Kiss and Confess
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(Note: Farther down the text marked by { } are the chorus lines of Can't Fight the Moonlight.)
. + . + . + . + . + . + .
"Sure?"
"Positive."
"Double-checked?"
"Yes."
"Confirmed?"
"Stop. It. Why are you so paranoid? I went through the same thing."
"I had it worse."
"Fine. Whatever you say. Now shut up."
There was silence for awhile, and then Two asked again, "You sure it wasn't Omega who sent that message?"
"I CHECKED! I called the Merovingian to confirm and he almost deleted me for 'doubting' him! And now we'd better be at his office in five minutes or we're both in deep shit." One was already out the door when his cell phone buzzed again. "Now what?" he muttered, pulling out his phone. He tapped the place on the screen where a small digital envelope was flashing.
~Meeting postponed to 11: 00 p.m. Meet at Central Park. Do not call me.
The Merovingian ~
"What's the update?" Two impatiently asked. "And why do all the messages go to you?"
"Because I am the supposedly older one and therefore more reliable. He trusts me more." One smirked.
"Shut it."
"You did ask why."
"PASS ME THE PHONE!"
"Fine fine fine. Take it." One lobbed the cell phone at Two who snatched it out of mid-air. Having found out what he wanted to know, Two looked at his brother. "We have the rest of the day to ourselves. What do you want to do?"
One slumped down on the sofa. "There is nothing to do."
"Lack of stimulation. That's always the case." Two seated himself next to his twin and before long they had both dozed off.
* * * * *
"Oh bloody Hell." Two cursed. He shook his brother. "One, wake up. We're going to be late."
When One didn't reply, Two resorted to kicking him full in the *****. One, of course, immediately jolted awake. "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR?!" he yelled.
"You were too busy dreaming to realize that we've got less than four minutes before we are deleted." Two replied.
One quickly glanced at the silver rectangular digital clock on the wall. It displayed 10:57. "Good Lord. Let's go." He phased through the door, also to rid himself of the Two had inflicted upon him. "I'm driving."
"Says you."
"Exactly."
"Like Hell."
"It's 10:58."
"ALRIGHT!"
~ @ ~
The Twins stood at the north end of the park which had thick foliage growing all the way up to and over the fence running along the perimeter of the park property. The full moon shone bright in the cloudless sky and illuminated everything within range to such an extent that the Twins blended in with their surroundings without even trying.
"Where is he?"
"Not like him to be late."
"And you were so desperate to wake me up." One accusingly glared at his almost invisible twin.
"And IF he was on time and we were late?" Two shot back.
One couldn't think of anything he could say to continue the argument, so he scanned the park grounds for any signs of the Merovingian. He saw something whip past in the trees. He brushed it off as a temporary glitch in his coding, but apparently Two had seen it as well.
"One, I have a very strong feeling that the second message was sent by Omega. . ." Two's voice said, his voice actually shaking. Something else not previously heard of in virus programming.
"How? How would she have known to change the meeting time? And since the first message was sent by The Merovingian, if what you're saying is true, we should be back at the source right now for not showing up at his office this afternoon."
"She has the ability to intercept these kinds of signals, remember? And she must have done something to stop The Merovingian from meeting us earlier."
"God . . ."
As they briefly ran over the odds and possibilities of Omega having done all that Two had said she might have, Two's shadow began rising up from the floor and stopped when it reached his height.
{You can try to resist}
"OMEG-" Two gasped as it materialized, becoming someone anything but unfamiliar to the Twins.
{Try to hide from my kiss}
He was cut off as Omega grabbed the front of his coat and pulled him towards her in a passionate kiss.
{But you know, but you know}
He tried to pull away, but she wrapped her arms around him, refusing to let go.
{That you can't fight the moonlight}
One stood frozen, riveted, unsure of what to do, knowing very well what Omega could and probably would do when aggravated.
{Deep in the dark}
'Get her away from me, you imbecile!' Two yelled at One in his mind.
{You'll surrender your heart}
Omega embraced him tighter than ever, one hand playing up and down the open part of his coat. This was paradise for her. This was Heaven.
{But you know, but you know}
She had gotten lost in a place where grief, anger, hatred, war and fear were non-existent; time and space were irrelevant; the only feeling there was to feel was love.
