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CHAPTER 2

It had now been a week of Claire's confinement and she still had yet to be given any real answers as to why and how long she will be staying here. She lay flat on her stiff bed in her newly appointed attire of track pants and plain white fitted t-shirt. She could hear footsteps they suddenly stopped and her cell door swung open. Claire didn't move knowing that her guest would only be Elle.

"Lunch is ready" said Elle as she flung the dinner plate onto the cell's lone table.

She made her way back to the door in which she came but she was halted by the surprising sound of the younger girl's voice.

"Wait" Claire had moved herself into a sitting position.

Elle Spun around on her feet with her arms folded, leg cocked to one side and stared at the girl who dared talk to her.

"Are you ever going to talk to me?"

"What makes you think I want to talk to you?"

Elle's reply was cold and blunt but it didn't stop Claire from pursuing her she was her only hope at any form of entertainment and for some reason she felt like she actually wanted to talk to Elle. Not just out of necessity but also because she enthralled the younger girl and she yearned to hear her story.

"Come on I have seen you every day for the past week always doing the same thing always the same bored look on your face, you need to talk to someone just as much as I do"

Elle knew she was right but she wasn't sure she was ready to bare all to the somewhat pretty cheerleader not that there was really much to bare. Perhaps that was her problem she was intimidated by Claire in her eyes she lived the perfect life with the perfect family perfect social life she was just so.... Perfect!!!

"I would take no pleasure listening to you whine about your perfect little life and how hard done by you are"

Elle turned and walked away not waiting for Claire's reaction she slammed the door and her footsteps soon faded away into the unknown depths of the facility.

Claire was gobsmacked she honestly didn't expect a reaction like that but she had yet to learn about the hard defiant changing personality of Elle. Claire laid back down not entirely defeated she lay and thought how she'd try and get the older girl to open up the next time she came into her domain.

Elle left the room with a weird realisation growing inside of her brain the cheerleader actually got to her. She knew she had always longed to be in the younger girl's situation their lives could so easily have been reversed. The problem was that Elle's father had been less sympathetic towards his daughter and jumped at the opportunity to bring her into the company and turn her into the super villain that she now is. Whereas one the other side of the table Claire's father cared enough for his daughter that he didn't take her to the company once learning she held special abilities therefore Claire blossomed into the perfect little carefree teenager she now is.

A few days passed and Elle tried her hardest to stay away from Claire not wanting to risk falling into the girls trap and willingly talk to her but her father Bob wasn't helping too much and insisted that Elle be the one to go to Claire's cell and harvest more of her blood.

Storming out of her father's office with the blood collecting kit in tow Elle made her way to cell number 5. Claire immediately looked up from the book that was given to her in an attempt to kill her boredom to see Elle walk past her cell window in what appeared to be her permanent state of fury.

"Take off your jacket" Elle barked the order not once looking up at the petite girls face.

"Oh so forward Elle I didn't know you felt that way" said Claire looking up at her older peer with a fake sense of shock.

Before she could realise what she was doing Elle realised that she had smiled at the suggestive comment.

"I knew you had a softer side under that cold hard exterior" Claire clapped her hands together smiling at her accomplishment.

"Don't get your hopes up pom pom I was smiling at the huge black spider I seen crawling up your arm"

"What!! Where??" the young girl panicked ripping her sweat jacket of so fast it was a mere blur to a watching eye.

Elle erupted in laughter for the first time in a very long time.

"I knew that was the fastest way to get you to get your clothes off"

"Oh ha ha don't do that spiders freak me out more than anything"

"Pretty stupid for an indestructible girl to fear a tiny spider it's not like it could kill you"

Slipping some surgical gloves on Elle stooped down to wipe Claire's forearm with an alcohol swipe.

"I know it's just the thought of them crawling in places they shouldn't be that freaks me"

Elle looked into Claire's eyes and smiled slightly blushing at the thought of what places she was thinking about.

The two girls didn't speak for the rest of the time that the blood took to be mustered which wasn't too long as only a small sample was needed. When Elle was packing up and about to leave the room Claire was putting her jacket back on when she said.

"It wasn't that hard was it?"

"What are you talking about" asked Elle

"Talking to me" she simply replied.

Elle turned smiling making sure Claire didn't see.

"See you tomorrow" she said as she exited the room.