Abilities

Chapter 3

Eleanor was scared. She couldn't remember anytime in her life where she had ever been so scared that she couldn't breathe. Everyone was wrong, your life didn't flash before your eyes, only your mistakes, everything you did wrong and everything you should've done that now you'll never get to. She couldn't even tell Louis goodbye , they separated them. He knew she loved him, but she still wished she could've told him one last time. She started crying silent tears, she already knew there was no point to scream, no one heard her. How long had she been strapped to this bed? A couple hours, a couple days? She wasn't sure. Was everyone else dead....Louis? The door opens and in comes a short, plump woman about forty-five with strawberry blonde hair and green eyes. She didn't look evil, were these the last eyes Eleanor would look into? "Please," begged Eleanor, "I've always tried to be a good person. I'm not a criminal and I have a family. Please don't do this to me...all I want to do is go home." The women looked at Eleanor sympathetically, "darling, you didn't do anything wrong! That is one of the reasons you were picked. This," she pointed to a needle with a cloudy liquid inside of it, "isn't meant for evil people. It'll give you an exceptional ability. You can help people. I would never work here if I didn't see something good coming from all these deaths." "But I don't want an ability. I just want to go home...." Said Eleanor. "Hush now, you'll be fine. There is only a slim chance you'll die. Now any questions before we get started?" "Why us?" Replied Eleanor. "Oh, I'm not qualified to know that...all I know is that you all are famous and people would know you were missing and people will notice when you re-enter the world doing exceptional things. You'll be indebted to Eric, you know, for making you this way. He's really a good man. You will be able to do things you've only imagined." She walks up to Eleanor and swabs her arm with alcohol. "Now I'm not going to lie, I'm not a liar. This will hurt sweet pea." She jabs the needle into Eleanor's arm and ejects the liquid into her vein. Eleanor didn't feel anything for a couple seconds then the mind numbing pain came, more pain than she has ever felt. It didn't matter anymore if no one could hear her she screamed and screamed and the pain didn't stop until she passed out.

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"ELEANOR!" Louis could hear her screaming but there was nothing he could do, eventually it stopped. And that's when Louis knew the greatest pain of his life. She was dead, the bastards had killed her and he was next. All of his best mates would die along with the people they loved. He couldn't help but wish he never auditioned for the X-Factor. Just then a tall man, who was very much in shape and had blue eyes and blonde hair comes in Louis' room. "You killed her." Was all he said, she was all he cared about. "Eleanor's fine Louis. She just couldn't take the pain. After all she is a woman. I'm Eric, I'm the funder of this project and it was first my idea. I come to you because you're the oldest, and I think you might be the leader of this group of ten. You'll wake up, I'm sure of it. And when you wake up you won't be able to control yourselves and these powers you've attained, that's why you've got to stay here until we teach you control. If you choose to stay then so may the others. Think about it. Nurse," a woman with strawberry blonde hair and green eyes comes in and injects Lois with the same thing she injected Eleanor with. The pain shot through every vein in Louis' body. He took it all silently until he too fell unconscious. Once everyone was sleeping Eric had them all moved into one room, couples by each other of course. He wasn't evil, he would train them, teach them how to use their powers and ease them into the world to help it. He would only call on them when he needed them to do him a favor, like if he made more enemies they would easily be dispersed by the things he had created. He would be the most powerful man in the world. He sat down in a metal chair in the middle of the room. He would be the first thing they saw when they woke up, it's been four days. They should awake any minute.