CH.13

Comings and Goings

Sami set the jet down gently on the edge of a New Addington, It was the only rural spot outside of London. "Alright everyone be careful out there. We are pretty far outside of the city so try to hop the first train you see. " Sami announced. "What about Cliff and Erick? Where are they going to be?" Joel asked "They said they would meet up with you guys under the London eye" Sami announced "Here" Sami placed a GPS in Yuri's very capable hands "I've locked it in here so you should be able to find your way." "Okay is that it?" Shawn asked "Yup now get out of here so I can bear my humiliation alone…" Sami said glumly. "Enjoy your date" Fiona giggled "It's NOT a date!" Sami shirked as the others left the jet to join up with their comrades.

Shortly after they left a knock came at the door of the jet. Sami groaned because the only thing that could be knocking is the thing that she despised. She answered the door "I figured I would do things the traditional way and use the door" He said. "Well if you're having a 'traditional phase' then you should know that it's uncustomary to allow one passage without knowing there name" Sami said snappishly. He laughed a little " The creators called me survivor number five but Kyoko…" he said kyokos name like it was a poison arrow meant to strike Sami, which it did, she winced. "She calls me Alamimo" Sami made a rude noise "Yeah nii-chan always had an affinity for the island; it figures she'd give you an island name." He shrugged his shoulders "Well…Now you know my name will you let me in?" He said as he leaned in too close to Sami. Sami back out of the door way and let him in. "Touch anything and I'll send you back to my sister with broken fingers, understand!" Sami said firmly. Alamimo chuckled a little and as he did his body began to behave strangely. His fingers shortened to normal length and his large bat like wings retracted into his body. Sami was astonished even his pupils went from their strange cat like shape to a normal circle. The only trace of his unusual genes is that his iris remained a strange yellow. Sami stood with her mouth with aw in her eyes wide with astonishment. Alamimo laughed openly at her wide eyed amazement "I thought I resort to my natural form, do you like it?" he purred seductively. Sami didn't respond she just looked down and tried to hide the redness of her face. In truth she did find him very attractive. He moved in slowly and carefully till she could feel him breathing on her. He lifted her chin with two fingers and tried no navigate her mouth to his. Sami shook herself free "You said you wanted to talk so get to it" he frowned at her rejection of him.

"Fine…your sister asked me to keep an eye on you and deliver your coordinates to her before you land so she can send more survivors to attack you and your friends" he said

"Why are you called survivors?" Sami asked

"Because we are the only embryos designed by doctor Argosts that survived"

"Argost! Kyoko teamed up with Argosts! And since when was he a doctor?!"

"Well you see he worked on the project alongside the others but he had a different idea of how we should be created…"he said still in uncomfortable proximity to Sami

"Oh?!" Sami said pushing him back to arms length

"Yes he wanted to create beings that crossed the lines of myth and legend and merge them with a human consciousness" he paused as if to build suspense "Well the others didn't like that so he carried on alone."

"So now explain to me how my sister plays into this?" Sami asked

"Your sister was an accident, a very fortunate accident" Alamimo said with a frown

"What?!" Sami said surprised , she suspected her sister had planed all of this from the time she disappeared two years ago it was a relief to find out she wasn't that deviant.

"Well it's true that she ran away two years ago…"

"Wait she went missing she did not run away!" Sami said furiously

"Sorry love, but the truth is that she was secretly struggling with depression and desperately wanted a release from her life so when she saw an opportunity to run she took it" Alamimo said ambivalently.

Sami's whole body shook as she tried to tame all the new feelings running free inside her. Alamimo looked at her with an honest sympathy that he himself was surprised by. He was unaccustomed to feeling for others and made the longing to comfort her. He took a few steps forward but Sami blocked him from making contact by raising a hand. He gently took the hand in his own and remained in that position until she regained control. Sami looked at him "You can let go now please" he chuckled "Do I have to." Sami blushed and yanked her hand free " Yes!" Alamimo came a little closer to her. "I'm…sorry…it's clear that this was a surprise to you" Sami let her shoulders relax a little "um…thanks I guess. Now please tell me more if you can."

"For you, I can do anything" he said then leaned up against Sami and whispered "I can swear with all honesty that I've never even said that to your sister" Sami switched back into high alert and jumped away from him. He accepted her need for space "very well then" he said shrugging his shoulders.

"Kyoko went straight for the islands and spent about a year there patiently waiting for things to die down and for people to believe she was dead. After she'd accomplished that she began working on the black market as a procurer of strange and rare objects. Then one day Argosts invited her to weird world to discuss some business. It turned out that he wanted her in his quest for Kur but in exchange she wanted to share his power over the world as a queen. Argosts agreed and gave her power over use to command as an army."

