A Hope for the future!

[Gummy]

Carol ate the hot dog with a huge grin, as normal she was covered with most of the sauce by the time she had finished. It helped a lot she felt a lot better. She grabbed a can of monster as they were put in the car and a packet of the tablet and drank the can.

"I have had time to think thank you. Daniel, the things I do when am freed and when you catch me... They are bad! There will be a crime spree in Broklyn I don't know where abouts but my DNA will be there but it won't look like me. I can change shape but my eyes are always the same as is my complexion. I did it for I had no other choice, I was scared, lost, on the street and well.... not knowing right from wrong!"

She shrugs.

"Please, Im sorry for what I will cause and know that I regreted it ever since! I had no choice! I will be mentally 6 years old, the last time I did not feel in danger. I will still remember June even though she was not born at that point. I forgot!"

She thought about something then her eyes opened wide.

"Your... your... "

She seems to be emotionally stuck, afraid to say the next bit.

"A motel, just outside town.... your neighbour.... she... she..."

She started to panic and not really look at anything. Then she started to cry.

"I can't go through this again! Stop the car!"

She unfastened her seatbelt and by now she was crying fairly hard. She looked like she was going to jump out of a moving car, she could not face admitting what she had seen. Even in the future through all she had killed it was nothing compared to the cold murder she had seen that day. She could not admit what she had seen. She had once but only though anger and a way to hurt Daniel. It was too much her hand was on the door knob ready to get out even if Daniel did not stop the car.

[heroesdreamer]

Daniel smiled as Carol ate the hot dog and drank a Monster, digging out a napkin for her as her face was covered. After handing it to her, he listened as she admitted to the bad things that she would do in the hopefully near future, giving him a clue that her eyes would be the same even if her face was different. His heart went out to her as she explained that she would mentally be about six years old and not understand that the crimes she was committing would be wrong. "I can understand that, I'm just worried about my former bosses finding out. They do tend to lock up the people with dangerous abilities, but I will talk to them and see if we can work something out. I'm just glad to know that I'm the one to find you" he explained.

All of a sudden Carol started to freak out, saying something about a neighbor and a hotel, putting her hand on the door handle and demanding that he stop, so he pulled over and stopped the car on the shoulder, far enough over so no one would run into them, but he laid his hand on her shoulder and said "Just calm down, it's okay" as he pulled her close and let her cry. Suddenly something clicked and he asked "Carol, was that Laura? The police found a body in the dumpster of the hotel just on the outskirts of town and in spite of the state of the body were able to figure out who it was." Taking a breath, wanting to calm Carol down, he asked "Do you remember what happened? Who got you after the police officer rescued you?" What Daniel had not understood is why the policeman had not simply taken Carol to the hospital, that made no sense! "Carol, whatever happened, it was not your fault" he attempted to soothe, wanting to keep her in the car and safe.

[Gummy]

Carol clenched her jaw, and screwed her eyes closed. As Daniel pulled her closer she wiggled.

"P-Please shut up! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! AHHHHHHH!!!!"

She shook violently in Daniels arms and screamed high pitched. She pulled herself into as tight a ball as possible. She even put her fingers into her ears as she carried on telling Daniel to shut up!

Several minutes later of both Daniel trying to sooth her and not asking questions she finally started to relax. She looked very tired and carefully slid out of Daniels arms. She curled herself up on the seat with her back to Daniel. She spoke quietly.

"It is not just you that fine me! You are part of 2 teams, if you work well then I will be treated by Dr Everette. If not I will be taken to level 5 well at least that is the threat. You spoke well so I was under the protection of both. Beau picked me up and took me to a special hospitle, it's a private one but.... a woman .... she.... beat me, blackmailed, threatened and well.... made me do stuff really bad. She..... she..... did it! She broke my mind! I had to protect you all and I could not cope with the shock. A police officer named John E. Good, he spots me in New York, I am very ill at the time. Fever, Infection, multiple injuries. Too many for my body to fight against without .... without help. I blacked out due to it all.... I wake up somewhere else."

She stayed curled up tighter than before she rested her chin on her knees and looked out of the window..

