August 12, 2020 - New Jersey, former underground Iron Fortress.
would have liked to have the genes of an evergreen. A tall pine tree that grows and strengthens, that never dies. She would have enough stamina and strong consistency of an old oak tree, the trunk wide and strong roots, intertwined with the very heart of the earth. He gave up the beauty that he had dressed, a time of irresistible sensuality, el'avrebbe changed with a rough bark that lasts forever. Instead of a red heart, breathing muscles would have preferred green and dry instead of warm blood resin. Hands as gnarled trunks of olive trees, rough nails, bay instead of hair, shiny lips like the leaves of the magnolia. The everything would be fine, because everything would be better to wither with the relentless speed, from day to day, from month to month, leaving behind only the bones.
Just like the roses.
Katrina Rubinkova based cutlery on the plate, leaving his meal in half. It keeps looking down, visibly uncomfortable, regardless of who has front and nothing less than her husband.
" not eat anymore?"
" I went my appetite. "
His voice sounds shrill, annoying as it rubs chalk on the blackboard, despite not having said more than a few words. Tomas watches her for a moment, before continuing to eat. He, too, with little appetite now. It 'nice, Tomas, and strange. Ordained as his British-born forces, blond, fair-skinned, still seems like a teenager. Yet the wild light in his eyes the shuffle, it breaks down: his eyes are yellow, bright, cut a thin vertical pupil.
not the same for her.
have graying hair, the eyes are decorated with two deep wrinkles and darken the circles. Her skin has lost the same light, as his body every day you let go, relax and ruin. His gaze is turned off, now, for several months. Since he started to feel pain in the bones, and the smell has become sour and wet, like he was rotting.
" We were invited to the inaugural address of the new government the day after tomorrow ..."
" Already? - it hurts to talk, and indeed it does in a low voice, coughing occasionally - is premature. There is yet to conquer the whole west coast, and resist ... "
" Blast does not want to delay it further - said the Englishman, with composure, then hesitates for a moment - we go? "
She seems to withdraw, closed in on itself as does a dry leaf.
" not want to introduce myself so ..." confesses, piano, keeping his eyes down.
" I think we should go, Kat. - Tomas says with a sigh, Gently taking her hand in his - expect we'll go, and all will see you again. I have heard some of our old friends by e-mail, and I ask all of you ... "
" They expect you to go. "
" What? "
" They expect you to go, not us. You've helped them with that research ... and you worked so hard for them in recent months, while I ... "
" You should take the field, Kat, Getting back on the streets. You're letting this thing kill you, While you should ... "
" This thing is killing me, Tom - she withdraws her hand over her mouth and coughing poggiandosela - maybe I could ... just this once ... I could make perfuming the air ... I could use the power ... "
" No - changing the look of man becomes severe, his fine eyes widen - doctors were clear, Katrina. Each time, it's as if you take it one year old. You can not. "
Then she puts her hands on the table, and stands up.
" This is not a life, Tomas. It is not even a pale imitation, it's just ... - forces her to stop coughing, but then resumed with a voice more shrill, more dirty - is just shit. I do not want to go, talk to your fucking friend fucking Blast. "
He looks frowning for a moment. Then he wipes his mouth with the corner of the cloth napkin and rises.
"Well - concluded, taking the dishes and headed for the dishwasher - means that I will go alone."
*
August 12, 2020 - San Fernando Valley, near Los Angeles.
"You know what - Dante puts on a rubber mouth in Brooklyn, the waste paper thrown on the floor - I broke the balls of the desperate. The poor usually stink, and the places where the poor live stink too - inspired by the bottom, the air of that place knows of rotten fish - slut whore. If I were a mutant would not think twice about planting here, know this. Back to New York right now. Shit, I think there are doing great, all the lackeys of the girl. Okay, but you you the fuck? Because I've always wondered if you, the end, after having made your dry I mean brother, and do not feel like to die with this doubt. Why, say, there is a friend of mine who died some 'time ago that has always claimed was a lesbian. But I think that ... "
" Malakian. Shut up. "
Cameron rubs his forehead, making the space between your thoughts. Around him see nothing but the walls of an empty warehouse.
