Chapter 7

I don't know really what had happened, but the only thing I remember is I felt myself sobbing, and tossing the plastic thingy away from me, and just fall, hiding my face in my hands, trying to disappear into the corner, of the stall. Then I feel strong arms go around me, a hand on my back soothingly rubbing it.

Once I had gotten back, I heard Hikaru fall, and letting out loud cries. I didn't know what was going on, so I rushed over to her stall, and dropped the clothes, then open the curtain, seeing her trying to hide with in the corner of the stall, I sigh then bring myself over to her. Not caring that my clothes are going to get wet, 'mm more concerned about this breaking human. I put my arms around her, and rub her back trying to sooth her.

"Why", she chokes as she moves so she can hide her face in my chest and clutches my shirt rather tightly. I don't say a word to her, just continue rubbing her back.

"Am I... The only... O-one to survive"? She asks still sobbing into my shirt. I feel my heart sink to the question, I had been the one to make sure her friends died, I had made the order to attack. What she is going through is my fault, but I don't know what to say to her, so I just hold her tighter to my body, hopping it helps.

"I feel so alone", she says.

"But you're not", I reply gently rubbing her back. She just shifts in response.

"Your not", I whisper to her as I hold her there.

I had been shocked and crying all atthe same time when he had told me that I'm not alone, but I feel it. My heart wasn't at all never shattered, but now it feels broken. Things that happen to me is just not fair. First my parents, then my friends, and now, I had all most lost the other thing that keeps me going.

Then I stop, thinking, sobbing as I hear something to familiar, a heart beat. Reed's heart beat, proving to me that he is alive, that he is human, though I know he isn't human. Everything has a heart, everything has feelings and then the thought, what happens if he gets caught, what happens if Liz and Josh... Shuttering at the mere thought of that name, tell on him, say that he is strange, the strength he posses.

I take a deep breath in and move my head so I can look into his swirling with colour eyes, I'm the only one that seems to notice the different colours, ranging from purple, green, blue, red even pink. Then with all the colours it goes right back to blue, even brighter. I haven't lost every one, and I know I should hate him, but he had a good reason for doing what he had done.

Though most people would say its selfish, but to me, it's not, he has a mission to do, and because I'm one that is hard on my own kind, I don't care if he is here to pan out a plan to attack. By all means my race deserves to die, we destroy the planet we live on, and we don't do a thing to save it, we try to, by planting new trees, but that don't help.

"Feeling better"? He asks. I smile at him and he smiles back at me. I nod my head and look down, realizing something, I'm still naked. But for some reason in his presence I'm not uncomfortable about it. I place my hands flat against the shirt to touch his chest, to feel it. I look away and sigh.

"I don't want to finish the shower", I say, now not in the mood.

"To let every one know in a few more hours we will be at home, at Earth", says a voice over the PA system. I then grin, getting excited to go home, to see my animals, to feel my bed. Then the thought of Reed comes to mind and I look up at him. He reaches up with out really moving either of us and shuts off the water.

What about him? Maybe I should just invite him to my place, but maybe its Earth that he is supposed to find so many secrets, find out the week spots, which is actually every where. He then reaches up and pulls down a towel and puts it around my shoulders.

"Thanks", I whisper still wondering what I'm going to do.

"Your welcome", he answers. I then put it around myself and move so he can get up. He gets up and looks at me, seeming a bite nervous, he reaches his hand behind his head and starts scratching his neck.

"Umm..", he says unsure as what to say. I get up and make sure that the towel is secure around myself and not showing anything I don't want him to see. Or do I want him to see? I don't know and right now I just don't care.

"I guess you should get dressed", he finally says and turns around then starts walking. I pick up the clothes he gathered and go back into the stall and look down, seeing that item I had a hold of before. What had I been thinking when I picked it up? I shake my head, close the curtain and dry myself off then change.

Once done, I pick up the towel and walk out, gathering my other clothes then walking over to a basket looking shoot, and drop the towel, then walk the same way that Reed had gone. When I get to the door, I smile, he is waiting for me.

"So"? I ask, I know there is something on his mind, and he seems hesitant to ask. He just puts his hand on the back of his neck and clears his throat then shakes his head, and opens the door.

