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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2019 4:08:28 GMT
"Oh god," he muttered to himself as he watched the tears. He rolled his eyes because what was the point in bringing emotions into this so even though he watched he also stared her because she was..challenging him? Micah slowly felt his mouth open so that his teeth were shown and he used his fingers to swoop his hair back and tossed it up into a small ponytail as he looked down at his leg which had stopped so much shaking for now. "Are you serious right now?" He only asked because she seemed serious but she also seemed extremely emotional and he was in no place to process either one of those things mentally or even emotionally himself. "I did not tell you this information to make you feel like you need to do anything to best me because well if you were going to best me you would have did it when we were little and you failed so just because we are adults now nothing has changed. I simply want you to participate that way when I get my gold hero medal or whatever the equal is here..ooh do you think that I can have a shiny badge?" His eyes gleamed so quickly and were so full of life even with such darkness in them. "Point being it is not a competition between us Trove. We can both be heroes for this place I will just be the better one." He said that with as much confidence as he could even if his voice went a little high in pitch. "You can be my little tag along." Shoe. Foot. Mouth. It was going to be an ongoing thing with this kid it seemed as he reached out and put his hand on her shoulder. "Besides you are weaker than me genetically so I am going to take the lead and you can be..hold on I am trying to think of the best way to word it..shot gun. Like if I ever get around to building that motorcycle that we discussed you get the little car on the side but you do not ever get to drive it really." He smiled his boyish smile. "Partners then?" he said as he looked at her awaiting an answer. Cae Mire
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2019 12:34:51 GMT
"Tag along?" She eyed him because he better be talking about the girl scout cookie. She gritted her teeth because she did not want to be mean to him but she was slowly losing that as well. "Partners?" She thought that was just a cover up for you get me in and I will do the rest. "Hell no we are not partners." Seriously? She turned and began to pace but not out of anger. It was some strange mix of determination and well honestly she felt like she was being tricked but she kept that thought to herself as she finally spoke to him. "I do not need your motorcycle as I am sure t here is an auto shop around here where I can get one and second of all you are a bit of a dick." She was a little surprised and then she thought about how she did not know really what he had been up to since that strange time in the hospital and honestly even though she was mostly sure those were his screams she had not asked for confirmation. "You told me once that you had been on a scavenger hunt." She hated how he would say one thing and it mean something else. "Did you mean like a real scavenger hunt because of your childish like ways or was that code for a journey of self discovery and Micah what happened to your". She motioned to her chest to indicate that she was meaning his chest. "Puberty I am assuming?" It was an easy out but she did not know if even he knew. "I just mean when we were younger your chest had like strange symbols on it. Much like that periodic table that we seen and your back the same but now they are clear." Her memories were killing her so she had to ask the hard questions. "I thought you would have them forever and even you got to admit they were kind of awkward but kind of cool." Parker had made her way up to where Faye was and was now sitting down looking at the television and hearing the conversation as well as she turned to Faye and said nothing. Instead she got up and mixed a little bit of tea and made two cups and handed one to Faye and finally she spoke. "Was she always this curious Faye? I do not remember her being as annoying in her youth." Micah Nottingham
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2019 15:43:56 GMT
She took a minute before speaking. "Thank you and Caedara has always been curious. You have to understand that the young lady spent four months in the garage of the house before I knew she was there so no telling how long it was total. The details are foggy at best but in his own awkward way he was protecting her but everyone knows what happens when you leave any two teenagers alone. The parents are always the last to know and it was not until she got really sick that he could not keep it a secret any longer." Faye stirred her tea and finally took a sip. "This is delicious and it has the mint and honey mixed in too. I can taste it but I am not calling her a problem. Her memories keep her head above water just enough so that she will not drown." She had always made sure to watch over Micah but she knew her attention was about to be elsewhere so it was good that Caedara was here. "Just because she asks questions does not mean she is going to get an answer. If anything she is going to have Micah thinking that she needs help because he does not remember anything that she might rant about. I made sure of it and besides Kasey told me only one could remember and I chose Stasis because well she has the stronger will and the tat and her name always meant balance even more so double like now but even she has some things implanted in that are false but as a mother and you should know this we do what we