Just a heads up, this chapter is a little darker than usual so just for future reference, most Heather chapters are dark.
Heather's POV
I am a murderer.
It's as simple as that and I'm not even batting an eye lid. I kill people and I've lost that feeling deep inside a person that whispers 'this is wrong.'
It's been replaced by, 'this makes me feel alive.'
I am lying here in my brand new room and I'm thinking really depressing thoughts when I should be thankful.
My brand new uniform was hanging in a closet filled with dozens of designer clothes and shoes (most of them stolen but whatever), the room had a big round bed with the most expensive Egyptian cotton sheets slaves (Katie and Sadie) could steal. I was lying on the bed in pair of Peter Alexander cotton shorts and a thin tank top, and I took to wearing no wig when I was by myself. I read somewhere online that if my head was bare then my hair could grow quicker.
I was thankful for what I have but I want more….things that can't be filled with…stuff.
I wasn't going to find something to plug that hole here, even though there were people who (somewhat) cared for me.
I could hear Justin next door with his music turned up loud. I wanted to get up and tell him to turn it down, but he as I thought that Noah must have called him since the noise was turned off and the door slammed. Noah must be somewhere in his sitting room planning….stuff and those dumb twins were doing something random in this large area.
We were team mates, but I started to think about where I would be if my life…if I was normal.
My life had been crazy since the day I found out about my power, Noah had told me much about how we all came to the school. Since it was halfway through a new school year when we were all invited (so much sarcasm) to the school, there had to be a reason behind it, and there was. Courtney and Duncan were the main reason we were all asked to the school at such a random time, you see, most of us were just discovering our powers little over a month before being contacted, RAW and the school were on high alert for kids Courtney and Duncan age at the time so it would seem to them like normal school.
Noah told me it was just further experiments on them, that they both required an average growing experience. But they, like a lot us, were late bloomers and were not expected to develop the way the should have, surprising everyone in RAW which caused the company to panic and just gather us as quickly as possible. The rest of us should have had time to figure ourselves out, had someone come and contact in person in a calm manner, explain to family and ourselves what was going on, and be asked to the school in the coming year. Instead they had two weeks max to prepare everything…ruining all our lives.
That is why my goal in life is to not only destroy Gwen for stopping Noah, but to kill Courtney and Duncan. It's their fault.
It's their fault I'm bald. It's their fault my family hates me, it's their fault I was sent to a metal institution for so long. It's their fault my family is now dead.
That's the murder I was thinking about, stupid tears, I wiped my eyes and started to remember that dreadful day.
I feel no regret.
My so-called family left me in the nut house.
It was raining when I finally made it back to the house I grew up in, Noah had recruited me but he let me do what I wished, what I wished was to cause mayhem. He gave me the keys to a jet and told me to go nuts. My eyes glinted in the darkness, they didn't know I was here, this was simply a information….mission deal. Whatever.
I looked in the window and I saw I sight I never wanted to see.
My family. Happy.
It was awful. My little brother and sister were fawning over my father who lifted them up to place a star on top of the Christmas tree. Was it really that time of year already?
The last time I saw my family was before I left for the nut house which was about a year ago, but my family had changed since then. I guess they don't care about me, considering they now have two new kids. Yeah, my mom is now holding a baby in pink while a baby in blue was resting in a cradle near the sofa.
They forgot me.
They forgot all about me.
I snarled and left the sickening scene and flew myself to my old room, expecting a shrine to me but instead I found something that made me cold to the bone, my room was now converted into a baby's room. It looked like the girl baby and boy were sharing this room. From what I could see, the birth certificates on the wall say that the little girl is Alison and the boy is Victor sweet names.
Too bad they took my life.
I have heard nothing in the last year and this is what they were doing? Playing family?
I was in a deep rage when I killed them. A cyclone, Dorothy in OZ style, except instead of landing in a happy munchkin land, the house shattered.
I felt nothing then, I mean, I felt a bit bad for killing my new baby brother and sister, but as Noah later told me, the police scavenged my mother and the new babies, I decided to let her be. She was going to have a miserable life, considering I sent a letter telling her just who she betrayed. My new brother and sister might be like me, so I might meet them again some day.
