Chapter 5: In Love With An Alien? - Questions

A/N Angel’s real name is Rogue just thought I should tell you so you don’t get confused.

Chapter 5 – Questions

Yellow eyes gleamed out of the dark at me, then I saw its body, my first reaction was relief, it wasn’t Angel after all. He hadn’t transformed into a beast. But as the tiger growled again I was quickly reminded that I wasn’t out of danger.

It jumped into the air ready to pounce on me, my hands instinctively flew over my face to shield myself from the tigers attack, seconds ticked by and I didn’t feel its enormous weight crashing me or its teeth sinking into my flesh.

Had it stopped, wasn’t it going to attack me, I asked with my eyes shut tightly, I opened them slowly, right in front of me was the tiger except it was frozen in mid air.

I stared into it yellow eyes and then examined the body, it looked ready to attack but some unknown force was holding it in the air, the tiger’s eyes followed me as I watched it.

“What the hell.” I swore.

Then as if on cue, the tiger’s body moved away from me and flew directly towards a tree, it fell onto the ground unmoving, I wasn’t sure whether it was dead or unconscious.

“Are you all right.” Someone spoke behind me.

I turned around and saw Angel standing behind me naked, “Did you do that.” I asked stepping forward towards him.

He didn’t answer he just shrugged and looked at me uncomfortably.

“Never mind come with me before someone sees you.” I said grabbing his hand and leading him back to the storage room.

Inside I handed him a clean sheet, “Here cover yourself and I’m going to get you some clothes.” I said nervously, seeing him naked all the time was probably the reason I was so infatuated with him.

“What’s your name.” he asked staring into my face with an expression I couldn’t read.

“Reese ….. What’s yours” I asked.

“Rogue.” He answered quietly. “Are you sick” he asked suddenly stepping forward to inspect me.

“No.” I said alarmed backing away slowly.

“Everything is all strange here the air, gravity.” He said looking around in confusion.

Poor Angel, it would probably take him a long time to adjust to our way of life I mused. “Hey its ok Angel… er Rogue.” I don’t think I would ever get used to calling him Rogue.

“I don’t understand it all.” He said in a sad voice.

“Don’t worry I promise I’m going to help you out ok” I pledged.

“So this is what you’ve been hiding.” My sister’s voice rang from behind us.

I gasped and turned around; she had this smug look on her face. “W-what do you want?” I asked her.

“So this is our mysterious Alien he looks very human.” she said staring at Rogue who was still naked.

“Alien?” Rogue asked confused looking at me.

I laughed nervously, “Are you saying Ang….. Er Rogue is an alien….. Because I can assure you he’s very human.” I lied nervously.

“Really?” she challenged me. “Fine then I’m sure you wouldn’t mind if I invited Steven and his army over would you sissy.” She challenged me and spun around.

I followed her quickly, there was no way in hell I was going to let her tell Steven, “Clarisse wait I can explain.” I called after her.

She stopped and turned around, “You think you’re so better than everyone even me, you always have to go after everything I want, you always want to be the centre of attention.” She spat at me with hatred written all over her face.

“Whoa Clarisse what the hell are you talking about.” I asked.

“Shut up, first you went after Brian when you clearly knew I liked him and now you’re stealing my glory away from me.”

“What are talking about?”

“I wanted to be the one that found the alien.” She shrieked at me.

“Rogue is not an alien he’s er he’s my lover I was cheating on Brian with him”

“Don’t lie to me Reese, I overheard Steven saying the thing that landed in the woods was very hurt because they saw traces of blood in the forest and your so called lover is covered in bandages, it doesn’t take a genius to figure it out, I’m not that stupid you know.” She shouted and turned around to leave.

“Clarisse come on.” I called again but she didn’t stop. How was I going to stop her before she reported me, I saw a shovel at the entrance of the cabin and an idea popped into my head, I bit my lip contemplating whether I would have the guts to do that to my own sister.

“I’m going to tell everyone Reese.” She shouted again when she opened the front door.

She wasn’t giving me any choice; I ran up after her quickly but picked the shovel up first and then hit her on the head.

