Shades of Winter

7

Author's Note: From now on Hero and Vies will both be first person views. Vies already was, but now Hero will be too. I'll put their names above it, so you'll know who's view you're experiencing. Enjoy :)

7

Hero

      I sigh and stand up. My body is stiff from sitting on the roof for so long. I stretch, ugh, I'm only 18, but I feel 38. I finish stretching and look out at the horizon again. As much as I want him to be alive, I need to face the reality of what that would mean. I think about what Luce told me, if he's remembering right, Vies attacked him. He tried to kill him. Vies has never done that before. Luce is practically a kid. I had looked more into the people that Vies had killed after we had that confrontation on the roof. I sigh, Vies was right, those were horrible people. I can't believe after 6 months of tracking him and trying to figure out why he's doing what he's doing, I didn't think to look into the victims' crimes instead of what their families told me and all the good things about them. I clench my fists in frustration. How could I be so stupid? And to constantly keep asking Vies those stupid questions when I could've just found out myself. No wonder he looked so surprised when I asked him why he does it. And why he was angry afterwards. I feel guilty all over again thinking about it. 

But Vies would never attack a child would he? No, he does what he does to protect kids, right? Luce doesn't know how to fight, so he wouldn't have attacked the shadows. He looked terrified just telling me about it in there. Vies only hurts people who genuinely deserve it. Maybe it was an accident. But no, Luce said they were attacking him! *sigh* I facepalm, trying to calm my conflicting thoughts.I think more about Vies' victims, they had deserved it, but then what did that make Vies? A vigilante? A self-appointed judge, jury, and executioner? And what does it make me? Sure, I get some of the people, I arrest them and everything. But then Vies gets the people that we miss. I do it inside the law, he does it outside. I head down from the roof and into the building, I walk down the stairs and reach the elevator. I won't question Luce anymore; he doesn't have anything useful. And he's been through enough. What I need to do is train. If Vies IS back, and what Luce said is anything to go off of, then Vies could've changed. He might not be the same Vies I know, well, that I feel like I know. Sure, I've been tracking him for a while, but I don't know everything. 

I reach the ground floor and start to walk home. I smile. If he is alive, then there's no way he's going to stay out of trouble for long. I know that much about him. I smile wider, Vies could be ALIVE. I feel ecstatic, although I keep most of my emotion off of my face. 

If I do see him again, what do I say to him? It's been over a month now. I've fought quite a few people during that time, but none were like him. No ones given me that thrill that I hadn't even realised I've been missing. No one kept me as sharp as he did, constantly looking for signs about what he was doing. And now he could really be alive? That's amazing! Maybe I could even get him to join the police force, or maybe even to become a Hero! He's definitely powerful enough, I'm the only one who's been able to keep up with him. If we were both focused on catching people, he was scarily efficient at finding his targets, we could work together to find them and then catch them all twice as fast. He had a strong sense of justice, I'm sure the program would appreciate that, even if his methods were a bit...unorthodox. I keep walking, thinking about the good I could do with Vies. The idea sends a thrill through me. I walk past the Chrono Tower, a giant grandfather clock. (Kind of like Big Ben but much smaller).

Vies

   I'm laying on my stomach on top of a giant clocktower. It's really cool, it has giant Roman numerals for the numbers. I look down and admire it. Then lift my head up and widen my eyes. Is that...Hero? And he's smiling? I smile to myself. He looks really cute like that, ha, maybe he's thinking about me. I smile wider. I keep watching Hero walk past the clock I'm on, Hero must be someone special to me. I feel...warm inside. Which should be impossible since I'm literally ice, but somehow, just watching him makes me feel good. I'm so lost in my thoughts that I don't notice as my powers start to slip out and create ice all over the clocktower. In seconds the whole building is covered. I startle when I hear a shout of alarm from some bystanders who notice the ice. They point in fear. They can't see me, but they can see the ice. Who else could it be? I see Hero running over. Shit. I leap off the building to the one next to it and flee into the night.