Contest: The Keeper Exams

Host: ShatteredSparrow

I wasn't training. If I did they'd think I was giving in to them, to being their daughter. And I wasn't because that wasn't who I was. I shared their last name and their DNA, but I was not Thomas and Kate's daughter. Because, unlike Kalina and Nathan, I hated them for leaving me to fend for myself in the foster system and later with my sister.

I hated them because when I was seven I almost died and that unlocked my Gift. But I hated them most because they were Hybrids and they made me one, I could never be human or normal. I would be always tainted by them.

So, as my final act of rebellion I wasn't going to train and I wasn't going to make any allies or prove to myself how powerful I was. I knew I was powerful. I didn't need to prove it, I just needed to get back to Connor. But, of course, there was no escape. No way in and no way out except teleportation and that was permitted in any corner of the underground facility except one spot and none of us apprentices knew where that one spot was. Of course.

So I just sat here, in my room with my feet dangling from the bed and when my trainer, Ariel, stopped by I simply forced her to leave me alone by slamming her fingers in the door. And when Thomas stopped by to scold me I ripped him a new one about acting like my dad when I was twenty-two and no longer needed him. And when Kate stopped by I just couldn't take it anymore and I punched her in the nose. I was making a lot of enemies, not a lot of friends. And I was okay with that.