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Adrianna sat in the wagon as they traveled to Colorado Springs. She was happy, something that rarely happened to her. She had gotten some great news from her best friend, Aldamora Santis-Raúl: she was pregnant.
Ever since they had become friends last fall, Adrianna finally found a friend that she could confide in. They both felt unbearable pain. Overcome they had, by anger and sadness over traumatic moments in their life. It had been hard for Aldamora to find real love in her life. Raped and beat by her two brothers and father, was what happened when she lived with them. No one helped her, not even her mother. Her mother only cared about prestige and a daughter was only there to barter to a kingdom for some political power. Her family told her that this was her fault and that she had to give them something in order to live there. Therefore, they took her will and her innocence.
She believed them as anyone would in her situation. It was not until she turned 16, that she found herself kicked out of their country. She was part of the royal house of Santis, the most evil and brutal of all freedom fighter royal houses.
They did not give her a thing in her life and forced her instead to live on her own until she landed in the freedom fighter tribe that she resided in now. It took years for her to be accepted and even longer to find love. She did not want to have anything to do with a man, fearing that they were all like the males in her family. She finally found it with Fredrico.
Adrianna also told the sad story of her life. She told her about her family and the thoughts that she felt in her life. She also told her about the one day that her Uncle, the late Carlucci king, told her to express her anger in combat and become an assassin. She also explained about her true love: Jasón Montoya. That included the bottled up feelings that she felt about him. She talked about the fact that she was still in love with him and how she felt that she would always wait for him to come to her and say that the last decade or so was a dream.
She was glad that Aldamora was married and now was with child. She now knew that she was going to be the best "aunt" and godmother that one could ask for. Moreover, as Michaela, the kids and she got off the wagon so that Robert E. could fix the wagon she smiled. She also did not pay attention to exactly what Brian and Michaela were discussing until she found them both looking at her as if she was supposed to answer a question.
"What?" She asked in her thick Spanish accent.
"The freedom fighters…are they immigrants?" Brian asked her and she looked at him blankly, processing what he had just said.
"Immigrants? What the? Oh! Oh! No Brian! They came to this place very recently; they mostly do not live in this area of the world. Of course, that is not really the way to explain it at all! It would get confusing and I do not know the specifics. You should talk to specialized t.t. agents or the physics expert that is my sister."
Brian looked a little confused at her answer, "What are t.t. agents?"
"t.t. stands for time travel. They go into time to protect the unprotected. It is a very risky job, especially with the whole idea of fate and things happening for a reason. I am not the person to do it, but it is the dream job of almost every little freedom fighter when they are a kid. It is very prestigious."
"What does pretigous mean?" He asked in almost wonder.
"It means that they are very important people. They are placed almost above the kings and queens," answered Adrianna with a smile.
"They go into time? How can they do that?" asked Colleen.
"With time travel vehicles of course!" Adrianna answered, moving ahead and not wanting to continue the subject.
As they went into the mercantile, Adrianna heard horses. It was not hard to tell and she found that she was correct with further inquiry.
The supposed leader was not a man, but a woman. She was tall with brunette hair in a bun, a cowboy hat and an opened up vest. She looked the part of a cowgirl. As she went into the mercantile, she gave the look of a woman who was serious about life.
The kid hugged her; she could tell that they loved her. She looked at Adrianna as if she knew her.
"I didn't know about your mother's death until I was halfway across old Mexico," she said looking at Adrianna. She could tell that she thought she was Mexican.
Instead of saying something diplomatic about Majorca, she just stared at her with a look of anger.
"So what part of Mexico are you from?" She asked looking at Adrianna.
Adrianna did not answer her.
"Oh, I see. ¿De qué parte de México son usted?" She asked Adrianna.
Adrianna did not answer her.
"What's wrong Amiga?" Brian asked her, confused about why she was not answering.
She took an exasperated breath like this was a small annoyance.
"¡Perdón, yo no hablo a mexicano!" Adrianna said very sarcastically.
"Oh, I see. I am sorry, I do not speak Mexican. Just because I have an accent, tanned skin and raven, hair does not mean that I am Mexican! I am from Majorca! An island off of Spain." Adrianna said very angrily.
