ch.2 What happened

22 hours, 37 minutes and 46 seconds after the girl woke up, Elizabeth was walking her to the temporary living quarters she was assigned. /That's strange. She's wearing Levi jeans. From Earth! That blue knitted jacket looks like something I saw in Kohl's before we left Earth. And that green satin-y tank top? Where'd she get satin? And where'd she get sneakers?\\ Elizabeth thought this over until they got to the girl's room.

"Here it is." She announced. Elizabeth showed her all over the room. The girl had on the same expressionless look she had on earlier. When Elizabeth was about to leave, she noticed a spark of anger in the girl's eyes.

Without warning, the girl thrashed out. She threw the chair at the wall and tipped the bed over. She broke the lamp and kicked the table. She startd cursing and yelling at the ceiling.

"ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?"She continued to trash the room. "YOU COMPLETELY DESTROYED MY LIFE!" Angry tears rolled down her cheeks. "I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU MORE THAN I HATE THE WRAITH!" Elizabeth just stood there while the girl continueddestroying the room. She was afraid to try and calm the girl for fear of getting hurt, yet she was afraid to let the girl continue for fear of the girl hurting herself. After ten minutes, the girl had finally calmed down and slid down the wall with angry tears running down her face.

Elizabeth cautiously went over and sat down next to her.

"Whet's your name?"

"Telly." The girl croaked.

"Telly. That's such a beautiful name. I've always wanted a daughter name Telly." Telly sat there, nodding.

"So, Telly, what happened?" Elizabeth said in a sweet, motherly voice. Telly didn't answer for a long time.

"It's a long story and you wouldn't want to know anyway."

"Telly, I do want to know so I can help you." Telly looked Elizabeth right in the eye.

"Okay. But first you have to answer a question for me."

"Anything."

"What year is it?" Elizabeth was taken aback at that. She was expecting to be asked a personal question. Which, of course, she would have answered.

"It's 2005." Telly looked down at her sneakers.

"That makes sense." She said under her breath. "Okay. I'll tell you what happened."

She took a deep breath and started. "Right after I was born, my dad had to go to negotiate something or other. The people we were negotiating with made it clear that they wanted him to come. Well, he- he didn't come back. It turns out the people we were negotiating with were allies of the Genii.

"After finding out my dad wouldn't come back, this guy-we'll call him Bob for the sake of needing a name-he told my mom if she didn't marry him, he would kill me. My mom wasn't really in her right mind when she agreed. She'd just lost her husband and was scared of losing me.

"Well, needless to say, they got married and... They fought every single night. But whenever my mom didn't agree with 'Bob', he'd hit her. Once he put her in the infirmary.

"He hated me. Probably because he hated both my parents. He would always hit me and... My best friends, Jamie and Alex, always let me stay at their places when I needed to get away from mine. I loved Alex. So much. I still do.

"On my seventeenth birthday, Alex and Jamie planned a party. My mom had just given birth to Jacob, the baby I had with me when I came here. My seventeenth birthday was the best day of my life. My dad came back. It was better than any of the presents I had ever gotten.

"Well, 'Bob' caught my parents hugging in my dad's old lab sometime after midnight. So he had them go to the briefing room along with Alex, Jamie, Alex's parents, Jamie's parents, Jacob, and me. He locked the doors and had me stand off to one side with Jacob. Then he- he-" She started crying again.

"He killed Jamie first." She said through tears. "With her dad's gun! Then he killed her parents. Then Alex's parents. Then- then mine. He killed Alex last.

"Then he made me go to this planet with Jacob that had a really contagious disease. I waited there until morning before trying to go back. I didn't think Jacob and I would catch the disease if we stayed away from the village. But apparently that didn't help."

Elizabeth just sat there, speechless. She couldn't believe how much this girl had had to go through in her life. She couldn't even imagine watching someone kill everyone you care about.

"I just don't understand why he did that to me. I think it was because he hated my dad and I was related to him. But then why didn't he just kill me and send my dad to die? I think he hated me more than he hated my dad. I don't know why though. And why would he kill his son to punish me? It doesn't make sense!" She said in frusturation.

"Oh my God." Elizabeth put her arm around Telly, a vain attempt to try to calm her down. It seemed to work though.

"Can you get home from here?" She shook her head.

"No I can't."

"Why not?" Telly looked up at Elizabeth with her big blue eyes full of sadness.

"Because. You see, I'm from the future."

You like? Sorry the chapters are so short. I'll try to make the next chapter longer. In the next chapter you'll find out who her parents are. Please review!