A Distorted Reality The chapter in which Tobias is told of Rachel's love, an animorphs fanfic

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A/N: Sorry this took so long. Turns out that I was plagiarized for one of my O.C. stories, which is why you will notice the copyright sign at the bottom of my fics starting now. Nothing against you all, you're great it's the O.C. crowd I'm skittish too.

I shifted uncomfortably, unsure what I was supposed to do. The others were surrounding the couch and making themselves at home. They asked questions about how Ax was an alien, how could it happen? I frankly didn't care. I was uncomfortable. I shifted and wanted to just get out of the house. I didn't belong. Everyone was friends here, or seemed like it. I didn't even know whose house I was in!

"I think that I'm going to go." I managed to stutter.

Everyone looked at me. They had been so caught up with the freaky thing that didn't freak me out to much in the center of the carpet.

Jake spoke up. "Tobias, dude, you can't leave." He had a Cheeto poised in his mouth.

'Nawh, I really need to get home. My uncle's expecting me to go to some meeting with him. He wants us to have family time you know?"

Jake's face completely paled as did all the others' with the exception of Cassie, Marco and Rachel. "What meeting?" Jake croaked.

"The Shipling? The Shining… something with the and a s."

"The Sharing?" He asked.

"That's it," I said.

What was left from his face completely drained. It turned stark white. He licked his lips a little and got up off the couch. Everyone watched as he came toward me and laid his arm on mine. "Dude, you can't go to that. They'll get you."

I blinked, as did the other three sane ones. They seemed to be the only ones who didn't know what was going on.

"What are you talking about?" I asked him.

Jake shifted from one foot to the other, awkwardly. I could tell there was something, something big.

I don't know Jake very well, sure he saved me from your average swirly given by the seniors who think they're hot stuff. He let me hang around him for a while but after that it just got weird. His best friend Marco ignored me and that was a huge hint to me. Still, I thought he was a genuine nice guy. I wanted to be him. Maybe this is why I pressed him to tell me what it was, who knows.

When I said, "What is it?" I knew I fell in way too deep. The rabbit hole went down and down and I was Alice. Marco, Cassie and Rachel were also their own versions of Alice.

Jake shot a look to the dude that looked like a model, perfect in everyway. The model glared at him but was easily perplexed.

"Ok, look something's wrong with this. Don't you guys remember anything that happened, the war, the Yeerks, the Andalites?" The four of us stared at him blankly. "I can't believe this."

Jake shrank into the wall looking like a million years had passed. I didn't know what to do. I looked to Marco, hoping he would at least have some notion of what to do if his best friend went crazy.

"Jake dude, what's wrong?" He asked.

Jake sighed. "This is wrong, this is so wrong. It shouldn't be like this." He never looked up from his hands but rambled on. "Rachel, you were the bear, you loved the fighting. Tobias, dude you loved the flying. You would always be our eyes. Marco you were in love with your gorilla, you couldn't drive worth shit but you tried to anyway. We had to replace six trashcans that one day. And Cassie, you LIVED for the wolf morph, even if you hated the war, you loved being animals…" Then Jake did something I would've never expected him to do. He sank even lower into the way and cried, sobbed even. "What the hell happened?"

For a few minutes, nothing happened until Cassie walked over to him and sat beside him, touching his arm gently. She whispered something into his ear. We were all stunned by what happened next, he hugged her. He just curled up into her and she looking surprised wrapped her arms around him. There was whispering and more sobbing until finally, it was over. They stood up together, Jake fumbling for Cassie's hand. He took one look, breathed in and managed to start.

He told us everything. He started with the day we had walked through the construction site and we weren't supposed to. He justified it saying that this overall being called The Ellimist was supposed to have fiddled with time. He told us about morphing and Visser Three and The Sharing. He explained to us in great detail every single battle we were supposed to have been in.

He told me how I had got stuck as a hawk. He told Rachel how she had become addicted to the fighting and how he had used that to their advantage when the time came. He told Marco how his mother was Visser One and how he had to fake his own death in order to save his dad. He told Cassie about how careful she was, about how he had depended on her to help him make the decisions.

There was something in his stories that made me feel a connection to these people, random yet meaning to fit together. We looked at each other embarrassed, not wanting to meet any eyes. It couldn't be real and we all knew this. Yet Jake had told it with so much passion that we couldn't help believe it. He knew every detail right down to the fact that Rachel had said she loved me. It was creepy, knowing things that had happened and then looking over to Rachel who was sitting on the other side of the room by a man who looked like James Dean.

She met my eye defiantly and scooted away from him. I smiled in spite myself and she smiled back.

It was a shocking story, unbelievable really. I looked at Jake, we all did. No one spoke for an incredibly long time. The other side of the world could blow up and we wouldn't say anything about it.

No one knew what to say.

We fiddled with our shoelaces and messed with our socks until Marco broke tradition just to say, "This is insane!" He shoved his mouth with Skittles and looked back at all off us with the renewed energy that the sugar coated candies had given him. "You mean for us to believe that some alien just swooped from the sky and told us to kick alien butt. And when we did and managed to kill Rachel, who I don't know about you but looks alive sitting in front of me. Not only that but we went back up to get ourselves killed just to save an alien who we met in an ocean when we went to investigate nightmares?" He paused for breath. "You also mean to tell me that before we went on the suicide mission, we could turn into animals. We're supposed to believe that we've seen other planets, other aliens and we've still managed to save the world when we were only sixteen and worried about passing out SAT's? Does anyone else think that this is just a little too sci-fi drama? It's not possible!"

"I beg to differ." A girl stepped from out beside me, it was the one that had dragged me here. "You see, because for some weird reason, we," she mentioned to the other group who I knew no one, "can do it now."

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