Cora's OOC in this chapter and pretty much most the fic but I feel like we don't know enough about her in the show to say she couldn't be like this if given the chance and some time. Sorry if you don't like her character in here, I hope you do :) All credit to the Red Hot Chili Peppers for these songs! I feel like Scott would be into them so I ran with it.
Cora's p.o.v
Wednesday
"He's in his room sweetie" Melissa smiles at me warmly. I nod thankfully to her and walk towards where I can hear his heartbeat..and something else.
Tell me baby, what's your story?
He's..singing. And playing guitar.
Where do you come from and where you wanna go this time?
I walk in and his head snaps to me.
"Hey Cora" he says in embarassment, putting his guitar on his bed.
"I didn't know you played guitar and sung" I say.
"I don't usually show people..I didn't realise you were there" he says quietly.
"Can you..keep going?" I ask him. He has a beautiful voice and he strums so naturally, it's a rare sight for me..an attractive one as well.
"I..I don't know" he says shyly.
"Come on, you're really good. Please?" I ask. He sighs.
"Fine" I smile and he picks his guitar back up. He clears his throat and moves his fingers to make a chord. I nod for him to start.
Tell me lover, are you lonely?
His voice wavers a little in the beginning with nervousness but he quickly recovers.
The thing we need is never hard to find
Tell me baby, what's your story?
Where do you come from and where you wanna go this time?
You're so lovely, are you lonely?
Giving up on the innocence you left behind
He stops and I didn't realise until now but we're definately closer than we were when he started. We both move back a little awkwardly.
"You have a really nice voice" I say, breaking the silence.
"Thank you" he says with a soft smile. "Do you sing?" he asks.
"Me? God no" I chuckle.
"Did you just lie?" he asks with a smirk. Damn. He was listening to my heartbeat.
"No.."
"You did it again" he says.
"I used to sing with my mother" I admit.
"Oh..i'm sorry" he says, face falling.
"No, its okay" I assure him. "She loved the old Red Hot Chili Peppers' songs"
"So does my Mum..she introduced me to them" Scott tells me. "The same with you?" he asks.
"Yeah. Laura stuck with her pop music but Derek and I couldn't resist" I smile at the memories.
"What one's your favourite?" he asks.
"Are you going to play for me McCall?" I grin.
"Maybe Hale" he says with a nudge.
"Soul To Squeze" I tell him. He nods and I can see him thinking it over. I watch as he switches his fingers between chords.
"Can you sing the first line?" he asks. "I've forgetten how it goes"
"Really?" I ask, cringing.
"Really" he grins. I sigh but he nods, urging me too. It's been along time since I sung. I take a deep breath.
I've got a bad disease from my brain is where I bleed
Scott's smiling softly at me.
"What?" I ask.
"You have a really good voice" he says. I shake my head.
"No, Mum had a good voice" I say with a soft smile of my own.
"Dominant eye colour alleles aren't all you got from her" he says making me smile as I think back to our first study session. "Keep going" he says.
"You sing, I like your voice" I say.
"Together?" he offers.
"Okay" I nod.
"But you start" he grins. I roll my eyes but nod anyway. I don't feel like Scott's judging me, I feel like it's okay to be myself around him, to sing and let that part of me out again.
Insanity it seems, it's got me by my soul to squeeze
Where's all the love for me?
With all the dying trees I scream
The angels in my dreams, yeah
They turn to demons of greed, that's me
Where I go I just don't know
I smile at Scott when he joins in with me, fingers playing without effort, he must like this one as well.
I've got to, got to, gotta take it slow
When I find my piece of mind,
I'm gonna give ya some of my good time
I stop and just listen to Scott.
Oh so polite indeed, well i've got everything I need
Oh make my days of greed and take away my self-destruction
I join back in as this is my favourite verse.
It's bitter baby and it's very sweet
I'm on a rollercoaster but i'm on my feet
Take me to the river lay me on your shore
Well i'll be coming back baby, i'll be coming back for more
This is where Anthony does his weird noises so we both stop. Scott's smile is huge and loopsided and I can't stop staring at it or feeling good for helping put it there.