have to do to protect our children." She finished her tea and gently pushed her cup onto the shelf and stood up and walked over and turned the television down. She went and leaned on the table before finally squatting down and gently flipping the table over and motioning for Parker to come and look but put her finger on her mouth to signal for her to remain silent. "Shh. I am going to let you in on a little secret. She's right because the trove has always been the center piece you see." She smiled at Parker still no one home behind her eyes but they were still beautiful none the less. "Alaska was the journey that created a turning point for those kids. You see in reality they were just gone a couple of months but when those teenagers came back they were the adults you see standing before you now. It was the night of the northern lights and it was a game changer. Mila Richards, had been there and she naturally got a little too nosy for her own good but by the time they got to her it was too late. She had opened the crate of souls, kept in tact by yours truly and that night the souls feasted and the innocence of those children were lost permanently and they were thrust back into the world as the little lost adults who just happened to all end up in Oregon. It's good now though because they all have a part to play and they can feel it even if the words and memories of what exactly it is at this moment escapes them." She was so happy for them. "The babies grew up even more beautifully than I originally thought that they would." He looked at her and then turned around and lifted his shirt up. Yeah nothing there but abs of hard work and lack of carbs which reminded him..he put his shirt down and spoke. "Hamburger Trove," he said as he looked at her. He had a sinking feeling that she was not okay but who could blame her. "Puberty yeah had to be." He looked at her and nodded trying to read her body for any signs. A roll of the eye or a bat of an eyelash or maybe a smaller sign but so far nothing still. "Maybe the abs ate it," he said as an attempt at a lame joke but quickly dismissed it. "I think that your memories might be mixing my body up with someone else's. It's alright you probably just need your medicine." He reached over and cut another light on so that there was enough light so that he could see. He finally found the small freezer and pulled out the meat and a small vial of yellow like goo. He checked the expiration date to make sure it was still good. "06/03/21," he said as he motioned for her to take a seat and put the vial down. He washed his hands and dried them and found the measuring spoon and handed it to her as he began to make a hamburger. "Last time I went out for food and ordered a burger medium rare they tried to give it to me well done. I stared at her and told her I might as well have cooked it myself anyway the last time that I checked it does not hurt to ask for help. If I never would have you would not be here right now so suck that Trove." He smirked and then quickly stopped because maybe that came across as gloating. Either way. "Point being he's going to help me get my foot in the door and after that I swear it will be all me and before you say it I know nothing is ever free but this is owed to me so it is not exactly free. It's more like breaking even ground." He found a skillet and threw his burger in. "See what I did there?" Cae Mire
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Apr 10, 2019 10:19:39 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2019 10:19:39 GMT
"Your sense of humor has always been terrible" she said as she checked the spoon. 3/4 and she poured the frozen solid into it and took it. It tasted terrible but she knew better but why didn't he? "Well puberty took my curls out so I guess anything is possible." Nope someone had tampered with him she was pretty sure of that because she remembered seeing it. "Micah seriously? Balthier Strife stays under ground. I do not care what kind of payback he owes you." How could he not remember? I promise it's almost done! We got to push through this history in the past to get to the present nice and straight.
"Ace I brought the vials" she said as she bopped in. She was around sixteen at the time and her curls were out in full force and that was when she seen it the green eyed man. She still got shivers when she seen him because the first time she had met him he had been nothing but an asshole and she learned that day that he had not changed. "Where's Ace?" she simply said. The man said nothing but instead handed her a piece of paper. "A note? Well that's the coward's way out if I ever seen it. She quickly turned and then left as she read the note. All it said was that their was this center for treatment for her to go to. That was where she had heard the screams.""I'll do it for you instead" she said as she threw the spoon in the sink. "I want a burger though and I know that you think I don't have bad guy material in my bones but with my memory I might just be able to pull it off. So let's take a walk down town or wherever you are going to do your big heroic act and then we can set it up good and we'll make you a hero even if you do not get into the organization you can be one of those good guys on the side type gigs." Micah Nottingham
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Apr 10, 2019 13:23:12 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2019 13:23:12 GMT