"But where does the need to punish me coincide with Argosts plan for world dominance?" Sami asked. "It didn't. She was supposed to simply capture Doyle Blackwell so they could extract the excess energy that he took so many years ago. Then you got involved in his life again and she had an excuse to punish you." Sami eyes began to connect the dots that didn't line up till now. Alamimo tilted his head to look at her "I'm curious, why you haven't asked what she would punish you for…?" Sami look into his yellow eyes shocked. "Its fine you don't have to tell me. I am her favorite remember, she values me as a lover most evenings. And in the moments between the sheets she'll tell me things she wouldn't say to anyone else. I know your sins Sasami…I know about how you and Tatsuya, her former husband found soles in each other after you lost Doyle and his marriage was falling apart." Sami covered her eyes with her hands she felt too ashamed to look at him. "It's true!" she shouted "but he truly loved her…he really did. We were just too young and we all moved to fast…I've always been sorry for that!" Alamimo spoke softly and without being to close "I know you're sorry. I don't look down on you for it really…"

"Thank you" Sami said honestly. "What happens to you now, that you've told me all this?" Sami asked

"Well, if I go back to her she kills me or you do which ever, the point is I die but if you give me a head start I just run until they think I'm dead and try to live a quiet life far away or…" he said letting the words drop.

"Or…What?!"Sami asked

"Or you let me join you and your friends"

"What!?" Sami spouted "Are you insane the others will kill me and what about Ani I don't know how safe you are to keep around such a small child and you were very quick to turn on my sister what's to stop you from betraying us hm…?" Sami said flailing her arms about, having lost her composer. "Not to worry…I'm not going to turn traitor." Alamimo said as he began to pace around the room curiously. Sami stood unmoving and her stillness implied that she was uncomfortable with their agreement. Alamimo sauntered back to her carefully watching her. When he could reach her he pulled her had gently toward his mouth and kissed it. "I'm not going to turn traitor, there are too many benefits that I wouldn't want to jeopardize" as he said though words he gazed at her like she was his goddess. That gaze of course made her go brain dead long enough to invite more trouble by asking a foolish question. "What would thoughts benefits be?" She asked. Alamimo chuckled and leaned in to her more closely than he had before. Then he placed one arm around her waist securing her body against his while he let the fingertips of his other hand travel up from the small of her back to where a little bit of hair that wasn't pulled up graced her face. He gently pushed it back and whispered with hot breath against her cheek " I'd be glad to inform you." and with that he softly kissed her cheek the way a true lover does. Sami was too shocked and enticed to find the will to push him off so she just let him work his kisses from her cheek to her mouth. Once he was there he kissed her so deeply and passionately that her mouth had no chose but to oblige.

Once they both decided to stop he looked at her in a way that reminded her of Doyle. Sami hid her feelings inside herself. "Listen, you can stay but please understand that I can't be in a relationship with you." Alamimo looked hurt but he swiftly turned it into a light humor "That's fine because I wasn't think relationship really…I was thinking more like…" Sami cut him off "don't go there!" and he laughed a little as he watched her turn red. 'Living with them could be fun, for a while' thought Alamimo to himself.

While Alamimo tortured Sami with his perverse humor the others were still desperately trying to find Erick and Clifford they weren't under the Eye as they had promised. "Alright so, new plan" Joel announced "Doyle and I will head up that way" He said pointing to left "Fiona, Shawn you two head south down that road" They nodded and Shawn took Fiona's had as they set off down the road. "Yuri you and Ani stay here maybe they're on the ride". "Alright" Yuri replied, Doyle and Joel set off.

Joel seemed to enjoy the sights but Doyle was too busy thinking about Sami being alone with that thing. It's not that she was weak or anything but because he disliked that that creature clearly had eyes for her! "Relax!" said Joel flinging an arm around his friend "The big bad monster isn't gonna steal your girlfriend." Joel laughed but Doyle just shrugged him off "I don't care." He lied "Besides she broke it off officially last night"

Joel smirked "That's not what it looked like this morning." He waited for Doyle's reaction but received none so he pushed a little harder. "I just don't understand why you two fight it so much you're clearly soul mates." Doyle was about to go off when he heard a familiar voice chime in "That what I thought too." Doyle turned around to look upon his ex-girlfriend Abby gray.

