A Soul is Broken.
Disclaimer: I do not claim ownership of Suzanne Collin's The Underland Chronicles or Stephanie Meyer's The Host, they are strictly theirs and I only own any characters you haven't heard of before.
Prologue:
Ali
"Do you have to leave?" I asked hesitantly as Maggie gripped tightly to my knees. The child couldn't have been more than five or six. "What if you get caught, Greg?"
The sixteen-year-old chuckled and ruffled my hair. "That isn't very likely, Ali. Just take care of Maggie for me and I'll be back two, three weeks tops." I rolled my eyes. "Hey, listen, we're almost out of food and water. We're one of the only hopes for humanity now."
Scoffing, I lifted Maggie off the ground in one fluid movement and carried her over to her bed. To which she cried out, "I want to go with Gregor! I'm old enough to go!"
"I need you here, Mags, I don't want to risk loosing you, or Greg," I said pointedly, casting a look at Gregor. "Seekers thrive on kids like you." I swept some of her sticky brown bangs out of her eyes. I waited as her eyes drifted shut and her chest rose and fell evenly before turning on him. "Don't put ideas into her head like that! She's a kid, Greg! Not a fifteen-year-old"—I struggled to find words in my confusion—"Whatever, the thing is, we can't risk one of the last humans on earth to parasites that have taken away everything you or I have loved!" my voice was nearing a shout.
"Ali, settle down, you're going to wake the kid," he started. "And they haven't taken everything. There are more humans alive than you know." He said with a wink before grabbing his pack and jogging out the long-doorless doorframe.
I huffed and sunk down to the floor, eyes closing before tears slipped silently down my cheeks. I was tired of being lied to from Gregor, since he had pulled me to his settlement I had been told of more humans than I had known. He had never told me where they were though.
I was fifteen years of age and hiding from aliens that were taking over by inserting one of their kind into one of our heads. I had already lost my entire family to them, and I feared I had just lost Gregor. I hadn't even said goodbye.