Someday Maybe
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Original - Misc › -Slash - Male/Male
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Adult ++
Chapters:
22
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2,855
Reviews:
23
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Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. The Author holds exclusive rights to this work. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited.
Continuance
A/N: You may or may not know that this was my 2009 NaNoWriMo project. 50,000 words in a single month. Kind of burnt me out. I had intended to continue writing in December but ended up putting it off. And considered not finishing it at all. But I decided I missed Ty and Aiden and figured they deserved to at least save the world even if I don't decide to continue after that. When I get to the end of the story arch I may or may not decide to go through and re-edit all of this. I guess it depends on how I feel when I get there. I also may or may not have a sequel. It all depends.
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The number he had recalled from Dergin’s memory had traced to a non-descript office building several cities away. At least the Google Earth street view had revealed it to look non-descript. So far Ty had entirely researched the place online. He’d reverse searched the phone number on the white pages and then the yellow pages website and gotten a company name and location. Ty had then looked the company up and found almost nothing about them. There was a tiny bit of information on a badly-made and clearly never updated website that would be enough to satisfy or frustrate most people into giving up. It just confirmed to him that this was the place he wanted. After all, how many other really professional places of business would forgive themselves for such a poor website?
He’d looked the address up in Google and in minutes he was getting directions, looking at maps and observing the place from the street view of it. This was where they were going to find more information. He felt a sense of triumph. Yes, you face-less baddies, I’ve thwarted you with a touch of power that you gave to me and discovered you via the internet. Bet you never expected that. Too bad they’d never know. Really. He would have liked to gloat. Oh well. Maybe later.
This trip, fortunately, they didn’t need any outside help. They wouldn’t need any weapons or gear that Ty didn’t already have so it was just a matter of packing a bag filled with appropriate gear along with some luggage in the trunk of Ty’s car and heading off to the anime convention that made for such a convenient cover in the city they wanted to visit in this little endeavor.
They took turns driving along the way and a day later they were where they wanted to be. They checked into a hotel and shared an elevator with a group full of geeks that Ty and even Aiden had no trouble talking to. They made plans to meet at the convention in the afternoon of the next day because there was a particular exhibit they thought they’d enjoy. Ty wasn’t worried. By tomorrow afternoon they should have all the information they needed to know. Best case scenario they’d know about the little girl and their plans for her. Worst case they’d have an even better idea of where to look. There was no way to go wrong. They were making progress. A lot of progress. They’d be able to do this after all.
The next morning brought with it a massive breakfast and casual but not strange clothing and a certain amount of strictly illegal stuff packed into Ty’s messenger bag along with some much more mundane things like his notebook, a book and a video game.
“Funny that your man bag actually makes you look like less of a gay fag.” Aiden mused as Ty was checking his appearance in the mirror to assure himself that he didn’t look strange or like he would be out of place. The younger male walk up and behind him and casually folded his arms over his stomach. Ty smiled at the way the two of them looked in the mirror.
“What does having you hang all over me make me look like?” He asked, bemused.
“Cool.” Aiden responded without missing a beat. “Of course.” He continued. “You ready to go yet?” He asked. Ty rifled briefly through his bag one last time before he nodded.
“Yeah.” And off they went to go pay a little visit to a non-descript office building that hadn’t changed any since the Google street team had been by.
The lobby of the building was respectable and quiet. There was no one else waiting around in the lobby but Ty still used a little power on the receptionist and she brightly informed them that they were right on time for their appointment and they could head up in the elevator. They headed to the elevator and hit the button for the third floor. They weren’t exactly sure where they needed to go but Ty just figured they’d wander around until they found what they were looking for.
The pair of them walked purposely down the third-floor corridor as Ty expanded his senses to search for the person he might be looking for. Once again the principle of already being inside combined with the fact that they looked like they thought they belonged made it so no one so much as thought to question them. Third, fourth and second floors did not contain what they were looking for so they trooped up the stairs to the fifth floor to walk down that corridor as well.
