Authors Note:

Longest chapter so far! Woo! I was going to split it in two but I couldn't find a good point to split it up. Well this has been a long journey, it's took us about three months to do this but all of you who have stuck with me and supported little Liza through this, thank you. Only one more chapter to go so enjoy :)

Aaron could sense her but we still had to find her yet. His powers didn't give directions, he just had a feeling. If she was nearby he had a strong feeling for her and likewise if she was far away it got weaker. I didn't completely understand it but I didn't question him. I know if I was to try and describe how my powers worked they probably wouldn't understand. It was all about feelings and senses. Whenever I used my powers I could feel heat pumping through me and a tickling sensation in my fingertips. Perhaps had similar experiences.

I took us about an hour and going up and down roads, crossing streets and running down alley ways before we were getting anywhere. We were both out of breath and headache was beginning to form at the back of my head. So far the boost of energy had been enough but I was slowly loosing it. I still wasn't sure how this worked but I was guessing I had at least another hour or two before I needed to rest.

"Got her" Aaron said as he raced off down an empty road. That was all I needed. Slamming my feet as hard as I could against the ground, I forgot about my headache and followed Aaron. There was a metal fence at the end with spirals of barbed wire on top.

"Pass me your hoodie" I said to Aaron before he took off his blue jacket and handed it to me. I threw it on top of the barbs before proceeding to climb over. The jacket helped but my hands were still pretty cut up when I landed on the other side. Aaron landed seconds later. "So where abouts is she?"

"I can't get exact positions you know" he said wiping his cut hands on his top "I just know she is somewhere in there"

He pointed over towards a large building made of some blue metal. It was rusted in places and had obviously not been used in a long time. It looked like it could collapse at any moment...and Mia was stuck inside. I made my way towards the building at a steady jog. I was here now so running would be a waste of valuable energy that I may come to need later on.

The door was wide open. I peered inside but couldn't see a single thing. It was pitch black in there and with it being night time there was no day light pouring inside. I felt across the walls searching for a light switch or something. I finally came across a large box with various switches and buttons. I tried a few but none worked. I placed my hand on the box and flooded some of my electrical energy into it. Lights flashed on and the sudden brightness caused me to squint.

Then I saw her. She was in the centre of the floor, her long hair covering some of her face and her legs placed at a funny angle. She wasn't moving. I prayed to every god in the sky that she was safe, that she wasn't dead. I ran over and knelt beside her. I held her head in my arms; it was limp and wobbled about. I kissed her forehead and as my face was next to hers I could feel her warm breath against my skin.

I let out a breath of relief. Thank heavens that she was alive. Now all we needed to was get her home where she can rest and just sl-

"Electra! Look out!" Aaron's voice shouted from behind me I looked up just in time to a large metal pole collides with my face. Ouch. I was definitely going to have a mark tomorrow. I was unconscious only this time the darkness didn't gradually surround me. This time it was quick and almost instantaneous.

When my eyes opened everything was blurry. I had been moved. I was tied to a chair and for some reason I was soaking wet. There was something around my neck. As my vision restored itself I realized that Mia was gone. But I wasn't alone. I could hear someone coughing behind me. It was definitely a guy though I didn't know exactly who it was.

"Aaron?" I said my voice sounding croaky "Is that you?"

Slow footsteps made their way over towards me. Their echoes ricocheting off the metal walls. However the face that I saw wasn't one that I had wanted to see. It was one that had plagued so many nightmares, nightmares that didn't belong to Mia. Mia's father had tortured her dreams since he had learned of her abilities and attacked her. I hadn't expected to see him ever again.

"Do you remember me?" he said his voice calm. It was a lot deeper than I had imagined and his thick moustache looked like a caterpillar had fallen asleep on his lip "After all, you had almost killed me"

"This time I will make sure I finish the job" I spat at him whilst I tried to break free from the ropes that were holding me to the chair. The chair bounced about and it suddenly occurred to me that I could just stand up and takes the chair with me. I tried to pull myself up but soon found that my feet had been chained to the ground. How long had this guy been planning this?

