Welcome Home
Weeks had passed since Katie joined Mr Tiny's group, and at this moment she was lounging on a chaise lounge that she had found in Mr Tiny's hideout, and right now she was just watching the ceiling.
"What's the matter?" Steve asked her as he walked to her, he had been watching her the past few days, and he knew that she wasn't happy.
"Nothing is the matter." She told him immediately, it was an automatic response that Mr Tiny ensured that she told everyone.
"Come on Katie, don't lie to me." He told her, as he lifted her legs up so that she could sit on the end of the chaise lounge and have her legs lie on his lap. "I know that something is the matter."
"Well, it's nothing bad, I just keep forgetting that I'm missing something, like there are people I know, but I don't remember anything about them."
Steve sighed, and as he was about to tell her something, Mr Tiny walked to them. "Steve, may I speak with you."
"Not like I have a choice." Steve sighed, and moved her legs off of him, before he followed Mr Tiny out of the room.
Mr Tiny brought him into what could be presumed to be Mr Tiny's office, and when the door shut, things turned angrier.
"Don't you dare tell her anything?"
"Why not, she deserves to remember her father." Steve told him.
"I don't care, I lost her for years, and I will not lose my most powerful prize-"
"She is not a prize! Stop talking about her like she isn't even remotely human!" Steve suddenly shouted. "You know what, I'm sick of this, you can't keep treating her like an object." He shouted, as he opened the door and slammed it shut, leaving and going back to Katie.
"Katie, go and get your coat." Steve told her.
"Why?" She asked, as she sat up, brushing down her hair. "Where are we going?"
"I'm taking you to a circus." He told her, throwing her coat to her.
"Circuses, Steve are you mad?" She told him, catching her coat. "It's the middle of the night; no Circus will be going at this time."
"Trust me, there will be." He slid his own jacket on, and held out his hand for hers, which she took and they both went outside of what could now be described as a rundown old building, and towards a motorbike which stood outside.
"Get on." He told her, as he climbed onto the bike and allowed her to get on the back, her arms sliding around him from behind. "Hold on tight." He told her after he put the helmet on her head, and he rode off.
They didn't ride for long, before they turned up at the warehouse where the Cirque had come to perform their routines in front of another crowd of people.
"Where are we?" Katie asked him, as she took off the helmet, and pulled up her hood as she got off the back of the bike.
"You think that you've lost something, so I've brought you here to try and get you to remember." He looked at her, walking to her side. "Your father and boyfriend work for the Cirque Du Freak, you used to as well."
Katie looked at him. "I have a dad...And a boyfriend..."
"Yes, now come on, let's go and see if we can watch." He brought her inside, where they stayed at the back of the room, and were able to watch the Cirque do their routine. Steve kept a close eye on Katie, and he smiled to himself when he noticed that Katie was slowly starting to recognise her friends, her father and even her boyfriend.
"Do you remember?" He whispered, and he smiled in relief when she nodded. "Good."
It was near the end of the routine, when they watched Rebecca, the Amazing Monkey Girl, attempt some tricks on the trapeze system. However, the whole audience, apart from Steve and Katie, gasped as Rebecca's tail suddenly missed one of the trapezes and she fell towards the ground.
"Rebecca!" Katie and Darren suddenly shouted, and Katie extended her hand and a jet of wind stopped her from hitting the floor, and this had everyone turn around to look at her.
At the end of the incident, Rebecca was put back on her feet and the audience left, Katie sat in one of the rows of chairs as everyone else from that Cirque stared at her, in both shock and amazement.
"I'm sorry." She whispered to them. "Half the time I don't even know what I'm doing, just that I don't have any control over it." She put her head in her hands.
"It's alright Katie." Mr Crepsley told her as he sat next to her. "We know what has happened; it's not your fault in anyway."
"Why do you believe in me so much, dad?" She asked him, her eyes flashing from purple to their normal hazel.
"I believe in you, because I also believe that you are a very bright, beautiful and powerful young girl." Mr Crepsley told her, before he looked over at Darren. "Go and get Evra, these two needs to be reacquainted."
Darren nodded, and he went down to the changing rooms, where he found Evra sitting in what had been his and Katie's dressing room, sitting on top of the table with his snake slithering onto his lap as he looked at a picture that he had of him and Katie.
"Hey Evra, are you down here?" Darren asked as he pushed the door open.
"I'm on my way up." He sighed, putting the picture in his jacket pocket. "I'm just spending some time with my snake."
"Well, we have something for you."
"If it's another girl, or anything, then to be honest I don't want to know Darren and I'm sorry if I have hurt your feelings."
"No, I'm sure that you will like this." He walked to him and put the snake on the floor, before he grabbed him by his shoulder, and dragged him upstairs to where the group still were.
"Will you let go of me already?" Evra tried to push him off, but he stopped the moment that he saw Katie and Steve.
Katie stood when she saw him and she pulled her jacket off, showing her purple jumper underneath. "Hello, Evra." She whispered.
"Katie...You're here..."
"Evra-"Just as she was about to say anything else, Evra walked to her and their lips were crushed together, into a passionate and eager kiss.
At the kiss, everyone seemed to simply disappear, and after what seemed like hours, Evra and Katei broke the kiss, Evra keeping his hand tight in her hair and at her waist as Katie done the same, only one hand was in his hair, the other was on his shoulder. Both of them kept their eyes closed and their lips were a millimetre from each other's so they felt the others laboured breathing on their faces.
"Don't ever leave me again." Evra told her.
"I won't, oh Evra I'm so sorry." She whispered.
"I forgive you, I will always forgive you, I'm just glad that you're safe." He told her.
"Katie, we have to go." Steve suddenly told her, as he appeared by the door. "Mr Tiny will be looking for us soon, if he hasn't already."
"No, I almost lost you once, please Katie, come and stay with us." Evra told her.
"I would if I could, but I won't have him hurt you to get to me." She told him, reluctantly pulling out of the embrace. One look at the look of sadness that Evra gave her nearly had her crumbling into tears. "Steve will bring me back again, right?" She looked at Steve, her eyes bright with hope.
"I can try and bring her back every other night, that way it won't look very strange." Steve nodded.
Evra and Katie nodded, before she gave Evra another fleeting kiss and she and Steve left the building, going straight to his motorbike, and they both got onto it, riding off into the darkness.
Evra watched them go, feeling too happy to speak right now, Katie was alive and that was good enough for him, he just hoped that Steve kept his promise and allowed them to see each other a lot more. Only time will tell if that was to happen.
