Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing. Just playing around with the characters, because I like to mess with their heads. ;)
Prologue
Suppose you knew a young man with grey eyes and soft hair and hard angles for a face. Suppose you knew his name, his family, the brand on his arm and what it meant. Suppose you knew him from school, heard him call you names across the hall. Suppose you hated him, as many of you did, and that you would not care if he happened to die.
Now, suppose you knew the way his chest tightened every single time he saw someone his own age fall to the ground after that blast of green light. Suppose you knew that he spent most of his evenings staring at the ceiling, hoping that the tiredness would someday go away and that he would forget all that he had seen. Suppose you knew that he often thought of a small house in the woods and of the girl who lived there.
But none of you knew, so none of you searched for him when he disappeared. You thought he was dead or that fate had finally bitten back after all of those years. You celebrated over drinks and laughing and many of you shouted to the sky that the world was better off without him. Only one of you went looking; she wasn't at the celebration that night, for you had sent her to live in her cottage in the woods some months ago. She was only one who went looking, but she still only went looking out of desperation. She was restless - her bookwork was no longer enough to satisfy her. She went in search of the young man who often thought of her house in the woods, for he was the only one who knew of it. She went alone and she did not tell her friends, because she knew that they would stop her.
She went in the middle of the night, when the snow was fresh and the moon reflected off of it so that her field looked like a highway of light. She went when they raised their glasses to the ceiling and pronounced him dead. She went in search of an answer.
End Notes: Yep, it's a short little one. If I'm lucky, the next chapter will be up tomorrow! As always, feel free to press that lil' button underneath this ;)