{That you can't fight the moonlight}
One finally got over his shock and lunged for Omega,
{No, you can't fight it}
but before he reached her, she released Two, had a last look at him, then transed and vanished into the silence of the night.
{It's gonna get to your heart} . . .
Two stumbled back against a lamp post, gasping for breath. His emotions were in a maelstrom. He had always said he hated, detested both Alpha and Omega, and in truth, but now he felt something he never even thought he would think impossible for him to feel. He was at the doorway to Omega's dimension, the place where she would grant only him admission to. "How is this happening . . .?" he choked out in a hoarse whisper. Soon after, he lost consciousness.
~ @ ~
Two looked up at the ceiling. No Omega? Good.
"So you're finally up. Tell me, why is it you do faint so easily?" One asked. The television was on and One was sitting, looking over the back of the plush leather sofa at Two. Two leapt up.
"Do you know what it's like to be kissed? On the MOUTH?!"
One grimaced. "No. And I have not any intention to find out."
"So isn't that reason enough as to why I collapsed?"
"You could have killed her then. She wouldn't have noticed."
"I- I couldn't. . ." Two weakly said.
"What do you mean you couldn't?"
"I-"
"You couldn't or. . . " One gave his Twin a strange look. ". . . or you wouldn't?"
"I think he couldn't because he wouldn't."
Two whipped around. "OH SHIT! NOT YOU!"
"Why so afraid? It's just me. I'm no stranger."
"What do you want this time, Omega?" One growled, silently reaching for his razor.
"You know full well what I want." Omega said, flashing a seductive look at Two.
"Goddamn you, you slut." Two hissed, discreetly backing away.
"Why in the name of Lucifer do you like him?"
"I never said I like him."
"Then this is one hell of an act you've been putting on."
"Act? This is no act. If you want me to tell it to you straight, I love him." She said simply, matter-of-factly. As casually as she would have responded to someone asking her for the time.
There was a stunned, disbelieving silence. When the Twins' minds clicked back into working order, Omega wasn't where she had been standing before. She had sidled up to Two and was toying with his dreadlocks without him noticing it. Turning him around to face her, she draped her arms over his shoulders. "You're more vulnerable than I thought you were. I love you."
Two stumbled backwards out of her loose grasp. "Get out of here." He said. "Now." He was clearly shaken up. For quite awhile now he had suspected that she liked him, but to actually hear it from her, openly, truthfully. . . He grabbed his brother for support.
"Don't you pass out again." One said.
"Then get her out of here before I do." Two weakly replied, his voice quavering slightly.
"Don't worry. I know my way out." Omega grinned. "See ya, lover boy." She winked at Two before transing through the front door.
"LOVERBOY?!"
~ * ~ * ~
Omega floated happily down the dark, empty street, a million thoughts flooding her head. Then she came upon a disturbing one. A thought which she had already put at ease had surfaced again. What is happening to me? Not long ago her heart would be filled with hate and her mind fixed on morbidly mutilating the Twins before she killed them. Now it was entirely the opposite. Alpha still held those views. Why only herself? Morpheus had been right. She was having difficulty fulfilling her purpose. She waved the question away as she had always done.
Her mind flashed back to the events of the past few hours. She had never been that open about her feeling before. Not even with Alpha, even though they could easily pry into each other's thoughts, but ever since the second meeting she had with the Twins which had evoked this strange, alien feeling which now so often plagued her, she had always guarded her emotions and thoughts about very closely. She always had a barrier surrounding that part of her mind, and always consciously kept the barrier up. But now she was distracted. The barrier dropped. And she didn't realize it.
~ * ~ * ~
Alpha, back home, was suddenly hit by a wave of thoughts. What was that? Oh. Nothing much. Just Omega opening up her conscience a little more to her.
A picture flashed before her. Then another. And another. Scenes played themselves out before her eyes and they seemed vivid enough to reach out and touch. Then one scene in particular caught her attention. The Twins. She leaned forwards to have a closer look and felt herself being sucked into this movie. Then a flash of obliviation. Then she was standing there with the Twins. And Omega. She was like a ghost. A mere conscience, an existence without a physical being, unseen by the other three characters. She could see Two from the back view being grabbed by Omega, but no, she wasn't trying to kill him. She had him in her control with her mouth to his. Oh, he wasn't willing, but she was. Alpha spat in fury. The traitor!
