Seeing Double
Disclaimer: All rights reserved to Graeme Manson, John Fawcett and the BBC.
Summary: A small English family living in Ontario are pulled into a strange series of events after meeting a group of identical looking girls they don't know that the girls might just reveal more about their history.
The Sister
Katy's POV
I was feeling excited as I turned my key in the lock. I pushed open the door and walked in expecting everyone to be asleep, but of course my family always surprise.
"Auntie Katy!" I turned slightly to see my nephew running down the stairs with a Cheshire grin on his face. He got almost to the bottom of the stairs and jumped into my arms.
"Little Menace!" I shouted as I spun him around and he giggled away to himself.
I put him down and I saw Rick and Chris emerge from their room, still looking half asleep. They looked at me and perked up immediately.
"You're back!" they said excitedly as they threw their arms around me.
"Yeah, yeah, I missed you too."
"Hey," We turned around when we heard Tommy complain. "You can't take Auntie Katy from me." he said pouting.
"Can't we just borrow her for a few minutes?" Rick asked Tommy, batting his eyelashes to try and look cute but instead looking creepy.
"Well okay, but just for a few minutes." Tommy said looking sternly at his father.
"Thanks buddy." Chris said ruffling his nephews hair.
"Be quick!" he said walking into the kitchen and we couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"So, how have you managed to survive without me?" I asked after we had recovered from our laughing fit. I had been gone for a week to check on my overemotional friend Emily who had been broken up with another boyfriend. So being a 'good friend' I had to be there to comfort her.
"Well..." Rick said looking kind of awkward, like he was contemplating whether he should tell me something.
"We kind of need you to check something out for us." Chris said looking just as awkward as his brother.
"Oh, what is it?" I asked curiously. I was in desperate need of a project as I was currently unemployed(don't judge) and I was waiting to get more stuff on my university résumé before I enrolled.
They suddenly looked at each other and they did that weird thing where they have a silent conversation using facial expressions and body language. I never understood it, must be a twin thing. Eventually Rick's shoulders sagged and Chris nodded, it seemed like Chris had won.
"Let's just say it's... complicated" Chris said.
"Okay, well give it to me and I'll see what I can do." I said in reply, ignoring the awkward tension in the air.
Chris took a thin, medium sized, red pen drive out of his jeans pocket and handed it to me.
"I'll look at it as soon as I can." I said slipping it into my jacket pocket.
"Thanks" Chris said. I started noticing that Chris seemed to be doing all the talking which was strange considering that he was the quiet one and even stranger, Rick looked like he was just waiting uncomfortably. Just then Tommy ran in shouting "Times up!"
He grabbed my hand and led me up the stairs and into his room while rambling about all the presents he had gotten for his birthday which happened just before I left.
"Oh my god..." I said to myself as I collapsed onto my bed. I had been playing with Tommy for around seven hours until his father had finally come in and decided to give me a break. I loved my nephew and his seemingly always happy attitude, but the little golden haired boy was very tiring. I swore that kid had ADHD or something. Just as I was about to nod off I remembered the pen drive and decided to get started on that in case I slipped into a coma and forgot about it.
I plugged the pen drive into my USB port and opened the documents on it. It took a long time, almost two hours to decipher the pass codes and break past the firewalls. When I finally broke into the actual files I felt like celebrating as my brain hurt from all the previous encryptions. The files looked pretty normal for a start, something about multiple births via IVF and a bunch of other crap about pregnancy rates and DNA scans, I was mainly wondering what the hell my brothers were doing with this. But then things started getting weird. "The fuck..."
I stormed down the stairs and into the living room where Chris was watching TV while Tommy and Rick were playing with legos.
"Rick, Chris," I said getting their attention. "I really need to speak with you."
Tommy continued playing with his legos while the brothers looked at each other worried and walked with me upstairs.
"What is it?" Rick asked looking worried, Chris had the same expression.
"The files on that pen drive are really messed up" I said entering my bedroom which was directly across from Tommy's, our bathroom in the middle of the two. "Look, there are all these articles about multiple births, IVF, almost identical DNA scans..."
"Yeah, what else?" Chris asked eagerly.
"Look at these particular files," I said opening a document labelled and Project Leda and up popped pictures of many people, all identical, the only major changes being hair colour or piercings for some of them. "Look, there are three sections of this file each with at least eleven identical people." I said noticing the looks of disbelief on their faces.
I opened up a file labelled Discouri and around thirteen files appeared. I click on one that made the twins freak.
