Disclaimer-Trust me, if I owned any of these characters there would have been doing way better things than trying to kill one another.

A/N-Slightly AU but not developed.

I chose Adam first because it was convenient. The stepmother, Kate, drifting slowly away from father, Thomas, and perfectly ready to find social interest, friend or otherwise, outside of her husband if need be. It took less than five minutes to get myself invited inside and in twenty I had three bodies on the floor already turning.

Of all the fledglings I was planning to gather, I thought maybe Adam was going to be my favorite. The silly science fair ribbons and education certificates in the living room told me he was smart, but the way he'd tracked me said more.

He was practical. Ed was intelligent, that I knew too, but he was too impetuous. He hurried, talked big game, tried to be the hero. Adam watched and learned. He ran, then fought, but didn't beg. Those quiet moments before the kill are when I decide the measure of a man. In the moments before I killed Adam, he measured up to more than I could have imagined.