Ty had always felt like the number five was a lucky number for him and the coincidence of it being the right floor this time only reasserted that funny notion in his head. Not only was the person they were looking for on the sixth floor but there was an empty and apparently currently unoccupied office almost directly under that person. Ty psychically projected an air of: “Nothing is wrong here. Everything is fine. Just go about your business.” And that was enough cover for them to calmly walk into and occupy the empty office.
He frowned a bit at the eerie parallel this drew in his mind to a chilly fall day when he snuck into an office building so much like this one and frozen his butt on a cold cement ledge and killed a man with his fingers in too many pies. He wondered how much like that man this one would be. Balding, middle-aged with too much padding around the middle and a high sense of apparently well-founded paranoia? Most likely.
Aiden locked the door as he sat down on the floor and then turned the light on so Ty could have light to write by. Then the both of them sat down on the floor for lack of any office furniture and Ty turned his thoughts to the floor above. He drew a deep breath and cautiously entered the man’s mind. Unlike with Dergin it wasn’t a difficult thing to do. He stepped from an empty office in reality to a cluttered control room inside another man’s brain. He looked around at the neat little filing cabinets and neat little controls and switches. This was the mind of an organized man. Things were practically labeled and it was only too easy to find the right set of memories to find out about the little girl they were all so concerned over.
She was safe. That was a relief. It was interesting to learn the details of how she had made it here without anyone knowing. She left the country right under their noses in business class on a plane with a vacationing little family that had come with their own little brunette daughter. That little girl was being well taken care of and was out of the country now as well since she obviously wasn’t the girl they were looking furiously for.
Another group had discovered that she showed some... signs of powers early on and so they’d abducted her from her parents in the little town she was from. And then They, having desperately wanted her, and especially not wanting this other group to have her, had sent the two of them on this crazy mission to rescue her. It was strange. The man thought of Ty and Aiden as nothing more than their full names on a piece of paper. To him they were blocks of text instead of people and so it had been okay to order that they go risk their lives in an uncertain mission to steal this girl.
They weren’t sure yet what the girl could do but they were trying to find out. And after they knew, of course, they were going to make use of her. That was what they did. Ty got locations and names and all kinds of useful things and he scribbled them all down in his note book. Everything they had wanted to know.
It had been so absurdly easy. He packed up his bag and off they went back down to the lobby and out the door. He was starting to get an uneasy feeling that maybe it had been too easy. Had it? Had it really been too easy or was it just that... like any good security system once you were inside it and if you looked like you belonged there it just assumed you did? That could very well be why it had seemed so easy.
Unfortunately it seemed like they weren’t on the brink of doing whatever it was that sparked the war. They would have to wait a while yet and continue monitoring the situation. Monitoring the situation and thinking of possible scenarios they would have to deal with. Knowing why they did what they did would be nice as well but not something Ty was totally consumed with knowing.
Now he very much wanted to visit the little girl and confirm for himself that she was just fine. But for now they had an anime convention to go to. They took a cab across town to the convention center and were soon inside.
“So. That book just keeps getting crazier and crazier, huh?” Aiden asked casually as they made their way toward the place where they were supposed to meet their friends from the hotel for the... whatever-it-was.
“Yeah. Good thing they’re getting new leads without subjecting that one character to more bad dreams though, right?”
“Yeah. I’m just glad the little girl is okay though, personally. I was worried for her health.”
“Me too. Even though she starts the war somehow.” Killing her was not an option. Not in either of their minds. They simply could not do it. There had to be another way. But still. Still... in a dark part of his mind he knew that if it came down to the choice of killing her or facing the absolute inevitability of the war he didn’t think he’d hesitate. He was still very much the tool they had made him. A single life was not worth millions of other lives no matter whose life it was. Even his own. Even Aiden’s. Deep dark thoughts, ones he hoped would never surface.
“Eh. I don’t see them.” Aiden said, looking around. Ty joined him in looking around, lending his eyes since his powers were firmly focused on the buzzing ringing inside the blue-haired boy’s head to keep him from going mad. They should have figured, however, that their geeky convention friends would be in costume. They cleaned up well, the blonde thought. They did clean up well, well but strangely. He wasn’t even sure he recognized who they were supposed to be but then he wasn’t a big fan of manga or anime. He had recognized the Star Wars fans running around and some other people but with anime he just drew a blank.
