Chapter 1: Run away

Name: Chloe Smith

Age: 12

Looks: short blond hair, gray eyes.

Twelve-year-old Chloe has always had special abilities to see someone's life. Because of this she always felt alone. No one understood the consequences that her ability came with. No one understood the sadness that came with it either.

Chloe had been living in an underground testing laboratory since she could remember. She was not frightened of any of them anymore. She had been very frightened as a little girl but the last year or so she realized a couple things. One thing is that everyone one around her was…only human. Poor things. She pitied them because their lack of foresight seemed such a weakness, like they were blind and still trying to go about life anyways. Another thing is that she can leave at any time. It took some time for her to realize it but on top of being able to see others' lives, she also had the ability to get others to do whatever she wanted.

She would practice this in tiny waves because she did not want anyone to know of this particular ability. She couldn't imagine it going over well, humans treasure their free will and she wasn't about to rip that away from them. They all were fairly nice to her anyways. Granted many of the tests that they performed were unpleasant and some rather embarrassing but the knowledge that her mind control would soon be strong enough for her to escape kept her calm and in good spirits.

Finally, the day arrived that she would leave this place. She had such dreams of seeing the outside world. She saw the outside through the lives of all that worked around her. Today was the day. Today was the day that the Main Doctor who oversees her experiments will have a heart attack at home, no one at the lab will know until 2:37pm, he will survive though. Elizabeth, her least favorite nurse is going to be in a small traffic accident that will make her an hour late. Robbie, one of her doctors, is having an affair and he is very distracted today, worrying about the possibility of his wife finding out. She will and it will be the breaking point in their marriage. Luke, nicknamed "lucky" because he was very good at gambling, was her favorite of any of the nurses. Lucky sometimes would stay up late with her in her cell and they would talk about things like, what it meant to be alive, and he had helped her learn to read and write. He was kind, but unfortunately Lucky been drinking the night before and was at work today with a very terrible hangover, and people with hangovers were the easiest to control.

Lucky was the first to unlock her cellar door. He did this because Elizabeth was dealing with her car accident. "Morning, Chloe!" Lucky said with fake-ish enthusiasm. The glaring bright light in her room making him wince slightly. "Liz isn't here yet so I'll be the one taking your vitals this morning." Lucky pulled off his stethoscope from around his shoulders and put the ear pieces in his ears. "By the way, Chloe, you don't happen to know why Liz is late do you?" His eyebrows high on his forehead. Chloe had been working this last year to make them think that she was losing her ability. It was all part of her plan to leave, if the humans think her abilities were receding, then they would trust her more. She had been denying knowing things about others and claiming that her abilities were 'not that good anymore'.

Chloe pretended to look like she was concentrating hard "I…I think…" she fake stammered, "I think I see a car…maybe, no…I don't know, I'm sorry, maybe her car won't start, I'm sorry, I can't…I just can't tell anymore." Chloe was hoping that she was believable and was reassured when Lucky smiled.

"No" he said "but close! Chloe…you do realize that this is GOOD right? Your being cured, you do realize this, right?"

Chloe put on a slightly sad facade. "I'm worried…" she whimpered, hoping that she wasn't too fake. "what will happen to me?"

Lucky smiled warmly. "there's a whole great big wide world out there Chloe, maybe someday, when this…future telling sickness has warn itself off you can go see this world." He put his hand on her shoulder and squeezed.

"can…" Chloe started, drawing him in. "can you show me? Just outside? Just out a window maybe? Please?"

Lucky frowned. "I can't Chloe, not yet."

"Please…just, five seconds?" she started feeling for his emotions, she started, ever so gently, coaxing him into bringing her to the surface.

"Well…" Lucky looked long and hard into Chloe's eyes, her beautiful…innocent…truthful eyes. He tried to think of a good reason why he shouldn't but that part of his mind was so clouded. He imagined what her face would look like when she sees the real sun for the first time. He could almost hear her laughter, and feel her happiness. "well, all right!" he said happily. "come on! Take my hand! I don't want you getting lost! But you have to promise not to tell ANYONE what we're doing okay?"

