Parasite

Part 22

Jackson leans against his car as he waits at a bus terminal. Cafes with intoxicating smell of roast beans and chocolate, a new agency and a florist with bright daffodils are free standing booths standing between platforms. He watch a chattering couple with their parasite companions laying beside them like large dogs or cats as they ate a full breakfast and as people walk past with large black coats pulling bags behind them going on their normal day. Jackson starts playing a game in his head as he makes scenario about them. It's being a silver bullet shape bus. He sees Diamond with her hair tied up with a blue and pick scrunchy and wearing a summer dress. She had not change and still as lovely the day he met her. She spots him and makes her way over.

"Hello" Diamond said.

He cannot help but smile that cheerfulness mingles into his voice "you have not change Dia. Let me take your bag."

She gives a small smile, as Jackson moves taking the bag off her with ease; he sees her eyes behind tinted sun-glasses are constantly moving. At her shoulder Ichabod head is peeking between sleeves of her dress.

"Would you like a coffee before we go?"

Diamond stands for a moment allowing a glimpse of a hunch back and an uncomfortable lean.

"Yes please" Diamond voice came out hoarse.

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For the first time Toby feels that he is in control. As he stirs the last of the ingredients into a large sauces pan as the water reduce down from three cups to about one, a strong perfume of taffy and raspberry waft in the air. There are lines of bottles line up with different rows. The spines on the back of Toby head click twice pause and did it again. He cannot hear himself doing it.

"What are you thinking about?"

With a flinch Toby jump backs bring his arms up to protect his face.

"Oh sorry" say Bo-peep.

Sighing "it's okay, you just surprise me."

Bo-peep colouring nearly goes white, the spade like spines fold themselves down. Repeating again Bo-peep ask what he was thinking about.

"Oh during high school I wanted to build parasites and I found this book in a second hand store." Toby drifts a forgotten detail emerge in his mind "anyway there was a section on how smell is use to clam parasites while their host are in a heighten state."

Bo-peep nods if what Toby is saying makes understandable senses. Toby can feel a fatigue settle in him "what time is it?"

"Nearly one dear" she whispers "time for sleep" her hands shooing Toby out of the kitchen.

"So why were you making these anyway?"

Toby spines do a little wiggle "I thought that they may help" he whispers the last part "we cannot keep running and D and Tadashi run a risk ending up like me."

She nod, it is understandable "Well rest I get you up at seven."

The next's morning they gather around the table were bottles of scents and many rubber bands, stones, strings and other things. On each group of objects there are printed instructions.

West looks over the piece of paper containing instructions on how to make ghosts with mirrors, windows and lights "are you completely insane."

Bo-peep express her full skeleton smile "well we can't run forever and from some of the things that Becky have mention might turn the tide."

West folds his arms, his stare hold a type of stubborn disbelief that comes from a true unswayed bull.

Bo-pee clap her hands together "Yes and I am sure Mrs Kimberly would say take up arms just as she did during the protest for right to choose your employment."