"Rogue?" Came a small voice, wispering against the shushing darkness. Rogue
remained still in her bed, not quite sure if she'd heard anything at all.
"Rogue?" The voice wisperd again. "Are you awake hun?"
"Well if ah wasn't ah am now." Rogue replied, just louder than the wisper. She reached out and flicked on the lamp, alowing the dim glow to flud the room, and illuminate the slender figure that hoverd in the doorway. "Teren? What are ya doin around at this tihm of night? Its.....1am."
"I know." She said in a sympathetic voice as she stepped into the room, carfully clicking the door closed, her waist length, jet black hair swaying, hanging curled at the ends. She walked towards Rogue's bed, pushing her 'created' white bangs behind her ears. "I just had to talk to someone...this is driveing me crazy." She said quietly, tip-toeing across to Rogues bed where she sat down.
"Whats drivein' ya crazy?"
"Alistor." She bit down on her lip and glanced up at Rogue. "I can't stop thinking about him. He's not like anyone ive ever met. He's so.........so......."
"Cute? Adorable? Perfect?.....A compleat pain in the ass?" Rogue offerd finally.
"Oh yea." Teren said, agreeing with everything that she said. "I can't tell him that though. He'll just lagh in my face."
"No he won't." Rogue scoffed, then lowerd her voice again. "Ahm sure that he feels the same sugah....but if y'all don't mind...Ah need some sleep."
"Im sorry....I just needed some advice....I need to know what to do Rogue." She said in a pleading voice.
Rogue tilted her head to the side and sighed. "Y'know what you need? You need a pot of ice cream. Come on sugah, the kitchen awaits." Rogue said, suddenley forgetting how tired she was, she jumped off her bed and dragged Teren down into the kitchen.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Alistor was laying on his bed, dressed in a some sweat pants and vest top. His bedside lamp was on, and he was laying over his sheets, throwing a small ball into the air and catching it again. He let out a deep sigh of boardome and discarded the ball. He couldn't sleep. Not even if he wanted to. He just kept thinking about adoption papers and kids, and one thing in particular that wouldn't leve him alone. Teren. She was on his mind constantly when he wasn't oogleing at her dure in the day.
"Jesus. Why is she always on my mind." He wisperd to the room then closed his eyes. He heard a light tap in the door and opend his eyes to see Kate slide her head into the room. She was hardley even the same hught as the handle of his door as her long golden curled fell sleepily over her face.
"Whats up sweetie?" He said quietley. Kate walked into the room rubbing her tired eyes, letting out short sobbs with a green and pink striped rabbit in one hand she staggerd over to Alistors bed and crawled up onto it.
Alistor sat up as kate crawled over his bed to him. "Katie, whats wrong honney?" He asked softley, wipeing away some of the smudged tears that were across her reddening cheeks.
"I had a bad dream Onix." She sobbed out, her brown eyes twinkleing with new tears. She buryed her head in Alistors chest, wraping her small arms around his neck, sobbing some more. Alistor hugged her close, rocking slightley.
"Ssssh. Ssssh, kidda....It's okay. It's just a dream." He said, strokeing her hair.
"No! No, it's not a dream....It's waht I saw the day my daddy left me hear." Kate said, pulling away from Alistor, she hugged close to her rabbit.
"What do ya mean Katie-sprite?" Alistor asked.
"I saw it the morning when my daddy left me hear....Momma had been gone since the day before...she didn't come home from work." Kate sniffled and wiped at her eyes again. "In the dream I was in a box, and I couldn't breath. No one could hear me shouting.... It was horrable Alistor...I could feel the cold water chokeing me. I couldn't breath." She sobbed again and smacked Alistors hand away when he reached out to wipe her tears again.
"I wasn't the person in the box Ali. Don't you get it? It was my momma!" Kate said.
"Kate-"
"No! It was. I had a vision when my daddy left me. He hurt momma, allot. He hit her untill she fell down the stairs. He thought he'd killed her and he needed to get rid of her body. So he took her to the lake, he put her in a crate and dropped her off of his boat. But she was still alive Ali. She was still alive and she died chokeing on cold, dirty water alone in that lake with no-one to help her!" Kate squeeled. She took a breath. "And It's all because of me! Because of what I am. He hated me so much that he killed her for loveing me." Kate broke down again, alowing Alistor to wrap her up again.
After a whyle, kate had calmed down with the sobbing, and was now twurling her small fingers around Alistors shoulder length black hair as she breathed irregular. "Kate. Sweetheart, it's not your fault."
"I wish I could have seen it before it happend, then I could have told her.....He threw her down the stairs in the morning, before I woke up the day before he left me. I didn't say anything before now because I was scared od what daddy would do if he found out. But the dream keeps me awake at night now." Kate said. "Will you help me find her Onix?"
