Agent X 3rd Gen (part 1)

 This is for you Joshua xD

I have to split it up into different parts because of the length.

here we go:

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Agent X 3rd Gen, the Choosing

 

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Section 1: The Orphanage

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“Please, let tomorrow be better...*sob* it’s always so hard...” the little girl curled up on her small make-shift bed, crying, sobbing. “If only...if only... something magical could happen...”

She comforted herself with that thought, and fell asleep with that small hope giving the faintest of smiles to her tear-stained face.

Jessie turned away from the girl, and hurried out of the building. The orphanage was always a depressing place to be, it made Jessie’s heart ache so badly every single time she was there, observing the small children.

 She pulled her cloak over her head as she hurried down the road in the rain. She mused how even the weather agreed with how she was feeling.

Something had to be done about this, Something... magical.

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“Caitlyn Owens, her name is Caitlyn Owens, she turns ten this next week.”

“My, then she is tall for her age...” Jessie remarked to Headmaster Collon, owner of the orphanage.

“Aye, she is, she was orphaned when she was five, but was only recently transferred from the other orphanage when she turned seven. Let’s see, that makes it almost three full years ago.” He gestured to Caitlyn as he stood with Jessie at the far end of the hall, watching the kids eat. “Sometimes she can be very difficult to handle, that causes conflict with some of her peers that can’t stand her

“What’s new among kids Collon...”

Collon shrugged and was forced to concede with a grin.

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“So what do you think?”

“Why Jessie!” Tristin exclaimed happily. “That is a fantastic idea, it would be so nice, you know... our own parents both died when we were very young, so we also know how it feels like to be without parent. It’ll be a new experience for all of us, oh! I’ll even be an aunt! Now that’ll be fun. We will have so much to teach her, so much to guide her in...oh Jessie! Where do you get all these great ideas?”

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“So what do you think?”

“Jessie.” Carolina responded, disapproval clearly evident in her voice.

“Yes Carolina?” Jessie replied, forcing herself to keep her voice neutral.

“Jessie...”

“Yes Carolina?”

“Jessie, you do know that choosing to bring her into this kind of life will be endangering her, exposing her to dangers that she wouldn’t have otherwise faced.”

“I know...”Jessie sighed, turning away to file more paperwork back on her desk. “But the life she is living right now means nothing to her, and I know I can give her a better life, yes there are dangers, but there are other things as well, things that make life worth living for, and besides, there is something I have to prove through this.”

“Stuff and nonsense Jessie, you are the last person to have to prove anything.” Carolina said. “You cheated death as a child thanks to your brilliant mother, inherited unique skills from your talented father, the legendary Agent X, Youngest leader in history AND united all three factions into one co-operative working unit. And these are just the top of the list Jessie, I could go on and on but I have made my point.”

Jessie nodded, accepting Carolina’s compliments graciously. “and that is exactly the point, it is because of who my parents were, and the mentors like Frost and Anderson that allowed people like you and me to become who we are today, doing what we are doing. Carolina, the Reynolds legacy will end with me, my parents are dead, Zac is gone, and everyone pertaining to the Reynolds is gone. If I do not do anything the line will die out with me. I wish to take Caitlyn Owens as my grand experiment: to adopt her as Caitlyn Reynolds, to love and guide her, to teach and instruct her in the way my own mother never got to. I want to take her, a nobody from the streets, and turn her so that she can be worthy of taking on the Reynolds name, and so continue the legacy to the next generation. It doesn’t matter who you were, or who your parents were- it’s who you want to be, and who you choose to be. And with Caitlyn, I will prove that.”

“It’s really hard to argue with you when you have your mind already made up.”

“Then you agree?”

Carolina sighed and smiled, “Yes, Jessie, you have our blessing.”

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Caitlyn’s little eyes shone as she gripped her bowl slightly harder – the cook had given her a small extra piece of potato! So someone had remembered that it was her birthday!

She set her bowl down on the table and quickly stole a small glance around the room to see if anyone had noticed that, just for today, she was someone special, someone worth something.

Bad idea. Big Lucy had noticed the extra bit in Caitlyn’s bowl and saw the nervous glancing around.

Lucy spotted her opportunity as the cook stepped out of the room to get something. She immediately got up and marched over to Caitlyn to whisper into her ear words that were edged with spite:” and I’ll be taking that. Do not think that just because this day means something to you that you become any more valuable then the trash that you are every other day.”

Lucy glanced toward the door- the cook was nowhere to be seen- this was her opportunity to unload all her grievances against Caitlyn.

She hoisted Caitlyn out of her seat and shoved her roughly against the wall. Drawing her hand back to hit the smaller girl, Lucy was smirking.

Caitlyn felt that she was nothing, nothing at all.

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Jessie watched on in silence, she would not interfere because she wanted to see how all this would pan out

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Lucy lifted the smaller girl off the bench and hurled her a short distance to the nearby wall, Caitlyn crashed into a heap as she landed messily on the ground. She scrambled into a sitting position and put her arms up protectively as Lucy came over.

“So, little brat, are you ready to pay for your sins?” Lucy sniggled “this is going to be fun…”

Every bad deed that Caitlyn had ever done came rushing back to her memory

“no..no please…no…No please…please! NO! PLEASE! NO!” She begged, her pleas becoming more and more desperate.

“Not feeling so high and mighty now? Hahaha, always sucking up to the teacher and pretending that you know so much more than all of the rest of us, not really helpful where you are now right Cait? Well tell me, since you “know” so much, how much is it going to hurt when I hit you?”

Caitlyn closed her eyes and braced herself for the hit.

But it never came

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Jessie had watched enough

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Lucy lifted her hand, but could not bring it down to hit Caitlyn- something had her hand locked in the air. She turned around to see who or what was gripping her hand and she stared into the cold unfeeling eyes of Jessie Reynolds.

“Let go of me! Miss, let go of me!” Lucy whined as she struggled to break free of Jessie’s iron grip

“As you wish” Jessie’s voice came out low and dangerous. She released Lucy’s hand and raised her own hand, balling up her fist, as if to strike.

“You…you would hit a small girl Miss?” Lucy whimpered, cowering before Jessie.

“The irony involved amazes me. You did not seem to have an issue with bigger girls hitting smaller girls before I showed up.” Jessie stepped forward and Lucy backed away.

Jessie reached down and held out her hand towards Caitlyn, who was still in a heap on the ground. Caitlyn looked at the outstretched hand offered to her and did not know how to react. Jessie smiled and nodded comfortingly and spoke softly: “Caitlyn Owens, I have come to offer you a choice: if you so wish to, you can choose to stay here, with the people you know, the routine life you are used to, doing the mundane day to day things that is almost second nature to you. Or alternatively, you can choose to come with me, and I can show you a whole new world, a world you could never have dreamed of, a world that few get to see, a world full of dangers, but a world well worth those dangers.”

“wh…what do you mean?”

“Caitlyn, I am here to take you away from this place, to offer you a brand new world you could never have imagined, I am willing to adopt you, raise you, guide you, and love you. But I need to hear it from you- are you willing to choose to allow me to do so?”

“B..but…why me? Why choose me? I am a nobody; I have nothing to offer, why do you choose to be so good to me?” Caitlyn was bewailed. She hung her head and could look up

“Oh Caitlyn…” Jessie knelt down and reached out to tilt young Caitlyn’s face up. She looked into the small girl’s eyes and whispered reassuringly, “know this, young lady. What’s important is not who you were or who you are. It is who you are going to be and what you are going to do to become that person you are in the future.”

“What future do you want?”