Hello again. Like I said Thanksgiving (late November for my out of country readers) is a worst case scenario, I may be able to find a few minutes here and there.

I do not own any Michael Vey characters.

Kate

"Welcome to Elgen Academy."

With those words everybody's hands go up to their heads as Nichelle walks into the room. Everybody groans and I let out a gasp of pain.

"What's happening?" I hear the non-glow ask.

"It's Nichelle," Ian said. He's able to function better than us when Nichelle is around.

"What's a Nichelle?"

I hear the cell door open and the pain gets worse as Nichelle walks in.

"Hello Michael," Hatch says. "I see the group has been reunited."

"Shock him," I hear the kid tell Michael. Then a new wave of pain blasts through my skull and I hear everybody scream as I fall to the floor, too weak to make a sound.

"Ostin, isn't it? I thought you were supposed to be smart. What do you call yourself? The Electrokids? The Electroclub?"

"The Electroclan," the kid Hatch called Ostin says.

"Right. You don't belong here, Ostin. But here you are."

"I belong wherever Michael is."

"Loyalty. I like that. Even when it is misplaced, there is something endearing about it. Unfortunately, this is where your relationship ends. Michael, if you'll follow me, we'll let Ostin stay here with the others."

"I'm not leaving them," are the last words I hear before I pass out with another 'shock' from Nichelle.

When I wake up, Abi has a cup of water and McKenna helps me sit up. I take a sip of water while Ian tells me they tell me what happened. Not much happened after I lost consciousness. Michael went with Hatch promising to come back. "Where are the others?" I ask.

"We're over here," I hear Taylor say. She sounded a lot better. My head still hurt, but then it always does when Nichelle is in the building. Taylor comes and sits by me. "Are you okay?" she asks.

"I guess." I say. "I mean, as good as I'll be as long as Nichelle is at the Academy."

"Why is that?"

Abi answered for me, "You're not the only one with an evil twin sister."

Taylor jumps up. "Tara's not evil!" she says be for the first part of Abi's statement sunk in. "Wait, who?"

"Nichelle and I are fraternal twins," I explain. "We have the same parents and were born at the same time, but we are nothing alike. Really the only thing I can remember about life before my parents died was hospital visits after hospital visits.

"I had a lot of headaches when I was little, turns out it was from being around my own sister, and since my parents left Nichelle with a babysitter whenever they took me in, I was fine by the time the doctor checked on me and so he could never tell anything was wrong.

"When Hatch came promising a good education for us, my parents let Nichelle go to the Academy, but they didn't let me go because they were still worried about me. That's when they figured out that it was Nichelle causing my headaches. When she was away at school I was fine, but as soon as she came home on the weekends, my headaches returned.

"They got worse as time went on too. And instead of the accidental uses of her powers, she started using them on me on purpose. A few months after Nichelle went to the Academy there was a fire at my house. It was late and must have started in my parents room, because I was the only one they found.

"I was six." I stop and look up at Taylor. The others had heard bits and pieces over the four years I'd been down here.

"How long have you been down here?"

"I was about eleven I think. I don't keep track of time very well and Ian didn't come until about three years ago." I look over at the normal kid, and back at Taylor. "Ostin looks like he's beating himself up," I whisper. "You should go talk to him."

So yeah. Kind of a boring ending for that chapter, but I had to move on. Don't know when I will be able to write a again. R&R!