The shovel made a loud thumping noise when it came into contact with her head, my sister collapsed on the ground unconscious.

“See what you made me did.” I whispered and dragged her to the couch in our living room; my parents would be asleep by now so hopefully they wouldn’t find her until the next morning.

The next thing I needed to do was make sure when she woke up the next morning she wouldn’t remember what she had seen, which meant I was going to pump her body full of morphine.

I run over to my bathroom, picked up a needle and morphine, she was still unconscious, I reached for her arm and injected the drug into her body, tomorrow she would wake up with a headache and not remember anything that had happened.

Satisfied, I went to my older brother‘s room who was currently away, touring England with his band, he and Rogue had the same height and body, I grabbed some jeans and a T-Shirt and then stopped at the kitchen to pick a padlock.

When I opened the storage room door I founded Rogue curled up on the floor with the sheets securely wrapped around him, he was asleep and I could hear the soft snores coming from him.

“Great.” I muttered out loud, I was kind of hoping that he would be awake when I returned and give me some straight answers. I placed the padlock on the door and locked both of us in the storage room.

Tonight I would be spending the night with him here because the was no way I could sleep in my room, when I didn’t know if I would come back the next day and find him missing probably wandering the woods half naked with Steven’s army running around searching for him.

I tossed the clothes somewhere and settled myself in for the night.

Rogue’s POV

Vanilla.

It was everywhere; it was that sweet scent that drew him to awake. His eyes opened searching for the mysterious scent and he found himself in a room full of brown boxes, a frown quickly appeared on his face, this place didn’t look like the Orchard, first of all he could breathe air without the help of oxygen masks.

Then he remembered that had had been sent to earth to complete a mission, his first thought was to sit up and try to examine his environment to see where he had landed but when he tried to get up pain darted up his back and he was forced to lay back, it took all his will power not to scream to like a girl.

“Don’t try to sit up.” A soft voice which belonged to a female came, he twisted his neck towards the direction of the sound and found a young girl sitting beside him; she smelled of vanilla, it was her scent that had teased him to awaken.

She had red hair which was complimented with light blue eyes, she couldn’t be more than twenty one he mused, the more he stared at her the more he felt he knew her somewhere, it came in flashes, he remembered falling and seeing her looking up at him, and then he saw her about to be attacked by a beast and he felt he should protect her with all costs.

“You saved me.” he said.

She nodded, “Please can you tell me if you’re ok.”

But Rogue wasn’t interested if he was ok, once he took the x tablet he knew he would heal not completely but quicker than most humans. “What year is this?” He asked.

She frowned before she answered, “Its 2013.” She answered.

A smile broke over his face, “Then I made it.”

The girl frowned; clearly she didn’t understand why he was so happy.

“One more question, what is today’s date.” Rogue asked.

“Er its march 4th and today is Monday in case you were wondering.” she added still frowning.

Another memory flashed in mind, he was talking to this girl when another girl who looked like the girl he was talking to right now walked in, she seemed rude and he heard them arguing but he had being too tired and in pain to go after them.

“What happened to the other girl?” Rogue asked.

“Oh she won’t bother us anymore.” The girl replied with a look of satisfaction displayed across her face. “Look I have some questions and if you I’m going to keep protecting you, you need to tell me before the wrong people find you.” She added uncomfortably.

“Someone is looking for me.” Rogue asked, that was odd he thought, nobody knew him here.

“The FBI and the police even the press wants you.” She added.

“The FBI, who’s that is it a gang or a group?”

She smiled, almost laughed, “No they are not a gang or a group they are law enforcement officers, it’s their job to er catch criminals you know people who break the law and stuff.” She explained.

“Ok but I haven’t broken the law.”

“I know but they know you’re an alien and they want you to do their stupid experiments on.” She said angrily.

Alien, was that what they thought he was an alien, it didn’t matter what he needed to do was concentrate on his mission but before that could happen he needed to do some  serious research.

“If it’s the year 2013 then the world wide web must still exist right” Rogue asked. She merely nodded.

