AHeartlessNobody

All I Want For Christmas

Sorry for taking so long. Had a major writers block for some of my rps. That and with Holiday its been busy. But I finally posted XD

All I Want For Christmas

Derek wasn't paying too much attention to his brother, Cari, or the kids at first. He was up in his room, half the time they were there sleeping, but the other half he had gotten up and went straight to work writing some more music for what he hoped would be a new song if it worked out well for him. He hummed slightly as he strummed his guitar and was writing down a few notes when he head the kids voices, as well as his mothers, coming up the stairs. Curious as to why that was, he set his guitar down and walked out into the hallway, and when he was out there he could hear why his mother was leading them up there. He could hear his brother's voice outside, yelling at the top of his lungs, and from the sound of it, it was him yelling at his girlfriend.

An annoyed and slightly angry look came to his face a he started down the stairs, calling up to his mom, "Keep the kids inside mom. I'm going to go remind my older brother how to act around here." With that, he was hurrying down the stairs, hearing Reiner yell at her some more.

"You WILL NOT say those kind of things to me! You're going to--"

Reiner didn't get to finish what he was saying because at that point, Derek had made it outside and was walking past Cari, keeping himself positioned in front of her as he spoke to hi brother, "Reiner, you need to chill out .Right now."

It was no surprise that when Derek stepped out to defend Cari that he got angry and stepped forward, "Mind your own business and go back inside! This is between me and my girlfriend, so get lost!"

"Between you and your girlfriend?" Derek questioned, "Really? Because it seems like its you again the whole town with the way you are yelling. Besides, that is no way you talk to your girlfriend. If dad was here and not still at work he would have whopped your ass for acting like that."

"Shut up!"

Reiner finally was getting tired of hearing Derek speak to him like that, went to shove him, which he tried to do, but Derek kept his balance and didn't stumble. Instead he stood up straight again after the shove, sizing up his brother, which was easily done considering he was an inch or two taller than Reiner. Grabbing him by the front of his shirt he turned him and soon had him in a headlock, keeping him there, "I said that's enough! You're going to go for a walk and chill out!" With that, he shoved hi brother forward, not hard enough to knock him down but enough to make him stumble, "And don't come back until that head of yours is cooled off!"

His brother seemed to have known he had lost this one and stalked off, walking own the street, mumbling to himself. Sighing Derek shook his head and turned to Cari, giving a sheepish grin, "Sorry about that. He was taught form the tie he was little how to treat women and that definitely was not it. Hopefully that will be a reminder for him."

Stand Alone(Summers and AHeartlessNobody)

Cassie listened to him as he gathered is things, and when he finished speaking she finally turned to look at him and reply, only he was already leaving out the metal door, making her frown deeply, speaking even though he was too far away to hear her say it, "It.....was nice meeting you too Serix....." Sighing heavily she walked over and flopped down onto her bed, wracking her brain on what she should do. Should she stay here in the plane and wait it out until others of his kind found her? Or should she try to find a better hiding spot? But what would be a better hiding spot if she were to leave? She groaned in frustration and turned over, burying her face against her pillow momentarily before an idea struck her head on where she could go. It was more hidden than the air port for sure and she would probably last longer there than she would here.

She just had to get there though without being spotted by any Alien Scouts. She was pretty sure she could with them supposedly all going to meet back at their ship like he had said. She at least had a little while to get done what she needed to get done. She went through her things, finding another bag she could take, as she had lost her other one when running from Serix in their first encounter, and she began stuffing it with things. First went the few things from her parents, which consisted of nothing more than the photo album, a necklace that her mother had given her, and her father's pocket watch. Once that was in, she went to stuff some supplies in as well, putting as many as she could fit in there, and when she was done, went to the metal door, peaking out. Good, it was still clear with no one around.

Making sure she still had the Silencer at her waist, she began to quickly make her way over the airport fence and into the city, running as quick as she could to a building that used to be a grand tall tower. Now it was broken apart and half the size it used to be from tumbling over and such with age. She went tot he door and tried it. Before the invasion it used to always be kept open because it was a public building and she was relieved to find it still was unlocked. She walked inside and toward an area she knew very well. It was a strange ghost of what it used to be. Everything was still placed in the same way it had been before the invasion, only now everything was dusty and withering away. She frowned to herself and went on, going back to the area of the building where the public hadn't been allowed. It was where officials and workers used to go. She carefully pushed the door to it open and shut it back again.

