Elements

1. ivy

My eyes shift up from my assignment on my laptop as the clock hits 4 pm. The students around me begin to gather their things for the end of the day. I listen as the professor shouts out a reminder for the homework assignments that are due this week, I'm probably the only one listening seems half the class was talking and the other half had already made it out into the hallway.

I follow behind a group of guys out into the hall before breaking away and heading for the front doors of the college.

I slowly untangle my earbuds and lift my hood up over my head in an attempt to blend into the crowd and not be noticed. I walk down the steps out onto the sidewalk, watching all the people mingling in their groups and walking to their cars as I cross the street and start my walk home.

Coming into this school not knowing anyone I almost feel invisible, this is hardly what I thought my college experience would be like but it's my reality. I also can't really blame anyone else for the fact that I haven't made any new friends in my classes because I never go out of my way not to be invisible, I prefer my introverted bubble, or at least I tell myself that. At this point everyone has their groups and friends and are all well adjusted while the rest of us don't mingle, I'd be surprised if even one of them knew my name. I should probably work on talking to more people.

I cross another street, paying attention to the trees that are now changing colour as the leaves start to shed out onto the road. At first this walk seemed far from my house, now it's something I look forward too each day.

By now mother should be picking up Louis from school and father should already be home. Louis seems to be fitting in at his school, but that's to be expected when your an extrovert in grade 10. Fathers new job also seems to be going great, at least we moved to Wyoming for something worth while not just my miserable college, I suppose I'm the only one having a hard time with adjusting. I just wish we could've waited a little longer so I could've had my 21st birthday last week with my friends back home instead of with my family, not that it wasn't good, just not what you expect for your 21st.

Just as I'm turning the corner onto my road a large black van comes ripping down the street and I move off the sidewalk to the grass when suddenly it swerves lanes and the back doors swing open as two men jump out right infront of me. I immediately drop my bags and start to run but the one guy immediately grabs me and cuffs my hands behind my back before dragging me back to the van?!

This has to be a dream, is no one seeing this?! I start screaming and kicking and the man covers my mouth and pulls me down onto a metal seat and hooks my cuffs to something behind me, making it impossible to get away.

"Bitch tried to bite me" the one guy says before jumping out and shutting the door as the other man sits down on the bench across from me.

Beside the man I notice another guy my age with short dark hair and stubble on his sharp defined jaw and face. He isn't dressed in black though? he also looks cuffed to the seat like I am? But he looks calm? He isn't scared right now?!

"Why are you doing this" I say starting to cry as I feel the vehicle start to move. The guy who is also cuffed looks straight ahead out the windshield and watches the road, ignoring me?

"Check her, make sure it's her" I hear a guy yell back to us from the drivers seat

Suddenly the man in black leans forward across the van and twists my head to the side and pulls my ear forward

"Yah it's her" he says

What the hell does that mean?!

"Let me go!" I scream before kicking the man away from me

"Malek" the man in black then says sternly before taking out a taser and pressing down the button as a threat. The dark haired boy does nothing and a few second go by when the man in black then jabs the taser into Maleks leg quickly.

I watch as now the boy beside him turns his head towards me and stares at me when suddenly I feel a burning sensation followed by a rapidly progressing headache until I'm screaming crying, it feels like my brains is on fire.

"That's enough Malek" the man says again and suddenly everything stops?

I look up at them both as tears stream down my face. What the fuck just happened?

"Kick me again and he'll make it worse" the man says? What the fuck

We continued to sit in silence for what felt like at least 7 hrs of driving, stopping once to use to washroom as the guard stood watching me. I spent the entire remainder of time studying their features for the police if I can ever get out of here. The guy also cuffed across from me can't be much older than me. The other guy with the taser unfortunately is covered head to toe in black armer, I can see he has blue eyes through the peep holes though. I looked out the windshield and saw that we had pulled off the highway and are now driving down a range road through a winding forest area. Where the fuck are we going? This seems like a lot of work to kill someone, and why me?

I watch as we pull around a final bend that leads to a very large old building emerging out of the tree line? What the hell is this place?

The driver pulls around the side of the building when suddenly I notice the man in black with something in his hand, but it's too late by the time I try to react he's already poked me with it and I feel myself falling as everything suddenly goes black.

X.x.X

I shoot up as the feeling of water washes over me. When I realize what's happened I'm laying on a small bed with a white sheets overtop in a small white room, my wrists strapped to the bed. A strange older man with white hair and glasses looks down at me with a cup in his hand?

"Ah there she is" he grins before handing the now empty cup in his hand to the bigger lady beside him with tight dark curly hair?

"Who are you?" I say trying to move and get free but it's useless. I have a growing headache now.

"My name is Dr Martin, I will be your primary physician working with you throughout your stay here"he says simply

"I'm sure you have more important questions though like why you're here?" He says changing the subject "well the answer to that question is you're very special, in a ground breaking scientific way, you're going to help a lot of people Ivy" he smiles

"How do you know my name?!" I ask confused?

"We know everything about you, happy belated birthday by the way" he grins and a pit forms in my stomach, what the hell am I doing here and what do they want with me?!

"Why me?'" I ask as tears form in my eyes

"Well, we can get into it all in our first round of testing tomorrow but in simplest terms, your an Elemental Ivy" he smiles. "For now though I think it would be good for you to get comfortable and calm down in your new home before we get into all that" he smiles again before reaching forward and grabbing the strap on my wrist.

"I'm going to remove these now, it's in your best interest not to do anything stupid, I guarantee you won't get anywhere" he says before pulling the strap loose freeing my hand before reaching for the other one, freeing me completely now.

He stands back as I sit up on the edge of the bed unsure what to do but he just nodes then leaves with the lady out of my room, leaving the door open? I stand from my bed after a few moments unsure if I should leave, as I walk across the small room to the door.