"Alice?"
"'It's all your fault.' That's the last thought I had before they broke down the door.
"I'm not your girl anymore,
I'm not that tween that you drove here for.
I'm not your girl anymore,
I over took her body with an infectious spore.
You left me out of your sight for one second and look what happens,
Nightmare time.
It's worse than you could imagine not sex and not drugs,
Just alien invading minds.
No more family vacays together,
Cause your only daughter's under the weather.
And if you actually paid attention to me,
You'd see I'm not your seed,"
"Alice, what is going on?"
"I'm not your angsty teen,"
"Alice, I'm- I'm here to take you home."
"No matter what you believe,
The apple's fallen far from the tree.
It's not my fault anymore,
No more curfews to be late for.
It's not my fault anymore,
No more being worried and waiting by the door.
Did you know that I wanted to live with you?
When you needed to fight you gave her that too.
Did you know Mom let Deb sleepover?"
"What?"
"And you're right about Deb,
She's a hard core stoner."
"I knew it!"
"And if you wonder what led your daughter astray,
Well daddy wasn't here to stay.
Not your seed,"
"Alice, whatever I said before, I'm sorry-"
"I'm not your perfect teen,"
"You can break out of it, I know you can."
"I'm fucking seventeen,
At least I was before you left me."
"Bill, we need to leave, right now-"
"Back off, Paul. We're not leaving without Alice."
"That's not your daughter, Bill."
"Alice?"
"Why does it hurt to love you?
Why am I in pain?
Why does it hurt to know you?
You let me down again.
If I turned my insides out would you even know that I was there?
Why does it hurt to love you?
Why does it hurt to love?
I'm not your seed.
Now maybe you'll listen to me.
How do you let me bleed?
Now your daughter's not a girl no more.
Not at all your seed.
Cause I'm not your girl anymore."
"I can't do it, Paul. I can't live in a world without my daughter."
"Bill, whatever you're thinking, stop."
"I can't live knowing I'm the reason they got to her."
Bill slowly raised the shotgun up until it was positioned just underneath his chin. Paul dashed forward and wrestled it out of his hands.
"Let me do it, Paul! Just let me die!"
"No man. No!"
And with that, Paul threw the shotgun onto the ground behind him, making sure that Bill was far away from it. He would not lose yet another one of his friends today.
"Bill, look at me. You're my best friend. I'm not gonna let you die."
Paul was cut off by the sound of a gunshot, and he looked on in horror as, for what felt like the hundredth time that day, he watched someone he knew collapse limply on the floor, like a puppet whose strings had been cut.
"Bill! Oh, God! Bill!"
"We just keep running into each other, don't we Paul? We have travelled across seas of stars, conquering (counting). Conquering (bending). Wait. What are we saying? We all have to say the same thing. Let's get on the same page.
"I'm here (I'm here) [I'm here]
"Bending countless civilizations to our will. Yet you, Paul, have defied us thrice."
Not-Alice fired a shot from the gun at Paul, which he narrowly missed as he darted out of the way. Also, they were aliens from another world who had just picked up a shotgun for the first time (presumably), so it actually wasn't that bad.
"This puny human weapon is too quick a death for you, Paul. We shall rend you limb from limb. You will die (choke). You will choke (die). Seriously, we all need to say the same thing. You guys are embarrassing me!"
"Oh, come on!"
Paul ran to the 'punt human weapon' which the aliens had so carelessly discarded in front of them on the ground.
"You shall choke on your agony as you beg for apotheosis."
The trio of infected began a high-pitched torturing as Paul crouched on the ground, begging for it to stop.
"Get down on the ground! We're the army!"
What Paul hoped really was the army came storming into the room, guns a-blazing. They chased the aliens out of the room with a series of shots and grenades. Then, who Paul presumed was the leader turned to him.
"Wait, wait, wait, I'm not one of them. I'm human-"
"Yeah, prove it asshole. We're the army."
And with that, the first guy brought the butt of his gun down on Paul's face, and with a thud, he was knocked out cold on the ground.
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Repeated Encounters
FanfictionA teenage Paul Matthews is forced by his school to watch a musical. While there he meets a girl who is equally annoyed about being there. See how their friendship grows after a few fated encounters. AU until about chapter 5 when it merges with the m...
