• Seven Years Later
    Noah


    A scream vibrated through the ground to my feet and body as it reached my ears through the air; I looked in the direction that it had come from. Seth hadn’t noticed it yet since he was on the phone to base.
    I looked at him, Seth was my mentor in nearly everything but ever since Tory was killed, he hadn’t been the same. He had taken on more juniors and taught them things that they shouldn’t have been learning, according to the council; but me, I thought it was a good idea and agreed to help.
    Seth looked at me, he must have been reading my mind, and cut off the phone call. I looked back in the direction of the scream.
    “Should we?” I asked quietly.
    “I guess we should investigate, just in case,” Seth answered back in his usual dead voice. He hated night watch, since that’s when Tory had gone missing.
    Seth and I made our way towards the scream; I kept scanning around the area with the usual Drake paranoia. As we got closer we could hear more talking.
    “–Off me, b***h!”
    “–Up, stupid–” The sound of flesh meeting flesh was made.
    I looked at Seth but he was looking in the other direction, I looked that way too and noticed shadows of men coming down the path. I looked back at Seth about to say something but he beat me to it.
    “I’ll deal with them, you deal with the woman,” he said as he started towards the men.
    I nodded and started towards the two women that appeared to be fighting on the ground. As they came into view, I could see that one was covered head to toe in black, NightDust, and the other looked like an ordinary everyday woman. I frowned, what the?
    The ordinary woman had blood running down the side of her face from a cut on top of her head; the NightDust lady must have given it to her. Watching from the distance I was at, a flash of something shiny caught my eye. My eyes widened and my body went into action straight away, running across the path towards them. I pushed the NightDust woman off the other with my telekinesis just as she brought the knife out.
    The NightDust woman went flying and hit the ground with a thud; she rolled into a crouch, looking at the woman and me. I ran and went to jump over the woman lying down but she shifted into a half kneeling position with a gun raised. I went tumbling to the ground after tripping over her leg and she pulled the trigger on the gun, her aim seemed off but as I watched the NightDust women I saw why.
    The gun seemed straight but wasn’t, so the NightDust woman moved to the left where the bullet was actually heading. It hit her in the chest, right where her heart was.
    I stared as the NightDust woman clutched as her chest and gasped once then fell back, she never moved again. I looked at the woman, she was panting but I wasn’t sure if that was from the pain or the fighting.
    Seth walked over just then and I looked at him. “What happened?” I asked.
    “Nothing, as soon as they heard the gun shot, they ran,” Seth said looking around me to the woman.
    I looked at her again, her breathing had calmed down. She had brown hair in the dark light, a great figure and tanned skin. She didn’t look overly short and she seemed to know how to handle a weapon. She was attractive, probably be good in bed but she didn’t seem like the type of person that would stay with someone.
    “She’s the one that had the gun? I thought it was you,” Seth said, looking back at me with raised eyebrows.
    “Nope, not me. I didn’t get the chance,” I said as the woman stood up.
    “We should probably clean it up and question the woman,” Seth said in a whispered voice as he came closer to me.
    “Yeah…You can clean up, while I question,” I said back.
    “What?! No, Noah, you clean up. You were meant to deal with this one anyway, I’ll question her,” Seth said pointing to where the woman was standing.
    I sighed and looked in the woman’s direction, only to be greeted with empty space. She wasn’t there, she must have gone somewhere.
    s**t! I thought. Damn, she might tell someone this.
    “Seth!” I said as I ran to where she had been standing.
    “s**t!” he said back as he was following me.
    I looked around but couldn’t see her; she must have run off when Seth and I were arguing.
    “Damn it!” I growled as I ran my hands through my hair.
    “Start searching, now!” Seth said in a panicked tone.
    I started searching around for any traces of her but after ten minutes of searching, I couldn’t find anything. It was like she just disappeared into thin air.

    Tory
    I ran like I had never ran before, passing trees that just blurred together into one. I had to get out of there, as soon as possible, I had to.
    Seth and Noah, Seth and Noah, those words just kept running through my head. They were there, they had saved me but they didn’t know who I was; I was sure they didn’t know who I was. They never could, they could never find out who I was.
    Thank God I have taken on a different image and name and hopefully they just think I was an innocent bystander. Wait… Damn it, I had a gun and I knew where to shoot it!
    s**t! Why didn’t I let –Let… I thought.
    I couldn’t say the name; I just couldn’t because it brought up too many painful memories that I thought I had stored away. They hurt just the same as they did before; being away for so long didn’t change the hurt I felt in my heart. My mind flashed back to that day.
    “…You go see if she wants to get into bed…” I heard Noah’s voice say in my head.
    I stopped dead in my tracks, screamed clutching at my head. I couldn’t remember this; it hurt too much with just seeing him now. My heart was mended; it can’t break again because I won’t survive this time.
    No, no, no. Stop! Get out of my head, I screamed inwards.
    I sat on the ground holding my head in my hands, tears rolled down my face in frustration. I wiped them away with a shaky hand. Holding my hand up, I looked at my tears; all these tears for nothing, all for nobody. I clenched my hand into a ball, not wanting to see the tears anymore.
    Looking at the watch–like gadget on my wrist, I pictured my home in my head and pressed the flashing red button. This would get me home quicker than running, I had said to myself I would never use it again but I just needed to be home right now.
    I was thinking about home when my body started to dissolve into nothing but the air, then everything went black.

    - Not again. I didn’t want this life. Ordinary was what I wanted. Not crazy and dangerous. But maybe I was made for it.