Story: 21ste century meets the 22ste

Author: Wizard92

Chapter 14: You gave me wings so I can fly

"Do you have any idea where you are going?" Lucas asked me. He was standing a few meters behind me, gun in his hand and bag on his back. Do I really have to ask him to help me? I was a totally bitch a few minutes ago, like hell he's going to do that: "Not really."

"You should rest for awhile before you decide to go hop around the jungle," He smirked and walked over to me. Maybe he did have a point. It's not like I'm going to get far. And I don't even know where I'm going: "How are you expecting to get back to the camp?"

"You'll bring me back?" I tried but the smirk he had on his face didn't seem very trustful. Who knows where he would take me. Maybe he would bring me back to Mira's camp or he would just dump me when I'm in the middle of now where: "Haha nice try. No I'm on my way to somewhere already. I guess you'll just have to come with me."

"You are joking right?" What is he up to? I don't want to go with him, but what choice do I really have. I have no clue of where I am or in what direction I should go. And then there's also the change of being caught by Mira or running into another dinosaur. My stunned face made him smirk again. God, I hate that smirk. It always means he's either mocking me or planning something. And I'm' not really sure if that's a good idea.

"You know that taking me along with you will slow you down a lot, it would be better to just drop me of at the camp and …" I tried to make Lucas see reason but he didn't want to listen. He started walking in the direction I had been going: "Not going to happen. If you really want to go back suite yourself. Good luck. You should reach the camp back before nightfall, that is of course if you go in the right direction and if you don't run into any trouble. Or in your case hob into any trouble."

"Why are you doing this? Don't you have your calculations to work on? And besides I'll probably drive you completely insane before you even arrive at your destination," I asked and tried to make him see reason. Why does he want to take me along? I'll just get us into more trouble. I am going to kill Sky when I find her. If I even ever get back to the camp. Why did I have to go with them? Why couldn't I have been the good girl and stayed home with Justin?

"I need to go to this place before I can continue. It's not like you really have a choice. You have no idea where you are going and I'm the only one with a gun. You should be thanking me that I'm willing to let you come with me," he smirked at me again and kept on walking: "You coming?"

I wanted to scream, stomp my foot on the ground and kick the mad man. He deserved it! Why is he doing this to me? I want to go home, back to Justin. Since when do I consider the camp my home? Whatever, my ankle is in pain and I'm not dressed for a walk through the jungle that might last days. Please let someone come and look for me and find me and free me from this mad man: "I guess I'll just have to distract you and steal your gun when you aren't paying attention."

"I'd love to see you try," the everlasting smirk was still covering Lucas his face, but there was also a look in his eyes that didn't make me feel quite comfortable. You have no idea how much I want to strangle this man right now. Dame you Lucas! I got pulled out my tantrum when I heard branches break. Shit, maybe it's a dinosaur. I quickly hobbled after Lucas and elbowed him to stop laughing: "You're quite entertaining you know?"

"Shut up!"

Lucas (POV)

What am I getting myself into? This is so stupid! I should just leave her here and run of. It would save me a lot of time. With that ankle of hers she'll slow me down a lot. Why did I decide to take her with me? I don't want to be stuck with some over hormonal teenager like this one. Speaking of the over hormonal teenager: "Just so you know, I hate you and your father is better company."

She knows how to push my buttons, I'll give her that. I started wondering if she would even get to the portal without me killing her along the way. I made myself count to ten before I reacted. I didn't want another reaction like with the box. My father had always said I had bad self-control. That moment was like giving in to him. I had self-control. I just needed to watch it: "And why is that?"

"He doesn't annoy me as much as you do. He gave me food, a doctor, cloths, a home and a job. What did you give me? A sprained ankle and a rebuild face. Oh and an annoying city trip thru the freaking jungle." God, does she ever shut up? I wanted to react on her, but I guess she was sort of right. Not about the sprained ankle, but the other two were my fault. Well what's so bad about this 'city trip'? She's making it sound like's going to be hell. If I'm right about things, which I usually am, my father will come to the portal too and she can leave with him while I go back to 2149. Thanks to Sky it will all work.

I got this figured out and now that I'm thinking about it this way is faster.

I hope.

I didn't answer on her comment and just kept walking. I could hear her hobbling behind me. I made sure that I wasn't going too fast. We didn't talk and we weren't going to slow. This might actually work without killing her. Hours started passing and it amazed me that she hadn't complained yet. Maybe we should take a break, I am getting hungry. I turned around and saw the girl desperately needed a break. She was having breathing problems and she kept making a painful face every time she jumped.

"We're taking a break. Rest, I'm getting some food," I told the girl and she sat down on a rock. Getting food in this area wasn't hard. I easily found some fruits and went back to the girl. Ugh, this is getting ridiculous, Alexis. Her name is Alexis. God, what happened to my plan of staying away from her? Forgetting about her. I helped her escape, that should have made up for my outburst.

