I know, there are tons and tons and tons of these. But this isn't all I'm doing. It's going to be a bunch of characters, like Alden and Grady and stuff, when they firstmeet Sophie from their point of view! It's in the same style as my Ships story, so I thought this one would be good to replace it.
This is the first one-shot in this story. It was a little harder to write, since I wanted to use the actual dialogue in the book, and it's a little hard when I'm "limited" like that. But, it was fun, and I think it turned out all right. Hope you like it!
Fitz
It was another day as usual, searching for this strange missing elf. Honestly, I wasn't even sure if she existed. My dad had been looking for this girl for years, wasting mine and my brother's time looking and looking and looking. So when he got that newspaper of the girl on the front, he was convinced that she was the one, which I honestly didn't believe.
I casually leaned against the wall of the museum and waited for her class to arrive. I laughed to myself as I saw the scaled dinosaur model; humans were so ignorant.
A group of students entered from the hall in front of me. Each looked absolutely bored out of their minds. I scanned the girl's picture from the newspaper and read over the article again; Sophie Foster. That was her name.
The class had started walking away, but I caught the girl gazing at me. But her eyes, they were brown. I knew it. She's not the one.
I sighed, but decided to talk to her anyway, even though I wasn't supposed to. I'd probably get in trouble. It probably wasn't even the right girl, but I had to be sure.
I made my way over. I went with the obvious and pointed to the picture. "Is this you?"
She blushed and nodded.
"I thought so. I didn't realize your eyes were brown." Oh yeah. That probably wasn't confusing at all. Way to go, Fitz.
"Uh, yeah… Why?" she looked at me a moment. "Are you in this class?" she asked, then flushed even deeper. I smiled; humans.
"Tell me something." She waited and I pointed to the highly inaccurate Albertosaurus. "Do you really think that's what they looked like? It's a little absurd, isn't it?" Let's see what she thinks about that.
She looked at the dinosaur then back to me, unimpressed. "Not really. Why? What do you think they looked like?"
I shook my head and laughed. This obviously wasn't who we were looking for. Time to scratch her off the list and move on.
"Never mind. I'll let you get back to your class. It was nice to meet you, Sophie." I started to go a bathroom so I could leap out, when a group of little kids came running and screaming down the hall. They were loud, but their minds were agony. As a Telepath, it was hard enough to block the thoughts of human adults. But screaming kids? That was beyond painful, especially when unexpected.
I put my hands to my temples, trying to block out their voices, but as I looked up, I caught the girl's eye. Her hands were on her forehead, her face twisted in pain. She saw me and froze.
I could barely speak. "Did you just…hear that?" She went completely pale.
"Who are you?"
It couldn't be, could it? But her eyes…they weren't blue… "You did, didn't you? Are you a Telepath?" She cringed and her eyes grew panicked. This was her! I had done it! After twelve years! Finally, I had something to show for all this searching. My father was right after all.
"You are. I can't believe it." She looked terrified and started backing away from me. "It's okay. You don't have to be afraid. I'm one too." She turned a shade of green. "My name's Fitz." Her eyes grew skeptical. Did she honestly think I would lie about this? "I'm not joking."
She started wobbling so I grabbed onto her arm, hoping she wouldn't fall over. "It's okay. I'm here to help. We've been looking for you for twelve years." But apparently, that was the wrong thing to say. She yanked her arm out of my grasp and dashed to the exist.
"Sophie, come back!" I called out. She kept going. "Wait, you don't have to be afraid." She ran out, and I went after her. I wasn't worried about losing her. I had found her once; it wouldn't be hard to again. Sophie Foster was the missing elf. Who knew it would be the girl with the brown eyes.
So, there you have it! More will probably come in the order that characters meet her, like Alden is going to be next. I hope you liked it!