As soon as he saw her the color fled from his face. Abby really hurt him although he'd never admit it out loud. "Doyle what brings you to my home town?" Doyle made a rude sound "Not you; that's for sure!" and proceeded to walk ahead. "Va va va voom! And who are you!?" Joel said. Doyle grabbed him by the sleeve of his coat "No one you need to know about!" Abby stomped a foot "Oh really! So that's what I am to you now, just some ex who you won't even talk about!" Joel and Doyle halted "that's the Ex who stabbed you in the back a while ago right, um…Abby…Abby Grey right?" Doyle grumbled out a yes. "Listen I know things ended badly before but maybe we could try again" Doyle laughed at that "Not a chance!" "Fine but I'm not leaving you alone till you and I clear the air a little." Abby looked very frustrated. Joel picked up quickly on the dark hair and fair eyes that made her look very similar to Sami. In fact he sensed the differences and likenesses so quickly he realized she was a perfect parallel of Sami. He began to laugh out loud at this "Sami would love to meet her." He chuckled sarcastically. "Ah! Who is Sami Doyle?" Doyle rubbed his head 'leave it to Joel to open a can of worms' he thought. "Sami is a long story, one that I don't have time to tell" Doyle said. Abby placed a hand on his shoulder "Make time." She said giving him a death glare. He opened his mouth to give a reply but lucky for Abby a terrible bang stopped him.

He and Joel spun around a local café had just been blown sky high! Before anyone could react something lurched out of the smoke and clipped Abby's arm. It wasn't bad but it startled her. "What the bloody hell was that!" she shouted "Run Abby you can't take this thing on" Doyle shouted back as Joel quickly sprang into combat. "Your not getting rid of me that easily!" Abby cried before following Joel into the frey. Doyle looked around and using his telekinises, sent a nearby table flying forward at the monster.

"Good shot man, I would have thought after all this time your skills would've gotten pretty rusty!" Clifford called out. Doyle turned to greet him and quickly returned to battle. "So let me guesse; you saw it and thought you could get a good price for it some where on the black market here, right?" Joel said as he landed a kick on the monsters face. "Yup! But I ran out of tranquilizer…Anyway this wouldn't happen to be one a thoughs creatures you all warned me about in that e-mail?!"Clifford asked as he used his cryokinesis to freeze it where it stood. "Yes!" Gruntted Doyle as he sent several grenades right into the creatures mouth. I blew up into a million tiny frozen pieces. "You know I thought from the e-mail that it would look more human and less like a part gorilla, part human, part hippo thing" Clifford said as he tossed his already messy hair around. "Yeah…usually they don't look like that but this one seemes to have been an experiment to see how far they could push it."

Abby, having been slightly involved in the take down of the creature sat appalled at how they were clearly trying to leave her out of the loop! "Now that enough between you lot, Now some one please tell me what in gods name just happened here!" Clifford sized her up with his eyes. Sure she was pretty but there was no way he was saying anything. So he did what he thought would be the best course of action; he walked away. Joel followed after him and then Doyle. " What so that's it your just going to have me fight some gruesome creature then not tell me anything!?" Abby persisted spoildly. She made a small "humph!" but followed them back to the eye. Doyle turned around abruptly " Listen Abby you and I had a good thing but now its gone so get over it and get lost!" Abby pouted and stormed off having clearly been kicked to the curb.

Clifford pointed out that Erick was up in the eye so all they had to do was wait. After an hour of waiting Erick and a young women carrying a small baby stepped out of the eye. "Hello everyone sorry we kept you waiting." Erick said. Yuri looked back and forth between the two. It didn't take long for him to reilaize that this was Ericks small family. "I can understand wanting more time to say good bye to your family." Doyle looked on amazed that once again someone from long ago had settled down and started a family. "Oh he's just so adorable Joel! He's got the sweetes cheeks I've ever seen!And how have you been my dear?" He spouted as he approached the young women. " I'm just fine Joel, it's good to see you again since the baby was been born" Joel smiled warmly as he extended a finger to the small baby boy. " So what name did you guys stick him with?" Joel chooed as if the question was for the baby. "He's called called Toby" Erick said taking hold of his son. "Hey, Doyle how've you been?" Erick asked. Clifford smaked his back hrad enough that he wouldn't answer "He's been killen monsters and blowing things up" answered Clifford in Doyles sted. " And kick'n a nasty ex to the curb" Joel chimmed in enthusiastically. " Well it's nice to know some people will never change." Erick smiled as he said it. "So I guesse I should introduce my wife Nina and my son Toby" Erick said and Nina reached out and gave Doyle a firm hug and a kiss on the cheek. "Well its been a lovly reunion brother, but we have a jet to chatch and more monsters to kill." Clifford said as he and Yuri walked away. Joel went ahead and called Fiona and Shawn telling them to get back to the ship . " Don't listen to them, just take your time saying your good byes." Doyle said hating to tear up such a sweet young family, it made him think of his parents. Erick understood and wrapped things up as quickly as he could. Of course there were a few tears but it was a good parting of the ways.

