Fileven One Shots

- Odd One Out (Mileven)

Thursday April 9th 2020 (Original)

El sat on her bed looking out of her window. Mike was coming over and she was wearing sweatpants and a sweatshirt. She didn't feel the need to dress up for Mike, after all it was 6 at night and she was already admittedly tired.

She rolled up her sleeve to see her 011. She wasn't proud of it and never will be. She was used as a science experiment for most of her life. She felt as if she wasn't human because of the things she could do like no one else. She was snapped out of her trance by Mike walking into her room, pulling her sleeve down quickly.
"Hey El." Mike said sitting down on her bed. "Hi Mike." She said looking away from him. "Is everything okay?" He asked, his eyebrows twitching upwards as they always do when he's with El, not looking her in the eyes but on the ground. She looked back at him with teary eyes and then looked back down. "Yeah, it's just..."

"Hey, El look at me" Mike said bringing his index finger up to her chin. "What's wrong?" He asked.

"I feel like I don't fit in, like I'm the odd one out. That I'm just a science experiment... Never mind it's stupid." She said fake laughing as a tear fell out of her eye, making her look back down, shaking her head. "What!? El come on don't think that. You're not a science experiment. You're not in the lab right now are you?" He said. "No! But I was for most of my life! And now I have a stupid tattoo on my arm and it's never going to go away! It's just... I'm not normal. I want to be like the rest of the party-" Mike cut El off by putting his hand up to her mouth. "Why do you want to be like us, because we're 'normal' and we don't have powers? That's why you're you, that's what makes you special, if you always wanted to be like us you would never be yourself, you wouldn't be who you were meant to be. And that's what I love about you. You're unique, you're not like anybody else and your special. You're beautiful El, I don't want you to change." Mike said, as another tear fell out of her eye.

"Really?" She asked looking him in the eyes. "Yes, now why would I lie to you about that. Friends don't lie, remember?" Mike asked. "But Max said boyfriends do, all the time." El said looking back down.  "Well that's bull crap. Woman act on emotion, not logic. You're just repeating you're what you're feelings are and expressing them. I'm always going to love you El, with all my heart. I want you to stay you. Don't ever change." Mike said pulling her into a hug, her head on his chest as he kissed the top of her head.

"I love you El"
"I love you too Mike"