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Flashback
"You should at least try." Harmony told Zen as he tried to ignore her, burying his face in a book.
"I already told you Harm," He protested with slight annoyance, "it's impossible to do. There's no way I could-"
"Have you even tried?" She cut him off, making him stutter uncomfortably. He looked at her from where she sat cross legged on the floor, her back against the couch as she rested her head on the cushion, looking up at him with a raised eyebrow and crossed arms. Now she was just patronizing him.
"Of course not." He said sharply before hiding his face in the pages again. He hated it sometimes how she could get to him, make him feel small. So what if she was older, by like two minutes. He could still feel her sharp gaze on him, making his fingers clench the hard cover of the book, making them turn white. "It's not like you've tried either." He finally shot back, slamming the book shut and looking at her harshly. But she looked down slightly, shocking him. "You tried? Without me?" He demanded.
"It's not like it worked or anything, besides I don't know how. You said before that there was a possibility that you could focus our abilities, so that we control them. That we could have visions whenever we wanted." She said. He noticed that her eyes were shining a bit. They did that on two occasions, one when she was truly passionate or hopeful, and the other when she was hurting inside. It had to be the first one this time, and he hated to let her down.
"Maybe I was wrong." He said blankly and rushed. There was no way she would believe him now, the way he said it like he did whenever he was trying to quickly get off a topic. He'd expected to see her rolling her eyes at him and scoffing, but instead she gave him a bit of a hurt look.
"You were so exited about it when you told me, but now it's like you've lost interest completely. That's not it, is it?" She asked, already knowing the answer and confirming it when he sighed loudly, resting his head backwards, trying to think of the best way to draw her persistence away.
"Look, if somehow we do manage to focus the ability and get to the vision, we'll probably have to get out of it ourselves too, and I have no idea how to do that." He said. That was the truth, and he didn't want anything to go wrong if they did try.
"So," She said mischievously and crawled up to sit beside him, leaning in so her face was only two inches away from his. He leaned back as much as he could, knowing that Harmony could break him, and she would. "Learn from experience." She said finally with a smile and he looked at her shocked.
"Learn from experience? That's your big solution?" He exclaimed and she drew away, surprised with her brother's outburst.
"It's no big deal. I'm sure it'll be easy." She shot back, frustrated with his resistance. He was going to try for real if she had anything to say about it. "Besides what could go wrong?" She asked rhetorically as his mouth gaped open at her.
"What could go wrong?" He repeated with exasperation. "How about I get stuck there with no ability to get back. Five days later my body starts to shut down and then I-"
"Stop it!" Harmony yelled, punching his arm slightly, getting him to shut up.
"What are you two arguing about?" Scholar asked, yawning as she entered from upstairs.
"Yeah, and how can we be included?" They heard Crest's voice chuckling before he followed in behind, hands tucked behind his head. Harmony sighed at him a bit while Zen frowned.
"It's twelve at night, what are you guys doing up?" He said, still annoyed now that he knew more people were going to be barking at his heels.
"How about what are you doing up, making enough noise to wake the rest of us up?" Scholar snapped back, crossing her arms in a huff before coming up behind them, sitting on the back of the couch. Crest came up also, jumping onto the couch on the other side of Zen and Harmony.
"So, what are you two up to?" He asked, slightly curious. The twins hardly ever fought, and when they did it was either very trivial or much too extreme. But this one seemed rather tame compared to their full on yelling arguments.
"Zen knows how to force visions and he won't try." Harmony pouted, crossing her arms and turning away from Zen in a huff. Maybe it was more trivial than Crest had thought.
"That's not true!" Zen started to counter when Scholar leaned over mischievously. "How come, are you scared of what you'll see?" She asked mockingly. "Or are you just scared?"
"I am not." He snarled back.
"Then prove it." Harmony demanded, turning back to face him. Zen bit his lip with annoyance before sucking it up.
"Fine." He snapped and face forwards away from them all. He shut his eyes a bit, not actually trying to focus any energy, just wondering how long it would take to convince them he actually couldn't do it. He figured about 30 seconds would suffice, and so he started to count. He barely made it, nearly dying of boredom and frustration. "There," He said finally, his eyes snapping open as he turned to the group, "happy?"