This all reminded her so much of her parents. How her father used to bring her here and her mother would sometimes tag along. It was very hard. This was the first time she had been here since she was a little girl and it was emotionally draining to think about all this. Still, she took a deep breath and pushed forward, going to the back of the building, where there was a kind of 'sitting room' it seemed. It looked normal, with a old busted tv mounted on the wall, chairs around the edges of the walls, a dysfunctional coffee maker sitting on a counter in the corner. To a person just walking in it would seem nothing more than an employee lounge. But, she knew where the secret of this room lay.

Walking over to the center of the room, she grabbed the edge of a rather long around rug, pulling it back to reveal a hidden metal door that held a manual lock. She just had to remember where they put the spare keys. She knew there had to be some somewhere. She searched for about a half hour before she did find the key and return to the metal door, unlocking and opening it revealing a case of stairs and a long hallway beginning at the end of the stairs. She grinned to herself, hiding the key under the old broken coffee pot, before she moved down a couple of the stairs, pulling the carpet back in place and shutting the door, pulling the latch back into place to lock it from the inside so those outside for the place could only get in with the key, and she could still get out by undoing the latch. Once the door was hidden and locked, she reached into her bag, pulling out the flashlight she had packed, and flipped it on.

She walked down a few more steps and when she got to the last step and stepped the hallway portion, something strange, yet amazing happened. She jumped, looking around wide eyed as the dim motion censored lights hanging overhead flickered on, "Wha....how in the world..." There shouldn't have been any electricity running. Electricity had long since been gone from buildings since the invasion. This made her walk quicker for the hallways, searching for some kind of an explanation when, as she got to one of the many rooms that lined the halls, she heard a buzzing from one of them.

Carefully, Cassie opened the door and what she saw made her grin excitedly. A generator was hooked into the power box and the generator had all sorts of wires leading up the walls and into the upper levels of the building, leading to what she guessed to be outside. It was a solar powered generator. She laughed with happiness at this. The ingenuity of her father and his co-workers, as well as their reparation for such things as loss of power still amazed her. Nodding to herself, she closed the door and continue down the hall, "I should have came here long ago. A good hiding place....electricity...." She made it to a heavy metal door at the end of the hall that was a very high tech in opening it. It took a scan of the person's hand to open, which she thought she wouldn't be able to do without power, but with the generator up and running now she could. She placed her hand on it(glad her father had put her scan in the system as a child), and watched as a green light passed over it, accepting the scan and sliding the metal door open, "and robots." She finished speaking to herself as she walked in, a huge grin on her face as she looked at all the robots of different shapes and sizes, some smaller than herself, and others reaching all the way to the ceiling of the tall hanger, hundreds of times bigger than herself. She had thought by now they would be falling apart and rusting, but apparently in the locked room, hidden away from weathering and harsh climates, at worst they were just dusty.

She wasn't sure what she would even do with these robots, or if she would do anything with them at all. But it was a welcoming sight to see some of her father's work and have something to bring her spirits up. Even give her hope, "Time to get work." She said to herself happily, setting her bag down and going to the largest robot that was there, set on getting all of these things fixed up the best she could.

Stand Alone(Summers and AHeartlessNobody)

There was a long pause after she asked what he would do once the rain stopped and that worried her. What did he have to be thinking o hard about. She had thought what she asked was a simple question and that he knew what he would do. Apparently not though. He looked up to meet her eyes, speaking, “I have to report back to the ship I arrived in,” This statement made Cassie frown deeply but she let him continue without saying anything, “I have to restock on supplies, and my pilot wants to run a head count to make sure everyone is safe. If I miss it, he’ll likely send a search party to come get me. I have to go.” He paused before finishing his statement, “But when I leave… I might not come back.”