He laughed under his breath "Sure you will" he said kneeling down so he was at eye level with me "I actually want to thank you for taking care of Mia"

"What do you care about Mia?" I really couldn't understand why he was even bothering with his daughter. He seemed to hate her when he discover about her being a mutant. "You tried to kill her! You're not exactly father of the year!"

"I will admit that I acted hastily but you must understand how much of a shock it was to find out that my little princess was a, a thing" he shivered as if the idea disgusted him "But I have had time to think. There is no need to kill her! It isn't her fault after all. And they are working on a cure; I am willing to allow them to run a few, er, tests on her. That would make her first in line to be cured"

That was the most disgusting thing I had ever heard. He was going to let them experiment on her? How twisted was he! Didn't he love her at all? He made me want to be sick.

"She doesn't need a cure, she isn't ill" I said to him "She is perfect"

The headache that I had felt earlier was getting stronger and I realised it wasn't him that was making me sick, though he was pretty sickening. I was returning back to how I was at Aarons. I needed to get this over and done with quickly.

"She isn't but she will be" he said "But you have to let her come with me"

"Like hell I will" I summoned that warm, tickling sensation again and released a huge bolt of electricity. But it went wrong. The water in my clothes and all over my skin conducted the electricity and caused it to fry me instead. I screamed out in pain. I could faintly hear him laughing at my pain.

"I didn't think you would cooperate" he said sounding amused "I've been watching you for months. I found you by accident when you were leaving my town and I have been waiting since then. Plotting and preparing for the right moment. Your mutation was particularly hard to think of a weakness for. I wasn't entirely sure that it would work but its proven better than I had originally planned"

I could feel the dizziness again. I had used up a lot of energy on that bolt and all it had done was scorch my skin. He was so close and yet there was nothing I could do. For the first time since I had discovered my mutation I felt weak.

"Now you know you can't stop me" he sounded so smug "So, you're going to let her come with me"

It wasn't a question, it was a statement. He knew that I couldn't stop him. Yet I wasn't going to let him take her. Even if my only way to attack him with by spitting I was not going to just let him get away.

"I would rather die than let you take her anywhere" I said trying to push the dizziness, the headache and the pain away.

"I was hoping you would say that"

He walked over to an old barrel nearby. He picked up a set of keys and something else. It looked like some sort of machine but I couldn't quite tell. He bent die to where my feet were. I head a small click and then the chains hit the floor. Straight away I tried to kick him in the face but he was quicker than me. The machine that he had picked up earlier was pressed against my leg and electricity flowed over me. I screamed out again in agony. My body writhed in pain before falling again against the chair as the electricity stopped. But the pain didn't go away. My entire body was stinging.

He walked back across the room and picked up a small remote that was hanging from the ceiling. He gave me one last sly smile before pressing the button. There was a whirring noise above me and the thing that was around my head began to tighten. It was a rope and it was being raised. He was hanging me. It tightened around my throat but I was still able to breath, just slightly. My chair rose of the ground and my feet dangled a little above the floor. He pressed another button causing the whirring noises to stop and the rope to stop getting higher and tighter.

"This is your last chance; I am going to take her with or without your permission" he said taking out a pair of glasses from his pocket and placing them on his face so they balanced perfectly on his nose "You can let her go and live or have her taken from you and die. If you so wished you could join her, keep her company at the lab. You would also get cured too then"

My words were choked. I was struggling to get any air into my lungs. "Get stuffed"

He grinned before pressing the button again and once again the chair began to rise again and I felt it growing even tighter around my neck. The rope was rubbing again the skin on my neck. I had one shot, one chance and if it didn't work I was dead and Mia would become a science experiment. Everything depended on this.