He turned his burger and watched as she threw the spoon into the sink. "Wrong side. Left side is for water for the dishes and right side is for water to rinse the dishes hence the placement of the dishwasher and my rack for dishes when I am not being technology advanced besides I think Ribbon tore my dishwasher up." He used his spatula to cut his burger open. "Still too raw and you want me to turn you into a bad guy?" That was a laugh. "I can't turn you into a bad guy. You either have it or you don't." He bent down so that he could inspect his burger thoroughly as he turned it a couple of more times. "Eh that is done enough," he said as he put it on a paper towel on top of a plate so the grease could drip off. He threw one for her in. "You can have whatever you want as long as you cook it." He moved out of the way as he thought while he gathered his bread. There was something about the smell of bread that he liked as he put himself up on the counter and began to swing his legs while he fixed his hamburger. Once he had his burger between two pieces of bread he took a bite. "Heaven in my mouth is fried food though this tastes funny." His mouth seemed to have extra saliva in it as he took another bite of his hamburger. "Man I bet that cow was beautiful but taste this it tastes funny to me." He handed the burger out to her and waited. "Come on you used to eat after me all the time when we were younger. This isn't any different except I actually brush my teeth now." The fact that he sounded so proud of that fact was disgusting. "Look if you bite this and see if it tastes strange I will turn you into a bad guy and you can help me AND not only that but I will also shimmy for you. As a matter of fact," he put his burger down and began to shimmy. Skills utterly lacking but it was the shimmy that started this story finally. Cae Mire
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2019 11:32:21 GMT
Her eyes were once again glued to the television when she seen Micah start his shimmy. She tossed her blonde hair up into a ponytail as she turned towards Faye. "Faye one of your offspring is looking like he's about to stroke out. How many times did I tell him if you're going to dance you got to find your rhythm. You know the more I watch this the more I realize this kid is not going anywhere which is sad because at one point and time I had high hopes for him." She turned her head and Faye was gone. "Damn it she knew I wanted to binge Game of Thrones before the season premiere." She said as she got up and headed out the door. "That is not really necessary" she said as she watched him start. Her eyes stayed glued because it was the type of horrible where you wanted to turn away but you just could not. She blinked at him and then got off the counter and grabbed the half eaten burger and began to eat it. She chewed trying to see if it had a different taste to it and it did. She looked at Micah and then spoke. "Stop doing that and open your mouth" she said as she began to frantically look around. "Do you have any q-tips?" She said as she made her way around and found the bathroom. She opened the makeshift medicine cabinet and opened it up and found a q-tip and an empty medicine bottle that had been cleaned out and made her way back to him. "That burger tasted funny to me too. Here suave your mouth and then gently place the q tip in the container but be careful to not let it get contaminated. Your mouth is funky we just need to find out what kind of funky. This is why it is important that you need to brush your teeth when you are younger. It comes back to bite you when you are older and please never shimmy ever again. I'm pretty sure you got two left feet." Micah Nottingham
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2019 13:41:01 GMT
He stood in the mirror younger than he currently was and he had tried to brush his teeth but she could hear the hisses every time. "Micah, baby." He turned and looked at his mother the periodic table lightning up. "Mom I can't go through life like this. You said Dr. Richards is close to a cure? I mean there has to be a way and do you know how much it hurts to pee hydrogen?" He was the first because you always needed an experiment and she was not allowing Dr. Richards to touch her daughter without a little practice. His mother sighed.
"It's not a cure because she said that she can not remove it all so it will still remain in your leg because it turns out you need some of it to live. I did not know that when I signed you up for the program so you do not have to do this. I am going to save Caedara either way." He gave it thought before speaking to his mother. "I want to be able to brush my teeth. I want my food to taste like food and you know how much I love burgers." She nodded as she turned and stepped out the door. "I do but come on the northern lights are the brightest in about two minutes. I'm going to make a phone call but you sit out and watch them."
Once she was away she dialed Dr. Richards. "Yeah he's ready. He made the decision on his own. Once he registers as a success I will hire a man to attack Ribbon and then completely disregard her feelings and make her hate who she is and she will come to you. I can tell she is going to want a new look sometime in her life. Probably be a few years but that will give me enough time to build a place to protect you."
_____ A time later _____
She was there when he woke up and she had the burgers as she helped him get dressed. "So Micah how are you feeling?" He turned and looked at his mom. "Oh great. Mom I can see everything. For instance I noticed that my right hand is definately dominant not because I want to write with it but because my bird finger on it is just a little bit longer than all of my other fingers and my right thumb is just a little bit wider. You can tell what did you say her name was? Dr. Charid? You can tell Dr. Charid her clinical trial was a success."
