Prologue
Violet's POV
10 years ago
I was in my cage thinking about my brother. It had been a while since they took him for testing. I was really worried about him, even though we were twins I felt he was my responsibility.
He was the only thing I had left. I would always protect him.
As soon as I heard steps outside the door he was thrown inside and shoved in to a cage by an Eraser. I had to wait until it left before I could check on him.
The first thing I learned was to never show weakness, you could never show emotions in front of any of these monsters, if you did they would use it against you. They had already done it once with our friend Jay. I would never forget it, he was our only other friend and they took him and made him a monster. Then they made me fight him I tried to stop him but he wouldn't listen. He was too brainwashed to listen to any reason.
I won but it came with a price, his life. After that I never got too attached to anyone, except for my brother.
I reached out and shook his shoulder. He lifted his head and I could see he was hiding his emotions but in his eyes I saw fear.
"Are you okay?" I asked him.
"I'm fine Vi wasn't as bad as last time" he replied.
I felt a shiver run up my spine as I remembered last test. Both of us were taken to a room with a huge pool. After we got in they put a shark in we were forced to swim as fast as we could before it got to us. That was the day I realized I had a power. The shark was almost on us and I felt a strong energy run through me next thing I knew the shark was tossed all the way to the other side of the pool. It turns out I could manipulate anything created by the earth. Unfortunately I got mad that one of the Erasers pushed my brother that I threw all of the water at most of them. We got punished and had been shocked by god knows how many volts of energy.
I gave him a small smile and put my head against the bars of my cage. "We should probably get some sleep." I whispered, closing my eyes. When I was about to doze of the door opened that, was strange the never tested us twice in one day.
The opened my cage and lead me down an unknown hallway. We stopped in front of a door and the scientist to my left knocked on the door. I heard a faint come in and the door was opened. It was an office with a desk and the man sitting in the chair looked very important.
I looked in his eyes and saw they were the same color as mine, a really dark brown. For some reason this man looked very familiar. I just didn't remember from where.
"Hello Violet how have you been do you remember me." When I heard his voice I knew exactly who he was. He was the man who gave me to these people, one of them himself. My father.
I finally found my voice and almost screamed at him. "Of course I remember you're the maniac that gave me to these lifeless losers."
My comment didn't affect him the least. "Violet you may think that was the case but that's not true our still my daughter."
It took all my strength not to rip his head off. "I stopped being our daughter the day you gave me away. I may have your blood but you are nothing to me." I said venom dripping in every word.
You can think what you like but I need to talk to you. It's about your brother." As soon as he said those last words I lost it and tried to attack him.
"IF YOU TOUCH HIM I WILL KILL YOU I SWEAR!" I screamed as loud as I could.
After a while I calmed down he began to speak again. " I don't see any reason to hurt him but you have to listen to me we will give you a choice; work for the school and do everything they say…"
"Sure I'll do everything they say." I replied sarcastically.
He continued to talk as if I hadn't interrupted him. "… or we can get rid of you and your brother."
I knew he was bluffing about me, they always spoke of how amazing I was I wanted to barf, but I didn't know what they were willing to do to make me listen to them.
So I started talking.
"I know our lying about killing me but how do I know you won't go behind my back and kill him anyways."
His only reply was "you're going to have to trust me."
I decided to make a deal with them. "Fine but you have to do something for me you can't force him to join like me and after I say good-bye to him you're going to erase his memory of ever having a sister." He smiled at that but I ignored it. " I don't want him to remember me as a traitor."
It was his turn to say something. " I think that can be arranged. But you should know by doing this there is a chance you might never see him again and if you do he will probably hate you."
"I know but it's better than him thinking of me as a traitor."
He dismissed the other people in the room and when we were alone he said something I never thought he would ask. " tell me the real reason you want to erase his memory."
Shocking myself I answered truthfully "Because if he doesn't know me he won't have a problem with killing me."
After I was out of the office the realization of what I had hit, I had just sold my soul to the devil. There was no going back now it was over, done nothing else to do.
I had asked my father to let my brother out of his cage so we could have a proper good-bye too bad he would never remember. But it has to be done I don't want to live like these people experimented on but it wasn't my fault. Ever since I was a baby I was different not just because of the wings but because I was smart too smart l was only five and I was a super-genius. That was also part of the reason for this arrangement I was getting too smart sooner or later I would have escaped.
Oh well too late for that. As the door opened I walked in I could see his confused face. As soon as he saw me he looked relieved. They closed the door and we were alone.
I came over and hugged him knowing it would be the last time.i knew I had to explain this to him so I sat down on the floor. And for the first time showed weakness, tears started to fall from my eyes.
As soon as he saw this he looked worried. "Vi what's wrong?" I knew I had to tell him he had to know.
"This is the last time I'll see you." I replied.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean I'm going to work for the school from now on." I managed to say
He looked shocked "How can you say that, Vi? You would rather die than work for them."
"Well they didn't really give me a choice. They said they would kill you if I refused, I couldn't let them do that."
"Vi what were you thinking I'm not going to let them do this to you because of me." He almost screamed at my face.
"There's nothing you can do about it as soon as I say good-bye they're going to make sure you never remember me."
His face was full of disbelief. "They are not going to erase my memories. I won't let them Violet."
"They will it's part of our deal, you won't remember anything I did or who I even was." With that I knocked on the door and the led him out to forget. I heard him screaming at them but when it faded I sat alone sobbing, whispering my final good-bye. " Good-bye I'll never forget you, my brother, Fang."
