I would like to say that I got the idea for this chapter from popnfresh's story The Ties That Bind Us. You should read it.
"Now that's just not nice." Danko said as he drew his gun and pointed it at Claire's head. He didn't hesitate at all and fired.
Elle knew that if the bullet hit Claire in the head and killed her she wouldn't be able to heal herself. Claire looked terrified as Elle noticed one of the agents seemed to be able to control emotions and was projecting fear upon her.
Elle ran quickly and drove in front of the bullet before it hit Claire. But in doing so, it hit her right in the heart. Elle began to bleed heavily as she landed on the ground. Claire could look on in shock as Elle realized one last bolt at the agent as she succumbed to the bullet.
Claire watched as Elle died and tears start to run down her face. But there was one emotion she felt even more than sorrow.
"You killed her!" Claire yelled.
"I would call it more self-defense." Danko said
Claire noticed Molly run off as anger began to flow through her. It was like something was surging through. Her eyes glowed a solid blue.
"MURDERER!" She said pointing at him but something completely unexpected happened. A large of wave of electricity was released from hand.
"What the hell?" Danko said. "You're not supposed to have this power."
That was the last thing he said before the full force of a million volts of electricity hit him head on. It was much more than any human body could take. At first she thought that Elle had done it but Claire looked and saw that she was still dead. Claire then noticed something. The wound where the bullet hit Elle was healing and the girl began to cough. She sat up without a scratch on her.
"What happened?" Elle asked. "Did you put your blood into me?"
"No I didn't." Claire said. "You just started healing."
"How?" Elle asked before noticing the charred body of Danko. "What did you do to him?"
"I used your ability." Claire said. "I don't know how but I was really angry and suddenly this lightning came out of my hands."
Before Elle could ask another question, Molly walked back over. "Are they dead?" She asked.
"Well he definitely is but the other two should be just unconscious." Elle told the 13-year-old. "We should get you out of here."
Claire took out her cell phone and texted the manager.
"What are you doing?" Elle asked.
"Texting our resignation." Claire said. "We don't need to be around when they're doing an investigation."
The three girls headed toward the car.
"So where are Mohinder and Matt?" Elle asked Molly.
"Mohinder's locked up in their hideout and Matt's in Los Angeles." Molly said.
"Looks like we'll have to take care of you until they get back." Claire said as she took out her phone again and dialed.
"Hello" Bennet said.
"Dad it's me." Claire said.
"Claire? You're not supposed to call this number. They've sent someone after you." Bennet said.
"I know." Claire said. "I killed him. It's really hard to explain."
Bennet made sure he was where no one was listening. "You killed Danko?" He asked. "He was the head of the whole operation. If he dies, Nathan gains control of everything and we can end all of this. Are you sure he's dead?"
"Unless he can withstand a lot of electricity he is." Claire said. "Right now we need to get out of here. We have Molly with us. I love you bye."
Back in Building 26, Bennet put his phone away and he walked over to Nathan.
"I have some good news." He said with a smile.
"What is it, Noah?" Nathan asked.
"Danko's dead. Claire won." The man with the glasses said. "I don't know how but that would put you in charge."
"So what do we do with all of the people that we captured?" Nathan asked.
"We need to let most of them go." Bennet said. "We should keep the ones with dangerous abilities for questioning. We can bring the company back to handle this. I'll call Angela. You need to set up a meeting with the President to end this search."
Back in New York, the three girls arrived at the Claire and Elle's apartment.
"You can sleep in the extra room." Elle said to Molly. "It's been a long night."
"How did you two use each other's powers?" Molly asked.
"We really don't know." Elle said. "Maybe Mohinder can help us figure that out but right now I think we all need to go to sleep."
She whispered to Claire. "I don't think tonight would be a good night to do anything other than sleep."
Claire nodded and headed to their bedroom. She stripped naked as she had been become accustomed to even on the nights where they just slept and got under the covers. Elle soon joined her.
"I love you." Claire said. "You saved my life."
"At the cost of my own." Elle said.
"Yeah but you healed." Claire said. "I could have brought you back anyway."
"It felt good, dying for someone that I loved." Elle said. "I just really wanna know how I was able to heal without your blood and also how you shocked him."
"Let's just sleep now." Claire said. "We may have to get up early tomorrow."
"Alright." Elle said as she kissed Claire before they both managed to fall asleep.
A few hours later., the phone rang. Elle picked it up.
"Hello this is Ashley Hale." She said sleepily.
"Oh I must have the wrong number." Mohinder Suresh said.