"Any studying getting done up there?" Melissa calls up to us.
"Uh..yeah, of course!" Scott calls back down, reaching for his books. We share a grin and settle in to actually get some studying done. We're still working with eye colour. "So where are you up to?" he asks me.
"I get recessive and dominant alleles, i'm stuck on genetic mutations" I tell him.
"We'll stay with eye colour so we don't get confused" he tells me and I nod. "Okay, genetic mutation in a nut shell. It's a permanant change in the DNA structure in genes. It could just be a change in order. Mutations can effect a single base pair or anywhere to a chromosome" he tells me. I nod along, scribbling down a few notes. "I'm not an expert with mutations in eyes but I know a few things. There's a mutation called Heterochromia, it's when your eyes are different colours or there's lots of colour mixed into them. Me and you, that's not us. We have normal brown eyes" I look at his eyes as he speaks.
"You have a lighter fleck in your left eye" I point out. I catch a blush burning the tips of his ears but that's as far as it goes. "Not far enough to be Heterochromia?"
"Sadly, no" he says. "Green eyes are actually a mutation in themselves, it's alot more indepth than that but still. It's like a 'lack of colour' we'll call it. The gene, OCA2 had all humans with brown eyes really, really long ago but after a mutation, the production of OCA2 was limited and that's how blue and green eyes came about" he informs me.
"No, you know alot" I tell him. "You're really smart"
"Just what I was taught at school" he brushes it off.
"Whatever you say McCall" I smirk. There's a knock on Scott's door. It's open already and Melissa's standing there.
"I'm on my way to the supermarket, would you like a ride home Cora?" she asks.
"Yes thank you" I say, starting to pack up my books.
"Okay, i'll be in the car" she says before leaving. Scott comes over and starts to help me.
"Sorry I wasted most of our study session" he says.
"No, I think I liked that better than the studying" I chuckle.
"Good, I liked it too" he says. "Here" he says. I look up and he's right in front of me. We're literally an inch away from each other. "Uh..your paper" he says. I look down and he's holding some of my sheets out to me.
"Thanks" I say, taking them and standing up. "I'll see you at school" I say.
"Okay, bye Cora"
"Bye" I say before going down to Melissa's car. What the hell was that? Why did I want to get even closer to him despite the already small gap between us?
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"Thanks Melissa" I say, getting out.
"No problem, i'll see you next Wednesday" she says, beeping and driving off. I walk up to mine and Derek's loft.
"Hey brother" I say, walking into the kitchen, dumping my bag in the doorway. Derek raises an eyebrow at the action.
"Hey yourself" he says, turning back to his pot of curry he's stirring. I jump up and sit on the counter beside him. I look at his eyes, the study session with Scott has me curious about green eyes. "What are you staring at?" he asks.
"Your eyes, stay still" I say. He moves to turn back to his pot but I grab his head, turning him back to me.
"I'm trying to cook" he says.
"You don't need to see to stir, now shut up" I say half-heartedly.
"Can I ask why you're staring at my eyes?"
"Something Scott taught me" I say.
"To stare into people's eyes?" he asks.
"No, idiot. Mutations"
"You learnt something?" he asks in suprise. I narrow my eyes at him and let him go.
"Of course I did, it's why we study together" I say.
"That's why you go to his house? Hmm, could have fooled me" Derek says, eyes on the pot again. I don't like the way he said that. Or the insinuation.
"I can tell you that genetically speaking, you are the only one of us that could have green eyes due to Mum and Dad's eye colour genotype. I can tell you that your eye colour is a mutation, a lack of the OCA2 gene which my eyes have far more of making them brown. Because of the limited OCA2 gene, you lack colour, draining them from brown to green, it could be even less though making them blue" I start. Derek turns back to me suprised. "I can also tell you that the brown flecks in your left eye, the slight yellow tinge in the other, could be Heterochromia" I add. "But whatever, it's not like I go over there to study or anything" I say sarcastically, jumping off the counter and heading for my room. "Yell out when dinner's ready" I throw over my shoulder with a smirk, leaving a speechless Derek in the kitchen.
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