"Claire!" West shouted and scooped his girlfriend up into a hug while Peter and Elle stood side by side. "Claire I'm so glad you're safe."

"Me too," Claire giggled and kissed him on the cheek.

"Aw," Elle mumbled on the side with her arms crossed. But inside she felt extremely protective. Somehow she felt this wasn't right. She didn't really like West all that well and he'd just arrived.

"What is it?" Peter asked noticing how tense Elle was.

"What's what?"

"Why you so tense?"

"Oh it's nothing," Elle said brushing it aside.

"Let's go inside," Peter suggested. Elle nodded and followed Peter in but not before her eyes locked with West's cold eyes that sent an icy chill down her spine. Claire was hanging on to him and didn't see him glare at Elle. She shook her head and walked off following Peter.

"Claire I've got to talk to you," West said and pulled her to the side walk.

"What's wrong?" Claire asked noticing worry in his voice.

"What's that ice bitch doing here?"

"Who, Elle?"

"Yes, I'm referring to that cold hearted bitch."

"West!" Claire shouted defensively and slapped him on the arm. "Don't talk about her like that!"

"Claire do you know what she tried to do to you? She threatened me and told me to get me to help her kidnap you but I tackled her into a wall and she wiped out. I told Peter and he was mad but he said not to worry you so we didn't tell you."

"You made her wipe out?!" Claire's voice raised and she gently hit West again.

"Ow! What the hell Claire!" West said hurt and rubbed his arm.

"Sorry," Claire muttered. "It's a long story. But to make it short she turned around and didn't hurt me and so she went back to the company and they almost killed her. Peter and I saved her and then we had to run but her dad and some agent dude caught up with us and it was bad but Peter saved me and Elle. She's not bad West. Actually, she's my half sister."

"Half sister?!"

"Yeah," Claire said nodding.

"Well I definitely didn't see that coming," West mumbled.

"Well you better be nice to her," Claire warned him. He rolled his eyes. "Come on," Claire said. "Let's go inside." So he followed her inside where Elle and Peter were sitting at the table. "Well, guys, what do you want to do?" All of them just stared blankly at each other.

"As long as we don't hurt each other, you know, by oh say electrocution, I'm all up for it," West sneered.

"West!" Peter and Claire exclaimed.

"Well at least I'm not some flying pixie," Elle replied angrily. Claire and Peter both sensed something wrong rising inside her.

"I don't kidnap people and torture them," West said glaring. That seemed to hit Elle and caused her to falter. "Aw you didn't tell them what you did to me? How you kidnapped me so many years ago and tortured me? You think I forgot or something?"

"You know it wasn't like that," Elle said quivering. She didn't want Claire or Peter to see her like this.

"Oh really? Cause last time I checked you flat out kidnapped me and tossed me in a cell to be tested on. You only let me go after you realized that I 'didn't have any powers'. You're just a little bitch aren't you?"

"Look, West, you know I'm sorry for that, I didn't have a choice," Elle said.

"Oh shut up you pretended to be my friend in school and then you invite me to your house and suddenly you're not a normal transfer girl from school, no, you whisk me away to your dear little daddy so you won't look bad and get in trouble."

"Shut up!" Elle shrieked not being able to hear anything about her dad. Peter was astonished at usually kind hearted West's words as was Claire.

"What the hell do you think your saying West?!" she shouted and pushed her boyfriend away from her.

"I'm protecting you from this little-"

"Stop it!" Elle shouted and shocked him.

"Don't you dare shock me," West said dangerously and Elle defiantly did it again. "That's it!" he shouted. He lunged forward to tackle her but was pulled back by Claire. Without thinking he elbowed Claire and she whimpered as he realized he just hit his girlfriend.

"Get out," Claire said angrily as she glared at West.

"I'm trying to protect you," he protested.

"From who West?!"

"Her!"

"Oh you're going to need to protect yourself," Elle chimed in angrily. He turned to give her an ice cold stare.

"Get out West!" Claire shouted again.

"Claire come to your senses!"

"No, West, you come to yours! You don't know her! You don't know ANYTHING! She's my sister! Get OUT!"

"I know how this works," he said calmly as Claire tried to drag him out.

"She's a bitch at first but then you're nice to her and then eventually she's nice to you and then before you know it she turns you over to be tested on and tortured. See!" He pointed to two little scars on his neck. Claire turned to look at Elle who was fighting the urge to cry and at the same time scream.

"You know what my dad would've done to me if I didn't!"

"And me getting hurt was better than you getting hurt?"

"You're the guy!" Claire shouted angrily interrupting them as she continued to pull on West's arms.

"So?! I was fourteen! She's the whole reason I had to move and turn my life upside down!"

"I didn't have a choice! And I got hurt anyway!" Elle screamed.