“Good I need access to the World Wide Web can you help me.”

“Sure but why do you need it.”

He thought about the question carefully before he answered, if this girl thought she was some extraterrestrial creature and had still saved him from the law officers that were after him then it meant she was trustworthy.

“I need to find information about a certain group of people who intend to release a dangerous virus into the atmosphere.” He answered.

“Huh?”

“Listen I can’t tell you anymore, all I ask is access to the World Wide Web can you do that.”

She nodded. “I’ll be right back”

Reese’s POV

Rogue was giving me the impression that he was more than an alien, something serious was going on but I couldn’t put m finger on it.

I need to find information about a certain group of people who intend to release a dangerous virus into the atmosphere.

The sentence kept replaying in my head, the way he said it frightened me, I didn’t like this one bit, everything seemed simpler when he was unconscious and I thought he was an alien, but now there was all these questions floating in my head.

“My head hurts I feel like I’ve been run over by a bus.” I heard Clarisse complain the minute I opened the front door.

“Oh good Reese you’re here can you check your sister and see what is wrong.” My dad asked immediately he saw me.

“Just drink a lot of water, take some pain killers and sleep for a couple of hours and you’ll be fine.” I answered.

“Where are you coming from?” My mom asked staring at my wrinkled clothes and disheveled hair.

“Nowhere.” I replied and dashed to my room before she had time to call me a liar. In my room I quickly brushed my teeth and took a quick shower, then I went looking for my laptop and raced downstairs.

“Reese come listen to this.” My dad called from the living room.

“Later dad.” I called back.

“Honey you need to hear this it’s important.”

“Ok” I answered and into the living room; my dad was standing in front of the TV with his arms folded across his chest.

“Look at this.” He said pointing at the TV.

I turned to the TV, there were images of sick people, and all around them were people wearing protective clothing normally worn to by people to protect themselves from catching a virus or disease.

There were seven adults, five were woman and two were men, all seven of them were covered in boils and their faces were red as if they had been crying for hours, they were also hooked to a several machines which kept beeping.

A woman came into focus as the image of the sick people disappeared, “Doctors at the Saint Grace Medical Hospital are baffled by this strange outbreak of flu virus, they say it’s a new strain of virus which seems to be spreading quickly, so far 57 different people across our little town have caught this flu, out of the 57, 47 have died within three weeks of catching the virus. Medical personnels are now advising everyone who catches a cold or knows anyone who has a cold to report themselves to the nearest medical facility to stop this new strain of flu from spreading. My name is Tina Roberts thanks for watching CCT television.”

An advert about milk began to play after that. “Dad what is going on?”

“Well it seems people all over town are catching this new flu virus, and at the rate its spreading most of us are beginning to think we are on a brink of a flu epidemic, the disturbing thing about all this is we can’t seem to cure it.”

Virus; was that what Rogue was talking about? Was that why he was here? To stop it from happening?

I needed to talk to him, I needed more answers.

“I need to go to work and do more research on this virus.” my dad said more to himself than me. He worked in a small research facility in town that developed antibiotics for diseases such as this; no doubt he would be all over this.

I turned around and headed back to the storage room. When I got there Rogue had found the clothes I had brought and put them on, I sighed in disappointment, I was never going to see him naked ever again I thought sadly.

“Hey I got it.” I said handing him my laptop.

“Thank you Reese.” He said and then went to sit in a corner.

“Er they announced on TV a while ago about a new outbreak of a flu virus.” I said.

“Are you sick?” He asked immediately after I made my statement.

“No but 57 people have caught it, my dad thinks if we don’t control it we might have an epidemic.”

“Mmm.” He mumbled, his attention was back on my laptop and not what I was saying.

“Rogue when I found you kept saying we are all going to die, is this flu going to kill us all.” I asked dreading the reply I would get.

“No I won’t let that happen.” He answered with a smile.

“Who are you?” I asked.

“I thought you already knew.”

“An alien….. I don’t think so anymore that’s why I’m asking_______ who exactly are you?”

To be continued……………..