AN: I wrote this about 3 or 4 years ago, and just abandoned it. I have a habit of beginning stories and never finishing them. Recently, I decided that I was going to re-work it so that I could keep everything that I have and let the fic rest with a concrete ending. This is the product of that; a completed fic that has morphed from what it was originally supposed to be.
I think I must have been normal, once upon a time. Only, since about fourth grade, I've been pretty abnormal. I can't explain it. Nobody understands, not even me. Whenever I come in the slightest contact with anybody, I can see things, their entire past, present, and future. I take on their best and worst qualities and I have to fight with all my power to keep me from downing. It's like I take on two brains, one of them and one of me. Only the other brain wants to eat mine. It stays with me until I touch someone else, and then the cycle starts all over again. If I try really hard and don't come in contact physically with people, their personalities fade from me after a few days.
While this… talent has labeled me a freak, nobody knows of it. I don't tell people unless I think I can trust them, and I'm usually wrong. Everytime I've told someone they think I'm crazy and usually never speak to me again. Most people think I'm 'not all there'. I've succeeded in pushing away my entire family and everyone I could have considered a friend. They know that I'm strange, but most of them have no clue why. I think that I would be a very social person if I didn't have to hide myself away. Because I have to avoid touching people, I try to stay as far from them, emotionally and physically, as possible. I've had an almost impossible time making friends.
When I'm completely me, that is to say, in the period between the last person I've touched fading from me and the point at which I will touch another person, I love to run. On most days in any season but track season, anyone looking can find me on the track that circles the high school football field.
Which is where she found me. The woman in leather. The woman whose world was in flames.