A Quiet Groan of Change

[Allen]

the image gets cut in half and i race over to meg and prisma, i put my hands over them and start to heal them. "come on meg... wake up...". i glance towards the fight, i wouldnt be any help to them..... i frown, those people were red infinity operatives, why would they try and save these two..., i shake my head not caring, just as long as meg was safe\

[Cosette Hugo]

Cosette read on for the men. SOme had passed into slumber while others sat intently and listened. They hung on ever word she uttered. She had read up to the part where no one would admit Jean ValJean because of his past. All rejected him. He was desperate.

~Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found himself in the garden. He approached the hut; its door consisted of a very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter from the cold. This sort of dwelling is not usually occupied at night. He threw himself flat on his face, and crawled into the hut. It was warm there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so fatigued was he. Then, as the knapsack on his back was in his way, and as it furnished, moreover, a pillow ready to his hand, he set about unbuckling one of the straps. At that moment, a ferocious growl became audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in the darkness at the entrance of the hut.

It was a dog's kennel.

He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags.

He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manoeuvre with his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as la rose couverte.

When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, "I am not even a dog!"...~

She read on but those words stuck with her. Sometimes she felt just like the main character. He gave and gave of himself and yet in the end he dies sacrificing himself for another. Was that to be her end as well?

[Phillippe Montaille]

"Please! Please! Zere is no need to fight! Xavier, I am disappointed in you, zese are our allies, you must not instigate such zings!"

[Tensuo]

Tensuo continues looking at the screen of Koto's laptop.

"H... How does this work? I don't understand..."

He notices the symbols on what appear to be buttons, but he knew not of their purpose.

[Grove]

Grove smiles as he holds Roane.

"We won't have to leave the treehouse. We can just take it with us..."

He was sure she remembered when Grove transported the entire base several thousand miles away.

[Oogie Boogie]

I start to get mad. "Thats it!" I yelled. I twirled around on one foot. I swung throwing my exploding dice at Allen. It exploded before blasting Meg and Prisma back in the roulette pit. Allen was knocked toward a wall. "You ain't going no were! HAHAHAHAH!!" I laughed with glee. I made a forcefield over the roulette arena not letting anyone in the pit. "Shock! You better not fail or else!" I yelled. I also put a forcefield over Lock, Shock, and Barrel so the undead can't touch them. A cage dropped on Allen trapping him while he is down. It took him to the celing, hanging next to Kahn.
"No, one will escape alive!" I yelled as suddenly another razor roulette wheel came down to slice Faust.

[Paris]

"Whatever. Phillippe, I'll pick you up at 7:00 tommarow. I am looking forward to our date." I said smiling as I winked at him and left. I ignored Karina and Xavier those filthy not a very nice persons. I exited the base and went into my helicopter. It flew back ot my mansion, where i got ready to go to bed. I yawn. "Its been a long day!" I said changing. I lay in my king-sized bed and fell alseep

[Roane]

I have not had a real home in so long. And even if you could not I...anywhere with you would be home Grove.

She turns to look around the treehouse. She had heard someone probably another member. She shrugged it off.

I just wish I knew what Tovio was thinking. What he had said with Iivari you know? You would think he would have told us something by now...

Roane likes it when Grove holds her. She feels safe and secure. She had not had that before meeting him. Even in Grants arms she never felt like this.

[Grove]

"Yes. I too wish to know what Tovio talked about with him."

He already knew, but he wondered what Tovio would say.

"But we should not worry about it too much. I say we go somewhere to help mother."

[Phillippe Montaille]

Mental note, do not be in the vicinity tomorrow.

"Er... yes, well, not zat zat is all taken care of, I probably should be returning to la hopital to check on our comrades. Au revoir."

I walk out and begin walking towards the hospital. Digging out my cell phone I dial Cosette's number and wait for her to pick up.

[Roane]

Roane gets this happy look in her eyes.

Oh yes. But what shall we do? I mean there is so much we could do. I...I have an idea. The parks that have been decimated. they still need work. We could fix them. Make them beautiful again. And people will then see them and realize that there is so much to try to protect!! Or if you have an idea...

Roane bites her lip.

[Grove]

"Hm..."

Grove stands.

"That is a good idea. How about we alter it a bit though. What would you say to going to one of the recently destroyed cities and planting a forest in its place?"

[Cosette Hugo]

Cosette had reached the end of the chapter when her phone rang. She was ashamed she had not turned it off. You were suppose to in a hospital.

"Excuse jeh, gentlemen."

She walked outside and answered her phone.

" Allo?"

She was outside when she saw Phillippe walking towards the hospital a ways away.

[Phillippe Montaille]

*In French*

"Allo? Cosette? This is Phillippe. I am going to the hospital right now, would you like to meet me there?"

[Roane]

Roane moves and straddle Grove where he sits and holds him in a tight embrace.

That my love is brilliant! Instead of a horrid gray landscape full of concrete and buildings polluting the air we will have life giving trees soft grass to sit and lay upon. Flowers to assault our eyes with beautiful colors and aromatic scents. We can make a garden of eden!!! Or i just get too carried away.

She laughs still holding him close.