Empathy

Prologue

Eight years ago 

"We have to get it .Everyone is counting on us .Now is not the time to back out.We can do this.We just have to find a way to get it without my mom finding out and I think I have just the solution.", I said. 

I pointed to the high chair by the kitchen table. 

"NO.Natasha I am not climbing that .Nu uh ,you climb it",Leila said. 

"Lei what's our motto.Desperate times........" 

Leila sighed,"Desperate measures". 

"Good just keep that in mind.Now let's get those cookies." 

"Natasha,I'm starting to think that maybe your mom left the cookies in the highest jar for a reason." 

"Of course she did .It was so we wouldn't get them ,but we have a reasonable reason this time. We can't let Sabrina keep winning .The last time we had a tribe gathering we brought cupcakes and Sabrina brought an entire cake.We can never let something like that happen ever again.Leila you are my best friend would you really like to see me humiliated in public", I didn't wait for her to reply,"Of course you wouldn't .Now let's get this done before mom gets here she won't understand how important this is"

I held the chair for Leila to stand on ,and just as she was about to grab the jar the door burst open.I quickly rushed out an explanation 

"Mom I can explain.We are not about to steal the cookie jar"

But she just ignored me.

"Natasha something terrible has happened. I need you to go put on some clothes .Your father has been injured we need to get to the hospital,the human hospital.So promise me that no matter what happens you will not show any emotion,okay.No matter what." 

"I promise mommy". She was starting to scare me.Mom was never in a rush she was always composed and ready. Seeing her like this was....well scary.

We got to the hospital as quickly as mom could make it without breaking every driving law but it wasn't enough. The doctor said there was nothing they could do to help my father,he was gone.We were walking to where my dad was, our faces the picture of complete aloofness,while the doctor tried to explain what happened to my mom. 

"Apparently he was attacked by some hooligans and was beaten beyond the point of recovery he was found in an alley" 

This made my mom stop. 

"He was found outside our estate.",she said ,but her voice was still devoid of emotion.

I could understand why this made mom stop .As an empath we are to have as little contact with humans as possible.My mom broke this rule when she married my dad but she was strong enough to handle the pressures that came with marrying a human so she was the exception to the law but since my dad married my mom he had to break off all human contact and he has not stepped out of the empath estates since he married her.

We got to my father's room and there he was lying on the small bed with a thin white material covering his body. I moved to pull the material off him but the face I stared into was not my father's.He was gone.Dead .Dad was gone.All I have left now is mommy and she doesn't seem to be holding up well,but I know she will make it through.She will be strong ........for me. 

As I watched her I saw her resolve waver and a single tear slid down her face.I couldn't speak ,I couldn't move.My only thought was 'NO,don't'.The next thing I heard was her piercing screams,I felt her pain and it was agonizing .I wanted to cry with her but I had a promise to keep.The doctor ran out to get help, I only watched as my mother writhed in pain still screaming.She was holding her head, I watched as the doctor returned with some nurses all trying tro help my mom but it was a failed atttempt before it even started .I tried to think of something besides my mother dying in pain because if I kept thinking about her I would lose the little hold on my emotions that I had. 

My father died in the prescence of humans,that's odd.Dad never leaves Empath estates, something isn't right about this but then again I'm ten what do I know?

The doctor came back a few minutes later and before he could ask I gave him my aunt's number.I just wanted to go home and cry, cry in a place where no humans are.I lost everything today .Today my mother broke the most important empath rule;Never show your emotions infront of humans.She broke it and she paid for it severly.I lost my mom and dad on the same day. 

Aunty Patricia picked me from the hospital.The ride back was quiet .I didn't want to cry, not yet anyways. I was still hoping that I would get home and they would be there.The only people I met at home were the council members and Leila's family.My mom had been a council member ,in fact she was the head council member and my aunt is the head of defence she can beat any male soldier black and blue.I still remember the commotion my aunt caused when she said that she wanted to be a soldier.They all laughed at her but in the end she beat up each and every one of their sorry behinds,even the head and of course if you beat the head then you're good enough to be the head.The council still has some kind of dislike against my family because they feel the females are trying to take over or something like that.No one had to tell me any of these things I could feel it.I could tell the remaining members of the council hated me.

I didn't know what to expect from the council when I got home but I certainly did not expect  joy.I could feel the joy radiating of them.They were celebrating.How could they?Their joy felt very close to triumph.What was there to be triumphant about in death? I knew they had something to do with my parent's death I could feel how victorious they felt,it was the same way I felt when I brought home my last report card.They killed my parents.

That day I vowed to destroy them and make them pay for what they did.That kind of threat sounds crazy coming from the mouth of a ten year old but it tends to have a different effect when it's coming from a seventeen year old motivated solely by revenge.