Log:Superkids!, Scene 6

Superkids! 2007/05/25 	 Amber and Azure|Jessica Spitball Toymaster#Doggie|Doggie 6

''Editor's note: Around this time there was much legworking, mostly by Jennifer and Jessica, of which I seem to retain few logs; the logs of the interviews of the captured kids may not be complete either. Among the information turned up was that Doll could possibly be a meta who vanished with her parents near Dundee, Scotland, 6 years before, that Porthole could be a meta who went missing in Kuala Lumpur 4 years before, and that Spitball was Pekka Virtenen, believe long since to have died with his father Pekko in a house fire. Jessica even took a trip to Finland to inverview Spitball's mother and learn the atrocities of his past. Di was identified as a girl who went missing from an orphanage in Louisiana in 2050 by Shoro.''

Scene: Starguard holding cells

Jessica cycles the cell door and enters. "Good afternoon, Spitball. How are you feeling?"

"Ugh. Hungry, and kind of sick."

Jessica nods, "What would you like to eat?"

Spitball promptly reels off a long list of food, of varying degrees of exoticness.

Jessica smiles, "I'll see what the canteen can do with that." She gestures to the foot of the bed, "Mind if I sit down?"

He shrugs. He's evidently a bit tired to have much fight in him.

Jessica sits and leans towards him. "We need to talk. I need to know why you don't want to go back home. If I'm to help you avoid going back I need to know why."

His eyes go still wider, and his skin goes greyish-green. "You haven't - I can't go back!"

Jessica says, "Spitball, I can understand. Of anyone you'll meet I understand as much as any. I'm the same. In a way we're are very alike. I'm genetically engineered just like you. I would rather die than return to where I came from. So help me to help you. Tell me why, so I have arguments to voice when people who don't understand start talking about returning you."

Spitball looks right at you, for several long moments, before deciding to confide in you. "I was just an experiment to them," he says at last, bitterly, a tear running down his cheek. To *him* especially. A failed experiment - twisted and stupid - never good enough....."

Jessica hugs the boy. It's an automatic reaction. "They had no right to do what they did to you. We, my brothers and sisters, were simply tools for the people who made us. But what you had to endure was worse. Spitball, I'll use that name and not Pekka, Spitball, I will move heaven and earth to stop you having to go back. If you get sent back anyway don't despair because I'll come and take you away. Remember that. I'll come and take you away if they sent you back."

Spitball hugs tight. It's awkward - he's of that age where he feels he shouldn't be crying, shouldn't need the hug - but he does need it.

Jessica forgets about trying to get further information, she manage with what she has for now. The boy needs help and she's the one able to give it. She just holds him and lets him cry himself out.

Doggie looks on and whines too.