Em stood speechless with her brother and Ree as a soft wind blew her unruly hair back. Looking at the possibility of even stepping foot in the area of the dome (which was slim to none), there was no way to get the water now.
No way.
She swallowed, her throat already parched. It was not a good idea to keep the water supply a secret from Ree. In fact, they should have told her the real reason the water was gone.
Poison.
She remembered Scout handing her his bottle of water they had a couple of days earlier, asking her if it smelled ok. Everyone asked her this; she was like their extra safety measure. And Scout was always neurotic about things like that, so she almost ignored him.
Thank whatever god there was she didn't.
She recalled snatching the bottle from him and rolling her eyes as she twisted the cap that held their precious life source. She held the silver bottle up to her nose and took in its scent.
Bitter, sharp, unknown.
She remembered recoiling from the stench, and dropping the bottle with wide eyes.
"Where did you get this?" she had asked him.
"The house we stole from a few days ago, you know the emergency bottles in their shed. Em, let go of me!"
Em was squeezing his hand tighter with every word that he said. A realization had hit her like a ton of bricks.
Someone had purposely poisoned the water to get rid of the unsuspecting Experiment that would drink it.
Em remembered telling Flame first. He grabbed her by the wrists and told her to tell the others, just not Ree; who was the only one that took the risk of stealing inside the house.
"Why?" Em asked him; a feeling of shock, betrayal and confusion all present in her expression. Ree was their leader. If anyone, she should be the one to know about it.
She recalled Flame's fists getting warmer as she looked into his brown eyes (note the word 'brown'; not mahogany with black and yellow flecks).
"Ree is fueled on revenge on Itex. Her rage became even greater after Zero died. And if she figured out that people are purposely poisoning water… she will stop at nothing to take them down,"
There was a long pause before Em gave him the same look she gave Di when she told her that she loved Flame. She looked at him square in the eyes before telling him:
"That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard,"
Well apparently it wasn't, because the rest of the team listened to Flame's reasoning and voted not to tell Ree.
Em breathed deeply. Thanks to her team's stupidity, now she risked getting her brother and Ree killed.
She hated keeping secrets.
Sorry this took so long (the whole "school" thing). i won't be switching so much in between characters much, don't worry, it's too much work. it will mostly be Ree, and don't worry, action is coming soon!
OK, the real reason i wrote down here is because i want to... *drumroll*...:
hear you guy's guesses on what Ree, Scout, Flame, Em and Chas's powers are.
You'll have to take a random guess at Ree's and Scout's, but i inserted some clues about the others :) (they might not be good clues though)
Thanks so much for the reviews, i look forward to your responses. Peace out you guys! Don't forget to review!