head just once towards him, eyes already bloodied over and blind to the world. Her cracked lips moved in a final word before Harper was shoved from the room: 'go'.
Harper opened his eyes, counting to ten as he tried to slow his heartbeat down. He blinked his eyes repeatedly, climbing out of his bed when he realized he wasn't going back to sleep.
" Might as well go finish that stupid machine." He muttered, moving to wake himself up by jumping in the shower. Twenty minutes later found Harper dressed and in the machine shop, a pair of headphones pulled over his ears and cranked up as loud as it would go.
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" He's been there over two hours." Rommie answered before Dylan could say anything. Dylan had been cleared late last night and released back to his normal duties. The two were watching Harper through the camera in the machine shop.
" He's almost done?"
Rommie cocked an eyebrow, not turning her eyes from the screen. " Far as I can tell. Though with Harper he'll find ten new things to add to make it better."
" If he can figure a way to get Tyr off of it's influence I'll give him as much beer as he can ever drink. And then some." Dylan responded, going to talk to the man.
" He's a genius." Rommie muttered as Dylan walked out the doors.
" I'm counting on it." Rommie turned around, a look of shock on her face, as Dylan shouted back.
" Damn hearing." She muttered again, turning to watch the screen.
" I heard that too Rommie." Dylan's voice echoed, making the AI do her own android impersonation of a human's jump when they were startled.
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sparkycola1- Was that juicy enough for you? Albeit it's not in the whole here 'n now sense of angst but its angst, right? Right.
Drakcir- Well I'm glad it explained it. And what part of Dylan's little 'no one uses this machine' didn't you understand? Trance will have to do some serious stuff to get him to use the machine.
Rommie's Voice- Ask and ye shall receive. Not much but it's something.
Littleredhead- I'm just sorry this update took so long. I've been busy with school and homework and other stuff…
A/N: Well, another walk down memory lane for Harper. Not to mention a few moments of Dylan/Rommie interaction. I need to feature our favorite AI more often, don't I? Yes. Yes I do. So, hopefully it won't take me months for the next update but I can't promise anything.