Cancer's Angel

by thinkitover

Lenin is from a really messed up universe. Her big brother was murdered as were her parents. To make matters worse she and her friends are half human, half troll. They've each changed their sign so others won't notice them. But, when Lenin's best friend, Gilda, decides to kill Lenin, she starts running. How she ends up in a bedroom with a boy named Karkat, she has no clue.

1. Prologue

Prologue

I sit next to Liam eating an ice cream cone. "Oh! Liam. Erin and Vick called me a mutant again today," I tell my big brother as my tears start to dry up. He looks at me sadly.

"Oh," he says. I nod my tears starting anew.

"Liam? Why does he call me that?" I ask quietly.

"It's because of our blood color," he replies sadly.

I look at him quizzically. "But we all have different colored blood!" I protest.

He smiles sadly. "Yeah but our blood is candy red which to them is a mutation," he explains sadly.

"Why?" I ask.

I don't know," he says to me.

"Why can't we all be the same inside?" I ask.

"We are Lenin. He just can't see it," Liam tells me ruffling my hair.

I think for a moment. "Oh…so I'll tell him he's wrong and that we are all the same in side!" I exclaim proudly.

Liam smiles at me and murmurs to himself, "You are going to make a fine leader. Imagine. Lenin Vantas, leader, thief, angel." I laugh and hug my big brother.

"I love you Liam," I say as i burrow into his red sweatshirt with a black cancer sign stitched on the front.