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We made our way back to the rooms and basically ate and slept. We were exhausted. Edward managed to drag his bed into my room because I didn't want to be alone that night. He sat on his bed watching me comb through my hair with my fingers. They hadn't provided me with a brush so I couldn't do much with it.

"What do you think of mum and dad?" Edward suddenly said. I looked down at the white covers of my bed.

"I don't know what to think anymore," I said. "But there's no point in denying it. Mum and dad worked here and for whatever reason, they helped these people."

"But I don't understand. They were good people, they would never harm anyone," Edward mumbled. I laid down on the bed and shut my eyes. As I fell asleep I heard Ed whisper, "Maybe we didn't know them at all..."

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I dreamt that I was standing on top of a monstrous cliff with a grey ocean churning below. The bitter wind was howling in my ears and trying to push towards the edge of the cliff. I looked up and saw the same man that was in Edward's desert dream with his back to me. I moved around to the left and saw that he was holding Edward by the neck over the cliff.

Ed was kicking and trying to twist out of the man's grasp but he held fast. Ed's face was turning red but even if the man let go, Ed would fall to his death into the grey ocean below. There was no way he could get out of this.

Desperately I ran forward and tried to hit the man. My fist went straight through him and neither him nor Edward noticed me. I tried again but he same thing happened. The third time I screamed angrily and threw my fist at his face. Somehow I managed to connect with his jaw. He snapped his head round to face me. Edwards eyes widened in surprise as he saw me.

"Tess?" Ed choked. "Tess, get out of here!" I didn't even have time to acknowledge he was talking to me before the dream faded into black and I woke up in my bed. Beside me, Edward was clutching his neck, still trapped in the dream.

"Ed," I said gently, shaking his shoulder.

"No...no please, stop!" Ed screamed, still asleep.

"Come on Ed, wake up," I said a little louder. He thrashed in the bed and kicked out. "Ed!" I shouted.

"Tess!" He yelled and he sat bolt right up, gasping.

"It's okay, Ed. It's over, its over," I said soothingly. He sighed and knelt on the floor, hugging himself, sweat pouring down his face. "How did...how did you... I swear...I saw...you in my dream..." He said in a shaky voice.

"I don't know. I saw you being strangled and I couldn't help it. I got mad and I tried to stop him," I said. He nodded, breathing hard.

"Go back to sleep, Tess."

"You sure your okay? Do you want me to stay up with you?" I asked.

"No. I think I need some time alone. You get some sleep, okay?" he said. He staggered into the bathroom and I heard him turn on the tap to wash his face. I settled back down and closed my eyes again. As I fell to sleep I heard Edward muttering to himself.

"I've got to get her out of here." I fell into a dreamless sleep quickly.

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After the panic of last night, I just wanted to sleep the entire day without anything to worry about but unfortunately Chancellor Frost had other ideas. "Up!" A man shouted. My arm was yanked up and I tumbled out of the bed.

"Let me go, for God's sake!" Edward was yelling. I prised my eyes open and saw four guards in our room. Nick and another had pinned Ed to the ground. Nick looked up at me with sympathetic eyes.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"Come on!" A big guard screamed at me. I scrambled to my feet in fright and let them grab me. They let Ed up and shoved us out the room. We were marched back down the corridor that led to the infirmary. I knew what was going to happen and I was terrified. Dr. Brand had mentioned that we were to do something called weapons testing. I didn't know what it was but I knew I was scared of it.

We passed the infirmary room and moved onto the next door. On the front of it was the words 'Weapons Testing Room - level 5 and above only.' I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw that sign. The guards behind me ran into me, startled by my sudden stop. Nick let go of Edward's arm and placed his hand on the wall. The blue line scanned it and the door squeaked as it opened.

"I'll take them from here," Nick told the others.

"What! Why?" The biggest guard challenged.

"I'm the only one here with a level five pass," Nick said smoothly, flashing his security card. "None of you lot have one so I'll have to take them on my own." The other guards grumbled but walked away down the corridor. Nick let out a sigh of relief.

"I'm sorry about this but you have to go in there," Nick said.

"Can't you get us out of it?" I asked him.

"No, not without ruining my cover," Nick said. "I'm sorry."

"What will they do to us?" Edward muttered.

"They'll try and use your powers to build weapons and defence systems to protect themselves against the Changed," Nick said.

"But don't you want to stop that?" I said.

"Let's go," Nick said, ignoring my question. "They'll wonder where we are." He gestured for us to go through the doorway. I looked at Edward. He nodded grimly. I went through the doorway with Edward closely behind me.

In the room there was a glass box with a pedistal raised in the middle. On the edges of the room were computers with scientists bundled around them. Frost and Dr. Brand were waiting for us by the glass box. "Ah, here you are," Frost said. "I hoped you slept well." Edward crossed his arms and snorted.

"Well then, today we are going to do some weapon testing so we can defend ourselves from the Changed," Dr. Brand said.

"Tess, you can go first," Frost said smiling but there was pure hatred behind that smile. Nick gently nudged me towards the box. Somewhere, someone triggered the door to open and I stepped inside. The pedistal had two bronze handles on it. I could feel a tug coming from them, like a magnet, drawing me towards them.

"What is this?" I exclaimed. My voice echoed as I struggled to hold back from the handles.

"We have managed to build a machine that draws the SRT chemical towards it, therefore drawing the Changed people towards it. Unfortunately it only works from this room so we can't use it against the whole of the Changed...yet," Frost said. "Turn up the draw, let's see how long she can hold out."

 I suddenly felt as stronger tug and my hands lurched toward without any control at all. I managed to pull myself back to the edge of the box. "More draw!" Frost shouted. This time I didn't have the strength to hold back. My hands slammed into the handles and wouldn't move, no matter how hard I pulled.

"Start the test!" Dr. Brand shouted. I felt a tingling in my palms and they burst into flame. A first I thought that I would melt the handles but then I found I couldn't control the fire like before. I felt like it was being sucked out of me and they had no limit on how much I gave to them. They wanted as much as I could give them. I felt like everything was being channelled out of my body. I collapsed to my knees.

"Stop it!" Ed cried. I looked up at Nick. His expression was painful, he wanted to stop it but I understood why he couldn't. I clenched my eyes shut and willed it to be over soon.

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