Sparks

Alex hurried to her locker as school ended. It had taken a week to finally get approved for a worker's permit. She had planned to job hunting right away, but with school and training that was made impossible. Luckily that day was completely cleared, so she was taking advantage of every minute of it. Alex spun in her combination and opened her locker.

"Hey, Alex."

Kyle appeared leaning on the closed locker next to her.

"Hey, Kyle," she said.

"So…how are things going?"

"Pretty…weird, but okay. You?"

"Yeah, things are going okay with me too."

He nodded and sighed heavily. Kyle must've had his mind set on something.

"I'm sorry, I gotta go," Alex closed her locker. "But I'll see you tomorrow, okay?"

"Wait," he stopped her from going anywhere. "Are you busy this weekend?"

"Not that I know of. Why?"

"I was wondering if…you would like to…"

Alex waited patiently for Kyle to finish his sentence. It seemed to be for an eternity.

"Yeah?"

"Help me," he finally said.

"Sure, with what?"

"Setting up…Dylan with…your sister," said Kyle slowly.

She was surprised at this. She had never once noticed Dylan being interested in Elena. But then again what surprises hadn't showed up in her life yet?

"Elena and Dylan?"

"Yeah, I know I was surprised too."

"Since when?"

"Since last week."

Her eyes got big. "Wow."

"So can you help?"

"Well," she paused. "I'll try, but I'm not that very good at this kind of stuff."

"You don't have to be. We can just plan stuff out…together…alone."

Kyle, for some reason, smiled to himself.

"Anyway, I gotta go," she said.

"Alright, so I'll call you."

"Yeah just make sure it's at home. I still haven't replaced my phone."

"Okay, cool. I'll talk to you later tonight."

"'Kay, bye."

She hurried down the hall. Alex had to admit Kyle could be a little weird sometimes. But it was a good kind of weird.

Alex nearly walked around the whole city looking for a job. She didn't expect getting a huge paycheck, just enough to help pay for the damages for the fire. Just as she was about to give up, Alex spotted a retail store with a help wanted sign.

Elena polished her nails as she waited for Alex to return home. She had homework that needed to be done and it couldn't be done on her own. In her relief, she heard the door open and close. It was Alex. She knew it was.

"Hey, Al. Where've you been?"

"Uh, nowhere," she unanswered uneasily.

Elena looked back her with disbelief. "I've known you for the past sixteen years of my life. I think I can tell when you're lying."

Alex paused for a long moment. What was she hiding that seemed so important to keep from her?

"C'mon, why don't you just come right out and say it?"

"Fine, I got a job," Alex finally answered.

"Already?"

Elena could've sworn she'd postponed it somehow.

"Wait. How did you know—you looked through my stuff didn't you?!"

She smiled guilty. "Hey, let's go and blame people here. You're bag was open…so I just happened to come across your worker's permit form."

"That's still spying!"

Elena rolled her eyes. Alex just always had to be on the contrary.

"Yeah, well at least I'm not the one still in an emotional wreck for the fire," shot Elena.

"I'm not in an emotional wreck!" she argued.

"Yes you are! And for the hundredth-millionth time: it is not you're stinkin' fault!"

"You don't understand! You never understand! I could've taken care of Doom when I had the chance. But no, I had to go and run like a chicken!"

Tears began to run down Alex's face. Alex was in an emotional wreck. Whether she knew it or not. Elena was really beginning to wonder what really happened on that rooftop. She hugged Alex tightly, letting her tears stain her blouse.

"So, where're you working?"

"Oh just that old video store down the street," she sniffled.

Elena raised an eyebrow. "You mean Old Sam's?"

"Yeah."

They separated from their hug.

"I'm just warning ya. You're gonna get that much of a pay there."

She shrugged, "I know. But it's something."

The phone began to ring. Alex answered it and said, "Hello...Oh hey, Kyle."

Alex then went into her room. Elena smirked at herself. Kyle wasn't kidding when he said he'd ask her out that day. Maybe I can listen to a little bit of their conversation. She made her way to another phone in the apartment, but was stopped by Alex's booming voice.

"Don't even think about it!"

Darn! Elena had almost forgotten that they could communicate with each other using their minds. Or maybe she just knew her very well. In the meantime, Elena gathered herself and began watching TV.

