Wintersmyth or Winter Smith?

Chapter 35- problems

Henry's pov
A few more weeks went by and winter and I did everything together. We went to the movies, the arcade, the water park, the aquarium, the zoo, everything. Today, however, was something we were doing outside the city. Winter was good at art. Really good. She could use any medium, pencils, watercolor, paints, oil pastels, she could combine them all into great landscapes. So she decided she wanted to take a class in the next town over to learn some techniques. Usually I would not have gone with her. I was terrible at art! But I didn't want her to be alone. After that jerkoff threatened her at the beach party I've been keeping a close eye on her. I know she's trains and thinks she can handle anything but I won't let something happen to her knowing I could have done something to stop it. It's part of the reason we've been doing so much stuff together. Partly because I want her to do normal teenage stuff, but also so I wouldn't let her out of my sight. No one is going to hurt winter. No one.

Winters pov
Henry and I took the subway out of town. The studio where the class was, was only a few blocks away from the station so we could walk from there. I was super excited to take this class! The teacher was one of the best artists in California! Poor Henry agreed to come just to spend time with me. I know he doesn't like art and he's not particularly good at it, but the thought was sweet. Maybe tomorrow we can go do something he likes that I couldn't care less about, like a basketball game or something. We arrived at the studio and I saw the artist. Corrina Kendrick. She came over and greeted us. "Hello! Welcome to art weekly! I trust you come with brushes and imaginations bared?" I nodded eagerly. "Yes! And you must be Corrina Kendrick! I'm a huge fan of your work!" She smiled. "Thank you! Please call me Corrina. Now what are your names?" I looked at Henry. "This is my boyfriend, Henry Hart. And I'm Winter Smith." She nodded and ushered us to a table for two. "Alright class, first you will find a sketchbook and pencil at your place. Now I want to get a feel for all of your talents so I just want you to sketch. Show me what makes you, you!" I picked up my sketchbook and thought for a moment. First i drew flames. I drew flames all over the bottom of my paper. Then, I drew a big detailed snowflake rising out of the flames. Light shining from behind it. Corrina was walking around looking at people's drawings. She got around to mine and smiled. "Why did you draw this?" She asked. "Well because the fire is where the snowflake came from. The snowflake already had its whole life planned out for it, it was a flame, and that's what everyone expected it to be, but it decided it wanted to be more. So it defied its roots and became a snowflake and now it's beautiful. It's one of the biggest principals in my life. That no matter who you are or where you came from, you can do or be whatever you want, it's your life and no one can decide for you what you want to be." She smiled and nodded. "It's very good." The she looked at Henry's. He had drawn to hands holding, aiding each other, but then he drew a mask over it. "Why did you draw this?" She asked. Henry looked at me and I pretended to draw on my snowflake. "Well I want to do good things, I want to help people, but everything I do, everyone I help, it's never really me. I always feel like I'm hiding behind a mask and no one really sees me." Although his drawing skills were a little questionable, it was a good concept. "That's good!" She said and walked away. "That's pretty deep for a non artist." I said and he blushed. "Yeah I just said that to cover up that I help people because I'm kid danger." I nodded and dropped it. I knew he meant what he said though. We both felt it. We save people all the time. We do a lot of good but captain man gets all the credit, plus it's weird we have to hide all the time even though we help people. As were just normal people when we're not wearing masks. It's like it's the only time we can make a difference. Sometimes I wish we could do that without the costumes. In the class we worked on landscapes. I was using oil pastel and paint. Henry used watercolor to paint a pond with flowers. I painted the sunset we saw the day we went to the beach. I drew to shadows sitting together on a bench watching while the oil pastel sunset faded over the water. Corrina really liked it and wanted to put it in her next show. I told her she could have it. Henry tried, but it looked a little funny. "Is that a frog?" I asked. "No it's a rock." He said trying to sound serious but he was laughing. "It's a frog rock!" I laughed. "Hey!" He said splaying paint at me. I flicked my brush at him putting orange specks on his face. We kept flicking paint at each other until we both looked like splatter paint projects. We went to the bathroom and washed it off. We were in the class most of the day. We got out around 7:00 and it was getting dark. We got dinner and walked around the town for a while before deciding to head back on the subway. We took the train back to town. We got off at the Swellview station. "Hey can you wait here a minute I have to use the bathroom." I nodded. "Sure." I said and he left. It was close to 10:00 and the station was deserted. It was eerily quiet. I heard the next train coming down the tunnel as I stood near the edge of the tracks. Suddenly I felt two hands of my shoulders. Surprised I grabbed the arm, spun around, kicked my assailant in the stomach and flipped him. Suddenly three more men in black wearing masks were there I tried to fight them but one of them shoved me i grabbed on to anything to keep from falling and I pulled the mask off of one of them. It was Shawn. I fell onto the tracks and I could see the light of the train coming. In a flash of blue and red I saw kid danger take on all the three guys and he kicked there butts, he stood up them Shawn came flying at him. "Kid danger look out!" I yelled and he flipped Shawn over his back and Shawn flew into the tracks. The train was feet away from me when kid danger grabbed me and pulled me up into the safety of his arms right as the train flew by us. He couldn't grab Shawn in time. Henry pulled me back against the wall and hugged me tight. We were both out of breath and gasping for air. He dragged me up to ground level and into the night air. He made us keep running until we dodged into an ally way. I stopped running. I stood there in shock. "He's. Dead. He's really dead. We killed him Shawn is dead!" I cried in hysterics and Henry pulled me into another tight hug. I could smell him and it calmed me down. "You didn't do anything he attacked you and I pushed him." He said calmly. "Yeah but he's dead! This is all my fault! It's because of what happened last week!" The previous week there had been a job where two fairess wheel cars had come loose and where dangling high over the top. I drained the electricity from the ride them I froze both hinges to the metal. But my powers weren't strong enough to hold both at the same time. One car had one person in it, the other had five. I had to make a hard choice. But it was one of them or all of them. I had to let the one person car fall. I hated it, but I had no choice. It's the job, I have to make hard decisions. The person in the car didn't make it. I thought I had seen Shawn there, watching, but I thought I was being paranoid. Now I know I wasn't. "I can't believe that jus happened. I shouldn't have let that car go!" He shushed me then he looked straight into my eyes. "This was not your fault. You made the right decision with the cars and Shawn made his choice. He tried to kill you! I couldn't let that happen. If something happened to you I would have killed myself." We both fell back against the wall and sat down. I laid my head on his chest. "This world is so messed up." I said. "Tell me about it." Said Henry. I felt so warm and safe with Henry's arms around me, although I had started crying. I felt him kiss the top of my head. I felt overwhelmingly tired and soon I drifted off to sleep.