" do not understand. All the information we have leads us to this place. They should be here. "
" Maybe we just look back. They'll make a picnic. "
Cameron thinks a moment, before surrendering himself to the ground, sitting cross-legged. Sigh.
" I do not suppose we can only wait."
Dante closes his eyes, snorts. And not without a slight feeling of disgust, sits down to earth too, next to the former Blood Angel.
" course I've come a long way, eh ..."
" I do not follow ..."
" is on, you understand. Before you and the girl were Roseanne "
" Before, things were different "
" sure? I do not know Reese, not really. Have changed roles. The oppressors are now the oppressed, the oppressed against their oppressors. Karma say, no? The only asshole who is always on the side of the losers, in the midst of this mess, seems to be you ... "
" are you driving? "
" Nowhere. I said to talk "
" Ah. "
" But you'd have taken your place in the sun, I think. In short, you're not tired of fighting for those destined to lose? That is, do not get me wrong, fuck if I'm happy to have you with us, but ... "
" You forget that I too am a human, Malakian"
" But the little girl a place for you would be confidential. He reserved for Fiumevento, imagine if he would not reserved for you. In fact, maybe you were more useful to you, here with me now. You could reason with her. Brush down a bit ', basically just needs someone to take his head. Holy Christ, is twenty years old ... "
" Blast is no longer controllable. He knows what his goals. And how to reach them. It has a black list, Malakian, which includes all those who were involved in the oppression of Gates government. A long list ... "
" Ah, about that. A little birdie told me that he did publicly executed Karl Mandic, New York "
" Exactly "
" And another little bird told me that he wants to send the mutants on which experiments made here on the West Coast, to hunt down the human resistance. Along with the other quotas. "
" are mavericks, how does being able to control them? "
Dante smiles softly, very gently, as if he was feeling a great affection for the subtlety of that plan.
" You remember the son of Mandic, no? The paraplegic telepath ... "
" will use him? "
" So say my birds ... "
Cameron frowns and opens up her lips ready to refute, when an unidentified object's size L ' air ear. Malakian is thrown to the side dragging with him, cursing under his breath. He puts up with more agility than you might expect from a man of his age, pulls the revolver from the holster with a surprising readiness. Levelling up, focusing on a man in the loft under the windows wide.
" I see you!" scream as Dante gets back on his feet, dazed. He
breathing accelerated and focused on their beat. Cameron knows why.
"But I see you better , Reese ..." , hiss that has the flavor of a sadistic smile, ferocious.
Alongside Ian Baldwin, for the entire perimeter of the warehouse loft that emerges from an increasing number of heads and mouths of guns. Cameron swallows. He should know.
" I'm here just to talk, Baldwin - shouting to be heard, without lowering the gun and aligning out the viewfinder with a portion of the skull found former MCU - Blast chasing us too. We can help you arrange the West Coast "
" Why should I trust you, Reese? "
" Why is a human too. ".
A third voice, moving in the air, a man who falls easily from the mezzanine to the ground, touching only with the fingertips to the ground. When you call standing in the eyes of Cameron whale a moment of hope, security commingled with a certain amount of surprise.
" Owen ..."
" Welcome back on the losing side, Cam. "
*
" How much did you say that?"
" One year, a year and a half ..."
" It is called ..."
" Erin. Her name is Erin. "
The girl smiles and holds her arms up, rocking the cradle rather awkwardly.
"And exactly What makes you think I'm a proper father figure, if I may ask? "
" father figure? - Blast frowns, leaning over the cradle and just watching the little girl with a vague scientific curiosity, studying - I thought you could only get along with. You know, the father had a hair blonde, platinum, and playing guitar. Californians like you ... "
" I'm from Miami ... "
" E 'the same. "
Chase extends a finger toward the child, testing the grip.
" His father was a mutant?"
"Already "
" And you take care of her daughter because ..."
"The mother is a human, and he died in Atlanta "
" Ah. "
The boy sighed, running a hand through his hair bright.
