Replies to my reviewers! Yay! Reviews! If I miss anyone, you have permission to find me, drive up to my house with a handgun, break into my room, hold the gun to my head and say 'Dodge this'. Hee hee, I would die laughing. If you shot me... And then, you could try to sort out the confusion of my hard drive, find my sequel, and try to figure out where I'm going with it. And then write it. Feel free! Do my 'work'! My true work, not like school... Anyway, here ya go...
Kit: Heh heh heh, I was in a weird, disturbed kinda mood that day... and I was thinking "What would the Merovingian want in a program?" and there it was... The same sort of day that ended up as an MSN RPG conversation... If you REALLY want to read it, tell me and I'll send it... I'm NOT going to post it... *heh* anyway... hee hee, just had to add that sentence... The Twins have to get their nails done! Aw, you're welcome! (Even though you thought I was my 'Twin'... lmclao)
Matrix Agent Smith: Oh. Smith, definetley. Don't you think?
Megami: Stop! You're making me want a sundae... It's been sooooo looooong since I've haaaaad one!
Kit: You learn things at school? Woaaaaaah...
Bubblesnap: 'course I do... I talk to Kit on MSN... little slave driver that she is... :)
Megami: I know, the question was just so out there, waiting for me... hee hee... Well, it's good that you cried! That means the chapter's effective... seeeeee? It almost made me cry the 2nd time I read it, if that makes you feel better...
Twinlady: Awwww! Thanks! *hugs* I like rambling. Rambling is good, rambling is your friend.... hee hee! Anyway, ummmmmm... You see, Persephone likes them. In a sexual kind of way. And she raped Adrian, and would have Aidenn, too... But he got saved... *blushes* now you see?
Kit: Oh, I know I'm evil... weird, I typed that just as the song I'm listening to said it... *sniff* I'm so cruel...
939597: Thanks! It's a compliment to me, as a 'writer' when my chapters have the desired effect... even if it is making people bawl their little faces off...
Kit: Weeeell.... then I think, for the sake of all the people who would otherwise be dead, it's good you're NOT in their position... lmclao...
There was no pain this time, just a huge swirl of blue light that slowly faded to green. After a few minutes of total disorientation they realized that they had materialized in the middle of His restaurant. Everyone was staring at him. They felt something inside themselves, and grinned at each other. They could ghost again. So they did, ignoring the shrieks of the unsuspecting patrons and He himself. They reappeared in their suite. After a few minutes of looking around, glad to be back, Aidenn was suddenly aware of something. He collapsed on the couch, clutching the shoulder that had been stabbed.
"Aidenn! Ghost! Heal!" Adrian sounded frantic.
"If...that...worked...it would have...before..." He gasped.
"Let us look at it..." Aidenn tried to squirm away from his Twin's prying fingers, but Adrian held him firmly. "It's infected. Badly. We have to get us to a hospital."
Aidenn's eyes got even wider in terror. "No! No, we can look after us, or a programmer, or... Not a human!"
"It's too late for that, now. We must have been so close to being human for so long, this must be a...a side effect or something. Come on. We have to."
Aidenn nodded, weakly. He knew his Twin was right. He didn't like it, but it was true. As soon as he felt his Twin's arms around him he allowed himself to fall into unconsciousness...
(Wow! I just realized, that's the first unconsciousness in this Fic! There was this on RPG I was doing, in which I was Mouse, and I must have spent over half of it knocked out... It was crazy! Every two lines... *passes out*... I should post that RPG, think I have it saved somewhere... Anyway, you may now continue...)
When Aidenn woke up, he had no idea where he was. It was a very, very white room. It was so white, it was hurting his eyes. But where were his sunglasses? What had happened? He next noticed that he wasn't wearing his coat, tie, shirt, pants or vest. He appeared to be wearing some sort of pastel tunic, disturbingly decorated in tiny pink flowers... Was this some kind of joke Adrian was playing on him? He felt a sudden pain in his hand. Examining it, he found that a needle was stuck into it, held in place with tape of some sort. A tube stuck out of the needle. He followed the tube with his gaze, and discovered it ended in a sort of plastic sack full of a yellowish fluid. Suddenly he remembered... His shoulder. The infection. He must be in a hospital... He allowed his eyes to roll around the room. A middle aged, plumpish woman in white was standing on the other side of the pale green room with her back to him. But where was Adrian?
