He was Almost Absorbed by the System

Chapter Thirty Seven - Must Be a Dream

Aidan, who once was Matthew now awoke to being Rush Haven, a renown actor and entertainer, voted the fourth most wanted man in the world. But there was only one person he wanted.

Despite his fame, available information was vague when it came to Rush Haven's childhood.  His birth parents had died in an incident when he was 8 years old.  Very little was known about this incident, as there was a lot of red tape preventing the media or the curious from delving too far into it.  Rush also had no idea as he had no memory of the event nor of his birth parents.  This was because the man who was now known as Rush Haven did not exist then.  The original soul of his body had passed away in hospital not long after the incident, taking his memories with him.

Rush had then been raised by his adoptive parents, Illyana Haven and Taurus Haven.  They had doted, cared and loved the child as if he were their own. They had also encouraged him to follow them into the Entertainment circle. Illyana had been a famous pianist and her husband a consistent, if little known actor, who starred in various small parts in movies and on stage. Their lives had been happy. However, shortly after Rush's nineteenth birthday, Illyana had to be sent to a care home for a degenerative mental illness. Taurus then made the decision to annul their marriage of fourteen years, retired from the industry and remarried, starting a new family. Rush had felt hurt by his decision, straining their relationship. Even now, the pair barely spoke, the last contact being a message to congratulate him on his engagement. He wondered if he didn't put up with Honor so long due to a wish to reconnect with the man he called father, as introducing a new wife and later new child seemed a good way to start a dialogue.

The person he had become as Rush was much like the person he was as Aidan, with his lazy way of speaking, his uncaring, nearly cold attitude to things in general and the love for cooking.  The latter had been awakened in Rush due to his preference for older technologies, though Aidan would have happily allowed a robot to peel and prepare vegetables, so that he didn't have too.  Rush was slightly germaphobic, in so far that he disliked being touched, favoured cleanliness and didn't like others preparing his food.  With his acting skills, he hid these quirks from the general public and after a day of being poked and prodded by makeup artists, costume designers, fashion designers, other actors and directors, he tended to take overly long, leisurely showers.  So much so that the Water Board frequently wrote to him about his water usage being too high.  Not that they ever followed up on their threats of cutting off his supply.  For one thing he was famous and on occasion he had to film abroad so he wasn't at home then anyway.  Rush had not really inherited any of the personality traits from Matthew, unless his ability to stand in the spot light counted.  But regardless of who he was, he still loved the same man as he had for two lifetimes and waited for him in this third.

What did surprise him, though he didn't show it, was that his beloved was now a young girl. Though it didn't really matter, he loved this person no matter what form they took on.

Kez now watched his idol and dream man approach the table where he and Leilei were sitting, he dumbfounded and she a little startled that he was actually coming to talk to them. Her eyes slid over to Kez, who had frozen solid and she relaxed, enjoying his expression. Rush knelt, gentlemanly before them. "Are you Wish?" he asked, softly. Kez found himself nodding, almost against his will, before cursing inwardly that he had revealed himself. "I am a fan of yours." The boy's face reddened, the blush spreading down to his neck and collarbone.

"T-thank you!" he squeaked. Rush chuckled, warmly, melting Kez's heart all over again, just as it had when he'd first seen the trailer of his first movie, when the man before him played the barely mentionable part of construction worker b.

There was suddenly another squeal coming from the table of the suited man; the girl had stood up, knocking her chair back and clicked over on her five inch heels, hurriedly. Leilei's eyes rolled heavenward. Way to spoil the mood, she thought as the supposed Rush fan girl sped over to them. But contrary to her expectations, when the girl reached them, she paused before Leilei, a hopeful grin on her face.