When he said that, Cassie frowned more, disappointment, and even a bit of sadness written on her expression for a moment before she put on a straight face and nodded, averting her gaze from looking at him to looking out the window, speaking, "Yeah....I guess that makes sense.....you would have to go see your people sooner or later to check in. And I suppose I should have realized you wouldn't be staying here long." She shrugged and stood up, going to put the picture album back in the box, but not before making sure to put the pictures of her mother back in carefully before she did put it back in the box.

She didn't understand why it saddened her he wouldn't be coming back. After her, he was of another race, more specifically, a race that was out to kill her. And while he hadn't killed her(or at least he hadn't succeeded in doing so), that didn't mean the others of his kind wouldn't, whether he was with her or not. His kind considered her a weaker species and because of that, surely wouldn't hesitate to kill her. He probably didn't want to be around someone that was looked down upon by his kind for so long. He likely wouldn't have even stuck around this long if it hadn't been for the rain. And even though he may or may not think bad about her because of her species it still upset her that she might not see him again. Such a thought, but it couldn't be denied that she felt that way.

Once the book was back int he box, she leaned against the side of the plane, looking out of it and refusing to met his gaze as she stood there, for fear he would happen to see that sadness and upset emotions in her eyes, so instead she stared out as the last few drops of rain escaped the skies, "You probably have a lot to do and all I've probably kept you long enough huh? You better hurry so you can get checked in on tie at your ship."

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“Serix?” She asked trying out the name on her tongue, tilting her head to the side and looking as if she were trying out a food from a different country rather than just testing how strange his name was to say for her, “That’s a weird name.” She leaned back in her seat, saying it again and it still sounded just as weird the second time, “…Serix…..well I guess being from a different planet we would have different kinds of names.” She commented, looking to him, then looked at him when he called Cassie her secondary name, which was funny to her because she had never heard it called that before.

“Secondary name? You mean a nickname?” She said with a small laugh, “Do you even know what a nickname is? It’s just something some close to you calls you. Like...I don’t know, a parent, or a friend, or a boyfriend. That kind of thing. My parents and friends used to call me that. If you had lived on Earth you probably would have had one too. Like Seri. Or Rix. Something like that.” She smiled and reached over to flip some pages in the album again, looking at the pictures fondly, especially those that had her father in them, “Hehe, sometimes my father would even call me Cas-bear. Or Cas-cas. I used to get annoyed by it back then, but now I wouldn’t have cared if he called me that as long as he and my mother were here.” She frowned and sighed, before shrugged and putting a smile on her face, though this one was a smaller one, “I guess you never realize what you have until it’s taken from you.”

Leaning back in her seat again, she looked out the window, “Hey, look. The rain is starting to let up a little bit. It should be gone pretty soon.” She just hopped it would stay gone for at least a couple of days though. It rained a few times a week in this area, so she guessed she shouldn’t have been surprised when it rained today, but still it was annoying. At least now it was letting up and soon the sun would be out again.

Thinking that, she looked back to him, a curious look on her face ,”What are you going to do once the rain is gone?”

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"I know you said you lived there your whole life, but....I don't know, I thought you might be exaggerating and maybe left when you were just a young child. Guess not..." She rubbed the back of her neck and shrugged, "That's good though. That you at least sort of got to see what it looked like through those pictures and from the elders of your people." She brushed her hair back from her face, "At least through that you can have some sort of sense of what your home was like." She smiled slightly at that, "I still remember a lot of things from before Earth went down hill. Those tall buildings you saw in the city? They were all fixed up and so shiny that when the sun was at its peak it could almost blind you. And all those plants were over grown. Thousands of people bustled around making it kind of hard to walk.

"If you went to the country though it was different." She stood up from her seat, moving over to some of the boxes of junk she had sitting in the corner. She started going through them as she spoke, "The country had plenty of room, with lots of plants and animals. Not many people lived there before the plague. After the plague though everyone tried moving tot he country thinking the less populated the better. Only with so many people thinking that way, the country became more populated than the city." She pulled out a book from the boxes, pausing there to open it up. It was an old photo album that had many pictures in it and some of the pictures, namely of her mother, she didn't want him to see and took a moment to pull those out, sticking them back in the box that held some things she had kept from her home when she had been with her parents and putting some things over it. Once she did that, she moved back over to sit across from him.

