Twilight's Spell

Exposition part 2

I know this is a double update, but this is because I have no idea when I'll update again because of my busy schedule. I'm sorry about that.
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When I wake up, I see Peter sleeping on one side of me and the Mohawk guy that brought me here sleeping on the other side. Peter is in a bed-like thing and the guy is in an uncomfortable chair. He looks like he's been sleeping there for a long time. I look around the rest of the room. It's filled with really weird machines, like the ones that were connected to my mommy before she...left us. And now Peter and I have left our baby sister. Poor baby. "Well good morning, princess," the Mohawk guy says. I look over towards him, and he gives me a smile. "How's the translator working?"

I think about what he asks. "The what?" I have no idea what a translator is. "Wait, I know what you're saying now!"

He laughs at me. "That's what the translator is for, princess," he says as he lifts me off the table. "I think we should go check in with Yondu while we wait for your brother to wake up."

"Why's he still asleep? And who's Yondu?"

"Well, your brother wasn't being good like you, so we had to give him more medicine to go to sleep, and let us give him a translator like we did you. As for Yondu, he's the captain of the Eclector." He sees that I'm confused. "The Eclector is our ship."

"Oh, ok. Is Yondu nice?" He laughs. "I guess that's no."

We stop in front of a door and wait for it to open. When it does, I see the blue guy from earlier yelling at everyone. He stops to look at us. "Well it's about time one of those damn kids woke up. Put her down Kraglin, she's gonna have to learn to walk by herself." The Mohawk guy, Kraglin, puts me on the ground, but places his hand on my shoulder. Yondu kneels down in front of me. "What's your name, princess?"

"Brooke Grace Quill," I say confidently. It seems like things work easier when I do what I'm told, so I'll just keep doing that so they'll take me back to my baby sister.

"Well Brooke, we picked you up by mistake, so it looks like you're going to be spending a lot of time with us. I mean, seeing as you'll be living with us now."

"But what about my baby sister. She's still at the hospital with my... with no one. She's all alone."

"Sir," one of the guys Yondu had been yelling at earlier speaks up. "The boy's awake. And he seems to be going into a panic attack."

I hear Kraglin sigh. "I'll go calm him down," he says. I watch as he removes his hand from my shoulder and leaves. Yondu brings my attention back to him by replacing Kraglin's hand.

"Now what do you mean that girl's alone?" Yondu asks. "I'm sure she's got your mom and dad watching out for her, right?"

I shake my head sadly. "Mommy died." I notice how he looks a little guilty now. "And we've never had a daddy before."

"I can't help your brother or sister, Brooke, but I can take care of you. From this moment on, I'm going to be your father."

"What about Peter?"

"We're taking him to his dad as we speak." I open my mouth to speak. "Before you ask, this guy only asked for us to bring him his son, nothing about any girls. That means that he's either a terrible father or not yours. Good chance it's both honestly. I swear, that guy is a..." he seems to rethink whatever he was about to say. "The point of this is that you're my kid now, so the next time someone asks you for your name, you tell them that it's 'Brooke Grace Udonta,' got it?" I nod at this.

"Yondu," I hear Kraglin say from over a speaker somewhere. "The boy's asking to see that the girl's ok. Can someone bring her down so he will shut up?" I look at Yondu as he rolls his eyes.

"I'm bringing her right now," he says. He grabs my hand and we start to walk back to the room I woke up in. We stop in front of the door. "Now I don't want you saying anything to your brother about where we're going, ok? No telling what he'll do." He looks at the door again. "Let me talk to him real quick, then you can come in." He goes into the room.

I look around the hallway I'm in and see some weird people coming toward me. They all look human, but something tells me they're not. "The Broker said that it's worthless, which leaves me stuck with it," one says.

The other two laugh. "Maybe you could just leave it laying around somewhere on the ship and hope that someone picks it up," another one says.

"With Horuz's luck, they'll bring it right back to him," the third one jokes. They all stop talking when they see me. The third one smirks and grabs something from his friend. He gets down to my height. "Hey kid, want a pretty necklace?" He holds up said necklace for me to see. It's a gold key on a gold chain.

"Just because I'm little doesn't mean I'm dumb," I tell them. "You just want to get rid of it. I'll take it just because I'm nice." I hold my hand out for the necklace.

"Aren't you the smart little jinx?" the first guy (Horuz?) asks. "You two shits are making our jobs harder, so we'll give you the necklace if you promise to stay quiet and mind your own damn business." I nod my head. "Good." They hand me the necklace and start to leave. "You know what they say: having a lady on a ship is bad luck, even a small one. That girl is going to be a jinx to all of us."

I wonder what a jinx is, but Yondu interrupts my thoughts. "You can come see your brother now, sweetie." I smile at him a rush inside.

Peter is still in his bed thing and looking through his book bag, probably for his Walkman. He sees that I came in. "Oh Brooke, I was worried that they did something to you." I run over and jump up to hug him. "I promise you that everything is going to be ok from here on. Nothing else bad is ever gonna happen to you. Promise." I know he's not telling the truth. I know because I can see my new daddy shaking his head.