"Yea. Ofcorse I will honney. But you should realy get to sleep now okay?" Kate nodded against his shoulder.
"Can I stay with you?" Kate asked. Alistor sighed and smiled down at her.
"Sure katie-sprite. Sure you can."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Rogue sat in Alistors truck, with Kate in the back. The two most cheerfull people at the instituit were mopeing, distracted in some way.
"What the hell is up with you two?" She asked. Alistor turned to her, they were parked outside the school.
"What?" Alistor asked, the tiredness clear on his face, like he hadn't slept over the weekend. "Oh, nothing....weve just got some...things to do."
"You can tell her Onix....she'll come with us." Kate said, not takeing her gaze away from the window.
"What? Where are ya goin that ahm goin with ya to?" Rogue asked with a questioning look on her face.
Alistor glanced back at Kate, then looked at Rogue. He gave her a week smile and closed his eyes. "Weve got a situation...." He said with a drawl. "Kate's mom....she....well....and she....." Alistor took a deep breath.
"My momma is dead, and she's in a lake somewhere and me and Onix are going to wait for them to bring her up so as I can identifi the.....b.b.body." She began to stutter, then looked at Alistor with a tad of worry in her eyes. "I d.d.don't s.s.stuttter..." She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. 'Alistor, I can't talk right.' She sniffled, and opend her eyes looking at Alistor.
"Don't worry Kate....sweetie, your just upset...nervous even. It'll pass." He gave her a reassuring smile, but saw the fear on her face, she was trying to speak, but nothing was happening. "Kate....Kate, come on this is........ok, ok....uhm, just realx and.....oooh, who am I kidding. I don't know what to do." He looked at Rogue in a panic who shrugged.
'Onix, can we go and find my momma now please?' Kate sen't to Ali, who looked at Rogue.
"Are ya cummin' or goin' to school kidda?" He asked Rogue.
"Sure ah'll come." Rogue said, turning back to kate who was very pale at this point. Alistor started his shiney blue truck and started on his way to the lake.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It was lunch time, and it was raining, heavy and cold. The sky was grey, the lake was dark, as Alistor stood, holding Kates small hind in his, neither one of them looking anywhere but out towards the lake, the trees set behind them as the rain dropps thudded against the muddy mush of the bank. Rogue chewed on her lip as the forsnsic team of the new york poloce dep. dredged up the lake, looking for a body a person that wasn't even reported missing, though no-one had seen the woman for almost 8 months now.
Kate took in a sharp breath and squeezed Alistors hand tightly. He looked down to the young girl, seeing the grave expression on her face, then followed her gaze towards the lake. 'Thayve found her.' Kate projected. Moments later, one of the divers emurged from the rippleing water, and held up a thomb to the men on the boat. 'I can't pretend any more Onix. I can't pretend that she's still out there.' Kate's tears were blending in with the rain. But Alistor knew thay were there. So he kneeled down and wraped her up in his leather coat, and stiid up with her in his arms.
"Im sorry Kate. Sweetie Im so sorry." He said softly, laying her head down on his neck. 'Curtis you sonofabitch! I swear, If I ever see you again....You wont know what hit you.' Alistor thought as he watched the crate be pulled from the water and be cracked open. He looked away, he coulfn't stimach it.
"Y.y.your scared of the...water arn't you....onix?" Kate said, feeling Alistors fear through her empath power. She was trying her best to actually speak, but for some reason found it hard not to stutter.
Alistors eyes narrowed on the soil, and Rogues head jurked up, looking at him. "W.w..why are you afraid of th-t-the water Alistor?" Kate asked, not lifting her head from his neck. Rogue knew. She knew why Alistor was so afraid of the water. No, why he was terrafied of the water.
"You don't need to know that kate." He said firmly. Though he didn't mean to. He set kate back down and looked at Rogue, giveing her a message that she understood woth one look. He turned back to Kate and looked down at her. "Kate, you shouldn't be hear sweetie....youve seen it all enough in your visions, you don't need to see it again."
Rogue walked up and switched off her power, then held her arms out to Kate. "Come on sugah, Ill call Remy and we can go some place fun ok?" Kate looked up at Rogue and nodded her head, reaching out her her. Rogue picked up the small child and stood for a whyle as Alistor stood. She ran a thomb over his cheek and offerd a smile. "Ahll see ya back at the instituit ok?" She said quietly. Alistor noded.
"I might not be back tonight though Rogue....I might be..Thers some stuff I need to do ok? Could you tell the proff that?" Alistor asked, not makeing eye contact with Rogue. She just nodded and wen't on her way. She knew what he was going to do.
(A/N: Is there too much Alistor do you think? I don't know....Im kinda loseing faith in this fic. *cries* Im haveing a problem with likeing this fic now.....OK FINE! Im gonna move my ass and get this back on track.......but it may take some time. Im a dumbass. Sorry but its a fact.)
