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Ellie's POV
I stood shivering in the cold Icelandic air. We were still waiting for the woman who answered Trevor's shout to open the door. Sean was next to me, fighting to keep himself from shivering.
"You cold?" I asked. He looked at me and cleared his throat.
"Oh no, I never feel cold." he said nonchalantly, adding a shrug. At that moment an extra cold gust of wind swept across us and we all shivered violently.
"Don't get cold huh?" I said smugly, smiling at him. He gave a 'what are you goanna do' grin and I chuckled. What was happening to us? A week ago we couldn't stand to be within fifty feat of each other and now were falling asleep on each others shoulders, laughing at each others jokes and he was defending me. We were acting like…friends. I felt like I was going to be sick.
Finally the door opened and in the doorway stood a very pretty blonde woman opened the door. She looked tired, but had bright blue eyes. I smiled at her I looked at Sean to see his reaction. I didn't like it. He was smiling like an idiot and there was a faint tint to his cheeks. I looked away, scowling at the floor.
"Hi, can I help you?" the woman asked.
"H-hello," Trevor stuttered. I sighed. He's making it difficult.
"I'm Hannah." she said thrusting her hand forward and smiling slightly.
"Hi, my names Ellie, and this is Trevor and Sean." I said stepping forward and shaking it.
"Oh, how do you do? Hi," Trevor said finally shaking her hand, "I'm Trev- Professor Anderson. I'm visiting from America. Um... This Sean, my nephew, and Ellie, his fri-neighbour. As she already told you." Trevor said pointing to me. Hannah shook Sean's hand. I rolled my eyes as he smiled like an idiot. I was not jealous.
"I was wondering if I could possibly speak with, forgive me here... Sigurbjorn Asgeirsson?" Trevor asked.
"Um...Well, Sigurbjorn Asgeirsson is dead." Hannah said with a saddened tone.
"Dead?" Sean asked.
"Yeah, he died three winters ago." Hannah clarified.
"Oh, Uh... So do you run the institute?" Trevor asked.
"Nobody does. There is no institute." Hannah told us. Really? We came here for no reason then.
"There's a sign down the road that says-"
"Progressive Vocanology was a failed idea." Hannah informed cutting him off, "Like, you know, the Berlin Wall and eight-track tapes." I snickered at the last one.
"I see." Trevor said disappointment written clearly across his face. "Well, did you work with him?"
"No, no. He was my father." Hannah said. I grimaced.
"So sorry." I said. She smiled weakly at me.
"Thank you. Would you like to come in?" she asked.
"Yes!" Sean and Trevor said at the same time. I rolled my eyes at them and Sean blushed heavily. "I'm cold." he defended. I gave him a 'yeeeaaah' look before following Hannah inside.
I sat down at a table and watched as she placed four cups on the table. Trevor slid the book over to her and looked at her expectantly. Her eyebrows rose up, so did mine. Like that said anything
"Yeah? I know it. What about it?" she asked turning to stir the hot chocolate on her stove.
"Well, this book belonged to my late brother, Max. Max Anderson? We believed that he may have been in contact with your father." Trevor said.
"Your brother was a Vernian." Hannah stated pouring hot chocolate in the cups.
"What's a Vernian?" I asked. Sean had the same questioning look as me.
"Someone who believes that the writings of Jules Vern were actual fact. The guy was a science fiction writer and yet this society regarded him as a visionary. My father was the biggest of them all." Hannah said while passing the cups around then sitting down. I felt my glare coming back as Sean grinned stupidly when Hannah handed him his cup. I'm not jealous! I'm not jealous! I looked back at him from the corner of my eye. He was staring at me, a glassed over look in his eyes. I wonder what he was thinking about. I quickly grabbed my cup and took a sip. Boys are so weird. I turned back to Hannah and Trevor, trying to pay attention.
"My brother was no Vernian." Trevor. Hannah grabbed his book and looked through it for a second, flicking through the pages, then got up and walked to her bookshelf. She grabbed a huge book off the shelf and brought it back over to us, dropping it on the table so hard that I thought it would break the table.
"This was my fathers copy. Take a look. The notes are exactly the same. Your brother was a Vernian." Hannah said, pointing at the books. We all leaned over and, true enough, both of the books had exactly the same scribbly notes.
"Wow my dad was kind of…out there." Sean mumbled.
"You didn't know him Sean." Trevor defended, frowning at the books.
"I'm beginning to think you didn't either." I commented. Trevor glared at me but I just stared back. I'm not about to be intimidated by a middle aged man who is competing for the attention of a woman he just met with his sixteen year old nephew.
