The Facility

Chapter Ten

It's been three months since my meltdown and gunshot wound, it's mostly healed now but I still have to wear a brace and take blood thinners which the doctor said I might be on for life.

I've had multiple sessions with Dr. Rockfield and he felt it was time to meet my whole family, but this was a memorial day BBQ and I've never been to one I've only heard of them, Daniel felt I needed the right kind of clothes something more fitting of family get together.

So it meant giving up my practical clothing for something more normal, which for me was a tank top and shorts, I very nearly killed Daniel for trying to put me in a dress when we were picking out clothes.

"So do I look alright?" I asked.

"You look better than ever" Daniel said as he drove us.

We arrived at the house that brought back a very painful memory, the last time I was here I was in serious pain from a different gunshot wound and also breaking my cuffs an subsequently my wrists.

I don't think I'll ever be pain free again or like I was before all this happened and that's what's the most hilarious to me, I had been trained in hell and faced a lot out in the field doing missions for The Agency but it wasn't until I broke free of them that I suffered the most.

I've been shot twice and broke both my wrists plus a few small bones in my hand with this last gunshot, looking at my body now almost made me want to cry because now I'm covered in visible scars.

"You ready?" Daniel asked.

"As ready as I'll ever be" I said as we got out of his car.

He grabbed my free hand and walked with me into the back.

I don't know why I thought Daniel had something up his sleeve when he kept saying he was trying to help me, I guess because for the longest time it was just me against the world and no one was a friend.

But then I remembered all the times that Daniel was there for me, mainly I thought about the boy with the flower, a small beauty in a world filled with chaos and he knew if he was caught he'd get in trouble, but he did it anyway.

Now I see him and he's grown so much since then, somewhere along the way he grew a little taller than me than I thought he would and more handsome, he could have any girl he wanted I don't know why he bothered with me when I'm so messed up.

"Callie!" my father said first.

It took a lot just to think of him as my father, I knew that as my parents they only wanted the best for me thank to Dr. Rockfield, but I couldn't help thinking of them letting me get taken and grow up in hell just because they took people at their word and we're too afraid to see if I was really dead.

He hugged me and I couldn't help but notice that I had finally gotten to a point where I didn't want to tense and hit him, then my mother came over and hugged me after him.

My siblings were sitting at the picnic table.

"Come meet your little sister and brother" my mother said.

"This is Alecia and this is Seth" my father said.

"Is it true your like an assasin?" Seth said eagerly.

"Seth, we talked about this" mother said.

"It's fine, yes I've been trained to kill people" I said as we sat down.

I fielded many questions by an eager Seth, but Alecia stayed quiet most of the time only looking to me every once in a while.

"So Alecia, do you have any questions for your sister?" mother asked.

"Can you teach me how to defend myself?" she asked.

"Alecia we talked about that, you don't need to learn stuff like that. We're talking to the principle" father said.

"That's only making it worse! They're calling me a wussy that can't defend myself, I need to learn this" Alecia said.

Then she stormed off.

"Don't worry about her, I'll talk to her" mother said.

"You should go talk to her, offer to teach her and it'll be a good bonding opportunity for the two of you" Daniel said in my ear.

"Actually I'd be willing to teach them both, you've seen what I've had to go through and it would be best if they could defend themselves" I said.

They looked to each other and stepped away, it took them a few minutes and I could tell father was the most against it but finally they both came back.

"I guess you make a good point, it's just I hate to think that they're going to need it" father said.

"It's better that they're though, so you can teach them both but just to get themselves out of bad situations" mother said.

"Alright!" Seth said.

It was a more productive day with my family than I thought it would be and Alecia was happy too about me training her, but this wasn't my home because I've made a home with Daniel.

Later that night as we were getting ready for bed, I watched Daniel as he went through his normal nightly routine of brushing his teeth and changing his clothes, when he finally came to bed I felt the need to talk to him.

"Why do you waste your time on me when you know I can't give you a family like a normal girl, don't you want kids?" I asked.

"It's not a waste of my time Callie, I knew the moment I saw you that you were the for me I can't see past you and nothing has changed that, after everything we've both been through I don't necessarily want to bring kids into this world and so long as I have you nothing else matter. I'll never let anyone take you from me again" he said before kissing me.

"So tell me how did you manage to get away from The Agency and The Facility?" I asked.

"I contacted my now boss when I was sixteen, he sent agents to me in Romania and brought me in and I've been helping them ever since" he said.

We fell into the rhythm of a normal life, something I never thought I'd have and I'm working with Daniel and the F.B.I. helping to catch bad guys instead of kill.

I even have an almost normal relationship with my family and for some reason it was emotional for my parents when they heard I couldn't have children, but I did manage to get close to all of them but I never did spend a night at their house even though they begged me to, it just never felt right.

Dr. Rockfield had convinced me to write a book about my experiences so the world can know what I've been through and understand me a little bit better, I worried though that other countries would use it as a guide to create their own programs like the one I had been through but that was just leftover paranoia.

It took a few years and a lot of conversations but eventually I agreed to marry Daniel, mainly because he never gave up and I guess that's what I needed to realize he would always be there no matter what.

The beginning of my life had not been so great but it really was Daniel that had been the one to make sure I got the life I deserved after The Agency, the boy with the flower will always be the boy with my heart because I know he'll keep it safe, he's my forever.

The End....