A/N : Okay so this is the new chapter guys...We're slowly approaching the end though it's not that obvious, and that it'll depend on the lenght of the future chapters.
Anyway, this is the new chappie, and I really hope that you'll enjoy this one. It's a sappy and cliché but, I do you'll like.
Please, review, tell me what you think of the new developments...There will probably another chapter updated at the same time with this one (a shorter one) so stay tune...
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jumpin-jo : I hope you don't mind that I pictured Adam as a tortured kid. Because there's a lot of things that will happen to him. Thank you for your review.
Dory Shotgun : Forgot to tell you last time, I like P.G. Wodehouse. I once spent a day (not sleeping) reading tons of his short stories! That guy was a great humorist! Thank you for reviewing, andif I find the book you mentionned, I'll try and read it and tell you what I think. Meanwhile, I'm thinking about reading other works of Christopher Pike.
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"For Christ's sake Jon! We have the right to know!"
It wasn't the first time that they were having this conversation. But it was the first time in months that there was a flicker of uncertainty in Jon's eyes.
Mole was openly glaring at the dark haired X5 now.
"It's not normal to grow so fast! Not even for transgenics!"
"Alec's not his father,"
"That we already all knew."
When Krit turned around he saw Adam looking at them. And obviously, he had heard the whole conversation.
He poked Syl and signaled to the other to stop talking. As much as they wanted to know the truth, they didn't want Adam to be hurt. Hesitantly, he approached the 'kid'.
"Hey champion!" The emotion playing in Krit's eyes betrayed his feelings. He prayed to the Blue Lady that he didn't hear anything.
"Why didn't you tell me! I thought you liked me!" yelled the poor boy. When moments like this one happened, they saw the little boy that he still was despite his appearance, because in theory, Adam was just a 2 year old boy.
Two years had passed. And things had pretty much changed. Both transgenic and familiar were fearing the kid. And only the fact that Max was the Deilina kept the balance and the kid safe.
"I hate you all!" Adam shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Adam!" called Krit as he blurred but Adam had done the same. They could say anything, but the kid was as strong as his mother and as fast as her. She and Alec were his only match when it came to sparring. No one, no child wanted to get on the mat with him.
"Leave me alone!" said an already far voice.
"Who is going to say that to Alec?" asked Mole as Krit returned.
"Shut up Mole!" said Karish, a Familiar girl who had started to hang out with them for a year now.
"Feel better?" inquired Syl with a grin on her face.
"A lot better! You were right, yelling at him is a pleasure!" The red headed familiar continued not a second bothered by the daggers shot her ways by the lizard man.
"Woman! You're all the same! Familiar, transgenics! All bitches!"
"Did I just hear what you said?" said Syl her voice rising.
"Honey!"
"Don't honey me…"
"For once would you listen to me woman!" yelled Krit. "Ah, you were right it's good to shout." he paused a moment. "We have more important topics to deal with. Like Adam. Go get Max or Alec."
Syl liked it when Krit was in charge. She just didn't want anyone to know. But immediately after his outburst, she went out looking for Alec.
She found himin the infirmary with Max who was pregnant for the first timesince Adam.She was 4 weeks pregnant.
"Hey Syl!" cheered Max. But as she saw the determined face of her sibling, she unconsciouslycaughtAlec's hand and furrowed her brows. "What's wrong?"
There was no other way to put it. "It's Adam."
"What? Is he hurt?" inquired Alec right away. He was very protective of the child.
"No. He kinda overheard Mole and Jon talking…"
"Talking? What do you mean talking?"
"Mole was insisting you know…I mean, I don't even know who his father is, only you two, Sam and Miles know it. And Jon and Dix. I don't even know. And I'm your sister. I mean it's not my business and all, but…"
"You're right Syl. It's not your business!" said Max coldly cutting her sister's reply.
"Do you know where he is?" asked Alec.
"I don't know," admitted the blond X5.
"We better get going…" said Max.
"Wait. What did he heard exactly?" inquired Alec.
"That you weren't his father," informed Syl, her eyes staring at the floor, not daring to look at the very angry X5s in front of her.
"I'll get him," decided Alec sighing.
"Alec…"
"It's between Adam and me. Don't … Just don't…"
"I know Alec. Just be careful. You know how he is when he's angry."
Oh, he did remember. When the little boy was 5, as his dad wouldn't let him go out at night to go chasing (he had saw a national geographic re-run), Adam had hit him hard in the guts. Alec goat a bruise that lasted two days! Which was way too long for any X5.
Over the two year and recent months, Alec had learn to love and protect Adam. He really hoped at first that the child would be more like his mother than his biological father as it had been established that the father was a Seeker. And so far, he 'was' Max : he had the same expressions, the same impatience, he was damn stubborn.Just likeMax, he liked to fight dirty, he liked the long baths andtop it allhe liked the high places. Especially one.
They say cats always land on their feet, but Alec never understood what was so appealing with the height. At least until, the Space Needle. There he had the impression that his problems were small problems.
That was the reason why Alec went looking for his son on the top of the Needle.
He was sure the little guy had heard him coming but as Adam didn't bulge from the ledge, he continued his approach.
"We better get home or your mom is going to be mad at both of us!"
For a moment, Adam remained silent. 'So much like his mother!' thought Alec.
