The Power's

The Dance.

Hours go by of Alexis twirling her hair, discovering all of her new screens in her suite, and a hot bath. She puts on a pair of shorts, and a crew neck then heads to the main living area to meet some of the members of the base. As soon as she walks out of the elevator she is greeted immediately by a woman who has dark brown hair and creepily dark brown eyes to match. "Hello, you must be Alexis. I'm Mei, I have the power to manipulate water, from the rumors I've heard, I think you are to be the most powerful person in the world. I'm sure you and I could stir up some trouble with the government if you want."

Alexis awkwardly laughs it off wanting nothing to do with her "Yeah, maybe one day." There is awkward silence and stares exchanged between Alexis and the few members lounging on the sofa.

"Lance isn't back yet," an older man sitting on the couch staring at Alexis says. "Sorry, forgot to tell you, I have the power to read minds. I believe you do too, but you must not be that advanced."

"Oh," Alexis stammers, debating if she should leave or not. "Do you know when they'll be back?"

"Normally they return from their trips around four-thirty, so you should only have to wait another half hour."

"Okay, thank you." Alexis turns to leave, "Wait, I didn't get your name."

"Walter, the name's Walter."

"Nice to meet you, Walter," Alexis says as she turns and walks back into the elevator. She goes back to her room for a few minutes then gets to thinking that maybe she should wait for them to get back in the hanger. Once she gets to the hanger, the main door is opened. She walks past all the planes and cars to get a better look. She stops as she recognizes one of the jets, the one she was taken in.

"One of the finest and fastest jets."

Alexis whips her head around, not expecting to hear the frightening voice from the man who took her in that very plane, Cheng.

"Want to take it for a drive?"

"Me?"

"Yes, you." Cheng walks closer to Alexis and the plane, "Alexis I want to be able to trust you one hundred percent, just as you should be able to trust me. One day, when I die, you will probably be the one to take over the base, if you can learn to control your powers fully."

"What if I don't want to be in charge?"

"Even a blind person would be able to see that you are a natural-born leader, even if you don't think so. People like you and I are meant to be in charge."

Luckily for Alexis' sake of not wanting to fly a jet, Kelsey, Lance and another member of the team pull into the hangar in a black SUV.

Lance gets out of the back seat first, "Hey Princessa, hope you didn't miss me too much."

Alexis just rolls her eyes at the comment. "Did you at least get me the things I asked for?"

"Yes, don't worry princess, I got your stuff," He says handing me a sack of my things.

"Thank you."

"Alexis, you can head to your room, and clean up for dinner tonight. We are having a dance afterward." Cheng informs.

"A dance? For what?"

"For fun, we have one every month. I'll get one of the girls to give you a dress." He says.

"Okay," Alexis heads to her room, not long after, there is a knock at the door. "Oh hey, Mei."

"Hey, I heard you needed a dress for tonight, you're in luck. I have this one that should fit you," Mei hands the dress over to Alexis.

"Thanks, I'll put it on and head down in a little bit," Alexis says, turning into her room and closing the door. She puts on the dress, it is a bit scandalous for a fifteen-year-old girl. It is a black, tight leather dress, with a lot of chest exposed, and a very short length. She brushes out her hair and curls it for the occasion. Now that Alexis is finally ready she heads down to the dining hall for dinner. On the menu tonight is steaks and potatoes, and chocolate cake for dessert. Alexis heads through the line with her tray, once she has all of her food she turns around and sees Lance wearing a fine-looking suit and tie. For once he actually looks like a nice guy. Alexis takes a seat at the table, "So what kind of songs do they play at this dance?"

"All kinds, some of them are slow though, for all of the old romantics to sway to," Lance says.

Alexis chuckles a little bit at that, as she cuts up her steak.

"So are you liking it here so far?"

"It's okay I guess, I just think that it's a little unethical to trap people in a base."

"Trust me, after going through your hell week, you'll be glad that you're here."

"I'm kind of scared for my hell week, should I be?"

Lance takes a second to answer, knowing how bad it can be for someone as powerful as Alexis. "I'm sure you'll be fine, Cheng will make sure everything goes okay."

They finish up their food and follow everyone else into the main room that is decorated with streamers and balloons.

"These decorations are nice," Alexis says looking at the fake windows that are now set to look like stars.

"You look good tonight," Lance says awkwardly, causing a moment of silence between the two. One of the people in the base goes over to the turntable and turns the music up. The kids begin to dance in the middle of the room as the older adults hang out on the side, drinking and talking. Alexis reaches down to Lance's hand and drags him out into the middle of the room. Surrounded by all the other children their age, Alexis starts twirling and jumping around, with her arms flailing in every direction. Lance just looks at her like she's crazy, but then his lips turn into a smirk seeing her move around like this. "I usually don't dance at these."

"Well, if I'm going to live down here I might as well have some fun every once in a while." Alexis giggles as she spins around, grabbing Lance's hands and pulling him with her. Everyone could tell that he didn't like it at first but seeing how happy it made Alexis he began dancing too. The two danced until the songs were done playing and everyone was ready for bed.

"I'll walk with you to your room if you don't mind," Lance asks.

"Yeah, that's perfectly fine with me."

The pair head down the elevator to Alexis' floor, where Lance walks her to. She scans her thumb on the pad and the door opens in front of them. Lance places his hand on the back of his neck, hesitating what to say to her.

"You know I had a lot of fun tonight."

"Yeah, me too, can't wait for the next one."

"Yeah," he ushers his hands towards her room. "Well, I guess I'll let you get to bed, see you tomorrow."

"Goodnight," Alexis says sweetly as she heads into her room.

"Goodnight," Lance repeats as he heads to his room smiling about the night he just spent with the most perfect girl.