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"...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch..."
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Chapter 11: Now I Wish They Were Real...
Well after Hayden tried and failed to make something, I got us a pizza and some root beer from the cafeteria.
"Why do we need a random bowl of peanuts?" I asked Hayden grabbing one then threw it up in the air then caught it in my mouth.
"It's not random, and don't worry there not real." Hayden said with her mouth full of pizza. I leaned over the sink and spit it out.
"Okay new question, why do we have a bowl of fake peanuts?" I asked then downed a glass of Root Beer.
"It adds class and character to the place."
"If you say so, I don't really mind, not much of a peanut fan anyway." I said going back over to the couch. We had just started on our second pieces of black olive pizza when there was a knock on the door.
"You spent the day with him and he's already back for more, you know he wants it bad. I'll bet you five bucks it's him." Hayden said giggling and wiggling her eyebrows.
"You're on." I said as I got up and opened the door.
"Um Hayden," I called to Hayden as I looked threw the peephole, "You owe me five bucks." I said opening the door and letting Coulson and a girl in.
"Alison Dalton, Hayden Paxton, this is Evelyn Robinson. She's going to be your new roommate; please make her feel welcome." Coulson said introducing us to a girl who had short, shaggy- boy cut auburn hair. She had big dark brown eyes and had freckles all over her face. With small lips, a straight nose, and high cheekbones she was on the smaller size, maybe about 5'0 with narrow hips. I had to hand it to Coulson; he seemed to pick the most different people to live to together. There was Hayden, who at 5'7 was taller than me. Then again that didn't mean much since I was pretty short, and Hayden always had her copper blonde hair in a high pony tail and light green eyes that shined. The only common thing among us seemed to be that we were all girls around the same age.
"Well, I'm going to leave and let you girls get to know each other." Coulson said before leaving without saying good bye. Then again, he was probably going to come back later to make sure we weren't killing each other, so it wasn't too big of a deal.
"So, Evelyn, the rooms that are empty are the ones that don't have a sign on them, pick whichever one you want." Hayden said in her normal happy voice. I wanted to roll my eyes, the first couple days Hayden kept going into the wrong rooms, so one day I got back to the apartment and there were signs on Hayden's and my door.
"You can just call me Eve." Eve said grabbing her bags.
"Here let me help you caring some of your bags." I said going to grab one of her bags.
"No I got it." Eve said walking to one of the empty rooms.
"Good choice the other one's a little bit bigger, but the bed squeaks and it gets really cold in there at night." Hayden said Eve didn't seem to care; in fact it didn't seem as if she was even paying attention.
"Hayden, what are you talking about? None of the beds squeak and if anything that room gets warmer during the night." I said quietly to Hayden.
"I'm just trying to make friendly conversation." Hayden said shrugging.
"That's stupid." I stated quietly to Hayden as Eve came back out of the room she had chosen.
"Do you want some pizza? It's really good and you can even have some root beer if you want some, we were going to watch the Princess Bride, but if you don't want to watch it then we can choose something else." I said rambling off.
"Now who's being stupid?" Hayden whispered and I elbowed her in the ribs.
"I'm fine, it doesn't matter. I was just going to unpack the rest of the night." Eve said.
"You sure, the pizzas really good, I even got this sour-puss to like it." Hayden said and my elbow connected with her ribs again.
"No, I'm not that hungry." Eve said then went back to her room and closed the door.
"You sure, we have fake peanuts?" I called out sarcastically. Hayden scowled at me for poking fun at her peanuts.
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(Michael)
It took me awhile, but I had finally found what I was looking for. Tenet had told me to forget about, but I couldn't.
"Madelyn Meridah, it's been a long time." I said with a friendly smile, Madelyn Meridah was a tall girl with long dark raven hair and big blue doe eyes. She was the nicest person you would ever meet and she used that to her advantage. There were very few people that she couldn't play, she could just about say anything and you would believe it if she wanted you too.
"Not long enough as it seems, what do you need Easton?" Madelyn said with smile.
"I need you to check on someone for me."
"Let me guess the whole shebang or just the regular?"
"The whole shebang," I said tapping my fingers on the edge of her desk.
"Now why aren't you doing your own work? Wait let me guess, Tenet told you to leave it alone." Madelyn said folding her hands and resting her elbows on her desk.
"How'd you guess?"
"You only ever come to me if you're told to leave it alone." She said resting her chin on her hands.
"That's because you're the best."
"Okay, stop trying to butter me up to do your work, what's the name?" Madelyn asked pulling out a pen and a sticky note.
"Alison Dalton, spelled A L I-"
"I know how to spell, Michael, so what's so special about this girl?" Madelyn asked in her sweet concerned voice, after finishing writing down the name on a sticky note. I was just about to tell her, but I stopped myself.
"Thank you Madelyn." I said leaving without responding to her question.
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(Alison)
Eve had passed up on watching the movie so Hayden and I went ahead and watched it without her
"Oh! It's so cute." Hayden said as a tear dripped down her cheek.
"It's not that cute." I said handing her a tissue.
"I don't know I thought it was pretty cute." A voice said from in the kitchen. Hayden screamed and I pulled out the subcompact Glock 26 I had hidden in the couch and aimed it towards the voice in the kitchen.
