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Summary: Amelia and Finn make a shocking discovery.

"-we tell Mom and Dad?"

A segment of a whispered question reached Ruby's ears as she passed through Finn's room. Ruby really hated spying, but her curiosity got the best of her, as she stilled and listened for more.

"No way, we gotta keep this a secret!" Amelia's voice rushedly whispered back.

"Ami," Ruby smiled to herself as she heard Finn's fond nickname for Amelia. "don't you remember what they told us at school? We're thirteen now, a lot of kids get it. We should tell them. Molly's came last week, remember? She told her parents."

"...You're right. How're we gonna tell them?"

Ruby couldn't take it anymore, her curiosity and motherly senses were tingling. Loudly stepping into the room she called, "Tell us what?"

Amelia and Finn froze, glancing at each other in the i/busted/i look. Finn looked nervous, while Amelia was trying to play innocent.

"We have-"

"Finn has a crush!" Amelia blurted out, effectively cutting off Finn. "He's in love with a girl at school and he didn't want to tell you guys because he thought Dad was gonna go crazy."

"Um...yes! Of course! Yeah…" Finn added awkwardly, adding to the uncomfortable pause that followed.

Ruby knew they were lying. She is their mother, after all. Finn was a terrible liar, and Amelia's fake answers were, though creative, sometimes completely unconvincing sounding. They'll tell me on their own time. Ruby thought to herself. Kids would be kids, and this pair was horrible at keeping secrets. Looking between the two one last time, Ruby gave them a dismissing "okay", before strolling out of the room, leaving behind two open-mouthed children.

Amelia tapped her pencil on the dining room table rhythmically, thoroughly bored. She stared blankly at her summer math homework, equations and numbers blurring and refocusing in her vision. Groaning, she thunked her head against the wooden surface, earning a glare from Finn who was scribbling a language arts essay in a rush.

"Finnnnnn."

"What Amelia."

"Help me with my homework."

"I showed you how to do it yesterday."

"I forgot."

Finn sighed, narrow shoulders rising and falling before he engrossed himself into his work again. Amelia moaned loudly, Finn pointedly ignoring her. Fresh out of ideas on how to annoy her brother, Amelia propped her head up on one palm and splayed the other on the table in front of her. Snapping into concentration, Amelia stared intensely at her hand. Curling her fingers around the palm, she closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and opened her palm and eyes at the same time.

In the middle of her hand was a tiny flickering flame.

"Finn. Look." Amelia said in a hushed voice, as if a single loud noise may extinguish the fire.

"What do you want no-" Finn's voice cut off midway as he stared at the flame dancing in her palm. "Be careful, Ami."

Over the past few weeks, Amelia had been spontaneously been setting things on fire. Papers, a few pencils, and once even a small wooden doll she had. Nothing too big to be missed, but Amelia was careful to dispose of them-her parents might not be Greens, but they were smart and could spot a lie.

Amelia took another deep breath, and closed her palm again. She focused on putting out the fire. When she opened her palm, the flame was gone.

Finn look both relieved and happy. Happy that his sister had learned more about her ability and relieved that nothing got set on fire.

Seeing this as a great opportunity, Amelia pounced.

"Will you help me with my homework now?" She asked in the sweetest voice she possessed.

Finn huffed, but stood anyways.

"Fine. But please stop using that voice, it's giving me cavities."

Finn padded over to Amelia's side of the table, took out a piece of scrap paper and begun to explain how to find the value of "x" in an equation. He worked quickly, efficiently, and by the time he was done explaining Amelia still had no idea what she was doing.

"Are you sure you're not Green?" She asked Finn dubiously.

Finn rolled his eyes. He was smart, but not Green smart. He knew some kids in school who were Greens, but he was no where near their level of intelligence. Most of them were in the advanced classes, and the other kids in the class often complained that they were destroying the grade curb. The teachers discussed having an advanced advanced class for kids who were Greens, but the parents' retaliated claiming it was discrimination, which it kind of was. Besides, he wasn't that smart, it was just that Amelia was bad at math.

"You know for a fact that I'm not. You remember the computer?" Finn asked her.

A couple days ago, Finn short-circuited the old laptop that belonged to him and Amelia. Over the course of a few weeks, a lot of things had been short-circuiting around him-lightbulbs, radios, fire alarms. After the computer incident, he wore two thick, black, matching rubber bracelets on his wrists, something he saw the few other Yellows at his doing. It didn't stop his powers when he was particularly worked up, but it mostly stopped him from shorting every electronic he came in contact with. When either one of his parents asked, he claimed it was a fashion statement, and they chuckled fondly and tousled his brown hair. Luckily, the computer had been old anyway, and Ruby and Liam didn't question the claim that it broke while writing his essay. Henceforth, all summer homework was done on paper.

"Show me some. Please?"

Sensing what Amelia was asking Finn, he crossed his arms. "No."

"C'mon, Finn, I showed you mine."

"...Fine."

Running upstairs quickly, Finn opened a drawer and took out a tiny lightbulb, no bigger than his pinky. He returned to the downstairs table, where Amelia vibrated slightly with excitement. Finn gave her a i/you better be grateful I'm doing this/i look and took off the rubber bracelet on his right hand. Pinching the end of the lightbulb between his thumb and index finger, and took a breath.

One, two, three.

The lightbulb in his hand shone with light.

Amelia clapped her hands appreciatively, and Finn replaced his rubber bracelet back on his arm and set down the lightbulb.

"C'mon, if we don't get any work done, Mom and Dad will kill us." Finn told her, resuming his side on the table. Amelia groaned and thunked her head against the table again, but continued to attempt to solve the math problems, a flickering flame burning in her mind.

"It's all your fault!"

"How is it my fault? You were the one who set the papers on fire!"

Amelia and Finn got along surprisingly well, with an occasional mild irritation towards each other now and then. When they had a big argument, it was intense and often included shouting. They'd yell and ignore each other for the next few days, until Ruby would prompt them to what was wrong, and they were forced to make-up. Not today.

"Finn, it wasn't my fault I set the homework on fire, you were the one who startled me!" Amelia shouted at Finn, ignoring the volume of her voice.

"Who else's fault would it be? All I did was shout because I finally finished my essay! Now I have to all again!" Finn rarely raised his voice, and when he did, it was intense.

"It's not my fault!" Amelia yelled, embers burning in her hand.

"Yes, it is!" Finn screamed as the air around them began to hum with electricity.

"I hate you!" Amelia and Finn screeched at each other simultaneously.

All at once, all the posters in Finn's room caught fire, flames curling up paper and ink. Every lightbulb and electronic shorted out, lights popping and sparks flying.

Ruby and Liam's footsteps bounded up the staircase, running down the hall. Liam threw open the door, Ruby rushing into the room, hair flying.

"Are you guys oka-" Liam started to speak, but was cut off by the sight of crackling lights and a few dying embers eating up the remains of the poster.

"What in the world happened here?"