Kodiak

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No, the story isn't over and no, he doesn't like Lizzie; it's just a little snippet of how the story might have been if I wrote it differently.

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“Wow. Um, okay, I don’t really know what to say to that.” I hadn’t had any idea that Lizzie really cared that much about me; I mean, we had been best friends since eighth grade, but I didn’t think that I meant that much to her. I guess I was wrong.
“Lizzie, do you actually know where I’ve been and what I’ve done?” Kodiak asked quietly, causing both of us to jump in surprise. Even though he wasn’t talking loudly, his voice pierced through ours like an arrow.
“Well, not specifically, but I can guess.” She added the last part with a great deal of venom; she really did hate him.
“Well, Lizzie, let me tell you where I’ve been and what I’ve done. For the first seven and a half years of my life, I lived with my sister Nymeria in a pack of African wild dogs in Kenya. Then, my father came and found us, branded my sister and I with his symbol and shipped us off to America, where he knew the government would try to kill us.” If the conversation wasn’t so serious, I might have laughed because of the look of sheer astonishment on Lizzie’s face. “When I was almost eight and my sister was twelve, the government captured my sister and I and experimented on us. By this time, we both had human forms, so the government developed these collars to keep us in our human forms and without any of our element-manipulating abilities. Once they had perfected these collars, one a week they would take me to this all-white room and there they would pump me full of chemicals or electrocute me or freeze me or boil me or light me on fire just to see what would happen. Even though I couldn’t die, I most certainly could feel pain.” I grimaced and shuddered, not even wanting to think about how bad that must have hurt. “Every Friday they would take Nymeria away to a different room, and I didn’t know what they did to her until about two months into our captivity.” He paused, looking down at the floor as he searched for words.
“What did they do to her?” I asked. I couldn’t help myself; now that he had mentioned it, I just had to know.
“It turns out that they were raping her,” he answered quietly, his gaze on his feet now. His fists were clenched so tight that they were pure white and I could see the hate clouding his eyes. “She was twelve, and they did it every Friday night for the next ten years that we were there. I tried to stop them, I really did, but I was eight. I couldn’t even take care of myself, much less my sister and I.” He shook his head sadly, then looked up at me again. “It took us ten years to figure out how to escape. When we finally got those collars off, Nymeria went psychotic. She killed every living being in the building through the various methods that they had used on us, like freezing and boiling, but her two favorites were most definitely burning and electrocution. Once she finished creating the worst carnage I’ve ever seen and ever will see, she burnt the government base where we were being held to the ground and walked away without another word.”
Lizzie was completely dumbfounded. She stared at him with her mouth slightly open, blinking quickly as her mind attempted to process it all. Finally she cleared her throat and asked almost inaudibly, “How long ago was this?”
“We escaped in August of last year and have been on the run ever since.” He met her gaze and a small smile quirked his lips at her expression.
“I… I didn’t know Johnson. I’m sorry,” she muttered, dropping her eyes to the floor. Sorry wasn’t something that escaped Lizzie’s lips very often apparently.
“Wait, what was that? Did you just say you were sorry?” Kodiak’s grin grew bigger as he put his hand to his ear in mocking.
“Oh my God Johnson, I’m gonna kick your butt!” Almost laughing herself, she threw a punch at his head, which he dodged easily.
“Wow Liz; slow much?” he asked teasingly, cracking up. He just had the nicest laugh and the best smile…
“If I were actually trying, you would be watching me from the flat of your back with a broken nose,” she answered matter-of-factly, placing her hands on her hips.
“Is that so Liz, is that so?” He smirked at her, his white teeth glinting. Up until now, I had been fine with their banter, but now I was starting to get a little uncomfortable with the way Kodiak looked at Lizzie. I guess I should’ve known that it was only a little while until he too fell for Lizzie, like all guys did, but I didn’t want to think that was an ordinary guy because, well, he wasn’t. Suddenly Lizzie whipped her head to look over at me, a worried expression on her face and her gaze searching my face.
“You honestly think that he and I would...?” she asked my finally, a look of disgust replacing her concerned one. “I wouldn’t date Johnson if he were the last guy left on the planet! And besides,” she added, “he’s got you, and you’re best he’s ever gonna do.” She smiled at me, then said quickly as I opened my mouth, “And if you say that I’m better than you, I’m gonna kick your butt too!”
“Lizzie is completely and utterly right,” Kodiak murmured. “Well, about the fact that you’re the best I’m ever going to do. I’m not really sure about her kicking your butt though; we’ll have to wait and see what happens with that.” He smiled down at me with that perfect grin of his and I wondered how I could have ever thought that he was falling for Lizzie.
“Well, let me take you guys out, considering we – well, I – kind of wrecked this place,” Lizzie finally said after we all just stood in silence for a while.
“To where?” Kodiak asked, taking the words right out of my mouth.
“To the moon,” she retorted sharply, sarcasm oozing from her voice. “To dinner, you dummy!”

