Okay, new chapter. I tried to make this one longer, I really did, but it;s like my brain has a limiter '-_-

AND! This chapter is special, you'll figure out why.

Chapter 6

Gavin's POV

The next morning was uneventful. Despite the situation, the area had a calm air. Shaun and I had nothing to do, so we spent the morning doing our respective talents. Shaun ended up helping his copy gather and distribute information. I ended up practicing my telekinesis and running around Monterigionni with Desmond to build parkour skills. I had taken to it with surprising ease, and ended up catching up with Desmond a few times. I guessed it was another perk of having my power, plus the fact that I had experience from my world. On that topic, however, well, it was improving. I had figured out how to decipher between friend and foe in my vision, and if I had a deeper connection with someone, the urges didn't apply to them. This mainly being Shaun, because I didn't really have a connection with the others.

I also caught Lucy looking at me a few times, with this weird look on her face. It freaked me out to no end.

When the afternoon came, we were all practically dead. I had spent the whole day doing parkour. The whole day mind you. Shaun and Shaun 2 were whooped after sorting all the information. Desmond, well, you could possibly see. I don't even know how Rebecca 2 got tired. She spent most of the day eating and walking around when she didn't have to monitor Desmond in the animus. Lucy is an enigma as well. I have no reason to her tiredness. I guess she was tired because we were tired.

"Hey Gavin, want to get in the animus?", Shaun 2 asked me out of the blue.

"Pfffffffffft!", was all I heard from Desmond 2, I guess he was drinking something.

"WHAT!", Rebecca and Lucy 2 asked at the same time.

Shaun just looked at his copy like he was from a different planet.

"Um, why would I want to do that?", I ask.

"Maybe you have some memories we could use."

"It's a possibility, but what if I don't?"

"Then won't put you in the animus anymore.", was his simple response.

I squirmed where I was sitting, analyzing the idea.

"If it's okay with everyone else, sure."

"Well? Any objections?", he asks the whole room.

No one responds. I guess I'm getting in the animus.

"Okay Gavin, just relax. Let the animus take control.", Rebecca 2 tells me.

"Kay", I respond.

I'm relaxing with my eyes closed when I hear a sharp intake of breath. I open my eyes and look at Rebecca 2.

"What?"

"You didn't feel that?"

"Feel what?"

Shaun points to my arm. I look at it to see a strange needle object sticking out of it. When did that get there?

"I guess not…must be another effect of my powers."

"Okay then, just keep relaxing."

I close my eyes again, and immediately am swept into a white area(1).

What the hell? I hear Rebecca 2 say something.

"Okay Gavin, there's a memory here. But it looks pretty intense, so be careful out there."

Before I can respond, I see buildings coming out of the ground around me. Things are being built, people being formed; weather being generated right in front of me. It feels familiar. Where have I felt it before?

When everything is done, there's a flash and my senses are overwhelmed. Everything feels so real, it's hard to remember I'm not me. Who am I anyway?

I look down to see myself in odd clothes. I am in a long trench coat, with odd clothes I don't know how to describe underneath. Semi-tall buildings are around me, and I feel a watch in my pocket. A watch?

I pull it out to discover it is a pocket watch.

Where am I!

"Gavin?", Shaun 2's voice comes through.

"Yeah?", I call out, getting a few odd stares.

"I believe you're in England."

Climbing up buildings in old England. I would've never thought I'd be doing such a thing. Shaun 2 had briefed me on my situation. The memories weren't of any importance to the mission, but they were important to him oddly enough. I seemed to be Carter Hastings, a far back descendant of his. I knew-I mean he knew-Italian, Spanish, and Latin, and was an assassin. Apparently I changed England history. Don't see how though, I was actually younger than my real self in this memory, and the weather was horrible too. Rain, rain, rain, sunshine, happiness, rain, rain, snow. What dafuq kinda weather is that? Anyway, he told me to just explore England, the memory didn't last long, Carter was just practicing parkour. He told me to be prepared for the end of the memory, though, but I had no idea when the end would come. I wasn't looking and tripped over a lose board somewhere, though I didn't know where, and was sent crashing over the edge of the roof. I hit the ground hard, feeling several bones snap and my arm dislocating. I felt something in my back, a pinching feeling.

The last thing I remember of the memory was yelling out in extreme pain, then I was back In the real world.

Shaun's POV

Gavin sat up fast, clutching his arm and squeezing it close to his body.

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!", he yelled, screaming in pain.