"Ladies first", he says and gestures for me to move along with his hand. I smile at him and walk out the door, waiting for him. He walks behind me, seeming lost in thought. We walk over to my room, I unlock and open the door, and walk in, he follows. When the door closes, I get right to work, I have to do things so I can take that tank out without detection of the bugs, and it seems that my little plan on making it look like there is another animal in the tank worked.

I walk over to the tank, while Reed just leans against the wall, watching me... Intently? I shake my head to that thought and take the tank off the stand then put it on the floor, then pulling out the remote that I had hand-made, yes me, and pushed a few buttons, and it looks as though there are two hamsters in the tank, then I pull out the food and what not, stick them into a bag, and if some one looks in the bag, I push another button, and their I have it, looks like hamster food and a small bag of shavings.

I then look at the remote again and push some more buttons and though it seems nothing happened, something had, it allows the detectors just in case, not able to detect the bugs with in the tank.

"For a le.. Human, your really smart", I hear Reed say. I look up at him and he is still leaning against the wall, I just smile.

"Yeah well not that smart though", I say and lean on the bed looking at him trying to figure out what is on his mind... Then again how can I tell what is on a bugs mind.

"Why is it that your kind calls ours Lessers"? I ask.

"Well... It's because your kind is so small... And not to be rude, aren't as smart either", he says. I narrow my eyes at him.

"And you saying me being smart, are you lying"? I ask.

"No I'm not, and the reason why I said it is because your smarter than the others on this ship", he says, not phased that I have a bit of anger built up.

"But your kind seems to be stupid", I bluntly reply in my own defence, well in all humans defence. He pushes off the wall that time, and slowly walks toward me.

"Is that so"? He asks, a scary smirk on his features.

"Yes", I say not sure if I should be getting into this with him.

"Well, if we are as stupid as what you lessers think we are, then.. Why help me, why make them"? He asks as he points to himself and then to the tank that now looks as though there are hamsters in it.

"You know why", I flatly state, he then stops in front of me looking down at me and grins.

"Are you sure I know the real reason"? He asks as he sits on his heals and bends his knees so he is fully facing me eye to eye. I look at him for a while, trying to figure out why he said it like that, yes they fascinate me, and yes I do like him in some way...

Oh god.

I feel my face heat up at the mere thought that he is just backing me into a corner on purpose.

He reaches his hand out and touches the side of my face, gently. Then when we hear the door open he pulls back, gets up and backs up a couple of steps. I also get to my feet seeing who it is.

"Sir", I say.

"At ease", My commander Conner says. I do just that, I calm down, relax my torso, and sigh.

"Just wanted to know where you lived"? Conner asks as he turns his attention to Reed. My breath catches in my throat, we never thought of that.

"About that, I ended up losing my apartment before I went on that mission", he says, I look at him shocked at his quick thinking.

"Oh well that's too bad, maybe you can come and stay with me", Conner says smiling warmly at Reed.

"Actually sir, I was just inviting him to my place", I say looking at him then to Reed. Conner smiles widely at me for that and nods his head then turns and leaves the room. After he leaves Reed turns to me and asks, "You sure about that"?

"Well yeah, I am the only one that knows", I say and sit back down on the floor.

"Well at least that saves me from asking", he somewhat laughs at his own comeback. I look at him and he just puts his hand to the back of his neck and clears his throat. He then turns and walks to the door.

"I'll let you finish packing", with that he leaves the room.

"I wonder why he seemed nervous about it"? I ask out loud.

Once I left the room, I lean on the wall right beside the door, something has gotten over me, and I can't be sure as to why. I wouldn't have had such a hard time asking that simple question, but something had stopped me. And that thing happened to be a sent, it smelt wonderful, and it just seemed to come out of no where.

It's a similar smell when my sisters are ready to... Oh god, now I understand, I don't know if the lessers call it differently but now I realize what is wrong. She is going into heat and I don't think she is aware of it... Odd. I groan and push-off the wall, then make my way down to the library of a sort, at least that's what I've heard others call it.

I do recall them lessers doing that with out the smell present before, so I'm not sure what they call it. Looking at the books a sudden thought comes to mind, I want to know how long it lasts and learn more about it. I walk into the large room and see many people sitting about reading, I groan and turn around. For - get - it, I'm not about to read some embarrassing books in front of them. I start toward my room, thinking it best to stay away from her as long as possible.