“Hey guys!” Their friend greeted. The people chattered at them and disapproved of their “boring street clothing” and ushered them into a quiet side room for the panel or whatever it was they were supposed to be attending.
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A/N: Where do you want the story to go after this? Up to you to decide. So leave a review, please and thank you.
The number he had recalled from Dergin’s memory had traced to a non-descript office building several cities away. At least the Google Earth street view had revealed it to look non-descript. So far Ty had entirely researched the place online. He’d reverse searched the phone number on the white pages and then the yellow pages website and gotten a company name and location. Ty had then looked the company up and found almost nothing about them. There was a tiny bit of information on a badly-made and clearly never updated website that would be enough to satisfy or frustrate most people into giving up. It just confirmed to him that this was the place he wanted. After all, how many other really professional places of business would forgive themselves for such a poor website?
He’d looked the address up in Google and in minutes he was getting directions, looking at maps and observing the place from the street view of it. This was where they were going to find more information. He felt a sense of triumph. Yes, you face-less baddies, I’ve thwarted you with a touch of power that you gave to me and discovered you via the internet. Bet you never expected that. Too bad they’d never know. Really. He would have liked to gloat. Oh well. Maybe later.
This trip, fortunately, they didn’t need any outside help. They wouldn’t need any weapons or gear that Ty didn’t already have so it was just a matter of packing a bag filled with appropriate gear along with some luggage in the trunk of Ty’s car and heading off to the anime convention that made for such a convenient cover in the city they wanted to visit in this little endeavor.
They took turns driving along the way and a day later they were where they wanted to be. They checked into a hotel and shared an elevator with a group full of geeks that Ty and even Aiden had no trouble talking to. They made plans to meet at the convention in the afternoon of the next day because there was a particular exhibit they thought they’d enjoy. Ty wasn’t worried. By tomorrow afternoon they should have all the information they needed to know. Best case scenario they’d know about the little girl and their plans for her. Worst case they’d have an even better idea of where to look. There was no way to go wrong. They were making progress. A lot of progress. They’d be able to do this after all.
The next morning brought with it a massive breakfast and casual but not strange clothing and a certain amount of strictly illegal stuff packed into Ty’s messenger bag along with some much more mundane things like his notebook, a book and a video game.
“Funny that your man bag actually makes you look like less of a gay fag.” Aiden mused as Ty was checking his appearance in the mirror to assure himself that he didn’t look strange or like he would be out of place. The younger male walk up and behind him and casually folded his arms over his stomach. Ty smiled at the way the two of them looked in the mirror.
“What does having you hang all over me make me look like?” He asked, bemused.
“Cool.” Aiden responded without missing a beat. “Of course.” He continued. “You ready to go yet?” He asked. Ty rifled briefly through his bag one last time before he nodded.
“Yeah.” And off they went to go pay a little visit to a non-descript office building that hadn’t changed any since the Google street team had been by.
The lobby of the building was respectable and quiet. There was no one else waiting around in the lobby but Ty still used a little power on the receptionist and she brightly informed them that they were right on time for their appointment and they could head up in the elevator. They headed to the elevator and hit the button for the third floor. They weren’t exactly sure where they needed to go but Ty just figured they’d wander around until they found what they were looking for.
The pair of them walked purposely down the third-floor corridor as Ty expanded his senses to search for the person he might be looking for. Once again the principle of already being inside combined with the fact that they looked like they thought they belonged made it so no one so much as thought to question them. Third, fourth and second floors did not contain what they were looking for so they trooped up the stairs to the fifth floor to walk down that corridor as well.
Ty had always felt like the number five was a lucky number for him and the coincidence of it being the right floor this time only reasserted that funny notion in his head. Not only was the person they were looking for on the sixth floor but there was an empty and apparently currently unoccupied office almost directly under that person. Ty psychically projected an air of: “Nothing is wrong here. Everything is fine. Just go about your business.” And that was enough cover for them to calmly walk into and occupy the empty office.