"Why didn't you tell me?" He had been crying. But his voice was strong, determined filled with anger and fear.
"Do you think that makes any difference?" asked Alec "Do you think that that changes the way I feel for my son? The way I feel about you?"
"But I'm not your son!" croaked Adam between sobs.
"Adam you are my son!"
Alec took the little boy in his arms and let him cry. Adam was his son, he claimed it in public, Adam even had his smell now. Not totally his, but a mix of him and Max, and something that was unique to Adam.
When Adam's breathing finally slowed, and that he was a bit more calm, Alec lifted his son off and took him back to TC.
Max was pacing around the apartment for two hours now.
"Where are they?" she asked. More to herself than to Sam or her siblings who were there too.
"They must be talking Max," guessed Sam.
"Does it take that long? Oh, and if he did something stupid…"
Max was so panicked, she didn't hear them coming.
Alec entered their home with his precious sleeping burden in his arms.
"Oh, thank God. Is he hurt? Oh, give me my son Alec." She was all over the two men in her life. "What would I do without the two of you." Tears prickled at her eyes.
"Honey, calm down! He's okay. Let's put him to bed," Alec whispered ignoring all the questioning eyes of the people who were there.
"You're right, he must be tired."
That night, both Alec and Max didn't leave Adam's room.
"Is he going to be okay?" asked Max to her mate. She needed him to reassure her. Even if it was a lie.
Alec nodded but added "We need to tell him the truth, he deserves to know where he came from."
"But he's my son!" said Max a bit too loudly.
"I know that! And he is mine too. But he needs to know."
"I barely understand his role in this story. And I'm afraid that all our children will have roles to play in all this grand scheme! I don't want him to die. I don't them to die…" she had put her hand protectively on her still flat tummy.
"I know that. And you know that I want the same thing as you. But we'll tell him the truth tomorrow."
Max simply nodded and leaned into Alec for comfort.
"He's going to be ok. We're all going to be okay."
The morning after saw Adam raising from his bed at the sweet smell of pancakes.
He knew his parents had stayed in his room all night. He even felt their uneasiness, and their sadness. It was odd how he was so in tune with them. Slowly, he got out of bed, and headed toward the kitchen.
"Hey! There's my precious baby!" greeted his mom as she put a sloppy kiss on his cheek and ruffled his hair.
"Mum! You know I hate it when you do that."
His dad chuckled and said with laughter in his eyes and his tone, "Come here champion, we made some pancakes for you."
For a second, everything was perfect again. For a second, the three of them almost forgot that this day was going to change everything in their life.
They ate in silence, aware that things to come were going to be hard, that things would never be the same again.
"Adam, before we start, I want you to know that your dad and I love you very much. More than life itself, ok?"
"I know that mum."
The three of them were on the couch. The couch where they had watched movies together, curled up together. Like a normal familiy. Maybe not that normal, but a happy family. Max had her arms around Adam, and Alec had his arms around them. Such a wonderful family portrait that maybe will be split up because of a war. A war neither of them really understood.
"Alec is your father. Don't let anyone say otherwise, ok?"
"Yes mum."
"Now, Alec is not your biological father."
She felt him nod.
"Do you remember what Sam taught about the history of the transgenics and the familiar?"
"Yes mum. Before we weren't going along with each other. In fact, we were trying to kill each other."
"That's right baby."
"But all that changed when you became the Deilina. And when we discovered the Seekers, of course."
"That's good Adam." She paused searching for her words. "About three years ago, I got captured by White. You know the familiar that I talked to you about."
"I remember mum."
"It was still at that time when we didn't get along with familiars. He wanted to know something, and he wanted me to give the secrets of TC so that they could kill us. But I didn't gave in. He tortured me for a couple of weeks." There was no other way to put it.
She felt her son shudder.
"I'm right here Adam, I'm right here, and I'm okay." Alec knew it was his turn to speak.
"We found your mom only three month after. She was…not herself anymore." How could you say to your child that his mother was raped then used as a guinea pig. "We didn't really know what happened exactly. When she felt ready, she told us about the Seekers. She told us that they had arrived one day and that they tortured and killed everyone. Everyone but her and White. They made them fought till death, and your mother won."
"What we are trying to say baby is that the Seekers put you in me. Now that doesn't mean that I don't love, or that I don't care for you. Or that dad don't care about you. You know that right?"
"I know mum."
"I'm your mum, and Alec is your dad. And that will last forever. Now we don't know why they put inside me because, they wanted me to die. And we don't know what role you have to play in this war. But we know we love you. Always remember that."
"Mum? Is this why I grew up so fast?"
"I don't know baby. Maybe that's part of the seekers' gene."
"Then I could be a bad guy." Adam didn't hide the fear in his voice. He knew what happened to seekers, he had been sneaking on Krit and Mole when they tortured and killed one of them, when they tried to enter in TC. There were few (actually those raids were really rare) raids of Seekers on TC. Never a successfull one.
"No! No! You're our son, you could never be a bad guy!" She pulled him closer, if that was even possible. She put a sloppy kiss on her son's cheek.
And deep inside her heart Max prayed that she was right, that Adam would never be a bad guy.
A few blocks away, the brother Harris was told by one of his disciples that time had come and that the chosen one was ready.
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