2. The Flash

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For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

"Shit!"

Alexandra Blake woke up together with her phone that kept on ringing until it was in danger of being thrown against the wall. Friday mornings were in their nature the worst and best you could hope for. It was the end of the week, who has the strength to wake up early anymore, and yet it was the end of the week and for the next two days you could sleep as much as you want.

"How it is seven am already? How on earth?" she mumbled getting outside of the comfy bed. She cursed hearing her mum yelling from downstairs, something about being late and all that comes with it. Running to bathroom and trying to decide what to wear at the same time never proved useful but somehow it was still in the run.

It was a good call that today she only had classes and not work in the laboratory otherwise being late would cost her attendance points. 'I can't afford that' she sighed picking her jeans out of the pile of clothes.

Skipping a stair or two she avoided sock that was thrown at her. "Hey mum!" she chirped, smiling to the nervous woman. Patty Blake, woman in her late forties narrowed her eyebrows "You're late again. If you lose that scholarship ain't no one got money to pay for your classes madam!". Alex and her mum looked alike, lose the different colored hair. Patty's hair was the warmest caramel that melted in her long waves while Alex had raven's hair. She often felt unexplained rage that she inherited her dad's hair while her mother's hair had been so beautiful, especially since it was determined trough polygenic inheritance.

"I am not gonna be late, when I run I'm faster than a bus! I'm basically The Flash!" she exclaimed eating prepared pancake. Pancakes were by accident Alex's favourite food. "Did you see me going to store and bringing back milk?" she asked with her mouth full 'brilliant, I can't believe I actually thought of this.'

"No. Good that you mentioned it though. " "Exactly!" Alex exclaimed, "You didn't see me because I'm so fast. There is your proof that I am Flash! Open the fridge!"

Her mum rolled her eyes, but undeniable truth was that the milk was in the fridge. Mumbling about 'she bought it last night just so she could say that' her mother proceed to prepare breakfast for Sam, Alex's younger brother.

He was born in late summer, almost twelve years after Alex had graced the world with her presence, as she liked to call it. She was the happiest pre-teenage girl when her brother had been born, it meant there was someone out there with whom she'll hoard her books and comics and silly tv shows.

"I am going, will be back early. Does Sam need anything?" Alex asked, picking up her bag and checking her hair once more.

"I think you will have to pick up his vincristine, he'll start his monthly treatment tomorrow. Don't forget those...how are they called?..."-"Corticosteroids. Don't worry I'll go to his doc after college." she smiled and saluted mum goodbye to which older woman rolled her eyes.

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Aella Xenakis smiled as she stared at the big screen focused on the face of a young woman.

"So much alike, you're so much like her. She loved to joke about being fast too. Though I am not aware who this Flash is." she raised her eyebrows.

The young woman on the screen breathed trying to calm herself. She had been running after a bus for a while now, and barely made it. Her long dark hair covered her face, small beads of sweat forming on her neck and forehead. Aella tilted her head, trying to understand why these pitiful humans felt the need to hurry anywhere. Their lifespans were so short they might as well, enjoy one thing at the moment. She thought how quickly human girl grew, she was already into adulthood and soon she will start ageing and then she will die. That was it. Aella shuddered, it was unacceptable. It's been almost four hundred years since Zoe died and it felt like yesterday.

"To be honest, you appeared far too soon, you silly human creature that shares the genes with my adored daughter." she mused, the recurrences usually happened few millenniums after the original specimen. Four hundred years is if not, the earliest ever witnessed.

Alex, Aella crinkled at the name, short of Alexandra, the defender of humankind, approached some boy and started laughing. The boy was taller than her, his shoulders broad 'he could as well serve as one of our guards' , his hair like the pale morning sun. She couldn't hear what they were talking, her satellites were after all secondary and she had to pay a lot to actually get access to earth. Earth was one of the planets Balem Abrasax inherited when his mother died. She wondered how other two didn't argue about it, since earth was one of the most precious gems in the known universe. 'It's worth is infinite. When Balem harvests it, he will pedal from one of the most powerful men in the universe to the absolute top that not even his mother could hold a candle to.'

Alex muttered something and elbowed the boy who rolled his eyes. Her human attire consisted of blue jeans with green t-shirt with some silly sign on it and some silly shoes, that had white tops and were black with white laces. Aella crinkled her nose, human girl sure dressed ridiculously...but then didn't all humans? She remembered some small planet that was harvested when she was still in her 30th millennia, she saw it few days before it was demolished in blue dirt. Sentient species there wore silly capes and boots that were almost reaching their thighs but they wore no shirts. Almost all of them were, if you can call it that, biologically male.

"Theodore!" she called her secretary. He was humaniod merged with some winged species Aella never bothered to know the name of. "You asked for me, m'lady?" tall, silvery haired man appeared with two dark red wings tucked behind his back. His crinkled face indicated long life, though for Aella's standards he only served her for ten or twenty decades.

"Yes. I want you to bring my daughter's recurrence here. I am growing bored of being alone, and Cassandra is getting out of hand with her indulgence."

Shock fell on his face: "May I inquire what does your Grace intend to do with the recurrence?"

Aella mused about something her hands grabbing her dark, heavy hair in instinct to fix it "Her name is Alexandra. Her genes are the same as those of Zoe, she is absolutely identical. I want to spend some times with her."

"What if the human refuses to come?"

"It is not up to human to decide." Aella snapped. "And do it secretly, I do not want Balem Abrasax to know I am stealing from his planet."

Before Theodore could excuse himself Aella waved her arm "Do not forget what we talked about few days prior. Offer her that, and I am sure she'll come with you. You are allowed to use assets of the Xenakis family in order to do so."

The screen brightened as Alex exited the bus. She was walking towards modern styled building, it's second and third floor made entirety of glass windows. It had the "high-tech" gist to it, at least what humans on earth considered high tech. Her classes on zoology and biology of the cell were today, and Aella could see the smile on earthling's face. She obviously loved these things, and oh how would she be surprised when she unravels the true secrets of the universe.

My main character's first word in the story is "shit", i think i have outdone myself this time. -.-

Alex is kind of a nerd a huge freaking nerd i am so sorry... but I will go trough her character more in the next few chapters and explain the situation with her brother. The abrasaxes (i know you're all just waiting for them) will soon appear.

R&R darlings