I seem to always be saying I'll update more but end up updating months later…
I'm such a turd.
Well the reason for that was because my laptop broke and I haven't had the chance to get a new one, I've been feeling horrible about it too. I recently downloaded this app that I can write my stories on from my phone that's like a mini tablet, so until I can get a proper device to type my stories on I'll be using my phone.
To the guest who asked if I was going to make this into a Manaline/Day/June story...no I had no plans of doing that but it would be interesting I agree.
Back to the story!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of Marie Lus characters sadly, just the plot as well as Anthem and Jason.
Eden
"Leaving already?" A female voice asked him as he pulled open the door to his work place. Turning Eden saw it was Anthem, his co-worker and one of his best friends.
"Yeah, got a lot of stuff to do at home since Daniel's not there to do it."
A slight frown crosses her face before it quickly disappears, then cautiously she says, "you know...you've been leaving work early a lot lately and coming in looking tired and, no offense, like you've been dragged through a car wash." Raising one eyebrow I look at Anthem quizzically, "a car wash? Aren't those usually suppose to make your car look better?"
"Yeah, your car, but if you've ever went in one yourself you come out looking worse for wear, it's an ugly sight believe me." Placing a hand on her shoulder I say with just as much conviction as her, "I do."
"Wing leaving so soon? We haven't even started the dinner portion of the office party yet, we've set the tables already." Jason, the other one of my close friends, says motioning to the seating arrangements. Glancing over I see the plates of food set out and weird looking tools beside the plates. Scowling I look away and instead focus on Jason.
"I wish I could stay but I've got to watch June's dog while she's out."
"I thought you were headed home, a lot of stuff to do since Days not there to do it?" Anthem says, a suspicious look on her face. Glancing between them I say, "Yeah I'm watching Ollie at my place, easier for all of us." With that I excuse myself and then to go, hoping to avoid any more questions, but know I'm leaving them with more. As I leave I feel them watch me, their stares burning in my back.
Once home I drop all my bags and prepare to change into tonight's clothes, pulling Daniel's folder from its hiding place in my room.
Mission #0124 Crab Trap
Infiltrate krabbs gala 19 Sept 2142
Showtime: 21:30 NO LATER
Plant the goods, dance, run
**BRING A DATE!(Frankie's a good choice ;) )
Short, cryptic, and completely Daniel. His mission statements have the feeling of Daniel in each log, which makes the fact that there's still no sign of Daniel after three weeks a little less bearable, but just a little.
Once changed I text Frankie and a moment later she responds
Be there in five.
Checking one last time that everything's in place I go to Daniel's room and sit on his bed. I could feel the oncoming flashback rising up and being in Daniel's room was the closest I could get to Daniel comforting me. Soon memories of my time being experimented on flash through my brain.
"Get the boy, we're here. Suddenly there's a bright white color somewhere in front of me as the sounds of the train doors open.
"Come on boy, new cell for ya." Cackling laughter could be heard and cold, rough hands grasp Edens shoulders, shoving him from his compartment.
Next there's a new man in a new place, Edens strapped to a table.
"Seems this new serum didn't have beneficial effects on the previous kid. Let's try this one shall we?"
The now familiar burn of the needle injected in his arm along with whatever drug they're experimenting with flows through Eden, the darkness of a blackout welcomed in his damned existence.
Then running footsteps above him. He's back on a train heading to his new destination. Fear and panic rise in him, for he's been listening to the talk of his captives, there's been a stirring in the Republic, Days been giving them trouble. At the mention of Day, Eden's heart aches, missing his brother Daniel. Stumbling and grunting can be heard from outside his compartment, then his door is being thrown open and Eden strains to see who it is, his eyes blurry and almost completely useless. It isn't until he hears Daniel's voice that he knows for certain he isn't experiencing one of his delirious hallucinations. Daniel, his ray of hope in this damning existence, the one thing that pulled him up and made him not give up when death tried to coax him over. His only family left.
The sudden knocking pulled Eden out of his memories and he got up to answer the door, first stopping by the bathroom to splash water on his face and appear normal.
Frankie stood there in a dark green dress, hair pinned half up, some frindles of her brown hair framing her face. Focusing on her a bit he sees she's staring at him, her mouth open a little. Feeling a bit self conscious Eden looks down at his ensemble. Black suit dark green tie, he brushed his hair back out of it's usual messy style and put specialized high grade contacts in that will allow him to see, but not as well as when he wears his glasses. Frankie finally shakes off her stunned expression and gives him a blinding smile, "You look great, shall we go then?" Nodding he makes his way out and into this next mission.
Day
It's not hard to pick the diamonds from the rocks.
As I walk down the formation I mentally pick and analyze the potential recruits that will help me take this new enemy down.
"Hey Greenie, why do you want to be a solider for The Cause?" I ask a short, but well muscled guy who keeps fidgeting and curling and uncurling his fingers. He straightens up when he hears my voice, his blond hair falling into his eyes blocking me from staring directly at him.
"I-uh,I want to be a soldier for The Cause because my mother is sick and I need the money to pay for her medical bills." Snickers from the other cadets sounded around us at the ridiculous reason why he wanted to join. Surely he wouldn't get picked, stories of Days accomplishments have been spread around since he started appearing on the Republic's radar, his reason for joining would be dismissed with a laugh.
