Fight for the future
Chapter 14: Alive
Disclaimer: Do I look like I own the well-known characters?
'' Thoughts
Son,
she said, have I got a little story for you
What you thought was
your daddy was nothin' but a...
While you were sittin' home
alone at age thirteen
Your real daddy was dyin', sorry you
didn't see him, but I'm glad we talked...
Oh I, oh, I'm
still alive
Hey, I, I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, oh, I'm
still alive
Hey...oh...
Oh, she walks slowly, across a
young man's room
She said I'm ready...for you
I can't
remember anything to this very day
'cept the look, the
look...
Oh, you know where, now I can't see, I just stare...
I,
I'm still alive
Hey I, but, I'm still alive
Hey I, boy, I'm
still alive
Hey I, I, I, I'm still alive, yeah
Ooh
yeah...yeah yeah yeah...oh...oh...
Is something wrong, she
said
Well of course there is
You're still alive, she said
Oh,
and do I deserve to be
Is that the question
And if so...if
so...who answers...who answers...
I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey
I, oh, I'm still alive
Hey I, but, I'm still alive
Yeah I,
ooh, I'm still alive
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Pearl Jam: Alive
Michelle walks into Adam's room and finds him gathering his stuff together; Adam straps his knife to his boot and straps his sword to his back before looking out of the window.
"Going somewhere?" Michelle asks.
"I've got a job to do, I've put it off for long enough," Adam replies turning round and looks at Michelle 'this is for you Ricky and everyone else who died by Serenity's hands'
"But…"
"No buts this time." He replies.
Michelle steps to one side to let Adam walks past her, he smiles as he walks past her and mouths the words thank you as he walks downstairs and finds the remaining Senshi gathered.
"I want to thank you for everything… but this is where I fight alone now." He tells them before turning round, Amara stands up "no, we all fight together… united we stand…" she says.
"Divided we fall." He replies, "the people in my time are divided, I have to reunite them somehow."
"Well fight to save this time, and you can go back to yours and reunite the people." Ami says.
"Okay, she'll come looking for us." Adam says as he sits on the floor and pulls out a cig and lights it.
"How much time does that buy us?" Lita asked.
"I don't know." Trista replied.
"What do you mean you don't know?" Lita replies.
"I can't see the future now." Trista calmly replies.
"The future is decided with what we do with the time we have." Adam says making everyone look at him as he takes a drag from his cig.
"Who told you that?" Hotaru asks.
"You did." He replies.
Hotaru blushes as Adam finishes his cig and stands up "I think we should all celebrate, because we could all die."
"Why now?" Ami asks.
"Before everyone was killed at my first posting, we celebrated all two hundred and ninety of us." He tells them "to honour their memory… to the people that I fought beside as they died, there was something else I never told anyone I couldn't do anything to protect a little girl… they tortured her in front of me before they killed her."
They could see the tears in his eyes as he remembers what happened and wipes them away with his arm before going back upstairs Trista goes upstairs after him and finds him looking at another photo, he hands it to Trista and see looks at it to see Adam with a rifle slung over his shoulder with a girl with brown eyes and short brown hair sat on his other shoulder both smiling.
"What was her name?" Trista asked.
"Yuki." He replied. "I found her after a skirmish originally there was two hundred of us but we lost one hundred after the skirmish, I found her in an abandoned building she was scared shitless."
"And you took care of her."
"Not just me, all of us." He replied as Trista handed the photo back.
"She meant a lot to you?"
"Yeah, reminded me why I was fighting and what it was all for." He replied as he put the photo away.
They go downstairs and a bottle of sake is handed to Adam but he refuses it.
"Can't touch the stuff, never liked it." He says.
"That's news to me." Amara replied.
"But I do drink whisky." He says.
Amara goes off and returns with a bottle of whisky in one hand and several glasses in the other, she puts the bottle down and the glasses beside it before opening the bottle and pours it into a glass and passes the glass to Adam before she hands out the other glasses and for Hotaru some coke.
"What shall we celebrate?" Ami said.
"To those that aren't with us anymore… to those who have died." Adam said holding his glass up in the air.
"To those who have died." They all say before downing their drinks, soon the night turns into an alcohol fuelled entertainment and they watch a low budget movie called attack of the t-shirt ninjas.
Next day
'Oh my fucking head.' Adam thinks to himself as he stands up and opens a curtain and shields his eyes from the light and hears the sleeping bodies groan as he walks to the bathroom for a piss.
Authors note: Attack of the t-shirt ninjas is a film me and Maxwell made in high school… R&R
