Keeping Secrets

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I'm doing a thing. I have so many other books that I'm writing and yet I'm making another one. This fic might not be updated as much since I have other books that I'm writing, and I decided to randomly make this one. I'll be surprised if anyone decides to read this. Also, this may have spoilers for some of the books if you haven't read all of them and there are also going to be some changes to the cannon timeline. Like somethings might not happen and others may happen before or later than they were supposed to happen. At this time no one has met Tam and Linh's parents yet.

The Neverseen had been weirdly quiet recently. It was starting to get a little concerning. Sophie, as usual, had been the first to start worrying. Mr. Forkle had tried to calm her down, saying that silence wasn't always a sign that they were planning something. They could just be trying to recover. After all a lot had happened and even the Neverseen would need time to regroup, especially since they trade leaders like kids trade prattles pins.

As time went on and there was still no sign that Neverseen were up to something, the adults started to worry too. They wouldn't admit it, but you could tell from the way they acted. It was starting to become nearly impossible to convince Sophie to sleep, and that was saying something considering how hard it was to get her to sleep before.

Sophie kept making up plans to figure out what they were up to. Some days they would split up in groups, a few people would go the library to search for anything the Neverseen might be interested in, some people would investigate old Neverseen hideouts along with at least two bodyguards, and some people would go with Sophie and help out with whatever idea she had next: this usually meant that Glimmer would be interrogated. Other days they would go over what they had already discovered about the Neverseen and try to spot any patterns that could help them, or they would meet at Sophie's house to learn how to fight from her many bodyguards.

There wasn't really anything that Tam could do to help other than research and trying to help interrogate Glimmer since he was the only one she somewhat trusted.

Unfortunately, since the Neverseen hadn't done anything recently, they had no excuse to skip school. Linh and Tam walked down the halls side by side. Some of the students glanced at them when they thought that they wouldn't notice and whispered to each other. Not only were they twins that had gone to Exillium for a little more than three years, but they had also helped Sophie fight the Neverseen a few times. People didn't gossip about them as much as they did about Sophie and her core group of friends, but it still happened, and it was still annoying.

Tam glared at one group of girls that were giggling and whispering behind their hands. They stopped whispering immediately. Linh just ignored the gossiping. She was smiling happily and talking about how fast she was improving her control over water. Tam was glad that she was happy. She deserved to be happy.

After he had escaped the psychopathic members of a third rebellion, taking a file with him, he had found out from the file that he had a twin sister. Inside the file had been her name, age, and a picture of her. There had been more, but the rest had been made impossible to read during the escape. He met her, when she went outside alone. She had just manifested as a hydrokinetic and had needed a break from all of the water that was in their house before she got overwhelmed and accidentally flooded her room...again.

At first Tam didn't tell her anything. He didn't tell her where he came from or why he was there. Linh, being the kind cinnamon roll that she was, hadn't pried too much after seeing how uncomfortable he was with her questions. She told him about elves and how their world worked since the first memory Tam had been of being thrown into the cell that he had been kept in when he wasn't being experimented on.

He didn't tell her this at first, he made up some lie about not remembering. Linh had wanted to take him to her parents. She had thought that he might have brain damage and needed to see a doctor, but he had somehow managed to convince her to not tell her parents about him. As the days passed, they got to know each other better. Linh had been shocked to find out that he didn't have a name. No one had ever bothered naming him as far as he knew. She ended up naming him Tam.