Insightful (A Yogscast and Area 11 Fanfic)

Prologue

A little girl, no more than 3, sits in the backseat of her parents' car. Her brother, who is currently 14, sits next to her, playing on his DS. Her mother is asleep in the passenger seat, and her father is driving, staring at the road with intense concentration. The girl looks at her brother's game, just in time to see the words 'Game Over' flash across the screen. The boy screams angrily at his game, and that's when it happens. Distracted by the sudden noise, the man turns the steering wheel slightly, causing a car behind them to honk loudly. He tries to straighten the car, but his efforts are in vain. Just as the woman awakens, the car is filled with the light of oncoming headlights, and the family is thrown in their seats as the inside of the car explodes with glass.

The girl wakes about an hour later to find herself on the side of the road, her brother holding her close. The children are both cut, their bodies full of glass. The boy has a long cut down his back from trying to shield his sister. His attempt failed, as the girl has a piece of glass lodged in her forehead, just above her left eye. Sirens come closer, and doctors appear, wielding stretchers. The siblings are loaded up and sent to the hospital; neither of them notice the two bodies, a woman and a man, still inside the family car.

At the hospital, the two undergo operations to get the glass out and are given blood transfusions. The boy knows what happened to his parents, the girl does not. She is allowed to see her brother, and he notices that her left eye is now different. The girl and her brother talk for a while; he shares the news of their parents' deaths with her. After the girl leaves, a doctor tells the boy not to tell the girl what happened to her eye. He never even has the chance. The next day, both children are taken to orphanages. The boy: an all-boys orphanage in their hometown of Bristol. The girl: an all-girls orphanage, in the country where the crash took place. Sweden.