I grabbed the persons hand and flipped them over me. They landed with a thud on the floor. I was about to send a punch at the persons face but stopped when I saw who it was.
"Im so sorry duo," I said as I backed away from him.
"Its ok rain you didn't know it was me," he told me as he was getting up.
"Hey wait why are you down here duo," I asked with curiosity.
"I usually come to the gym to warm up before breakfast but more importantly why are you down here," he asked.
"I couldn't sleep so I came to practice on some things," I told him.
He looked at me confused as he started to say something.
"From what I just saw of your gymnastics you don't need to practice," he said.
"You saw that." I whispered.
"Yea," he said with a huge smile on his face.
"So anyway how long have you been down here," he questioned with the smile still on his face.
"I don't know but probably three or four hours," I told him.
He looked at me surprised but decided not to say what he was thinking. After I answered there was an uncomfortable silence.
"So um when is breakfast," I asked to break the silence.
Duo thought for a second and said, "breakfast should be right about now," he said and ran out of the room with a smile.
I laughed a little but decide to follow him to the kitchen.
I arrived in the kitchen to see Heero, Duo, Trowa, and Wufei at the table eating while Quatre was cooking the food. I smiled as I went over to Quatre.
"Need any help," I asked?
He quickly nodded his head as he took some more food over to duo.
"Quatre why don't you take a seat and ill make the food," I said.
Quatre quickly took a seat and started to talk to everyone.
"Ok what do you guys want," I asked the group.
Wufei and Quatre wanted tea and everyone else wanted pancakes.
"Ok," I said as I put a kettle of water on the oven top.
I then went to make the pancakes. I had just finished making the pancakes when the kettle started to whistle. I took it off of the oven top and started to put ingredients in it. I brought Wufei and Quatre their tea and then went back and brought the plate of pancakes to the table. I quickly went to the counter and leaned against it and munched on the pancake I grabbed. Everyone looked at me weird as I munched on my pancake.
"Is something wrong," I asked them?
"Is that all your going to eat," Quatre asked?
"Yea why," I asked Quatre.
"Oh no reason I just thought you would eat more than one piece of pancake," he explained.
"Oh don't worry im used to eating small amounts," I told him.
I was almost don't when duo asked me a question.
"So rain do you have any brothers or sister's," duo asked while still putting food in his mouth.
A picture of an eleven-year-old with black hair and grey eyes came to mind but I pushed it out of my mind.
"Yea I did have a brother," I told them.
"What happened to him," Quatre asked?
"I don't want to talk about it," I told them.
"Im going to go to the garden I hope you enjoy the breakfast,' I said as I quickly walked out of the kitchen.
When I was out of their sight, I ran to the garden. I quickly found a bench near a rose bush and sat down brining my knees to my chin as I thought of what happened to my brother.
-Flashback
I was eight years old and my brother was eleven years old. They were doing some experiments when I tried to get away from them. They quickly got a hold of me and threw me into an empty room. A few seconds later the door sung open and my brother came flying in. he quickly came over to me when he saw I had tears in my eyes.
"How could he do this to us," I asked Jake my older brother?
"I don't know," he said as he brought my head down to lie on his lap and started playing with my hair to calm me down.
"Rain why did you try to get away again," he asked me.
"I don't want to be here I want to leave so I wont become one of their experiments," I told him as I let a sob escape my mouth.
"You do know your going to be punished again don't you," Jake asked me.
"Yea I know," I whispered.
"At least try to get some sleep rain," Jake told me.
"What about you aren't you tired," I asked.
"Yea I am but making sure now one tries anything with my little sister is more important," he told me.
"Ok," I said as I closed my eyes and fell asleep.
It seemed I had only slept for fifteen minutes when Jake started to wake me up.
"rain wake up their coming," I heard Jake's urgent voice say.
I bolted awake and started to sit up. I had just sat up when the door swung open and in came the leader of the operation.
"I heard you tried to run away again rain," he said in a cold voice.
'Yes," I stuttered.
"Well I finally decide on a punishment," he said with malice as he brought out a gun.
My eyes went wide as he pointed the gun in my direction and fired. I closed my eyes bracing myself for the impact of the bullet but only felt me being pushed out of the way. My eyes shot open as I heard Jake let a scream of pain out. I looked in Jake's direction to see he took the shot that he had pushed me out of the way and took the bullet instead.
"No," I cried as I ran over to me brothers body.
"Not the person I was aiming for but hopefully you won't try to escape any more," the leader said as he left.
I place my brother's head in my lap as I reached Jake.
"Why did you do that," I asked Jake as tears started to stream down my face?
"I did it because no ones going to hurt my little sister when im around," I heard him say as he took his last breath.
"No don't die," I cried as I brought him into a hug.
I started to cry hysterically as his body went cold. I then carefully sat Jake into a laying position as I tried to stop from crying. My tears didn't stop so I brought my hand up to wipe them away but stopped when I saw blood on my hands. That's when I couldn't hold in my tears and started to cry over my once living brothers body.
-end flashback-
That was the day that I lost the last part of what I considered family. I looked over to the rose bush next to the bench and went over and got me a rose that's color was like blood and twirled it in my hand as I went back into the building.