~ * ~ * ~
What? How did Alpha get in? She had just been thinking about the meeting at the park when Alpha appeared in her thoughts out of nowhere. She could almost see Alpha standing right there in front of her, a silhouette in the swirling mist. She seemed to be coming closer. She could almost see her accusing eyes. She could almost hear Alpha saying something. She could read Alpha's lips. "How dare you! You've been ordered to keep away from them! Ridding Neo of them has now become my responsibility! How could you turn right around and do this?" Her voice was getting louder and louder.
Hallucinations. Omega tried to think of other things that were not associated with Alpha or the Twins. Alpha still stood there yelling at her.
"You're not my conscience, Alpha." Omega muttered to herself. Then she suddenly felt a sharp, searing pain across her face. Then again in the opposite direction. "What the-"
"Omega, snap out of it!" she heard Alpha bellow. "Stop ignoring me. You say something right now, you hear me?" Not a hallucination. She was in big trouble, and she knew it.
"Don't try and cover up! I know what happened! You should be deleted! You're a liability! You will be the breach they need to overcome Neo!"
"No I won't. I know what I'm doing." Omega answered with a voice to match her blank, distant expression.
Enraged by her sister's stupid, unthinking response, Alpha struck Omega across the face once again. "You have forgotten what you were meant for!" she screamed. "You keep away from the Twins! You have failed in you purpose. But not I. I shall succeed. But in order for me to do that, you need to stay out of this, sister!"
"No! YOU stay out of this!" Omega screamed back. "This is my choice! My life! You aren't about to run my life for me!"
"But that choice affects everything else! You stop all this trash right here, right now. Promise me that. You keep away from them. They are now my business."
"Fine. But you promise me something else. Promise not to lay a finger on Two. Promise me that you will not even touch him."
Alpha hissed at this; but vowed all the same that no, she would not touch him.
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Hell. That was short. But I guess it was needed.
I don't really want to interrupt, but I have to tell you, this story didn't form from any old idea. I wrote it because as you know, stories give you the chance to do what you can't in real life. So, who is Omega supposed to be? Me. Hee. But I'm not a flirt. You'll see that Omega isn't either in the later chapters.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(Note: Farther down the text marked by { } are the chorus lines of Can't Fight the Moonlight.)
. + . + . + . + . + . + .
"Sure?"
"Positive."
"Double-checked?"
"Yes."
"Confirmed?"
"Stop. It. Why are you so paranoid? I went through the same thing."
"I had it worse."
"Fine. Whatever you say. Now shut up."
There was silence for awhile, and then Two asked again, "You sure it wasn't Omega who sent that message?"
"I CHECKED! I called the Merovingian to confirm and he almost deleted me for 'doubting' him! And now we'd better be at his office in five minutes or we're both in deep shit." One was already out the door when his cell phone buzzed again. "Now what?" he muttered, pulling out his phone. He tapped the place on the screen where a small digital envelope was flashing.
~Meeting postponed to 11: 00 p.m. Meet at Central Park. Do not call me.
The Merovingian ~
"What's the update?" Two impatiently asked. "And why do all the messages go to you?"
"Because I am the supposedly older one and therefore more reliable. He trusts me more." One smirked.
"Shut it."
"You did ask why."
"PASS ME THE PHONE!"
"Fine fine fine. Take it." One lobbed the cell phone at Two who snatched it out of mid-air. Having found out what he wanted to know, Two looked at his brother. "We have the rest of the day to ourselves. What do you want to do?"
One slumped down on the sofa. "There is nothing to do."
"Lack of stimulation. That's always the case." Two seated himself next to his twin and before long they had both dozed off.
* * * * *
"Oh bloody Hell." Two cursed. He shook his brother. "One, wake up. We're going to be late."
When One didn't reply, Two resorted to kicking him full in the *****. One, of course, immediately jolted awake. "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR?!" he yelled.
"You were too busy dreaming to realize that we've got less than four minutes before we are deleted." Two replied.
One quickly glanced at the silver rectangular digital clock on the wall. It displayed 10:57. "Good Lord. Let's go." He phased through the door, also to rid himself of the Two had inflicted upon him. "I'm driving."
"Says you."
"Exactly."
"Like Hell."
"It's 10:58."
"ALRIGHT!"
