Chapter II: Entrance To Eden
"Mother…what is this?"
I asked her in a shaky hesitant voice, that despite my thin seemingly harmless appearance, betrayed every single thing that she knew about her one and only daughter. I stood on the golden sands of a small, privately owned island, garbed in my deteriorated Big Sister suit from the neck down.
"Mother, this island…this is your island?"
The small oceanic paradise was, to put it simple, amazingly beautiful. The salty air of the ocean invaded my nostrils and felt wonderful against the exposed flesh of my face. The island's most noticeable feature was the huge mansion in the distance. It was an amazing sight. Mother just continued to stare at me, a smirk was plastered to her face.
"No, this is your island. Remember, I had planned on returning to the surface when I was finished with Rapture from the beginning. I had a very…generous amount of money left in the bank awaiting my return. This island, and the money that I have saved up, is now yours to do what you will. Oh and don't worry about trying to earn U.S citizenship, I have already had your file placed in the system…minus some details of course."
Mother stiffened and her eyes went wide when my arms enveloped her in a gentle hug. To an observer it must have been quite the sight, at 6 ft and 11 inches, I practically towered over my mother. I had no idea what came over me when I did that though. In no way does this erase the past crimes she has committed against me…but I did feel like I owed her something.
'This is wonderful!'
"I have also enlisted you in Columbia High, a high school found in a small suburban town not far from this island."
'Oh this is wonderful, just wonderful….'
"High school?" My face scrunched up in distaste as I uttered the words.
"Why do I need to attend high school? I'm not going to be learning anything new from any of the teachers and none of the kids are going to give me a challenge academically at all. It would just be a waste of time."
My mother sighed heavily and beckoned for me to follow her into the mansion. The inside of the estate was amazing, it was so luxurious, I could already tell that I was going to enjoy living here very much. My mother lead me to the kitchen area where she motioned for me to sit at the table, I was skeptic about what she was doing but I did so. She then went to the refrigerator and pulled out a carton of orange juice and poured us both a glass.
"Eleanor, if you are serious about taking the surface world for yourself, then you're going to have to play by their rules. One, in order for you to be taken seriously by anyone you're going to have to let your genius be known to them, in order for that to happen it needs to be documented, witnessed by a creditable source." My mother handed me a glass and sat down opposite of me. She took sip of her orange juice before continuing.
"High school is where YOU will be discovered. A child could pass with Ds and Cs through elementary and middle school, pass with As and Bs through high school and could still possibly get accepted to Harvard or any other Ivy League college. What I am saying is, is that no one cares about elementary or middle school, high school is really what matters."
"Okay mother, but how is this relevant?"
My mother gave an exasperated sigh. "Eleanor, you have no high school diploma, you have no college degree, you don't even have a driver's license! Who do you think is going to an elect someone into office who basically has nothing? No credibility at all!"
A loud groan escaped my lips, I slouched in my chair and I brought up a hand to massage my forehead. I could feel a headache coming on. How the hell could I have been so stupid? I had completely forgotten to take into account this nations' system, the more education you had, the more opportunities you had. This was a nation where knowledge was power.
"Besides, these students are the nations' future, I would have thought that you would want the opportunity to get inside their heads and find out what makes them tick…."
I sighed and sent mother a small smile. She was right, this is a wonderful opportunity. This was my chance to make myself known.
"Mother, what grade will I be starting out at?"
Mother stopped sipping her juice and all of a sudden she looked very nervous, I narrowed my eyes dangerously.
"Mother you can't be serious, you mean that I have to start out at the bottom? Ninth grade? Really?"
"Well Eleanor you are technically only sixteen years old, and technically you can't run any governmental office until you hit the age of thirty."
I let out another loud groan, yet again something that I had failed to take into account. Wow, for a genius I really am forgetting a lot of information today.
"Thirty, mother? Really?"
My mother started to message her temples.
"Eleanor do you really think that the nation is going to let some teenager, who is aloof to the concepts of life and death, run the nation or any important office? By the age of thirty a person is basically fully mature- NOT sexually mature-fully mature. Mentally, teenagers are just to unstable to make any important decisions. Physically a teenager is an adult but mentally they are still just children, they still let their emotions get the better of them and the hormones don't really help…at all."
What she said was true, even I let my emotions get the better of me sometimes. It all made perfect sense…but that didn't mean that I had to like it.
"So now I have to wait fourteen years before I can even start running for any type of office…damn!"
This was so frustrating!
"Well…have you ever considered having a pawn?"
I looked my mother straight in the eye.
"What did you say?"
Mother averted her gaze from mine and shifted in her seat uncomfortably.
"A pawn, a figure head, someone that the public thinks is making all the decisions but secretly you are."
That…actually sounded like a good idea. I rubbed my chin gently and put my lips into a small pout. After awhile of thinking I shook my head.
"It's a good idea…but I want everybody to know me. I want to be known for my accomplishment, it wouldn't bring me any satisfaction if I let someone else run the office for me."
Mother nodded.
"I figured as much."
I looked towards the glass door that lead to the back porch and watched as the sun slowly began to set.
"Mother…when do I start school?"
"You start in two days, your room is upstairs in the west wing of the house. It has a bed, bathroom, television, closet full of clothes, the works. Oh and your school supplies is on your bed and already packed."
I nodded my head and rose from my seat. Again, I surprised not only my mother but myself by giving her a gentle hug.
"Thanks mum."
Although I couldn't see her face, I knew that she was smiling.
"You're welcome dear."
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AN: So, what do you think? Boring, interesting, what? I'm trying to make it as realistic as possible without it being to boring. That…and I have never read a fic where Eleanor goes to school, I mean she's not really an adult, she's a teenager. I would have thought that this would have been done MUCH sooner.
Wait…has it? No really, I want to know if someone has written a fic where Eleanor goes to high school, I didn't really look that well…. One more thing, just because Eleanor is in high school doesn't mean that there isn't some other force plotting out there.
Remember, Everybody Wants To Rule The World…