"You weren't even trying!" Harmony protested standing with irritation.
"You have to do that stupid thing Jace does when he's annoyed-" Crest started to say, imitating Jace's constant temple rub paired with a perfect replication of his loud sighing and scrunched up mouth when a voice none of them were expecting came out of no where.
"What stupid thing I do, Crest?" Jace asked with mock curiosity, one eyebrow raised expectantly as he teleported in behind Scholar with his arms crossed. Crest looked up at him with a shocked expression, his eyes widening while Jace's glared harder.
"Shit." He swore quietly before bounding off the couch and up the stairs.
"Watch your language!" Jace warned him, shaking his head and rubbing his temples as his eyes shut and his mouth formed a thin line. Scholar could only snicker at how perfect Crest's imitation had been before making way for Jace. "What is going on here? You're keeping Caige up." Jace scolded slightly, looking between the three of them.
"Zen thinks he can focus his ability and force a vision, but he won't do it or some reason." Scholar explained in boredom as Zen glared at her.
"Damn it, Scholar." He muttered under his breath.
"Just because Caige is not around doesn't give you all a freedom to swear you know." Jace said annoyed before turning to Zen. "Is it true?" He asked curiously with his normal, no nonsense look on. With a sigh Zen nodded. "Well it's up to you whether you try or not, but it could be useful sometime." Jace said. All of them hated when he did that, expressing his opinion in a way that made them all feel guilty unless they at least tried what he suggested.
Finally giving in, Zen sighed loudly again. "Fine, just give me a second." He said, letting his shut book sit on his lap, keeping his place with his index finger.
"Only for a few minutes tops. You get out right after that, understand?" Jace commanded and Zen nodded. A minute or even a second in there were probably all he wanted.
He shut his eyes, trying for real this time. There was a trick to it, a place he had to search in his mind that would trigger it. He just had to look and press on carefully so he wouldn't damage any-
A sharp pain suddenly erupted in Zen's chest and he sucked in a breath, his eyes automatically snapping open. He tried to clutch near his chest, but his hands wouldn't move, nothing would move and everything slowly started to fade into a white light.
"Zen, what's happening?" Harmony asked worriedly, looking down at him. He tried to speak, but no sound would come out of his mouth, not even sound of pain would erupt from his throat. He was starting to lose consciousness when the book slipped from his hands, falling to the floor by his feet.
"Okay Zen, I take it back. Stop it, your scaring me!" Harmony yelled at him before his eyes started to shut. Something was definitely wrong. He'd never passed out before during a vision, and now he didn't know what to expect.
"Zen, stop now." He faintly heard Jace's voice and a firm hand shaking his shoulder before becoming aware of the faint buzzing a glitching noises invading his ears. He felt his eyes shut completely as the white took over and a loud bang filled his eardrums, a force like an explosion seemingly forcing him backwards. He felt himself fall to the side and hit his head on the arm of the couch as his eyes peeled open again, frozen up.
The white faded as the room came back into view. He could feel Harmony's hand now, constantly shaking his shoulder, painfully, back and forth. "ZeEn? ZeEn!" Her voice was morphed and echoic, sounding like it was deep inside a cave, but everything was slowly returning to normal. He hadn't seen anything after all. It was over, and he was not doing that again.
Flashback End
That had been the most painful and excruciating experience he had felt in his life, not even in comparison to when his blood had been drained. Maybe coming a little close to the pain when he'd seen Harmony's face and mine, the guilt driving him crazy. But it was something that needed to be done, just like now he would have to put up with it again, and actually try to see something this time. Just like Jace, he would have to get used to it, it was something he would use now and could potentially be quite useful if he could control his visions.
Three days since the plan had actually started, and three days since Angel had miraculously put the thing he'd been dreading on hold. He wasn't quite sure how she did it since that was pretty scary in itself, or why, but he was thankful for it. He knew she wasn't evil, but he couldn't tell if she knew. Maybe if she was around him she would come to her senses. Then there was convincing me, but that wasn't going to be easy. He had to focus on himself, and what he planned to do next. Well that much was easy, he would just look into it himself. The best thing about being able to see into the future, you hardly ever made mistakes. And hopefully this experience would not be an exception.