The woman looked taken aback, but soon calmed herself.
"Are Mexican's too good for you Miss…"
"Martiz, Doctora Martiz!" She replied very angrily. "And I do not think that at all. I have never met a Mexican, but am getting irked that people keep calling me that! What if I called you a.…a…." However, before Adrianna could answer, she found that a hand had gone over her mouth.
She looked around and saw Aldamora, with long hair and beautiful black dress slowly shaking her head. She was holding a white basket and Fredrico was behind her, trying not to laugh.
"Hello Señora Davis. My friend here is gets a little irked when she gets called a Mexican." Aldamora said, holding Adrianna by the shoulders painfully.
The woman nodded and went looked at Michaela, who looked a little upset.
"Olive Davis," she then put out her hand to shake it. Michaela shook her head, frowning a little.
"She's a real doctor all the way from Boston!" Colleen said and they hugged.
Olive Davis looked at Michaela and then Adrianna, getting the feeling that they knew each other.
"Everyone calls her Dr. Mike 'cept me! I get to call her Ma!' Brian said excitedly.
Adrianna could tell that this was not pleasing to the ear of this Olive Davis, because she gave a look like she was betrayed, like how Charlotte would dare do this to me. She looked very surprised.
"Charlotte gave them to her, on her death bed," Loren said solemnly.
"That's right," she said not really believing it, but trying to sound conversational.
Adrianna still looked angered as Michaela and Olive both looked at each other as if they were silently declaring war with each other. A woman of darker skin came and talked of a sick man. Michaela was going to treat him, but of course, Olive stopped her asking Jake for help. Adrianna did not need to deal with the hypocrisy of the white man and instead walked with Aldamora and Fredrico.
She did give one last look at Olive and she looked back. The stare that she gave Olive would have killed a lesser person. Olive looked back at her and swore for a second that she had some strange markings on her face, similar to some that some cult of mysterious females that killed and mutilated bodies had. It did not really look like it was there and she did not know enough about the women, except that they had strange tattoos all over their bodies and strange enough: gills.
Adrianna looked at Aldamora, still angry.
"I do not like that mujer."
Aldamora smiled and made sure that no one was listening.
"Olive Davis is a very outright woman. She is also mostly nice to everyone else. She doesn't like Michaela because she is not from around here and because she has what she believes are hers: the children."
Adrianna scoffed. "I usually do not hate people. That woman is just evil!" Adrianna stated and walked to Fredrico's wagon.
When they were out of the town limits, Adrianna felt someone smack the back of her head, because she was sitting opposite Aldamora and Fredrico. She massaged her head and turned around.
"What was that about?" She asked, a little angry.
"I want to know what you thought you were doing. If you start to stir up trouble, the whites will get angry and will attack us!" Aldamora said very seriously.
"I know that. I hate being called a Mexican is just something that I am not one and do not ever plan going to there!" Adrianna replied, almost yelling.
"Hey! Mexico is not that bad! I went there once. If not the beautiful countryside and culture, it is the beautiful woman that gets me excited, if you know what I mean!"
The response got a slap in the back of the head for him and he decided to shut up about the whole thing. When they did get there, Adrianna saw four or five time traveler vehicles lined outside of the village walls. They got off their wagons and walked inside, not sure what was going to happen.
What they saw was a big platform with a strange looking woman on it, chained to metal bars by her hands, feet and waist. About twenty time travel agents were guarding her. They were hitting her with either metal rods or talking to the Queen, who looked very stern and serious.
Adrianna looked at the whole situation and felt bad for the stranger. She had raven hair that looked to be in small tight curls and went to her shoulders. Her outfit was different, consisting of a dress that went down to her knees. Not only that, but it looked like she had sewn together patches of different clothes together into one dress. There was no one way to describe it, except that it looked ridiculous, even for a freedom fighter.
She was also wearing what looking like a multi-colored scarf tied around her head, instead of her neck. She looked very sad and depressed and Adrianna wanted to help her.
"I wonder what she did." Fredrico asked a voice a little higher than usual.