Alexis was massaging her ankle. It looked rather thick, so that can't be good. At least she isn't breathing so heavily anymore: "How's your ankle?"

"A bitch," she answered and gladly took the fruit from me. Someone's hungry. Now that I think about it we didn't eat breakfast this morning. I sat down next to her: "So where are you from?"

"Are we really going…" she started. She seemed rather annoyed by my question. I wasn't really trying to find out who she worked for. I guess I'm just interested or something: "No, I'm just asking where you are from. You can choice what you tell me."

"A suburb of Detroit. Nice place to live actually, quite area, lake nearby to swim in and the school lays close by," she told me. She smiled when she was telling about her home. She seems sincere about her home. But I wasn't going to give into all the signs that were telling me she was telling the truth: "And Chicago isn't that far away for a city trip with friends. Last year we went to Paris for five days."

"You're allowed to do that?" I asked surprised. People aren't allowed to just go to another city. And why would you do that anyway? I was in Paris for a weekend when I was 19 and it didn't look good. I had read about the city in its glory days. I even saw a documentary of it. I'll admit it looked good hundreds of years ago, but now it looked like every city did, fallen and ugly.

"What you mean? Paris is a beautiful city. The Eifel tower and Sacre Coeur are so beautiful in the dark with the spot lights shining on them. So romantic, if there had been a good looking guy I would have fallen in love right then and there. And the small streets at the Sacre Coeur are so much fun to walk thru. You can find anything in the small shops there." Alexis had a dreamy look in her eyes. How can she come up with these lies so easily. How the hell does she know these things? My father would never come up with the idea of training someone with knowledge of the past and what would he gain with it?

It doesn't make any sense. Not being able to understand what her plan is unnerving me.

"In 2149 you aren't allowed to just have a city-trip with friends. Besides it's not like anyone wants to go outside anyway." I explained and kept analyzing her face. She didn't give anything away. Her smile dropped and her eyes gave a way that she didn't understand me: "Pollution has destroyed the world. You can't go out anymore without a breather and even when people go out they make sure they hurry up. City's look terrible and the sky has turned into a blown glow instead of blue. People don't even want to come outside anymore."

"So basically the world stinks?" She asked and looked straight at me. I hadn't noticed before that the girls eyes were green. They weren't bright green like mine, they were darker. I kept a hold of her gaze, but she didn't budge: "Yep."

"Ha, no wonder you would come here. I'd go mad if I couldn't go out. Thank god I was born in 1992. At least we can still shoot fireworks in the air at New Years Eve." Alexis sighed and laid down on the grass. She stretched he leg a few times, her knee must still hurt from her stay at Mira: "What were you doing? On New Year's Eve?"

"Partying with friends, basically getting drunk and eating a lot of food without having to deal with angry parents because we got drunk. You ever been drunk?" Yeah right, like I have time for stuff like that: "People don't do that in 2149, only the riche have money for alcohol."

"Ha, never thought I'd meet a guy of 25 who has never been drunk. You don't see that a lot where I come from," she laughed at the thought. How do people find time to get drunk? And why would they do it? It's a bitch in the morning, sometimes you can't even remember what happened and it's just a waste of money: "Who sais I'm 25?"

"You seem to be around that age, I'm right aren't I?"

"Maybe, how old are you?"I had been curious about her age. She seemed to be around the 18, 19 years old. Basically just a kid. Must be weird for a kid to just end up in some other timeline, not that I actually believe her: "Ugh you never ask a woman her age moron. I'm insulted now. And I'm 20 by the way. God I'm so old already."

"Why is that old?" I wouldn't have guessed her to be that old, not that it's really old. I don't get why she thinks that's old. She doesn't look like a woman of twenty. Shouldn't woman of that age look sophisticated or something?

"Because 20 means you have to act like an adult. When you are 19 you are still seen as a teenager, but when you're 20 you're suddenly an adult. The horror! Now I can't just go to Disneyland because I feel like it. What would people say?" Alexis seemed to find the idea of being 20 very unappealing. I had to agree with her about having to act like a grownup, not that she would know what that would mean.

"Drama queen."

"You have no idea dude."

Alexis started telling me about her home life: about her friends, her collage, her parents, her brother, her dog, her trip to the zoo with kids she babysits on in the weekend. She was rather talkish when she wasn't a being a bitch. I noticed that I didn't mind her talking. It was kind of relaxing to listen to her story's and complaints. She had a lot to tell and it made me kind of believe her whole story. There is just no way that she would know so much else. There isn't much left of that time. In 2030 things started to change drastically and many people died. Maybe coming here saved her life.

I don't understand her though. She was annoying this morning, but now she's okay. She doesn't complain or yell at me or acts annoying. She seems to open up and act like what happened at Mira's camp didn't happen. Speaking of that, she hasn't really said anything about it. She mentioned it this morning, but that was it, she didn't really start accusing me.

She's so weird.

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