Ch.14

Stay close away from me!

Once they made it back to the jet it was getting close to dusk. As they entered to control area they were greated by a very red faced Sami. "What in the world took you so long!" Sami shouted. Erick smiled " Clifford and I had some lat minute business to attend to." Sami breathed deeply and stompped over to Alamimo "Meet the new guy hell, er… I mean he'll be staying with use now. He's decided to stick on our side…" Sami said making a slight frodian slip. "Oh really and what makes you think he'll stay on our side" Shawn pointed out. Alamimo stalked up behind Sami and pulled her body closer to his by wrapping his arms around her waist "This gig comes with better benefits" He said as he smiled wickedly. Sami clearly looked uncomfortable and Doyle had to be restrained from jumping him right then and there by Clifford. Shawn just laughed a little under his breath. Sami's face having run out of shades of red began to go purple. "Alamimo, please let go now" she strained the words out through her teeth. "Fine." He said and he let go.

"Really though why do we even have to keep him huh?" asked Doyle once he'd calmed down enough to use words. " Because he's got valuable info and more importantly if we send hm back he dies and I can't send him to his death, besides he'd got no where eles to go" She said. " Humph! Whatever" Doyle said as he marched out of the room. Sami rubbed her face in frustration. "So plan on telling us everything you've learned today from your date" Fiona said baitingly. Sami just balled up a fist " I'm waiting until after our next pick up and then I'll get to it. And it wasn't a date" Sami hissed the lat part. Fiona just sauntered off giggling. Yuri approached her next " I don't know how I feel about him being in the same space as my kid" Sami looked passed Yuri to see that Ani seemed to be making a new friend in Alamimo. Looking back at Yuri she said " Not to worry we've already talked about it and he likes kids." Yuri hissed "Yeah I'm sure he does, along with a side of mash potato's!" Sami shrugged " He said he wouldn't hurt her and besides Ani seems to be taking to him already, looked behind you" Sure enough Yuri looked back and saw that his daughter had discovered a new and dangerous play mate. As the blood ran out of Yuri's face Sami just laughed. Ani waved to her father absent mindedly as she played with her new friend.

The ride to the next location felt incredibly long for Sami. While it seemed that Fiona, Ani, Clifford and Shawn seemed to take Alamimo, the others were still less than happy about his having joining them. Joel and Yuri were unhappy but could continue working peacefully. Erick laid down the law quickly and made sure Alamimo would understand by creating an intense humidity around him. Doyle was the one most troubled by him. Every chance Alamimo got he would touchier Doyle. He would mock him for his feelings toward Sami and openly relayed the events that had passed between them. "You know she actually let me kiss her" He purred into Doyle's ear once. Doyle then spun around and tried to punch him in the face. Luckily Joel was near by and blocked it "We all have to try and keep calm, I know its hard but their isn't much we can do about it." Doyle backed off but didn't let it drop. He went to Sami instead to confront her about that kiss she gave him.

"Yes, I kissed him." She said ashamed. Doyle was frustrated but he wasn't willing to believe that Sami would be so bluntly hurtful. "Well, were you the one who initiated the … kiss?" The lat words made him want to puke but he held it down. "No" Sami replied simply. Doyle let out a sigh of relief. His relief was quickly turned back into bitter frustration when Sami said something unnecessary. "Doyle please don't let this be such a big deal. It's not like you and I are together anymore." Doyle wanted to die " Yeah we aren't together now but when things are settled that's when you'll want me back again. but I want be there!" Doyle shouted. Sami replied less then Cooley "Don't you dare say such a thing!"

" Why not it's the truth! You've done this since we were kids. 'Come here' 'no wait I take it back'!"

"Don't be so dramatic, I haven't done anything like that since I was fifteen! And how dare you talk about being the one pushed away!"

"Sami, I didn't have a chose you know that!"

"Really because from where I was standing you were a frightened kid who was so afraid of the future you ran and left me behind to carry on all your shit!" She shouted

That last one really stung because in his heart he knew it was true. Doyle never told Sami but the night he had fought and escaped. He realized then that what he had done would follow him his whole life. He never told Sami that it was Kyoko who pulled the trigger that night. She was so afraid of the intense power inside of him she tried to kill him. Right now though he was so frustrated that he wanted to tell her everything but the underlined love he still felt for her wouldn't allow it. Sami however saw this as an opportunity to let out all of her frustrations.