"My uncle had lived in the country before all this happened, and he knew too many people would migrate there. That's why he suggested we stay here in the city." She opened up the album and there inside were pictures that varied. Some where of her in the city and others were her visiting her uncle. She pointed to a picture of her on her father's shoulders, and in the background were many of the tall city buildings as well as the cars and shops in the background, "See? Really busy." She flipped the page to show pictures of her uncle's farm and different animals like cows, dogs, her on a horse, and chickens, "Where as the country had lots room, and even though it lacked in people, had lot of animals. It was really cool."

She handed the album to him carefully, "You can look at it but please try not to mess it up. Those are the only pictures I have of before the invasion." She pulled her knees to her chest and looked at him when he said he would ask her another question since she had asked so many already. Then, hearing his question, she smiled brightly and held in a laugh, "I guess we haven't told each other that have we?" She paused and shrugged, situating herself in her seat to get more comfortable and pull her hair back into a pony tail, averting her gaze for a moment. It had been so long since she introduced herself to someone, "My name's Castiel. But people used to jut call me Cassie. Whatever you prefer to call me though is fine with me. I'll go by either one."

She looked up to let her eyes meet his again, "And what's your name?"

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When he grinned like that and asked her if what she had asked for was a challenge, Cassie actually laughed. Not one of her sarcastic laughs, or even one of her more quiet ones. This one was a happy laugh, something that didn’t happen very often with her since she had lost her parents and the plague had started killing, “That is definitely a challenge. Let’s see what you can do, Alien Boy.” She commented with her own grin, leaning forward as his pupils dilated again and soon he was in her mind once more.

She had to admit, it was a strange feeling to have someone in her mind like this. Not in the sense that she was feeling trespassed on in the very place no one should be, but more in the sense like the connection was supposed to be stronger, yet had yet to reach its full potential. Like the connection could go both ways, but her own mind just couldn’t reach across to his. It was something to contemplate, but not now. Now she just wanted to what exactly he could do with this ability of his.

She nodded when he stated he was going to show her some images and soon the first one was in her mind. It was very beautiful and reminded her much of Earth before the invasion. She was sure there were still some places like that here on Earth, but the paths to those places were so overgrown by now it would probably be very difficult to find them. But, maybe one day she would. If she didn’t get killed by his people first that was. But she pushed that thought away from now and they moved on to the next image.

The next image made her frown. That beautiful land he had shown her before was no more and in its place was a wasteland with toxic waters and poisonous flowers that roots spread over grey dirt, ruining the planet. It was so different from how the land used to be, and she couldn’t help but wonder what could have caused all of that to happen? How did the waters get to be that way? And where had those evil plants come from? All mysteries that, if she could guess, neither of them would ever know.

Soon the images went away and she blinked. She had a kind of fuzzy feeling in her head for split second, maybe just from the sudden disconnection of their minds, but it was quick passing and soon she was back to normal. She shrugged when he asked how she felt, “I feel fine. I don’t think t hurt me or anything. It was pretty cool actually. But…..those images you showed me….it….was very sad. How could something so amazing turn into something so…..dark?” This was a hypothetical question of course, since neither of them knew the answer to that.

She leaned back a little, looking up at him, “Did you ever get to be there? On the planet? Or were you born on the ship?”

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It was a possibility that he might be able to see better than her in the dark. She could understand that with his glowing eye probably lighting up his vision, "That's interesting. We can probably test that theory in we end up in another store again." That was a half joke of course, thinking back to how they had first met, or well, when he had first kidnapped her essentially, "Humans don't have very good eyesight in the first place, so I wouldn't be surprised if yours did out do ours."

As she sat there and he looked at her hair, she shrugged and twirled one of her long golden locks around her fingers, smiling, "It makes things very interesting," She after a moment frowned slightly in thought as she sat there, "Though, honestly, it came with a lot of.....bad things as well. You see, in the past, our different traits cause a lot of hatred between humans. Especially about the shades of skin. Some people were not as pale as I am. The shades of skin differed from probably about as pale as me to having skin that was dark brown. It caused wars and caused people to get killed. Strange thing, isn't it? To be killed for your looks?"

