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Chapter 4: Fire & Ice

Ellie's house was rather strange. One room was bright and happy with fluffy things in every direction; the other was like a horror film. Francis didn't really like it, he thought that was major proof that Ellie was indeed bipolar. She didn't speak to him after he yelled at her. He assumed that it was because she was upset. Theresa was on a chair in the room watching him.

"Theresa do you think she'll call the police on us?"

Theresa looked up from the book she was reading. "Ellie gave us her word that she'd keep us out of the police's hands."

Regardless of her promise, he was still unsure. People lie all the time, especially to him. It could just be his illness thinking that but he was a bit frightened at the thought of being turned over to the police while he was sick. Ellie came into the room with a soda in her hand. "Theresa go watch my brother before he hurts himself. He's trying o find the hidden Mountain Dew. Theresa rolled her eyes and walked out leaving Ellie and Francis alone.

Francis took a good look at Ellie. The previous day when he woke up it was hard to see, His head was throbbing and the light was not helping. Today was better, his vision was clearer and the pain he felt had stopped. Something about Ellie looked familiar, he had seen her somewhere else he just couldn't place it.

"I brought you a Pepsi." Ellie spoke in a quiet tone. She tossed the can to him and plopped into the chair. "You're more than welcome to come out when you feel better, Just don't try to get

out."

He glared at her. She thought he was going to make a run for it.

"Look I didn't want to be here in the first place why would I want to stay?"

"Because if you leave I will call the police and I will tell them several lies about how you robbed me and beat me."

"You wouldn't dare"

"Watch me hot head."

She pulled out a notebook and began to flip around. Francis didn't have time for this, he sat up in the bed and tried to leave the room. Without warning he fell to the floor.

"Ow son of a bitch that hurt." He looked up at Ellie who was smirking behind her notebook.

"That's not funny."

"Yes it was."

"You're pure evil"

"Why thank you"

Seeing no end to the argument, Francis rolled his eyes and leaned against the bed. Ellie saw the defeated look in his eyes. It made her feel a small pang of guilt. She moved from the chair and sat next to him.

"So if you were so desperate for a place to stay, why didn't you just go back home?"

He looked at her for a moment."My parents kicked me out when I was sixteen. They said I was too much trouble and for all they cared I could go back to the orphanage where I came from."

"I didn't know you were adopted."

"Most people don't"

"I didn't know until I was like 18 that I was adopted"

She opened her notebook to a drawing and began working on it. It was a picture of talon perched on a statue.

"That's pretty good. You should send it to a publishing company." He grabbed his bag and pulled out a comic book and flipped to the back of the cover.

"Now this girl can seriously draw. It's like every comic book nerds dream, she's hot and talented."

Ellie chuckled as he continued "If I had the chance I'd so hit that."

It was more than she could handle, instantly she broke into histerics.

"What the hell is so funny?"

"Look at the picture, now to me, now back to the picture and to me again. Look familiar?"

Francis followed the pictures twice over. Realizing the similarities, he began to turn a dark red.

"You could've stopped me you know."

"It was too fun to pass up."

They spent the next hour or so talking. More time was spent arguing who would win a fight between Iron Man and Batman and which video game was better on the Nintendo 64. Theresa and Sam watched them on and off, hoping that any arguments wouldn't escalate into a fist fight.

"In a fight between batman and Sean Connery who would win?" Ellie questioned as she doodled.

"That's easy batman."

"But Sean Connery is like the evolved form of Chuck Norris!"

"But batman is full of surprises and gadgets that put James bond to shame."

It was the moment that Sam and Theresa were watching for. The argument transformed into a fight as Ellie kicked Francis in the stomach. It didn't take long for him to throw fire at her. As Theresa went to stop it she saw Ellie tackle Francis to the ground. After she moved off, Theresa and Sam saw a layer of ice surrounding Francis' body.

"How the hell did you do that?"

"The same way you shoot fire you dummy."

"Well get me out of it."

She sat next to him and placed her hands on the ice. It receded into her hands and back into her body. Before she moved away, Francis grabbed her. He placed a kiss on her cheek and pushed her over. She stumbled to her feet and left the room.

Message from the author:

I like the idea of flip flopping with stories and getting tome to work on them. I came up with some of this while watching Phantom of the Opera and Hello Kitty Stump Village. I'm trying to make my way into more anime fanfics so I will hopefully debut them the first week of may along with a new chapter for my current fanfic Who Are You. SO read this review it and pledge you allegiance to the dark side for a cookie. In the mean time I'm going to lurk on facebook.