Danger

It has been almost two weeks and still no sign of Carter. This has turned into more than just my brother getting himself into trouble. If he was hurt or killed, we would have heard something by now, so something is up.

April has been great. We quietly put the word out to those that we can trust, otherwise
I have tried to maintain business as normal. “My brother is out of town on business” is the line I’ve been giving. Of course, Nick has been incorrigible. He wants to throw a party since my brother is gone, but I can’t tell him why I’m in no mood for a party. He can be sweet and all, but I know he just won’t be able to handle the truth. It’s made him reasonably angry, and he unfairly took it out on Douglas, who I think I can trust enough to confide in. So, as you can guess, my lovelife has been turning into a bit of a mess, and I was annoyed at Carter up till now. Now, I am worried.

I’m trying to step up the search. Carter will lecture me once this is over, I’m sure, but I thought it might be time to notify the authorities. After all, the government supposedly knows we are here. I didn’t know how to go about talking to the right people, but I figured Carter must have left some way for me to bypass the protocols without him. He was ridiculously thorough.

Douglas and I tried breaking into my brother’s safe in the garage, and that’s when it hit me. His car. Since he got his new car, he has been modifying it. I thought he was just improving on the human technology of the engine, but when Douglas looked at it, I could tell from his reaction that it was definitely beyond anything he expected in a car. My brother has been using the new car to build our alien technology. So, I turned it on.

That’s when I got the message.

The satellite radio that was installed in the car was modified to be a communication device back to our homeworld. It didn’t work properly, I could tell. I think that’s why Carter didn’t tell me about it yet. But it definitely connected to someone. I didn’t realize it at first, but the satellite station it picked up was all Prince music. I remembered what Carter told me about our Prince being on this planet. I had hoped he had gone to see him for us to meet back with our people again. As I adjusted the satellite radio controls, I found a message coming in. I was relieved at first. I was sure it was Carter. It was not.

I don’t know who it was. I don’t know if the person or being on the other end could hear me as I hear them, but the message was clear as can be:

“Danger. Mission compromised. Retrieve priority assets. Disavow and liquidate all others.”

We are in more trouble than I thought. Brother, if you are out there, I'm coming to find you.

Carter is Missing

This is Madison, Carter's sister. Of course, you know by now those are not our real names, but let's just go with it. If you've been following this blog, my brother has probably spilled a little about me, so no this is not some childish human prank. My brother is missing.

Last I saw him was last week. He was scared of something.I can't go into the details right now, but for the sake of communication, if he does turn up or if anyone has seen him, I decided to keep this blog running instead of shutting it down.

I thought he'd gone to patch up things with April since he was stupid enough to tell her all about us, but she has not seen him since Friday. There is some superstition around Friday the 13th, but I think that was some kind of cover. I told Douglas as much as I thought he needed to know, since he has a good mind. Rick, I think I'll keep in the dark a little while longer. Douglas thought I should shut this site down. He has too many conspiracy theories in his head, but at least he's thinking in the right direction. And he helped me crack the password to this blog and engineer a couple new security protocols. I should be able to trust him for now.

I will keep posting with updates as I get them, but if anyone knows anything about where my brother is, please contact me.

-Madison

Do No Harm

Protocol DWR66 initiated.

Absence detected, priority one. This is not a drill. Follow protocol.

Do no harm...

Don't Panic

UPDATE: [5/15/11 5:04 PM]
Something isn't right. No one has seen my brother since Friday. I had assumed he planned a long weekend away to fix things up with April, but she hasn't heard from him. This isn't like him at all, and this previous post is suspicious. It is written too casually and brief, and if anyone likes to talk, it's my brother.

April is worried about him, and I can't blame her based on their last conversation. I'll check the protocols. If it was important, he would not have left without a trail I could find.

Posted by Madison A. at 5:04 PM

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I'll be down for a short period of time, but don't worry, it's all routine. Just a few hiccups in the system and smoothing out some personal matters. I'll be back to blogging shortly.

