Elle sat rocking her sister back and forth with her hands tightly wrapped around her, her eyes were tightly shut and she was gasping for air as she started to go into shock. Suddenly she felt movement under her palms and quickly opened her eyes to look at Claire, Claire's eyes were flickering when she suddenly sat up gasping for air. Blood had stained her blonde locks of hair and school clothes, Elle screamed loudly and got to her feet, she was terrified so the only thing she knew she could do was run. She ran as fast as she could away from Claire, she didn't look back, her heart was thumping so hard she could hear it in her ears. Her legs felt like jelly as she disappeared out of sight, Claire groaned and blinked a few times
"Elle?, what's going on?" Claire asked as she rubbed her bleeding head
She then felt an extremely sharp pain run down her head and back, she tightly shut her eyes and clenched her fists as she let out a cry. The deep wounds in her body healed rapidly, Claire had no idea what was happening, she stayed in the same position on the road until the pain disappeared
"mom!, dad!" Claire shouted, when she didn't hear a reply she started to panic.
She slowly and carefully got to her feet and looked at herself to see blood all over her clothes and hands, she flinched in fear and frowned, she didn't remember anything that could have caused all of the blood. Why did Elle run away?, Claire thought to herself in confusion, she heard a car coming closer and quickly got off the road and sat by the side trying to get her head straight. She gulped and rubbed her head to find more blood all over her, then she started crying silently. Tears fell down the sides of her cheeks, she didn't know why she was crying, maybe it was just the shock, but she felt miserable. She heard the car stop and she slowly raised her head to see if it was anyone she recognised, she wiped the tears away to get rid of the blurry vision in her eyes.
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Elle stood behind a tree, she had been watching Claire for the past ten minutes and was starting to think that she too had a power, Elle was still scared and so didn't make a move to talk to her sister. She had seen the car pull up beside Claire and it seemed very familiar, she didn't know why, it just did and a familiar man stepped out in front of Claire. Elle watched as he began to talk to her sister, she wasn't going to leave Clare alone. If this man tried anything stupid, she was going to hurt him.
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Claire looked up at the man and sniffled, her eyes were still visibly watery, the man bent down in front of her
"hello, Claire" he said
Claire's eyes widened, how did he know her, she didn't know him
"my name's Bob Bishop, I'm one of your father's…, old friends, I wont hurt you" the man said, trying not to sound intimidating.
"What do you want?, I'm fine, leave me alone" Claire said, crossing her arms
Bob sighed and smiled
"Claire, do you know Elle?" Bob asked
Claire suddenly looked up at him, she turned her head and looked at his car to see another man sitting there. It was her father's friend the Haitian
"she's my sister, why?" Claire asked.
Bob got to his feet and crossed his arms
"where is she, Claire?" Bob asked, he sounded more angry now and Claire didn't like it, she knew something was wrong
"I'm not telling you!, now go away!" Claire said
Bob sighed and shook his head
"fine. If you don't tell me then I'll take you back to the science lab and make you tell me" Bob said as he reached out to grab her.
He was then hit by a strong bolt of blue electricity, causing him to crash into the side of his car, the Haitian got out of the car and helped Bob, Elle ran out from the forest and grabbed Claire's arm
"Elle…." Bob said as he smiled faintly at the sight of his daughter
Elle's icy blue eyes met with Bob's. He looked so familiar, she didn't know why, then she turned and ran with Claire safely by her side.
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Once Elle and Claire were a safe distance away from Bob and the Haitian, Elle let go of Claire and took a few steps away from her
"how did you do that?" Elle asked angrily
Claire frowned and shrugged her shoulders
"do what?" Claire asked
Elle folded her arms.
"How did you heal?, you were dead Claire!, why didn't you tell me you had a power?" Elle said, she sounded disappointed in her sister
Claire was confused. She didn't know she had a power, she didn't know what Elle was talking about when she said that she died
"I didn't die!, what are you taking about?" Claire asked.
Elle shook her head and stormed ahead of Claire, Claire quickly followed
"Elle, I really don't know what is going on!, what happened to me?" Claire asked
Elle huffed and turned to face her sister, she could see that Claire was totally unaware of what had happened and sighed.
"How do you not know?, this is so weird!, you were hit by a car and died, blood was pouring from your head, and now you're alive. Claire I really have no idea what is happening to you but you better tell dad" Elle said
Claire looked down at the blood stains on her clothes and hands.
"This is my blood?" Claire asked
Elle nodded and quickly took off her coat and put it on Claire
"if you go around with blood on you, people are going to get suspicious" Elle said
Claire put her hands in the pockets of Elle's coat and pulled out a packet of cigarettes. Claire frowned
"Elle!, you're twelve and you smoke?, did your dumb bubble head of a boyfriend get you started on these?" Claire asked
Elle sighed and grabbed the cigarettes, she threw them away and shook her head.
"Ex-boyfriend!, and I'm not smoking anymore. That jerk left me by myself, when you were hit" Elle said
Claire took Elle's hand in hers
"well you've still got me, Elle" Claire said smiling.
Elle laughed at Claire's cute little smile and shook her head
"and you've still got me Claire, I would've never left you by yourself" Elle said
Claire nodded and the sisters walked home together.
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