The Beginning Of Rain In December (12 page)

“Don’t even think it,” he commanded, turning towards her. “You are in my head now. Don’t ask me to do that. Don’t you ever ask me to do such a thing.”

“Please, Enlai,” she begged. “Please.”

“Never. No, I will figure out a way, we will stay safe. I will protect you. The future as you see it will not occur. It will not. From the second I heard the voice of our child, the fear, its’ innocence in my head, I made my decision. I am yours, I will protect you, and I will keep you and our child until I die. Do you understand? The decision is out of my hands now; it is out of your hands. I never believed in fate or destiny or God or anything except my loyalty to my country but now…now, there is only fate and only destiny and only God and only you. Do you understand, nothing else for me exists? You are my loyalty; I gave my oath to God if I was to find you and if you were alive.”

“Enlai, we will never be normal. We will never live behind a white picket fence, drop our child off to school, attend PTA meetings, go to church, shop at a store freely. That will never be. They will stop at nothing to hunt me down. And now you. They will kill you. I am not worth your life.”

“No more, Rain, do you understand?” He said anger in his voice, cold hard determination. “No more of this talk of death. We will see the birth of our child and I will see the government in hell before they experiment on you or the babe. Do you understand this?” He bit out. There was no remorse within him for what he was to do, to turn his back on his country for the woman he loved, his child. His destiny was at hand, as was hers. There would be no turning back.

“I understand,” she finally said.

“I am taking you to a safe place only Song and I know about. I must return to London. You are not to leave where I take you. You are not to question. I know you can read my thoughts, do as you please so that you trust me to keep you safe. Do you understand?” He asked.

“Yes,” she said.

“Okay, I’m going to pick up some supplies.” He pulled out a gun from the back of his waist band and laid it on the nightstand next to her. “Shoot first, ask questions later,” he commanded.

She nodded. He softened; she looked so scared, frightened, alone. He pulled her up and she instantly wrapped her arms around his waist, holding him tightly while he hugged her back, rubbing her consolingly. “It is meant to be, Rain. I wanted this. Our child wanted this. You shall see, once you get over the fear. Stop fighting it. I am here.”

She nodded and he pulled away. “I will be back in two hours. Don’t answer the door.”

And with that he left the room.

She took a shower when he left, used the hotel amenities to shampoo her hair, wash her face and brush her teeth. She moisturized her body but kept the towel on and sat on the edge of the chair, closing the blinds to the room and turned on the television, needing mindless entertainment to still the emotions within her.

Enlai returned exactly two hours later. He had her duffle bag in his hands and two other duffle bags and a fast food bag. “How are you?” He asked, as he stared at her beautiful, brown creamy skin, barely hid by the short towel. Her hair lay in waves and curls around her body, she looked refreshed, calmer.

“Better,” she admitted, standing. “What did you bring?” She asked.

He locked the door behind himself. “Guns, supplies, clothes for you, food.” He began, placing the items on the table next to her recently vacated chair. “Milk…prenatal vitamins.” He said.

She nodded, both still in shock, she was pregnant and the baby was already making its presence known. “When do we go to the…safe house?”

“Check out five in the morning. You need to rest, a real sleep. It’ll take about eight hours to get there by car.”

“Where?”

“Utah.”

She nodded again and began placing the food out on the table, opening water bottles and the prenatal vitamins that she took, washing it down with water. Opening a bag of clothing were jeans, underwear, plain black t-shirts and a jacket for her. She also found hygiene products; lotions, deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, Vaseline, facial cleansers, hair bands, hair conditioners, lip gloss, mascara.

“These are all my products I usually use,” she said.

“Like I said, you are in my head now,” he admitted.

“You can read my thoughts?” She asked.

“No…it’s just, when I was at the store, it was as if I was being led to certain items.”

“Oh. I should get dressed.” She said, pulling out the clothes.

“Or I should get undressed,” he returned, still in his slacks, white dress shirt, he had a shoulder holster, the gleam of his gun in the dim light taunting both of them.

Smiling, she felt young and old, happy and sad. “That would be better.” She returned.

He smiled, pulling her into his arms and once again she felt safe, complete, and secure. He kissed her softly and then more and more deeply as she responded in kind.

“I need a shower,” he admitted against her lips.

“I’ll help,” she returned.

They made their way to the safe house at five in the morning, she should be sleepy but was not, she felt settled and watched as he drove with precision, the car cutting through the darkness in silence.

“Sometimes, I think that I am dreaming, this is just a long, involved dream. That I will wake up back in Seattle, go to work, meet up with Belle for lunch.”

“Was Belle your only friend? Your only close friend?” He asked.

“Yes, why?” She returned.

“She’s in danger.”

“What? Why?”

“I know the agency, I am a part of the agency. They will take her and the family and bargain with you. Their lives for yours. I just don’t know when they will become that desperate, but it will happen soon.”

“How can I stop this?”

“Can you…can you go inside her mind, as you did mine, appear before her? I know she is being watched,” he said. “They will have no qualms about killing her, her husband or their children.”

“Why, why do you work for these evil people?” She exclaimed her heart breaking at the thought of anything happening to her friends.

