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Chapter 1: Corrine Jacobson

In the mountainous region of upstate Washington, lived a family in a small town community, the Jacobson's. There was the widowed mother, Linder, she was 47 and dieing of cancer. She stayed in the family's poor excuse for a house ever since she tried one day to get out of bed and noticed her legs were no longer responding to her brain's commands, the cancer had unfortunately spread to her spinal chord. Her husband had been Harvey, the once respectable general store owner of the town who had fallen victim to chronic drinking. It erupted into a wave of violence in the family's household until one day he went to the local pub for a long night of drinking and gambling when he never returned. His truck was found that morning at the bottom of the river, he had tried to drive home drunk when he hit a deer and drove off the bridge.

Linder and Harvey had two children, the eldest was Isaac who was six years older than Corrine. They were the spitting image of each other, they shared the same deep blue eyes, they had the same dark brown, wavy hair, and their facial structures had very feline features. Because of their father's abusive habits, they often stayed out of the house as much as possible, finding better hospitality in the woods that engulfed the town. Isaac and Corrine had always stuck to each other, she was raised more by her older brother than her own parents. But, shortly after their father's death, a seven year old Corrine found that her thirteen year old brother began to act differently. He no longer spent every possible minute watching out for his little sister and preferred to go out into the woods alone. Then, once their mother could no longer walk, Isaac cared for Linder almost every moment of the day, the now ten year old Corrine felt abandoned, completely and utterly alone.

Four years later, while Corrine was sitting up against the side of their shack soaking up the sun, her brother walked out of the house and stood over her, blocking the sunlight. She opened her eyes and gave an annoyed look at her brother. "You're blocking my sun sasquatch!", she said to him. Sasquatch was what Corrine had nicknamed her brother because at 6'4" he towered over her height of 5'2".

"Come on runt, let's go hang out in the woods like we used to.", he held out his hand to help her up, she just stared at it questioningly.

"Well this is new, don't you have to take care of mom or whatever?"

"She just fell asleep and I got a head start on today's work early this morning, so I have some free time. Now come on.", he extended his hand out to her even further, this time she took it. His large hand engulfed hers easily and he yanked her up before she even began to try to stand up.

"Ow! Jeez lighten up and the grip will ya."

He chuckled, "sorry."

The siblings walked into the woods adjacent to their house and disappeared into the shade of the pine trees. They walked in silence for some time through the trail they'd worn into the forest floor as children. The quietness of the situation was horrible and with each step it became more and more awkward, someone had to break the silence, but neither of them wanted to. Finally, Isaac decided to be the first one to speak, to break through the walls of four long years of bitterness that emanated from his little sister.

"Soooo, you're fourteen now. I remember being that age, man did that suck.", he said awkwardly, adding a short laugh at the end. It got no reaction out of Corrine. "Look I'm sorry that I couldn't take care of you anymore, I had things I needed to straiten out on my own okay?", no reaction, "Come on, it was four years ago, you can't find it in your heart to forgive your own brother?", still no reaction, "You have to understand Corrine, things came up, I needed to get away from everyone!"

"WHAT, what Isaac was so important that you had to abandon your own sister! I had nobody, nobody who cared any longer!", tears began to flow rapidly down her face.

"I know, and I'm sorry. Will you ever forgive me?"

"You haven't answer my question Isaac!", she glared up at him through watery eyes.

"You haven't answered mine either.", he told her.

"YES! FINE! I'll forgive you, whatever!"

Isaac was just about to explain everything when he suddenly tensed up.

"Isaac, what's wrong?!", Corrine said with worry in her voice.

"Uh, nothing. I've just had the feeling that I'm being watched lately, then I heard something just now.."

"I didn't hear anything.", she told him.

"Yeah, but I did.", his face was a mix of fear, confusion, and a side of him that she'd never seen before, ferociousness. He turned around facing the south, searching for something unseen. His back was now to Corrine.

"What are you do…"

"Shut up!", he whispered cutting her off.

Now she was scared, her heart picked up and her hands began to shake. In front of her, Isaac bent into a crouch, ready for attack. Since when did he start bracing himself for attack, or hearing things that could not be heard? Corrine began to think that maybe there was a side of her older brother that she had never seen or known about. Maybe this is what he was trying to tell me about, but it doesn't make any sense, what could it possibly mean? She though to herself.

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Meanwhile Stryker and Victor stood a quarter of a mile to the south of the two siblings watching through binoculars, "Okay Victor, this is the one. Go for the tall one.", Victor started to walk into the woods, "Wait! Not yet. The short one, does she have a mutation that you've noticed while observing Isaac?", Victor growled at Stryker, "Oh calm down! Look what you did, he heard you!"

"She has no mutation that I know of, but she's fourteen, so she quite possibly could, it just hasn't shown up yet."

"Hmm… grab her too. She could be useful, maybe a guinea pig.", ha laughed, "Okay, now!", Victor picked up the tranquilizer gun and fired.

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Corrine looked at her brother in time to see a tranquilizer dart hit him in the head. He looked up at it and took it out, but he did not fall over unconscious, "What the hell!", she began to panic.

"RUN!", he yelled to her and they took off running in the opposite direction that Isaac heard the sounds. Corrine began to fall behind the speed of her brother quickly, he looked back at her and picked her up. He ran faster than what was normal, this she could tell. Corrine looked back to see a large scruffy man with clawed fingers jump up and tackle them. Isaac yelled out in pain as the man's claws dug into his back. She crawled out from underneath the two and cried hopelessly, "Run!", Isaac told her.

"Oh no ya don't!", Victor said.

He punched Isaac in the face and he was out cold. At that, Corrine began to run, with Victor gaining on her much too easily, he lunged at her but she was gone in a second, running so fast that it became hard to see her. She was a blur, she jump twenty feet with ease, up into a tree and sat on a branch. There was a crack and the branch broke, she fell, hitting other branches on the way down, and hit the ground with a loud thud. Victor heard this and strutted over and stood above her.

"Hello.", he laughed then hit her in the head and she was unconscious.

A/N: Okay, so I just had to get the past out of the because the future is the interesting part. I hoped you liked it and please, please, please review I would be forever grateful! Thank you, oh and review ;]