And slit their throats. Or try to make them join me, whatever.
I turned over in my bed and I sighed again, I wonder what I would do today. Steal, plan with Noah or torture some of Noah's prisoners. Unfortunately my decision was made for me.
"What's up Heather?" Sadie said as she slides into the room.
"Good morning, reasons I drink" I shot at her. I turned over, may as well get up and get ready. I took one of my favourite comfort clothes, the same I wore in the old days at school, and I went behind my divider and started to change while I conversed with them. "Go away." I told them, shooing them.
"but we are so bored." Katie whined.
I groaned, "Go light some fires or something."
Sadie rolled her eyes "But we do that all the time."
"I don't care!" I yelled at them.
"About us?" Katie asked sadly.
"About anything." I yelled again, they looked at me and played with their clothes that matched each other, "Look, go annoy Justin. I know that you do the horizontal horror with each other but a threesome would do you some good."
"He is hot." Katie said, turning to Sadie but Sadie shook her head. "But can we do something with you! Please, pretty please." I stepped out from behind my divider and took the wig that looked most like my original hair.
"No." I told them, "Look, I gotta see Noah. I need something to do that doesn't involve you two." ….I felt vengeful today. Kinda like a 'it's a Killsday'
"Whatever." Sadie answered.
I led them out of my room before turning them towards the dungeons while I made my way towards Noah. I opened the grand door and saw Justin and Noah discussing things, Justin was wearing his usual villain outfit while Noah had changed into his, a long white lab coat, sweater vest and the suit part of pants. "Ah Heather." Noah said, leaning back in his chair, Justin turning his front towards me with his hands behind his back, "let me guess, you want something to do."
"Wow," I answered, sarcasm dripping, "you really are a telepath." I sauntered over to him, hips swaying, "I'm so bored." I pouted at him, Justin rolled his eyes and I glared at him, "What?" I snapped.
"Nothing at all." He said.
I snorted and instead went up to him, held his tan neck in my hand and held my hand up to his face, electrifying it. "Not convincing" I told him with a sadistic smile. "Try again."
Justin retaliated and forced the awful images in my mind of my body burnt and mangled, I let go of him and backed off, holding my head. Justin leant down to my level " I don't like you, the whole time you have been here the only thing you have done is kill everyone we have sent you to retrieve. Your methods are stupid, your progress has been stupid, your intelligence is stupid-" I hit him, knocking him away, then using my body to twirl my legs around and knock his from underneath him.
"Not my fault." I told him panting, "they betrayed me, and the others you sent me for tried to kill me."
Justin looked up to me, then we heard Noah chortle behind us, we both looked up. Noah looked amused. He got up from his chair and helped Justin up before guiding me to his side, "Heather, you have indeed helped me and my group to achieve quite a lot, and those who you have killed would eventually be killed any way if they did not agree to fight with us."
"But Noah-" Justin tried to start, but Noah lifted a hand to his temple and Justin immediately stopped. "Sir, Heather has killed important people that you could convince to be on our-"
Noah glared at him and Justin stopped talking "Stop talking or I will make you a girl." I snorted again. "Heather, I do have an extremely important mission for you and it is the upmost importance that you don't kill her."
"Right, right." I nodded, yes, I mission. I'm gonna do something today.
"We need Izzy." Noah said, as though he was only asking me to run to the store to get milk.
"Izzy?" both Justin and I asked. Izzy had been an ally for Noah for a while now and never did anything to betray him, since Noah had more money than the president and Izzy was easily bought off, usually spending money on weapons, chemicals or tacos.
"Yes." Noah told us, "it has come to my attention that Izzy, in moments of clarity, she has above average intelligence. Actually, more than that, she is the brightest mind I have come across." He sat back down in his seat. "She moves so fast that I am unable to pinpoint an exact location, but she seems to flicker in and out of my mind when she passes by us. Of course she has now lost this brain power but she has discovered much and I want to know this information."
"What does she know?" I asked.
"Just something for our final plan." Noah told me, "trust me, you will love the idea."
"Got ya" I told him, making him towards the door. "One piping hot crazy girl coming right up" then I stopped in my tracks, turning around again. "How, exactly, do I catch the fastest girl alive."
