Faded Photographs

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"... " dialogue

'... ' thought

"There's something wrong with my sister!"

Kurama ran into the room and Hiei followed out of curiosity. When they arrived they stopped and stared at the spectacle. Janice was twisting and screaming in bed as if chains were holding her down and she couldn't escape. The ground around her slowly froze and stretched to other areas. The ice crept up the walls with a mind of its own infecting like a disease. Soon the whole room was frosted forming a twisted winter wonderland. Kurama tried to run to Janice's side, but before he could make contact a sharp spike of ice shot up out of the floor nearly succeeding in impaling him. Hiei smirked.

"It seems as if your human is actually a demon Kurama."

"I suspected as much. Now her body's turned on its defenses and it thinks we're a threat!"

Both quickly jumped out of the way as the previous spike retreated back into the ground and two more attempted to claim a target.

Inside Janice's mind

I still remember the day when we were found by a married couple and brought to the orphanage. I was six and my sister was only a baby.

Flashback...

It was raining that night, but something was special about it. The sky was engulfed in black. It was like a thick gas that covered everything besides a few street lights. Every tear ever shed seemed to be raining down on us that night. I was frozen to the bone hunched over the little bundle in my arms trying to protect it from the cold. Wandering the filthy streets of downtown was not a place for a little girl. I had no memories before that. I knew my name and my sister's, but that was all. I didn't know exactly where I was going, or where I had come from. I just thought maybe if I kept on walking, if I didn't stop, that I would remember something, anything. That's when I ran into the newlyweds coming back from a karaoke bar.

"Kyle look a little girl! And she has a baby with her!" whispered the woman to her husband as she rushed over to me with her umbrella.

"Where are your parent's sweetie?" asked the lady.

"I don't know." I mumbled.

"How did you get here, are you lost?"

"I don't know"

"Well, where is your home, where you live? Is it over there?" she pointed to a few apartment complexes across the street.

"I...I don't know"

Those words "I don't know". They echoed through me leaving me empty. I felt sick like I was going to hurl.

"Kyle I think we should take her to the police station someone might be looking for her."

He nodded his head and the lady took me by the hand and told me to follow her.

"We're taking you to a place where your parents might be." she said slow and loud as if I was deaf.

At the station they just asked me more questions. It was getting annoying. When they tried to take Corina from me I wouldn't let them, I wouldn't let anyone hold her, she was all I had. If it wasn't for her cries for food she would have never left my arms. It wasn't long till they figured our parents were lying dead somewhere or had abandoned us and we were shipped off to an orphanage

Now that people were sure we weren't somebody's kids we were just everyday street trash, tossed aside and forgotten. Sometimes people would try to adopt me or my sister and try to separate us, but the night before decisions were made I would steal my sister and run away. They would eventually find me and drag me back but the plan still worked, nobody wanted to adopt a runaway. It wasn't that I didn't want to be adopted I just wanted to be adopted with my sister. When someone would adopt us together I would end up having one of my little episodes and they would send us back. That was how it went until we ended up with Jeff.

End Flashback...

Now everything from those years I never could remember was rushing back. Thoughts, memories, they looked like photographs swirling back into my mind 100 miles per hour. But then as fast as they had come they were leaving. It all felt like a dream. I was watching myself stand there as my answers were flying away just out of grasp.

'No!'

I started running after them. If I just kept running... I needed to know those memories. I needed to know the past.

'Wait stop!'

The pictures stood still.

'Finally' I sighed.

I started walking forward only to be tugged back. I looked down and it was a woman. She was on her knees and tightly gripping my wrist, staring up at me with sad eyes. Those eyes! She had the same eyes as me!

'NO! You must not know of your past!' she cried.

' I need to!" I yelled as I tried to pull away.

'You can never know!' she cried again.

'Let go of me!' I yelled fiercely, twisting my arm trying to wrench myself free.

The woman still held tight as I looked in despair as the photographs faded away.

So close knowing the truth only to have it erased again.

'No' I cried softly. I turned around in fury.

'Why did you do that I could hav...'

she was gone

Back to reality

Kurama and Hiei had been dodging Janice's defenses for 10 minutes now. Then the ice suddenly stopped attacking.

"That's odd." voiced Kurama.

The ice was beginning to melt and Janice had stopped thrashing and opened her eyes. Slowly she sat up, pulling her shaking hands through her knotted hair while taking a few very deep breaths. Her body was covered in a cold sweat and she was still traumatized from her nightmarish dream. Once she regained her composure she glanced up and saw the two boys. Then she looked around the room and saw the slowly melting ice.

'Damn my luck! I must have had one of my outbursts while I was unconscious! Judging by the strange looks on their faces I think they saw.'

"I am so sorry. Please for whatever you saw I apologize! If you would just let me leave and not call the cops. I'd be grateful." the line sounded prepared and rehearsed. She had used the plea for many other occasions.

"Ouch!" Janice squeaked. She looked down to see that from sitting up so fast she had reopened a few small cuts.

(The boys are back to descriptions because remember Janice hasn't seen or met them yet!)

"You shouldn't try to move too much. You might injure yourself further." said the boy with the long red hair. He actually sounded concerned. Janice just sat there confused like an idiot.

"My name is Kurama and this is Hiei." he motioned to the guy with overly spiked black hair.

"Hello Kurama, Hello Hiei. Aren't you surprised? I mean didn't you see...?"

"We saw it all onna. We know what you are." said Hiei impatiently.

"What?" Now Janice was lost.

"You don't know what you are do you?" asked Kurama with a small smile.

"Huh?"

"Don't worry we will explain later you still need your rest"

Everything was happening so fast. Janice could only nod and go back to sleep.

LibroLuv: Hmmmm...Right now on the romance department I'm kind of debating which direction to take. Kurama or Hiei?

MaybeI'll throw a curveball and do someone else from the series. Do you guys want anyone in particular? If so tell me in your review!

Reviews really motivate me to write more and update faster! Thanks in advance!