Disclaimer: sorry, but I do not own Animorphs. Now back to the madness.
Chapter 14
Everyone demorphed, everyone but Ax and I. We stayed human. Even if she didn't know half of the yeerk part, Tabitha told a remarkable story.
As she told it, I remembered. I remembered her face, her voice, and her desire for us to know, know how he was.
I do mother. I do.
I know he was the best of his race. Even running away from fighting. I know he killed more yeerks then anyone could count. I know he was a commander, a prince of his race.
I know if he had stayed, he would have been a good father. I know that he would have been proud of me, and what I have done. I know he would have been proud of his younger brother, and his allegiance to his prince, Jake.
After the story was told, everyone looked at me, then at Tabitha. Ax had interjected when he had to, telling more about the yeerks.
"I do see a resemblance," Marco said. "She even has the hard look of a hawk. Do I see feathers?" Everyone laughed. He was right in a way, she did have an intensity in her eyes, that suggested that she wanted to fight.
Even if she is my twin, I am still a hawk.
A strange creation I am. Born human, with an alien father, just to be stuck as a hawk. Then given the chance to go back... only to stay and fight as a hawk.
"So what do we do," Rachel asked.
YOU DECIDE.
"Decide what?" I asked, knowing full well what the decision was to be about. I looked at Tabitha, her head nodding, she knew, with all the information she knew, she could not go on living as she was. Something in her life had to change.
YOU DECIDE WHETHER SHE IS GOING TO BE ONE OF YOU, OR ONE OF THEM.
beta notes: Chapter editing dedicated to kimi-lee22 from ImperialJedi.