" Okay. Anja But not like ... "
" She is good enough. "
Blast gets back straight and the system dark shirt, sleeves rolled up just below the elbows, waist and the first two buttons undone. The black eyes, scars, heavy black streaks gives more years ... all of those who actually did, making it look like a warrior. And indeed it has never been more.
" How am I?"
Chase turns and looks, from head to foot.
" I would not like having to leave the orphan child for the second time ..." she whispers .
"Blast Are you okay, are you okay" he says, soon after. Move your eyes on the door and knock, taking the opportunity to change the subject in the center of attention, is quick to respond "on."
Tomas looks distinct and ordered, as usual, and that evening is particularly elegant. Dark suit, white shirt and knotted tie well. Just greets the two adults, shifting the focus almost immediately on the cradle.
" The famous Erin?"
"Just her"
smiles when approaching the girl, and while Chase salutes and goes out of the room, Tom's eyes change color, across a wide range of tones and settling on the electric blue.
" E 'excited and curious. Very impetuous - his smile is accentuated - will grow up quite a temper. - then move your gaze on Blast, his eyes change back to color, changing to yellow riattestandosi - the'll keep you? "
" No. If they bother Guinness and California. "
" Oh. - the boy hides his disappointment with some effort - do you think are appropriate? "
" unconventional, perhaps - she is just swinging his head and walked to the window, drawing aside a curtain. Times Square is crowded with people, even from that distance can read the banners. A stage just for you. A crowd just for her. For just one moment you feel insecure - but I'm sure that will cope. How is your research? "
" Good, very good ... - he says, then sighs - us to experiment, and we are proceeding smoothly. "
" Excellent . As you know, has the highest priority. The West Coast will start to worry ... "
" 'll all be ready in time. "
Blast looks away from the square and move it man, just team with eyebrows furrowed.
" How's your wife?"
Tomas takes a big sigh, as if he had been given the opportunity to remove a burden from his shoulders.
" insists to use his power, and not always able to stop him. It 's very frustrating for you ... every day ... the signs of his aging - says the word with difficulty, in a low voice - are more evident. "
" understand. I'm sorry - she remains a serious and calm in every word, the silent face of any expression to suggest that what he said is actually true - but know you've tried everything. ... Maybe you should just accept their fate. And pass the time you have left next to her. "
" Blast, I thought ... - the man's voice becomes uncertain, his eyes shining becomes more opaque, confused - if she could go back to work ... she would feel more motivated to ... well. - swallow - to live ... "
" Tomas. Katrina is weak, you know "
... Fiumevento know that you put to work on a national information network ... - observes, with bated breath - would mean so much to her ... "
" Tom ... "
" And for me ..."
Blast sighs, passing a hand through his hair, looks out the window again and hesitates, allowing for a long moment of silence.
" Fiumevento will definitely need professional sound ... and your wife ... has always been a good journalist. - snaps the tongue against the palate, relaxed-looking scientist confident of his best - there will certainly be a place for her. "
*
Brothers mutant repeats mutant brothers feel the smell of sweat and feel the excitement of the crowd and raised his arms up and scream and she just said brothers mutants because we are brothers and brothers mutants and we won the war, this war we won and then we talk talk if you can put into words everything that we did talk about whether you can say in words all we have heard and endured, and the weight on the shoulders of these people talk about when I hear you say you know we will not hear you smell of people do not feel the smell of those who were there were only so many people lost and alone and now I do not see what we are now we are one people with one voice we are three million hands up and come from all over the east coast and have come to feel we are brothers and brothers mutant mutants and today we are finally free .
Free .
A million and half people are one voice.
A person who says one thing than does a weak voice.
A woman goes out in the crowd, too far from the stage.
Urla killer.
cries and holds out his arms forward and while the square of that voice sounds hoarse and vibrating, a woman screaming so much to do almost burst his breast, and screams killer. 're just a murderer.
's just a killer.
She fights for freedom, says the one voice of a million and half people who stood up against the wall as a weak voice.
voice hoarse and throbbing even hear. He continued his speech.
killer, screaming voice weak.
voice weak and his chest bursts, and the tears in his eyes, leaned forward and his fists in despair.
Urla killer.
The weak voice is swallowed up and disappears. In one voice, lose track of him.
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