Cassandra

Rescue mission

"You know I did expect more from you. Word on the street is, that you are smart. I haven't seen it yet. You coming here just proves how wrong I was." Some guy said. The hangar had a pretty good echo effect, so I heard really well.

"I'll get you the rest of the money."

"Please, I got double the sum you lost me as a front payment to kill you. You sure know how to make enemies boy."

"If someone is willing to pay that much to see me dead, don't you think that means I'm worth something?"

"You're a street kid with no family and I'm pretty sure those other rats you like to hang out with, aren't going to miss you very long. So trust me, nobody is going to find out or care about your death."

"Then why are you stalling? Just kill me already!" Well that was a stupid thing to say. He used to be a lot better at talking himself out of bad situations.

I looked around and found an empty glass bottle from the ground. I picked it up a threw it in the opposite direction, where it shattered as it hit the ground. The guard at the door went to check out the noise, just like I thought he would.

Since I didn't really have a better plan or to be precise, I had no plan whatsoever, I simply stormed into the hangar.

"Stop, leave him alone!" I yelled.

"Oh, look, I was wrong, I guess someone does care about you. Too bad they are going to be just as dead as you."

Nobody stopped me as I ran quickly towards Seth. He wasn't looking very good at all, being all beaten up and tied to a chair.

"You can't kill me." I said to the man in charge and I tried to sound threatening.

"And why not?" He asked me like he was really bored and just wanted to kill everybody.

"Because I'm the daughter of the guy, who paid you. He wouldn't be very happy to see me dead." I stood between him and Seth. My dad probably couldn't care less about my life, but that guy certainly didn't know that.

"Oh, look how nice, it's Romeo and Juliet... Like I care. Kill them both." Well that just went south really fast. The boss guy just turned his back on us and left, leaving his minions to do the job for him.

The first shot was fired towards me. I closed my eyes and put my hand up as a protection – stupid, I know, it wasn't going to save me, but it was kind of a reflex.

Somehow nothing happened, I opened my eyes and looked at my hand. It wasn't my hand anymore. I mean it was, but it wasn't. It was covered with blue crystals or it was a blue crystal, I couldn't tell. My hand had actually stopped the bullet and it was now lying on the ground. Everybody in the room looked really confused, so I just grabbed hold of Seth and thought about my dorm room. It had worked once, maybe it will work again, I thought.

I didn't dare to open my eyes until I heard a book falling on the ground. We were actually at my dorm room.

"What the hell were you thinking!" yelled Seth. He didn't even seem a little bit surprised about the fact, that I just teleported us there. Also he seemed quite angry for a guy, who had just gotten himself beaten up pretty badly.

"I was thinking about saving your life."

"You could have gotten us both killed!"

"Well they were supposed to kill you anyway, so what do you care?" We were both yelling at each other.

"I think your roommate needs an explanation more than I do right now." He said now more calmly, staring at Aurora, who was behind me.

I turned to Aurora. She was sitting on her bed paralyzed, eyes and mouth wide open. A book she was reading had fallen onto the ground.