At the same time, Adrian was fighting with the receptionist nurse. As he wasn't human, he had no ID. Which meant that he couldn't prove he was related to Aidenn. Which, apparently, meant he couldn't go and see him. Stupid S.A. Dist. Hospital... But it was the closest one... He was wont to threaten her, in case it should effect his Twin, and he couldn't ghost, obviously. Maybe if he went to the bathroom he could ghost...
"Well, fine! If you won't let me see my brother, won't you at least tell me where the bathroom is?" He eventually managed to find it, even with her hopelessly complicated directions.
Aidenn lay, staring, at the woman's back for several minutes, busily pulling the needle out of his hand. It finally came free just as she turned around.
"Well! I see we're awake! That's good. But, oh oh, naughty naughty, we seem to have pulled out our IV!"
'Why,' wondered Aidenn. 'Is she speaking to us as if she was our Twin? Where is Adrian? How soon can we leave?' He looked at his shoulder. It was covered in a neat white bandage, stained with a little fresh blood. He seemed to remember having heard that having something infected bleed was a good thing...
The nurse pranced over, shoved the needle back in his hand so quickly that he flinched, and smacked his head lightly. He gave her an absolutely incredulous look. What kind of hospital was this?
"Well, we can't have you doing that again, now can we?" The nurse smiled down at him.
He was tempted to reply, 'Oh yes we can!' in the same horrible, gushing voice, but he didn't.
"Nurse!" yelled the nurse.
He glanced up, expecting to see another of the same motherly kind of woman, but instead one, no TWO, enormous males in the same uniform as the other nurse entered. He bulged his eyes at them, wondering what in the Matrix was going to happen next. He only later realized that he was shivering.
"Give him 20 cc's of Midazolam, to stop him from taking his IV out again."
The other nurses, who looked like football players, nodded. One of them came back with a syringe, ready to inject. Aidenn was having none of this. A sedative? No. A) they did weird things to his code. Like making him giggle spontaneously. B) he needed to be alert, and C) Adrian would make fun of him. He aimed a kick at one of the nurses, forgetting the blanket on top of him. Which was tucked at the bottom He managed to sort of raise his knee, but as a kick it failed. He tried to thrash the needle away, but one of the 'nurses' grabbed both his arms, pinning him to the bed, while the other injected him. His last real thought was 'Oh we hope Adrian doesn't see us like this...' Then the world got blurry...
Adrian, having finally found the bathroom, then had to wait for one of the stalls to empty. At long last, he shoved into one of the stalls, ghosted, and sighed his relief. He was out to find his Twin. He first tried searching for his Twin's mind, but after failing to find it figured he must still be asleep. He drifted into the floor, reappeared in the receptionist's desk, and glanced at the open book with the room numbers in it. Luckily, the book was open to the page with his brother's name on it. Room 222. He glanced around to get his bearings and zoomed off through the floor.
Meanwhile, at the Chateau, the programmer had been told to search the Twins' room for suspicious looking disks. He had been just about to give up when he found a gold disk under one of the Twins' pillows. It was unmarked. He grabbed it, and made his way with it back to his employer. This could be just the thing to make the Boss appreciate him enough not to kill him. He knocked on the study's door, and stood, waiting. In the Chateau, only the Twins could just barge in without knocking. Without being severely, severely punished. At last, the Master's voice, ever commanding, called him in.
"Ah, you have found a disk?" The Merovingian said, noticing who had entered.
"Yes sir. It looks important."
"Where did you find it?"
"Under one of their pillows."
"Which bed?"
The Programmer was getting a little freaked out by all the questions. He hadn't paid attention to which bed, and besides, he couldn't tell the Twins apart... "Um..."
"Oh well, that doesn't matter. Go run it through one of the supercomputers, see what it does."
The Programmer nodded and left the room, barely containing his relief. He made his way to the computer room, past the one computer that was always occupied, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, sucking in any information that may have interest for the Merovingian. He walked to the computer just for running human-programs, as in programs that have a physical body. He slid the gold disk into the slot, double clicked the little icon that popped up, and noticed that this was, indeed a human-program disk. He still couldn't figure who or what it was, so he decided to risk launching it. He set the launch coordinates to one of the programming cells, and pressed enter...
Antoine found herself alone, in yet another cell. She remembered everything, right up until her deletion. She immediately began searching for Adrian and Aidenn... After almost half an hour, she found a very weak link coming from... the hospital? She checked again, just to be sure. It was so faint she couldn't speak to them, or even find out what was wrong.
