It was a dark and stormy night… (Is not that such a cliché) anyway, it was a dark and stormy night. I sleeping unaware of what was happening around me. A Figure cloaked in the black of night with blond hair was leaving me a note(being asleep I did not know this).
I awoke to the sun shining in my face but I was freezing I sat up and the paper I was using fell off me. I then noticed a note addressed to me. Confused I looked around I wondered who had given this to me, I read the note. It, told me to go to the old church and ask for Helen Magnus. I had not been here for long but I know what church the note meant.
Everyone knows the Church in Old City strange things happened at the church. I was going to meet the most mysterious person In Old city, Helen Magnus. I was fully awake and a little on edge already and just a little skeptical.
heart was racing because not only had someone left me a note without knowing but they got close enough to do so, though I guess if they had wanted to hurt me they could have. My palms were sort of sweaty my lips dryer than usual. I could not believe she wanted to see me. Why would she want to see me? What was so special about me that she wanted to meet me?
I licked my lips and sighed I pushed my self up and out of my corner I had found to sleep in It was protected from the elements. It was almost like a room but missing a fourth wall. I had a stack or cardboard that I used as my mattress I was using my jacket as a pillow and newspaper as a blanket. It sis not smell bad because I changed my cardboard to keep it from smelling. The cardboard I was using was from a candy store and held peppermint so that is what my place smelt like.
I made my way to the street, blinked the sun away, and rubbed the sleep from my eyes. I looked to the left and took a deep breath. I began walking to the Old church, well it was more like a cathedral. It had many towers and it even had a bell. I could tell it was old as some of the walls had a mossy overgrowth of Ivy. Some of the outer walls were a bit crumbly but I could tell that they were buildings not used. The whole cathedral was fenced off to keep the outside world out.
It was about an hour later that I made it to the church. I pressed the buzzer, a man answered me in a deep growling gruff sort of voice " Yes" . I jumped not expecting the voice to sound that way. Silent at first hesitantly i answer "I am here to meet Helen Magnus, I was told to come here." I said, he replied with "Come in" this time I did not jump. I then was buzzed in. The gates opened and I walked though them they closed behind me with a clang making me jump.
I walked up the drive and to the front door, when I got there a man older than me at around thirty. "I will Show you to the Docs office" he told me. He was not the dude who buzzed me in his voice was not scary. "My name is Henry Foss I am the Tech guy. He told me I stared at him He had short hair it was brown he had blue eyes and stubble on his face. "I am ch-err Payton, Payton Mackenzie I was just told to come here" I replied back to him. He smiled at me " sorry for the walk it's a bit far usaly we don't get visitors and when they do they drive up" he told me I looked down at my shoes. " I don't have a car" I said to him " Sorry" I whisper.
"Oh no nothing wrong with that just trying to make conversation. I stepped in and realized that it was not a church well not any more at least, but a house no a mansion. The ceiling was high. The walls were brown as was the carpet it was sort of dark. Something about it screamed Victorian style but with a modern touch to it. I followed Henry to one of the rooms that was set up as an office. The woman in the office looked up. "Hello" she said with a smile. "Why don't you come in and have a seat" she motioned for me to sit down. Henry turned and left.
I walked in to the room and sat on the chair in front of the desk. She had dark brown hair that was long and blue eyes She was white but not pale white sort of cream white she was a very beautiful woman. Not, that I was attracted to her I just notice things like that when I am nervous, just like I ramble when I am nervous.
She looked at me and smiled she seemed very nice but I would not let that fool me again I had once thought that about my family. "I received a message telling me to come here," I said. She nodded "yes, I would like to offer you a job .She leaned in real close to me very seriously. "I have need of what you can do."
She told me, I stared at her "What I can do?" I said. Looking at her confused "Yes I must apologize I looked into your file Chelsea, (startled by hearing my real name I begin to slightly panic and think to my self crap she knows my real name how she knows that,) I know that you have seen things and…" I flushed "I am not crazy I really did see those… Things" I interrupted.
She looked at me and leaned in" Abnormals that is there name and yes they are real, what we do here is we protect them and if it's dangerous we capture it." She told me. I stared at her. I look her in the eye which is strange for me I am terribly shy and people scare me I ask her " Why" I am very serious about this. She smiles I can tell she likes me and this question, she answers "After all even the things that go bump in the night need protecting" She said with a smile. "I started this organization to make sure that normal humans do not mistreat the abnormals. To keep them safe. We study them and see how Humans will possibly evolve and have evolved
"How do you know my real name?" I asked. Softly Helen chuckles "Because I have the best people working for me and I looked you up the person who gave you your new Identity was one of the best yes but I have the best". "Erm ok" I said shyly not knowing how to act or really what to say. "Here come with me; we have set you up with a room we also managed to find your things. I had them shipped hear, your sister was very hard to persuade to let go but I told her that it was going to help the investigation, I also told her that I was the lead investigator on your case not that there is I made sure of that" She said sort of cocky.