My body went limp. I stopped moving my legs and I let my head flop. I was playing dead. And it seemed to work. I heard the whirring sounds stop and the rope stopped tightening. I was holding my breath or what breath I had been able to get. I wasn't going to be able to keep this going for very long. He walked over towards me and as I suspected he attempted to find my pulse. However, the ropes he had bound me with were stopping him from getting to my wrists and my neck.

"Liza?" the naturally sweet voice came from behind me. Mia sounded like she had been sleeping and had only just got up. All this time she had been behind me and I hadn't even realised. "Liza!"

I heard some clunking of metal from where Mia was followed by Mia's own crying. I wanted nothing more but to just turn around and assure her that I was fine but that would destroy everything. He would finish the job and I would really be dead then. Mia's cries didn't seem to affect her father. He simply continued examining me and searching for a pulse. Finally he gave in and began untying one of my wrists. The moment my wrist was free I grabbed hold of him and sent as much electricity as I could muster. And it hurt like hell.

It felt like I was being burnt alive. He fell to the ground and I hung still in the chair, I was running extremely low on air and after that blast of electricity my body was screaming at me to rest. Unfortunately I didn't have that option. I got straight to work at untying my other wrist. The moment the rope was off the chair fell to the floor with a crash. Without the chair, I was now able to just touch the floor but only with the very tips of my toes.

It took so much of my strength to get my head out of that noose but with a lot of effort I finally managed it. My legs couldn't quite handle holding me up and I fell to the cold, concrete fall gasping for breath. Strands of wet, black hair stuck to my face and all I wanted to do was close my eyes and go to sleep.

I crawled across to where Mia was. She hadn't spoken since I electrocuted both myself and her father. She had been handcuffed to a radiator. That must have been what the clunking sounds had been earlier. I didn't know how I was going to get her out of this but I was just glad we were safe now.

"Liza! I thought you were dead!" she cried, her cheeks wet with tears "I saw you, I saw you when you up there! I woke up and I thought you had died!"

I just hugged her. It was extremely hard to do with one of her hands attached to a radiator. We both just sat there and cried into each other's shoulders for a second. I was so relieved to see her pretty much ok. She had a red eye that would probably bruise and turn black over the next few hours and she had a few cuts on her knees but otherwise she was unharmed.

"Mia" I said my voice was barely a whisper "Where are the keys?"

She closed her eyes for a second and concentration took over her features. Today's events and took a strain on both of us and she was having difficulty searching through her father's memories. Finally her eyes opened again. "In his inside pocket"

I stumbled over towards his body. Suddenly my entire body felt heavy, it was a struggle just getting from one side of the factory room to the other. When I got to his body I soon realized that he was still alive just unconscious. I felt inside his pocket and found the same keys that he had used earlier on me as well as his tazor. I took both before making my way back to Mia.

I let her unlock her cuffs because her hands were a lot steadier than mine. Instead I focused on taking the energy from the tazor. It didn't work nearly as well as the car but I should be able to at least walk now. It would keep me going a little longer. Mia and I both stood and hugged properly. Now we just had to find Aaron and leave.

"Do you think you can find out where Aaron is?" I asked her as I looked around hoping he would just jump out from nowhere

She didn't need to concentrate quite as much as she had to before and her eyes were barely closed for a second when she opened them again and said "In a cupboard"

I had to admit it wasn't the most helpful answer. The building was huge and this room alone was the size of a house. It could take us hours before we found him. It would probably have been quicker if I and Mia had split up to search for him but I wasn't going to let her out of my sight for a second. We would just have to do it the hard way.

We opened various different doors and twisted around corners. We went left, then right, then left and right. It was confusing; the place was like a labyrinth with its different routes. The building was even bigger than we had thought. A lot of the doors lead to old officers and storage rooms but we found two other rooms just as big as the one we had been held captive in. One of them was filled with rusted machinery with conveyer belts and old screws that had come out over time.