After all this, she allowed herself to examine her surroundings. "We know where we are!" she said, aloud. She recognized it from Aidenn's story. This must be one of the programming rooms. Which meant... something... What was it? Her memory hadn't quite finished restoring. Then she remembered. 'The disk...' the night before, she had snuck out of the bedroom, hacked into the Twins' computer, and copied herself onto a disk. Just in case. She didn't want Aidenn, or Adrian, for that matter, to be hurt. She had left it under Aidenn's pillow, sure they would find it... But she was here. Someone else must have found the disk... But who? Would they let her out? She was so used to not being able to ghost that she didn't even try.
The Programmer, when he first saw who had appeared, rubbed his eyes a few times, to make sure he wasn't imagining things. No, it did indeed appear to be the Backup, Antoine. The Master should know of this...
Adrian found Aidenn's room fairly easily, but when he tried to stick his head up through the floor to check for staff, he discovered that there were two burly male nurses holding his screaming, thrashing Twin down. He quickly popped back in to the floor before Aidenn saw him. There was no way he could help him, and besides, it was just an injection. Probably antibiotics to help him recover, nothing he was about to stop. He waited for a while, then he discovered that there was quite a bit of space between the floor of Aidenn's room and the roof below. He unghosted, so he could hear what was going on above. It was very hard to hear when ghosted. Aidenn seemed to have gone silent, but the nurses were still there. He waited.
The Merovingian almost ran down to the programming level, just to see her with his own eyes. Yes, it was the Backup, indeed. "Let her go. I still wish to hire her."
The programmer nodded, and threw back the heavy bolt. Almost instantly, a slender hand emerged from the room, pushing open the iron door. Antoine stepped out, and immediately realized she could ghost. So she did. After a few minutes of drifting around, she remembered the Twins. She landed on the floor right next to the Merovingian, startling him.
"Where are the Twins?"
"At the hospital."
So she had been right. But, "Why?"
"One's shoulder got infected, and ghosting wouldn't heal it."
She blinked at him calling Aidenn One, but realized that he must not know their names. "I have to go to them."
He nodded. "But first: you never did answer my question earlier. Will you work for me as a bodyguard?"
She nodded, quickly, not really thinking. "I need to know how to get there." She started tapping her foot, she was so anxious.
He waved to the Programmer, who began typing something on a nearby computer. Immediately Antoine found a map with a gold line leading to the hospital in her mind. She started running down the hall.
"The Parkade is that way. Take whatever you want, they don't need keys."
She turned and started running in the direction he had pointed.
At last, Adrian sensed that everyone was out of the room, so he emerged. To his horror, he found Aidenn just lying there, staring at nothing. Every so often he would start giggling. As if he had been... "Aidenn! Did they sedate us?!" He almost screamed this. He had to get his brother to ghost. He knew that his shoulder was now healed, or healed enough for the ghosting to take effect. He tried to establish a mental contact with his Twin, but everything was so slow, it was hard to reach him. Just then he noticed something. Someone else was trying to make contact with him. Could it really be her? This gave him an idea. Trying with all his strength to connect with Aidenn, he screamed into his mind 'AIDENN! Antoine's coming! Ghostghostghostghost!'
Aidenn could hear his Twin, barely, as if he was very, very far away. It just took too much effort to listen, let alone answer... Until he heard him yelling about Antoine. With a huge burst of will, he gathered himself together, and ghosted. He felt perfect. He watched as the hole in his shoulder glistened and vanished. He grinned, showing his now pointy teeth, as his brother ghosted beside him. Unfortunately, he was still wearing his hospital gown. Then they heard footsteps right outside the door. There wasn't even time to escape to the floor. Aidenn just allowed himself to drop to the bed, but Adrian was just standing in the middle of the room as the nurse came in.
She looked around in complete bewilderment for several minutes before noticing that Aidenn's IV was out again. This seemed to be something she could focus on. Ignoring Adrian for the moment, she stepped forward to shove it back in. Aidenn, however, was having none of this. With a grin at his Twin, he ghosted and allowed himself to sink through the bed into the floor. The Nurse screamed, turned to look at Adrian, but found that he was already gone. She fainted.
The Twins zoomed happily through the walls of the hospital, eventually landing on the ground outside. They paused to shake their dreads out, and then they heard the sound of an approaching motorcycle. They knew it was Antoine. They ran forward to meet her. All three of them were laughing and sobbing and hugging. They were together again, like they belonged. Antoine laughed especially hard at Aidenn's gown, until he turned pink, then she explained about the disk. After that, the Three just stood there, looking at each other, not speaking. Or at least not out loud.
