Ten years later

Legacy POV/ Training

I laughed as Cassandra told me a joke about some farmer and a tractor, not really finding it funny, but she did and I could feel her happiness inside of me. I tried to stifle the sensation and finally lost it, trapping it behind the imaginary wall I created in my mind. I smiled at my victory. Cassandra, though, pushed even harder with her emotions but I blocked them out. We continued our daily training and when we finished I helped her make dinner, clean up afterwards and then went to bed.

At night, thoughts of Dexter consumed me. I remembered our brief time together and how he felt in my arms. I missed him and now that I had finished controlling my power I could see him again. I hadn't had any contact with people outside of the sensitive township that they set up after Darquesse had done her destructive thing. I haven't talked to Ghastly, Tanith or Dex in ten years.

I leave tomorrow and Cassandra was very happy to get rid of me as she always found it really annoying that I could tell what she was feeling, as did a lot of the other sensitives around the town. They always avoided me and I hated that. Not only did I have no contact with the outside world, I also didn't have much contact with world that the sensitives lived in either. The occasional visit from sanctuary officials brightened my days considerably but they never sent anyone who knew Dex or any of his friends well enough to tell me about him and what he has been doing these past years. I know that I wasn't to be distracted by trivial things such as love and sex but sometimes it was all I could think about, he was all I could think about. I went to sleep expecting the usual dreams in which I got to see my friends again.

I woke up to my alarm clock that chimed at seven o'clock every morning on the dot. I got up and showered, brushed my teeth, did my hair, got dressed into a pair of denim skinny jeans and a black singlet top, pulling a nice woolen dark purple jumper over the top. I put on my combat boots and made my bed, then went down stairs to help set the table ready for breakfast. As I walked down the stairs I could hear the usual humming of Cassandra as she moved about in the kitchen, preferring to get up earlier to cook breakfast, as she liked to cook. I smelled bacon and sighed in delight and I could feel a different presence in the kitchen with her that wasn't usually there.

I sent my radar, as I liked to call it, out and scanned the stranger's emotions, they were excited and jumpy. I could tell that their usual everyday attitude towards life was upbeat and happy but today they were even more so and that made me curious. It wasn't every day that we had visitors. And then I remembered that I was going home today although, I didn't really know where home was seeing as I had lived here with Cassandra longer than I had with Ghastly and Tanith after my parents died. Another thing about being able to control my powers is that I can reign in my own emotions so that thinking about things like my parents death is much less painful.

Cassandra didn't like the fact that I did this though as she thought I should restore my emotions to the way they were before my surge but I thought it was easier to be emotionally detached from certain things i.e. my parents. I left my feelings for Dexter Vex alone though, hoping that the old saying 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' worked as well for Dexter as it has done for me. I wondered then, who the stranger was and if it was someone I knew. I reached out to evaluate their emotional state. As I said before, they were excited and happy, so they must be looking forward to something. I noticed a warm and friendly aspect to their excited-ness that made me think of Tanith and the brief time that I had been in her company when I had my magic and realised that it must be her.

I had been practicing identifying people by recognising their emotional state and normalcy with Cassandra last year and was glad that I had mastered it. I ran from the stairs and into the kitchen to see Tanith, looking the same as she had ten years ago, leaning up against the counter talking to Cassandra whilst she made breakfast. She turned around when she heard my footsteps and looked up at me. I froze and so did she. We stared at each other, in awe of being together after all this time. When I was a kid, Tanith and I had been as close as sisters, her taking me in when I had nowhere else to go. I had missed her so much and I could tell that she had too because I could literally feel the joy emulating from her as she unfroze and jumped onto me, wrapping her legs around my waist and hugging her arms around my shoulders.

"Legacy Grace." She yelled. I too wrapped my arms around her mid-section and hugged her back. "Tanith Low." I yelled back. After a while she started to get heavy so I said "Tan, if you don't get of me now, I'm going to break." in an amused voice as she had started crying. I found her tears weirdly unnecessary but kind of flattering at the same time as she was crying because she was so happy to see me. We talked for a while until she abruptly said "Oh shit, I was only meant to come in and get you, I have Ghastly in the car." She laughed sheepishly and stood up and skipped out the front door to go and get him.

While she was gone I went upstairs to pack the things I hadn't got a chance to do yesterday and then brought them down stairs. I had one suit case full of clothes and shoes and a box full of books that I had bought with the salary I got from my part time job at the library which I utilised fully. I was only allowed two shifts a week and the contact with people other than Cassandra allowed me to practice using my magic on other people. I sat my things down near the door as I felt Ghastly's presence in the lounge room.

I ran in and saw him standing there, in all his epic glory. He still had his scars across his face, I had missed those scars. I had always found them fascinating as I thought he looked rather handsome with the scars as did Tanith but nobody else shared our fascination. I walked over to him and hugged him around the waist and his hands went around my back. "It's good to see you too Legacy." He said in his deep gruff voice. I stood back and looked at them both, realising that they were emulating the same kind of energy, I know that because they kind of taste the same and smell the same as well as feel the same.

I flicked an imaginary switch that turned on my aura seeing ability and found that there was a brown circle swirling around Ghastly's aura and a green one around Tanith's. This meant that they were in love with each other and had done something to celebrate that love ceremonially. They had been married. That was so exciting. But I would wait for Tanith to tell me they had done so as she wasn't wearing a wedding ring and on closer inspection neither was Ghastly. I wonder what's gone on there but I didn't dwell on it at the moment and flicked my aura seeing off.