"I do not know, but one think I have to say is that she came from a strange time period!" Aldamora said, laughing at her."
The Queen had finished talking to the freedom fighters and they soon left. Throwing the keys to the Queen and leaving without saying a word. One of them recognized Adrianna and walked right to her. She was not sure what he was about to do when he grabbed her and kissed her hard. Adrianna was so shocked that she did nothing for about a second. He kept forcing his tongue in and she answered with a kiss of her own. She kept thinking of Jasón and how she would feel, kissing him while in his arms. Before she knew it, someone pulled her away from the agent who blew her a kiss and she soon recognized him. He was an egotistical jerk who would keep advancing on her, even when she said no. Soon he left the place that they both were resting before missions and she never saw him again. He was the reason that she hated male time travel agents. It was also the reason that she stayed with being an assassin and not an agent. She liked being alone, she liked the fact that there was not a man trying to undress her with his perverted eyes.
Aldamora and Fredrico looked at her as if she was strange.
"What was that all about?" Aldamora asked half-amused half surprised.
"I was caught off guard and started to think about Jasón," Adrianna replied without thinking.
The Queen went onto the platform were the abused prisoner was sitting, her arm pulled away from her, due to the chain. The Queen then put up her arms and everyone was silent.
"Quiet my people!" She said it with equal force and dignity. Everyone became silent, looking up to her with respect.
"The agents have asked us to do a duty to them." As she said it, people started to groan, some every voicing their opinions with choice words. Adrianna could tell that they did not like the agents. They soon stopped when they saw the look on her face.
"This Señora here has come from a time period one hundred years in the future. Her crime? She kept going to the past to try to change events that fate perceived are not to be messed around with." When she stopped, there was a variety of reactions. Some were angered and looked at her with mistrust. Others were glad and had started to cheer her until the Queen slowly put up her hand.
"We are to take her in and she will die in this time period. She will not have the comforts that she is used to and not to go close to any time travel device. The agents have warned her to tell not of events in the future. If she does, then she will face death. If any of you ask, then you will face death. At that last statement, the most warring of the crowd started to cheer. The Queen gave her a forceful look and she looked even more scared than she had before.
"For your reference, she is from the year 1979. I will now cut the chains and set her free." She did that and as she started to massage the burns she had gotten, she looked ahead. Everyone started to go to their business, obviously wanting not to face death by asking the questions that plagued their hearts.
Adrianna had went to María and Jóse's later that day after making Aldamora promise that she would not overexert herself. Adrianna had seen a couple births in her life and remembered the pregnancy that produced Isabella. She did not want any problems since this child was going to be very close the Adrianna's heart.
She walked in to hear some strange words from a strange voice. It sounded more of an American accent.
"That's groovy. I will be fine here!"
Adrianna walked into their spare room to see the girl from 1979. She was wearing the same outfit and was evidently limping. She looked at Adrianna, trying to recognize her. María soon came in, smiled at Adrianna, and pointed toward the girl.
"Now Anna, I have to introduce you to someone from the future. She cannot tell that much about her family and her past, but this is Jocoasta Benitz. She is going to live here."
Jocoasta put out her hand and Adrianna shook it.
"What can you talk of?" Adrianna asked, a little curious about this girl from the future.
"I can talk of inventions, but that is about all I can talk about. I cannot tell you who my family was and events in the world in the future. If you were to know about wars or who was the United States president was, I could alter events. That is why I am here," she said very conversationally.
"Can I ask what you did?" Adrianna asked cautiously.
"I went to1492 and tried to stop the bastard from finding the West Indies. I wanted to stop him from hurting the natives," she soon stopped and pointed around the house.
"I want to stop this! I was caught before I could do a thing and was jailed by that time traveler agent that kissed you," she said it angrily.
Jóse then came in, only wearing a towel. He had evidently just taken a bath. Because of that, he was still wet; he was holding another towel that he was wiping his chest with the towel. María rolled her ryes, obviously disgusted with her brother. Jocoasta and Adrianna did not say a thing, looking at his chest. He of course realized that and smiled at both of them. He looked more at Adrianna than Jocoasta and walked to her.
"What do you want my Adrianna?" He asked seductively.
