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No Longer Viewed Behind Rose Colored Glasses

About 21 Years Ago

It was amazing how everything she thought was true, how everything she believed and trusted, was nothing but lies. She trusted him and he shattered her world destroying the rose colored glasses she ignorantly viewed the world through…

A broken vase was thrown, just missing his head as he ducked down. "Elena, my love, listen…"

"No," the woman said in a low voice, tears running like rivers down her cheeks. "You lied to me!" she suddenly shouted, hysterically. "For nine years you lied to me!"

"I did it for you," Waldo defended though even now to him his excuse sounded, weak pathetic, unreasonable.

"For me!?" the rose hair woman cried throwing whatever she could get her hands on at him. "When have I ever asked you to sacrifice someone else's life for me? A child's life for mine?"

"They were a mistake…"

"And you own up to your mistakes! At least admitting you had an affair when it happened makes you more of a man than trying to hide it behind my back for years while also subjecting those poor innocent girls to…to…that torture that you say is for the good of man kind. They're children! We both know what's being done to them and it's not human!" The woman collapsed to her knees sobbing. "I don't think I can ever forgive you," she murmured softly.

"Mommy? Daddy?" a young child like voice came from the door way of the living room as a young pink hair girl called unsure from the door way. "What's going on? Why is stuff broken?"

Elena sniffed, putting on a bright smile for her daughter. "It's nothing, Aelita dear. Mommy just has butter fingers and accidentally let stuff slip. Nothing for you to worry about. Now, go back to bed while you're father and I clean this mess up."

"Okay," a young Aelita yawned rubbing her eyes as she sleepily made her way back upstairs.

"Elena-" Waldo began.

"If you ever want to repent for you did," the woman said in an uncharacteristically cold voice, "you need to get those children out. Then maybe I'll forgive you."

"I don't deserve forgiveness," the man sighed.

"You're right," Elena said walking out of the room to get a broom. "You don't…"

Present Time

It was a hard time for any mother when the time finally came; when the time that their children no longer needed them to depend on came. It was even harder for a mother who hadn't been able to see her children's growth, who was basically staring at a complete stranger.

Elena shut the door softly behind her, closing off the sound of Jeremy's soft words comforting a previously sobbing Aelita. The scene – what should have been a comforting scene – made the older pinkette's heart clench painfully. What type of mother was she if she couldn't even comfort her own daughters? One was just sobbing hysterically while the other two's mental states were at risk.

She was useless, unneeded, and unfit to be called a mother.

"Penny for your thoughts?"

Elena looked up, not realizing that she had made her way into the medical ward. Here, a mauve hair woman had just been staring through a one way window into one of the rooms, Musa's room to be exact.

"Oh, pardon?" Elena said shaking her head as if to clear it from her recent thoughts.

"A penny for your thoughts," the woman repeated. "You seemed…distraught, but, I guess, what mother wouldn't be after seeing their children go through so much?" The woman chuckled sheepishly, running a hand through her hair. "I'm sorry, I already know you from my hus- I mean, ex-husband. I'm Maria Della Robbia, Odd's mother."

"Elena Hopper," the pink hair woman said extending out her hand towards the other woman in a shake.

"I always wanted to meet the mother of the girl who stole my son's heart," Maria said. "I'm sad to say that I haven't been the most kind to Musa but you as a parent should understand."

"Understand?" Elena questioned. "I'm afraid I'm not sure what you mean."

Maria leaned against the wall, closing her eyes. "Every good parent cherishes their children and in the end they have a hard time letting their child go out on their own especially when they are so used to always being there to catch them when the child falls. I guess that when I saw my son with your daughter, saying that she was the one I felt slightly disbelieving. I mean, I will admit that my son is- was a, how do you say it…ladies' man but when I looked in his eyes I saw something that I've never saw before in them. Something that I only saw in my hus- I mean ex-husband's eyes when we were young and naïve."

Elena smiled softly. "I think I know what you mean. Our children have found something we lost."

Maria raised a brow as Elena stared through the window into Musa's room where Odd was tenderly holding her hand.

"Love."

CODE TWILIGHT

Ulrich leaned against the wall, arms crossed. He stood on the other side of the room, distancing himself from the other unconscious but stable person in the room. The doctors had left only a few minutes ago with the confirmation that Evan Sterns, age forty-six, had a weak heart, a condition he had known about since he was a very young and one that Ulrich, his only son didn't even know about. His father could have died. The truth seemed to slap the brunette in the face harshly.

The boy slid down the wall, hands held together in two tight fists at his sides as his vision blurred. No, he wouldn't cry for this man who had constantly pushed him to go beyond his limit. The same man who criticized everything he did, who verbally bullied him. Why should he cry for this man?

Because he was his father. The man that raised him. The man that, according to Yumi, loved him.

Ulrich waited…and waited…and waited…but the tears would not fall.

He couldn't cry for his father. No. He wouldn't. His father had taught him all through his life that crying was weak and that when you cried for someone you were simply only pitying them. He wouldn't pity his father. Crying wasn't going to help. He would let his father have his dignity, to be still be thought of as strong, indestructible, and intimidating.