"Just don't ask me ever again what happened in the hotel room, just don't! I might write it down later but just don't ask. They try and frame me for it! My blood is in the room."

She started to cry again and huged her legs closer. She reached into the footwell for a can her hand was shaking so much she found it hard to get hold of a can but manages.

"Daniel, take me home please?"

[heroesdreamer]

Carol started screaming, telling him to shut up, and he did, simply holding her close and rocking her while patting her back. After a few minutes she pulled away from him and then began to talk, letting him know that the Company would be the other party that finds her and that Doctor Everette would be treating her, which was good. He had no issues with the Company man, he was decent and good at his job. He mentally stored the name Beau and also made note of the woman who had hurt Carol and forced her to do bad things, wondering if he could get any further information from Carol about her but not wanting to try now.

He became angry as Carol mentioned being blackmailed due to the murder and he vowed to track this woman down and make her pay, but keeping his face calm he said "I won't push you on it, if you could write it down for me that would be good. I will make them pay, Carol, the people who hurt you!" He wondered about where she had woken up after being hurt on the street but he knew she'd answered enough questions today. When she asked him to take her home he said "No more questions, let's go home. Maybe June and Nat will be there by the time we get back." He pulled back onto the road and drove, arriving at home a few minutes later. He got out and went around, opening the car door for Carol. "Come on, let's go see what the girls are doing. If they're not home yet we can fix dinner, are you still hungry?" he suggested, not knowing if she had enough fuel to keep going but knowing that he would protect her with every fiber of his being.

[Gummy]

Carol was glad that Daniel did not press for any more answers, she did not know if she could write it down. The future was getting fuzzy. She looked out the side window watching the world go by, she was crying and she drank the drink. As Daniel continued driving Carol nodded to his suggestion that he will get them back. She could not remember if he does or not but the womans words ring clear. "They will never find me, I am too average!" She closed her eyes and let herself calm down, she did calm down but she also fell to sleep.

When Daniel spoke next she started awake, seeing the house made her smile.

"Im always hungry."

She yawned and stretched then winced to rub her shoulder. When Daniel let her down outside the car she winced again.

"Daniel, when we get in I am going to need some pain relief, Im hurting. I think it's cause Im tired."

She looked scared and leaned onto Daniel for support as they walked to the house. By the time they got to the door Carol looked shattered. She took an energy tablet out of her pocked and put it in her mouth.

"I don't want to die! But I know I must!"

She tries to keep her tears back but it was no good. When they got in the house Carol saw curtis and yelped.

"I still hate cats... They are just bad luck! P-please put him in Junes office!"

Daniel did not need to Curtis seemed to go of his own accord. Carol moved into the house a little further and sat down on the sofa. She was looking a bit better. but she was still rubbing her shoulder. She moved her top down a bit so she could look at her shoulder and noticed it was not looking right. She looked up to Daniel.

"I can't get it right! Something happening to it!"

As they both watched 5 holes appeared in her shoulder, they did not bleed they just looked like very old scars Carol gasped as the shoulder settled back down to shape. She laid down on her other shoulder and closed her eyes. She felt so weary!

[June Summers]

June out shopping for most of the day and looked around for some clothing that could stretch and for some place had that stuff but some had staff looking at her odd dew to June slender body as it where, After she was done there she when to do the weekly food shopping getting the thing that her and family liked and put it to a cart.

Seeing the cereal that Nat wanted and seeing it was full of sugar and rolled her eye but then again June like it too as June was like a bit of a big kid her self at times after she was done with the weekly shop she was ready to go home and get thing ready for dinner with her hubby as Nat was sleeping over with friends for a few days.

June pulled up to the house and saw Daniel car there and smile thing that got all the bags with ease and walked up to the apartment and opened the door "honey I'm ho...me?" and saw a little girl there in the apartment.

After setting down the shopping and walked up to the "hay there are you lost?"