"Wow, easy there." Eve said coming out of the kitchen. For a few tense seconds we just stayed like that.
"Is that a gun?" Hayden asked, well it seemed like Hayden could put her priorities together quickly, "Did you hide a gun in our couch? What if that went off and killed someone?" And it seemed that a gun in the couch was a higher priority, then a person we barely knew being able to sneak through the house.
"Hayden, relax, when it's hidden the safety's on. Besides, that's the point of a gun, to go off and kill someone." I said clearing the round that was in the chamber and putting a round back in the clip.
"Are you're just going to put it back?" Hayden asked and I nodded my head, "Wait? Have you hid others around here?"
"You hide guns around your apartment? That's a little paranoid don't you think?" Eve asked leaning against the wall.
"Well, thank you "Miss Little Sneak Attack"." I said sarcastically with a smile.
"Okay so how many have you hid?" Hayden asked.
"There are eight, including the one in the couch." I said putting the Glock back in the couch.
"So where are they?" Eve asked intently.
"Including the one in one of our showers, hidden in the hi-fi?" I asked looking over at the bowl of fake peanuts in the kitchen.
"Which shower is that?" Eve asked her eyes followed my hand as I motioned towards one of the doors.
"The one that I use and Hayden sometimes uses it too." I said finally taking my eyes off the peanut bowl and looking over at Hayden with a scowl. The morning of my last exam I went to go take a shower only to find Hayden and Doctor Levitt, that made my last exam so awkward and embarrassing, for both of us.
"Alison, don't tell me they're there?" Hayden asked getting up and going over to the bowl.
"Hayden there isn't a gun in the fake peanut bowl." I said sarcastically which didn't stop Hayden from reaching her hand in and pulling out a Beretta 92.
"Alison!" Hayden said putting the gun carefully down on the counter.
"What? It's not like anyone actually eats those peanuts, and think of what would happen if one of us got attacked in here." I said.
"Oh yeah, because someone would obviously attack us while we are in our apartment that has a dead bolt on it. Oh not to mention the fact that we are on a government faculty that takes at least twenty minutes to get in, and let's not forget the highly trained guards. Oh yeah Alison we totally need in-home protection." Hayden said throwing her arms up in the air and rolled her eyes.
"What's wrong with it? Before, you didn't know anything about it and you didn't care or freak out like this." I said getting up and grabbing the Beretta and looked it over; by the looks of weird marks on it maybe it was time not only to clean it, but also to find a new place to put it.
"That's because I didn't know that I had to be careful while taking a shower." Hayden said. I rolled my eyes at her, maybe I could put it in the toaster oven; we really never used it.
"Personally I don't care if you have guns hidden around the apartment." Eve said shrugging, I smiled a sweet smile of victory before I went over and grabbed a clean hand towel and set it and the gun on the counter.
"Well then that's settled." I said as I took the clip out and cleared the chamber of the gun.
"I thought you said they were all on safety?" Hayden asked.
"Hayden, if a homicidal manic is chasing you around the house, taking the time to turn off the safety could mean the difference between life and death." I said as I started to disassemble the gun.
"Fine keep your guns, just next time tell me where they are, okay? And besides there are other ways of protection." Hayden asked giving up and making a point, a trade mark Hayden move.
"Yeah we can always make them eat those peanuts they're pretty nasty, I'm probably dying from eating those things." Eve said making a disgusted face.
"That's because you probably just got lead poisoning from eating fake peanuts." I said looking at Eve sympathetically, but I was trying to suppress a smile.
"What! Why would you do that?" Eve asked casting an accusing stare Hayden's way.
"They add class-" Hayden started, but was cut off.
"And character we get Hayden. Okay enough about the peanuts, now on to more important things. Like how the heck did you get from your bedroom to the kitchen without us noticing?" I asked looking up from the Beretta long enough to look at Eve.
"Easy, I walked." Eve said then left and went back to her room.
"There's more to the girl then she's letting on." Hayden said sitting down on a stool at the counter.
"I think I should just clean all of my guns now, and then you can see where I hid them." I said sarcastically looking at Hayden with a fake smile.
"Okay you want to clean your guns alone, I just thought I could maybe learn a thing or two about them so I won't be completely helpless if a homicidal manic decided to try and kill me." Hayden said slowly getting up.
"Okay, you win this one. First we need to get all of the guns out of their places." I said I told her where to find a couple of them and I went off to grab the rest. It took Hayden awhile, but she finally found the last one and she set it down carefully on the counter.
"Wait, Alison, there's only seven, you said there were eight, where's the last one?" Hayden asked, I was thinking about how to tell her, and I decided just coming right out with it was probably not the best way to break it to her.
"Hayden, I need you to grab Colt 1911 underneath your beside table." I said hoping she wouldn't freak out. At first she didn't even really pay attention to what I had said. She got up and went to her room and just when I thought I might get away with it.
She freaked out.
"There's a GUN underneath my bedside table?" She shrieked, I rolled my eyes and looked at the bowl of peanuts. I might not really be that much of a peanut fan, but now I wish they were real.
Authors Notes: I hope you all enjoyed and Happy New Year!