“The agency has changed. We were there, we did this job to protect the country. At all costs. For the past two years there has been a fine, gray line that keeps getting continually crossed. The agency is not what it used to be. More and more of our own citizens are being treated as the enemy. This is all to change the course of history. The United States wishes to be seen as more than just a super power but as a world dominating power. They perceive this dream of perfect living, a utopian society, but to have this utopian society they must destroy our basic human rights, bring everyone into subjection. That is where you start…Lebna told the agency all that he knew, not only about his experiments building weapons of war unlike anything ever seen before but also about his wife’s experiments, with you. She worked for years perfecting the human genome, human DNA. Then she began her true experiments on your mother and you. Your mother thought she was just receiving prenatal care from her mother in law. She was trusting.

But your grandmother knew that her work would bring about the very end of the world. She destroyed all her records, it is rumored that she had her assistants killed. But she left you alive. Then Lebna was taken, she was killed, your parents. You got lost in the system. You got lost and a new division of the agency began in the years when we all immigrated to the United States. A division I did not even know existed until two years ago. They will stop at nothing to create this new world order. And you are the piece of the puzzle that will initiate it.”

“Then how can we stop them?”

“I don’t know. Not yet. But it will take more than just the two of us.”

“I need to warn Belle,” she said.

He nodded, glanced at her briefly as she closed her eyes. He knew instantly when she ‘left’ him, there was an utter stillness to her, and she barely breathed.

It was six in the morning in Seattle, Belle was in the bathroom, wiping her face with a towel, and she looked bleary eyes, sad. Rain knew she woke the children at six thirty, Marc was already gone for the day, and he had to arrive at work at five.

“Don’t be afraid,” Rain said, standing behind Belle.

Belle, screamed, turning towards Rain before her eyes widened in shock, amazement, concern. “Rain!” She cried, going to pull the woman in her arms before she noticed Rain’s form, it was shadows and whispers. Rain but not Rain. “Am I dreaming,” she said breathlessly staring at her best friend in the bright light of the bathroom before terror began. “God, no, Rain, no you’re not dead, tell me, please.”

“I’m not dead, Belle. I’m not. It is too much to tell you and I need you to listen very carefully. This is not a dream. You must trust me and do as I say. I love you but there are very bad people who are hunting for me. I was experimented on as a babe. My DNA changed. This is not a movie, Belle, this is really happening. Do you understand so far?”

“Yes,” she said.

“The government wants my DNA and they will stop at nothing to get it. And with my DNA they will start a new breed of soldiers to destroy everything we hold dear and love. They are watching you now, Belle. You must take you and the children and get out of here, today and Marc. Do not take your car, Enlai will have a vehicle waiting for you at work. You are to drop the babies off at daycare in a taxi. There take another taxi to work. Do not pack anything, no cell phones, no laptops, no clothes, just food for the baby. When you get to work, call Mark from a pay phone and tell him you will pick him up for lunch. When you pick him up for lunch, pick up the kids and drive south to Utah. Do you understand? Belle, I can’t tell you how important this is. Do not use credit cards, no cells, throw out Mark’s when he gets in the car. You must do this, please, you must not question me. Trust me, friend. I would never hurt you or the babies. You are everything to me. But they will kill you and your family, they will use you as a ransom for me. Do you understand?”

“Yes,” Belle said.

“Leave your cell phone at home. Leave the baby monitors. Call a taxi at the last minute. Call Mark and tell him the car won’t start but for him not to worry. Act as normal as possible. Do you understand?”

“Yes,” Belle said frightened, but resolute.

“I will contact you later. If you need me, if something happens, just call me with your mind, use your mind and just think of me really hard and I will help you, I will be there.”

“Okay.”

“Alright, I have to go, I love you, be careful.”

She opened her eyes back into the early light of morning, Enlai still driving.

“She understands?” He asked.

“Yes.”

“When we arrive in Utah, I will give you the coordinates, but I don’t want her to know until the very last minute. There is more.” Enlai said.

“Enlai, I don’t think I can handle any more,” she said softly.

“You must be strong, you have to fight, not only for yourself but for the baby.” He demanded.

“Okay,” she finally said, staring at the passing scenery outside the car window.

“Your grandmother she experimented on more than your mother, she also experimented on willing subjects.” He said.

“There are more? More like me?” She asked.

“Two more.” He said quietly.

She knew then, she knew then why the connection to Enlai was so strong. “You and Song.”

“Yes, but Lebna does not even know this. My parents kept it secret, my mother I told you was a physicist, when she found out she was pregnant she went to your grandmother, she knew of some of her experiments. She was willing to allow your grandmother to experiment on us. Song and I are twins.”

“Why didn’t you tell me? The government does not know?”
“Very few people know. And no one that we work for. Not Lebna, not John. We have always kept our…powers, hidden. That is why we were able to find you. We aren’t telekinetic like you, but there is a connection between us, whatever your grandmother did on you she did on us, but with different results.” He admitted.

“What are you able to do?” She asked.

“I think it would be better to show you,” he said.

He pulled off into a dirt road, traveling for about ten minutes until they spilled out into a deserted clearing where they both got out of the car. She watched expectantly while Enlai watched her, smiling softly. “It’ll be okay,” he said, his smile widening softly.

“Okay, I think I’m ready,” she said.

He smiled again, closed his eyes briefly, winked at her and then took off in the air, flying above her as her eyes widened in shock, awe, as he levitated above her, smiling, looking like a young boy with his first toy. “I don’t have your mind powers,” he said. “But I am able to do this,” he pulled her into his arms and up they flew for hundreds of feet while she screamed in shock, awe, freedom as they whipped through the air going hundreds of miles an hour. She let herself go, trusting Enlai that life was not as she had imagined that she was living in a dream and she would never be able to awaken.