"Well if ah wasn't ah am now." Rogue replied, just louder than the wisper. She reached out and flicked on the lamp, alowing the dim glow to flud the room, and illuminate the slender figure that hoverd in the doorway. "Teren? What are ya doin around at this tihm of night? Its.....1am."
"I know." She said in a sympathetic voice as she stepped into the room, carfully clicking the door closed, her waist length, jet black hair swaying, hanging curled at the ends. She walked towards Rogue's bed, pushing her 'created' white bangs behind her ears. "I just had to talk to someone...this is driveing me crazy." She said quietly, tip-toeing across to Rogues bed where she sat down.
"Whats drivein' ya crazy?"
"Alistor." She bit down on her lip and glanced up at Rogue. "I can't stop thinking about him. He's not like anyone ive ever met. He's so.........so......."
"Cute? Adorable? Perfect?.....A compleat pain in the ass?" Rogue offerd finally.
"Oh yea." Teren said, agreeing with everything that she said. "I can't tell him that though. He'll just lagh in my face."
"No he won't." Rogue scoffed, then lowerd her voice again. "Ahm sure that he feels the same sugah....but if y'all don't mind...Ah need some sleep."
"Im sorry....I just needed some advice....I need to know what to do Rogue." She said in a pleading voice.
Rogue tilted her head to the side and sighed. "Y'know what you need? You need a pot of ice cream. Come on sugah, the kitchen awaits." Rogue said, suddenley forgetting how tired she was, she jumped off her bed and dragged Teren down into the kitchen.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Alistor was laying on his bed, dressed in a some sweat pants and vest top. His bedside lamp was on, and he was laying over his sheets, throwing a small ball into the air and catching it again. He let out a deep sigh of boardome and discarded the ball. He couldn't sleep. Not even if he wanted to. He just kept thinking about adoption papers and kids, and one thing in particular that wouldn't leve him alone. Teren. She was on his mind constantly when he wasn't oogleing at her dure in the day.
"Jesus. Why is she always on my mind." He wisperd to the room then closed his eyes. He heard a light tap in the door and opend his eyes to see Kate slide her head into the room. She was hardley even the same hught as the handle of his door as her long golden curled fell sleepily over her face.
"Whats up sweetie?" He said quietley. Kate walked into the room rubbing her tired eyes, letting out short sobbs with a green and pink striped rabbit in one hand she staggerd over to Alistors bed and crawled up onto it.
Alistor sat up as kate crawled over his bed to him. "Katie, whats wrong honney?" He asked softley, wipeing away some of the smudged tears that were across her reddening cheeks.
"I had a bad dream Onix." She sobbed out, her brown eyes twinkleing with new tears. She buryed her head in Alistors chest, wraping her small arms around his neck, sobbing some more. Alistor hugged her close, rocking slightley.
"Ssssh. Ssssh, kidda....It's okay. It's just a dream." He said, strokeing her hair.
"No! No, it's not a dream....It's waht I saw the day my daddy left me hear." Kate said, pulling away from Alistor, she hugged close to her rabbit.
"What do ya mean Katie-sprite?" Alistor asked.
"I saw it the morning when my daddy left me hear....Momma had been gone since the day before...she didn't come home from work." Kate sniffled and wiped at her eyes again. "In the dream I was in a box, and I couldn't breath. No one could hear me shouting.... It was horrable Alistor...I could feel the cold water chokeing me. I couldn't breath." She sobbed again and smacked Alistors hand away when he reached out to wipe her tears again.
"I wasn't the person in the box Ali. Don't you get it? It was my momma!" Kate said.
"Kate-"
"No! It was. I had a vision when my daddy left me. He hurt momma, allot. He hit her untill she fell down the stairs. He thought he'd killed her and he needed to get rid of her body. So he took her to the lake, he put her in a crate and dropped her off of his boat. But she was still alive Ali. She was still alive and she died chokeing on cold, dirty water alone in that lake with no-one to help her!" Kate squeeled. She took a breath. "And It's all because of me! Because of what I am. He hated me so much that he killed her for loveing me." Kate broke down again, alowing Alistor to wrap her up again.
After a whyle, kate had calmed down with the sobbing, and was now twurling her small fingers around Alistors shoulder length black hair as she breathed irregular. "Kate. Sweetheart, it's not your fault."
"I wish I could have seen it before it happend, then I could have told her.....He threw her down the stairs in the morning, before I woke up the day before he left me. I didn't say anything before now because I was scared od what daddy would do if he found out. But the dream keeps me awake at night now." Kate said. "Will you help me find her Onix?"
"Yea. Ofcorse I will honney. But you should realy get to sleep now okay?" Kate nodded against his shoulder.