THE END
Kit: Heh heh heh, I was in a weird, disturbed kinda mood that day... and I was thinking "What would the Merovingian want in a program?" and there it was... The same sort of day that ended up as an MSN RPG conversation... If you REALLY want to read it, tell me and I'll send it... I'm NOT going to post it... *heh* anyway... hee hee, just had to add that sentence... The Twins have to get their nails done! Aw, you're welcome! (Even though you thought I was my 'Twin'... lmclao)
Matrix Agent Smith: Oh. Smith, definetley. Don't you think?
Megami: Stop! You're making me want a sundae... It's been sooooo looooong since I've haaaaad one!
Kit: You learn things at school? Woaaaaaah...
Bubblesnap: 'course I do... I talk to Kit on MSN... little slave driver that she is... :)
Megami: I know, the question was just so out there, waiting for me... hee hee... Well, it's good that you cried! That means the chapter's effective... seeeeee? It almost made me cry the 2nd time I read it, if that makes you feel better...
Twinlady: Awwww! Thanks! *hugs* I like rambling. Rambling is good, rambling is your friend.... hee hee! Anyway, ummmmmm... You see, Persephone likes them. In a sexual kind of way. And she raped Adrian, and would have Aidenn, too... But he got saved... *blushes* now you see?
Kit: Oh, I know I'm evil... weird, I typed that just as the song I'm listening to said it... *sniff* I'm so cruel...
939597: Thanks! It's a compliment to me, as a 'writer' when my chapters have the desired effect... even if it is making people bawl their little faces off...
Kit: Weeeell.... then I think, for the sake of all the people who would otherwise be dead, it's good you're NOT in their position... lmclao...
There was no pain this time, just a huge swirl of blue light that slowly faded to green. After a few minutes of total disorientation they realized that they had materialized in the middle of His restaurant. Everyone was staring at him. They felt something inside themselves, and grinned at each other. They could ghost again. So they did, ignoring the shrieks of the unsuspecting patrons and He himself. They reappeared in their suite. After a few minutes of looking around, glad to be back, Aidenn was suddenly aware of something. He collapsed on the couch, clutching the shoulder that had been stabbed.
"Aidenn! Ghost! Heal!" Adrian sounded frantic.
"If...that...worked...it would have...before..." He gasped.
"Let us look at it..." Aidenn tried to squirm away from his Twin's prying fingers, but Adrian held him firmly. "It's infected. Badly. We have to get us to a hospital."
Aidenn's eyes got even wider in terror. "No! No, we can look after us, or a programmer, or... Not a human!"
"It's too late for that, now. We must have been so close to being human for so long, this must be a...a side effect or something. Come on. We have to."
Aidenn nodded, weakly. He knew his Twin was right. He didn't like it, but it was true. As soon as he felt his Twin's arms around him he allowed himself to fall into unconsciousness...
(Wow! I just realized, that's the first unconsciousness in this Fic! There was this on RPG I was doing, in which I was Mouse, and I must have spent over half of it knocked out... It was crazy! Every two lines... *passes out*... I should post that RPG, think I have it saved somewhere... Anyway, you may now continue...)
When Aidenn woke up, he had no idea where he was. It was a very, very white room. It was so white, it was hurting his eyes. But where were his sunglasses? What had happened? He next noticed that he wasn't wearing his coat, tie, shirt, pants or vest. He appeared to be wearing some sort of pastel tunic, disturbingly decorated in tiny pink flowers... Was this some kind of joke Adrian was playing on him? He felt a sudden pain in his hand. Examining it, he found that a needle was stuck into it, held in place with tape of some sort. A tube stuck out of the needle. He followed the tube with his gaze, and discovered it ended in a sort of plastic sack full of a yellowish fluid. Suddenly he remembered... His shoulder. The infection. He must be in a hospital... He allowed his eyes to roll around the room. A middle aged, plumpish woman in white was standing on the other side of the pale green room with her back to him. But where was Adrian?
At the same time, Adrian was fighting with the receptionist nurse. As he wasn't human, he had no ID. Which meant that he couldn't prove he was related to Aidenn. Which, apparently, meant he couldn't go and see him. Stupid S.A. Dist. Hospital... But it was the closest one... He was wont to threaten her, in case it should effect his Twin, and he couldn't ghost, obviously. Maybe if he went to the bathroom he could ghost...