She shook her head, "Even sometimes hair color could be demeaning. Apparently those with blond hair were considered dumb and useless. And those with red hair were considered....how could I say this...more likely to e together with the opposite sex?" That was the nice way of putting it anyway, "But that was years and years ago. By the time I was born all that had passed and things such as skin and hair color couldn't matter less."

The alien continued to try and think of more that was different between them and she leaned forward curious to see what he would say. But then he said he would try something and his eyes changed. It was a scary thing to her at first. His pupils dilated and then, suddenly, she was hearing his voice in her head. This made her jump and lean back away from him in shock, a small squeak of surprise escaping her lips. Finally he left her mind and she blinked in surprise at him, slowly nodding, her eyes still wide a little, "Y-yeah, I heard you...but...wow.....that is something humans definitely can not do. I've never heard of anyone being able to do such a thing."

She thought for a moment. Was that something her other had been able to do? Surely it had to have been. And f her mother could have done it, could she? She surely had never tried and she felt right now wasn't the time to try, especially since she had just told him humans couldn't do that and him seeing her trying to do so might raise questions. So, instead she leaned forward again, a smile on her face, really interested now to see just what other 'gifts' these aliens had, "Is that the only thing you can do or is there more?"

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Cassie listened to him speak about his own life on his ship. It seemed like a rather...boring life. Just training, studying, and eating. She didn't think should could ever live a life like that. It seemed like such a restrained way of life. And then he talked about a few of the ships having been destroyed in the spreading of the plague. She nodded at hearing that, "I remember hearing something about that on the news radio after it all went down. My uncle, he was a big military buff always kept his radio tuned into the news to hear updates of the things going on outside out hideaway. It was how we stayed safe and knew when to go out and when to stay hidden. He was really smart like that. If it weren't for the plague he probably would have survived this long and be here with me."

She sighed, leaning her head back against her seat as well, "This war....it's been so....useless. We humans weren't so bad. I mean, of course there were some exceptions, bad humans who would have tried to kill some of your kind, but....I'm sure we would have eventually allowed your kind here. We might have been able to even help each other. You know, us help your kind with mechanics and yours help us with medicines. Or something like that." She rested her elbow against the armrest of her seat and rested her cheek in her hand as well, a soft sigh escaping her once more, "But....I guess that's just my naive nature at work. Things never go so smoothly with anything you do. I just.....I guess I wish it could have ended up like that."

She looked back to him, her eyes meeting his as she spoke, "So, other than being obviously faster than us humans and more durable, what other differences are there between your kind and humans?"

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"Suit yourself." Cassie sad with a shrug and when he didn't take her offered hand, instead using one of the nearby chairs to stand up, she walked over to sit in the seat across from him, crossing her arms. She looked out the window for a moment, seeming to be in thought before moving her gaze back to him, shrugging, "If you mean before your people came here, things on earth were....peaceful I suppose. One or two wars around the world, but here in the city everything was just busy. No one really payed attention to the wars going on in other countries expect for the government. It was almost like we were in out own little world."

She sighed, "As for when your people came....Well, I can't tell you most of what was going on during that time. My parents had kept me pretty shielded from a lot that was going on. As you can assume since my father worked for the government, we were one of the first to know about the invasion when it came. And my father had made sure to get me and my mother home. in my home we had a hide away below the house. That's were my parents put me. My father tried getting my mother to go in there as well but..."

She paused, thinking about that night. Her parents had been arguing. Something about 'sticking to the plan' and that they would 'be more hesitant from the shock of seeing someone like her helping a him'. Her father yelled at her, she screamed at him, then they had gotten quiet and her father spoke softly to her. She remember the tears n her mother's violet eyes as she came into the hideaway to kiss Castiel goodbye and her father's pain filled eyes as he did the same. Then, the darkness of the hideaway, the loud sounds form the house and screams of her father and mother as gunshots rang in the air. She closed her eyes tightly at the memory, taking a deep breath, before she opened them and continued, "My mother wouldn't go in the hideaway with me. They both were killed by your kind. My uncle came and found me the next day. Your kind left not too long after the invasion and my uncle took care of me during the plague. He died when I was fourteen, and I've been on my own ever since."

She shrugged and looked back to him, "You're turn. What's it been like all this time on your end?"