"Why is it that she smells like my own"? He wonders out loud. He knows that the queen had mentioned their origins before, and why him and his other siblings can look lesser, but I just don't understand it. I clench my hands into fists, they are not as smart as our kind, even if we don't have all these fancy gadgets, we are still smarter.

I walk around the ship and see so many flaws, weaknesses that I could make into strengths so I know we are greater in the intelligent sense. I stop and look at my feet, why hadn't I noticed that smell though when I was holding her in the shower? The water maybe? I shake my head and continue to my room, don't matter.

I wonder what is up with him, he seems to be avoiding me. I shake my head and put the last of my clothes into the begs and pull out the cart, I know when I reach home, I don't have a car, so I'm going to have to call a cab, or get the diver's attention, yes that last one is the smarter root, I hate talking on the phone. I then walk over to the bed and lay on it, closing my eyes, and letting sleep take me, even though I'm not tired at all, but still falling to sleep easily.

Middle of the night

I open my eyes to the sudden feeling of not being in space no more, and the slight vibrations of the ship now gone. I look over and the door opens, Reed had walked in just as I opened my eyes.

"We are here", he simply says and quickly walks out of the room. I sit up confused as to why he just suddenly left. Shaking my head a smile comes to my features and I get off the bed and walk to the cart then grab it, and make my way to the door, thinking he was going to be waiting, I look around, no sign of him.

"You smell different to him at the moment... I think it's getting to him", comes my creations voice. I look down and my eyes widen in realization, I'm going to start my period shortly, maybe in a day or two. No wonder why he had acted strange, his sense of smell is way better than my own. I shake my head and worry about it later. I walk down the hall, making my way to the docking bay, where every one gets to leave.

After a few minutes of walking, thank god its close to my room, I walk into it, tones of people slowly walking off of it, and on the Earth, onto our home planet. Taking in a deep breath, I realized that I had been use to the disgusting smell of air pollution and while I was gone, that smell and taste disappeared.

Shaking my head, nothing I can do about it, I start walking, heading out, knowing that Reed will find me easier than I will find him, I make my way out of the building. I'm rather glade its night, not very many people are awake, so the streets are almost bare, still busy in a sense but bare noneoftheless. I hail a cab and it stops, I smile and turn just to gasp. Reed is standing behind me, and I didn't know he was their.

He smiles to the fact he scared me, but grabbed my two bags, and I grabbed the tank, he puts the begs into the trunk of the car as it had opened and closed it, then walked to the opposite side of the cab and opened the door, I opened my door and got in, keeping the tank on my lap.

"We are heading to the old part of the city", I say, he nods his head and off we go. This is going to take about two hours to get home, it don't look as fancy as these buildings and not many people live in my building, there are 8 floors and may be at most a few people on each floor. This building is free since it uses next to none resources which is why I wanted to live here and other than that, it is still a really nice building, we people who live here work hard to make sure its livable.

That is why its free, the landlord had told us that, it's the only way they would let us live in the rundown building free of charge, we take care of the repairs and costs of the repairs, while they take care of the bills for heat, hydro, and water, and that is one really small bill, I would say these days its less than $100.

Once we made it to the building we are now standing idly outside the door. I know who lives here and afraid that I would see him. And no it's not the guy that was pestering me on the ship, no this is a guy that broke my heart worse than he did... His name is Tyler, and my best friend had won him over, and the two of them live here together, they had been for years now.

"Well"? Reed asks. I look at him and sigh, then walk to the door, push a button and it opens, I walk in, fiddle with my keys and unlock the other door, it opens, then walk into the lobby and push the button on the elevator. The doors open, and we both get onto it. I glance over at Reed, and he seems to be having a hard time with himself, and I know for a fact it's because of me. When we reach my floor, we get out of the elevator and walk over to the last door to the right of the hall, and then on the right, I open it and we walk in.

I put the tank down and walk to the kitchen and look through my fridge, nothing, the little girl must have eaten all the food. I smile, I do have a dog and she must be out on a walk with him. She will be happy for my return, I have lots of money to give the poor girl.

"Hey Reed, if you want to go out and look around, I have an extra set of keys on the wall beside the door", I say knowing that he is going to want to leave.

