Second Life 3
The plane arrived on the mainland and she boarded the ferry for the island. She headed to the house, her house and entered. It was almost the same as when she was last here, just with a light layer of dust. She spent the next week buying modern furniture and cleaning the house. She called Matt and asked if he could send her the rest of her stuff from her Hell's Kitchen apartment; he agreed.
Two weeks later her stuff came over on the ferry. Two of the deckhands helped her load everything into the car she bought and watched her drive off with it. She managed to load everything into the house and let her OCD arrange everything. Feeling like she exercised a little bit, she cut down her evening work out down to just a long run around the island. Her running route took her past their old house. It was still empty.
She incorporated that run into her every day routine. And for a month; the house that still belonged to Mark and Abby, remained empty. She began to despair and soon stopped looking at the house when she ran past. She was planning her next move to track them down one day as she ran past in the morning. Since she no longer looked at the house and the plans were firmly in her mind; she didn't see activity around the house and a newly blonde Abby staring at her running form.
Abby followed her and saw that she lived in the same house as the last time she lived on the island. She watched from the outside and Elektra went inside and reappeared ten minutes later in her swimming gear and watched as she headed towards the ocean. When Abby was sure that Elektra had gone she headed into the house and wandered from room to room, checking to make sure that it was in fact Elektra that lived in the house again. Abby lost track of time as she wandered the first floor and soon the second floor.
Elektra had finished her swim that hid her tears, and headed home. The second she entered her house, she knew someone was inside. Closing her eyes and letting her power guide her to the second floor and the guest room she was slowly transforming into her office. Silently she peeked in the room and saw Abby. Barely concealing her gasp of delight and surprise, Elektra wrapped her arms around the girl, startling her. But Elektra spoke before Abby could do anything about the arms around her waist.
"You know I normally don't tolerate thieves, and if I let you go once, I normally don't do that again. But I think I'll make an exception for you." She then let the younger girl go, and Abby spun around on the spot and planted her hands on her hips.
"I didn't steal anything, this time. I just wanted to see if it really was you." Abby defended herself before throwing her arms around the older woman. The 22 year old was still smaller than the redhead. Elektra returned the hug, squeezing the younger one to her.
"I've been looking for you." Abby said, her voice muffled by Elektra's shoulder. Elektra pulled back to see Abby's face.
"For how long?" she asked.
"Four years." Abby said. "I had lost hope this last year and just decided to return as soon as I had graduated for college. I got back late last night, and my stuff got here this morning on the early morning ferry."
"Oh Abby, four years ago I didn't want to be found. By anyone. I wanted to travel, see the world as at tourist, not an assassin. I did that for the first six years of the last seven. I returned to New York to put my past there behind me and get closure from an old flame. Then I had supplies to get. I needed to sai blades and I needed to visit a friend in Japan. It was there I decided to try and find you and your father." Elektra pulled Abby to her again and closed her eyes. Abby couldn't believe that Elektra was here again. She missed the older woman so much, as had her father.
"Where's your dad?" Elektra asked a few minutes later after letting the younger woman go and leading her to the sofa.
"He has another week in office before he can work from home out here. He told me to go on ahead and he'd catch up." Abby answered, hiding a smirk knowing what she really wanted to know.
"How's he doing?" She answered hoping that Abby would take pity on her and answer the unasked question in her voice.
"He's good, seemed lonely. He's been single for the last few years. He tried dating but they were all too mundane for him, so he got bored pretty quickly. So he swore off dating for a few years." Abby answered and watched as Elektra sighed and relaxed in relief.
"Personally, I think he was comparing every woman to mom and you." She added, just to be a pain and watched as Elektra blushed bright red.
The two fell into their pattern of teasing each other as Elektra cooked a simple meal for the two of them. They ate in silence before planning on how to surprise Mark. They came up with a simple plan that Elektra would be in the house while Abby went to pick her dad up from the ferry in a week. That was the extent of the plan as far as Abby was sure of. Elektra planned to greet him with a kiss, one that he would hopefully return.
But only time would tell, and Elektra knew that she would need to stay extra busy for the next seven days to avoid going nuts.
And that's what she did. Mornings were a solitary run through the small island streets, her eyes closed. She'd break for a solitary breakfast before she would start swimming until lunch. Lunch, take out that would be with Abby and then they'd work on her unarmed combat, and the second day is when she presented Abby with her new warrior beads and her pair of Sai blades. They'd practice and train until dinner where they would head to either house and create a meal together before parting for the night.
Finally the day Mark arrived on the ferry arrived and Abby let Elektra into the house as she left to pick her father up. She hoped that he hadn't given up hop and moved on, she wanted Elektra to stay around forever and knew that if her dad moved on, she'd leave so they wouldn't see her breaking heart.
She started cooking, hoping to have the food ready soon, so they could all eat together. The meal was simple and cooked easily, which was a real blessing to Elektra as she was so nervous that she would have ruined anything more complex because she couldn't pay attention. When it was cooking she could no longer control her nerves and started to pace back and forth until the sound of Abby's car reached her ears. She held her breath as Abby led her father, who hadn't aged at all up the stairs. Abby started speaking just outside the door, and Elektra moved to where she could hear what she said.
"I have a surprise for you Dad." She started and even Elektra could hear the smile in her voice.
"What is it Abby?" Mark asked, sounding tired. The last few years had been both exhausting and wonderful at the same time, and all he really wanted was to go to bed and hopefully be visited by Elektra. He had given up hope of finding her long before Abby had.
"Stick was right." Abby said simply and rushed on to explain. "Stick said that if she didn't want to be found, no one would find her. We would have to wait for to want to be found, than she'd find us." Abby opened the door and Elektra backed up to allow it room to move and to be seen. Mark walked into the house, his eyes on her and his face pale, like he'd seen a ghost.
"Elektra."