"I have….uncovered…something that could help." He went behind his chair to the wall and opened a safe and immediately I felt something drain me, I saw Justin stagger as well but he didn't look confused.
"What have you got." I asked him. "I feel….drained."
"This." He said, turning to me, the safe was slammed shut and I felt normal, Noah came up to me and handed me a small box, "this will leave Izzy totally powerless, put it around her neck and she won't be able to escape until you take the necklace off her. But first, too get her down" he showed me another glowing item, it was in a test tube with a cork stuck in the top. "This is a weaker version of the substance, it will only work for a few seconds but it will be enough for you."
"How do I use it?" I asked, taking both items.
Noah rolled his eyes, "Use your imagination."
"I'll go get dressed then, don't want to go on a mission in this old thing." I said.
As I left the room I peeked through a crack in the door, I don't trust Justin, I bet he's waiting for the chance to screw me over. "I don't like her." He muttered to Noah.
Noah flipped his hand, "You don't like anyone."
OooO
It was a pleasant afternoon in New York city, I sat at a small café in my outfit with my trench coat wrapped around me, it protected me from the chill of the late January air. From the coordinates that Noah was able to gather, she frequented New York most often, so I was waiting for her to pass by. This time I laid bait.
I left a taco in the middle of the street.
Why?
Because Izzy is weird.
I sat and sipped my coffee, first class trip from Vegas to New York was wonderful, having someone you know who can control minds is really useful. I waited just a bit longer and what should happen, a curious green blur came down the street. Almost like a cartoon Izzy stopped like that bird that keeps running and goes 'meep meep' she looked down at the taco, licked her lips, and bent down in the middle of traffic to eat a suspicious looking taco.
Unknown to her, I had put some of the glowing stuff from the test tube in the taco mince.
I got up and I pointed the box at her, opening it. Izzy faltered but kept eating her taco, I ran up to her and put a necklace around her neck.
Izzy fell to the ground and she saw for the first time, a crystal, or a fragment of a crystal. It glowed red around the neck of Izzy as she fell. I stared at her and she looked up, before looking at the half eaten taco in her hand. "Damn you taco! That's the last time I ever eat you!"
Complete disregard for her safety, "Are you insane!" I asked her. She may be someone of interest to Noah, but she did help me and I do owe her safety.
Izzy munched on her taco, the one she recently just said she wouldn't eat again, before answering, "Yeah."
"You are so weird." I told her, picking her up from the ground. The taxis beeped at us but I gave them the finger and I shoved Izzy over to the table. She tried to take the necklace off but I stopped her with handcuffs, almost invisible at a distance, she didn't expect her movements to be so slow, she didn't fight back. "Long time, no see." I told her as we sat down, passing her a mega chocolate coffee with cream and sprinkles, heavy in fat and without her usually fast metabolism, it was going to go right to her hips.
"Yum, yum!" she said in delight. "What do you want Heather?"
I scoffed "I come here, I give you a nice coffee-"
"You take my power" she finished, licking cream off her finger.
"You were the one stupid enough to eat a taco in the middle of the street, in the middle of New York. What if it was filled with drugs?"
"What if it was filled with yummy beans?" she retorted. Although she didn't have her power anymore she stilled finished her drink before me, getting right down to business. "How do you expect to get me back to Navada? Not exactly on a fly list." She told me with a smirk.
"Always be friends with one nerd." I told her, flipping out two tickets "Noah has sorted everything, we are now miss Hilary Chow and miss Trixie Richards. It's complicated to control people at a distance." I explained to her. I took another sip from my coffee before curiosity got the better of me, "What did you do anyway?"
"Don't know what you mean." She told me, ripping open sugar packets and emptying them on the table like a bored child.
"You know what I'm talking about." I snapped, slamming my now empty coffee on the table, sending the sugar into the air before landing in a bigger, messier pile.
Izzy abandoned her task, "I'm not telling, and I will never will tell, or the fate of the universe will be in peril."
"…are you high?" I asked, standing up and shelling a couple of bucks for someone to collect, taking Izzy by the arm, "You know, I'm not even surprised anymore on how crazy you are!"
"Oh well that hurt."
