1 year earlier:
I creased my eyebrows together and winced, staring out of the train window at the passing scenery, sheep sailing before my eyes and rain splattering at my reflection. I seemed like the clouds were crying with me. Wiping my watering eyes with a scratched hand a sob escaped from my throat as I thought once again back to what had just happened. The empty seats surrounding me on the carriage did nothing to improve my mood, my only option for distraction was to once again turn my attention back to the night scenery whizzing past my puffy red eyes.
I had packed up my stuff that morning. I was sick of the abuse from Dad. I wanted to escape my sisters. I was tired of Mum being forced to ignore me. If she didn't Dad just hit her more. It had been the last day of school for the Summer and I had decided it would be the last day of my miserable life. Dad didn't know I had friends, if he did he would have uprooted us right there and then and we would have moved to another continent. Craig and I had planned to catch the first train out of London that morning and travel to Leeds. Craig was my best friend. I knew I could trust him, whether he thought he was in love with me or not.
Dad was right.
I was only ever going to get a friend hurt.
We had run into the very people Dad had moved us to London to avoid once we had arrived at our hotel. No matter how unforgivable he was, at least he kept us safe from the real bad guys. The savant net thought that my family were criminals, because of my Fathers history, and because they were unmerciful savants. My father was Relavigane Wood, the notorious drug dealer of the Wood company, the notorious bad guy. He had changed when he met his soulfinder, but not for long. People say that your soulfinder can only ever be good for you. My family called bullshit on the whole thing.
Craig paid the price for my Fathers past life, when it should have been me. He jumped in front of the bullet to save me, after we had been chased through the city of London for two hours straight. There was no way I could ever have repaid him. He was dead within half a minute.
In that deserted train carriage I realised that the people who killed Craig would not stop until they had reached my Father. That was when I realised that the only way to protect myself and those who I cared about was to stay with my family, fighting with them. Because no matter what happened I could not let anybody else die in my place.
My savant gift is useless in a fight. I guess I was given the opposite. The flight. I can run away from any situation before the enemy have even seen me, but I cannot fight them to save the people who I love.
I knew that my only option was to drop out of school and let my friends forget about me.
I should have known that would never be enough.
Tears dropped soundlessly down my bruised cheeks, my thoughts and heart still with Craig.
Tristan:
The train clunked into the station, and I contemplated my inevitable fate.
Colorado.
I had been moved around constantly up until that point, passed from foster family to foster family, messing up my chance of a stable life again and again. I seemed to attract trouble, and not being able to tell the people who were supposed to be caring for me the very reason why I was in danger was not helping very much. After my fifteenth placement, the savant net had caught on to my position. Changing my placement, I had been forced into the care of a savant family who had apparently volunteered to look after me, teaching me how to be a good savant.
I had already decided it wasn't worth their time.
So there I was, staring out of a glass window pane, as i left the city behind, and the countryside grew more green and less grey, waiting to be transferred into a life where I would be useful to the savant net, instead of being my usual pain in the backside.
What I hadn't known at that point was just how little time it would take me to adjust to the Benedict lifestyle. They were infectious, and unsurprisingly I became a part of their crazy life.
HEYA :))) So now you know a bit about their lives YAY :D I'm sorry I kinda left them in the middle of a field though :L but I might have time to update again today anyway so YAY.
Wow. I'm gonna fail my exams.
OMG IM GONNA FAIL MY EXAMS I HAVE TO REVISE.
I CANT BE BOTHERED.
... I think I'm gonna go to sleep ...