Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:36:18 EDT
From: J
Subject: ALEX RIDER AND THE TOMORROW PERSON  1

Chapter One:
Alex Rider Ride Him
"We met accidentally. He was on a mission to find out about a strange new
group of super telepaths, supposedly threatening British Isle Security. I was
just trying to cope with being, for a time, the most mundane of that super
telepathic group, the Tomorrow People.   He was 19 now, tall, built, super  hyper...
I didn't stand a chance. I fell in love immediately....there he was...a white
grizzled monster of  a man, skeletal  face, bony legs and arms...in shorts no less
...standing in Alex's bedroom in his new  home."
"I'm going to kill you."   The monstrosity with the red tinted glasses
pointed a strange gun at me.  Being a Tomorrow Person for just about six months, I
was able to ascertain that  it was a ray gun of some kind.
I turned over in bed. I looked at the gun. My name's  Dimitri. I'm Italian
American on my mum's side, Russian on my Dad's side. I'm  also sort of
unflappable and sorta normal. Well, if you don't count the ability  to read other
Tomorrow People's minds, the ability to lift objects with my  mind---but I'm not
very good at either just yet, and oh yeah, the most  important, the
capability of vanishing from one place to another in short bursts  unless aided by the
bio computer TIM--then I can jaunt as it's called to any part  of the Earth I
want.
"Why do you want to kill me? I mean yeah, you probably know about me, the
special powers and all that, but really, I'm not really a threat to anyone...
least  of all someone like you. I don't even know who you are, sir."
"It doesn't matter. All that matters is that he's in love with  you."
"He? Who?"
"You know!"  He spat.  Literally.
"Alex? Oh, him. I'm just in love with him. I don't think he really loves
me, you know. I mean how could anyone not fall in love with him? I betcha you
are, aren't you?"
"I am not!"  He pointed the  gun closer at the bed, making it aim at my face
some more, as if the gesture of  waving it closer would make me change my
mind. "He ruined all my plans! All of  them! He killed all of my clones, killed
all..."
My face broke the unflappable mode. "Killed? Alex's killed?"  Oh, one thing
about us Tomorrow People.  We can't kill. I didn't even before being a
Tomorrow Person. Escaping Russia had  been a bitch with the help of other Russian
Tomorrow People and with help from  Tomorrow People from around the world and
other more advanced telepaths...but  while some of the more advanced ones could
kill, Tomorrow People can't and won't  or won't and can't. That face, that
Alex could kill and may have even chosen to  kill in the past, threw me.
"Oh yes, killed all my chances. All my dreams..."
Typical world conquest kind of guy then. I'm glad Alex stopped him. I  looked
the laser gun. "Oh well. I guess if you have to."
The villain stared. "I will."
"Okay, then,"  I shrugged,  "I'm ready if you are."
Outside, Alex was listening with one of his ear devices. He was also far
across the street on the roof of a very gothic cathedral. Yeah, he lived on the
same street as an old giant church.  It was really cool.  His  house keeper,
live in guardian, Jack no  longer lived with us. She moved out the  week I
moved in. I told her she could stay but she decided not to. I love her.  She's so
nice. Alex loves her, too. She comes over three times a week on  different
days. I'm about to die, did I mention that?
Alex's ear piece made him overhear the conversation. If I could imagine  how
he looked, I'd say he looked nervous. His motto was not to let em see him
sweat but he was sweating now. For he did so love me. At least, I thought he
did. Or perhaps it was the thought of one of his adversaries killing something
that was his or something that he had to protect. For my dear, blond, brown
eyed---and sometimes they looked hazel---super spy could be, rather, uhm, cold
when he needed to be. He wore a bomber jacket and it was green I think. He
took  out a crossbow and fired it at the double doors of his elaborate and modern
 home. The crossbow arrow flew across the street, a thick wire from the
device to  the arrow. Alex put the crossbow fire mechanism around a thick metal
pole on the  church rooftop. Probably some kind of  satellite for the nuns and
priests to watch cable. He slid across the  wire using a black strap from his
jacket pocket. He had no time to waste. Feet  first he crashed into the doors
and they flew open, he put his feet behind him  and his heels fired rockets of
some kind. This propelled him into the villain  facing me.
Alex and villain hit the bed. I vanished. Which is the proper thing to do
when in such a situation. I appeared where the white monster man had stood a
moment ago. "Alex?"
Alex jumped up from tying up the monster man. "Dimitri?"
"Here,"  I waved, "Hullo. I  knew that you'd go to bed with another man
some day but I didn't think he'd be  so much older than you..."   I  laughed.
Alex looked at the monster, "Ewl,"  he jumped off the bed, the ray gun in
his hand.  I  watched as he jumped into me, bodily. Body to body. He put the ray
gun  between us and hugged me.
I wanted to say something about is that a ray gun in your pocket but it  just
seemed so cliche. So he said something cliche first, "I love you so  much."
I wanted to say ditto but he humped me against the wall.
"Now,"  he said when we were  done, oh, and oh yeah, the authorities from
UNIT or MI6 or whoever, took away  the old monster man.   "I want  you to get
out."
"What?" I said, dazed. "You're kicking me out?"
"Yeah."
"Al...why?"
"You're impossible. Useless in a scrap. You've had my house invaded by an
enemy of mine."   Alex went to  a cabinet and took out a soft drink. He tossed
one to me and opened another.  "I'm 19 now. I've been in this business for
over what? Six years? I've got more  enemies than you have Tomorrow People
friends. Find someone among them to have  your fun with."
I swallowed. "Fun with? Is that what we have? Were having?"
Alex turned to the wall, "Yeah. Just that, nothing more. Or did you  think..."
 he turned to look at me,  "Did you seriously think..." that Brit accent. That
does it to me, me thinks.  "That I, Alex Rider, could possibly love someone
like you? Such a loser like  you?"
I felt stung. Tears came to my eyes. "I..."
"Is that all you can say? Look, it'll happen again. Another crazed lune
will find where I live, try to kill me maybe. Maybe will kill anyone else here.
That's why I wanted Jack out of here, not cause she was cramping the great sex
I  was giving you..."
"Giving me?"
"Yeah, course I was. Someone like you. A virgin. Had to feel sorry for  you."

