Minni talking: Okay, I think I forgot to mention that Elle is 17 years old in this story! I dunno how well I got her personality in, but yeah .. xD Anyway, the more reviews the faster I'll post :P Don't got a lot to say really..

Chapter 2

Electric shock

Elle and Claire walked along the road, mostly Claire was the one who asked questions and talked while Elle responded with her short answers.

"Wow, you really haven't gotten out much have you?" Claire asked after getting a little tired by Elle's short answers.

"Sorry, I'm not a very interesting person." Elle said simply with a little edgy voice.

"I bet you are, but you're not telling me everything about yourself." Claire said.

"What are you expecting me to do? Tell you every last little detail of my life? I just met you today, why don't you spill first?" Elle said a little irritated.

"Fine, I've lived a lot of places, but I've lived here for a while now, I have a brother Lyle and a mom and a dad, my dad is a paper sales man and I live not too far from the school and I like cheerleading." Claire said.

"I could mostly have figured that out on Google, no boyfriend? No deep dark secret?" Elle asked a little bitter.

"I used to have a boyfriend, but West, he, he had to leave." Claire said a little sad.

"What about the deep dark secret you seem to think I have?" Elle asked.

"I don't have one." Claire said and felt really guilty once the words had left her lips, how could she expect anyone to be honest with her if she kept lying about what she could do?

"Everyone has secrets," Elle said, "but you don't tell yours, I don't tell mine." She said as her phone rang.

"Hello." Elle said, "No, I'm just out." She said. "No I haven't, I didn't." Elle was silent for a minute, "I'm just hanging with a girl from school. No daddy please, I promise I didn't!" Elle said loudly.

"What's going on?" Claire said a little short of breath since Elle had started to walk faster when she'd gotten the call.

Elle ignored her, "No daddy, we're just walking fast. I promise I didn't do it! No don't do that I just…" Elle listened, "Okay I'll come home." She said finally and clapped the phone shut.

"What is it?" Claire asked.

"I have to go home." Elle said.

"Why?" Claire asked.

"Can't you just drop the questions? If my dad hadn't heard you in the background panting like a dog running a hundred miles my dad would've have believed me when I said I didn't do anything!" Elle snapped at Claire as she started walking toward the city again.

"What would you have done?" Claire asked, "Ops, sorry." She said quickly when she saw the look Elle gave her.

"There's my ride." Elle said and spotted a black car with a guy dressed in black and dark glasses waiting for her.

"See you at school tomorrow?" Claire asked.

"Maybe…" Elle answered very unsure, something Claire defiantly picked up on.

The black dressed agent looking guy opened the door for Elle as Elle went inside with a sigh and a quick look at Claire and the guy before the door got shut and locked her inside the car.

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"Your father is waiting in his office." The driver told Elle as the car stopped and the doors unlocked.

"I need to let out some frustration first." Elle said as she opened the car door.

"You have to see your father first, he sounded displeased." The driver said.

"Fine." Elle growled, she wondered if she could hold it together until her dad dismissed her, but she doubted it, and then she'd be in trouble, again.

"Daddy." Elle said as she entered his office.

Bob Bishop turned around in his chair and looked at his daughter. "Elle, you're home, good." He said with a smile, "How was school?" he asked.

"Fine, I had classes and this cheerleader acts like she's my new best friend." Elle said with a shrug.

"So why did you electrocute her?" Bob asked.

"I didn't! I told you she'd just been running after me because I was walking fast!" Elle screamed and could feel the electric sparks in her hands.

"Control yourself." Bob said looking determinate at his daughter hands.

"I'm sorry; I haven't had a single break where I could let it out all day." Elle said frustrated.

"So you were planning on tagging along with this new friend of yours and put her in the risk of you electrocuting her?" Bob asked calmly, but a little icy.

"No! She just didn't give me a choice." Elle answered.

"Rubbish." Bob said, "You always have a choice Elle, you could've exposed yourself to this girl, never do that again, do you understand me?"

"Yes." Elle said and looked down.

"Now, since you have so much power, now would be as good time as any for us to check up on you." Bob said.

Elle's head jerked up and her eyes widened. She knew very well that checking up meant testing and pain.

"Come on now, be brave." Bob said as some men came and led Elle out of the room.

Elle struggled to not use her powers at once to lose it up a little before the test, she knew this test would hurt, they'd done it before. They had forced her to be in water for hours so she couldn't, wouldn't, use her powers so she was so charged up when the test came and it had hurt a lot. This had been a few years ago, and now she could only image the pain she'd go through. Elle also knew if she didn't do as she was told now, she wouldn't get to go to school for at least the rest of the week and she knew that Claire would wonder where she was, even try to find her way to her house, and that could never happen. Then she'd expose too much. Even if she hadn't admitted to the people at the school or anyone else, she really did want to go to school and be a normal teenager, despite what her shrink had diagnosed her as and her dad had agreed to it if she behaved and was a good girl.

Elle went into the room she knew too well and lay down on the half gurney, half bed, half table looking table and her hands and feet were strapped to it so she wouldn't move too much. Her hands were also dipped into water that led to a big pool of more water. Wires were labeled to her head and hands. Elle took a deep breath and closed her eyes and braced herself as a jolt of pain shot through her, she knew the pain, it was her own electricity, but it wasn't by her, this was more like mental than physical, but she knew that soon she would let it all out. She knew she couldn't hang on much longer.

The one thing Elle focused on was that she wasn't going to cry. She'd done that most of the time when she was younger, but she wouldn't anymore, she refused to cry over the pain, it was humiliating.

In the background of the fourth jolt she could hear her dad mumble very low "She can take it."

Then, as the sixth jolt went through Elle she couldn't take it anymore and with a scream she let it all out, but everything hit her back because of the water oh her hands and she could feel her system overload and the pain was so much she could hardly hear anything else, but she did hear machines making sounds like crazy. Elle saw only white or black, the pain and the electrical shock her body was exposed of was a lot to handle and Elle wasn't even sure she could. She fought useless against the restrains wanting to dry her hands and let it out elsewhere, but she couldn't stop.

After what felt like days rather than about 10 minutes Elle passed out and everything went black.

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End of Chapter 2