Okay so I didn't think I'd post a day early again this soon but I'm kind of out of options. My highschool band is having a craft bazaar known as the Band Bazaar and I'm getting up at the ass crack of dawn and working for 12 hours, then going to ROTC to march in the Christmas parade. So now you understand I have literally no chance of posting tomorrow.
That's why I'm posting today.
Also I hope you like the History of the Glitch chapter, those are just little snippets of Abbys past that may or may not intertwine with the chapter after it. Like I said they won't happen very often though.
Now we're back on track with the story line.
Enjoy~
Wally didn't see Abby at school that Monday. When she texted him on Friday he had immediately responded with;
I don't hate you. But I still want to talk. -WW
He didn't get a response after that but didn't try texting her again over the weekend. After finding out Robin called her he even confirmed it, but made it clear he didn't plan on telling Wally what else was said. That irritated the speedster even more.
Wally also had yet to look at the information on the flash drive. He gave it to Robin when he went back to Mount Justice and told him to look through it if he wanted to.
"Ms. Morrison?" A girl poked her head in the doorway and walked in after the teacher nodded. Wally looked up and noticed a tall boy was standing in the doorway with his arm crossed.
"Yes, may I help you?" Ms. Morrison asked, raising an eyebrow at the punk looking teenager. The girl had her red hair pulled back in a low ponytail, showing off her orange eyes and the multiple piercing in her ears.
"I'm looking for Abby Montgomery. Is she here today?" She smiled, looking over the classroom. Her eyes were on Wally for a second longer than the rest of the students.
"No, I'm sorry. She's called in sick today and her guardian said she'd probably be at home for the rest of the week." Wally perked up at that, frowning. He didn't know that she was missing school the entire week.
"Fuck.." The girl cursed under her breath, ignoring the look the teacher gave her. "She ain't here."The tall boy scowled, nodding after a moment.
"We'll find her, sis. Let's go."
The two didn't look anything like siblings. The boy was tall with black hair while the girl was barely taller than Abby and had red hair. All of the students and Ms. Morrison watched as the two walked out of the room.
"Okay... Now back to linear programming." Ms. Morrison continued her lecture a few minutes after the nameless siblings left.
"That was strange, I wonder why they want Abby..." Wally heard Jalissa mutter under her breath, other comments about the two were made during class at random times and by the end of the day the entire school knew about Abby being absent for the week and the two siblings showing up out of nowhere.
More often than not, people went to Wally for answers when he didn't have a clue.
._.
Wally didn't expect to see the siblings again in Central City a few nights later on patrol.
Well he didn't exactly see them. Not at first. He saw people looking up at a building and pointing at the roof. When he looked up he realized they were sitting on the top of the building. Not standing and contemplating suicide, which some people actually thought, but sitting there and talking.
Sneaking away from the group, Kid Flash went inside the building and ran up the stairs to the roof, opening the door slowly so the siblings wouldn't notice him.
"We gotta find her, Jacob!" Jackie sniffled, her head in her hands. "Captain Cold and the other Rogues haven't seen her and she's been gone since Saturday!" Wally felt his stomach drop but stayed silent.
"I know, I know. We'll find her, Jackie. Sun Slinger and Moon Rider always find their glitch..." Jacob mused, nudging her shoulder. The names were familiar, Robin had mentioned something about a Sun Slinger in Gotham but he never went into detail.
"You guys are looking for Abby too?" Kid Flash finally spoke up, walking over to the two. Jackie cringed and Jacob looked back to the red-headed speedster. He didn't feel very welcome.
"Yes. We are. Now why are you looking for her, Kid Flash?" Jacob growled, "Last we heard, you found out Abby was part of the Rogues and she thinks you hate her guts!" Jackie hissed something to her brother and even though he was still miffed, he backed off.
Kids eyes widened and he shook his head, quickly explaining what he told her. It took him a second to realize he explained too fast for them to comprehend.
"Sorry, that happens sometimes.." Kid sighed and ran a hand over the back of his neck. "I told her I didn't hate her. Rogue member or not I can't hate Abby!"
