A/N : My thanks and notes are at the end of the chapter.
It was closing time. With a smile for the last customer, he closed the door. For once since he had left Seattle, he felt good. They actually were happy. But maybe it was too good to be true, or at least, to last.
"You're hard to track down you know?" said a familiar voice behind him. He should have known that they would never abandon. They would always look for them. But he had hoped, he had hoped that they would somehow mange to let go.
"15 years Alec!" stated the blond woman in front of him. She was still beautiful looking not much older than 23.
"It's been a long time Syl." He sighed. "Care for a coffee?"
"Might as well, we need to talk. A long talk."
He stretched his hands to take two mugs.
"You'll need three more mugs." She indicated.
"So you didn't come alone?"
"If you were me, would you have?" she questioned.
He didn't need to answer that one, they both knew the answer.
"I would have never pictured you as a manager of a coffee shop," she teased, "And with the apron nonetheless!" She couldn't help the grin that was forming on her lips.
Alec smiled back.
"So when the others are coming?" she asked.
"Uh uh. They won't show up until I know for sure that you won't disappear again."
He took the mugs with him and nodded his head toward a booth far from the entrance of the shop.
"So how you've been doing Alec?"
"Fine."
"15 years with no news whatsoever and the only thing you tell me is 'fine'?" she laughed and half hearted laugh. "Well, I do have news for you. Joshua married Karish two years ago, he was hoping we would have found you, and that you would have been there for the D-Day."
"Joshua and Karish?" Alec smiled. He could easily imagine the two of them together, the transhuman and the familiar. He remembered the way the dog boy looked at Karish. He was so unsure of himself back then, and he felt guilty because of Annie.
"Krit and I have a boy, he's ten now. And we have another one on the way."
"Wow. Well…that's good."
A comfortable silence fell upon them.
"We're all sorry Alec." Syl whispered with sadness. She too felt guilty for being so happy when her sister who made all her happiness come true was lying six feet under.
"I don't want to talk about it," he snapped.
"Well I do!" she yelled. "Max died 15 years ago and you don't want to let go. She's dead, it was her destiny, and she decided to accept it! Why can't you go on and live your life as best as you can!"
"I'm already living my life as best as I can!" he retaliated. The sight may have been ridiculous for some people seeing this tiny woman glare at a man that was towering her, but both knew they could kick each other's asses.
"You didn't come all the way to remind that Max died," he said after a moment.
"You're right."
But before they could continue, two giggling girls entered the coffee shop. Their dark long hair tousled because of the wind outside, they paused seeing Alec and Syl glaring at each other.
"Dad?" said one of the girls. "Is everything ok?"
"Yeah. Everything's fine. I'll be with you in a moment."
"You don't introduce us?" inquired the same twin.
"Yeah Alec, you don't introduce us?" added Syl.
At that moment, Krit, Zane and Sam appeared.
"Dad?"
Slowly Sam approached the twins.
"Oh my God, they're the exact replicate of Max."
"and you…" couldn't help adding Krit.
That was one of the things that was wringing Alec's heart everyday.
"Dad!" cried out one of the girls. "Who are those peoples?"
"Go home." Their father ordered.
"No."
"Deborah, don't start! Go home!"
"She said who are those peoples," stepped up her sister.
"It's a long story…" he started.
"Well, we have all the time we need…"
"You have class tomorrow," he tried.
"You know we never sleep," stated Deborah.
Later.
"So, who are you guys since Dad don't want to say a word," said Deborah.
"I'm Syl."
"Krit."
"Zane and Sam."
"You're mom's twin," said Deborah's twin sister.
"She's Shamgara and I'm Deborah."
"You named them after a judge and a prophetess, how lovely…" commented Sam. "You want revenge Alec. But that's not how it works…"
"No!" he cut, "I used too. But now, I want them to have what we never have…."
"What Max will never have?" intervened Syl.
After that, they all stared at each other for a good five minutes.
"I have pictures of you're mother," Syl said suddenly. "And a video, would you like to watch it?"
"Why not…" said Deborah excitedly.
Sam watched as Deborah and Shamgara interacted. They didn't need words to understand themselves, and she didn't need to be genius to know that even though Shamgara wanted to know who they were too, she was less curious and open to the others. Deborah was definitely her link to the world. Deborah the Prophetess, and Shamgara the Judge, the hand of God, the Deilina.
Deborah took the pictures from Syl and motioned for Shamgara to come closer.
Slowly, picture after picture, the girls' eyes lit up.
"Where did you get those pictures?" asked Alec. "She never liked to be…"
"She asked me to do it," said Krit. "She wanted the girls to have pictures of her and of you. Before. There are some of Adam too."
"Adam? The one who killed mom?" It was Shamgara who talked.
"He was also your mom's son," announced Sam.
The girl remained silent and continued to look at the picture. Finally, Shamgara spoke up.
"We know Mom carried him, but he's still the one who killed Mom for us. The video, she made it for us, right?"
Syl nodded and handed them the CD.
The girls disappeared in their room.
"You shouldn't have come…" said Alec.
"They have the right to know, and Max made that video for them," replied Syl.
"Hi girls, it's mom. I won't do the traditional "if you see this video, it means that I'm…dead."" Max remained silent for a long time.
"I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you. Those are for all the times you never heard me say those words. I trust you, I trust you, I trust you, I trust you, I trust you, I trust you. Those are for the times you'll feel unsure. There are so many things that I would like to tell you, that I won't tell you because I can't. Because I won't be there."
"There will always a part of you that will hate me for what happened, and probably a part of you that will hate Adam."
Max smiled and a young Adam appeared at her side.
"Mom what you're doing?" the little man asked as he placed his hand in her mother's.
"Nothing, baby. Say hi, I'm Adam."
"Hi, I'm Adam."
"Max!" called Alec.
"Hurry Adam hide the camera…"
A few minutes later, Alec entered the room.
"What are you two doing?"
"Nothing. Nothing at all. What would you like us to do?"
"Yeah dad, what would you like us to do?" Adam teased."
The video stopped as Alec took Max and Adam in his arms.
As Deborah was about to pull the CD out, Shamgara stopped her.
"One last thing, talk to Sam," said their mother.
Five minutes later, the twins got out of their bedroom.
"She said we should talk to you,"
"It's never going to end, is it?" whispered Alec.
"They'll choose. Max and I didn't have the choice. It was to late for us to make another choice."
"If she…" Alec didn't need to ask that question, it was an evidence.
"Shamgara is the new Deilina."
A/N : So that's it. This is the last addition to Feral, God I'm going to miss this story. Anyway, I want to thank each one of you, reviewers and readers... Thank you, thank you very much. And check my next stori(es)...
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