I rushed over to him, stumbling a bit over some loose wires, and pulled him up from the floor. He must have fallen out of the chair at some time. I held him by his shoulders and shook him a bit.

"Gavin, GAVIN! What's wrong!", I asked him.

"My arm! My arm, I dislocated it!", he said in a strikingly perfect British accent.

I look at his arm to see it's perfectly fine. I was confused.

"Gavin, calm down, it's just the memory. It'll fade, just calm down.", Lucy said, taking him from my arms and sitting him down in a chair.

I saw tears in his eyes, and he was still clutching his arm.

All of the sudden, I rounded on my copy.

"What the hell! You told him to prepare for this! Why did you even let him go through with the memory!", I threw the questions at him.

"He needed to live through that memory to unlock some other memories"

"What other memories?"

"Mainly Carter's, but a lot of Ezio's too. It seems like sending Gavin through one of Carter's more intense memories caused a chain reaction, leading to the unlocking of memories previously inaccessible. He saved us a lot of work"

"Is that all he is to you! A damn KEY!"

"…"

"See? You have no response! You could have at least warned him beforehand"

"I thought he might've not done the memory"

"You don't know me"

A new voice rang out in the tense air. I looked to my right to see Gavin standing there determinately.

"If it helped, I would've done it. I only ask for fair warning. Despite the pain, if it helped save the world, I would risk my life. Everyone deserves to live their own life. I couldn't bear to see everyone a mindless zombie. I know you don't trust me. Please, just do."

I'm pretty sure the look on my face clearly read: "Huh?"

The copies looked between each other. Lucy was the first to speak.

"You're right, Gavin. We haven't trusted you two up until now. But now we see you guys for who you truly are. Lost teens in a different world with no knowledge of what's going on. Yet, we see fighting spirits, ones who are willing to risk everything for absolute strangers. "

Desmond spoke up next.

"We're very sorry. We've just been so paranoid all this time. Even harmless seeming newcomers like you are the most dangerous thing to us. I can trust you now, though, and I see Lucy already does. What about you two?"

He looked at Shaun and then Rebecca.

"I…I didn't trust either of you. I actually hated you with an animosity. So innocent, the way you think, speak, love…it's all so different from us. I envied your innocence. But…I see now it's not your fault. You two grew up in a safer place. You were bound to not be as paranoid. I realize this, and I know now I can trust you."

Shaun's turn.

"I don't truly know why we're doing this. Going around in a circle like it's a campfire being all sentimental and creating trust. The thing is, when you came", he said, pointing at Shaun, "I felt like I forgot myself. You love a guy, and I'm not homophobic, but to figure out that I loved a guy, even if it wasn't truly me, made me question myself. I couldn't stop it. But then, my thoughts took a darker path. I blamed Gavin for coming into your life and corrupting you, changing you, making you different from me. But, it's good that you're not exactly like me, because it makes me see why you love him. It makes me see why I love Rebecca as well. And…I trust you now. You two changed, flipped, and rearranged all the odds at once. You're an asset, and you're good friends to have."

Gavin smiled at them all, a radiant smile bigger than any other I had ever seen. It made my knees weak.

"I'd say it's a good time to get some rest, we're all tired from today, I presume?", Rebecca said.

A chorus of agreements was heard.

Shaun's POV

Later that night, I was laying down in a sleeping bag, sharing it with Gavin. His back was currently to me, and I was curled around him.

It was nice to know that, through everything that had happened everyone trusted them now.

I shook Gavin gently.

"Gavin?"

"Hmm?", he said, groggily.

"I love you.", I said. I had been building up the courage to say that since forever. Those three little words. Standalone. It took time/world traveling to help me say it. I had thought if saying it, because who knows when we might be alone to share it?

I heard his breath catch in his throat. Oh no, had I gone too far?

He was tense for a few moments, before shifting and turning around to lay on his other side, facing me.

He got really close, wrapped his arms around me, and placed his forehead against mine.

"Shaun."

"Yes?"

"I love you too"

Everything within me in that moment turned attention at those words. All my senses directed towards Gavin. I felt his breath against my neck, I heard his heartbeat, I could see everything I loved about him clearly shining through his eyes.

"My god Gavin, you really know how to make me happy."

His only response was to smile and snuggle into my chest.

That night I dreamed of everything Gavin.

Dis chapter... It...it makes me cry. Even though I wrote it, lol

XD

I hope you enjoyed

(P.S. I DO NOT OWN ASSASSIN'S CREED!)