Adrianna looked nervous and started to walk back a little, trying to get away from him.
"I-I just wanted to see how you guys were doing," she said very nervously, trying not to stare at his muscular chest.
He walked to her, stopping when she was against the wall. He was against her, grabbing a strand of her hair and moving his fingers to the bottom of the strand. He then kissed her on the cheek and she blushed.
María then grabbed him and threw him on the couch.
"You are a pervert! Stop hitting on Anna every time that she comes here," she yelled to her brother.
Adrianna laughed and decided that this was the time to leave.
She left and went home, feeling stupid at the way she acted toward Joey. She had felt this attraction toward him and he did too. They both wanted each other but Joey was more forward than Adrianna was. She got along well with him, but she still had a part of her heart for Jas and she felt like she was betraying him if she were to fall in love with another man. She did not ever want to do that, so she did not open her heart for him.
Adri woke up early the next morning and went to the Catholic Church that she usually resided in at Sundays. She liked it there and they accepted her, mostly because she was from a very Catholic city that is mostly full of nuns. She brought her traditions to the church and she found that this was the only place where she knew that she would like everyone there.
She ventured home and walked into the house to an interesting sight. Instead of a nice, quiet and clean house, there was cooking supplies all over the place. Splurged flour was all over the place and that was nothing to what Michaela looked like. Adrianna felt that she had come into a snowstorm.
She tried to cover her mouth, so that Michaela would not see her laugh but she failed. Michaela looked defeated and threw the makeshift dough into the big bowl she had the ingredients in and sat down.
Adrianna walked over to her and gave her a small smile. She looked at the ingredients and started to try to clean up the "cake". Adrianna was still not sure what she was making and it did not look like a cake at all.
"You know, we all have things that we are not good at. Just because you can not bake, does not make you less of a woman or abnormal," Adrianna said, trying to cheer her up.
Michaela did not look at her and it came to Adrianna suddenly, why she was even doing it at all.
"It's that Davis mujer, qué?" Michaela looked up at her and nodded her head. Adrianna hugged her and continued. "You cannot do this. Just because the kids seem to like her, does not mean that they are going to move in with her. They are with us now and she is just going to have to realize that!"
Just as Adrianna finished, they heard a wagon come to a halt. It was of course the kids and Olive. Adrianna feigned a smile at her and watched the kids come in. She had cooked a great meal supposedly and made leftovers. Adrianna wanted to do something, but knew that it was not wise to raise suspicion that freedom fighters fought back.
"Well anytime I…I guess I have to get going, I have look after my sick cowhands anyway," Olive said.
She said goodbye to the kids and only gave Adrianna one look at her cheek. She had her engraving on the same cheek that she was looking at. She then left, and Adrianna became of lot more suspicious than she had before.
They went to the table and Adrianna saw for the first time that Brian was holding an irregular shaped object covered with dark paper.
"What to see our presents?" Brian asked who looked very excited at the prospect of showing the presents to everyone there.
"I sure would!" Adrianna turned around and saw Jocoasta and Jóse. He was wearing clothes this time. He was wearing nice dark velvet pants and a crisp white cotton shirt with black suspenders over them. Jocoasta was wearing a red blouse that was strange looking. It was loose cut and too big for her. What was even stranger was that there were oversized sleeves on the shirt. Oversized they were, than the rest of the shirt. She was also wearing a red knee high skirt that seemed to swing around when she walked. Add the strange black shoes with three white stripes on each foot and you had someone from a different period of time.
Joey walked to Adrianna and kissed her briefly on the neck. She blushed so much that she looked like a radish. Brian and Colleen laughed.
"That sounds bad!" Jocoasta said and everyone looked at her as if she was crazy.
"I'm sorry; it's slang from my time period."
"You're from a different time period?" Asked Michaela who did not seem to believe her at all.
"Yes, 1979."
"1979!" The kids and Michaela practically screamed.
Adrianna got out of the reverie and put up her hands.