[heroesdreamer]

Daniel shook his head at Carol's saying they wouldn't find her because she was too average and he was about to say how special she was when he looked over and noticed she was asleep. Smiling to himself, he kept driving, finally pulling into the driveway and nudging Carol. "We're home" he told her, grinning at her comment about being hungry. "You came to the right place, I'm actually thinking about grilling tonight" he told her before opening the door and letting her in. As she mentioned needing pain relief, he nodded and said "I'll get some from the bathroom", heading that way but stopping when she saw Curtis. He put one arm around her and said "It's ok, I'll get him" but the cat scooted off so he said "Here, just sit down and I'll get the meat ready and the asprin", grabbing some from the bathroom and handing them to Carol with a glass of water.

Carol hollered for him, saying there was something wrong with her shoulder and he watched in amazement as five holes that looked like scars showed up before her shoulder went back to normal. "Whoa, that was weird! Here, take the asprin and I'll be right back" he said, wondering if that weird occurance had to do with Carol being a clone. He went to get a washcloth and then heard June's voice, turning to greet her. "Hey honey, let me help you with the bags! Oh, June, you'll never guess who this is!" he said, taking a couple of the sacks and taking them into the kitchen. "June, this is Carol, she came from the future because she needed help. She remembers at least part of what happened to our present Carol and has been helping me fill in the blanks." Daniel smiled although he was still worried, but he had more information now and could research the situation.

[Gummy]

Carol took the tablets and downed it with water. She looked at her shoulder then up to Daniel, she rubbed it as it felt itchy and sore. When June came in and asked if she was lost Carol smile that was the same as the smile that the adult Carol does and leeps up and hugs June. She is grinning widely looking at her wide eyed, she looked happy and sad at the same time. She looked about the age of 12 and very tired.

"Sis? Please do not ask me questions. Im tired it is so good to see you. I have told Daniel all I can. Please don't faint? You need to sit down and listen."

Carol went to the fridge and took out another energy drink, opening it and drinking sighing a little with relief. She looked over to Daniel a little worried but breathed in deeply and brought the smile to her face.

[June Summers]

June as she saw Daniel willing to give a hand with the shopping and taking a few bags from her arms and watched as he when to go and put the food away.

But as he did told June that the little girl that was in front of her was Carol and at first June though that Daniel was messing with her mind and that the little girl standing there was her sister and not only that the child. Jumped up at June and wrapped her self around June with a hug and called her sis and started to go about not asking questions.

June was most confused about this and hugged the child "umm hello Carol ?" any way to play along with the joke that this felt like but this was to odd for her to comprehend as this strange girl look like Carol but very very one.

She watched as the girl went to the fridge June was trying to think but was finding it hard to get her thought straight and fainted.

[heroesdreamer]

Daniel watched over June and Carol as they talked, well, Carol did most of the talking, as he pulled out the ground chuck from the fridge where it had been thawing. He washed his hands and made patties, grinning at Carol when she came over for another energy drink, but he quickly dropped the meat and ran over to where June was, catching her just before she hit the floor. Scooping her up, he laid her on the couch and said "Carol, get me that dishrag hanging on the sink, but get it wet first", as he sat there and patted her hand.

Once Carol had brought over the wet rag, he put it on June's forehead, coaxing her with gentle words to wake up. "June, wake up! It's okay, I know it's a lot to take in but I'm telling the truth" he gently said, hoping that her eyes would open soon and she would be open to hearing what he and Carol had to say.

[Gummy]

When June fainted Carol rolled her eyes, took the cloth and managed to get it wet in the sink, nice and cool. She knew this bit... it was easy! She wrung out the cloth bringing it over to Daniel, still damp but cool.

"I told her to sit down! Why does she never sit down when I tell her news!"

She shook her head and handed the cloth over to Daniel and sat down on the floor drinking her energy drink. She was rubbing her shoulder where the marks had appeared and dissappeared.

"Sis! It's ok, just take it easy and don't get up you have not heard all of it yet! I am a cloaned copy of Carol from the future but I am Carols child self, I think Im 12. Yet I did have all my memories... but they are fading."

She waited for June to open her eyes before she spoke.

"June! I have a month of exsistance to live. There said it now you can black out again. I was not made perfectly. I am here and I remember."

She knelt forward and kissed June on the forehead, she spoke gently.

"Never forget I love you!"

