NEPTUNE HIGH SCHOOL, NEPTUNE, CALIFORNIA
Claire, Veronica and Meg were sitting at a table in the quad at lunch time, Veronica playing with her food, mulling things over in her mind about her sister, Aaron Echolls, Logan, Claire. Everything basically. The cuts on the back of her hands were beginning to itch with pain and it annoying her. Several times Dick had come up to her and taken the piss out of her for having his best friends father hit by a truck and arrested, even though he killed her best friend. Wallace was at his Varsity Basketball Break-Up Lunch in the gym with free food. Typical Wallace. Always thinking with his stomach.
"You okay? What time did you go to sleep?" asked Meg. That got Claire listening. She was still taking in her surroundings at her new school.
Veronica had introduced them in homeroom and journalism class. Turns out Claire was in their class. ASE. Or Advanced Sophomore/Senior Education.
"I don't know. I guess I got home at about 1:30ish, yelled at mum, got on the laptop searching someone-," she was cut off.
"You were searching about her, weren't you?" she asked softly, smiling, not wanting to accuse her of anything. Veronica nodded.
"Then she showed up, left, then Logan showed up, then got arrested. Fell asleep at about 4, I guess. I woke up at 6:30-7. So thats like two and a half hours of sleep, on top of being in a car crash, being to thrown to the ground, having a gun shoved in my face and electrocuted," finished Veronica. When she said 'thrown to the ground' she looked at Claire
There was a slight pause, Meg speaking next and awkwardly. "Who is 'her'?"
Veronica and Claire shared a look between them. "My... uhhh...twin sister."
"You have a sister? Since when?" said Meg, astounded. Veronica had always been an only child. A rare thing in Neptune. The majority of families all had two or more kids.
"It's complicated... What she can do. Can I do it too?" asked Veronica, forgetting that Meg was even there.
"I don't know. You could ask my dad after school," suggested Claire. "But I warn you, she is there. At my place. Being held hostage as a precautionary thing. She's tried to kill us several times."
"So how are you keeping her hosage if she can do that?" asked Veronica, slightly amused that they were able to hold an electric girl hostage.
"Her feet are willingly in our doggy bath full of water. And then chained to the chair. She was like that when I woke up, went downstairs and punched her," answered Claire, a smile on her face.
"Okay, what the hell are you guys talking about?" demanded Meg.
"I'll explain everything when I understand it myself. I promise," said Veronica, looking at Meg.
The bell rang and nearly everyone left for class.
"She shocked you?" whispered Claire. Veronica nodded.
"Stings like a bitch doesn't it?'' Again Veronica nodded, smiling lightly this time.
BENNETT HOUSE, NEPTUNE, CALIFORNIA
Elle's cell phone vibrated across the Bennett's kitchen table. Noah was doing the heavy lifting and pushing in the lounge room, moving the couch and cabinets, setting up the TV and dvd players as well as Lyle's Xbox. Sandra was cooking yet again and finishing putting everything away in the kitchen. Elle had offered to help but the declined for some reason. She figured it might have something to do with the fact she tried to kill them several time lately.
"Ummm...Mr Bennett. My phone is ringing," said Elle, looking towards the lounge room to see him walking briskly to the table.
"I trusted you before, I can trust you again," he said unlocking her restraints. "We're not here."
After she had eaten her breakfast, he let her shower before he locked her up again. Even though he was trusting her, it didn't mean that he trusted her completely. It could all be a trick and she could be waiting for the right moment to shock them to death.
She picked up and answered, checking the caller id on the way.
"Hi, daddy,'' she said through gritted teeth.
"Elle, where are you?'' Bob Bishop asked.
"Watching them like you said too. The Mr and Mrs went for a walk. I'm looking through their house right now,'' explained Elle, hoping he would buy the crappy story she came up with.
"You didn't call yesterday, like you were supposed too," he said. Elle knew he was getting angry with her. He'd done that a lot since her stunt with Sylar.
"My phone ran out of battery and I had no gas, so I couldn't charge it," she suggested.
"How did you charge it then?"
"Car drove past this morning and offered to get me some from the nearest one."
"Okay. Just watch them. Don't let them know you're there. And for God's sakes, stay away from populated areas," he said.
"Sure thing, daddy," said Elle, flipping her phone shut, before he could say anymore. "Adoptive parents these days."
Putting her phone back down on the phone, Elle put her arm down on the chair expecting to be tied down again, but instead Noah handed her a towel and unlocked her completely.
"You lied for us. You betray us and there will be hell to pay," he said as she finished drying her feet off. Elle nodded and began to help Sandra in the kitchen.
Outside the house in the drive way, car doors slammed shut and Noah said it was the kids. Standing up from the box she was looking in, Elle moved to the archway the seperated the kitchen to the lounge. And someone else. Lyle opened the door, taking his bag and stuff up to his room and to play on his computer. Claire walked in with Veronica in tow behind her, who closed the door.
"Dad, why isn't she tied up? And you remember Veronica," asked Claire, dropping her bag onto the couch.
Veronica was still in the foyer of the house, taking in her surroundings. And then she noticed Elle near the kitchen.
"I hear you two have met," said Claire, looking between the twins and leaning against the arch's frame.
