The Girl With Gifts

Chapter Eighteen

Leo and i, had just escaped the monster. I was gripping his hand tightly as we ran through the traffic. He could not take his eyes off the world around us. We both stumbled to take the sight in, the energy of the people around us. They all seemed happy and content with their lives. Did they know about us? Or were they just happy that The Faculty were dealing with us?

Shaking the thought i continued to run gripping onto Leo's large hand. He pushed me into a alley-way as some guards ran by as he covered the side of my face so if anybody looked, it looked as if he was about to kiss me. I store into his eyes at the gesture before smirking slightly. He moved towards me. But as he moved closer as if he was going to kiss me, all i saw was the monsters face- killing Leo.

Sweat was running down my whole body when my eyes finally opened. I had welcomed the dream at first to be able to see his face, the face that i loved when we first left the monster. When my eyes finally started taking in everything around me. I realised i was not alone. The face that i hate was stood in the corner watching me with an unreadable expression and two guards were by his side. These guards were obviously like me, he could not afford muscle or hired goons. But what he could do is track people with abilities and manipulate them into doing his deeds for him. Including killing.

Pity covered my features. Yes, i pitied them. I probably should not but they do not know any better. He has his grimy claws into their brains. Manipulating how they think and feel. I was once there but i had help getting out of his control. That is all they need. Help. To start with i needed to get them to speak to me without him being around. I was not going to use my power, i hope anyway, to let them listen to me. I wanted them to choose it as that is a step into breaking his disgusting hold over you. A step everybody takes once they realise what is happening to them. These males would be the same. Resenting them selves but then they'd realise it wasn't there fault and they will move on but do every little thing to put what they have done right. Which would mean they'd eventually join The Rebellion in hopes to show that not everyone with abilities are bad.

My mind went to that little girl whose father helped me. She'd grow up in a world where she had to defend herself. Where people grew up fearing her because of who she was. She would not understand why people felt the way they did. Only that she'd been on the fight from such a young age. She'd never know how it used to be. Us all in harmony. The poor children who grew up with this world as their normal.

Maybe that's what happened to him. Maybe he grew up with people hating him, so it shaped him into the monster that he is. And with nobody kind enough to show him the kindness we all deserve, he realised he could get people to bow to him. And that was his normal.

How is this classed as normal? Does nobody remember when we were in harmony. I sure do. Even if I was only a young girl yet to know what I was and what I could do. What had made the world become this way? What had made The Faculty convince the world that we, were the bad guys and needed to be stopped. The poor children who can not help being how they are. Who can not control their powers. Who are being found and hunted down like they are animals without feeling. How we are being treated is what is causing us to act exactly how they want us too, to show the world why we are hunted.

My eyes went back to the guards who had moved closer whilst I was occupied in my thoughts. They were clearly using that I blanked out to their advantage. Behind that mask they wore, I knew was a human begging to be let out. And I knew I could help. I just had to try.

I smiled at both of them. Not letting the pity shine through but instead I let acceptance shine through. To show them I accept them for what they are. Hell, I was once in their shoes. He gets his claws into you real deep and without a second thought of things- you do them. That is why i could not blame these men. They are just where I was years ago.

I reached out my hand to them both. Slowly, encouraging them too take my hand. When they did I smiled in victory. My hands gripped their wrists and I closed my eyes. I was begging for them to be released. To realised what was going on.

A chuckle echoed through the room. I looked up to see one of the guards looking at me his eyes full of life where as, before they had been almost like he was a machine. My lips curved into a smile as I realised he had beat it. However, we looked over to his friend who was still under the monsters control.