Then sat back onto her heels.

[June Summers]

June mind was gong nuts trying to comprehend what was going with the the fact that a little girl in her her house was Carol and that the fact that where she came from was making her head hurt.

When June heard her lovers voice June try to wake up little by little and felt a kiss on her forehead and June couldn't help but think of Carol as woke up to the sight of Daniel and the little girl drinking a energy drink.

June slowly sat up and rested on the sofa as the young girl spoke telling her that she was Carol and and that she had only a month before there gone "wait what is going on ?"

Thinking that as she felt another faint spell coming on but try to fight it this time as there was many question that she wanted to ask and such but at her present condition June didn't want to overload her brain.

With that she held Daniel and looked at him in the eye feeling worried about Carol and all what was going on.

[heroesdreamer]

Daniel had to chuckle as Carol lamented over why June never sits down for news, but he was worried about his love and was relieved when she sat up, though he went to sit by her and wrapped his arms around her for support. He had already heard Carol's story but he quietly listened to it again just in case he had missed any information the first time. He smiled as Carol kissed June on the forehead, he marveled at how much the sisters loved each other, and only after Carol had finished did he speak up.

"I don't know why Carol was sent back in time, the only thing I can think of is perhaps her future master sent her back for some reason, whether that's for good or evil I don't know yet. We need to keep her safe, she has a limited lifespan and wants to spend it with us, plus she knows or knew information about the present Carol, who's still missing. Apparently I'm the one who's going to find her and she's going to be like when she regressed the first time we met, believing herself to be a little girl." Daniel did his best to explain what he'd learned from Carol while keeping an eye on June. "Are you all right, honey? I need to fix food, Carol also uses up a ton of energy and needs both food and energy drinks. I picked up a bunch earlier but we should probably get more in a couple of days."

[Gummy]

Carol looked worried and got up onto the sofa and stayed away a little from the pair of them.

"June, I know it's hard. Hopefully with me here things will be different! I have a month. There are more of me, I think."

She looked a little confused and looked up to Daniel.

"I can't remember! I can't remember!"

She frowns heavily and curls herself up, tightly.

"Sis? Im scared! I don't want to forget you! I don't want to loose you!"

A flash of a handprint deep burn being perminent on her neck is seen. As she moves her hair. She was scared and just wanted to be held by someone she loved but she dared not touch June for she was worried that she would reject her. That was why in part she was scared. She sipped at the can in her hand.

[June Summers]

June sat there on the sofa as she heard what Daniel had to say about what was going on and was trying to get the a hold of things as she was listing June looked at the little girl and smiled as felt saddened to think where and what was happening to Carol.

As June didn't want to lose the one person that made her leave there dark past behind and find a new and also some that she felt connected to no matter what. It would be hard to focus but June would have to dig deep to help stop losing her own blood relative that showed her companion and understanding that Carol did.

When June saw Carol curl up and saying thing that made her worried June stretched her arms around her like a loving sister would and felt as if she was retuning the love that Carol show to June on that night when Carol left.

"I know it will be hard for all of us and if there are more of you I'm sure they will have a pieces of the puzzle that could help us bringing you back my darling sister as I don't want to lose you" saying that as June put her head near Carols and felt the emotion welling up in her eye's.

[heroesdreamer]

Daniel listened as Carol tried to explain, but when she looked to him and said she couldn't remember, he squeezed her shoulder and said "Hey, it's okay! You told me, there's at least five clones of you, all different ages and parts of the main Carol's personality." He gently stood up and walked over to the kitchen, continuing to make hamburger patties as June and Carol talked. He had seen the handprint and part of him really wanted to meet the guy who'd used his ability to make that appear while the family part was red hot angry about some guy branding his sister in law, or at least her clone, who in his mind deserved to be treated just like any other person.

When June reached out and hugged Carol, a sigh of relief escaped as he realized that the hurdle was cleared and now they could move on to gathering what information they could on where the original Carol was, as well as simply accept the clone as part of their family, as she was. He continued to make dinner, grilling the burgers and getting out all the fixings before saying "You girls want to eat inside or out on the porch? It's kind of nice now that the sun's going down."

