A few days had passed since they returned to work, Holiday was pushing herself to focus on anything but her nightmares. Six when he was not on a mission with rex was in the lab watching holiday work.
a pen fell to the ground for the tenth time that day. " are you sure your ok. " six asked probably for the third time. " i'm fine. " Holiday muttered and picked up the pen, it was hard to work with someone watching you especially if you were attracted to that someone and they were watching you more intensely than anyone else would. " your making it hard to focus. " Holiday finally said, hoping six would not get mad. He didn't, but he also missed the point. " no i'm not, you can't focus because it's 9:30 at night. " she looked up at him, was it really she got far less work done with six watching than she would on a normal day. It's hard to keep someone out of your mind when they're standing a few feet from you their eyes glued to you but with no one speaking. " you also forgot to eat. " six said.
he walked over and took the pen from her hand setting it down. Holiday sighed " I know I should go to sleep. It's stupid to be scared of a dream... but when I wake up I feel sick. " Maddy had said it could be stress, stress can also make you sick, Beverly got sick after pulling three all nighters to finish her finales, being an evo for so long meant she missed a lot of school. It was hard to tell what six was thinking because of his glasses and general personality, she amused he thought she was being a baby about all this." I was going to say, you should eat. " he paused. " but yes, after that you should take a brake. " sleeping was all six did on brakes since neither he or holiday got any days off and because six would often go from one missions in one timezone then go to the next to say rex or have to track rex down after he ran away his sleep schedule was completely destroyed.
" alright. but come with me. " Holiday said, not that six had a choice he was supposed to be watching her anyway. It was too late to get food from the cafeteria not that they ever had good food anyway so instead they went to the closest open pizza shop.
" Beverly wants me to tutor her, I think it might help rex to have someone to study with too. " Holiday said, staring the conversation like always. six didn't respond right away, he was teaching rex things too, like what plants were poison and what poisons could or could not be detected, rex was not interested so six gave up. " lets deal with one problem at a time."
A simple statement but an impossible task, life didn't work that way, the human mind does not work that way. Most problems are connected, fine a cure, take care of rex, spend time with beverly, stop having nightmares, sleep, eat, work. Some problems seemed impossible, how many years had she been working to find a cure, and yet every time she was close something went wrong. " which problem are you referring to. " Holiday asked slightly annoyed. which problem was more important anyway, you can't work if your health is bad, but right now working seemed to be the only thing that helped, she didn't want six to think she was crazy either.
six didn't know what to say. " your health is more important right now. " But there was a possibility, fighting evos, stressing about finding a cure, dating a man who was clearly too dark for someone with such a kind heart, beverly, rex. Everything since the nanite event, no one would blame holiday for a few nightmares, even Holiday would be able to understand why she was having them so these must be different, there has to be some other reason.
they didn't talk much threw out the rest of dinner, holiday said she wanted to be alone so six went to his own room. With nothing else to do he decided to unpack his suitcase from the trip since, he found a bag from their mini vacation that was not his, it was Holiday's, they must of mixed them up somehow. Looking inside he found a necklace that was not like the ones he had seen the girls buy at the mall, carefully he places it back in her bag, it looked familiar he wanted to believe he had seen her wear it before but he couldn't remember all he got from it was a bad feeling.
The next morning he walked to her room to wake her up and ask about the necklace but she didn't answer when he knocked on her door. She was not in her Lab, the petting zoo, or the cafeteria and would not answer her communicator, somewhere along his search he asked rex to help look, neither of them could find her so six went back to the bedroom, he had the password for her door so he let himself in.
No one was inside but their appeared to be signs of a struggle. Small plants were knocked off her desk onto the floor along with papers, her computer keybored was hanging off the table, the mirror was broken the only thing not messy was her bed meaning whatever happened happened before she went to sleep.
" this is not good. " Rex said walking in the room behind six. " six. what happened. was it van klise or... " rex knew six didn't know or they would be going after holiday already. He didn't need to be glared at from behind dark sunglasses but the moment he was he shut up.
Six called white. Rex watched, it was one of those rare times six takes off his glasses, and slightly less rare times where six and white knight argue. Eventually Rex was told to leave the room along with everyone else.
- a week later -
Rex and six both kept looking for holiday in their own ways, Knight called off the agents he sent to look for her and alerted the cops instead. As important as holiday was she was still just as replaceable as the rest of them. He was getting impatient with Six. Beverly had found out Holiday was missing when she showed up for a tutoring lesson and she was not there. Six had to tell her while rex explained in more detail. " Rebecca can't be gone, how could you let this happen. " She started to cry. Neither rex or six knew what to do. " If i knew this would happen i would of done anything to stop it. " Rex said. " We care about her as much as you! and were not going to stop looking for her. " Rex tried to defend himself, but deep down he felt like it was his fault. Six didn't say anything. The two teens started arguing, placing blame and guilt on each other and themselves. " Fighting is not going to find her. " Six finally said, they both jumped forgetting he was there neither teen spoke after that at least not until six left. He went back to her room to look for clues, cops missed things all the time but six was trained in this kind of stuff, if someone took holiday he would be able to find something. The journal she kept for Beverly was still next to her bed, quietly he put it in his coat pocket.
Mean while Beverly was still talking with rex. " im sorry i didn't mean what I said i'm just confused. " She didn't trust six, mostly because she didn't know his real name, and he didn't talk much. Holiday liked him but now she was missing. Rex insisted six would never hurt holiday but Beverly didn't know if she even trusted rex that much, But she wanted to trust them, from what Rebecca said they helped save her. " I just want my sister back. " she looked down, her eyes stung. How could she just vanish so quickly it almost didn't feel real. Rex put his hand on her shoulder. " well find her. we wont stop looking. " He tried to sound confident but he was just as upset, He never knew his mom but Holiday was like a mom in some ways, at least she took care of him and would always let him talk to her even if he was being annoying, She was the heart of the group and even though it had just been a week tensions were already high, no one knew what to do. " I'll walk you home. if we find her you'll be the first to know. " Rex promised.
/ authors note: I can't keep working on this as much as i would like, i know it's not the best i thought i would have time to fix things but things keep getting worse. i'll be fine eventually and im going to keep trying to update. but i felt you should know some of what's been going on and why this does not had my focus.
general stuff like school, student coulis, and work kept me busy before, on brake i was visiting family, i've gone to a funeral as well since starting this so i was depressed for a while. now my mom is sick, it's not cancer at least not that we know yet they're still doing test but even if it's not cancer it's still not the kind of sick you just get better from. she might go blind too. im learning to drive, trying to graduate early, get into college, work, and im part of the student counsel, i've also been sick recently, had a cold over brake, sometimes i get dizzy or weak because of low blood pressure and other health issues, and now i have the flue. nothing is really looking good right now, the house is falling apart, the cars not working right, were extremely poor so we can't afford to fix any of it just adapt I also can't go to the doctor . I wanted this story to be well written but it's not turning out like i hoped so im going to take a brake until things get straitened out. hopefully they will soon, life is stressful sometimes but i'll be fine. not many people were reading this anyway. thank you for reading i'll try to be back soon.