Disclaimer: Until I steal Animorphs, it will remain out of my hands, I do not own it. I am trying though.

Chapter 15

"Us or them?" Rachel exploded. "This is so not fair at all! That's great Tobias, that you have family and all, but remember last time we made a new Animorph?"

"Yes, that was very unfortunate." Ax replied.

Marco cursed. "This isn't right. We don't even know you. I'm sorry but this can't turn out well. How many dejected Animorphs are we going to have?"

There was a silence. The last time we made a new Animorph he turned on us and we made him a Nothlit, a rat. I try to not hunt over where we left him.

"Well, shouldn't we tell her what she is getting herself into, and maybe she wouldn't want to do it," Cassie said. "The Ellimist said he would erase her memory if necessary."

"That's a good idea." Jake answered. "Who wants to tell her?" He looked at everyone. I knew he wanted me to. I knew I would have to, but this sort of thing is scary. I just met my sister, and I don't want to open up with something that will give her nightmares just listening.

((Its my turn to tell you a story.)) I told her about the Yeerks. I explained how they infest the brain though the ear canal, and how they sink into every crevice. They have done this to Gedds, Taxxons, Hork-Bajir, and now humans. Tabitha paid rapt attention when I spoke of how only one Andalite had fallen victim to the Yeerks, and how he possessed many dangerous morphs.

"Who is fighting this?" she asked, her eyes wide.

((That's the depressing part.)) I went on to tell her that only the six of us were holding back a race of parasites. I told Tabitha about my father, our father's last moments. I continued with a description of our winning battles, losing battles, and the battles where nothing was achieved. We had fought, lost our blood, lost our identity, and lost our childhood. She needed to know all the nitty gritty facts.

Cassie would have sugarcoated it, said it is all for a greater good. I didn't. I told her that sometimes we have to make decisions that make us almost as bad as the yeerks.

Marco would have said we are hurting them. I didn't. I told her about how we have been hurt, and how in some ways the yeerks have won more then they had lost.

Rachel would have said it is what I was born for. I didn't. I told her sometimes I was so scared and I just wanted to be the kid who was normal and picked on.

Jake would have said it is a big responsibility. I didn't. I told her how some of our plans are not plans at all, but really hair brain schemes that we come up with on the fly, and how we fly, along with how we do use our power for some enjoyment.

Ax would have said it is our duty. I did not. I told her that this war is not our duty, but our choice, and at any time we can quit, and how a few of us have and we may again.

What I did say came from a place I have to live in every day. The hunt and kill instinct of a predator. Just the facts as I know them, no assuming, no sweetening, no thinking it is fate, just a hawk's eye view of things. From this Tabitha got the facts.

We looked at her as she took it all in. We were not sure how she would react to it, or how she should react to it.

She sat, slumped in her chair, looking at her feet, and tears rolling down her cheeks.

"You don't have to decide anything now." Cassie said attempting to make her feel better.

"No, I do," Tabitha responded in a determined voice. "You see I know I have to help, if you'll let me. This thing is too big, too hard. Ignorance is bliss, but I am afraid that this bliss has come to an end."

"So that's the question now? Do we let you?" Marco said sarcastically. "Great! What an easy choice. Let's flip a coin for it."

Cassie butted in before Marco could get carried away, "Lets not decide now. Tobias and Ax have to demorph soon. We could think about it and meet back in my barn this evening."

"That's a good idea," Jake jumping to the suggestion. "Tonight at 8, Cassie's barn." He turned to my sister looking kind, but concerned. "It's not that I don't trust you, but I would feel better if Ax and Tobias hung out with you until then."

"No, that's ok. I was hoping they would." She smiled, "I have a lot of catching up to do."

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