I nodded, "You know, Alex you can be a real bastard  sometimes..."
Alex looked at me. Cold eyes. "Not buying it are you?"
I felt tears come down my cheeks. "Not a word. Fuck face."
"I want you to leave."
"Make me!"  I shouted, "You  make me!"
"Not a problem,"  Alex came  right up to me, put the soda down on the white
tile floor and grabbed both my  forearms. "Come here  you."  He brought me to
him again and our  bodies touched.
"I love you so much,"  Alex  repeated, "I can't ever  lose you."
"If I die, it is my choice,"  I said into his mouth and then poured my
tongue into it as well.
We ended up, both totally nude, snuggling after our sex. I floated in his
arms, then he behind me, floated into a land like no other. We went to a place
beyond time, beyond the harsh realm of his world, a world where at age 14 he
was  enlisted to be a super spy, secret agent kid to replace his slain uncle...
and as  it turned out he later discovered his father and mother...his world was
cold and  hard. He made me hard. My world was much the same and yet different.
The  Tomorrow People made it warm and hopeful. I didn't know how we could make
it  together but we would. We had to. I just didn't know how long it would
last. We  both had several different worlds pulling us in separate different
directions.  Could we last as a couple? Could we face each other? I was damned
sure willing  to try. And he...?  Softy that he was  underneath. He could never
kick me out. Or hurt me physically.
"My world, the only one I care about, IS you. You are my world. Without  you,
this Earth that you save so much means nothing. All my growing  powers..."
"Just interested in one growing power you have right now...."
"...mean nothing. I don't want to live without you."
"...nor I without you...."

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