Shape Shifter On The Run

Chapter 9-Little Boy Has No Place To Run

ILLianna's POV

It's been a few weeks since the little incident with me getting bitten, but like I told them that night it wasn't their fault. I forgave and yet they were still persistent in saying sorry constantly and annoying the fuck out of me. Like come on if someone says you're forgiven then they mean it. So I finally got them to shut up and in the mean time our landlord came and handed them their keys since they had lost them somehow earlier that day. 

Anyway today I finally felt good enough to go outside and go for my usual morning run. I was going past the abandoned warehouse and heard a noise coming from just beyond the old rusted door. I though it must be a mouse or something so I just left it then I got a little bit further down the dirt road and heard the same noise again a little closer to me. 

I thought I would check out the mouse like noise and went inside the warehouse. Just then I heard one of the barrel's being knocked over and headed in that direction. Just then I saw black and pinkish red hair and a little figure to go with it. I turned on my hunter skills so i could walk quietly towards him and not frighten him. 

I crept up behind him till there was a sliver of space between us. He still hadn't noticed my pressence lurking in the shadows right behind him. That's when I smelled it. His scent it was like mine. He was a shifter, but no ordinary shifter he could do all of the things I could. Just at that minute he turned around to look at me. His eyes like he was a deer caught in the headlights. His Blue eyes shining with fear.

Andy Knight's POV

I was running again from the people that wanted to kill me. I've been running for the past 2 years and I even shifted my body to look like a young boy but that didn't work, they still managed to find me. It was useless they could find me wherever I went . I couldn't escape them. I ran into and abandonede warehouse at then end of the street I was on at that point.  

I ran through the rusted old and only just hanging on by it's hinges door and ran to find somewhere to hide in this dusty old place.  

I ran and knocked into something but I caught it before it fell completely, and kept on running to find somewhere to hide in the covered space. I ran into a set of stacked barrel's and decided to hide behind one of them. I managed to hide just as the door opened. I heard no footsteps though even with my advanced hearing. So I thought that the person just carried on walking outside and didn't come in. So I thought it was safe to turn and get up. As I did I saw her, she was staring at me with confusion clear in her mind. That's when I smellede her scent it was like mine, but not, it was different somehow. I shifted back infront of her and she gasped. I guess she didn't think I would do that. I was glad that I was my 16 year old self again and not the 9 year old that I looked like . Standing infront of her, I stretched my aching muscles. I then said

" Hi." She looked at me with so much curiosity, you could plainly see it in her beautiful eyes. that's when I heard the voice of an angel.

" Um.. Hi can I ask why you are here!"

" I was running. why are you here?"

" I heard a noise which must've been you walking around and decided to investigate. How did you change of what age you look?"

" I don't know I was experimenting one day to see what i could do and I discovered I could do it. Why can't you do it too?"

" No I can't do it too or at least I think I can't I've never tried too. So not to be rude or anything but who the heck are you?"

" Oh yeah sorry my name's Andy Knight and my real age is sixteen and you? That's if it isn't to rude to ask"

" Well Andy Knight, I'm ILLianna Ghost aged 16. So Andy who you runnning from?"

" I'm running from the people that killed my parents 2 years ago. It happened almost simultaniously after I first shifted, as if my scent had triggered somethiung within them."

" Why don't you come with me, I'll keep you safe. I pretty much know how you feel. After the first time I shifted I ran away from home because of the disgust in my parents eyes. So I left and never looked back."

Illianna's POV :

Even after he shifted I couldn't believe it, my thoughts in my head were swimming round in circles trying to make sense of what just happened 2 ft infront of me. Andy Knight looked like me the exact double of me as if he were my twin. I didn't have a twin or did I? He looked like a lost puppy crouching behind those barrels and it made me want to just wrap my arms around him and tell him everything was ok, but that thought instantaniously changed when he shifted back into his real form. 

   I just couldn't comprehend the thought of that there was someone running around out there that looks like a boy version of me and has the same capabilities of shifting as I have. Then the penny dropped as if my brain had just had a smart fart. What if he really was my twin, what if i did have a long lost brother. It would make perfect sense, our parents wouldn't decide to just keep one of us and get rid of the other they would get rid of both of us.

Looking up i noticed I'd been contemplating this the whole way home and we now styood outside of my apartment building with Gavin standing outside have a smoke with a sheepish drin on his face when he seen me. Then his expression turned to confussion and got stuck there. 

" Gavin if the wind changes your face will permently be in that expression, and let me tell you it ain't a sexy look for you."

"Oh really now is that so, so who's your mirror."

So I wasn't imagining it he really did look like me. This just put a whole load of other thoughts and questions into my head that I'd never thought I'd think about.

"This is Andy, he's going to be staying with me from now on."