A/N I should be revising for my GCSE music exam but instead I thought to update. Please update even if it's to say you hate it. I welcome any way to improve it.

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"I found her outside watching the house" He answers his hand coming back to grip around my upper arm with vice like strength again, I was going to have bruises, but as Andrew turned his gaze on me I knew I had more to worry about that bruises. Like coming out of this. I felt everyone's eyes on me as Andrew spoke. My brain whirled I knew what he was going to ask me I just didn't have an answer. Think! Think!

"What were you doing out there?" Don't answer play for time. I feel my mouth open despite my brain screaming at it not to. Damn this was not my night.

"Watching the house" I said in a duh tone. Andrew's expression doesn't change it remains blank while Tye's grip tightens, while I resist of using my other hand to hit my head. When I panic I open my mouth and speak crap. It's why I wasn't the best at surviving on the streets. Some nice old lady once asked if I was ok, I looked mucky half starved which I was and instead of being or pitiful like I was I sarcastically say I'm just peachy. Let's just say she didn't exactly help after that.
"What are you here for?" Think Nike engage brain.
"I'm running from the Edison group" Well done. Andrews expression softens but a calculating look enters his eyes. I hear Chloe gasp and see her being glared at by Derek.
"Why?"
"They didn't like what I did"
"Why don't you start from the beginning and tell us the whole story?" Tye growls.
"I would do but my arm is going numb and its not helping me concentrate" I snap at him tugging on my arm. He huffs and looks to Andrew who nods. I shake my arm out to prove my point.
"Have a seat-" Andrew leaves it open.
"Nike and thank you" I move around the huge table sitting in one of the empty seats at the edge. Tye comes to sit down next to me his huge body seeming to crowd my space. How the hell was he so big?
"Now Nike tell us from the beginning" It wasn't Andrew that spoke this time it was a woman. She had a heart shaped face with pale skin scattered with freckles and soft curling red hair. Her blue eyes twinkled. Best keep as close to the truth as I could.
"Well around five years ago I found out I was a demi fire demon" I take a deep breath, I always forgot how much it hurt to remember the moment I found I wasn't normal like every other child. But the pain reminded my why I didn't think of it, instead buried it deep inside me. "I got mad and- I had a accident, I ran away from home" What was left of it "I lived on the street from then on for around three years-"
"What about family" Chloe asks. I look up from the table that I had been studying.
"I couldn't go back to them" She nods her head. "I didn't do very well on the streets I was too young to naive by the time the Edison group found me I was nearly dead" All the truth, I had been to weak to even think of running when the man had found me and put me in a van. Anything could have happened to me, rape or murder but I was too weak to care. Death would have been a blessing at that point.

"They nursed me back to health and explained to me what I was what I could do, they helped me learn how to control my powers" I needed to tread carefully now. "Then they sent me on my first job, to find another demi demon and bring her into them. I did it with out thinking what it meant. I thought they would help her like they did me. I never saw her again" I had been fourteen soon to be fifteen the girl had been the same; I had asked her name she was called Laura. At first she had been scared but when I told her what they did for me she calmed. I thought we would be friends we had both been living on the streets both demi demons. But when I took her back they hurried her off into a section of the building I wasn't allowed in and she never came back. I asked where she was, they said she had been taken away somewhere safe. I later over heard them talking about her, how they had killed her. Terminated was the word they used.
"Nike?" I look up from my hands noticed the red half moon my nails had made in my palms. The red head was talking to me I had forgot I was talking.
"Sorry, I knew something bad had happened to her, so when they sent me on another job I didn't do it I told the boy to run"
His name had been Daniel. He was a sorcerer, two years older than me and not on the streets; he had been living with his grandma. I had sneaked in the middle of the night to his room and told him to run that people were after him. To kill him. When I returned empty handed I was punished. Physically. I shift in my seat remembering the pain, but they also showed me pictures. Pictures of what Daniel could do if they didn't help me. The pictures showed people frozen their faces and eyes showing pure terror and people thrown into walls blood dripping from their mouths. It was worse than any physical punishment. Then they sent me after him again with the warning that if I didn't succeed I was letting a powerful unpredictable threat free to hurt innocents.
"I went after the boy but told him to run. I was punished and sent after him again. I got him and brought him back. They sent me on more jobs and each time it got worse I hated myself sometimes I wouldn't do it quick enough and I would be punished again not badly just enough to make sure I never did it again. I was sent on a job recently that I couldn't do it was too much, so I planned to run away after raiding all the information I could find. I heard that they had been sabotaged a few time and started to look into it. It wasn't till a few nights ago when I made my escape" I looked to Chloe "I liked how you jumped from a tree it was funny" Her eyes widen and I notice Derek stiffen. While Simon looked to Chloe an impressed expression on his face.
"You were there that night?" Andrew asked his face showing surprise.
"Yes I volunteered so I could escape I knew from the files I read that Derek and Simon were looking for their father and that if I found them I would some how have a chance of getting away even if it was just a direction to hike in" I was lying completely but if this had been a year ago I wouldn't have been. Every time I went on a job for the first year I had hated myself a little more but then after being shown more pictures of a werewolf attack something in me snapped. I realised what world I lived in, you had to do what you had to survive. Now if I go on a job I don't ask names I don't ask why they need to be brought in I just do it. This case is the only one I know names and more details in a year.
"I know it was a slim chance but I tracked you for a while then this morning took off before dawn to find where you ended up. I've spent the whole day thinking of what to do next" I swallow and breathe deeply. Centring myself again pulling back up the walls that kept me going. Once in place I look up to find everyone's eyes on me. I had kept to the truth as much as I could.
"You must be tiered then" Andrew speaks first.
"Yes" I answer I was slightly.
"May will show you to a room, we shall speak more in the morning" The woman with the red hair stands and smiles to me. I stand and follow feeling every single eye on my back.

Bright light leaks through a crack in the curtains shining right on my eyes. I blink groggily as I sit up. I must have been more tiered than I thought. I stretch remembering the day before and my story going over it again and again in my head. I stumble to my bag where I had a change of clothes and slip my other stiff ones off. The new dark t-shirt and jeans were wrinkled but that didn't matter. My stomach rumbles reminding me I hadn't eaten since yesterday and that had been energy bars. I leave my bag there was nothing that would tell them anything about me, and they had last night to look in it anyway. I walk to the door planning to open it; instead I was thrown back landing on my butt three foot away. I look around dazed. The room was comfortable in soft colours and softer bed and held a wardrobe and bed side cabinet. But no one to have thrown a spell at me. What the hell had happened? I stand and move again to open the door and again am thrown back. Great bruised upper arm and now butt. I stand rubbing my butt when the door is suddenly opened. May was standing looking breathless and sheepish.
"Sorry but we had to be sure you wouldn't run off"
"Its fine" I move my hands to me sides walking carefully to the door and through. Thank goodness!
"Good morning, there is some breakfast downstairs if you want"
"Thank you I'm starving" I could smell the heavily scent of eggs and bacon and nearly ran down he stairs but stopped when I heard a hushed conversation. I move closer to the door peering through the crack.
"I don't trust her" Her I take to be me.
"Derek-" Chloe starts.
"No-" This time Chloe cuts him off with a hand on his arm. I watch him seem to stiffen. Interesting.
"She could know where your dad is"
"She could be lying"
"Give her a chance" Something odd flipped my stomach. Something I hadn't felt in a while. Something I didn't want to feel.
"Derek, Chloe! Foods up" I hear Simon shout coming closer and move quickly to the kitchen.