"Whoa! Whoa! Now before you start asking questions about events that you do not know, you understand the rules of time travel. Do not ask questions and do not answer those. Jocoasta Benitz ignored that rule and now must live away from her family that she is probably very close to. She tried to stop Columbus from going to the new world. She wanted to save the lives of the future slain victims. Think about how dangerous his journey was! That was because of her. If she had succeeded, then she would have changed the course of human history. That also meant that future generations would not have been born! The whole human race would have been felt the effects for the rest of eternity, without even knowing it! Now I am just like you and I want to know what happens. Will there be wars? The only allowed thing that she can talk about is inventions. If she knows how to make them, she can. She cannot talk of the effect this will have on the future. Does everyone understand?"
Everyone was silent after Adrianna's speech and did not say a thing. Jocoasta was the first the say something.
"Presents? I love them! They are so bad!" After she said this, everyone looked at her as if she was crazy.
"Their not bad!" Brian said. Jocoasta smiled at him realizing that he did not understand.
"It's slang from my time. It means that it's good."
After she finished, everyone laughed at her statement. Adrianna went to her and put her arms on her shoulders.
"I'm sorry, but you need to understand that we do not understand your slang! You must not say it if you can." Jocoasta nodded and looked at Brian waiting for him to open his present.
He did and he got a nice statue of a wolf. Adrianna walked over to it and her eyes widened.
"Es muy bella, Brian." Adrianna said in Spanish. Brian looked at her, not understanding.
"It means that it's very beautiful Brian," Adrianna said and smiled at him.
Colleen took out her present, which was a beautiful metal. Joey came over and looked at it.
"That's very nice. I think it matches the owner: beautiful and rare." Colleen blushed at that statement and Adrianna tried to look away, avoiding his gaze.
Matthew hesitated and he did it for a reason. His gift came in a beautiful case and came to be a gun.
Michaela did not look very happy to see his gift at all.
"Miss Olive says I'm old enough." Adrianna who was now behind Michaela shook her head, agreeing.
"Yes! That is true. I actually have a similar model myself. Got it a few years ago. It has proven useful. Killed a lot of scorpions with it."
Jocoasta smirked. "I have done that myself. You really need to shoot them in the head then ask questions. The royal house of Scorpion Canada should be destroyed for what they did in the 17th century to Princess Nicolette."
"I think that you both should go. I have no reason why you're here, but we need to discuss this alone," Adrianna said sternly, pushing them out of the house. She could distinctly hear, "Nice way to treat your friends!" Joey seemed to say it.
"What are scorpions?" Asked Brian, wondering what they were talking about before.
"They are the enemies of our people. They have yellow blood and a strange snake come out of the left hand of the males. They are evil and should be approached with caution," Adrianna sounded very serious and Brian looked scared.
"To kill another human being?" Michaela soon said to Matthew. Right at that moment, Adrianna felt like she was the lowest piece of scum in the world. She had done that, she had done it for four years. Of course, she never really considered U.S. Soldiers to be humans. They were too evil to be human.
"To protect my family," he said sternly.
Adrianna had crossed her arms, thinking of both sides of the situation.
"Miss Olive says he's the man of the house now," Brian said.
"I do not like this Davis character and do not trust her at all. Even with that, she brings up a valid point. Matthew must protect the family that is his job. I agree with you keeping the gun Matthew, but you must promise me that you will use is sparingly. You must use your other senses before you shoot. You must learn when to shoot and when not to. Freedom fighters hate guns, they think they are too easy. I can ask Aldamora to teach you, her family is experts in the art of gun fighting."
Matthew did not look like he expected that answer and he shook his head at her, giving her a small smile.
"You're still a young man." Michaela said to him, looking at Adrianna as if she wanted her to feel guilty.
"But a man." Matthew said it and Aldamora came in without Fredrico.
"I'm sorry, have I come at the wrong time?" She asked Adrianna and Michaela came up to her, hoping to stop her teaching Matthew.
"Whatever he says, don't do it." She them left, angry.
"O.K.! Can I ask what that is – Oh my! I have not seen one of these in years! They are best in close range, but I can say that it can shoot to about 50 feet," she looked at Adrianna confused. "I thought you gave it up. Why do you have this gun? Especially in front of the white children?"
Stepping back, and taken aback she frowned at the misunderstanding of her best friend.