Coming Clean

I am not sure I understand the term "coming clean" because it implies that whatever secret or truth one has been holding back is dirty and therefore divulging it can only be clean and healthy. While telling the truth is the right thing to do, it rarely clean.

I finally told April the truth, the truth about where Madison and I came from, the existence of aliens living among humans, as much as I could until she made me stop. I was worried about the Prince's presence here, particularly when my sister and her friends (including her boyfriend) got tickets to his concert. While I have come to believe he is here in peace, the implication that other of my kind, including royalty, poses too much of a threat. I love April. Yes, that is right, I love her. I may not fully understand what that human emotion truly means, but after our argument last week, I believe she deserves to know the truth, even if I knew it would get messy.

I am not sure how to describe her reaction. At first, she did not believe me, as I suspected, and though I was telling some kind of joke. As I insisted, she still did not believe me and got angry, as if I was making up some elaborate lie in order to break up with her or something. Of course, this could not be farther from the truth, so I determined that the only way she would believe me is I showed her this blog, the remains of our transport that I have salvaged for parts, and the "ray guns" as she called them. Then, she got scared.

She became even more insistent that I am a liar, disgusted about my true identity. At least she believes me. She wanted reassurance that we came in peace. I could tell her that was my intention as an observer, but I could not tell her for sure about the rest of the planned mission or the visitors here now. I supposed I could have lied to ease her fears, but I did not want to keep lying. I honestly do not know if she is going to tell anyone else. I would think not, I hope not, but regardless she has really stopped talking to me now. I do not know what to do.

Madison told me I am crazy for revealing all this, even as I pointed out to my sister that it was her idea for me to start this blog. Unfortunately, even she does not know how I can convince April to talk to me, or even believe me again, and she is the expert on human behavior.

I may have made a mistake.

The Dog House

April and I got into our first significant argument as a couple yesterday, and as a result I am what is metaphorically known as "in the dog house." At least I think I'm getting that right.

The argument began because I forgot about our anniversary date. I was apparently supposed to plan romantic dinner an other such pleasantries, which I am normally happy to do, but I did not know it was expected of me at this moment. I realize now I should have known why, but I made things worse by saying I did not know I was supposed to do such a thing. As an attempt to explain my absentmindedness in the expectations and rituals of romance, I said that I had other important things on my mind.

I know now this was an even worse thing for me to say. In my partial defense, I did not say I had more important things on my mind, just other, but that point is moot. While we were on the subject, April finally confronted me with the facts that she knows very little about me and my past, and outside of being an instructor to my sister, she wants to know more about me and my family. This, exacerbated by the fact that I think it might still be too dangerous to tell her at the moment, has resulted in her cutting off communication and refusing to answer my calls.

I am now using every piece of knowledge I have on the art of romance to think of a way to make it up to her. This mostly involves consulting my sister, though she seems to think I deserve the punishment I am getting.

Again, this is not an excuse, but as a footnote it is worth noting that the "other" important thing that was weighing on my mind at the time began as a result of the Prince being in town. I was initially put at ease by his generous performance among the oblivious human populous. However, the thought has been gnawing at me that if he has been on Earth all this time, and we have seemingly been unaware of each other, who might else be here?

Then, I decided to ease my mind by finding my old nemesis Morgoth and challenging him to combat in the online world of Call of Duty. That is when I discovered that the Playstation Network was down, supposedly due to a security breach. It is still down. I realize this may be the result of too much assumption, but when that occurred, I became sure that some nefarious business was occurring.

So, this is where I come to the crossroads. Do I attempt to further investigate the arrival of the Prince, the disruption in service of the online Playstation Network, and any other possible contact this world has had with my kind? All of which, could expose both me and my sister, not to mention any humans we are connected to, to possible danger.

Or do I forget about all that and just try to make amends with April? And do I tell her the truth, which could also put her in danger?

Or do I sit back and hope that all of this blows over because there may not be any danger at all?

No, I think I must do something, starting with making it up to April.