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“So, after our three weeks is up, what do we do from there?” I asked Lizzie as I polished off my hamburger. I had driven myself and Ellise and Lizzie had driven herself to a nearby Good Times, where Lizzie had bought us all burgers and fries.
“I don’t know Johnson,” she replied after she swallowed her mouthful of food. She shrugged her shoulders and looked me in the eye; I was glad to see that some of the hate had left her gaze. “All I can do is guarantee us those three weeks.”
“Well, we can’t hide forever since the government’ll eventually find us, but I don’t see any way that we can’t not hide and still stay alive,” I mused, thinking out loud. “Do you have any ideas Ellise?” I turned to look at her and instantly smiled; she made my whole day better by just existing.
However, before Ellise could open her mouth, Lizzie answered for her. “We could take down the government agency that kills immortals,” she suggested, leaning back in her chair and yawning. “Course that would take a good two months to do if we recruited my brothers to help us. Without them, it could easily take a half a year, and I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t wanna waste a half a year of my life on the US government.” Her tone changed to become very bitter as soon as she mentioned the government; that was another thing to add to the list of things she hated, with me being at the top of that list.
“Gwillan and Gruffen, right?” Ellise asked Lizzie. She smiled slightly as she said their names and I instantly wondered who they were.
“Yeah. Biggest pair of dummies I’ve ever seen. Hell, I call ‘em dumb and dumber ‘cause they earned it.” Lizzie smirked slightly as she mentioned them.
“Who’s dumb and who’s dumber?” Ellise’s grin grew bigger; apparently she could see them earning that term too. “I mean, they’re identical, so I don’t know how you’d tell who’s the dumbest.”
“They’re both pretty darn stupid sometimes, so I just call them both dumber,” Lizzie answered, her smirk growing wider.
“So where’d they go to college?” I almost breathed an audible sigh of relief when I heard Lizzie’s brothers were in college; that meant I didn’t have any immediate competition for Ellise that I didn’t know.
“ASU of course. They’re on full-rides playing football, although I think that ASU must need a lot of help if they’re asking my brothers to play for them.” Lizzie shook her head, her grin glued to her face. “Actually, Gwillan and Gruffen are pretty good, but that’s probably ‘cause it’s in their blood.”
“What do you mean?” I hadn’t said anything for a while, since I didn’t want to reveal the fact that I didn’t particularly like Gwillan and Gruffen even though I hadn’t even met them, but her comment had me intrigued.
“Well, our dad is Tom Lighting, the NFL Hall-of-Famer,” she answered. “My brothers kinda had to go to ASU too, since our dad went there and won a Heisman playing cornerback.”
“Your dad is honestly Tom Lightning?” I was stunned, but Lizzie definitely did look a lot like all of the pictures of Tom I had seen.
“No, he’s Babe Ruth,” she shot back, her tone becoming impatient. “Holy crap, you’re giving my brothers a run for their money in the biggest dummy contest!”
“Sorry, just wanted to make sure I had heard right.” Despite her sarcasm, taunting and obvious hatred of me, I couldn’t help but like Lizzie. She was resourceful, intelligent, and nice when she wanted to be and – I wasn’t going to lie – she was gorgeous. Lizzie was five-eleven, dirty blonde, a world-class athlete and permanently tan, with proud golden eyes that I found the most beautiful when she was smiling and an almost blindingly white smile. She had a generally nice personality as well, since she was witty, nice to everyone she wanted to be nice to and always stood up for what she believed in, except for the fact that her favorite words were the most colorful ones. All in all, I found her very attractive, but I had Ellise, and I found Ellise to be the most attractive girl I’d ever seen. Besides, I’d have to compete with about the half the universe if I decided to go after Lizzie.