Kid felt like the siblings were reading him like an open book as they stared at him silently. Jacob mumbled something under his breath and Jackie nodded, before Kid could ask what he said the boy vanished and left curls of purple smoke. Jackie just stood up and walked to the middle of the roof where no one but Kid could see her.
"Wha-"
"Don't ask." Jackie gave Kid a pointed look and motioned him to follow her. The two sat on the roof with the stars as their only light source. "What are you going to do when you see Abby as System Glitch again?"
"I..." Kid Flash frowned and looked up at the stars. He hadn't put much thought into what he was going to do. "I don't know. Not arrest her or anything I just.."
"Want answers?" Jackie finished smugly, crossing her arms.
"Yes. I want answers. Why she joined the Rogues, why her eyes glow blue, and why she's been missing for days." He explained, giving Jackie a confused look when she started laughing.
"Well I can answer one of those questions for you, Kid. But I don't know if you'll want to hear it... You really want to know why her eyes glow blue don't you." It wasn't a question but Wally nodded anyway. "Fine. But this is going to take a while... Lets hope Jacob gets back before I'm done." She mumbled the last part.
"I can't tell you why her eyes glow blue when she glitches because she doesn't even know. But I can tell you what it means."
"Good enough." Kid encouraged.
"Abby started having these episodes when she was around eight years old or so. Just minute long bursts of random information and when she was done she always had awful headaches. She finished her tests in about ten minutes while the rest of the class took forty or so, she started reading the math textbooks and correcting the mistakes with a crayon, but she also started knowing too much. Too much for an eight year old. Like making calculations down to the second with traffic lights and knowing the speed a bird was going as it passed over her head.
"The teachers thought she was her mind was developing faster than the other students, they weren't wrong, but they brushed it off as nothing important. No one noticed her eyes change colors when she said some things out loud and Abby knew something was wrong with her but she was too scared to speak up. This went on for a few years until she met us.
"We were both confused when she tried explaining it. She dumbed it down for us by saying 'There's no real way to explain what happens when I have an episode... All the information I know on a topic, some I didn't even know I knew, just comes spewing out of my mouth like a cup that's overflowing with water. But sometimes I can control it when it's really simple things like a math question…'
"Once we saw her have an episode ourselves we agreed to help her get control of her problem if she agreed to help us control ours. Jacob nicknamed her episodes 'glitches' because he notice her eyes glow the same the color a computer does when it has a blue screen.
"Now she's controlled her glitch to where she only has an episode when a question is asked a certain way. Only Jacob and I know what it is since we're the ones that thought of it..." Jackie breathed deeply when she finished explaining Abbys glitch to Kid Flash, who just sat there absorbing all the information like a sponge.
"When you say you and your brother are special... Can you explain that a bit more?" Kid asked. Jackie rolled her eyes but nodded.
"I absorb light and can blind people. Jacob leaves a trail of silver when he runs and can teleport using shadows."
"That explains the purple mist..." Wally grumbled.
"Did I satisfy your curiosity?" Jackie laid on her back and lifted her hands above her, generating a ball of light the size of a softball and tossing it from hand to hand.
"One more question actually."
"Shoot."
"Before Jacob left what did he say to you?"
Jackie hesitated; dropping the ball of light and watching it dissolve before it could hit her. "Jacob and I have known Abby for years… We know she has a few enemies here and there. So Jacob decided to check the most common areas she ends up when she's kidnapped."
Kid Flash raised an eyebrow, a little concerned by the fact that she has 'common areas' for her kidnappings. Maybe it was the fact that she has been kidnapped before is what bothered him. It was probably the unsettling fact she's missing at all. Either way Kid was unsettled.
There was a beat of silence before Jackie spoke up again. "We'll get her back, Kid. I swear on my speckled eyes."
Even with the brightness and reassurance in her words neither of them really believed it.
Alright sorry again that I had to post a day early.
Just letting you know now, I'll tell you what the poll is next chapter and put it up on my account.
See you next week!
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