[Gummy]

As soon as June put her arm fully around her Carol giggled and moved swiftly into a hug. She smiled to Daniel and nodded thanks. After a few minutes of silence from her she grinned.

"I will have it both please Dan? I don't need to tell you how hungry I am!"

She looked to June excitement on her face.

"June.... I have to teach you something that I can do before.... well I forget. It's not pritty but it is life saving! I need you to teach it to me. I am not sure if you can do it but I can. Do you have a video recorder, it might help. This is for family eyes only. I can only do this once, it drains me a lot."

She downed the rest of the can and took out of her pocket several energiser tablets slipping 3 into her mouth. She moved away from June waiting for her to find the camara.

"Daniel you might want to see this too. Finish the with burgers first."

[June Summers]

June smiled as Carol giggles and felt her hart warm that in some way June was for the moment the old sister and would have to look after her now younger looking one and was honoured to it as it gave June the chance to to pay her back for the love that Carol showed to her as June was growing up.

As heard Carol asking for two sets of meals and thought about the fact that Carol had to keep her energy leaves up and this made June think as well as worry that she could lose her sister if she did run out of energy and in tow June would have to stay positive in order to keep her sister alive.

June propped her head up to say to Daniel "it a nice day we have it out side no?" looking at Carol to see were she would like to have her food.
When Carol told June that she need to tell her something June hart sunk and hope it was not bad news but it was something that she wanted to show June that would help her.

It would be something that needed to be recorded and thought of the best thing to use and that was something that Daniel gave June to record any thing and everything like ghost energy as well as doing normal recording for the most part.

June looked at Carol "we do after you get your strength up and then we do it ok ?"

[heroesdreamer]

As Carol requested two meals Daniel nodded and quickly finished with the burgers as she told June that she needed to show her something, whatever it was apparently June would need to show Carol in the future. He assembled a burger for Carol, remembering how she liked it, and then brought it over to her along with a bag of potato chips. "Here, eat" he said, agreeing with June as she said they would watch whatever it was that Carol needed to show June after she regained her strength.

He quickly went back to the kitchen and prepared two more burgers, leading the way outside so they could sit in the sunshine and fresh air. As he dug in, he realized that he'd forgotten about his own hunger due to worry over his sister in law, and for a few minutes simply concentrated on the food. He kept his eyes open however, just in case Carol wanted to go ahead and show June the important thing, calm in knowing that his house was secure and no one would break in and try to cause harm to his family.

[Gummy]

Carol grins eagerly about going outside and takes her food out there she is soon munching into it.

"I will wait till after you have all finished eating it's a bit gross!"

After the second portion Carol leans back with a sigh, she looks up to the clouds a pleasant smile on her face. Once everyone was finished she heads back inside to the camara and sits waiting patiently for June and Daniel. Once they are there she speaks.

"Pritty much, I can replicate my own organs. By now I have done this twice, a set of lungs and a kidney. Don't worry, it all gets fixed. They are not perfect duplicates and if left for longer than 4 hours I think .... they become a lot harder for me to remove! I... erm.... I can do it to others using the organs I produce. If there is a bullet hole I can put my finger in and start to manipulate what I find inside. It hurts like mad but it has saved a life! I use my nails as cutting tools and the rest I do myself."

She holds her hand palm upright and quickly finds an energy packet emptying half into her mouth. Her hand starts to change the bones receding up her arm and her skin starts to bulge. Soon it no longer resembles a hand but a lump that has a pipe. Carol looks very tired.

"That's a kidney! I can... I can inflate the skin slightly to put pressure on any bleeding area's I may find. That is what you have to teach her! Teach me.... AHHH!"

She puts her hand to her shoulder she allows her hand to go back to normal, she puts that hand onto her back where one of her kidneys are. She looks to Daniel, she looks really tired. She moves her hand away from her shoulder and this time only 3 holes are visible. They look like old scars that seem to be going backwards. She has let go for there are burn marks on her hands. Where her kidney is there is a fairly large area that looks like it has been stitched together. Old injuries are stating to appear. As she looks at her hands she faints out cold where she is sat.