Name: Rick Smith
Place of Origin: London, England, United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 17th of August 1988; 9:38 PM
Carrier: Maria Anderson
Significant Other(s): Robyn Smith(Adoptive Mother), Cameron Smith(Adoptive Father), Christopher Smith(Twin Brother), Catherine Smith(Adoptive Sister), Thomas Smith(Biological Son)
Status: Living; Monitored
External Information Link
I moved onto the next one.
Name: Christopher Smith
Place of Origin: London, England, United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 17th of August 1988; 9:52 PM
Carrier: Maria Anderson
Current Residence: Ontario, Canada
Significant Other(s): Robyn Smith(Adoptive Mother), Cameron Smith(Adoptive Father), Rick Smith(Twin Brother), Catherine Smith(Adoptive Sister), Thomas Smith(Biological Nephew)
Status: Living; Monitored
External Information Link
"Wait, wait, wait!" Rick shouted as he stared disbelievingly at the strange files which pretty much described he and his brothers life.
"Yeah but that's not the weirdest thing." I said and they each gave me a look which said 'how is that not the weirdest thing'.
I left that file and opened one labelled Helen. It came up with fifteen files and I clicked on one.
"Oh my god.." Was all the twins could say. On the screen was a file almost identical to Rick and Chris's, except it read.
Name: Catherine Smith
Place of Origin: Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Birth: 6th of April 1984
Carrier: Lindsey Malone
Current Residence: Ontario, Canada
Significant Other(s): Robyn Smith(Adoptive Mother), Cameron Smith(Adoptive Father), Rick Smith(Adoptive Brother), Christopher Smith(Adoptive Brother), Thomas Smith(Adoptive Nephew)
Status: Living; Monitored
External Information Link
The twins looked like they were lost in a daze, blankly staring at the wall.
"Yeah, do that for an hour and you'll be where I am now." I said , snapping back to reality.
"So... Why do these people have files on us?" Chris asked me looking even more confused than before.
"I don't know but with some of the information I've been getting it looks like it was some sort of experiment about multiple births. I mean how can the DNA match up so perfectly?" I replied still not knowing how to make sense of this. "But I still don't get why there are so many identical people on this file."
"Did there happen to be a woman on those files called Hazel?" Chris asked, looking like he would die if he didn't find out about this Hazel woman.
"I don't know, I'll just check." I said exiting the file and going onto a different file called Clytemnestra. Right enough there was a file on there with Hazel on it. "Here she is. She was born on the 29th of March 1990 in Nice, France. It seems that she was in contact with a guy called Peter Beaumont. Peter was also on the Discouri file and was from the same place as Hazel."
"Wait did you say French?" Chris asked looking urgent.
"Yeah, how come?"
Chris went on to explain his story about the French doppelganger who flung himself from the old factory and I realised why they were so freaked out.
"So that's why you two have been acting so weird."
"Yeah, would you be able to find out her address? Maybe we could contact her."
"Yeah it says she lives somewhere in San Francisco, uh, 19 Geary Boulevard." I said after clicking on the information link.
"When could we go?" Rick finally asked, for once he was so quiet that I had kind of forgotten he was there.
"Well, we might be able to leave in, like, two days." she said.
"We'll have to see if I can dump Tommy off at mum and dad's for a while. I'll need to come up with a good lie too."
"Yeah," Chris started "It would be kind of awkward, 'hey mum, hey dad, can you look after Tommy while we travel to America to try and find our messed up doppelgangers?'"
"You two get that sorted out and I'll try and get this shit sorted out a bit."
They left the room and headed down to the living room, trying to come up with a good lie which would stop our parents from worrying about us. After they left I checked out the Helen file and looked at some of the women in it. Alison Hendrix, Cosima Niehaus, Elizabeth Childs, the resemblance between them and myself. Another creepy thing I noticed that they were all born on the same year that I was, 1984.
I was really hoping that this had a good explanation because I was starting to wonder if my brothers were pulling a really messed up prank on me. Although I seriously doubted that they would fly across the border to pull a prank. I decided to look more into this and try to piece some of the pieces together. After around another two hours of research tiredness got the better of me and I slipped into the lulling embrace of sleep.
Hey guys, so this is the next chapter to my favourite (selfmade) fanfic. So yeah a lot of weird stuff in this chapter and yes, I have made Katy a clone. Anyway, once again please review and tell me how you're liking the story so far because I'm kind of worried that I might have rushed this chapter a bit.