ALIVE

S7-132: FAMILY OF LIES PT 2

20 years ago*

Sitting in the corner of the house, Melisa wrote continuously. It had been months since what happened to Simon on the cliff, during that lost time, Melisa wrote to him.

While writing, Melisa heard running around the house. It was the kids, Matthew and Olivia, they were around the age of five. The two were inseparable, but lately they'd argue a lot more than usual.

Coming from the hallway where the rooms were, a young girl, with long flowing blond hair, walked over to her mother.

"Mom, the twins woke up the baby." The young girl spoke, but her mother did not oblige. Growing frustrated, the girl takes the paper from Melisa, bowling it up, throwing it across the room. "Claire!?" Melisa shouted in anger, and confusion.

"Is this what it's going to be like? You writing to your dead lover, while I take care of the kids, and your new profound baby?!" Claire yelled back, matching her mothers pitch.

The twins sat still, embracing the tension that came from Melisa and Claire.

"Writing is the best that I can do, I have nothing left." Melisa calmed down. Claire was practically shaking with anger. "You know, now I can see why dad hated you all these years, you don't love anybody but yourself." Claire said what was on her mind.

Coming behind Melisa, the twins held her hand. "I don't love myself, I love you, and the twins."

Claire chuckles. "What about Aliyah?" Melisa Hesitated before answering. "I love her too." She forced a smile on her face, but behind her eyes hid fear. "Bullshit." Claire let out. "Don't curse in front of the kids." Melisa demanded.

"Since she came home, you haven't come to visit her in her bed. Every morning and every night I sing to her, hold her, hoping you'd come and give her the love she deserves." Claire stated.

"I can't.." Melisa said in a slight whisper. "Why?" Claire asked. "She's just like her father." The words left her mouth, hitting Claire in the gut. "Her father?" Something clicks in Claire head.

"I mean your father." Melisa corrected herself. "She's Simon's isn't she?" Claire's words shined through Melisa.

Present time*

"Looks like they ran into trouble." Claire yelled out, as she traced her fingers around the blood on the floor.

"There was signs of a fight upstairs as well." A man says, walking down the stairs. "Who's room?" Claire asked. "Melisa's." The man answered.

After the sound of a phone ringing flooded their ears. Picking it up, Claire spoke. "Hello?"

"I believe I know who you are looking for." A female voice sounded over the phone. "Who is this?" Claire asked, looking over at the man. "A friend of your fathers, tell Simon Hannah says hello." Claires face switches from serious to nervous within seconds.

"Go to New York, find an apartment on main, apartment 29, that's where you'll find your siblings. I find you'll take this information and use it wisely." The line clicks, and no one is heard.

Standing in the middle of the living room of Melisa's house, Claire felt the air around her thinning. "Claire?" Simon spoke. Gulping down her anxiety, she finally told him the killing line. "It was a women, she knew you and my dad." Claire tried to catch herself. "She told me where we can find the twins."

Without letting Simon speak, she walked out of the house, Quickly, hoping to find her siblings, not realizing she find more than that.

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Ringwood*

Searching aimlessly for her daughter, Aliyah felt dread spilling over her body. She felt that she was too hard on Hayden, and wanted to make up for it, hoping to patch things up.

Sitting down on the couch of the study, she felt dumb founded. Coming into the room Alec Anwood sat down next to her. "Why are you here?" Aliyah of universe X sighed. "You've been acting weird lately, are you expecting?" His sudden words cause a form of anger to rise in her.

Aliyah couldn't stand the people of this world, most of them didn't exist in hers. The Maya of this world was nothing but a short coming from hers, and now she was being asked silly questions that peaked her violent streak.

Watching him stand up, she took that as an opportunity to finally rid her from one of the people of this world. Now, all of her training from when she was young would be used.

Getting up from her chair, slowly yet gracefully, Aliyah took out her Stele, placing her arm around Alec's neck.

Since she wasn't like the Aliyah of this world, she had no way of casting spells, nor reviving people. She also had no way of getting the others home, she left all that to Hannah.

As the stele glowed a bright white color,  Alec felt a burning sensation against the skin of his neck. Screaming in pain, he tried to fight back.

Elbowing her in the gut, he managed to get her off of him.

Seeing Maya, and Jason come into the room, Alec kept his guard up. "What the hell is going on?" Maya asked out of frustration, holding her bow.

"She tried to kill me." Alec said, trying to catch his breath.

Getting up, Aliyah cracks her neck, taking the tension off of her body. "Tried?" She scoffed. "No, I am going to kill you, even if I have to take you down with me." A smile curled on her lips as she leaped towards them.

Coming in between Aliyah and Alec, Jason stood in front of her, hoping for a breakthrough. "Stop, please." He pleaded with her.

Aliyah hummed, holding the one thing in her hand that she can use as a weapon. "You may talk like him, and even act a little like him, but you will never be my Jason. Which is why it'll be so easy to kill you." Taking her stele, Aliyah was ready to kill Jason.

Forcing her hand, Maya let go, and soon, Aliyah was dead on the floor. Sighing, she puts her bow down. "Good thing I never miss." She claims, still holding her breath.

Looking down, Jason analyzed the woman that laid out on the floor. "Don't feel bad, she wasn't Aliyah, just some twisted version of her." Maya explained, taking two steps to get to the body.

"Look at her hands." Maya pointed down at the body. "She doesn't have the scar from when she revived Landon." Alec said, remembering the sequence of events that took place that night.

"It doesn't make sense, why didn't we catch on to her?" Jason questioned everything that he thought was real.

Realization hits Maya. "One of us did." They looked at her puzzled.

"Jonathan."