Bitch I'm Psychic

“I should say it’s bad for you and you should only have bits at a time, and why eat that when you can eat chocolate? Chocolate is made from nuts which are a protein and therefor one of the five major food groups.”

Angel sniffled “You should have let me run away, Adria. Then I wouldn’t be stuck with all of this” she sighed, looking into her mother figures eyes “I am just not cut out for this, I don’t have the spirit like all you guys do, you all have this ability to let comments just run off you, I watched an old archive of footage of my mom at the library, someone threw a soda at her when she was giving a speech and she just stood there and continued, didn’t even flinch” she mumbled “I can’t ever be that strong willed, I can’t ignore the comments”

“I value her, and my life far too much for that. Plus have you seen her? What else would I possibly want? She’s my one and only, and I’ll love her and her ass till I die.” 

“Fine? You want honest? I still care for her, okay, sure. You got me. I don’t to see her hurt, I don’t want to see Diana hurt. I don’t want to see Eve hurt. Do I want her back? No, I did my dash decades ago.”  Amelia replied, she was cautious not to seem threatening. She really didn’t want a repeat of last time they had spoken. “She’s Fawna’s daughter, she’s Diana’s sister. What more reason do I need? I’m not here to do that, I know better than to even try. She’d skin me alive even if I tried.”

Adria scoffed, “I can’t trust a word you say. And I never will. I’ll leave it up to her if you get to help, but mark my word. If you step even a toe out of line, if you try anything, if you so much as think anything even remotely like betraying us, I will flay you alive and leave you where no one will ever find you.There will be no where in the world you could hide from me, I will hunt you down if you run. I will kill you if you cross us. Am I understood?” 

“No promises, but my track record could perhaps speak for itself.” Eva smiles back, loving when her sister-in-law allowed for her imagination to run free. “Well I’m thinking I could get you and Angel under some MRI, read your brain waves when you’re able to execute powers to discover what the fundamental difference is.” Eva paused in concern. “However, Angel is still quite young and coming in on her own. Perhaps it’s simply the age that’s the problem?

“It’s Eve. Do I have to say more?” Amelia shrugged, Adria was the last person she wanted to talk to about this. “Because she’s my baby girl’s sister because I don’t want to see her hurt. What do you want me to say?”

“I want you to be honest! My family is on either side of the cutting board, my Fiancee is on the Verge of a breakdown, not to mention I have to hear everyone elses bullshit about this. The people outside are now a constant chatter behind it all. I haven’t slept more than an hour in three days and now you’re here just looking for an excuse to try and snatch Fawna back because she is the best thing to ever happen to either of us,” Adria snapped in one breath, her posture aggressive, “Don’t you dare pretend this,” She waved a hand up and down Amelia’s figure, “Is anything but selfish, you heartless bitch. You have never cared about Eve. You’re here to try and desperately dig your disgusting, manipulative, tar-coated claws into her while she’s vulnerable. Have I left anything out on why I do not, and will never trust anything you say.” 

“I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT IT!” Liberty yelled at the other “ALL I’VE DONE IS THINK ABOUT IT!” She snapped at her, her own tears beginning to roll down her cheeks. “You can be in charge if you like, you or Delia, you’re both ones that have been here the longest, Angel isn’t ready but I just know that she’ll be ready one day, she has Lucky’s powers, she just needs guiding.” she argued when her arm was grabbed “You are not my mom, Adria!” she snapped. “I-I have a plan…” she said weakly,gripping at the other for comfort, showing that she was actually terrified, she then sniffled and looked down “They’ll kill Eve…They will, if we go in there guns blazing, they’ll kill some of us. Why is no one understanding that?” she whispered, shaking her head. “You’re my friend and you may as well be a mom to me, if you loved me, you’d understand that I have a plan. Have some Goddamn faith in me!” At the others last words, her eyes squeezed and she gave a sob “Lucky would know what to do, we need Lucky!” she then burst out crying “I don’t want to die, but I need to”

Adria let Tati cling back, needing the comfort just as much as the other. She could feel all the emotions racking though Tatiana’s mind and she could hear Tati’s motivations. She also knew She should never lead. Power and Leadership corrupted too easily, and Adria knew from experience she walked a fine line when it came to good and evil. 

She knew where the woman was coming from. After Tatiana started fully crying Adria pulled her into a hug, squeezing tightly, her own tears slipping silently down her cheeks, “I love you, Tatiana, but I cannot support you in this... I can’t watch it go wrong. I love both of you, and either way I’m losing family....don’t expect me to be in the crowd, I’ve never handled loss well.” And she released Tati, “Now if you don’t mind, I think Fawna’s going to murder someone if I don’t intervene.” Adria turned to leave before looking over her shoulder, “Good Lucky, American Liberty.” 

“Don’t, I don’t want to hear it.” Liberty said simply as she shoved past the woman “I’m doing what needs to be done” she said simply as if it justified it. “I’m not being talked out of this”

“Tatiana, Listen to me,” Adria started as the other woman moved, “Tatiana I need you to stop for one moment and put down that Righteous Martyr Shtick that you are determined to play for ONe moment to Listen to what I have to say!” She felt her temper sparking and before she could stop it she lurched forward and grabbed Tatiana’s arm,  “You will listen to me young lady. Have you truly thought this through? Seriously? Because if you do this, the Union will fall to chaos. Everything you have done for us, everything Lucky wanted, will vanish. 

“Who will take over? when you’re done playing Messiah and rotting in the ground? Have you decided? Or did you not think about the power war that would eventually happen when our head was cut off? The Union is treading on a knife blade of shattered glass as it is. There are too many egos here. Too many righteous idiots who think they’ll do a better job and none of them like you-” Adria had tears running down her cheeks now, “This...this thing that you’ve decided to do, this is not courage, this isn’t ‘a sacrifice for the greater good.’ This is suicide. This is running away. Surrendering to those monsters, and destroying not only yourself, but the Union as well.” She released Tatiana finally, wiping her eyes. 

She let her anger slip away, feeling the exhaustion she had been fighting back for so long seeping into her form, her age seeming to catch up to her for a moment, “I can’t bury another friend, Tia. Please don’t make me.” 

@thelady-libertyx

The scientist knew she’d never know what it was like to lose one’s powers, herself not possessing any of the sort, but thinking of it as a part of a person’s essence put things into perspective. Like losing a limb or perhaps an eye. It was all on Adria’s frown. “It’s highly plausible,” she encourages. “Hmm, you say Angel is still in her state of power regression? If I could ask that we run some tests, we could gather really valuable information on the matter. With your permission, of course.”

Digging through her thoughts and formulating possible technologies together in her head, she responded carefully. “The best I could tell you is that the technology could exist, but there are a million different hypothesis we could derive from such an experience. If I could’ve gathered data when the loss of powers had happened, it would’ve been a different story.” Worried all of a sudden, Eva carefully wrapped a protective hand around the other’s arm. “Adria, I can’t imagine how difficult that must’ve been.”