Disclaimer: Lois Lowry wrote The Giver, and she owns Jonas, Gabe, Asher, Lily, Fiona, The Chief Elder, the second elder, The Giver, and all the other community characters and ideas, She won the John Newbery Medal, not us we are just fan fiction writers that love a book, we get no money out of this!
New Life
Summary: Jonas and Gabe make it to Elsewhere and a wonderful family found them and adopted them, the area they now live in is populated with the newchildern, old, and all other released from all Communities. Jonas and Gabe have lived in Elsewhere for a year now; a boy Jonas's ages (13) is to be released for breaking law 12-18-J/G and Jonas's family is the receive the newcomers...Asher.
Prolog:
The community performed a Ceremony of Loss for Jonas and Gabriel, however this Ceremony was different from most, after the murmur of the boy's names the Chief Elder stood and had this to say;
"Because Jonas was our Receiver of Memories, and he has been lost the memories that he had received in the past year will slowly release themselves from Jonas into the community , to stop any of the members of the community from receiving any memories out medical team has created a pill that all members of this community must take, the newchildern, the youth, the adults and the old must all take one pill everyday till next December. If you forget to take them there is a chance that you will receive painful memories. There is also a new law it is called 12-18-J/G; this law prohibits the use of the names Jonas and Gabriel, it also prohibits the speaking of these names as well. If any is to uses those names again there will be no second chance that member will be release."
This concluded the Ceremony of Loss and the community went on with their daily lives, all but Asher, Lily, and Fiona who had already received memories.
Asher had received the memory of war, and knew now why Jonas has not wanted them to play their "war-like" games, he also received the memory of colour, well one of them, and he could see red, blue and green.
Fiona had received music, everywhere she went she could hear beautiful music that of Vaughan Williams, Beethoven, Mozart, Handel, Strauss, Bach and many others. She also received the memory of hunger and starvation, she now knew what it meant to be truly hungry, and like Asher she had received colour, she could see red, blue, green, and yellow.
Lily had received colour, she could see them all; yellow, green, blue, red, purple, gold, sliver, teal, pink, and all the others. She had also received the memory of a broken arm and leg, and how painful that was.
The one memory that all three children received was the memory of love and they loved each other and those around them, however, only themselves and The Giver knew what real love was.
Chapter One: Home in Elsewhere
Jonas and Gabriel had made it to Elsewhere. They were cold, starving and had hyperthermia from the snow. A nice family, the Circle family, with a mother named Gwendolyn, a father named Cullen, two girls named Tannis and Ashleena and a released boy named Philemon. This family adopted Jonas and Gabriel. They became Jonas Matthias Circle and Gabriel Josiah Circle.
Tannis and Ashleena are twins one year older than Jonas, they are fourteen years old. Each twin is similar in certain ways and they are each different in certain ways as well.
Tannis Gemini Circle is the elder of the twins by about a minute, She has long copper hair that hangs down to her waist. She has bright blue eyes, and she stands about five feet four inches tall. She loves jazz and swing music and plays the clarinet in concert band and orchestra and soprano sax in jazz band at her school. She loves math and music and dresses in whatever is comfy.
Ashleena Kakra Circle also has copper hair but hers hangs to her shoulders and she normally wears contact lens that change her natural blue eyes to a emerald green. She stands at the same height as sister (five feet four inches). She loves country music, classic rock and roll music and oddly enough she loves opera. She sings like an angel and is in all of her schools many choirs. She also plays the oboe in concert band and the violin in orchestra. She is what people who labels as a prep, she wears all the labels and will not wear anything else.
The only major similarities were their hair and eye colour and the fact that each of their middle names meant twin in a different culture. They enjoyed talking and sharing their secrets with each other in the way only sisters can.
Gwen also has that copper hair, this amazed Jonas that because a parent had copper hair that their children would have the same colour hair. Gwen had green eyes, she was a intelligent lady that worked for the government of Elsewhere, she was on the committee that gathers the technology that prevents Elsewhere from sameness. She loved her family, the children she bore and the adoptive ones all the same. She knew about sameness, her mother, father, younger brother and her self had run from sameness a very long time ago. She was Jonas's age when they reached Elsewhere.
