Previously...

"I have to tell you something." I say to him. "It may take a while."

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She pauses before continuing, allowing me to cut her off in case I don't want to hear her life story. I am thankful that she stopped, mostly because I just realized she was going to dish out all her problems.

"OK," I say softly, "Go ahead."

She takes a deep breath before continuing. I can tell that it is hard for her to give all her secrets to a guy she used to know. I say used to because she only knows the me from when we were children, she doesn't know the me that left his parents for the street. She doesn't know who I really am. I don't know if I want her to though. "So a while after you left," she starts. "My parents had to go to some sort of meeting. They didn't really explain it though. They kind of just said 'Honey we need to go somewhere, we'll call you before we come home.' To me, that was pretty normal, my parents could teleport. They had to task of bringing people to places they wanted to be and bringing things to places they should be. They often got called to meetings to help people understand how "safe" teleporting really is." She says safe while making air quotations with her fingers. I don't think she actually thought it was so safe.

"Why'd you say it like that?" I ask. Everyone knows how safe teleportation is, but those who have the power use it sparingly. Almost like every time they use it they have something to lose.

"I'm getting to that. " she says softly, I can see that she is struggling to keep the tears out of her voice and off her face. "Anyway, my parents called me that night, telling me they'd be home soon. Having the power of teleportation, my parents meant they would be home in the next few seconds," She moves around, trying to get more comfortable against the tree. Bringing her knees up towards her chest and laying her head on them she continues. " but they didn't,"she takes a deep breath. " I thought they were just saying goodbye you know? Then the seconds turned to minutes. I wasn't all that surprised, my parents had been caught up in conversations before anyway. But after an hour, I started worrying. Although, not as much as you might think. As you may know, there are campaigns proving the security of traveling by teleportation. Well, they must've had everyone fooled, because the next morning their company, the people that monitor where they go, they showed up at my door. They told me they never got the chance to leave, they got stuck in the realm between worlds. And as you know, I don't really have power over what happens there, neither do they. The world sucks away who you are, your feelings everything that makes you, you. You get to keep your memories, but imagine having memories that don't add up to the way you feel. Empty." I walk over to her side and sit next to her, putting a hand on her shoulder. "So, everything I knew about my powers were shattered and I..."

I wait for her to continue, knowing this is a touchy subject. I notice she wants to continue but doesn't at the same time. "Go on," I say softly "if you want to."

She shakes her head, not telling me she doesn't want to, but as if she is ashamed. "If I tell you," she says pushing fallen hair back behind her ears. " you have to promise to keep it a secret, and please, please don't let it change your view of me." She looks at me, waiting for an honest answer.

"Yeah, I promise." I say with complete confidence, although I am actually trying to figure out what would make her so worried that I wouldn't like her anymore.

"So, I was angry with the world for lying, and I was worried for my safety, all I had ever done was teleport to get places. I had never even walked a significant distance. So I went looking for help," She stops speaking and looks at the ground, the tree to the right, anywhere but to her left, exactly where I'm sitting. "from a witch." she glanced towards me begging me to hear her out. My jaw hangs open. Witches are people who never actually gained magic powers, instead, they conduct experiments to understand the powers better and to gain powers themselves. It is extremely dangerous-to them and to the people they do experiments on-but they are extremely strong since they know about all powers and have the strongest ones. I once heard that the only power a witch can never have is the one my brother has. Everyone in the Shadow Assassins were witches. If they were born into the Shadow Assassins group but they had powers they were killed or their powers were taken away, which usually lead to being killed. "Please," she says so softly I can hardly hear her.

"Why?" I ask "Couldn't you have asked someone who had the same power as you, and not a witch?"

"I could've, but most of the people wouldn't dare teach me how to trick my own powers. The witch did. So, I stayed with her for a few weeks, she taught me everything I need to know. I almost got stuck in the realm between worlds, that's why I came back in so much pain." I wait for a few seconds, wanting to hear the rest of her story, but I soon realize she is done explaining. She wants to hear my thoughts, even if I don't like it.

Instead of talking, instead of saying what was going on in my mind, I reached over and hugged her tightly. "It's okay." I say to her. I know, original. I have a feeling it was the only two words I'd ever used to comfort her, myself and my brother. After a few seconds, she pulls away.

"You know, I really thought you would walk away from me." she says "I really thought you would use that against me somehow, but thank you for not doing that. It was a rough time, I was scared."

"I understand," I say softly. "I know what it's like to act quickly, to act out of fear." I said this to her, without giving her details. I know she would've ran faster than she can teleport if I told her what I had done in the name of fear.

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