She looked at him. "Well first off it was Dr. Richards and second off it is a little too early to tell but it surely sounds like it was. Take a bite of this and I made sure that it was medium rare and tell me how it tastes. He took the widest bite and spit food all over his mother as he talked. "Delicious and it's Angus too. Thanks for getting me in." His mother shook her head. "Well Dr. Richards is a good friend of mine and she...well she made you something as a welcome gift. It's a small toy horse and it even has a TM in it. She probably wanted people to know it was trademarked because I don't know what else TM could mean.""I knew it!" he exclaimed as he did as she asked and then looked at the burger and finished it. Ew girl spit all over his burger and yet that did not stop him from finishing it as he flipped her burgers. They were charcoal and he shook his head. "I am probably just coming down with allergies no big deal but I hate that. I swear I almost thought I tasted potassium too and my pee..Trove it burns when I pee and it smells terrible. I mean I almost gagged the last time I peed. Come watch me pee real quick so you can see what I mean. You want a memory I got one for you that's for sure." He said as he grabbed her hand and lead her to the bathroom. "Alright..so what if we put your life in danger?" He laughed a bit as he winked at her. "Before you say no just hear me out okay? What if we make you a damsel in distress? I mean we can go the whole nine yards if you want. I am talking fire, tear your shirt open, screams the whole SHAZAM!" His eyes got very wide with curiosity as he walked in and shut the door between them. He really had to pee and it was not his fault that he could not exactly do it with someone else watching. He swore he had a thought that he was going to finish when he actually looked down at his pee because it looked strange and almost sparkling. He was trying to recall what he had been doing but all it came up was deliveries and..well before he had ran into that woman at the gym he had licked the bottom of the gym seat because what else does a kid do when they are bored. "Oh my freaking..." He quickly finished his business and washed his hands and let the water run so that he could think. "Think, think." Wait, did he smell smoke? Cae Mire
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2019 1:59:57 GMT
Germs. The amount of germs they were swapping from that burger alone were enough that she did not ever want to remember him eating that burger. None the less as she watched him eat it she loved seeing him being a little kid because those memories were rare for her and yet. Oh they were discussing his pee. "Micah I do not want to hear about your burning pee." Honestly why did it seem as if he had no manners. She took a second to look over her own burgers but did not cut the stove off. "These need to burn a little more" she said as he grabbed her hand and she looked down at their hands. "DUDE! Micah! Look at our hands.
It was strange because when they touched his hands seemed to have a faint darkness about them around the knuckles. He said it was nothing and she always thought that perhaps it was something.When she snapped back to reality it was something about danger considering she had zoned out everything up until that word. "Sure though I do not care about putting my life in danger unless you do not think that you can get me out then we need to talk about that but sure yolo and what not. Is that even still a thing? None the less I am ready and I am willing and there is the door slamming in my face." She hated how rude he was and just when she thought it was an act it slowly seemed like that was just a thing for him. She went over and sat down and then remembered her food just as she heard the water running. "You okay in there?" She took a few minutes to get down and see if she could see his feet. They did not seem to be hanging off of the toilet. That was when she looked up and seen the small fire coming from the stove. "Oh I remember what to do about this because I'm all about fire safety." She looked up in the cabinet and found some flour and poured it over the fire which apparently made the fire worse. "Well fucking crap!" she said as she went over and banged on that bathroom door. "Micah open this door right now." Flames engulfed that stove. "Screw it save yourself. I'm abandoning this ship." She turned and ran out the garage door, screaming her head off. "Faye! Faye! Micah's playing with his food again." Micah Nottingham
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Apr 15, 2019 10:14:27 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2019 10:14:27 GMT
She sighed as she heard the young lady yelling like a mad woman and she pulled herself together as she spotted Caedara. "Keep your voice down for pete's sake" she said as she watched her brother's garage and the smoke that was coming from it. She yelled. "Micah get out of the freaking bathroom, you are not fifteen anymore." When he heard his mom's yelling he slowly opened the door and came face to face with the smoke. "Heck yeah I did smell smoke." He walked straight towards it because the flames of orange and red were vibrant to him and seemed to be pulling him in. "Wow." That was when he noticed the smoke on the stove and he stared at it like a complete idiot. He turned in the general direction of his mom and spoke. "She put flour on it," he said as he carefully reached over and cut the eye off and found the baking soda. He gently poured and made sure to layer it before making his way out. "Mom I don't know why.." Before he could finish his