One Of The 4400 Part 1 & 2

Chapter 18

I decided to write another chapter today. Hopefully it is good. :)

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Having that queasy feeling in my stomach the entire time walking home with Adam was not so good. I could feel my heartbeat excellerate and my breathing go up. I felt like that if I took a wrong step, I could end up throwing up.

I didn't though. I didn't end up doing something gross, luckily but still. The 'still' is something to worry about. After all, I had just managed to throw myself into the Lion's Den.

Not everyday can a person say that they walked into a trap. I really doubted that. Only me, I guess. Only I can say that now.

But then again, looking at Adam, I can see something in his eyes that spoke to me that he didn't want the same thing for me.

I may be hypothesizing here but his expression earlier while he was dragging me away from Jordan said something like that he's been through this before...

Has he?

I looked over at Adam's side profile again and wondered what life he led before being here and who did he lose? A sister? A friend? A lover?

I was so lost in wondering what was his life like that I barely registered that he was looking at me too. "Hey," he said softly. I focused on him.

"Yeah?" I said.

"I know a bit about your life but you know none of mine. Vera, would you like to know what happened to me, what I was before becoming what I am now?" He asked, tilting his head a little.

Wasting no time, I nodded. I did want to know.

Moving closer to me (because of the cold, I assumed), Adam asked me if he can put his arm around me as we walked to his house. I nodded and he did so. Then he went on to tell me about his life:

"I told you I was abducted a long time ago... Way before your mother or father was thought of and before you became you. I had a normal life. I had a mother and father, Giovanni and Liana.

They were immigrants, Italians. I had a little sister. Her name was Julie. A little monster of a girl. I adored her. She was the very sort of a sister you can wish for.

I was a unassuming and meek young man growing up, possibly by the teasing I had endured in childhood but I was soon made hard by my training when I enrolled in the U.S. Air Force.

I was a shrimp when I started but then I grew to the size that my ancestors used to be. Tall and lanky. Over six feet.

I was only twenty two when I was chosen by my superiors (I was in the U.S. Air Force) to be part of a project called Blue Book. We were supposed to investigate the UFOS that civilian men and our own men on our base were seeing.

While I thought it was the fancy of men who just wanted a good joke, I realized that I was wrong entirely; because on that cold February night while out on patrol, I saw with my own eyes; a bright light come to take me home.

Until...I came back, surrounded by strangers I did not know, and feeling lost. My first thought was where am I and then seeing the female reporter, my next thought was where was my family..."

Adam paused, momentarily taking the moment to wipe his silent tears away from his face with the sleeves of his gray hoodie.

I waited patiently for his tears to subside. I wanted to comfort him so I put my arm around his waist and held him closer to my side. Looking up ahead, I could see the house. I started to wonder who else besides me had he told his life story to. Finally, I heard him say something rather abruptly.

"You know that place where they held us? The center? That damned center with its medicinal smell and the fake cheery doctors and nurses?

It's a great place for us, the sheep, to be as trapped more than we could ever be if we had been able to lead our lives instead of living in a era that is not our own. You ask me why?

Because I think in a world of lost people...we are more lost than them... And if I'm right, it's evident in how they first treated us in the beginning and I fear it is how they will treat us in the end..." He admitted.

I nodded, choosing not to say anything. I was not in the mood to disagree or agree. But I did keep his point of view in mind. He was right. First reactions to sudden things are what tells us how the other person thinks.

But in hindsight, I have realized that he has not said anything of his sister or of his family, if they were alivd or not. Proceeding to ask him that question, I turned to look at him when I realized that we were literally two inches from each other's face.

Looking away from him and onto the suburban street, my cheeks became pink. I tried to calm my breathing a bit when out of nowhere he asked me, "You okay, Vera? You look flushed. Is it the cold?"

I didn't answer right away. I could feel the warmth on my cheeks still. I was conflicted. I didn't know why I was feeling so conflicted about being that close to him.

"Vera?"

Nothing. I didn't answer.

"Vera?" Now alarm in his voice.

"Nothing, I am fine." I lied.

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Alright, done with this really short chapter. Kinda glad I'm done with it. Ugh, though it sucks because I said it would be long but it isnt. For this chapter, I didn't really listen to music. But sometimes I'll listen to the theme song of The 4400. It helps me out.

Now that I had Adam has explained his life before being abducted, I hope you understand how his personality is. Somewhat friendly but with some walls up.

I kinda liked how I have Vera warming up to Adam on a level. You know? They are going to live together so that will probably help speed up the process.

If Jordan Collier doesn't have what he wants; which is his somewhat weird thing of collecting 4400s with powers and Vera by his side along with Shawn Farrell. 

Next chapter will be written soon.