A fifteen year old girl sat on a bench outside her house, her long blonde hair was wind swept and tears stained her face, she had sat there for at least an hour before she decided to go for a walk, she hadn't been walking long when it started to get dark, the trees were swaying in the wind and the temperature had dropped several degrees. She walked along the road trying to clear her head of the images of when she was nine and when she saw that picture of her dead father and what happened that day, she was too busy to notice that someone was following ever since she left her house "Marie..!!" she heard a familiar voice call out, she topped and turned sharply to meet the eyes of the person that called out her name,"wot da ya want Adam" she called out in a stern voice. Once she had said that Adams gazed dropped to the floor "um...i...wondered ..Marie if you would... kinda go out wit me" he replied sheepishly, he had wanted to ask her out for a while now he had been best friends with her ever since she moved here six years ago, with what he had just said Marie looked away annoyed "Adam look I don't have time for this, it's getting late and I need to get home" with that Marie ran off down the back street alley. She had to get back home quickly and set her mother to bed so then she could get some sleep, with the memories of that day still in her head remembered what happened to lead her with this life she had now.
FLASH BACK......
Marie was nine years old, she sat in the back garden dressed in a yellow summer dress, her short brown hair messed up and her playing with her dolls, "Marie sweetie come in here so I brush your hair" a sweet voice called out to her, "momma I don't want mi hair brushing". A middle aged woman with long blonde/grey walked out into the garden and picked Marie up " you know you've got to look pretty for your dad don't you" once the woman had said that Marie starting jumping up and down "dada dada's coming home", there was a knock at the front door and Marie rushed to the door to open it. In front of Marie stood two big men dressed all in black, at once they shoved her aside and went into the house carrying a black bag (ironic everything's black), when in the house the men started tearing it apart searching. "Marie Sweetie what's going on in there?" the woman walked into her house that now had books, paper and furniture scattered every where," who are you and want are you doing in my house" she asked rather annoyed. The men looked at her with amused expressions on their face "well my dear we want your little daughter here and to give you this" at that he opened the black bag and gave her an envelope, the middle aged woman carefully opened the envelope to reveal her husbands wedding ring and a picture of his mangled body, she turned away and tears came to her eyes. Marie came closer to her mother to see what was the matter, that's when she saw the picture in her hand and burst out crying and ran upstairs, "MARIE WAIT" her mother called out, the men in black surrounded her and pulled out their weapons. The taller one of the pair came at her first and brought the flat sided of the weapon down across her face "Now listen once we have disposed of you were going to take out your pretty little daughter upstairs".
END FLASH BACK...
Marie had heard everything that was going on that day, every hit and every scream and she could do anything to help her mother 'why was I so helpless, why the hell did I let that happen', fortunately the police had arrived just in time but the men had gone but they had left her mother paralysed form the waist down. Marie had to get home to help her mother with the usual routine wash and get her ready for bed, she had never let anyone know about her mother's condition, neither her or her mother needed their pity. After the incident had happened her and her mother moved, got new lives, new appearances and new identities, but they always feared of the same people coming after them once again, Marie started picking up speed she knew something was wrong. She turned the next corner, into the garden to find out the front door was ajar, she heard the sound of braking glass and raised voices, she entered the house and silently crept upstairs towards her mothers bedroom. Marie opened her mothers bedroom door only to be horrified by what she saw, there was blood splattered across the walls and on the floor was her mothers limp body, Marie ran over and knelt beside her "Mom....Mom....please wake up" she cried, her mother carefully opened her eyes to stare her daughter in the face. "shush shush.. it's ok Marie I'm still here" she replied her eyes full of pain, Marie bent down and gave her mother a hug "Momma I was so scared that I lost you" still holding on to her mother. "Marie.. you need to listen to me.." she gasped from the pain and continued "you need to go, escape from this place and never come back, I'm sorry to tell you this now I really thought I had more time than this" a tear escaped her mother's eye and ran down her cheek.
"Marie these people are here for you, we tried to keep you safe but we failed, they're after you and your powers", Marie stared at her mother confusedly "I don't know wot ya mean momma", her mother continued once again "Marie... Me and my husband adopted you when you was a baby, we both knew about your parents and your powers, your real mother was m......" a man burst through the door carrying a gun in his hands. The man in front of Marie was dressed in all black and before Marie's mother could finish what she was saying the man had shot her the man turned to Marie and Smirked "remember me do ya" the man faced her back towards Marie and grabbed out his phone "Captain I found her she's upstairs.. yes the other one is dead". Marie cried into her dead mother's body ' how can he kill her like that' she cried to herself, fuelled by anger Marie lunged for the man in black hitting him and kicking him, she cried out once more this time in anger " you bastard how dare you kill her", the man in black threw her off him and into the wall. ' How much I want to kill him now', Marie got up and threw a fist into his face and at the same moment pain rippled through both of them, Marie couldn't remove her fist from his face both of them were screaming in agony. The pain finally stopped for Marie and pulled her hand away from hid face only to find out that he was dead, Marie got up but still in shock "wot d hell did I do?" she yelled.
Marie rushed into her bedroom and locked her door hearing footsteps coming up the stairs, she grabbed her black duffel bag and crammed clothes in it along with her photos and birth certificate ' who know when this will come in handy' she said to her self. She finally found out that there was no way out of her room and now the footsteps were coming closer, she made her decision and ran out her bedroom door, there she was confronted with another man in black, by this time Marie was scared she ran past him knocking him out the way as tears flowed down her face. The man caught her arm "your not going any where honey", Marie saw her chance and pushed him with all her strength that she had left, the man in black stumbled back falling down the stairs all in slow motion, the man went crashing down into the glass table sending bloody and glass everywhere. Marie climbed down in horror that was the second person that she had killed, she went past the man the man, his back was broken and his head cracked open blood pumping and spilling on the floor. Marie ran from her home, well what was left of it, she ran round the corner when she heard shouting coming form her house and at that moment another two men in black came running after her, Marie started sprinting trying to get as far as possible from those men. She heard guns firing and quickly ducked around the next corner she was having trouble losing them, she would have to think of a plan to get away from them, Marie then saw an abandoned building and ran into carrying her duffel bag. Inside the building the windows were cracked letting the moon light stream into the building, the floor was covered in scattered debris and the wall were covered in damp but otherwise she though this place is great, Marie quickly hid when she heard the sound of running footsteps "what the do you mean you lost her.. we need that mutant..isn't it enough that she killed two of our men?" a loud voice boomed out. "I'm sorry captain she just disappeared and she can't be traced", Marie peered out and she that their was only two men but both of them were in black what seemed to be the captain had blonde hair and the another red. "well I guess will continue the search tomorrow, you may go" the other man saluted and left leaving Marie to her thoughts.