~ @ ~
The Twins stood at the north end of the park which had thick foliage growing all the way up to and over the fence running along the perimeter of the park property. The full moon shone bright in the cloudless sky and illuminated everything within range to such an extent that the Twins blended in with their surroundings without even trying.
"Where is he?"
"Not like him to be late."
"And you were so desperate to wake me up." One accusingly glared at his almost invisible twin.
"And IF he was on time and we were late?" Two shot back.
One couldn't think of anything he could say to continue the argument, so he scanned the park grounds for any signs of the Merovingian. He saw something whip past in the trees. He brushed it off as a temporary glitch in his coding, but apparently Two had seen it as well.
"One, I have a very strong feeling that the second message was sent by Omega. . ." Two's voice said, his voice actually shaking. Something else not previously heard of in virus programming.
"How? How would she have known to change the meeting time? And since the first message was sent by The Merovingian, if what you're saying is true, we should be back at the source right now for not showing up at his office this afternoon."
"She has the ability to intercept these kinds of signals, remember? And she must have done something to stop The Merovingian from meeting us earlier."
"God . . ."
As they briefly ran over the odds and possibilities of Omega having done all that Two had said she might have, Two's shadow began rising up from the floor and stopped when it reached his height.
{You can try to resist}
"OMEG-" Two gasped as it materialized, becoming someone anything but unfamiliar to the Twins.
{Try to hide from my kiss}
He was cut off as Omega grabbed the front of his coat and pulled him towards her in a passionate kiss.
{But you know, but you know}
He tried to pull away, but she wrapped her arms around him, refusing to let go.
{That you can't fight the moonlight}
One stood frozen, riveted, unsure of what to do, knowing very well what Omega could and probably would do when aggravated.
{Deep in the dark}
'Get her away from me, you imbecile!' Two yelled at One in his mind.
{You'll surrender your heart}
Omega embraced him tighter than ever, one hand playing up and down the open part of his coat. This was paradise for her. This was Heaven.
{But you know, but you know}
She had gotten lost in a place where grief, anger, hatred, war and fear were non-existent; time and space were irrelevant; the only feeling there was to feel was love.
{That you can't fight the moonlight}
One finally got over his shock and lunged for Omega,
{No, you can't fight it}
but before he reached her, she released Two, had a last look at him, then transed and vanished into the silence of the night.
{It's gonna get to your heart} . . .
Two stumbled back against a lamp post, gasping for breath. His emotions were in a maelstrom. He had always said he hated, detested both Alpha and Omega, and in truth, but now he felt something he never even thought he would think impossible for him to feel. He was at the doorway to Omega's dimension, the place where she would grant only him admission to. "How is this happening . . .?" he choked out in a hoarse whisper. Soon after, he lost consciousness.
~ @ ~
Two looked up at the ceiling. No Omega? Good.
"So you're finally up. Tell me, why is it you do faint so easily?" One asked. The television was on and One was sitting, looking over the back of the plush leather sofa at Two. Two leapt up.
"Do you know what it's like to be kissed? On the MOUTH?!"
One grimaced. "No. And I have not any intention to find out."
"So isn't that reason enough as to why I collapsed?"
"You could have killed her then. She wouldn't have noticed."
"I- I couldn't. . ." Two weakly said.
"What do you mean you couldn't?"
"I-"
"You couldn't or. . . " One gave his Twin a strange look. ". . . or you wouldn't?"
"I think he couldn't because he wouldn't."
Two whipped around. "OH SHIT! NOT YOU!"
"Why so afraid? It's just me. I'm no stranger."
"What do you want this time, Omega?" One growled, silently reaching for his razor.
"You know full well what I want." Omega said, flashing a seductive look at Two.
"Goddamn you, you slut." Two hissed, discreetly backing away.
"Why in the name of Lucifer do you like him?"
"I never said I like him."
"Then this is one hell of an act you've been putting on."
"Act? This is no act. If you want me to tell it to you straight, I love him." She said simply, matter-of-factly. As casually as she would have responded to someone asking her for the time.
There was a stunned, disbelieving silence. When the Twins' minds clicked back into working order, Omega wasn't where she had been standing before. She had sidled up to Two and was toying with his dreadlocks without him noticing it. Turning him around to face her, she draped her arms over his shoulders. "You're more vulnerable than I thought you were. I love you."
