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David Carter turned the silver knobs to the shower on. First the cold, then the hot; adjusting it to his liking. Letting the warm water slide so gracefully down his cold skin, instantly warming him up. He brushed back his blue black hair with his fingers, allowing the water to flow through out it. After a while he turned the knobs till the showerhead no longer let out the steamy water and pulled back the shower curtain. He slipped on his kaki pants and walked up to the mirror, pulling it back to reveal the cabinet holding shelves of different things. Taking out a bottle of pills and shutting the mirror door, he looked back at the person in its reflection. A strong yet troubled person with jet back hair, a natural dark completion and piercing blue eyes... The kind of eyes that froze any being who gazed into them. As he popped the lid to the pills his hands started to shake. Every damn day... he thought as he put the pills into his mouth. The pain in his body became so unbearable that he had to sit on the ground and hold his knees as he leaned the back of his head against the wall of the bathroom. Soon the shaking and the pain stopped and he left the bathroom while putting on his black shirt. Seizures Iris had called the shaking and pain, even though it was different then any spasm normal people would have. Iris... The only person to his past, besides Jim, that was still alive. Or so he thought. Doctor Iris Evans was the woman who delivered David. The one of the few that knew of David's half alien side. She had to know. Oddly enough, David never had gotten sick, but he needed someone to supply his pills with out needing a medical back round or blood test. David's blood was alien. It would baffle any doctor, besides Iris, that took a blood sample from him. It had been a couple month since David and his team had landed back on Earth. They were allowed a normal life if they would swear to secrecy. Allowed. David hated being told what he could and could not do. Like he could live a normal live anyway. A couple days after they landed, Doc recovered the Mangler Blue and found a house in Glenport. A huge house that Doc had "stashed" away near the woods, like he did with many of his previous things. With that Major Phil Stark and his partner Sergeant Angie Romar moved into the large house with it's many rooms. They thought it would be easier to live close together and keep an eye on each other since they had become close over this experience, and since the Tryusians were still out there and could come back at any time. Doc stood there with Blue, of course. David had no where to go so he stayed with them. He had no family left only the memory of his once normal life that now seemed like a dream. Jim, with the permission of his mother, had decided to stay with them for a while or until everything was settled. In the basement was a lab and a training area. A few days after they had moved into the house, these people had contacted them through the computers in the basement, their faces scrambled. They called themselves the Four Elders. They were with TFAO, The Federal Assassin's Organization. They offered all five of them jobs as assassin's for them, telling them that they could help them with their problem. David assumed that they meant the Tyrusians, but no one was sure. By some odd act of God they all excepted that offer and became part of their "group" so they would be protected and have the help they needed with the aliens. Now their enemies were TFAO's enemies. And vice versa. One of those enemies of the TFAO were the Bounty Hunters of the late Konrad's team that still were in operation. The side that Sonia and her brother Simon were on. The training area was where they were to train with their weapons. It didn't take long before David and the rest was used to this. Out all night and day. David never slept much since he was a child and didn't need to, so this was okay with him. They were usually sent out in teams, partners, or signally. Of course there were the other groups and teams in this organization that they were obligated to meet and get used to. David came out of his room and walked down the hallway. Everyone was already in the kitchen so David just called out to them. "I'll be back!" Phil tried to answer him, but he something in his mouth, so Angie did, "Be back soon!" David closed the door behind him and crossed over the front yard to the garage. Opening it, he pulled out his motorcycle that Doc gave him and hopped on. Before he could take off Doc appeared in the garage door. "Hey kid. Where ya goin'?" "No where's special." David revved the bike and took off down the driveway, "And don't follow me!" He called back. * * * David parked his bike on a sidewalk right in front of a person, who jumped back when he shoved the motorcycle in to the parking spot. Jumping off it, he made his way to the building in front of him, the hospital that Doctor Iris Evans