"This has become your normal"
"Well now I have to try harder!"
"Come on!" I told her, leading her away.
"I feel like I've been issued a challenge." She yelled down the street.
OooO
A couple hours later we were flying back home, Izzy was sleeping and I was reading a book. I was going back to my home and soon we were going to have Izzy in a tiny cage until she gave us…the secrets of the universe? I don't know. I decided to try and sleep for a while, so much had happened in only a month, I had a new job, a new home, I wasn't on the street or begging for cash. I was a new girl….and I am happy being on this side. The side where some day, I will be ruler of the world.
I gave a soft sigh.
Izzy gave a little snort before waking up, "Wha? What up?" she asked.
"Shut up, you're throwing off my chi." I told her, eyes still shut, cuddling myself into my small complimentary pillow.
"You're aren't Chinese." She told me.
I awoke with a start, "What?" Izzy opened her eyes and stared at me as though she knew something. Izzy shut her eyes quickly and feigned sleep, complete with fake snoring. I pinched her and she squealed, I held her up to my face, "if I'm not Chinese, then what am I?" I asked her, from what my family told me, my father and mother had an arranged marriage when they were younger due to their Chinese parents... "What do you know?" I asked her.
"Nothing I can't say without disrupting the space time continuum." She then slapped a hand over her mouth.
"Whaaaaaat?" I said in a high pitched tone, making a woman across from us stare. "Whatcha looking at?" I asked her, making her turn away. Izzy looked at me in her craziness, but she might have merit to what she is saying. "Fine, fine. I won't wreck the continuum." I said the last part sarcastically. I paused "What's a continuum?" I asked her.
"I don't know."
"Well then why do you need to protect it?" I asked her.
"Because I had a note saying so." She said, in a 'well duh' tone, "A note from your other personalities should be treated with respect."
"Hey look at that, you learn something dumb every day." I told her.
Izzy patted my hand in what was meant to be a sympathetic way, "Don't worry about a thing, let old aunty Izzy handle everything! I may not know what I have done for Noah to take an interest in silly old me, but I must have done something so I wouldn't remember what I've done." She then turned over and went back to sleep, this time she was really asleep.
"I'm a year older than you." I said to her, leaving me to think about what Izzy could possibly know.
OooO
"Guess what I have!" I said, coming into Noah's room with Izzy behind me, laughing like a maniac.
Justin stepped down the steps, "Oh my god, she's gone crazy."
"-er" substituted Noah. "This is Isabella we are talking about."
"Who?" Sadie and Katie asked at the same time.
Noah looked hilarious, turning on the dumbies, "An hour ago you couldn't here me yelling at you for help and now when I say Izzy's name, you magically appear!" Katie and Sadie both shrugged, Noah face palmed, "You have hundreds of hands between the pair of you, why don't you give me a hand?" Sadie and Katie looked at each other, grinned, and started to applause Noah. He and Justin rolled their eyes while I tugged at the handcuffs around Izzy. Noah got out of his grand chair, coming up to Izzy and lifting her chin up in his hands, fingering the crystal around her neck. "Now Izzy, you know something that I desperately need to know."
"Forget it Noah." I told him, letting go of the handcuff leash and putting it into his hand, going over to the empty side of Noah chair, opposite to Justin. "She knows nothing."
"Goddamn it!" Justin said, turning and kicking the chair.
"Calm yourself Justin." Noah said, holding up his hand, looking into Izzy's eyes deeply. Izzy groaned, "Remember what parents have taught us, when life give you lemons-"
"I complain about the lemons!" Justin yelled, I rolled my eyes and sent an electric shock towards Justin before he ducked.
The girls laughed, "Ha ha! You missed!" Katie laughed, before I glared at them, sobering up.
"Oh mighty Weather Witch." Sadie said, curtsying.
Justin and I glared at each other before focusing on Noah again, scrutinising over Izzy, like a dog at the show. Noah sighed, "you have done something." He told her, gripping her face all the more tighter, "what have you done." He hissed at her. Izzy spat on him, Noah simply wiped his gloved hand over his cheek. "Until you tell me the secrets you know, I will keep you in the dungeon forever. Take her away." He said, turning. Katie and Sadie made a double of themselves and took her away from us. "Damn that girl, multiple personalities and not one of them is of any use to me." Noah sat for awhile and the rest of us stood. "Gwen and her team will never find a way to get to us if we figure out Izzy's secrets."