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“Don’t worry about it Johnson.” Her reply caught me off-guard, and I looked over at her, surprised, to find her eyes twinkling and her smirking still. “I make it my personal job to give you crap, and I’m almost shocked that you haven’t picked up on that yet.”
I opened my mouth and then closed it again, debating what to say. Finally I settled on a simple, “Ok Liz.” Out of the corner of my eye I saw Ellise watching me oddly and decided that I had to clarify that I wasn’t interested in Lizzie.
“Ellise, I’m not interested in Lizzie,” I told her straight-out. “I mean, I’m not going to lie, Lizzie is absolutely gorgeous-” which Lizzie, smirking at me, interrupted with, “Aw shucks, Johnson, thanks for the compliment.” I then continued, “-But you are the most attractive girl I have ever seen and I am absolutely in love with you.”
“Are you serious?” Ellise looked absolutely stunned; I didn’t know why since I thought I had made my feelings for her very clear.
“I’m completely serious Ellise; I thought I had made that clear.” I smiled at her and covered her hand with mine, tracing the delicate form of her long fingers.
“Aww, that’s so cute,” Lizzie muttered, suppressing a yawn, “but we need to get back onto the topic of how exactly we’re going to save our butts. Like I said, we’re gonna need my brothers, whether you like it or not Johnson,” she shot in my direction before continuing, “so I might as well call them as soon as possible.”
“So what exactly are your brothers like?” I asked Lizzie, almost fearing the answer I would get.
“Hmm...” she mused, tapping her chin with one long index finger in thought. “That’s a tough one, since they change a lot.”
“Change what?” I was pretty sure she wasn’t just talking about their appearance, even though they were shapeshifters.
“Viewpoints, opinions, personalities even.” She shrugged, looking at me. “In other words, the only way to tell how they’d react to a situation is to actually put them in that situation since they act so different in different environments and can be downright unpredictable sometimes.”
“Ok.” That didn’t really help my quest to find out about why Ellise said their names so dreamily at all. “What do they look like?”
“Gwillan and Gruffen are identical twins, and they both have pitch-black, naturally semi-spiky, fluffy hair and beautiful golden eyes,” Ellise answered before Lizzie could open her mouth. My hands curled into fists as I listened and realized she was getting all dreamy on me again.
“They’re also 6’8”, completely sexy and have the best eight-packs you’ve ever seen, right?’ Lizzie finished flatly, clearly not amused.
“Um, yeah, something like that,” Ellise agreed, a blush creeping up her cheeks with fingers of pink.
“You are such a typical high school girl,” Lizzie told Ellise, beginning to smirk again. “It seems like all of the girls at EHS that have met my brothers are in love with them. I guess I can’t really blame them though,” she added, much to my surprise. “They are kind of every girl’s dream guy.”
“Hmm…” I was liking them less and less by the minute. “So when are we going to ask them to help us?”
“Right now,” Lizzie answered, pulling out her iPhone and dialing one of them. She put it on speaker and then tapped her foot as she waited for a few rings.
After about the third ring, an unfamiliar voice asked from the other end of the phone, “Hello?”
“Hey Gwil, it’s Liz,” she answered back, setting the phone down on the table so all of us could talk into it if we wanted to. “Just to let you know, I’ve got you on speaker in a Good Times, a’ight?”
“Who else am I talking to?” Gwillan sounded genuinely interested. Maybe he wasn’t as bad as I thought he was…
“Ellise-” Lizzie started, to instantly be interrupted by Gwillan.
“Ah, cool! How you doing, Lise?” I could almost see that perfect little smirk on his face, and all of my thoughts of him being good disappeared.

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