I just looked at her and dumbly nodded. "So will you work here?" She asked. I took a breath I did need a job and a place to live. This could turn out bad but what else did I have to lose its not as if I had anything really. "Yes I will," I told her she smiled at me.
She led me out of the office and down the hall again to a room. She opened the door and I gasped it was an exact recreation of my old room. I looked around "Is this mine?" was all I could say. "I will leave you to get settled in". She turned and left. I grinned and made my way to the middle of the room. My radio, my bed my everything was here. My stuffed animals my eyes widened Rojo, I ran to my bed and picked up the red dog my sister got for me the valentines I was in the seventh grade, and Mr. Amore my teddy he was so soft. My TARDIS piggy bank was even here. I looked around and realized that the room was huge my old room was big but my queen sized bed took up a lot of room. It made my bed look huge this room made my bed look tiny, yet everything was the same , everything was in the same exact place.
It was then that it occurred to me, my old cloths, I made my way to the closet crap they would not fit, and I looked from my cloths to myself. I had been living on the streets for months and constantly on the move not having much to eat. Before I ran, I was big, at one ninety I was a size 16 or 18 it depended on what I wore but after being on the run and not eating much food over the last six months, I had directly lost weight I weighed barely one hundred pounds. I stared at my cloths with hatred and contempt on my face. I would need new cloths I wondered what I was going to do about my cloths. I then went to my dresser I walked to it I opened the drawers all my fold up cloths were in it. I noticed after I turned around that I had a second door in my room.
I made my way to the door and opened it cautiously it was… (Oh the suspense is killing me)… a bathroom. It was full of my bathroom stuff. I then noticed how gross my clothes were and my hair was greasy. I frowned I went back to my room and grabbed some cloths I would just have to make do with the to baggy clothes. I went back to the bathroom and started the shower, and then I striped down and got in the water felt so well. I tried not to think of how long it had been since I had actually taken a shower.
After an hour, I was done in the shower and had even brushed my teeth. I put the cloths on I tied the straps of my shirt up then grabbed my shorts that were really not mine but my little cousins that had gotten mixed in with my cloths. I brushed my hair and put my glasses on. I smiled I was happy to have my stuff I gathered my old cloths and put them in the hamper.
I went to my bed and jumped on it I smiled my temperpedic mattress. I had forgotten how comfortable it was. I lay back and closed my eyes and smiled.
There was a knock at the door It was Henry I stared at him for a second before finally saying " yes". He looked at me shocked oh…. He stared at me "Helen wanted me to come get you and take you to the dining room, for lunch" He told me. I stared at him through my bangs I brushed them back. "Ok" I said and followed him out of my room.
He led me down the hall and to the dining room. Helen was there a blond chick who was not much older than a different dude and me. I swallowed "hi" I said nervously. The blonde-haired person looked up and she smiled at me. I could tell she was uncomfortable from her stance I could tell that she was a fighter. The person looked up and stared at me. I could tell he was analyzing me. I stared back at him then thought of something.
(Same here more description the first sentence doesn't really make sense rearrange it a bit and it'll work.)
Boo" I said smirking he did not jump but I guess he realized I knew what he was doing. He stopped staring and Helen looked up "Oh Chelsea you made it, good I can introduce you this…pointing to the girl …is Ashley my daughter, this is Will he is our guy that knows lots about legal matters among other things" She smiled "Guy this is Chelsea she is living here now and she is also the new team member" She said.
I was very nervous then, "Oh you got my note then that I sent you" The girl said I nodded "yes" I said looking at her then back at the floor. "Well sit down" I heard Helen say I sat down in the chair that was empty. A man appeared he was hairy and looked like, like a caveman sort of. I stared for a second then looked away. Do not be rude I chastised myself. He served the food, pasta with alfredo sauce.
I looked around Will was no longer looking at me, Oh thank goodness I hate when people stare at me. I shivered and noticed that Henry was looking at me but trying not to be obvious. I looked at my food I had a few bites but was not very hungry any more. Still I needed to eat so I kept eating. They all continued to talk around me.
Once Helen was done, she looked at me, "come with me we have more to discuss." I followed her back to her office.
She sat in her chair once in her office and I sat in the chair I did earlier. " Now before you start working in the field I have some tests that I have to run on you, Ashley will teach you to shoot and some fighting so that….." I stopped her "I already know how to fight I took self-defense after I was almost…I swallowed and lowered my eyes…. After what almost happened to me" I looked up I could tell she wanted to say something but did not. "Well that is good then that cuts our time down" She told me.
A/N : I have redone the first chapter so yeah. My sister helped mw with it. She is tottaly awsome she does not have an account on here though.