mother interrupted because she was furious with him. "Ace Micah Nottingham." Oh boy she was using his full name and that made him feel like he was in trouble as he threw a look at Trove that said thanks a lot before his mom continued on. "What were you even doing that this happened? We have very strict rules around here and you need to follow them." He wiped his face as he spoke up. "Mom I'm sorry I just.." She interrupted. "Damn right you are sorry. You have always been. I mean you are my favorite but damn if it is not because I am not sure you aren't functionally retarded. I created you myself and all you are doing is disappointing me. You wanted to go off and find yourself and I did not approve and yet I let you. You wanted to come to Oregon and be a hero and I do not approve at all and look at you. How the hell are you going to be a hero if you can't even think to not stand where a fire is for two seconds. You could have died all because what let me guess some stupid colors caught your eye?" She had a tongue that would lash the hell out of you with her words because she no longer had it in her to be nice. "Go to your room," she said to him as he looked at her the tears evident in his eyes as they were streaming down. "You never believed in me Mom, not since Dad..." He made a hanging motion with his neck. "Maybe you are the reason because listen to you. You are a fucking tyrant if I ever met one and I am not a little kid anymore and I..I do have it in me to be a hero I just.." He had to get in. "I'm the one that found him lifeless. Not you and not once did you ask me how I was dealing with it, even now. I love you Mom but you are not the only person who lost someone. You just raised us like it did not even happen and shipped us off to Alaska and when we got back we were grown so your job was done." He was fine with it because he had not known his father until later in life but Ribbon. "Mom you need to talk to Ribbon. She never got her closure not from dad, not from you and she deserves that. I will protect her with my life but she is eventually going to want to know more. She needs to be able to process it to fully move on with her life and if I do not have that watch and you do not have that watch then you know she does. I'm going to be a hero and I'm going to make you proud and maybe then you can look and see that your offspring isn't such a fail and move on too but you don't get to hold the power over me like I am wrong for wanting my own life." She reached back and smacked the hell out of him with the back of her hand right across his mouth and the blood poured from his lip down across her hand. "You don't get to disrespect me Micah. Do it again and I'll smack the shit out of your friend too. Now Trove, help Micah up to his room while I finish cleaning this mess because it seems as if he's forgotten just who the parent is here." Cae Mire
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Apr 17, 2019 12:13:16 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2019 12:13:16 GMT
His tears gutted her and she quickly turned around because she was not a crier and as she listened to the words that were seething from Faye's mouth she shook her head. These were the bad times of having memories and being around people that were creating new memories. The smack that his mother laid on him echoed through out her ears and she turned around just in time to see the blood. New Memory Locked. Past Memory Triggered.
"I don't get it." She looked at Faye and she then listened to Faye. "I bound your spirit to his. It does not matter where you go or what you do. What you have and what you do not you are connected on a higher level than anyone knows and on a level that goes beyond a physical because it's not love and it's not a need for intimacy but it is something bigger. Something more rewarding."
"I think that you have dipped one too many times in the witch craft pool but hey what do I know." She laughed and got down. "Thanks for saving me." She had done everything after that to keep the jade vine alive just because she had thought it was pretty and she did not believe in any of that other crap but there were times where she thought that she could feel if something was wrong with him but never as an ache or a shift it was just a slight shake in something she could not see.She blinked back into the present and heard his mother speak. "Of course." She said as she helped Micah up and into the house. Once they were into the house she got strange feelings because she knew this house but she ignored it. "Hold this napkin against your mouth and we are going to do it. I will take a walk downtown and around everywhere and my mind should lock most of it into place and then we will make you a hero. You seem mostly good and almost a saint to put up with your mom so let's get you in or give it a try. Besides I think we're tethered so let's go do some hero escapades. Finally get me that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow maybe and at the end of this story we're going to kill your mother spirit and all." The blonde looked over Faye's hand and spoke. "Faye you know you went too far. Micah is starting to spew his emotions and it's not good. If I did not know any better I'd think you were trying to push him off his path." She stared down at the path. Hand drawn by her so many years ago as she finally finished with the woman's hand. "Oh look at that it says smack and then it says" She paused because the ink was still fresh and dripping. She turned to Faye. "What's next Faye?" Micah Nottingham
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