"Okay!" Chloe agreed. This was perfect. She was very satisfied. No one suspected a thing. Once they got up to the surface Lucky had a small chat with one of the guards. He explained that bringing Chloe up here was part of a new therapy for her. To look out the window. Lucky had convinced the guard well enough that Chloe was virtually harmless. Lucky tugged on her hand and pulled her into a large room that had many chairs and many large windows.

Chloe, for a moment, really was awestruck. The colors are so vivid! She had seen the outside world before through other people's eyes but through her own eyes…tears started welling up in her eyes. Grass…She could see grass. Trees! Cars! This must be a parking lot!

Lucky was standing beside her grinning ear to ear, he was watching her reactions as her face was pressed up against the window.

But all good things had to come to an end.

Chloe turned her head and looked directly into Lucky's eyes. "Take me outside" she said, Calmly and clearly. Lucky's smile instantly vanished and terror filled his eyes. He could feel her control. Like a smothering blanket he could feel her power. He opened his mouth to scream for a guard.

"Don't open your mouth." She ordered quietly. "Don't make a sound, don't alert to anyone that anything is wrong."

Tears started to form in Lucky's eyes and Chloe felt a slight guiltiness in her chest. He was frightened. She couldn't blame him.

Lucky started walking slowly to the front door, fighting every step. Chloe could feel her abilities draining from her. She realized that she would need to hurry this up because she wouldn't last much longer.

Lucky pulled his keys out of his pocket and fumbled with them, "faster!" Chloe whispered harshly.

Tears were now fully streaming down Lucky's cheeks as he opened the door to the outside world.

Fresh clean air rushed into Chloe's face and she took a deep breath in, but time was running out. She could wait to smell the air later. She turned to Lucky. "Take me to your car, give me the keys and let me drive away."

Lucky walked straight to a clean dark green car, opened the door and gave Chloe the keys. "Please don't do this" he whispered. "Please don't."

Chloe started the car and before closing the door leaned out to Lucky. "You and I both know that I can't go back. You and I both know that. Lucky, I am so sorry that I put you through all of this, believe me when I say I'm sorry."

"Take me with you! Please!"

"No" Chloe cut him off sharply. "You will be fine. You will not get in trouble for this. Lucky you still have a long life ahead of you, I can see it, Okay? I am going to be running possibly for the rest of my life and I can't take you down with me."

She leaned out of the car a little farther and kissed him on the cheek. "good bye" she whispered and closed the door and sped off.

The acceleration of the car thrilled her. She looked in the rear view mirror at Lucky. Her heart went out for him. She knew that he will be fine eventually but right now he was hurting. There's nothing she could do about that now. Her only focus now is to somehow get far enough away so they can't find her.

She ended up driving into a town. She didn't know the rules of the road so she decided to pull over and ditch the car. Someday I'll learn how to drive but right now isn't the time. She thought.

The next few days she spent much of her energy hoping from bus to bus, traveling wasn't a problem and neither was finding food. It was finding a place to sleep that she found as the real challenge. Last night she walked out into a passing field and hid in a low bush to sleep. She only got a couple broken hours of sleep before she felt un safe again.

It wasn't till the 5th day of traveling she made it to an old town. The roads were dusty and the sidewalks were made of wood. The people were scarce which made Chloe feel better. The fewer the people the fewer the questions and the stares. Past the town she spotted an old building out in the distance. It looked terribly run down and abandoned, which was perfect for Chloe.

She waited till nightfall before sneaking out to the abandoned building so that no one would see her. The bottom floor was filled with trash and dirt and broken boards. The second floor was much better and she even found a bed up in one of the rooms. Finally, somewhere to sleep! Chloe looked under the bed and decided that she felt safer under there. If someone were to come in, then they wouldn't see her immediately and she would have the advantage.

Chloe squeezed herself under the bed and promptly fell asleep.