"Well, fine! If you won't let me see my brother, won't you at least tell me where the bathroom is?" He eventually managed to find it, even with her hopelessly complicated directions.
Aidenn lay, staring, at the woman's back for several minutes, busily pulling the needle out of his hand. It finally came free just as she turned around.
"Well! I see we're awake! That's good. But, oh oh, naughty naughty, we seem to have pulled out our IV!"
'Why,' wondered Aidenn. 'Is she speaking to us as if she was our Twin? Where is Adrian? How soon can we leave?' He looked at his shoulder. It was covered in a neat white bandage, stained with a little fresh blood. He seemed to remember having heard that having something infected bleed was a good thing...
The nurse pranced over, shoved the needle back in his hand so quickly that he flinched, and smacked his head lightly. He gave her an absolutely incredulous look. What kind of hospital was this?
"Well, we can't have you doing that again, now can we?" The nurse smiled down at him.
He was tempted to reply, 'Oh yes we can!' in the same horrible, gushing voice, but he didn't.
"Nurse!" yelled the nurse.
He glanced up, expecting to see another of the same motherly kind of woman, but instead one, no TWO, enormous males in the same uniform as the other nurse entered. He bulged his eyes at them, wondering what in the Matrix was going to happen next. He only later realized that he was shivering.
"Give him 20 cc's of Midazolam, to stop him from taking his IV out again."
The other nurses, who looked like football players, nodded. One of them came back with a syringe, ready to inject. Aidenn was having none of this. A sedative? No. A) they did weird things to his code. Like making him giggle spontaneously. B) he needed to be alert, and C) Adrian would make fun of him. He aimed a kick at one of the nurses, forgetting the blanket on top of him. Which was tucked at the bottom He managed to sort of raise his knee, but as a kick it failed. He tried to thrash the needle away, but one of the 'nurses' grabbed both his arms, pinning him to the bed, while the other injected him. His last real thought was 'Oh we hope Adrian doesn't see us like this...' Then the world got blurry...
Adrian, having finally found the bathroom, then had to wait for one of the stalls to empty. At long last, he shoved into one of the stalls, ghosted, and sighed his relief. He was out to find his Twin. He first tried searching for his Twin's mind, but after failing to find it figured he must still be asleep. He drifted into the floor, reappeared in the receptionist's desk, and glanced at the open book with the room numbers in it. Luckily, the book was open to the page with his brother's name on it. Room 222. He glanced around to get his bearings and zoomed off through the floor.
Meanwhile, at the Chateau, the programmer had been told to search the Twins' room for suspicious looking disks. He had been just about to give up when he found a gold disk under one of the Twins' pillows. It was unmarked. He grabbed it, and made his way with it back to his employer. This could be just the thing to make the Boss appreciate him enough not to kill him. He knocked on the study's door, and stood, waiting. In the Chateau, only the Twins could just barge in without knocking. Without being severely, severely punished. At last, the Master's voice, ever commanding, called him in.
"Ah, you have found a disk?" The Merovingian said, noticing who had entered.
"Yes sir. It looks important."
"Where did you find it?"
"Under one of their pillows."
"Which bed?"
The Programmer was getting a little freaked out by all the questions. He hadn't paid attention to which bed, and besides, he couldn't tell the Twins apart... "Um..."
"Oh well, that doesn't matter. Go run it through one of the supercomputers, see what it does."
The Programmer nodded and left the room, barely containing his relief. He made his way to the computer room, past the one computer that was always occupied, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, sucking in any information that may have interest for the Merovingian. He walked to the computer just for running human-programs, as in programs that have a physical body. He slid the gold disk into the slot, double clicked the little icon that popped up, and noticed that this was, indeed a human-program disk. He still couldn't figure who or what it was, so he decided to risk launching it. He set the launch coordinates to one of the programming cells, and pressed enter...
Antoine found herself alone, in yet another cell. She remembered everything, right up until her deletion. She immediately began searching for Adrian and Aidenn... After almost half an hour, she found a very weak link coming from... the hospital? She checked again, just to be sure. It was so faint she couldn't speak to them, or even find out what was wrong.
