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Chapter 10, Gerald's Secret

5:30pm October 22, 19#9

Shadow and Maria were walking aimlessly around the ARK, they were in a hallway that was shaped like a 4 pointed triangle, but glass around it to make you able to walk normally. They went over to the door and it opened up automaticlally.

Maria looked down at Shadow and said, "I'm glad you have forgiven dad, you know he loves you." Shadow sighed, then laughed, trying to make her happy, "Well, it happens from time to time." Maria looked down at theground and said, "Uh-huh.."Shadow could tell there was something on her mind, she didn't usually act this way. Maria stopped walking and looked like she was going to cry, she fell to the ground, and started to cry. SHadow ran to her and steadied her fall, "Maria! What wrong?!" She cupped her face in her hands and and spoke through them, "Wevebinhodenufusick---" Shadow took her hands from her face and looked into her eyes. He could tell this had been bothering her for the longest time, he said slowly, "Slow down." She took a deep breath and said through tears, "We have been hiding you for sixteen years from GUN, with many close calls and they haven't found you, but one day they will find you, one day they wi find you and they will KILL you! There is a rumor going around that they found out about the hiding place!" Shadow's eyes widened with horror, then realization kicked in, "It's a RU-MOR! Theres half a chance its not real!" Maria looked up at him with her icy pink and blue eyes, "But theres half a chance it is..." Shadow gave Maria a hug and after fifteen minutes, all her tears were gone, leaving a dry Maria, but Shadow's shoulder very wet.

He brushed off his shoulder (a/n: Ladys be pimps too, go on brush yo shoulders off! ) to make them dry. They looked ahead of them and they didn't even realize they were going to the playground. SHadow didn't realize it till now; thye were the only children on the ARK and there was a playground, it must have been made especially for them, he smiled. They walked inside and they sat on te swings. Maria said, "They gave us so much for living here, and try to make our family as normal as possible. Although (laughes), we are as different as can be!"

Shadow was not even listening to her, he was thinking about what she said earlier; were they really going to find him and kill him one day? He didn't know, if he made one slip up, they would. What if he was sick and he went into hiding there was times he was; there was that one time he had pnemonia from helping Gerald work on the bomb fluids, he was in a coughing fit he had to make the hiding place bigger and put padding on the 'ceiling' of it, now it looks like a normal room, except it was only 5'5 ft. high. Maria was a couple inches shorter then the ceiling so she had to be about 5'3 ft.

Shadow decided to get back into Maria's conversation with him so he began to listen. Maria laughed, "--an you had gas pretty bad that day!" Shadow's mouth dropped a little, he was so confused from two things, 1) How could the ARK giving them so much stuff come to him having gas that day. 2) She was usually so poliet, where did that come form? Shadow looked at the ground in embaressment, "I don't remember that day..." But, oh, yes he did, it was those enchiladas. Shadow looked up at her, "Where is Gerald's wife?" Maria looked at him, "She died. Stomach cancer. Before I was born." Shadow looked at the ground.

Wait a minute! He just realized something; BOMB FLIUDS! The stuff you put inside nuclear bombs. Shadow hopped off the swing and grabbed Maria's hand and sped off. Maria said from behind, "Shadow, whats wrong, where are we going?!?!"

"To the EP room!"

"Why?"

Shadow stopped and grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her, "Remeber all those times we help Gerald with is experiments?"

"Yeah."

"Well, we've been helping him kill people!"

Shadow began to walk with his hand on Maria's wrist, "Shadow, what wre you talking about?"

"THINK ABOUT IT!! All the shell casings, all the strange fluids, the time I got pnemonia, it all points to nuclear weapons of mass destruction!!!"

Maria gasped and this time, she ran and held onto Shadow's wrist, leaving him behind her. They arrived at the EP room and the door opened with Maria shouting, "GRANDFATHER!!!!" Gerald turned to see her and so did people form the far east she had never saw before, giving him money. Gerald shouted, "Maria! You should not be here! Leave right NOW!!!" Shadow tried to make himself look as tall as possible without anone knowing he was trying, "What the fuck are you doing?!" The people from the middle east said to Gerald (in a strange accent I migh add), "Is that him?"Gerald nodded. The eastern people went over to Shadow and began to look at him and talk happily in their language, one went over and touched his ear. Shadow grabbed the man's arm, and broke it, "AIIYYEEEEE!!!" Shadow didn't know he had such power, all he wanted to do was twist the man's arm, not break it, but it made him happier nontheless. He walked up to Gerald and the men bowed to both off them and left the EP room. Gerald shouted at the two, "What the hell is wrong with you?! I was making a deal!" Maria shouted through tears as she walked up to them, "But you are killing people for money?!" Gerald knew they saw everything and he could deny anymore, "GODDAMMIT, SHADOW, MARIA!!! How the hell do you think we get money to fund the ARK? Hospital giving it ot us for giving them the cure to pnemonia? I don't think so!!" Shadow looked at Maria, he hated seeing her cry, he went over and put his arm around her, he started to cry to, but he never really cried, he cried silent tears. They both looked up at Gerald, Gerald's heart was breaking seeing them cry, he turned away from them, "Look at the computer, file WVMP, Weapons.

Shadow and Maria went to the computer and started to log in on it. Gerald didn't realize untill now how much he love his granddaughter, he just hoped that she would forgive him for doing this. He loved Shadow as his grandson, although he created him, he gave him to his son. He doesn't even know why, all Gerald knew was they would stmble across a secret about Shadow and then they would never forgive him about that. Shadow wasn't supposed to live this long. Shadow looked in the file and clicked on Weapons, he saw a file that said Shadow and he clicked on it. When he saw it, his eyes widened in horror and shock and he began to cry, cry, not silent tear, cry.

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