"Just relax Emma." I heard a far off voice tell me as I tried to wake up from my dream state. Blinking rapidly, I saw a blurred out image of my cousin Amber looking down at me worried.
"Amber," I began tiredly, "Where are we?"
She shrugged, "I don't know. The signal in my eye screen isn't working so well and I can't seem to signal anyone."
Grabbing my arm, Amber began helping me up as I began looking around at our surroundings drowsily. I must have hit my head pretty hard when the pod left. When I left Dad back at the facility to handle the damage someone else had done.
"Amber, we have to stay put." I mumbled stubbornly. Knowing Amber, she would try to get me to fall asleep in her arms so she could carry me out.
Amber sighed, "Emma, you have to relax. You hit your head pretty bad back there and-"
"Amber, listen to me!"
"No Emma, you listen to me!" Amber yelled, turning to face me, "We are literally in an abandoned building with no food or water, no adults, and no supplies and you just want us to wait here?"
It was then I realized where I was and what surrounded us. It looked like an old warehouse, one that Grandpa Douglas use to have with his partner Krane back when he was alive. When he was a villain. He had died during the war when he was helping Aunt Janelle escape the city. They were running but a Special managed to get within shooting range of Janelle and almost shot her until Douglas got in the way. Douglas pushed her onto the outer side of the town line the moment the trigger was pulled and Janelle was no longer in the city limits.
When it comes to Specials they have to stay within their city limits unless you work for Dr. Montgomery, the dictator of our present world. Dr. Montgomery created the Specials long before he had gotten control of the world and has perfected it over the years. Some had deadly green eyes, others had razor sharp retractable nails, but all of them have rewired muscles that have faster reflexes than humans and have a programed mind. The idea was taken by Scott Westerfeld's book series Uglies and though in the book, the Specials were taken down by a cure, Dr. Montgomery had found a way do defeat any unknown liquids that could come to the brain but at a cost.
Their memories were tampered with.
Sometimes if a Special looks at anything remotely familiar from it's past life, it begins to reprogram itself to block the memory out but that doesn't always work. When the memory refuses to be blocked out, it could be difficult on the Special weakening them. Believe me, I know. I've seen it happen on someone I love very much and is still probably going through this pain.
Especial when they see more of their kind.
The walls of the building were spray painted on, saying things like 'war' and 'two minds'. I didn't really understand what that last one meant. Two minds? It's sort of impossible to have two minds unless you have two heads.
Looking back up at Amber, I asked, "Well what do you want to do? If we leave, who knows what could be out there or who's out there. We don't even know how this world works. We've been locked up our whole lives, living off the stories our parents have been telling us since we were young until you turned 16 and got to leave but only to special facility's and even then you weren't really there to observe. We have no idea what we're doing and you want us to just leave?"
"Guys, what's going on?" I heard my cousin, Amber's twin brother Jason ask as he walked over towards us from behind. Tyler followed after. I didn't even register the fact that they were even here with us but I was glad they were. at least then, I didn't have to deal with her alone. Amber and I have never gotten along very well. She was older than I was obviously but for some reason, that made her think that she was better than us. Sort of like my father before he met my mother. So I've been told.
Placing a hand on her hip, Amber answered, "Emma here thinks we should sit here like sitting ducks just so we can wait for her father when we should be heading towards Mr. Davenport's emergency facility."
My headache began fading away and soon I was looking at the world in a sharper and clearer look. I felt sparks shooting up and down my arm as my hair begin to flair. She was being an idiot.
Tyler made his way besides me and told Amber, "Amber, the emergency facility is over two hundred miles away-"
"Actually it's 1547 miles away." I corrected. They all looked at me oddly as I continued, "From Mission Creek to Mexico City, it's approximately 1547 miles away, at least a week's drive if we even manage to find a car and not get caught by the Specials."
Tyler continued to stare at me before he just shook his head and said, "Well, what she said. It's to dangerous right now."
"Their right Amber," Jason agreed, "For all we know, they discovered every single hidden facility Mr. Davenport owns. We could be walking into a death trap."
That's when a smirk began to plaster itself on my face. Amber noticed and rolled her eyes though she didn't know why I was smirking. It could have been because I was right or because I had an idea.
"Guys," I began, "There's one secret facility they don't know about."
"What do you mean?" Asked Jason.
I looked out at the exit of the warehouse and continued, "Think of the one place that was hidden for years and even after the war, it still couldn't really be found due to misconception."
Jason finally caught on but didn't like the idea. Instead he raised an eyebrow and asked me, "You want us to go to the old Davenport Mansion up in the hills? Don't they know where the lab is located?"
"Actually no, they don't." Tyler confirmed, "Mom use to tell me that whenever they brought someone down to the lab they'd usually blindfold them and place an illusion over the basement floor button in the elevator. They know there's a lab but they don't know where."
"Thank you Tyler." I said.
He just shrugged nonchalantly as Amber said, "Alright. We'll go there tomorrow. Wake up early." And with that, she walked off. Jason in tow.
So here's the next edition of Finding Home. If you see Amber as controlling and bossy there's a reason that I'll get to later. As some of you know, I had just recently posted another story called How to Fall for a Thief. It has the full story as to how Chase and Amelia end up together. Even some missing scene's that will not be shown in this story. Oh and the flashbacks will not be in order but I will tell you where they take place. If you want the missing scenes filled in, you know where to go.
Also, I just posted a Sabrina and Chase future one shot but no romance. It's really cute though so check it out.
Questions-
1. What do you think happened to Amelia all those years ago?
2. What happened to Leo's daughter June?
3. Why are they after Emma?
4. What's so special about the ring?
5. Why is Sebastian a Special?
6. And why am I asking all these questions? Honestly, I just want to hear what you think. Review please!
