April 4th, 2017

Tyler stormed down the tunnels with Kyle and Derek tailing him. Destiny began wake and lifted her head off his shoulder. He turned his head to look at her as she grabbed a handful of his hair and pulled. She giggled at his wince. Derek grumbled behind him. "Get a move on, would you?" Tyler demanded and led them past the secure sector.

John sat in the control center, patching up his leg while Racheal patched up his arm. John sighed. "I'm sorry that your mad, Racheal. You should be mad. I shouldn't have left her there, but I don't believe it would have hurt her."

Racheal kept quiet and continued patching. Sarah stood off to John's side.

"It wouldn't have hurt her, not with John there." She said.

Racheal stopped patching and looked at Sarah. "What? They have some sort of emotional understanding?"

Sarah shook her head. "No, but they won't waste time with a secondary target if the primary target is in full view."

Racheal sighed. "Nice to know there's a chance. Shame we didn't have Adams check the CPU before she took the body away to be burned. We could know for sure… Where is she? She should be back by now."

"I'm right here." She said as she walked into the room. "And I'm not alone." She grinned.

Tyler came in behind her. John smiled smugly at Tyler. "Devlin, do you have him?" Tyler stepped aside. Derek came upfront first and Kyle stepped in behind him.

March 22nd, 2010

Destiny pulled out art book out from her locker and walked to class. She entered the classroom and took her seat at her table, smiling faintly to herself when she remembered the cake fight from her birthday yesterday. She had expected it to be a disaster but it turned out rather funny until she and John caught the look on Sarah's face and were forced to clean up the mess. She stifled a giggle.

"Is there something you'd like to share with the class, Miss Sanders?" The teacher asked.

"Um, nope." Destiny answered sweetly. He frowned and returned to reading the announcements.

"Now, we're going to start our first group project so I want all of you to get into groups of two for the midterm project. It will be half of your course grade as well as participation points. As her classmates began shifting toward the people they were seated next to, Destiny glanced at the empty chair beside her and raised her hand. "I don't have a partner." She mumbled.

"She can be my partner." A girl spoke up from the back of the room. Destiny turned her head to see a red-haired girl smiling sweetly at her. Grabbing her book and bag, she moved to the back to sit next to the girl. "I'm Racheal." She said.

"I'm Destiny." She mumbled.

"So I was thinking since we're both the top two of the class, we should be able to beat everyone else. Tagteam." Racheal winked.

"Nice." Destiny grinned and took out her portfolio.

Racheal glanced through it." I like the colors. Perfect originality. Who woulda thought a dark world would be so beautiful, very nightmarish. Hey, the project is over dreams. How lucky are we?" She smiled.

John and Cameron waited outside the school for Destiny who slowly came outside tailed by Racheal. John frowned towards them. Destiny moved quickly towards John and Cameron, hoping to lose Racheal in the process. "Hey, wait up." She called and ran faster.

"You forgot this." Racheal said and handed the portfolio back to Destiny.

"Oh, thanks." She muttered.

"So, I was thinking that maybe you could come over next week to work on the project?" Racheal asked hopefully.

"Um, I'd have to ask my mom."

Racheal nodded. " I'm sure she'll say yes, I would." She grinned at John and then took off towards a black car in the parking lot.

"You're not my mother yet." Destiny mumbled before she walked towards the car.

John looked at her curiously. "What was that about?"

Destiny shrugged. "My art partner slash mom."

John turned around and stared back at where Racheal went.

Destiny stopped and turned around. "Stop that. You're looking at my mom like some creepy stalker would. It's gross."

John rolled his eyes. "Well, I.. her…you know. We get together someday."

"Yeah, that's gross too."

"You're one to talk. You're the result." John snapped.

Destiny stopped in her tracks , flabbergasted as he pasted her. "Hey!"

John smirked.

Destiny stormed through the front door and tossed her bookbag in the corner. Sarah looked up from folding laundry on the kitchen table. "Rough day?"

"Your son is stalking my mother."

"I was not." John growled and closed the front door behind him.

"Not surprised that he is. Racheal's something all right." Tyler muttered from across the room. Destiny looked darkly at him and stormed off.

"Awww, can't stand that your mom is a looker? Or that you don't resemble her?" Tyler teased. Destiny sneered back at him and he chuckled.

Destiny sat in her room and tried to paint the gloomy world from her past. Frustrated, she crumpled the paper in her hands, threw it in the overflowing trashcan and covered her face in her hands. Annoyed, she got up and marched downstairs to the dining room where Sarah was working on leads. She stopped when Destiny entered the room.

"You may not be my grandmother yet, but you are the smartest person I know." She smiled weakly. Sarah looked up at her quizzically. Destiny sucked in a deep breath before she managed to look at her.

"John has a crush on my art partner."

Sarah put down her pencil. "I'm sure he'll move on in a few weeks time. Nothing for you to stress out about and call a meeting." Sarah smirked.

"He's my….. he will be my dad. She's going to be my mom. He won't move on. You don't believe in Fate and yet it's staring you right in the face. Welcome to the future….Nana." Destiny said smugly.

Sarah's eyes took on a murderous glare just before a loud knocking at the front door.

"Destiny? It's Racheal open up." Destiny took a step back from Sarah and shook her head.

"I'll get it!" John announced as he flew down the stairs.

"No, you won't."Destiny muttered and raced towards the door.

Sarah sighed deeply and rubbed her temples."Since when do I have two children?"

John and Destiny collided on the first floor in front of the door.

Racheal opened the door and grinned. "Wow. I thought I was talented with falling up the stairs but you guys have me beat."

Destiny smirked. "Yeah, Rach, I know."

Racheal helped Destiny to her feet while John managed to pull himself up. "So, I brought my sketchpad and some cardboard. I didn't know what we'd need for the project so I kind of over did it." Racheal blushed.

Destiny smiled and lead her to the kitchen. "That's cool, come on lets gets started." She gave one last warning look to John as he shut the door.

He held his arms out at his sides."What?" Destiny shook her head and followed after Racheal.

Racheal distributed the supplies and both girls set to work. Racheal began drawing happy pictures, paintings of butterflies and fireflies circling the sun and the moon. Destiny painted silently painted the haunting images of her home, her memories and of the dreams of her impending death.

Sarah had walked away from the table when the girls came in but now she came back in and grabbed her keys off the table in front of Destiny and froze. Destiny looked up at Sarah who was staring intently at her drawing she was painting. Racheal stopped painting and looked across at Destiny's nightmarish picture.

"She's good isn't she?"Racheal beamed. "Though I think she could use some cemetery details to go with her robot skeletons." She smiled.

Sarah looked up from the painting to Racheal and simply nodded before she left. Destiny shrugged it off and went back to work. A creaking noise erupted from the ceiling followed by a sliding noise.

Destiny frowned and got up. "I'll be right back." Racheal smiled and went back to her work.

Destiny went up the stairs as John left his room.

"Wasn't you?" Destiny asked him quizzically.

He shook his head. "Nope."

Both continued down the hall as the noise got louder and louder. They stopped at the guest room and quietly opened the door partway. Sticking their heads on each side of the opening, they looked inside for a brief moment before John pulled Destiny back and quickly closed the door. Destiny covered her face and John burst out laughing.

"I think I'm blind." Destiny muttered before she and John laughed. "Never knew Tyler was that caring." She giggled.