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D looked around and finally set her gaze on one of the surrounding buildings. Without a glance in my direction she scrambled up the side of the wall surprisingly fast. I watched her a moment but hesitated to follow, not sure whether I wanted to risk completely humiliating myself in an attempt to scale the wall.

D stood on the roof turned around looking down at me with a smirk, "afraid of heights?"

I shook my head angrily and willed a ladder to appear, quickly shuffling up as D watched me with an amused expression. Once at the top D destroyed the ladder and grabbed my hand, dragging me with her.

On nearing the edge of the roof I halted and yanked D to a stop. "I can't jump that far," I stated gesturing to the ten foot distance to the next roof.

D groaned, "Then make a bridge or something."

I nodded, but had nowhere near enough energy to make anything thick enough to support the both of us.

Suddenly my eyes widened in realization and I turned to D, "if you can erase anything you want from existence, and I can create anything why are we running from those military guys?"

D shrugged, "Dunno. But why are you making such a big deal out of this?"

I threw up my arms in there, "Because this morning I planned on scaring my older brother and now I'm running from the military on the roofs with some clone freak!"

D closed her eyes a moment and when she opened them again her expression was cold, "In case you hadn't already noticed, you're a freak too."

"No!" I screamed feeling somewhat pained from her words, "I'm just an average person who woke up one morning with a strange power!"

"Just like the super heroes in comic books!" D gushed with fake enthusiasm. Her face returned to its dark expression, "I guess that makes me the bad-guy."

I stepped away from D, the hairs on the back of my neck standing up; suddenly I was unsure if I would ever want something exciting to happen again. "I'm leaving now."

I started for the edge of the roof, but D grabbed the back of my neck, squeezing a bit roughly. "Sorry, but I can't let you leave."

I ripped away from her grasp, "why not!"

"Because without you I can't go home!" D's face darkened as her eyes became glossy and a few tears rolled down her cheeks.

I turned back to face her and watched, suddenly feeling lost, "What do you mean?"

D pulled away from me and clenched her fists, "I made a huge mistake…a long time ago and in an attempt to kill myself accidentally passed through the gate."

I looked at D; for some reason her emotions were affecting me. My chest throbbed slightly, and I looked away waiting for the feeling to pass, "why do you need me?"

D wiped her eyes, looking slightly embarrassed, "I'm not quite sure how it works." She straightened herself out and blinked, all the water around her eyes suddenly gone, "but I know someone who does."

I didn't move from where I stood, "How do we find them?"

D shrugged, "he travels around a lot, but trust me you'll know when you're within a 350 mile radius of him." She shivered, "his presence completely cancels out our abilities, the closer you are the weaker your powers."

I felt a little puzzled, "But D, I move around a lot too and my powers have never stopped working."

D glanced at me, "that's either a coincidence or something else we need to ask him."

"Are you telling me I'm going to have to follow you around for who knows how long just so I can get rid of you? Why should I?"

"Don't you want to be normal?"

The question caught me off guard and a long uncomfortable silence followed. "What do you mean?" I finally responded.

D met my eyes, "when I leave, your powers will immediately cease to exist." She paused a moment, "unless you still have leftover energy, but once that's gone you're back to being a completely normal."

"But why would you being gone make a difference?"

D groaned, and I wondered how she had gone from completely depressed to simply annoyed, "N will explain everything when we find him."

"N?"

"I don't know what his real name is, but N is short for neutral as he can short-out our abilities. I don't know if he can do anything else."

"How long is it going to take to find this guy? Couldn't you just explain this all to me now so we wouldn't have to waste time?"

"It shouldn't be too hard to find him, and it's kind of his job to explain everything, he knows way more than every scholar in existence in both worlds combined. He is more knowledgeable and accurate than every book in both worlds combined. He is…"

"Alright I get it!" I snapped, "Let's go find this N guy, so I can get rid of you already. Your more annoying," I began imitating the sound of her voice from her earlier description of N, "than every little brother in both worlds combined."

D smiled gently and ran forward and hugged me, "thank you so much, finally I'll be able to leave this hell and go home. It's been so long I don't even know if I can still make it up to…" She trailed off and pulled away and returning her gaze to the other roof ten feet from us, the back at me. "We can walk on the ground if you want."

This time I smiled, "I would feel much safer."

D grinned, "Scaredy-cat," I glared at her as she leaped off the roof and landed gracefully on the concrete below.

My anger faded to fear as I looked over the edge at the distance to the ground. Suddenly overcome with dizziness I pulled away.

"Hurry up! I'm doing you a favor by coming down here!" D sounded angry…her stupid mood swings.

"It's too far down," I shrieked suddenly wondering why our bickering hadn't attracted any attention.

Maybe it was just that one internal question, or a coincidence altogether, but suddenly there was a commotion of pounding feet and commands, sounding very much like a military group. Just great.

I looked over the side again; there wasn't time to climb down a ladder if I made one. D looked rushed, "Just jump!"

I clenched my fists and leaped over the edge as the first soldier came into view rounding the corner to where D stood. The ground came up fast and I instinctively created air molecules below me, slowing my fall so I landed gently on the ground. By the time I was steady, D was already running and soldiers were rounding the corner.

I was frozen, my legs wouldn't move. Why wasn't I doing anything?

My eyes widened as a soldier held up a gun, "stop and hold your hands over your head!"

I turned my head and looked behind me, D was gone and I couldn't help but mutter, "traitor," under my breath before slowly raising my hands. I wasn't thinking clearly enough to fight all these soldiers, and I felt low on energy. Now more than ever I wished I was an innocent, normal civilian; at least then soldiers wouldn't have a reason to arrest me.

I closed my eyes and took calming breaths as the soldiers surrounded me, and I was handcuffed.

One soldier started to blindfold me, warning his partners, "This one's dangerous."

I began laughing, as helpless and weak as I was at the moment, these people still thought of me as a threat. Although I had to admit, with the blindfold on I couldn't create anything so now I was even more disabled.

The walk was short, to some sort of vehicle where I was seated, feeling the presence of a large man next to me.

I sighed as we began moving and growled under my breath, "You better not be abandoning me D… I know you need me."

The soldiers were silent, and I wondered if they had heard my words. I mentally slapped myself, why should I care, the name D probably meant as little to them as the meaning of aejdsrie; of course that meant little to me as well.