"No, no, no, no! This is not mine! It belongs to Matthew!"
Aldamora looked at him and he gave her a nervous smile. She tapped the gun and looked him in the eye.
"A good gun for the beginner. Can I?" She picked up the gun and started to examine it. She also started to twirl it with her left hand and pretending to shoot. Brian looked very impressed.
"Can you teach me?" Matthew nervously asked looking at her.
Her hair went back to a Mohawk and she put it back into the case. She found a chair and sat down, obviously pondering the situation.
"Yes, but I want you to be careful. You must only use it at practices and in extreme danger. Too many young and foolish white men have shot off the gun thinking they were in danger. I am going to teach you the tricks of the Santis royal house. You must keep it a secret, do not tell a soul, except Adri, if you must." She smiled and looked up at Adrianna.
"So! I want to know what Joey thinks he is doing." She asked it, going off in the direction of the barn.
"He wants my body, I think," Adrianna said it very uncertainly.
"You do not know Joey like I do. He is not like that. He likes you no only, because you are a beautiful woman, but because he wants you better. He wants to make you happy."
They found their selves in the barn and were sitting on Adrianna's bed with Aldamora took her friends hand.
"You must move on. Jasón might or might not get out of jail. Think about what he will be like if he does. He will not be the same. I have been to the jail. They beat and rape these people, even if they are men! He will have physical and mental scars on his body that you cannot stop. You know what that is like! Jasón is dead. You must move on!"
Adrianna had tears in her eyes and she angrily wiped them away. Aldamora left, wanting to help her friend.
The truth was that Adrianna did not want to do that. She loved Jasón and never thought she would ever betray him. She certainly was not going to start now. She went to sleep early that day, wanting to forget it all.
Adrianna did not follow Michaela to town that day, wanting to try instead to get back to psychology; it was her real passion and something that was always in the back of her mind in the past year. She had loved the year that she studied the science. The brain was something that always fascinated her. How could it control the whole body? Does it control everything?
Not only was there that, but the physical aspects like surgery were interesting to her. She had dealt with many cases of disorders of the brain, some of them involving the knife.
She had performed a few surgeries where she had to deal with things like tumors and she knew enough to perform the surgery, but still was unsure of herself.
She also wanted to deal with the disorders like split personalities and manic depression. She was looking through all of the research when Brian came by and looked at her papers.
"What's this?" He asked, looking at the papers.
"Research Brian, I actually studied with top scientists. We were studying a variety of things, all of them about disorders of the brain," Adrianna said it not paying attention to him and trying to sort through the papers.
Colleen came over looking at the papers. "What did you study?" She asked, looking very interested.
"A lot of things. There is this new science called psychology, the study of the mind. That is what we did. We found that certain parts of the brain did different things. We also worked with reflexes and disorders. The one thing that I wanted to do was work with victims of these disorders. I also want to know all about the brain. Why do certain people act the way they do? There is so much about this science that we have to discover, and you would be surprised to know that this science has been around a very long time, it is just that everyone did not classify it as psychology."
They heard a gunshot in the background and Adrianna could tell that Aldamora was teaching Matthew how to how to shoot the gun.
Colleen was now joining her, looking at her research while Adrianna was analyzing it, when Michaela burst in the house, looking serious.
"We have a problem Adrianna, a serious problem."
Adrianna looked up from her papers, concerned.
"What is wrong Michaela?"
"That cowboy that was sick was not just sick with the common cold. He had influenza!"
Adrianna dropped the papers that she was holding and they fell on the table, some even fell to the ground.
"What do you want me to do?"
"We're going to town and you kids will stay here. You do not need to argue, because it will not get you anywhere."
Adrianna looked very stern. "She's right! We do not have that much medicine, not enough to cure the whole town. You need to stay here; you do not want to get sick from that. Isabella almost died from it when she was about seven. Everyone put the complete royal house on alert. No one died, but that was just because we were living with a royal family, rulers of a country. We are not there now and I doubt we will be able to get any refills. Please listen to us."
Adrianna then got on her horse and they both went to town, hoping that they could stop the epidemic, before it became too big.