Resurgence

23

We arrived at the bar around six. I was wearing a rainbow striped dress, some white beaded earrings and a pink jean jacket. I was trying to feel beautiful since I now had burn marks on my body and I had stubble on my head due to the fire burning off the chop shop job they did on my hair. Between those things and the loss of my beloved fiance and my child, I was not doing well.

Amy waved us over.

"Hey, yall!" She was smiling. We sat down at the bar. The bartender opened up tabs for us.

"So Jackson, you're finally going to be in the lab with us." Amy was smiling. Oh, that's right. Jackson already finished his time as an Agent.

"I can't wait to show you everything I know." He smiled. "I think you'll enjoy some Helixian science."

Amy chuckled. I ordered a tequila sunrise to start with. I'm getting wasted tonight.

"I'll miss having you on the team." Kyra stated. "I don't think I would have been staying like that a year ago."

Jackson had ordered jack and coke. "Same honestly."

"I missed you guys." Karenina sighed. "Sad that it's a funeral that brings us all together."

"That's how it goes." Grayson remarked as he ordered the flatbread pizza.

I noticed a DJ unpacking his equipment. I then saw a woman with a baby and a man. They were laughing and they kissed. I feel myself tearing up and my lips puckering. I say nothing as I turn around and run off to the bar.

"Erika!" It was Heather. I collapsed into the parking lot, sobbing. I felt like a selfish and petty bitch for sobbing but I'm also so angry that I once had everything and it's all gone, taken from me by an evil vampire. I'm shuddering and taking deep breaths. I then hear a noise.

"But I'm not supposed to leave without my-my-Damn I forgot." It was a girl who clearly looked drunk and a guy trying to get her to his car.

"Shut up, you stupid bitch." He said. I get up.

"Hey, what the hell are you doing to her?" I walked up to him.

"None of your fucking business, you stupid dyke." He snapped at me. "Fuck off back to the-" I swung at him. He fell on the floor and dropped the girl. I ignored the girl and walked up to him, slamming my heel into his ribs. He screams in pain.

"You have no fucking idea!" I say, feeling myself slipping. "You have no fucking idea!" I kick him in the ribs, hard. "You have no fucking idea what I've been through!"

"Stop!" He shouted. I grab him by the shoulder and then grab his other shoulder.

"You disgust me!" I shout, punching him again in the nose. His blood splatters on him. "You piece of shit! Why did he have to die for wastes of flesh like you to live?" I slammed him against the car and wrapped the Strings around his fucking neck.

"Erika!" It was Karenina. Kyra runs to the clearly drunk girl.

"Whoa, please let me go. Please let me go!" The man had pissed himself. That brought a lot of joy to me in a way that both horrified and pleased me.

"Don't come back ever again, you hear? And if you do, I'll fucking tear your spine out of your back and let the rats eat your fucking corpse." I tell him, letting go. He runs to his car and speeds off.

"What happened?" The girl slurred her words.

"He was going to drag you off to do God knows what to you." I responded.

"Thanks. By the way, you're cute." The girl then slumped. Heather checked her pulse.

"She's alive but I think he drugged her." She responded. I took a deep breath.

"I'm sorry." I tell Heather. "I had a moment."

Kyra was calling an ambulance for the girl.

"It's fine. You saved that girl's life." Jackson spoke.

Karenina's phone started to ring like crazy.

"Hello? Wait, what? What? Alberto, slow down, Jesus Christ. Okay. Well, get me go pay for our tabs and we'll be there. Yes, I'll bring the alien with us. Okay. Yes, sir." Karenina hung up and sighed.

"What happened?" Jackson asked, raising his brow.

"There was an alien ship that landed in the HQ with two female aliens. They seemed to know about you being on Earth." Karenina sighed.

"Wait, what did they look like?" Jackson raised his brow.

"I don't know. I guess we'll find out when we get there." She ran off to the bar to pay our tab. We all hopped into Karenina's car and I texted my parents that I may be home later than expected. Jackson sighed.

"Are you okay?" Heather asked.

"Not really. I have a lot of anxiety at the moment." Jackson sighed. "I only know a few alien women. Scarleth. My half sisters. Any one of my soldiers."

"You have siblings?" Heather asked. "Besides that awful one that tried to kill you when we first met?"

"Yeah, my half sisters, Lunaria and Syraxina." Jackson sighed. "I had to save them from their mother. Crazy bitch was convinced I was going to take them off."

"But why would they come to Earth for you?" Amy asked.

"I don't know. I kind of left Helixion in chaos." Jackson sighed. "Some political leader I am."

"At least you're not the United States government." Grayson spoke. We all burst out laughing like madmen.

We arrived at the HQ where Lexi and Zander were outside.

"I'm glad that you're here." Lexi spoke, looking at us. "The aliens won't talk to us."

"Well, then. Did you get a look at them?" I asked.

"One was blonde and tall. She was very pretty with big blue eyes like Jackson's." Lexi spoke.

"Like mine?" Jackson asked.

"And the other was on the shorter side, skinny, a red head." Zander spoke, hands in his pocket.

"What?" Jackson's eyes widened.