"You know that you basically killed me, right!? I didn't even want to do it, I wanted to call you a coward!" Sami's words made Doyle fell (for the first time in a long time) ashamed of what he'd done to her.

"Why didn't you follow through then huh?" Doyle asked softly

"Because I love you stupid! And somewhere in the back of my mind I thought that by being away from me and this life you'd some how be better off." Sami slapped her hands over her mouth.

"Sami there hasn't been anything that was better then you or that's even come close." Doyle chose his next words carefully." I know that you think that because this is a life you were born into and a life that I just took on but there wasn't a moment where I didn't think it was worth it." Doyle said and he grabbed her hand and lead her away to his room on the ship. He wanted to finish things somewhere private where they wouldn't be disturbed.

They stat closely on his bed " I know that tings were hard on you especially when we wanted to start a family and we found out you couldn't. I know that memory is the one that was part of what made you follow through. You felt like you were suddenly not enough but the truth is that you were always more than enough you were the first bit of family I had ever really had."

Sami smiled at the last part "Even though Ryuu hated you?"

Doyle laughed " Especially because Ryuu hated me!"

Sami laughed and the pressure between them seemed to lessen. She took Doyle's hands and said "Things won't get any easier after this but I need you to know that their isn't a piece of me that doesn't still love you but there are things that I've done after I erased your memory that are wrong and veil but even then it always came back to you."

Doyle just sat there keeping his space " like what things?"

Sami went to leave "The kind of things that are best left unsaid." and with that she left.

CH.15

They were about 10 hours and Halfway when Yuri received a message from his old comrade. Ansfrida had sent him an e-mail which he eagerly opened. It was short and to the point just as she would be in real life. She simply requested that her son had accepted the invitation on her behalf and had only informed her recently of there coming. She prudently stated that she was retired from such madness and would prefer to decline from his offer.

Yuri was sad to know that she wouldn't come to her old friends need but he was even sadder that they had wasted so much time! He had to inform Sami of course about the change of planes. She was to say the least less than pleased. "Are you kidding me! What a selfish cow! After all this and she didn't even think twice about telling use no!" Yuri sighed " I'm sure she thought it through a little" Yuri lied. "Shoot! I had a plan to refuel there. This thing doesn't just run on sunshine you know!" Sami said

Yuri pulled one of his paternal tricks he'd picked up over the years of looking out for Sami.

"Listen lets head for Alkmaar, Call your brother and have him round up the girls and meet us half way. Then we can head back to America more quickly." Sami huffed but Yuri's words made sense "Yeah, fine."

Yuri took a moment to appericiate this moment and get a few questions out " So what exactly is going on with you and Doyle? I'm not prying I just think I should know." Yuri asked. " I want to say were sort of in a hybernation. I think that we've found a place to be for now that isn't to intamet." Sami said not looking at Yuri. "Well may I ask why you can't be intamet now?" Sami tried to think of a good answer but in truth she had none. In her own heart she knew that it was only foolishness that was stopping her. Sami was the only one not to realized it, but he never really changed on the inside.

Her silence was enough of an answer for Yuri "Exactly!" He said before he left her to take care of busieness

Later that night after they'd landed and she contacted her brother Sami slipped out. She went to sit up alone at the stars. As she reached the top she realized she wasn't alone. Alamimo was quietly sitting looking up at the sky. "Hello, do you mind if I join you?" Sami asked nicely. Alamimo smiled brightly and nodded for her to come closer. They sat for a good ten minutes till Alamimo spoke " Sami what happenes to me after this?" He said it very seriously like a child who had no real understanding of the world. Sami tried not to look to sad as she replied " I'm not sure, what do you want to happen?"

"I want to go some place where I can fly for miles and maybe some where peaceful where I can have a family." He said

" Well what's stopping you! After this you could do that." Sami said with some encouragement.

"I don't have any evidence of my existence, how am I supposed start a life if it's not written anywhere that I excise."

"I never thought about that. Well if you can promise me you want be to much of a pervert and stick with us I'll reward you with an identity!" Sami said trying to cheer him up.

Alamimo smiled " That sounds fair enough, deal!"

Sami realized for the first time that Alamimo was actually good at heart and their were parts of him that she could be friends with. They stayed up on the roof for a good hour or so. They talked about there lives where they came from and what they wanted out of life.

"You know" Sami spoke "I really like you." Alamimo jumped " Fantastic! I like you to we should stick together and have babies!" Sami quickly punch him in the arm. " No way! I meant that you're a good friend! Besides I can't have babies anyway…"

Alamimo understood that it was a soft spot that wasn't to be discussed any further.

" Listen it's late, have a good night." Sami said it seemed she wasn't angry about it but Alamimo wouldn't push it.