A/N : okay, so this is the new chapter, hope I didn't make you guys wait too long.
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"You ready baby?" asked Max to her son.
"Yep. I have everything I need!" answered cheerfully Adam.
"There you go then."
"You know mum, I wonder how is it possible that being transgenic, we're still always late?"
Max laughed at that, and handed Adam a doggie bag containing his lunch.
"I don't know. Come on we're already late, and I have an important meeting with your dad today."
She waited for Adam to disappear behind a building before heading to HQ. Adam waved at her and continued his way to the TC school.
Max was two steps from HQ when she heard a huge boom. Turning around, she saw the building used as a school burning.
"No! No!"
She blurred toward the smoke. Soon, Alec arrived with other Xs. Mostly parents. Surprisingly, everything was under control. The building had gone boom but the teachers were leading the pupils out. Most of the kids were already out. Safe.
"Adam! Adam! Adam! Adam!" Max cried at the top of her lungs the name of her son.
Sam approached her twin.
"Max. I'm sorry."
"No! He can't be dead! I would know!" she sobbed. "I would know, wouldn't I?" she was crying loudly now.
"He's not dead. But they took him."
"No! No!"
Alec had heard what Sam said and took Max in his arms.
"Alec, they took our baby! They took our baby!"
That night, Max had howled on the top of the buildings. Making everyone know her grief. Making everyone know that it was the beginning of the war.
Adam was ushered in a dark room. He was blindfolded but he had learn with his dad and his mum to count the steps, and to use his other senses to know where he was. He smelled water. No, it wasn't water, it was the sea. That was good, it meant that they weren't far from TC. All he had to do was to wait for his parents to come, and he would be back home. Safe and warm.
He felt that several other people were in the room with him. He was barely hearing their heartbeat. It was weird because they did breathe. He did heard them, and he had a 'pretty good' set of ears.
"Nobody is coming to get you Adam."
The voice made him flinch. It was so cold compared to Max's. There was no tenderness, no caring, no worry, no warmth in it. It was devoid of any emotions. Only coldness…and hatred.
"My name is Hyean. You'll stay with us now. You're one of our kind." It was meant to be reassuring, but it failed to do so.
"No! I'm a transgenic! And I want my mother!" he spat. He truly believed in what he had just said. He was truly a transgenic.
"She's nothing." For the fist time, Adam felt panicked. He truly didn't know what to do. Since he knew what he was, he didn't know where to stand. And now that he was facing his enemies, he couldn't help but feel some sort of belonging around them.
No! He wasn't like that. He wasn't cold like them, like the person who adressed him.
"Don't fight it! Don't fight us. You belong to us, you're one of us."
"No! No! No!" Adam screamed.
They didn't interact with him after that. He was mostly left alone in a room without a light. But he didn't mind the dark, being a transgenic his eyes had no problem with darkness. But here, there was no light, it was pitch black. That thought made him think about his father, Alec. Despite all Max had said, and the things she tried, inevitably each saturday, she would find her mate and her son slouched on the couch, watching tv.
Recently, they watched Pitch Black. Max had finally gave in, and cuddled up together, the three of them had watched the movie. It was a good memory.
With that sweet thought, feeling his silent tears falling from his eyes, he fell asleep.
Later that night, he dreamed that his mother was crying over his loss, and howling her pain away.
"I need you mom," he whispered.
"It's no use. He doesn't respond to us the way we thought," commented Harris.
"No! It must work. You said it yourself, he's the missing link for us," snapped Hyean. "He's just fighting it."
"I thought that my theories were bullshit to you."
She looked at him with her cold grey eyes. If looks could kill, Harris would be six feet under right now. But both of them knew, how valuable Harris was.
"I don't believe your little story about the unicorn. But this, him," she said, nodding her head toward the sleeping form of Adam. "He's real. He'll get us to where we want."
"But he's not on our side…"
"You seem almost pleased when you say that," Hyean cut in. "I hope you don't have any hidden agenda Harris. Don't pull tricks on me. You know what I'll be forced to do if you do so…"
"Forced? You? All you ever did the last millennium is what you wanted. That's why they didn't choose you over me. And you still do things the way you want to…" he paused and eyed her with his grey eyes. For the first time, she bowed her head.
After a long silence, she said : "And what do you propose?"
"You need to gain his trust," he stated.
Hyean snickered. "They brainwashed him to hate us. He flinches each time I address him."
"I didn't say it was going to be easy…
"Easy, you mean impossible!" she snapped.
"Don't interrupt me!" Harris yelled. He breathed and again looked at Adam. "He must trust us, or else, he won't do what we want him to do. All he need is to forget who he is, at least, who he thinks he is. He was never one of them. Despite everything, he's just a child. You can manipulate a child, mould his brain, his thoughts, his feelings. You can do that Hyean, can't you?"
She exited the room muttering curses to herself.
Sometimes, after school, Adam would spend time with other X kids, or transhumans one. It had happened a few times. He had no friends, not like her mother had, but the kids respected him because he was the strongest of them. Anyway, when they hang out they always talked about their parents' adventures. Oh, they didn't know what happened to their parents back at Manticore. At least, they didn't know half of it. But they were making up stories. Especially about psy ops. Adam was bragging because they all knew that Alec had spent more time in psy ops then the others, and that Max had managed her way out of Renfro's reindoctrination program.
If anything, what was happening to him right now, was how he had imagined Psy Ops to be like. Soon the pain, the images, the taste of blood in his mouth, made him sick. And he hurled quite a few times. Finally, after two days of torture he tuned out everything, and collapsed.
"Adam, Adam…"
Ow! His head ached. He still felt the blood in his mouth. What had happened? Where was he?
"Adam, Adam…"
Again, he heard the voice calling. Calling for who? He was struggling to regain his composure. Who was he? There was a blank in his memory. Actually, he didn't remember anything. He finally opened his eyes.
"Adam. You're awake."
So his name was Adam.
"Adam, are you okay?"
He blinked a few times, and said : "It's pitch black in here…"
The woman next to him smiled. He didn't felt anything anymore. Nothing. There was this peaceful coldness that had invaded his body.
"We don't need light. How hard did they hit you?"
"I…who…hit? Me?" he said in complete disbelief. He was sturrering, yet he felt somehow powerful.
"I understand that you can't admit someone beat you ass up, but the trannies did."
She could literally feel the gears turning in his brain.
"Trannies?"
The black haired girl chuckled.
"They hit you pretty hard didn't they? Come on, get up. Hyean is waiting."
Hyean? Trannies? He really didn't know what was going on. Yet, all the things around him felt familiar. The words, the girl that was pulling him forward right now. The darkness. All he felt was belonging.
After what seemed an eternity, she ushered him in a room. He couldn't help but flinch when he entered the room.
"Adam. Welcome back."
Something deep inside him told him that he loathed this woman. But the sense of belonging was stronger than the hatred. Another man was in the room.
"You remember Harris," said Hyean.
"Yes, I do…" 'I guess', he thought.
"It's good to have you back. Don't worry for the trannies, it's been taken care of."
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