I tried taking energy from it but there wasn't any to take. These machines were long dead. I was ok though, I was hurting bad but I was able to pull through. Finally we came across and old janitorial cupboard and to our relief someone was kicking it from the inside. I still had the keys from earlier. I tried a few before one finally worked and Aaron tumbled out. He didn't look hurt at all.

"Right lets go" I said turning and leaving with Mia's hand tightly enclosed in mine. We came back into the main room to find Mia's dad standing in the centre of the room...and he had a gun. I felt my mouth drop as I pushed Mia behind me.

"I just wanted my little girl back" his voice was weary. He was just as tired as I was only I was growing weaker with each passing moment. Soon I would too weak to do anything and it would be easy as pie for him to just kill us and take Mia. "Why couldn't you just let her come with me?"

"Because I won't let her be experimented on like some rat" I said calmly, focused more on the gun in his hand than his face "Why don't you put the gun down and we will just talk about this?"

"I don't have a choice" I could hear sadness in his voice "I can't let my little girl be a monster, be a mutant"

I slowly pushed Mia behind Aaron and edged away from them. As suspected he kept his gun pointed at me. I was the biggest threat here despite my weakness. I was slowly edging towards the fuse box on the wall that I had used earlier to turn the lights on. Her father was rambling pathetically about mutants and how they were destroying this planet.

"You and your kind want to get rid of humans!" he shouted more at me than anyone else "You want us all to be freaks like you! You call it evolution? It's an illness, a plague! You're all cursed and you won't let us help you! You won't let us cure you all"

I ignored him slowly making my way towards the fuse box. My hand reached it and I drained it of it energy. All of the lights went out, I heard Mia's father call out in surprise. I could feel the energy running through me but I also knew it wasn't going to last long. It felt so good. It stung slightly because my clothes and hair were still damp but I was mostly dry and didn't suffer from the same pain as earlier.

Then I exploded. I sent out waves of blue light across the room. I just released all of my anger and all the pain I had felt go in that attack. It was the biggest thing I had done with my powers and I couldn't entirely believe I had done it. In the light I saw Aaron and Mia run and hide in one of the offices. The room was being filled with electricity and I had no real control over who got hit. Light bulbs overhead exploded and sparks flew out of the fuse box. I wasn't holding anything back now. The tsunami of electricity was just about to hit Mia's father when he shot his gun. The first two shots missed but his third and final bullet hit me in the shoulder. I already hurt all over and the time I registered what had happened I was already falling to the floor ready to pass out. He was dead. Nobody could have survived that. I had nothing left to do, the battle was over and we had won. I let my eyelids close and listened to my body's desperate screams for me to sleep. And I fell unconscious. Only this was different to earlier.

Instead of blackness consuming my vision it was bright white light. I thought I was dying but the light soon disappeared to reveal that I was in a street. The Blaine's street where Aaron lived. I was confused for a second. Moments ago I had been in pain but now everything was numb. I couldn't feel anything. I was completely confused.

Then a man appeared in front of me. It wasn't Mia's father. It was someone I had never actually met in person. Mr Blaine's eyes were the same shade of grey as his sons, like an overcast cloudy sky. His mousy brown hair stuck up at the back and although he was smiling he seemed worried.

"Mr Blaine?" I asked walking closer

"I believe I haven't had the pleasure of making your acquaintance yet" he said putting his hand out as I shook it "Though I have heard a lot about you and your sister"

It took me awhile to understand. Aaron had said his father could communicate through dreams. He could actually enter your mind and talk to you in a dream. He could help us. He could get Mia and Aaron to safety and take care of them. Mia could finally go to sleep in that spare room they have and just rest.

"We are in an old factory" I said suddenly understanding what he was here for "Aaron and Mia is both safe I think. They don't seem hurt but I don't know. It's about an hour's away from here, to the west"

He smiled, this time it was genuine. I knew we were safe and he began to walk back to his house. I could feel myself leaving the dream and I quickly added before he left "I'm sorry about the car"

Then I fell back into unconsciousness.