Cullen had blond hair, and blue eyes. He was a loving father and care deeply for the safety of all children everywhere. He was a teacher, he taught grade one, and two, for ages seven and eight. He loved his daughters but longed to have a son, when Tannis and Ashleena found Jonas and Gabe behind their home Cullen was fast to say yes they could stay with them. He was a man of great strength and bravery. He did not know first had what sameness was like, he was the son of the few that had avoided sameness. He parents Elizabeth and Matthew were two of the few that avoided sameness when it was invented. He was glad about that, but also saddened because he could not related to his new sons or even his own wife.
The Community
Asher, Lily and Fiona were with The Giver, he had helped them bear the memories they had received and helped shelter them from the Elders. He warned them not to talk about Jonas and Gabriel in public, they knew that Jonas had not been lost he had run away to help bring about change and choice to his friends and family, to the ones he loved. The Giver helped them to understand why Jonas made the choice that he did. He also wanted them to run, go to where Jonas was, but that would be to hard, the community was now guarded by law enforcement workers at all times. They patrolled the boarders of the community, they only way from them to get out was to swim, but Asher could not swim, they seemed to be stuck.
One day Asher, Lily and Fiona were walking home from the annex and the were talking in hushed voices about Jonas, some one heard them all say Jonas. This lead to a investigation into way they broke law 12-18-J/G. Each child would be released, they knew it was death, but for some reason they also knew that they would see Jonas again.
"Asher you broke law 12-18-J/G, for this there is no second chance; your training as Assistant Recreation Director is hear-by terminated and you are to be released tomorrow, you will he held in a holding cell until that time. You are no longer a member-in-training of the community. Thank you for you life time Asher" said the Chief Elder turning to face Fiona
"Fiona you also broke law 12-18-J/G , for this there is no second chance; your training as Caretaker of The Old is hear-by terminated and you will be released the day afer tomorrow. Until that time you we be held in a holding cell. You are no longer a member-in-training of the community. Thank you for your life time Fiona" said the Chief Elder as she tuned to face Lily
"Lily, you also broke law 12-18-J/G, for this there is no second chance; your child-hood and volunteer hours are hear-by terminated and you will be released with Fiona, the day after tomorrow, until that time you will be held in a holding cell. You are no longer a child of the community. Thank you for your life time Lily." finished the Chief Elder.
The Elders of the community turned and exited that building leaving Asher, Fiona, and Lily with two law enforcement workers that took the three to a holding cell. They sat together, holding each other and trying to remember all they could.
On their visits to The Giver he had given them memories. Memories they would keep when they were released. The Giver had found a way to copy memories to another and still have them for himself. They all had memories of war, extreme pain, family, extreme happiness, all the colours, music, and most of all love. They loved each other, The Giver, and their parents even if their parents could not love them back. They were about to be sent Elsewhere.
Elsewhere: The Circe Family Home
"Jonas, Tannis, Ashleena, Gabe can you all come here please, and some one grab Philemon." called Gwen
Philemon was the twin Jonas father had released before Jonas ran away. Jonas found him when he got to Elsewhere and Gwen and Cullen took him in as well.
"What is it mum?" asked Ashleena
"Tomorrow a boy Jonas's age is being released from Jonas's old community for breaking a unforgivable law, something about Jonas and Gabriel." said Gwen a bit confused looking to Jonas for help.
"When I ran, the committee of elders most likely made a law about saying and using my name and Gabriel's name. They also will probably never use our names for another newchild again. The boy's name is probably Asher, he was or is my best friend." said Jonas
"We are the family that is to receive Asher tomorrow. Also the day after tomorrow there are two girls to be released, named Fiona and Lily, we are also to receive them. Jonas do you know them as well?" asked Cullen
"Yes I do, Lily was my sister and Fiona was a close friend of mine. Lily is around the age of eight or nine. Fiona is my age and she is a gentle girl, he assignment was Caretaker of The Old." said Jonas
"So we get younger sisters now?" asked Tannis
"Yes you do, now after we receive Asher, Lily, and Fiona we are going to let Jonas talk with them, they will have many questions. After Jonas has finished talking with them we will take them to the mall to buy new cloths and get them ready for pre-school classes.
All people who were members of a community before living in Elsewhere have to take pre-school or pre-life classes. These classes bring them up-to-date on what is going on in Elsewhere and around the world where there is no sameness. It teaches them things they were not taught in school in the communities and other important life skills.