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I do not own Dark Angel, or any of its characters.
They are property of Fox and J.C.
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~The Price of Envy~
Chapter one
~By Rommie~
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He watched her, the moonlight caressing the angles of her face. Her body supported by the metal post that had once lit the city. With the loss of a defeated nation echoing throughout his hazel green eyes, Alec turned from his sister’s side, and finally succumbed to the swell of tears forming in his haunted expression.
"Its over." He echoed Lydecker’s words, as he retreated towards the shadows. His sisters’ motionless form forced the X5 to turn back towards her inert figure. "We can’t stay…"
Maybe it was the rain that added to his pleading expression, but when she turned, the sorrow flooding her brother’s eyes, only fed her growing grief. Her own eyes flickered under her long lashes, sending rivulets of tears down her sunken face. Wiping at them in a desperate attempt to save her last rays of dignity, she finally moved from her resting-place and into the arms of her waiting brother. No words were spoken as he closed the embrace, supporting her body against his rain soaked chest.
"Sir, Colonel Lydecker’s window won’t hold. If were going to leave, I advise we do so immediately." The laws had finally been passed. The roads that they had once walked freely no longer welcomed their own kind. He held his hand out, nodding in understanding towards the two X5s that had accompanied them into the rain-swollen streets. Pausing long enough to take one last look at the city that had been his home for more than two years, Alec lowered his arms, encircling his sisters’ waist.
"He got what he wanted" She made no attempt to stop the shivers. Her feline DNA useless against the waters cold grasp.
"Yeah, and we let him."
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"Stand down soldier"
"Were not under your command anymore! So stop with the military bullshit."
"You just don’t get it, do you, they don’t want you here, and they will never learn to except you. It isn’t fear anymore Alec, it’s power. When they break through those doors, are you going to take the first shot, because they sure as hell aren’t going to wait."
"And what... you’re here to solve all our problems Good old Lydecker... Come to give us our choices?"
"This isn’t about choices anymore! The transgenics will be moved out of Seattle, whether through brutality or mass relocation. Alec... when the government moves in... All this... all this will come to a vicious and brutal end. Can you deal with those consequences?"
"We deal with them, everyday."
"I’m not going to let my kids kill themselves over some false hope! It’s dreaming, backed by stubbornness."
"You created us Lydecker. Don’t like the formula?"
The sounds were heard first, the unnatural movement of clumsily flesh and bone. And then the norms’ eyes, glazed with so much belief that no words could stir the gun from its target.
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Jamie moved from her brothers’ grasp, her fingers touching the many bruises, cuts and scrapes that imbedded his features. The crimson that had slipped through her closed fingers when the bullets had struck, and his eyes, the independence, emotion, and disobedience that had always been there, never faltering under the prospect of death. She looked towards the spot; leather, shirt and bandage hiding the damage caused.
"Does it still hurt?"
"What was it Lydecker said?..."
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"Jamie don’t move him!"
"I... I can’t find a pulse! He doesn’t have a pulse"
"Get Max... Joshua find Max. Jamie don’t move him!"
"If he dies..."
The sharp intake of breath followed by flickering green eyes, Jamie watched as Alec’s untrained gaze found hers. Unable to hold back, she buried herself into her brothers’ crumpled body, supporting his trembling body against hers.
"It’s over... " A flicker of emotion washed across his features, as Lydecker’s gaze found the X5 cradled within his sisters arms. "Indestructible"
To be continued
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