As a son, that was all Ulrich could give him.

CODE TWILIGHT

"I…I pushed you off a roof?" Musa said in shock horror and disbelief.

"No, no, no!" Odd said squeezing her hand tighter in his as he used the other to softly stroke her cheek. "It wasn't you. It was a specter."

"Impersonating me."

Odd sighed. "Yeah."

"And everyone thought it was me?"

"No!" Odd said shaking his head. "The others didn't believe it for a second!"

Musa took a deep breath nodding. "What happened after that?"

"I-I really don't know for sure, but the others told me that this guy came into the hotel room and took you away right as Jim and his men burst into the room. We…we don't know what happened to you between that time and the time Cascada and William went to look for you," Odd said softly, his shoulders visibly shaking. If anything had happened to her, when he wasn't able to protect her, he….wouldn't know what to do.

The wolf A.I. sighed, leaning her head against his in a comforting manner. They both needed it.

"Your mother is talking to mine," she informed softly.

"How-" Odd began to ask before the girl smirked, pointing to her ears. "I forgot. You can hear pretty well."

She shrugged. "I can control it usually. You know, tone it down but, it's weird actually. In all sense, I should have the basic hearing of any human, whether or not I'm connected to a sector or a tower."

Odd pulled away, looking off to the side. "Have you…have you ever wondered if it's because of something else?"

"Something…else?" Musa pondered out loud. "Like what?"

Odd ran a hand through his hair. Was it really his place to tell her? If he didn't tell her would she ever find out? It was obvious that Waldo, or whatever the heck his name was, wasn't going to tell her. The man had somehow expertly woven a web of lies to not only his family but maybe to himself also…

Both teens jumped, startled as someone knocked on the door.

"Come in," Musa called. The door opened revealing a slightly tired William. "For lack of a better phrase, bro, you look like hell."

The shaggy hair teen let a relieved smile cross his fatigue expression. "You're back to normal."

"Hai," Musa nodded grinning before it slowly slipped away. "Odd told me about what happened while I was…out, I guess you can call it. Do you know how Cascada is?"

William sighed, stuffing his hands into his pockets. To Odd, the older boy looked like he had the weight on the world on his shoulder, but when he thought about it, didn't they all?

"When I heard that you were okay, I wanted to stop by to see Cascada. When I did…" he trailed off.

Musa pushed herself off her bed heading towards the door.

"Where are you going?" Odd asked.

"I'm going to see my sister," the wolf A.I. said coolly over her shoulder.

"You can't go," William said grabbing her by her shoulder. "She's getting worst and worst by the hour. She's no longer allowing anyone to get near her. You'll get hurt."

Musa pulled her arm away from William's grasp. "She's my sister. I'm not going to just stay here and do nothing."

"Then what are you going to do?" the sword wielder asked steeping between Musa and the door. "What can you do that the doctors and everyone else couldn't do? Huh?"

"I don't know!" Musa said stomping her foot frustrated, "but it wouldn't hurt to try! I have to! I-" she trailed off. Both boys watched as her vibrant eyes dulled before rolling back in her head as she collapsed towards the floor. William was the closes to catch her.

"Musa! Musa!" he shouted worriedly shaking her but she gave no response. "Get someone!" he ordered to Odd who was already on his way out the door, yelling for help.

CODE TWILIGHT

Emeric smirked as if he had just received good news. "There," he said aloud. "Right now Lana and Rose should be unconscious now."

"What was the point of awakening Lana from the traumatizing state that you had put her in only to put her into a coma an hour later?" Nyx asked annoyed. "If this is some over elaborate plan to kill them then just give me another chance! I will kill both Rose and Lana and anyone else you want!"

The red hair man shook his head as he walked around his desk to sit in his chair. He turned his chair away from the woman and looked at the monitored screens before him. One showed a hall with three girls - Zoey, Brooke, and Cassie – standing guard outside of a room. On another screen, was an image of a girl holding an unconscious boy – Sitara and Terran - in a white windowless room.

"What you seem to want to achieve," Emeric began, "is the death of their physical bodies. I do not desire that and I won't hesitate to kill you – an insignificant piece in my greater plan – if you even try. I don't want their bodies to die. I want their human halves to die."

"Why? What good will that-" Nyx began before she gasped. "With their human halves gone you can-"

"I can bring out their full potential as AIs. The potential that we all have, that the scientist never knew, except for one…I thought that if I had sent that virus that I had created – what did it call itself again…oh, Xana - and implanted it into one of Mr. Waldo's programs then my troubles would be gone and my dear Lana and her sister would have been in our grasp. Unfortunately, there were two miscalculations that I didn't see. One being that their was another scientist who was aware of my plans and who seemed to be two steps ahead of me, even in death, and the second being his faithful creation... Program 672253…Program O.R.A.C.L.E."

Okay. I updated. Are you people happy? I'll say this once so the people who think I have no life can get this straight. Beleive it or not I DO have a life. I'm busy with school and other teenage stuff so please understand that updates will be few and far inbetween until around Christmas break. So just give me a break people.

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