After all this, she allowed herself to examine her surroundings. "We know where we are!" she said, aloud. She recognized it from Aidenn's story. This must be one of the programming rooms. Which meant... something... What was it? Her memory hadn't quite finished restoring. Then she remembered. 'The disk...' the night before, she had snuck out of the bedroom, hacked into the Twins' computer, and copied herself onto a disk. Just in case. She didn't want Aidenn, or Adrian, for that matter, to be hurt. She had left it under Aidenn's pillow, sure they would find it... But she was here. Someone else must have found the disk... But who? Would they let her out? She was so used to not being able to ghost that she didn't even try.
The Programmer, when he first saw who had appeared, rubbed his eyes a few times, to make sure he wasn't imagining things. No, it did indeed appear to be the Backup, Antoine. The Master should know of this...
Adrian found Aidenn's room fairly easily, but when he tried to stick his head up through the floor to check for staff, he discovered that there were two burly male nurses holding his screaming, thrashing Twin down. He quickly popped back in to the floor before Aidenn saw him. There was no way he could help him, and besides, it was just an injection. Probably antibiotics to help him recover, nothing he was about to stop. He waited for a while, then he discovered that there was quite a bit of space between the floor of Aidenn's room and the roof below. He unghosted, so he could hear what was going on above. It was very hard to hear when ghosted. Aidenn seemed to have gone silent, but the nurses were still there. He waited.
The Merovingian almost ran down to the programming level, just to see her with his own eyes. Yes, it was the Backup, indeed. "Let her go. I still wish to hire her."
The programmer nodded, and threw back the heavy bolt. Almost instantly, a slender hand emerged from the room, pushing open the iron door. Antoine stepped out, and immediately realized she could ghost. So she did. After a few minutes of drifting around, she remembered the Twins. She landed on the floor right next to the Merovingian, startling him.
"Where are the Twins?"
"At the hospital."
So she had been right. But, "Why?"
"One's shoulder got infected, and ghosting wouldn't heal it."
She blinked at him calling Aidenn One, but realized that he must not know their names. "I have to go to them."
He nodded. "But first: you never did answer my question earlier. Will you work for me as a bodyguard?"
She nodded, quickly, not really thinking. "I need to know how to get there." She started tapping her foot, she was so anxious.
He waved to the Programmer, who began typing something on a nearby computer. Immediately Antoine found a map with a gold line leading to the hospital in her mind. She started running down the hall.
"The Parkade is that way. Take whatever you want, they don't need keys."
She turned and started running in the direction he had pointed.
At last, Adrian sensed that everyone was out of the room, so he emerged. To his horror, he found Aidenn just lying there, staring at nothing. Every so often he would start giggling. As if he had been... "Aidenn! Did they sedate us?!" He almost screamed this. He had to get his brother to ghost. He knew that his shoulder was now healed, or healed enough for the ghosting to take effect. He tried to establish a mental contact with his Twin, but everything was so slow, it was hard to reach him. Just then he noticed something. Someone else was trying to make contact with him. Could it really be her? This gave him an idea. Trying with all his strength to connect with Aidenn, he screamed into his mind 'AIDENN! Antoine's coming! Ghostghostghostghost!'
Aidenn could hear his Twin, barely, as if he was very, very far away. It just took too much effort to listen, let alone answer... Until he heard him yelling about Antoine. With a huge burst of will, he gathered himself together, and ghosted. He felt perfect. He watched as the hole in his shoulder glistened and vanished. He grinned, showing his now pointy teeth, as his brother ghosted beside him. Unfortunately, he was still wearing his hospital gown. Then they heard footsteps right outside the door. There wasn't even time to escape to the floor. Aidenn just allowed himself to drop to the bed, but Adrian was just standing in the middle of the room as the nurse came in.
She looked around in complete bewilderment for several minutes before noticing that Aidenn's IV was out again. This seemed to be something she could focus on. Ignoring Adrian for the moment, she stepped forward to shove it back in. Aidenn, however, was having none of this. With a grin at his Twin, he ghosted and allowed himself to sink through the bed into the floor. The Nurse screamed, turned to look at Adrian, but found that he was already gone. She fainted.
The Twins zoomed happily through the walls of the hospital, eventually landing on the ground outside. They paused to shake their dreads out, and then they heard the sound of an approaching motorcycle. They knew it was Antoine. They ran forward to meet her. All three of them were laughing and sobbing and hugging. They were together again, like they belonged. Antoine laughed especially hard at Aidenn's gown, until he turned pink, then she explained about the disk. After that, the Three just stood there, looking at each other, not speaking. Or at least not out loud.
THE END