"Can I stay with you?" Kate asked. Alistor sighed and smiled down at her.
"Sure katie-sprite. Sure you can."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Rogue sat in Alistors truck, with Kate in the back. The two most cheerfull people at the instituit were mopeing, distracted in some way.
"What the hell is up with you two?" She asked. Alistor turned to her, they were parked outside the school.
"What?" Alistor asked, the tiredness clear on his face, like he hadn't slept over the weekend. "Oh, nothing....weve just got some...things to do."
"You can tell her Onix....she'll come with us." Kate said, not takeing her gaze away from the window.
"What? Where are ya goin that ahm goin with ya to?" Rogue asked with a questioning look on her face.
Alistor glanced back at Kate, then looked at Rogue. He gave her a week smile and closed his eyes. "Weve got a situation...." He said with a drawl. "Kate's mom....she....well....and she....." Alistor took a deep breath.
"My momma is dead, and she's in a lake somewhere and me and Onix are going to wait for them to bring her up so as I can identifi the.....b.b.body." She began to stutter, then looked at Alistor with a tad of worry in her eyes. "I d.d.don't s.s.stuttter..." She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. 'Alistor, I can't talk right.' She sniffled, and opend her eyes looking at Alistor.
"Don't worry Kate....sweetie, your just upset...nervous even. It'll pass." He gave her a reassuring smile, but saw the fear on her face, she was trying to speak, but nothing was happening. "Kate....Kate, come on this is........ok, ok....uhm, just realx and.....oooh, who am I kidding. I don't know what to do." He looked at Rogue in a panic who shrugged.
'Onix, can we go and find my momma now please?' Kate sen't to Ali, who looked at Rogue.
"Are ya cummin' or goin' to school kidda?" He asked Rogue.
"Sure ah'll come." Rogue said, turning back to kate who was very pale at this point. Alistor started his shiney blue truck and started on his way to the lake.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
It was lunch time, and it was raining, heavy and cold. The sky was grey, the lake was dark, as Alistor stood, holding Kates small hind in his, neither one of them looking anywhere but out towards the lake, the trees set behind them as the rain dropps thudded against the muddy mush of the bank. Rogue chewed on her lip as the forsnsic team of the new york poloce dep. dredged up the lake, looking for a body a person that wasn't even reported missing, though no-one had seen the woman for almost 8 months now.
Kate took in a sharp breath and squeezed Alistors hand tightly. He looked down to the young girl, seeing the grave expression on her face, then followed her gaze towards the lake. 'Thayve found her.' Kate projected. Moments later, one of the divers emurged from the rippleing water, and held up a thomb to the men on the boat. 'I can't pretend any more Onix. I can't pretend that she's still out there.' Kate's tears were blending in with the rain. But Alistor knew thay were there. So he kneeled down and wraped her up in his leather coat, and stiid up with her in his arms.
"Im sorry Kate. Sweetie Im so sorry." He said softly, laying her head down on his neck. 'Curtis you sonofabitch! I swear, If I ever see you again....You wont know what hit you.' Alistor thought as he watched the crate be pulled from the water and be cracked open. He looked away, he coulfn't stimach it.
"Y.y.your scared of the...water arn't you....onix?" Kate said, feeling Alistors fear through her empath power. She was trying her best to actually speak, but for some reason found it hard not to stutter.
Alistors eyes narrowed on the soil, and Rogues head jurked up, looking at him. "W.w..why are you afraid of th-t-the water Alistor?" Kate asked, not lifting her head from his neck. Rogue knew. She knew why Alistor was so afraid of the water. No, why he was terrafied of the water.
"You don't need to know that kate." He said firmly. Though he didn't mean to. He set kate back down and looked at Rogue, giveing her a message that she understood woth one look. He turned back to Kate and looked down at her. "Kate, you shouldn't be hear sweetie....youve seen it all enough in your visions, you don't need to see it again."
Rogue walked up and switched off her power, then held her arms out to Kate. "Come on sugah, Ill call Remy and we can go some place fun ok?" Kate looked up at Rogue and nodded her head, reaching out her her. Rogue picked up the small child and stood for a whyle as Alistor stood. She ran a thomb over his cheek and offerd a smile. "Ahll see ya back at the instituit ok?" She said quietly. Alistor noded.
"I might not be back tonight though Rogue....I might be..Thers some stuff I need to do ok? Could you tell the proff that?" Alistor asked, not makeing eye contact with Rogue. She just nodded and wen't on her way. She knew what he was going to do.
(A/N: Is there too much Alistor do you think? I don't know....Im kinda loseing faith in this fic. *cries* Im haveing a problem with likeing this fic now.....OK FINE! Im gonna move my ass and get this back on track.......but it may take some time. Im a dumbass. Sorry but its a fact.)