worked in. The doors automatically slide open as he walked up to them. He went up to the front desk. "Hey Ilene," he asked the lady sitting there, "Is Iris in?" The woman with shot, curly red hair and a pale face sorted through files. "Oh, David. Back so soon?" She smiled as she now filed the papers on her lap. David grinned. "Is Iris in?" He asked again. Ilene, still not looking up, grabbed the intercom and pulled the microphone down to her lips. "Doctor Iris to the front desk." She called into it. "Now if she comes up, she's in." Ilene look up and winked at him. David sighed and took a seat off to the side. Soon Iris came down one of the corridors with a file tucked under her arm. Iris had her blue back hair tied back in a pony tale and her mysterious green eyes sparkled whenever she saw David. She hit David on the head with the file to get his attention. David grabbed his head and shot up. "Oh, hey Iris." Iris smiled as he spun around to try to find where she went. Iris placed the file down on Ilene's desk. Ilene, now on the phone, mouthed thank you to Iris. Must have been something important, David thought. Iris motioned for David to follow her onto a room. As he entered, Iris sat down at a desk. "Change your office again?" David asked. "Ha ha." Iris fished through the front drawer for something. She pulled out a little bottle of the pills that David took. David went to grab for them, but she pulled away. "Your eating these up like candy." "And?" Iris put them on the top of the chestnut desk as she wrote something on a file on the desk. David grabbed the pills. "Thanks." he said as he turned to leave. Iris took hold of his arm. "Is it getting worse?" She asked. ----- She was sick of it. Right from the start. She'd been taking care of Simon for weeks now, and he'd grown more and more demanding every day. "Do this, do that," Sonia mocked him, imitating his husky, light voice. You think he'd be less eager to get to David, ever since that accident with the Exotar... Finally, it dawned on her to leave him. After all, she'd only taken him in because he was her brother, her twin, the only family she had left after Dr. Lear's death. But now, now you've gone too damn far, Simon. I'm surprised you even wanted me to take you in. I'm betraying you...don't you know that...? She longed to see David; it had been god only knows how long. She wondered what had become of him after all the explosions on the moon... She knew that it was fate that was summoning him yet again to strike a blow against the Dragit. And fate won't lay off him until one of them is dead...and it sure as hell can't be him... I mean, not if there's any hope for Tyrus... Sonia slipped on her coat and headed out of the hotel room, where she and Simon had been staying. He'll survive without me... He doesn't need me anymore, the persistent son of a-- "Where the hell are you goin'?" Sonia gave Simon her back, slipped her coat around her shoulders, and
unlocked the door to the apartment. Where she would head from there, she didn't
really know. Or care. At this point, Sonia was fed up with Simon's moaning and
complaining. Lately, everything that came out of his mouth was about their old
mission as bounty hunters, to extinguish the threat that was David Carter. ----- David's cobalt eyes shifted to the side. "No," he lied. Iris let her grip go. "I'm sorry." "It's okay." David smiled a bit. "I'm just worried that something might happen to you." "Iris, I'm fine." "Ever since that day..." "Iris--" "I just--" David moved closer to the desk, "What?" "--miss him so much." "Rafe?" "Yes." David reached across the table and Iris grabbed his hand. "It'll be okay." David said. Though Iris could hear the thick disbelief in his voice. "I know." Iris shook her head. "You're right." She wiped her face with the back of her hands. "I'm fine, I'll be fine." David let go of her hand after awhile. "I have to go." He said softly and went down the corridor. Iris sat back in the chair, her fingertips pressed to her temples for a moment. "Good bye." She whispered. David left the hospital and was about to hop on his bike when he received a call on his cell phone. David reached for it in his back pocket. "Hello?" "Yeah, it's me." Doc's rugged voice came. "We got a Call..." * * * David parked his motorcycle out side the house and ran in through the garage to the basement where all were gathered. Before anyone could say anything David jumped in front, "I'll take it." "Aww." Angie groaned. "Don't worry," Doc said typing on the computers. "It's for all of yous." Jim again gave that nauseated look. "Good. Maybe this time we can get some where with out killing the guy first." Phil glanced over at Angie and David. "This is a protect mission, not a assassination mission. We are to protect this person, get to her before the Bounty Hunters do." Doc pulled out a picture from one of the slots in the computers. "Here." he handed it to Phil. "Yer the leader." Phil accepted it. "Okay, we're on it." |