Two stumbled backwards out of her loose grasp. "Get out of here." He said. "Now." He was clearly shaken up. For quite awhile now he had suspected that she liked him, but to actually hear it from her, openly, truthfully. . . He grabbed his brother for support.
"Don't you pass out again." One said.
"Then get her out of here before I do." Two weakly replied, his voice quavering slightly.
"Don't worry. I know my way out." Omega grinned. "See ya, lover boy." She winked at Two before transing through the front door.
"LOVERBOY?!"
~ * ~ * ~
Omega floated happily down the dark, empty street, a million thoughts flooding her head. Then she came upon a disturbing one. A thought which she had already put at ease had surfaced again. What is happening to me? Not long ago her heart would be filled with hate and her mind fixed on morbidly mutilating the Twins before she killed them. Now it was entirely the opposite. Alpha still held those views. Why only herself? Morpheus had been right. She was having difficulty fulfilling her purpose. She waved the question away as she had always done.
Her mind flashed back to the events of the past few hours. She had never been that open about her feeling before. Not even with Alpha, even though they could easily pry into each other's thoughts, but ever since the second meeting she had with the Twins which had evoked this strange, alien feeling which now so often plagued her, she had always guarded her emotions and thoughts about very closely. She always had a barrier surrounding that part of her mind, and always consciously kept the barrier up. But now she was distracted. The barrier dropped. And she didn't realize it.
~ * ~ * ~
Alpha, back home, was suddenly hit by a wave of thoughts. What was that? Oh. Nothing much. Just Omega opening up her conscience a little more to her.
A picture flashed before her. Then another. And another. Scenes played themselves out before her eyes and they seemed vivid enough to reach out and touch. Then one scene in particular caught her attention. The Twins. She leaned forwards to have a closer look and felt herself being sucked into this movie. Then a flash of obliviation. Then she was standing there with the Twins. And Omega. She was like a ghost. A mere conscience, an existence without a physical being, unseen by the other three characters. She could see Two from the back view being grabbed by Omega, but no, she wasn't trying to kill him. She had him in her control with her mouth to his. Oh, he wasn't willing, but she was. Alpha spat in fury. The traitor!
~ * ~ * ~
What? How did Alpha get in? She had just been thinking about the meeting at the park when Alpha appeared in her thoughts out of nowhere. She could almost see Alpha standing right there in front of her, a silhouette in the swirling mist. She seemed to be coming closer. She could almost see her accusing eyes. She could almost hear Alpha saying something. She could read Alpha's lips. "How dare you! You've been ordered to keep away from them! Ridding Neo of them has now become my responsibility! How could you turn right around and do this?" Her voice was getting louder and louder.
Hallucinations. Omega tried to think of other things that were not associated with Alpha or the Twins. Alpha still stood there yelling at her.
"You're not my conscience, Alpha." Omega muttered to herself. Then she suddenly felt a sharp, searing pain across her face. Then again in the opposite direction. "What the-"
"Omega, snap out of it!" she heard Alpha bellow. "Stop ignoring me. You say something right now, you hear me?" Not a hallucination. She was in big trouble, and she knew it.
"Don't try and cover up! I know what happened! You should be deleted! You're a liability! You will be the breach they need to overcome Neo!"
"No I won't. I know what I'm doing." Omega answered with a voice to match her blank, distant expression.
Enraged by her sister's stupid, unthinking response, Alpha struck Omega across the face once again. "You have forgotten what you were meant for!" she screamed. "You keep away from the Twins! You have failed in you purpose. But not I. I shall succeed. But in order for me to do that, you need to stay out of this, sister!"
"No! YOU stay out of this!" Omega screamed back. "This is my choice! My life! You aren't about to run my life for me!"
"But that choice affects everything else! You stop all this trash right here, right now. Promise me that. You keep away from them. They are now my business."
"Fine. But you promise me something else. Promise not to lay a finger on Two. Promise me that you will not even touch him."
Alpha hissed at this; but vowed all the same that no, she would not touch him.
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Hell. That was short. But I guess it was needed.
I don't really want to interrupt, but I have to tell you, this story didn't form from any old idea. I wrote it because as you know, stories give you the chance to do what you can't in real life. So, who is Omega supposed to be? Me. Hee. But I'm not a flirt. You'll see that Omega isn't either in the later chapters.