He frowned a bit at the eerie parallel this drew in his mind to a chilly fall day when he snuck into an office building so much like this one and frozen his butt on a cold cement ledge and killed a man with his fingers in too many pies. He wondered how much like that man this one would be. Balding, middle-aged with too much padding around the middle and a high sense of apparently well-founded paranoia? Most likely.
Aiden locked the door as he sat down on the floor and then turned the light on so Ty could have light to write by. Then the both of them sat down on the floor for lack of any office furniture and Ty turned his thoughts to the floor above. He drew a deep breath and cautiously entered the man’s mind. Unlike with Dergin it wasn’t a difficult thing to do. He stepped from an empty office in reality to a cluttered control room inside another man’s brain. He looked around at the neat little filing cabinets and neat little controls and switches. This was the mind of an organized man. Things were practically labeled and it was only too easy to find the right set of memories to find out about the little girl they were all so concerned over.
She was safe. That was a relief. It was interesting to learn the details of how she had made it here without anyone knowing. She left the country right under their noses in business class on a plane with a vacationing little family that had come with their own little brunette daughter. That little girl was being well taken care of and was out of the country now as well since she obviously wasn’t the girl they were looking furiously for.
Another group had discovered that she showed some... signs of powers early on and so they’d abducted her from her parents in the little town she was from. And then They, having desperately wanted her, and especially not wanting this other group to have her, had sent the two of them on this crazy mission to rescue her. It was strange. The man thought of Ty and Aiden as nothing more than their full names on a piece of paper. To him they were blocks of text instead of people and so it had been okay to order that they go risk their lives in an uncertain mission to steal this girl.
They weren’t sure yet what the girl could do but they were trying to find out. And after they knew, of course, they were going to make use of her. That was what they did. Ty got locations and names and all kinds of useful things and he scribbled them all down in his note book. Everything they had wanted to know.
It had been so absurdly easy. He packed up his bag and off they went back down to the lobby and out the door. He was starting to get an uneasy feeling that maybe it had been too easy. Had it? Had it really been too easy or was it just that... like any good security system once you were inside it and if you looked like you belonged there it just assumed you did? That could very well be why it had seemed so easy.
Unfortunately it seemed like they weren’t on the brink of doing whatever it was that sparked the war. They would have to wait a while yet and continue monitoring the situation. Monitoring the situation and thinking of possible scenarios they would have to deal with. Knowing why they did what they did would be nice as well but not something Ty was totally consumed with knowing.
Now he very much wanted to visit the little girl and confirm for himself that she was just fine. But for now they had an anime convention to go to. They took a cab across town to the convention center and were soon inside.
“So. That book just keeps getting crazier and crazier, huh?” Aiden asked casually as they made their way toward the place where they were supposed to meet their friends from the hotel for the... whatever-it-was.
“Yeah. Good thing they’re getting new leads without subjecting that one character to more bad dreams though, right?”
“Yeah. I’m just glad the little girl is okay though, personally. I was worried for her health.”
“Me too. Even though she starts the war somehow.” Killing her was not an option. Not in either of their minds. They simply could not do it. There had to be another way. But still. Still... in a dark part of his mind he knew that if it came down to the choice of killing her or facing the absolute inevitability of the war he didn’t think he’d hesitate. He was still very much the tool they had made him. A single life was not worth millions of other lives no matter whose life it was. Even his own. Even Aiden’s. Deep dark thoughts, ones he hoped would never surface.
“Eh. I don’t see them.” Aiden said, looking around. Ty joined him in looking around, lending his eyes since his powers were firmly focused on the buzzing ringing inside the blue-haired boy’s head to keep him from going mad. They should have figured, however, that their geeky convention friends would be in costume. They cleaned up well, the blonde thought. They did clean up well, well but strangely. He wasn’t even sure he recognized who they were supposed to be but then he wasn’t a big fan of manga or anime. He had recognized the Star Wars fans running around and some other people but with anime he just drew a blank.
“Hey guys!” Their friend greeted. The people chattered at them and disapproved of their “boring street clothing” and ushered them into a quiet side room for the panel or whatever it was they were supposed to be attending.
A/N: Where do you want the story to go after this? Up to you to decide. So leave a review, please and thank you.