Dayne, and Elisa were sitting on the grass outside the medical wing chatting.  They made an odd couple Elisa being just fifteen and Dayne twenty-four although the glasses he wore and his freckles make him look much younger.  There was also nearly a foot's difference in their heights.

Dayne worked with Chase and Ish in the medical centre and the knowledge he had gleaned from books since the virus had hit and he had had to leave medical school in Canada was proving to be invaluable, as was his caring nature.

In contrast Elisa didn't really have a 'place' in the Elite as such and was pretty much an outcast in the small tightly knit community. 

She reminded Dayne of an angry kitten as lay on grass next to him smouldering with resentment, cat-like green eyes flashing as she scooped her shoulder length blonde low-lighted hair up into a ponytail. 

Dayne ran his fingers worriedly through his unruly brown hair as he laughed trying to make light of the situation partly because he knew how much it was bothering her.

"It's not funny."  She raged, "I don't know why you're laughing".

"I know it sucks but Robin and your brother are right".  Dayne sighed.  "Some crazy could get hold of you and then you'd be in big trouble, you know what would happen, they'd use you to get at Ed.  Anyway you're not exactly top off the Islanders popularity poll and I don't want you to get hurt out there".

"God, I wish he wasn't my brother, this place was never my idea in the first place and it's getting more and more like a plastic bubble every day". Elisa fumed, pounding one first upon the ground in a childish gesture of frustration.

"Where would you be without the Elite?  You'd be just like the rest of the over-privileged kids from round here starving and dirty and little miss rich and perfect wouldn't enjoy that one bit so don't argue with me about this any more".  Dayne answered.

"I can't help being the way I am, I was born into it, I didn't ask to have the lifestyle of the rich and famous" Elisa told him. "I didn't ask to be Ed's sister, I didn't want special treatment, I just want to fit in, to have a job, somewhere where I belong, to have some friends who like me because of who I am and not what I am".

"That's crap, you do have friends".  Dayne responded beginning to tire of Elisa's self-pity.  All her life she had everything she ever wanted, a truly enviable home, famous friends, the best education money could buy, brains, beauty, a family who adored her and gave her everything she asked for.  The only major changes in Elisa's life since the virus and pulse hit, other than the loss of her parents, had been her postcode and the sudden lack of new clothes and beauty products.

"I have you, Dan, Robin, Jeneh and a brother I hardly ever see, big f**king wow!"  Elisa shouted as she got up and stormed off back to her room to sulk.

Sometimes, girls were really not worth the hassle.  Dayne decided as he ran his fingers through is hair once more, making it even messier than it had been, as he got up and hurried off to meet the others who had been assigned to go and collect any potential new members.