A Little Confused~ The Kat White Legacy (Chapter 10!!)
Medagic:
When I was first writing about Heidi, it got a little annoying cause it was like: "Kat picked up the cat" or "the cat rubbed Kat's legs" and it just bothered me soo much. It was at that point I started to regret naming her Kat, lol.
Medagic:
Chapter 9
Kat watched as the CleanBot 3000 made its way to the old newspapers she hadn’t bothered to pick up.
That thing made things around the house so much easier! Admittedly, she hadn’t really expected it to do much of anything, but she must have underestimated it and Henry. So, despite a little reluctance, she decided it might be beneficial to at least try the newest thing her husband had bought.
It was called SmartMilk. It was for toddlers to help their little minds grow by adding extra vitamins…or something like that. Kat hadn’t really read the instruction manual, but with only a few buttons on it (one of which being “Make SmartMilk”), it seemed awfully straight forward.
She pressed the big “Make SmartMilk” button and watched as the machine spun and emitted a pretty blue-green glow. Huh, she thought to herself, this is easy enough.
The machine stopped whirring, and it opened up its top, letting Kat reach in and grab a bottle. She looked at the bottle triumphantly. Aha! She had mastered the machine!
She promptly took the bottle to Felix who was happily playing with his favorite toy: a little toy robot Henry had bought him (What was with that man and machinery??).
Felix reached eagerly for the bottle, which reminded Kat of the days he was just a little newborn, clutching at the bottle’s sides with his tiny hands. Picking up an old bottle that had been left there from a previous meal, she left to throw it out. When she came back, she gasped.
“HENRY!!”
Henry was instantly in the doorway.
“What’s the matter?”
“What did you do to my son?!” she yelled, indicating Felix who was glowing the same blue-green the SmartMilk maker was only moments before.
Henry stared for a moment before, “Woah.”
“Yeah, woah is right!” she exclaimed, slightly hysterical.
“It’s okay, it’s okay,” he assured her. “I’ll read the manual and figure out what’s going on.”
Henry went to the kitchen to retrieve the manual which was thrown carelessly into the drawer. Kat followed, biting her lip to refrain from any more comments. He flipped through a few pages before stopping to read.
“Aha! ‘Side affects: glowing… Glowing is common and usually temporary.’”
“’Usually temporary’? What does it mean by ‘usually’?” Henry shot her a look and she quieted.
“’Glowing reappears with each usage of SmartMilk.’”
“Oh,” Kat said, relaxing a little. “Then we’ll stop using it!” Henry gave her another look.
“That’s ridiculous. So he glows a little. That hardly matters. It’ll wear off after a little while, and if it helps him learn, isn’t that a small price to pay?” he reasoned.
Kat sighed, and looked reluctantly at the SmartMilk maker. “I suppose you have a point… I guess a little glowing doesn’t matter in the long run.”
…
Slowly, Kat got used to the strange glow Felix released after drinking the SmatMilk. It did help him learn, after all. Kat was still extremely proud when he first stood…
…and took his few steps.
The fact that he glowed hardly mattered.
Whether it was the SmartMilk or just Felix himself, he learned quickly. Learning to speak was easy enough.
And even the dreaded potty training was overcome quickly, with a few speed bumps, of course.
…
It was dark, but Kat wasn’t on the same street that had become familiar to her. She couldn’t see at all, but she felt like she was moving, like she was in a car. Was she?
Voices were coming from somewhere in front of her, but they were muffled. The two voices were having an argument, it sounded like.
After a few moments of dizzy confusion, Kat became aware that her hands were bound together with rope and her mouth was taped. She struggled, but it was no use. Her head pounded and her legs felt shaky. Leaning against some boxes, she simply sat until she jerked forward; the car had come to a stop.
There were raised voices and banging. Suddenly, the vehicle started and threw her against some crates. Her head screamed with pain and she felt a warm liquid slithering down her cheek… Then the arguing faded…
Then Kat saw her face. No, it was a picture of her on a flyer.
Missing:
Sabrina Snow
Last seen 9/17/07
That was nearly a year ago…
Kat jerked awake to a loud thud. She scrambled out of bed, strangely thinking of rope and duct tape. As she entered the front room, she stood in stunned silence. Henry was on the floor.
“Henry!” she said in a surprised whisper. Then louder, “Henry!” She rushed to him and lay her hands on his chest. There was a rise and fall of his chest, each even and slow. Then he let out a great snore. He was asleep!
“Henry, wake up!” she said loudly, while she shook him a little. He woke, and she took a few steps back. Slowly, he lifted himself up off the ground, looking a little disgruntled.
He sat up and rubbed his eyes. “What the…?” he murmured groggily.
“Um… You were sort of asleep on the floor,” Kat said. Henry turned, seeing her for the first time.
“I was ‘sorta of” asleep?” he questioned.
Kat giggled, covering her grin with her hand. “I found you cold on the ground, snoring,” she laughed.
Henry gave a little chuckle before groaning at the terrible headache he suddenly had. “I think,” he said, wincing a little in pain, “I’m going to go to sleep.” He rubbed his head. “In my own bed,” he added.
Kat watched him stumble into their bedroom before putting on her coat. It was about one in the morning, and there were blankets of snow on the ground. There was no way she was going to fall asleep now that she was wide awake, either.
Stomping through the snow, she went all the way around to the back of the house. There she put together a pile of snow, smoothing it out as she went.
She smiled as she piled the snow higher, admiring how it shimmered in the moonlight. And yet…she felt a little empty. As if she was missing something, missing some clue. What the clue led to she wasn’t sure, but it had something to do with the dreams she’d been having. The problem was: she couldn’t remember anything from those dreams. She placed a third ball of snow on the other two, smiling hollowly at it.
She could only remember a few things from her dreams: darkness, the name Sabrina, and duct tape and rope. How they were related, Kat wasn’t sure. There were big pieces she was missing, she knew. But if she kept waking up not remembering anything, she wouldn’t be able to discover anything. Kat finished off the snowman, adding sticks, a broom, a scarf, a hat, a carrot, and a coal smile. She frowned. It looked like every other snowman in the world.
Kat shook her thoughts away from her. Dreams or no dreams, she was going to enjoy the silent beauty of the night. She collapsed in the snow and started to make a snow angel, vaguely wondering if there was anyone else in the world out in the snow at that moment.
~
steelguy:
Yay! Update!
Glowing kids! Cleanbots! Snowmen!
:D:D:D
Medagic:
Wow! Time flies by fast, doesn't it? It has certainly been awhile since an update, but, fear not! I'll have one up tomorrow!
Glamily:
wonderful story!
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