"Ok thanks", he says. I smile when I hear the keys and then the door opening and closing. I feel bad for the guy. I shake my head and walk into the living room, and see on the floor the four of them little bugs, which are now the size of a guinea pig walking around. I smile at them and walk through the small hall past the door that we walked in from. Heading to the bathroom.

My apartment is a fair size, two bedrooms a small full bathroom, kitchen and living room. Right beside the bathroom door is my bedroom door, then beside that is the smaller bedroom door, with might I say a lot of art work in the room as well as a spare bed. Then the living room and a walk through kitchen. I love this apartment and in all things good, I believe it was a good idea that I got a two bedroom one.

I look down after looking myself in the mirror and smile seeing the female little bug creature walking into the room.

"I still don't know how three more came to be"? I ask.

"I'm not really sure myself", the voice of the main one says. I just smile, grabbing my brush and brush my hair. I then walk into the bedroom and change into pjs. Then walk back into the bathroom and grab a small device from my medicine cabinet and sit on the toilet after pulling down the pants and underwear. I then put the small device just under where my private place is and wait for a peeping sound.

Once I hear it, I pull the thing back up and gasp, I'm going to start like in a few hours. That's not normal, I shake my head and groan then pull out a pack of pads then put one onto my underwear.

"Maybe it has to do... With a certain some one", comes the female voice, I look down at her and shake my head.

"I doubt that, we aren't the same species", I simply say as I get up and pull my clothes back on and walk out of the bathroom then to my bedroom. I don't bother closing the door, and just lay on my bed, my little babies, I'm now going to call them all rush into the room and lay on the floor beside the bed. I smile to the thought that I'm now finally home, and close my eyes falling into a peaceful sleep.

I lean against the building across from her home and sigh. I stare at it not sure if I should go back up. It wouldn't be smart for me to be around her in the stat that she is coming into, and for obvious reason, I cannot control myself like I could around my sisters. It confuses me at the least.

Why with a lesser?

I groan once more and push myself off the wall, and look down the side-walk that I had come to know it to be, and see a pair of lessers walking hand in hand, and the female giggling and leaning up and whispering something private into the mans ears.

I see the look on his face and it seems of one for anticipation, and my only thought is what I may end up doing to Hikaru, because of my lack of self-control. How am I to live with her for a while when she is going into heat, and for some odd reason I react to it... Not to kindly at that. I bring my hand to my face and sigh, looking at the ground as the pair walk past me in hast.

"I just won't go back to her place till I believe that she isn't in that stat no longer", I say and look at the keys in my hand. This is a good opportunity for me to go take a look around and come up for some information to give to my queen. Since Hikaru had made a fake idea for me a while back, I have military access to things.

I look down the road and see a military vehicle and smile. Here is my chance. I walk to the road and put my hand out hopping they will stop for me, seeing as how I still have the military clothing on. The vehicle stops and a younger man opens the door.

"Need a lift man"? He asks with an odd accent.

"Yes", I answer flatly not really caring about this lesser and any others that are in this contraption. He moves to allow me in, I do get in he closes the door, I look around there are two females and three males, well including myself now four.

"You heading to the military base"? The young lesser asks me.

"Yes, I have information to catch up on", I stat and he nods at me knowingly.

"You must be one of the ones from that planet", he says sitting beside me.

"Your rather handsome, you have a woman"? The first woman asks, she seems younger than Hikaru. Thinking about saying no, I thought better of it, and decided to nod my head.

"And she can be really jealous", I say not sure if she would be jealous if something like this happened even though we aren't actually a 'thing'. The odd thing is I don't have a nasty thought about the paring.

In fact its something that I find myself thinking lots about.

"Well your missing out on some fun, she is the type to hold back", the woman says.

"Look I'm not interested, I stay loyal to one, and only one", I say. And that wasn't a complete lie.

"She won't know", she says as she leans forward.

"Jen, knock it off, he so happens to be in love with some one so leave him be", the driver stats.

Love?

Is that what this feeling is called?

"But your no fun", she stats and sits back in her chair, and the others laugh, I didn't find it too funny. The lessers are still a rather confusing creature since they don't stay loyal to one person, where as my species does, even if it is wrong for our brother and sisters to get together in that way. I shutter to the thought.

"What was it like on that planet"? The other man asks. I look over at him and the only thing that came to mind is what I answered.

"Hell".

It was the truth, even when I was with my own.