l'appel du vide (henry creel fanfiction)

009

Amelia never understood the excitement of the rainbow room. But here she stood, watching the children play in the dull room.

It was her first day being an Orderly and her father thought it would be a great idea to have her work with Rachel.

Despite knowing that Amelia had a severe distaste for the orderly, Dr Brenner put the two together to quote-unquote, 'overcome their differences.' Amelia hated his stupid reasoning.

Amelia had gained interest in two of the children she watched in her two hours in the rainbow room. 011 and 017.

011 had a love-hate relationship with the disk drop game. She was currently angry at the thing as she was just sitting there moping with her arms crossed.

Amelia was told not to interfere with the children.

Amelia told her father that she wouldn't interfere.

Amelia does not care about what her father told her, so she sat down next to Eleven. "Try again."

Eleven looked at Amelia with a strange face.

Amelia handed Eleven the disk and nodded towards the board. "Go on."

Eleven took the puck and looked back toward Rachel. "But they will hurt you for helping."

Amelia smiled softly. "Consider it a trick of the mind." She said wiping her nose with her left index finger.

Eleven shared a small smile and dropped the puck. It clinked down the board, and with a little help from Amelia without Elevens knowing, it fell into number three.

Eleven looked ecstatic. Her smile was bright and beautiful. At that moment, Amelia knew that Eleven was special.

Creating a false image in everyone's mind was getting tiring so Amelia went back to her spot and ended her illusion.

To everyone else in the room, Eleven and Amelia never spoke. They never interacted. They were just in the same room with Amelia observing the young girl.

After her time in the rainbow room, she asked her father about Eleven.

"Why the interest in her?" Dr Brenner asked surprised.

"She's different. She is determined, not just to please everyone but to please herself."

"She isn't very powerful, not compared to the others. She has abilities, but she doesn't understand them yet." Dr Brenner commented.

Amelia sat in silence for a while. She contemplated her next words carefully.

"I helped her. She was happy that she was able to do the disk drop finally." She said nonchalantly.

Dr Brenner turned sharply to his daughter, "You did what?"

Amelia shrugged. "I helped her."

"Amelia that isn't what we agreed to! You said no interference. None." Dr Brenner accused.

"Yes, I know. I understand that but she is- I don't know." Amelia stuttered. Surprised by her fathers anger.

"How did this even happen? Rachel was in there the entire time. Nothing was on the cameras!"

"Right, I may or may not have created an illusion in everyone's minds and made it look like nothing happened." She said playing with her hands.

"Amelia! You agreed to the terms of you becoming an Orderly!" Brenner snapped.

Amelia looked at him with wild eyes. "So I am just supposed to leave her to her own devices? The older kids in there already shred her apart!"

"She has to do it on her own!" Brenner yelled at Amelia. He raised his arm and motioned towards the rainbow room.

Amelia let out a dry laugh. "And how has that worked out for her? I do not understand why you are so upset about me helping her! You don't understand her like I do! You don't know what it's like to be tested on like that. You don't live for the validation of others!" She growled.

"Fine, if you think you can handle her you work with her!" Dr Brenner talked down to Amelia. This got a terrible response from her.

Amelia stood there, flabbergasted. Her chest moved with silent anger. "Oh so if you can't handle someone yourself you just hand them off to someone who thinks they could?"

Martin Brenner shook his head and tried to recover. "No Amelia, you are reading too much into it. That's not what I mean."

Amelia continued. "Is that what you did with me? Hand me off to someone more capable?"

"Amelia, that's not what I did. You don't understand how hard it is to connect with these kids." Martin pleaded with his daughter.

"So what? You toss them around like rag dolls? Hoping that they connect with someone?" Amelia glared.

"Amelia-" Dr Brenner tried one more time.

Amelia shook her head. "I'm going to my room." She turned and went off to her room. She slammed the door shut and got out her violin.

Amelia sat on the floor of her room and started to play. It was just a simple melody but as she put more emotion into it the playing got more rigid.

Her anger was put into each note and each stroke. Tears rolled down her face as she tried to keep it together.

At the height of her emotion she all together stopped playing and just screamed.

She hated this.

She hated her father.

As she screamed, the lights in her room burst. Sparks flew around her as she cradled herself in the center of her now dark room.

Peter was outside of her room, frantically trying to get in. He heard her playing and went to check on her.

Peter finally got the door open and rushed to her side.

"Amelia?" He called out to her. She had cuts and burns all over her arms and legs. Her face was wet with tears.

"Oh Amelia." Peter brushed her hair out of her face and wrapped his arms around her.

Amelia attempted to push him away. He was just another attempt to control her. She wanted to hit him till he bled. She never wanted to talk to him again.

But she stayed in his arms and just sobbed.

Peter placed both his hands on her face and wiped the tears from cheeks.

They just looked at each other. A high tide meeting a mossy cliff. Earth and sea.

Nothing was said between the two.

Peter leaned forward slowly.

Amelia met in the middle.

As the two shared everything they needed to.

A kiss.

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Sorry that I've been MIA but school and work have beaten me tf up.

Anyway enjoy that last bit.

Love y'all

~Author