"He was no member of a secret society." he pushed, keeping his glare on me. I noticed Sean's eyes flicker between me and his uncle before he shifted closer to me. Is he taking my side?
"What are you guys doing here?" Hannah sighed, looking tired.
"I'm a scientist. I'm a professor. I'm here because there are seismic sensors going off thirty clicks north from here that we think we should check out." Trevor explained. Hannah raised an eyebrow at me and Sean.
"They are children." she said, blatantly meaning us.
"Hey, we're both sixteen thank you very much." I said firmly and Sean nodded. Hannah shrugged.
"Whatever, I'm the mountain guide. I can take you up there." she offered. Both Trevor and Sean's faces lit up.
"Great!" Trevor said.
"Yeah I love hiking." Sean commented. Suck up, he didn't even like using the stairs in our apartment complex. All eyes landed on me.
"Great." I sighed. Sean smiled, leaning back on the couch.
"So it will be 5000 kronor to go up there." Hannah said as she replaced the book on the shelf.
"Five grand a day? No problem." Trevor said happily.
"An hour." Hannah corrected and his smile dropped. I smirked at him, she doesn't seem so great now does she?
"Do you except rolls of quarters?" Sean asked. I didn't know if it was the exhaustion or the fact that I was tired of the boys focusing all their attention on Hannah, but I burst out laughing. Sean gave me a funny look, while Trevor just raised an eyebrow. I noticed Hannah glance at him worriedly but he just shook his head, telling her I was fine.
"Ellie, are you ok? It wasn't even that funny." Sean said as tears started to stream down my cheeks. I just nodded.
"I'm fine. It's just one of those things where you can't stop no matter how bad it was." I gasped between my giggles. I felt a hand on my back and looked up to see Sean rubbing it gently. Did he think I was having an attack? Idiot.
"Maybe you should get some sleep." Hannah commented. We all nodded, my giggling dying down to snickers. "Alright. I will sleep down here. Sean and Ellie can take my room and Trevor, you can have my fathers old room." Hannah instructed. Trevor looked a little uncomfortable with the idea but nodded. I felt a little bad at taking Hannah's bed but she seemed set on the idea.
Sean tapped me on the shoulder and I nodded, standing up and following him upstairs.
"Thank you Hannah." I shouted from the stairs.
"It's alright!" she shouted back. When we reached the room, backs on our shoulders, I suddenly felt a bit awkward. I was about to share a room, alone, with a suddenly very friendly Sean. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit creped out. Sean opened the door and we both stood frozen in the doorway. It was a simple room, not very big but big enough to have enough room to walked around the large double bed that sat in the middle of the room against the wall. Sean looked at me, looking slightly worried. Knowing that he wanted confirmation, I walked towards the bed and took all the pillows off the bed and made a pillow wall down the middle.
"There. Now there will be no awkwardness." I said simply before taking my bag and walking out the room and towards the bathroom we had passed. I quickly changed into my pyjama's, a pair of short red chequered pyjama shorts and a white vest, then brushed my teeth and washed my face. When I returned to the room Sean was wearing a pair of grey sweat pants and an old ACDC shirt. He still looked a little awkward but I couldn't care less about the sleeping arrangements. I don't know what got into his mind to make him act so awkwardly but it was really starting to annoy me.
I slipped into the bed on the side closest to the door and snuggled into the warm blankets. I heard a sigh before the bed on the other side of the pillow wall shifted as he got in. I turned off the light by my bedside table and let my eyes slide shut.
"Ellie?" I heard Sean ask. I sighed.
"Yeah?" I grumbled. I heard a rustling before Sean's head appeared over the pillow wall.
"Are we ok? I mean we're going to be moving to a whole new place and all we'll have is each other. I think maybe we should try getting along from now on. I know we've had our fights in the past but I'm willing to make an effort." he explained, looking straight at me. I felt my heart rate pick up at his words. He was willing to make an effort just to be my friend? I blushed slightly. But smiled at him. I wasn't going to lie, I was loving the attention I was getting from Sean since this trip started. At first it was kind of annoying, but now that I've seen how sweet he can be (Still weird, but sweet) I've really grown to appreciate him and miss the years I could have spent being his friend. I leaned up to become eye level with him and kissed his cheek. He blushed heavily in the darkness, but smiled sheepishly.
"I'll take that as a yes." he smirked. I just rolled my eyes but gave him a genuine smile.
"Goodnight Sean." I said, lying back down and rolling over.
"Goodnight Ellie." he mumbled, the smile still obviously on his face by his light tone. I smirked into my pillow.
