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100 Drabble Challenge 80 - Only Human

Who was he? The boy who traveled with the alien. The boy who gave up on everything in his life, to take part in a war that didn't involve him. He wasn't just a boy. He was Ian Grant. He wasn't an alien. He was only a human.

The sound of sticks snapping underneath their feet was the only noise to be heard in a while. The leaves crunching added a bit more to the silence the pair was facing. Neither minded the silence. They were both enjoying the quiet for once. It gave both BJ and Ian a chance to relax and collect their thoughts. They were on a hunt, after all.

They both had guns pulled as they made their way through the woods. They had been tracking a small group of Mogadorian's that had broken away from the rest of their much larger group. BJ, the older of the two, had tried to get the boy to stay back at their hotel room. He had so much to live for. He didn't need to die because of her.

Like always, Ian refused. He wasn't just walking away. He wasn't going to give up everything Five had told him now. If she was telling the truth, about the Mogs, then they deserved what they had coming to them. Of course, he never expected Bea to hand him a gun, and expect him to know hot to use it.

The whole event went down in five minutes. BJ killed three of them, and Ian got the other two. Even then, they still ended up covered in the ash remains of the aliens. BJ wore her normal scowl as she brushed the ash off her leather jacket. "Wasn't too bad, eh, kid?" She asked, looking at Ian with her brown eyes.

Ian looked back at BJ, brushing the ash off his jeans. He tucked the gun away on the inside of his jacket, and shrugged nonchalantly. The six teen year old took a minute to collect his thoughts. "They didn't seem as deadly as what you had said. They looked more creepy than harmful." He shrugged once more, and looked at the ash.

BJ blinked a few times, looking at him in shock. They didn't look harmful? She had to remember sometimes that this kid wasn't one of them. He was normal. He didn't know aliens existed before he met her. Her heart fell slightly. That was right. He was just a human. That's all he would ever be. Another, ordinary, innocent to this world full of monsters, human.

She would miss her dear friend one day.

[iamnumberfivebj]

100 Drabble Challenge 6 - Obsession

{Yeah I skipped a few, I know, but I really wanted to do this one.}

Obsessions. Everyone has one. Weather it be time on the internet, to cocaine. Everyone has some sort of obsession or addiction. BJ's happened to be something less lethal. Cookies.

They were not just any type of cookies. They were Chips Ahoy Mini's. She loved them so much. They had to be one of the only things on this god forsaken planet that made the Loric girl smile. The smell that came from the bag when her slender fingers opened it. The crunch they had to them when she popped one into her mouth. The perfect ratio of mini chocolate chips to the size of the cookie. They were her little piece of Heaven on Earth.

When ever she past a small store she had to stop and get some. She felt they made everything better. They filled the emptiness in her cold, stone heart, and they made her stomach feel warm and fuzzy. They made her take her mind of the whole war for just a while, and wonder what her life would be like had she still had her parents, and was still on Lorien.

She imagined these cookies tasting like the ones her mother would make. She saw herself trying to help, but just making a greater mess. She could see her little brother, giggling in his high chair, while her father read a book while sitting at the kitchen table. She badly wanted that life.

She knew she'd never have it. She'd never have the chance to have it. Her parents would always be gone. She'd never see her brother's smiling face again. They were gone... This felt like her only tie to them.

She would forever be obsessed with the sweet, crunchy taste of her family.