"But sir," Katie asked, "Why take Izzy? She has always given us information for the right price."
"This time, she won't give in, and I want what she knows." Noah told us, "leave." he told us simply, frustrated with us.
Katie and Sadie left first, "I'm still totally bored."
Sadie sighed, "Let's just go kidnap some people, drop them in the middle of the desert and blow up a church or something."
Katie humphed, "That sounds kind of lame, but, whatever."
Justin walked next to me, "I'll take Sadie, you take Katie. Meet up in the desert later to bury the bodies" He joked, I cracked a smile. The clones of Sadie and Katie came up the stairs and Justin turned business like again, "Is she secure." He asked.
"Yes." The both answered, before morphing into the original again, both girls gave a little shudder before carried on back to their rooms.
"Do you trust them to do it?" I asked.
"Hell no." Justin said, he sighed, "I should make sure she's all locked up."
I stopped in my tracks like Justin did, I needed to have a few more words with Izzy. She knew something and I wanted to know what, or at least strike fear into her heart so she would tell me when she remembered, "Nah, let me do. I spent time with the insane"
Justin didn't know whether to laugh or to look down on me in pity, "Fine" he told me, walking on.
I turned around and made my way down to the prison area, which was only an elevator ride away, I wonder what Gwen and the rest of her team is doing, and what on earth was Noah planning. Although I may be in the meetings, Noah only discusses what he wants us to know, nothing more. The door pinged and I walked out, I passed by many of our prisoners, they had been provided with things to stop them rioting. TV, books, but no internet. Justin learnt that the hard way when he gave Beth a phone to check the time.
Idiot.
Oh yeah, we had Beth, Lindsay, Owen and now Izzy here, we had a few other people I don't care about, mostly because I don't care. Beth glared at me, but that was the only trouble I went past until I came to Izzy. She was pacing with super speed. "Let me OUT!" she screamed, banging on the clear wall between her and myself. "I will tell everyone your secrets Miss Chang! Everyone will know your dirty little secrets, that you killed your family, that you slept around for money, that you actually joined the dark side. No one knows that yet, you can still come to the good side." This Izzy was strange, different to the one I met in New York, she was….normal. An average, ordinary person.
"You sold us information on weapons and who on earth are you going to tell?" I yelled back at her. "You aren't exactly innocent in this, help us take over the world and you can have Australia. Whole country full of desert that you can run around in."
Izzy took a step back, she looked scared, "You don't care that you killed your family?"
"Please. It's just one thing that Gwen nor RAW can get me through." I then looked away and up at the ceiling, "and they hurt me." I whispered. I then turned back at Izzy, "I learnt a long time ago the only way to torture you is to torture the ones you care about. So watch yourself. Or we will get your family." Izzy ran up to the window, banging on it again.
"Please! Please don't do!" Izzy yelled, a few tears. I accidentally took a step back, Izzy was not like this last time I met her, conversed with her for longer than a few words.
I regained my confidence and yelled back "Then tell us what we want to know!"
"I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!" she screamed, "don't hurt them, please don't hurt them, I'm an Aunt now! Please don't hurt them!" I gave her an evil grin and started to walk away, "YOU MURDERER! I'LL KILL YOU!" I could hear further screams and insults and I smiled to herself.
It felt good to be bad.
'sup my lovelies, this is a very dark chapter in the eyes of Heather. I decided that since Heather has always had a hard time, in not only the show but this story, that Heather would turn to be a murderer and something very dangerous. Since Izzy has created so many personalities, I thought, there must be one where she is somewhat normal in the opinion of a normal teenager but I plan to explore her later, and poor little Alison and Victor. Gotta suck, but I really wanted to show Heather's parents and the 'love' between them. I mean, she's a murderer and has had a hard year all because of her parents. This chapter was a bit harder to write because I wanted to really portray the hatred and evil that Heather had deep in her but she still has her sarcastic personality and childhood trauma fueling her, meaning that she was always trying to prove herself.
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