If I wasn't distracted by the girl with blonde hair I would have been prepared for what happened next. The little girl was dressed in a red dress and had the most adorable brown eyes you've ever seen. What was most amazing about this girl was her blonde hair went all the way down to her feet like Repunzel. The hair was made into a French braid with ribbons entwined in her locks. I must have stared at her for only ten seconds when I felt something sharp come across my shoulder making me scream in pain. At first I thought I was shot by a bullet but, I didn't hear anything fire. I stretched my hand across my shoulder to find a dart stuck to my back. I looked over to were it was shot, the person that shot me like an animal was the nameless Latino woman with a silver bamboo shooter.
I noticed that Hitler wasn't with her but, with the girl. They were speaking to each other in German but, I could understand what they were saying.
"Klara! You came home early," said the Frau in a sweet voice. I've never thought I'd see the day Hitler would talk sweet.
"Who are they?" asked Klara
"Never mind who they are, just people I'm doing business with. Now it's late it's past your bedtime."
"Can you read me to sleep, mommy?"
"Not tonight sweetheart I have to talk business with my clients but, Mama Rosa can read you to sleep!" The Latino woman named Rosa was at Hitler's side. Rosa said something in Spanish to her lover then they give a quick kiss on the cheek. Once Mama Rosa took Klara to her room rapidly talking to each other in Spanish I felt the effects of the dart kicking in. Out of panic I thought the puta poisoned me until Hitler said, "Get up and sit on the sofa. If you try to attack any of us I'll command you to put that dagger into your neck till you bleed to death."
Usually I would have rebelled against being told what to do unless it was by Rubik but, I was doing what she told me to do. Standing up and walking over to the sofa was like being pulled by strings by a puppeteer. As I sat on the sofa I realized that dart in my shoulder injected a serum call Obey. Obey was an experiment done on prisoners of war to do terrible things that were ordered by their torturers then it became a tool of interrogation for police officers. Natalya used Obey all the time on suspects by simply commanding the truth out of them.
I sat on the sofa taking a deep breath. I wanted to take the dart out of my shoulder but, I got the feeling I might not be allowed to do that. Alex or Malcolm should I say sat on my right while Hitler was on my left. The Frau was observing me with a gleam in her eye. "So Alexis DeLarge and Zoya Lovejoy are the same woman?" she said. I said nothing only looked at her. Her facial features looked so feminine nobody would have thought she was a man. Just by thinking about this I asked, "So tell me Frau….or should I say Herr Hitler?"
"I preferred to be called April if you please."
"April? I thought it would be Adolfia! Anyway what made you decide to become a woman?" The Frau smile slowly turned to a frown. "I didn't have a choice in the matter, Frau Lovejoy. In fact I was cloned this way on purpose." I was really surprised from what I heard. First I've found out she was a man then the next she's a clone and I could only guess who. "Now hold still and don't make any noise," she commanded. By her command my body became stiff like a statue and my mouth felt like it was glued together. My body couldn't move at all but, my could still move.
I saw the Frau take out something metallic from her robe pocket. At first it was small but in seconds it had the same length as a pencil. "Now this is going to hurt just a little," she said. The metallic thing went into my ear, the same ear I talk to Rubik through. Once that thing went inside my ear it felt like somebody put a electric wire inside my head. The pain was so terrible it was almost maddening yet I didn't make a sound, not even a moan. It only lasted a second but, it felt like an eternity. Once she took that rod out of my ear she said, "Now you can move freely and speak freely."
I did exactly that, I got off the couch with my hand against my ear screaming even though the pain was gone there was a loud ringing in my head. "You motherfucking sadistic Nazi trannie whore! Why the fuck did you do that!?" I screamed. For about three straight minutes I was shouting profanity on the top of my lungs. The funny part of it was the two clones were just sitting there all calm watching me curse like a sailor. After I was done cursing away Alex asked, "You feel better?"
"Yes…..no! I have questions to ask?"
"Ask away?"
"Why the hell did you put that thing in my ear? What do you guys want with me? Lastly…..What do you mean by you wanted to kiss me for years?" The last question was directed at Alex. It looked like he was about to say something but, Hitler interrupted. "You can tell her that later when you're both alone, Demitri." Demitri? I was about to ask why he was named Demitri but the Frau commanded me to sit back down and not say a word.
"To your first question Zoya, What I to your ear was to disable the ear piece in your ear. Rubik not only communicates to you that way that also how he can track you down. Secondly, the reason why we are interested in you are for to different reasons. With Demitri here he wants you to know the truth as for me I'll tell you later but first let him tell you the truth. Now you can speak freely to him."
"The truth about what?" I asked. Demitri came closer to me putting his arm around my shoulder. I wanted to back away from him but, I had the feeling I couldn't to do that. "The truth that you were chosen to be my father's wife." I was taken aback at this. Clones didn't have fathers nor mothers because they were never born but, created in a tank. Cloning had been legal since 2047 but it has remained controversial for some time if they were considered a person or not. Apparently the heat on cloning has cooled off since Colbert and Stewart are running for president.
"How can you have a father? You're a clone."
"Yes, I'm a clone but, I'm the first to be implanted in the womb. My mother was Misha Rubik, she was his second wife and also a friend of your mother's." When he mentioned Misha a distant memory of a red haired woman with a face a model could die for chatting with mom over coffee. While they were having coffee I was playing with a boy with fair hair and extremely pretty blue eyes. I don't remember his name but he was the first boy that I've ever played with.
"Wait a minute, are you saying that…you're the little boy I used to play with? If you are him then tell me what toys we were playing with?" I remember specifically it was Hot Wheels and stuffed animals. At first I thought I'd stumped him with that question but he answered without hesitation.
"I'd always bring Hot Wheels but, the stuffed animals were more for you then for me since you were a girl. Anyway, my mother didn't know I was a clone and neither did I. I always thought I was born like everyone else until I turned twelve."
"How did you find out? Did you start remembering your 'past'?"
"No, I don't remember McDowell's past. Clone remember their past but, I'm the first to have a clean slate and I'd like to keep it that way. How I've found out was my mother discovered her husband's experiment on her. You see she can't have children so she thought she got a invitro but, found out she had a clone implanted in her. Ever since she told the truth my father killed her then made me go through a series of surgical changes on my face for nine years until I escaped the lab."
"Why did he do that?"
"So he can keep an eye on you. Here I have the photos, I think you might recognize them all." Demitri handed me a stack of photos. As I was looking through all of them I indeed recognize them all. I remember always being a friend to the new kid in class and they would always be a boy. All these pictures looked different but, I realized now they were all the same person and they were all in the same class.
"I really wanted to date you but, my father didn't want you to become so close hence the constant change in appearance. It was all going well until Isaac came along." Hearing the name Isaac made little fluttered in my body. I guess you can say I still care for him even if he did sell me out but the way Demitri said it was like a bad taste in his mouth. I was about to ask him about Isaac until April said, "Speaking of Isaac let's watch the screen."
The house turned from white to black in seconds. After the blackness came a screen similar to a movie screen. On the screen to my horror was Isaac dress as Freddy tied to a chair and in pain.