"I hate you guys. Hiking sucks!" I moaned as I trudged a few steps behind Hannah. We were still climbing the mountain, having started at pretty much the crack of dawn and it was coming up to . I was wearing a pair of black jean shorts and a red tank top. Even though I was tired, I was still ahead of Trevor and Sean. I had to keep looking back every now and then to make sure they were ok. "Wow they're slow." I said to Hannah. She smiled before stopping to turn to them.
"Come on boys! I want to be home by sundown!" she shouted down to them.
"Can you slow down a bit please?" Trevor gasped but Hannah just kept going until she reached the top. I sighed as Trevor and Sean collapsed onto some rocks, climbing down to meet them.
"You guys need to get into shape." I said as I joined them. Sean and Trevor ignored me, both staring at Hannah's butt.
"Dibs." Sean said bluntly. Me and Trevor both looked at him confusedly.
"What?" Trevor asked.
"I got dibs on the mountain guide." he clarified. My jaw clenched and I glared at the back of his head as he started to climb again.
"You're sixteen." Trevor said, climbing next to him. I followed on behind.
"Sorry called it." he said smugly. I growled and shoved him forwards, taking his place besides Trevor. "Ow hey! What's your problem!" he yelled at me. I just glared at him. "Whatever. Get over it Trevor." he said before climbing on ahead of us. I just lowered my head and pushed on. I felt a tap on my shoulder and looked up at Trevor.
"You ok Ellie?" he asked.
"I'm fine! Why'd you ask!" I snapped at him. He smirked at me.
"Are you jealous of Hannah?" he asked. I narrowed my eyes at him and stamped on his foot. "Yeowch!" he cried, clutching his foot. "I was just asking." he whimpered. I shook my head at him.
"Don't go there." I warned. He gave me a sympathetic look.
"You've known him a long time Ellie. And he cares for you. If you do find yourself finally feeling something for him, tell him." I only shook my head at him, finding the idea of liking Sean as more then a friend laughable.
"What the heck is that?" I asked, looking down at a small cylinder like thing with a spike on the end.
"It's like a black box that has recorded all seismic activity that's transpired over the last ten years. It could tell me a lot about Max and what he was doing around the time he went missing." Trevor explained as he began tugging on it. I heard thunder and stiffened. I didn't like thunder, it meant a storm was coming.
"Trevor I'm really sorry but we have to go now." Hannah said, looking worriedly at the sky.
"Must be corroded." Trevor mumbled, ignoring her completely.
"Trevor we need to take cov-" we all jumped, except for Trevor, as a bolt of lightening struck near us. "Alright we need to move now. Sean, Ellie come with me now." Hannah said, puling us by our arms over to a cave.
"I'll be right there." Trevor called.
"Trevor just leave it for now!" Hannah shouted.
"I've almost got it!" he shouted. I looked back up at the sky, noting that the sky was rapidly getting darker before running back over to help Trevor.
"Ellie come back! It's to dangerous!" I heard Sean shout behind me but I ignored him. He didn't care anyway, he probably just wanted to look good in front of Hannah. When I reached Trevor I grabbed at the cylinder thing and helped pull.
"Get in the cave!" Hannah shouted at us.
"Yes!" Trevor shouted as he pulled the sensor thing free, only to jump harshly when a bolt of lightening struck right by where we were standing.
"Run!" I shouted, pulling him along towards the cave.
"Trevor, the sensor is attracting the lightening! Drop it!" Hannah shouted.
"Come on Ellie!" Sean shouted, gesturing me to run faster. At that moment I just wanted to flip him off.
"I'm not goanna drop it!" Trevor shouted, dodging another piece of lightening as he passed me.
"It's attracting the lightening!" me, Sean and Hannah all shouted at the same time. Trevor screamed one more time before chucking the sensor behind him...at me. Just as it was about too hit me on the head, a bolt of lightening struck the sensor, shattering it into a million pieces. One piece struck my arm and I grit my teeth against the pain and burning heat of the metal shard. Trevor was already in the cave, panting heavily.
"Run Ellie! Come on!" Sean shouted pleadingly while Hannah tended to Trevor.
Just as I reached the mouth of the cave a bolt of lightening struck the rock wall above me.
"Jump Ellie!" Sean yelled and I did, leaping right into his arms as a barrage of rocks drowned out any of our screaming. I felt one hit my head and my vision blurred. I felt myself slowly slipping out of consciousness, Sean's arms still wrapped around my waist.
"Ellie! Ellie wake up! Wake…up…!" eventually his voice just faded away as my vision turned black.
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