Somewhere to Belong

Tapes of the Past Pt. 2

[A/N: This is a VERY LONG chapter, its not as dark as originally thought but still bad, if you don't want to read you don't have to it'll pick up in the next chapter]

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"All I wanted to do was wish him a happy birthday...maybe show a little bit of the good that I knew he had in there somewhere...It was anything but happy..."

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Aug. 25th 1:00 pm

Simeon's Birthday

The coworkers knew it was his birthday that day and yet no one celebrated, there was no cake or decorations on the wall only silence as Simeon sat alone in his office tinkering away on something for his next experiment. Harper and Cayne knew about these things called birthdays but they had never actually seen one celebrated before. Jenna said that people would give gifts to the person for their day, bring a cake have a party with music but none of that was made for him. It never was...

"Jenna why doesn't anyone tell him happy birthday?" Harper wondered innocently as she and her brother sat behind the young girl watching her work.

"Well you see sweetheart, Simeon is one of those people that don't like parties or celebrations...We don't really know why but every year he just locks himself in his office for the day until it's time for him to go home."

"Oh...Can we make something for him? Maybe if we gave him something he might warm up to the idea of celebrating." Jenna smiled putting her pen down as Cayne just huffed crossing his arms over his chest.

"He doesn't deserve anything to be given to him, not after what he's put us through. I'm just happy it's a break day with no experiments or 'strength training'." Harper frowned kicking her feet as she sat on the edge of the table.

"But maybe he doesn't want to actually hurt us and...I know there's got to be some good in him somewhere we just have to bring it out...and then maybe...maybe he'll stop." As she stared at the floor Jenna and Cayne glanced at one another before Jenna pulled her into a hug.

"You're too good for this world Harper, but if that's what you want to do then I don't see how it would hurt anything."

"Really?!" She beamed making even her brother smile, Jenna nodded before turning back to her working desk to look for something. After rummaging through her desk for a few minutes she found what she was looking for and handed it to Harper.

"What is it?"

"It's a compact disk filled with music or a CD for short. Simeon had bugged me last year for a copy of my Genesis CD and I just forgot to give it to him." The young girl paused smiling as she watched the excitement build up in the young angel's eyes.

"Would you like to give it to him? As a birthday present?" Harper nodded so vigorously that Cayne had to hold her head to get it to stop bobbing.

"I'll be right back!" She beamed before dashing down the hallway toward Simeon's office where he kept his door closed at all times. Once there her nerves took over, feeling like something was wrong she shivered before pushing the thought to the back of her head and knocked on the door anyway. At first there was only silence as she thought that maybe he had had gone home for the day without saying anything, he did like to do that sometimes but then after waiting a couple minutes she heard the click of the lock as the door opened.

"What?" Simeon asked irritated as he stared down at the shorter toon who's beaming smile was now gone, cocking an eyebrow he watched as she shifted nervously from side to side.

"Come in and make it quick I'm very busy." He said rolling his eyes observing how her nervous smile turned into a genuine one as she walked through the door. Curiously she looked around temporarily forgetting why she was there before the man cleared his throat drawing her attention.