Days slow smile as he stared at Greenie shocked everyone. Day looked this possible recruit up and down and seemed to find what he was looking for because he nods his head and mumbles something under his breath before moving on to the next recruit.
(A/N sorry about the sudden POV change I wanted to get into the minds of the recruits around Greenie)
"Why do you want to be a solider for The Cause then, McKenley?" I ask the boy behind Greenie who I noticed kept targeting the former lad.
McKenley stops snickering and straightens up his stance, puffing out his chest and staring straight ahead as he answers, "Sir, I joined this in the hopes of fighting for the people who live here scared to venture out into that society of snooty, cruel bastards. Sir!"
Amused at his response I smirk at him before walking down the line and ask a couple more recruits the same question, not looking for any particular answer, but seeing what character they have in the hopes of finding a few who I could convince to help me.
Finally I stop in the center of the formation and bark out a order, "Alright I want you to split into two groups, one for the recruits who scored highest in combat and endurance and the other, for the recruits who scored highest in tactical skills and strategy." No one moved but looked at each other sharing confused glances.
"NOW!" I raised my voice, rolling my eyes at how they jumped and started to scramble around before splitting into two groups.
Going around I assign numbers to each person, "One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, five, six, seven, eight…" and so on until each person has a number.
"The number I assigned you is who you will be partnered with, your partner is someone from the other group who scored highest in what you scored lowest in. You will be bunking with this person from now on and you will be doing everything with this person. There will be no switching partners, I have your names and who your partner is written down so don't think I won't know. Now, go meet your partner and head to your sleeping quarters."
After giving out my final command I look around and see Greenie slowly start to walk over to McKenley, who has his arms crossed, scowling at Greenie.
Hmmm...This will be interesting.
Turning I walk away from them and head off to my rooms, glad to finally be able to drop this act.
On my way I spot the waiter from yesterday, he's walking down the hallway carrying a huge stack of bed sheets, how he can see where he's going I don't know.
A mischievous smile appears on my face as I head toward him, reaching out and grabbing a sheet from the top of the pile.
"Alfred!"
Alfred jumps backs but his foot gets caught in the carpet in the hall and he stumbles backwards dropping the sheets all along the hallway. I quickly reach out and grab his hand pulling him towards me but I don't think about how much strength I use and he ends up falling forward and crashing into me sending us feeling backwards,
"Oof!" I say as I fall down, Alfred on top of me, pushing the air out my lungs.
He groans and shifts putting one hand on the left side of my head propping himself up his eyes closed and his other hand holding his head.
"Blasted carpets, always catching on something."
Clearing my throat I put on my cocky smirk, "Well this is promising, are you going get up any time soon, or are you going to continue laying on me as I slowly lose air?"
Alfred finally seems to realize he's on me and scrambles off, quickly standing up and brushing off imaginary dust.
"Right, sorry about that. Wait-you were the cause of all this! If you didn't come up out of nowhere and scared me like that this wouldn't have happened, and what's with the name Alfred?" Alfred runs his hand through his hair and glares at me.
Raising my hands in a surrender gesture I say, "I didn't know you would get scared, maybe if you didn't pile on those sheets that high you could've saw in front of you and seen me coming." I retort motioning towards the sheets scattered around us. "As for Alfred, that's the name I assigned you since you didn't tell me what yours was the last time we spoke. What you don't like it?" I fake a hurt voice and pout. Alfred tenses up and looks away, mumbling something under his breath and bends down gathering the sheets. I start to help him but he jerks away and says, "I don't need help from anyone, elite, head housekeeper, chef, and certainly not from you." I stop and look at him, head tilted to one side and try to see what he has against me, and the venomous words against the elite.
"Okay, fine I don't usually offer my help to just anyone but since you don't want my help anyways I guess you can figure this all out on your own. It was nice talking to you Alfred maybe we can continue this some other time." Then I get up and head off to my rooms turning in the direction of where I left the recruits earlier. Alfred seems a bit unhappy here, I wonder what his story is.
Once back at my rooms I close the door and pull out the letter I wrote to June and Eden, written in the language Eden, John and I came up with when we were younger and didn't want mum finding out what we were planning.
Edne,
Mi fase tub ginbe lhed dnuer ruisctiny
E notd wnok hewn ell eb ackb.
Eujn,
E vole oyu eb trons nad vige hist mancomdre lehl.
Rouys walyas,
Nadiel
Folding it up I wait until after dinner to sneak out of my rooms and make my way towards the kitchens. Placing it under a plate cover set by the dishwasher I walk away giving the head chef a wink, grabbing a pastry from the counter nearby. She nods her head and continues washing dishes.
On my way out I pass by Alfred who just stands there eyeing me before turning and disappearing down a different hallway.
I go back to my rooms and let out a long sigh, sliding down my door.
June, how am I going to do this without you?
I know this chapter isn't that long but I wanted it to get out as soon as possible for you guys. I'll write a longer chapter next time which I'm hoping to get down by next Wednesday.
I'll be ending this sorry soon and making it into a sequel. There's just too much I have planned and I don't want to continue it like this so wait for that soon.
Thank you all for continuing this story with me it means so much.
Until next time!
~byee