MY IMORTAL FAMILY

8

Damascus and David arrive on Earth. They leave the spaceship in a desert and begin walking.  After a few minutes Damascus gets into a car and says “ well get on” and David obliges. They drive for approximately ten minutes and they arrive in place called Oaxae. David then asks “ I thought we were going back home to well you know Cape Town” “ yeah well I figured we could take a detour” replies Damascus “ a detour in Mexico” asks David “ yes in Mexico” “ we landed here in a spaceship, besides this is a tourist city. “ let’s enjoy the holiday kid” says Damascus.

Casey walks out of the parking lot and takes the elevator to the eleventh floor. She walks to the reception and the receptionist says “ Mrs. Tough good morning, shall I tell them you are here” “ no that will be unnecessary I will go to them” replies Casey as she heads to the offices.  She then enters a laboratory and stands as she watches on of the technicians work before she says “ how is everything coming along”. This startles the lab technician who then says “ apologies Mrs. Tough I didn’t know you were standing there. The vaccine should be ready soon. In about two months’ time” “that’s good to hear, I will go talk to your superiors about giving you a bonus” she says as she walks out of the lab and heads towards the CEO’s office.

Raymond and Cathy wake up to start their activities for the day. Raymond washes his face and heads outside. He grabs a shovel and begins clearing out the weeds in the backyard. Cathy plays some gospel music and as she begins to clean the house. She starts by sweeping in their bedroom. After Ray is done weeding he proceeds clean the swimming pool. After one hour passes he walks into the house to find Cathy seated in the dining room enjoying a cup of tea “ you can pour yourself some and join me, the water is still warm” says Cathy. He makes pours himself a cup of tea and he joins his wife “ I am not as young as I used to be, a few swings of the shovel and that pull cleaning brush and I start to feel it” says Ray “ well we are grandparents after all” says Cathy as they laugh. “I’m worried about Dana and his family” adds Cathy “why that is asks Raymond”. Cathy sips her tea and says “ well for starters he is a member of alien race, which he didn’t tell his wife and now their children might have taken some of his alien genetics. I’m worried how Casey will react to this, and the boys too”. Raymond takes a few seconds to respond to this before he says “ I think he always ran that risk, I mean even Dana’s brothers and sisters have faced the same issue and they dealt with it” “ uum only Damascus told his wife because David was showing signs of being an anadite and I seem to remember David’s mother leaving them” says Cathy “ that it true but we need to remember that your son was a lousy husband to begin with” replies Ray “ my son, he’s also your son” retorts Cathy. Ray then takes another second trying to think of what to say before he says “besides I don’t think it’s all that bad for Dana, he is a responsible father and a good husband to that girl, and quite frankly I for one am happy that our race is starting to grow again” Cathy then stands up and says “I am worried at what will happen to Dana if Casey leaves him because of this secret and how Dana will take it. You know if they get a divorce she could keep him and us from seeing the kids. And you need to stop holding on to this fantasy like our lives will be like how they were back then” Ray also stands up and says “ I don’t want our lives to go back to how they were” “ well are doing a bad job of convincing me. I wouldn’t be shocked if you wanted to conquer this planet as well” says Cathy “ Catherine you know I left that life behind me. I may miss it but that chapter is definitely closed” replies Ray “ good because you know we left that anadite life behind for reason. The pain, death and violence that life brings we vowed to raise our kids away from. Besides you know what will happen if word gets out to the multi verse that not only are we still alive but that there are more than three anadites alive. I don’t want that Dana, I don’t want that Brock, I don’t want that for Roman, and I definitely don’t want anything to happen to them. Raymond after what happened in the past, my family, my children they are all I have. I live to see my children grow, and see their children grow, besides this is a nice planet. You have to promise that, nothing will change. Promise me Ray” pleads Cathy. Ray then holds Cathy’s hand and says “ I promise I will do everything in power to make sure that we do not go back to the olden days, see my children and grandchildren they mean the world to me and I wouldn’t want them to grow up the way we did, but you need to understand certain things are beyond my control. I personally wont conqueror any planet or show people what I am capable of, but the others I can’t control. I can’t control Damascus and what he does, and I can’t control David too. Who knows where they are and what kind of trouble they are getting into but I will tell Dana the same thing I told Damascus”  “ and what was that” asks Cathy “ that they can do whatever it is they want with their power out there but they better make sure that they don’t bring any trouble back home otherwise they’ll have to fight me. I actually enjoy living here” replies Ray “ but Dana has shown that he is nothing like Damascus, well all our children are nothing like him” says Cathy. “I however do feel like we need to prepare for the worst case scenario or at least be prepared, especially since we don’t know where Damascus or David are. I also think we need to tell Brock and Roman the truth. Even though I think that’s a decisn that can only be taken by their father” says Ray. “ I don’t know Ray” says Cathy “ well look at it like this, if we tell the boys who they really are, we can train them how to use their power and how to better control it. That way we know for a fact that the chances of us and them being found are reduced. And in the unfortunate event they are found they are in a position to defend themselves” says Ray. Cathy starts to pace around the room “I don’t know Ray” she says “well look at it like this if Dana agrees to let us train them it means you’ll see them more often” says Ray and Cathy smiles at that statement.