"SHUT THE HELL UP AND GET OUT!" Peter suddenly roared. All three of them stopped out of surprise. Claire slowly let go of West who yanked his arms away and threw them in the air.

"Fine, I warned you," he said and turned and walked out of the house. Peter looked at Elle who was extremely shaken as was his niece. Claire turned around and ran up to Elle.

"I'm sorry Elle," Claire said trembling and clearly embarrassed over West's actions. Peter walked up behind Elle and put his arms around her and kissed her cheek as she was still shaking though listening to Claire. "I don't know what got into him. I'm really sorry Elle." Claire turned and walked away fighting tears. She walked up to her bed room.

"Let me talk to her," Elle whispered to Peter and gently broke away from him. Elle crept up the steps careful not to make noise and peered around the top only to see Claire standing with her back to the doorway and was facing the window. Elle could see her body trembling and she instantly felt guilty though she was hurt too. Claire seemed to be taking in the fresh air from the slightly open window as a breeze gently blew in. Elle walked quietly to the doorway and knocked on the open door. After a few seconds of silence Elle heard her respond.

"I'm fine," Claire choked up clearly sounding not fine. Elle hung her head not knowing what to say and just stood there. More silence passed and Claire knew that whoever it was was still there. "Whoever it is, just go away."

"It's me, Elle, please I want to talk to you," she told her softly clearly meaning no harm. Claire didn't respond so she just walked slowly into the room. "Don't feel bad about West it wasn't your fault."

She was just a little behind her when Claire turned around to look at her sadly. Her eyes were already red and her face was tear stained. "I hate how he called you a bitch," Claire said. "I hate how he thinks you're a bad person and that he elbowed me right in the gut where it really hurt but I really hate that I trusted him to react better than that."

"Come 'ere you," Elle said gently and let Claire collapse in her arms. She really felt like she was getting better at this whole comforting people thing. When a few moments had passed Elle led them both to the edge of the bed to talk. "I'm going to tell you what happened okay? Well like West said he was fourteen and I was fifteen. I was supposed to bag and tag him like I was supposed to for you. And I admit again I was a bitch…"

"Don't say that," Claire interrupted. She absolutely hated when Elle said that.

"Alright well anyways he was like you and still tried to be nice to me so eventually he warmed up to me and I liked him. I mean as a friend. But he liked me for more than a friend. He told me and I felt really bad but I didn't like him back. He got mad and threatened to do something to make me sad or mad or I don't even know what he had in mind. So I figured I may as well just turn him over to my dad to save my ass because either way it was going to get beat. Well the instant I did I felt horrible and he was shouting stuff at me even though my dad still hurt me anyway for 'seducing him for the fun of it'. Right like I did. Anyway that's what happened and they thought he didn't have any powers after the results of testing but he escaped somehow. I really don't know. When I came looking for you I tried apologizing for before but he didn't listen. So instead I was a bitch and tried to force him to help me but he shoved me into a wall and I passed out. I was afraid of him after and I avoided him after. I didn't know you were together I thought he was just your friend."

"You make him sound like such a bad guy," Claire said quietly.

"I don't know, I'm just telling you the story," Elle said.

"I guess I just never figured him to be like that," Claire admitted.

"Maybe he's not. He just hates me."

"He still shouldn't have acted like he did," Claire said shaking her head.

"It's fine Claire, don't sweat it," Elle said.

"But he was such a jerk-"

"Don't worry," she said hugging Claire. "I'm fine. I'll dealwith it. Really." What Claire couldn't see was the anger in Elle's eyes. Elle was pissed that West had said all those things about her but even more angry that he made Claire upset.

"I'm going to tell him I can't date him if he's going to keep acting like this," Claire whispered with a tear rolling down her face. She had thought West was going to last longer than this.

"I'm going to go on a walk Claire and clear my mind kay? Just to make sure, West doesn't live anywhere near here right?"

"Unfortunately he's my somewhat neighbor," Claire admitted. "See that street?" She pointed out the window and several streets down Elle saw it. "Second house on the left."

"Right," Elle said with thoughts rolling around in her head. "I'll see you later Claire."

"Thanks Elle," she called out.

Elle walked downstairs only to be greeted by Peter. "Hey you okay?" he asked quickly as he got up from the table.

"I'm fine just going on a walk to clear my head," Elle said. "You might want to go talk to Claire." He nodded and kissed her on the top of her head before walking upstairs. Elle continued on her way out and she felt this strange feeling rising in her. Just as she was out of the driveway her hands were glowing blue. She felt revenge rising in her. West is going to pay for what he did, she thought angrily. He doesn't know what the hell I've been through or anything. He called me a bitch and he elbowed Claire and made her cry. He's so going to get it. I didn't even do anything to him all those years ago. Well nothing I could've prevented. That little ass…