I own nothing, except for Leigh.
1. Gone
Silver flecked emerald eyes stared blankly out of the passing buildings that were destroyed. Not even an hour earlier before, there had been some huge alien robots fighting each other. Then not long after it was over did some government looking people come and started gathering people up, herself and adoptive older sister included. She had no idea what happened to the rest of their family, but she got a knot in her stomach every time she thought about them.
She felt a hand squeeze hers in reassurance and turned to her sister. The brown-eyed girl gave her a reassuring smile, and she couldn't help but smile back. She had no idea how long it was until the vehicle they were in came to some building that looked like it was connected to a dam. They were all but dragged out and into the building and they heard the words, "High energy readings," and "Cube radiation." They had no idea about what the latter meant, but they knew what the former meant. Their magic.
When two men in black suits tried to separate them, the emerald-eyed girl clung to the brown-eyed one for dear life. After trying and failing to separate them, they were both thrown into what looked like an interrogation room.
Soon after, another guy in a black suit came in holding two files. "Alexandra Marguerite Russo, and Leigh Harmony Russo." he read from the files. "Hate to tell you this, but your families dead."
While the green-eyed girl froze, the brown-eyed girl sneered at the apathy in the man's voice. "Then you better let us go, cause we didn't do anything."
"You see, this is how it works." The man said. "Your families dead, which makes you legally dead. In other words, you two ain't going anywhere."
Leigh was curled up into a ball and her head was resting in Alex's lap. "What's going to happen to us?" The helplessness in the 14 yr old's voice was heart-breaking.
"I don't know Leigh, I don't know." Alex said sadly.
"They're gone. They're all gone." Leigh cried as tears ran down her face. Once again, her family was ripped away from her. But at least she still had Alex.
"That's it, let it out." Alex wasn't good at comforting others, but Leigh was the exception. Alex too wanted desperately to weep for their loss, but she had to be the strong one now. If not for her own sake, then for Leigh's sake.
I'm making Alex more mature in this because now she has to be the strong older sibling.