"Mohinder? No you have the right number. It's Elle." The blonde said. "Ashley's my cover."
"Do you have Molly with you?" Mohinder asked.
"Yeah she's asleep like I was." Elle said. "Will you be home tomorrow?"
"I should be. I'll call you at a reasonable time but I need you to take Molly to school tomorrow."
"Okay." Elle said. "Just let me go back to sleep."
"Good night Elle." Mohinder said.
Elle set the alarm to go off at 6:00 and went back to sleep.
Elle and Claire woke up the next morning to the sound of Jay-Z.
"Why'd you set the alarm?" Claire asked with a yawn.
"Because Mohinder called last night." Elle said. "We need to take Molly to school."
"Alright." Claire said as she began to get dressed.
Elle put a robe on and headed to the room Molly was in. She opened the door.
"It's time to wake up. Mohinder said that you were going back to school today." Elle said.
Molly nodded and got out of bed, wearing the same clothes she had from the previous night. Neither of the older girls had anything that would fit her thirteen-year-old body.
They walked to the kitchen where Claire was already dressed and making waffles.
"So don't you two need to school?" Molly asked.
"We don't start school for another month." Claire said. "We're about to start college."
"So when was the last time you went to school?" Elle asked.
"Well there was the school in India but I haven't been to this school in a while." Molly said. "I feel terrible for what I've done since Danko captured me and Mohinder."
"What did he make you do?" Claire asked.
"He made me find people. Special people." Molly said. "He said if he didn't he would kill Mohinder."
"Well you didn't mean to hurt anyone." Elle said. "That's all that counts. You shouldn't feel responsible for something that you couldn't control."
After breakfast Molly headed toward the shower and Claire turned on TV.
Nathan was on TV giving a press conference.
"I am here to announce that the United States government has been given some false information." Nathan said. "These so called special terrorists were not of any threat to national at all. The government has decided to stop searching for them since we have deemed that they are harmless."
"So it's all over." Elle said.
"Yeah." Claire said. "You know I was starting to like living here."
"Yeah other than the fact that we can't go back to that movie theater, it was pretty good." Elle said. "I wonder if we're still going to be Ashley and Spencer or we'll go back to using our real names."
"I think the first thing we need to worry about discovering what's wrong with our abilities." Claire said.
Hours later after they had dropped Molly off, Mohinder called from his home phone.
"Molly's off at school. Can me and Claire come to your lab?" Elle asked. "We have a few questions involving developments of our abilities."
"Sure you can. I'm all settled in right now." Mohinder said.
Within a short period of time, the two teenagers were at Mohinder's lab a.k.a. Isaac Mendez's old loft.
"So what seems to be the problem?" Mohinder asked.
"Do you know if it's possible for people to use the abilities of others?" Claire asked.
"You mean empathy like Peter has?" Mohinder asked.
"Kind of but what if people don't have the ability of empathy." Elle said.
"I don't quite understand what you mean." Mohinder said.
"I think it would better if we showed you." Claire as she release some electricity at Elle, enough to burn her skin which quickly healed.
"This is astounding!" Mohinder said. "There was a chapter in my father's book about this but I didn't think it was possible."
"Would you care to explain?" Claire asked. "I didn't get all the way through it."
"It basically states a theory that when two people with abilities are soul mates, they may be able to use empathy to copy each other's abilities. I want to run a few tests to see exactly how this will work." Mohinder said before realizing the look on Elle's face. "Don't worry they'll just be minor tests on you individually. I'll do nothing along the lines of what your father did to you."
Mohinder ran a few tests on each girl. For Claire it was to determine how much electricity she could produce without overloading her. For Elle he wanted to determine if her blood could produce healing qualities as well. Elle was a little shocked when Mohinder slashed himself with a knife and then injected himself with her blood which caused the cut to heal, determining his hypothesis was correct.
"Well it seems that both of you have gained each other's ability. Claire's electricity isn't as strong as Elle's. I suspect the complete rush of emotional energy is what allowed her to kill Danko." Mohinder said. "But with a little training she could be as powerful as you Elle."
A few weeks later Elle came home with a few pregnancy tests. She was at the point where she could use them. She thought it would be completely pointless but decided to get them anyway. She used the first one and it came out negative. She then tried each of them and they were all negative. Tears ran down her face as she ran to Claire.
"What's wrong?" Claire asked.
"I think I had a miscarriage!" Elle shouted tearfully.
So basically Elle dying and landing on her stomach when she jumped in front of the bullet caused the miscarriage. I'm going to say that the baby wasn't developed enough to heal. But Elle is now immortal so that's good.