Reed collected the results from the printer. They had arrived a few days late, but they were here and that's all that mattered. He looked over them. Kayla and Damian were right. Their powers didn't come naturally. According the records before the accident, they were completely normal. It was too bad Kayla had to lose her sight. She was a sweet girl. Nonetheless, both of their powers were still developing, so it would probably take years until they were finally settled in.

"Hey, Reed, check this out."

He looked up from the files. Susan came in with a closed container.

"What is it, Sue?"

"It's Alex's blood."

"Is there something wrong with it?"

Susan set the container on his desk. She took out syringe that looked to be filled with blood.

"No. It's…something I can't explain in words," she said breathlessly. "Just watch."

She opened the container. It was filled with bacteria—he guessed. Susan then took the syringe and poked in the bacteria. What was she thinking? That blood didn't have a chance in that much bacteria. Susan then pumped the blood into the bacteria. Nothing happened.

"Susan, I don't think this is gonna work."

"Just wait."

To his surprise, something did happen. The bacteria began to decrease as the blood levels increased.

"Wow," he said dumbstruck. "And this is Alex's blood?"

"Yep, every bit of it."

"That's pretty powerful."

"I'm starting to see why Doom was after Alex and Elena in the first place."

"But he didn't even know they powers in the first place," he argued.

"Well, it's gotta be something. I mean Victor doesn't just go after anything."

Reed nodded in response. "Hm, you do have a point there. Maybe he did know they had powers in the first place."

"But how?"

"I don't know. It must be one of his 'master plans' at work."

"Should we be worried?"

He shook his head, "No, if he wanted something to do with the girls I'm pretty sure he would have done something by now."

"True," she agreed.

"Hey, guys," a knock came from the distance.

Johnny stood at the doorway.

"Some professor is on the phone for ya, Reed."

"Thank you, Johnny I'll be there in a moment."

"I'd better go clean up," Susan took the syringe and the container.

Susan and Johnny began to head out of the room.

"Wait, Johnny," said Reed.

Johnny halted, letting Susan go ahead of him.

"Could you please put the kids' DNA results on file while I'm on the phone?"

"C'mon Reed," groaned Johnny. "First you ask me to become a teacher, and now you're asking me to your work."

"Relax Johnny; it's just scanning papers into the computer. I'm sure you know how to do that."

"Fine, but don't expect me to do anything else for ya."

"Alright, just leave the files in my USB drive."

Reed hurried out of the lab. He hoped Johnny wouldn't do anything stupid with those files.

Elena rushed towards the door. She opened the door and smiled.

"Hey, Kyle."

"Hey, Elena," he said.

At her gesture, Kyle walked inside.

"So where's Alex?"

"She's in her room, but she'll be out soon."

Kyle fiddled with his fingers for a moment until finally speaking again.

"Would you be mad if I involved you in a small plan of mine?"

She narrowed her eyes at him. "What plan exactly?"

"Well…when I said I would ask Alex out today…I accidently blabbed that I wanted to set you and Dylan up. That's funny right?"

Kyle nervously laughed while Elena glared at him. How could he have set her up with Dylan! Dylan was a nice guy, but he was kind of obnoxious.

Elena punched him on the shoulder.

"What in the world were you thinking?!"

He rubbed his shoulder. "Man, for someone who looks like they haven't lifted a finger, you're pretty strong."

She punched his other shoulder. "Answer the question!"

"I was nervous and I no idea what to say. Plus I wasn't really thinking—and don't…hit me again!"

"Then you shouldn't have set me up with Dylan!"

"I know, I'm sorry. Trust me, I just went over the plan with Dylan and he's not that very happy about it either. But he'll play along."

Elena was relieved that at least Dylan didn't like the situation either.

"What is the plan anyway?" she asked.

"Well, Alex and I plan the set up. Then, you know, maybe she'll warm up to me. Meanwhile you and Dylan pretend to be interested in each other," he explained.

"Fine, I'll go with the plan, for Alex's sake. But don't come crying to me if she finds out what you're doing."

"Deal."

Alex's door opened and closed in the distance. Elena put on a fake smile.

"So has Dylan talked about me lately?" she said loudly.

"Yeah, why?"

"Because," she added a flirtatious gesture, "he sent me a weird text yesterday and…I just can't get over it."

"Hey, guys," Alex walked in.

"Hey, Alex," smiled Kyle, blushing uncontrollably.

Seriously, Elena could believe how clueless Alex could be. Alex flashed a concerned face at him.

"Why are you rubbing your arm? Did you hurt it somewhere?"

"Yeah," he looked vengefully at Elena, "some old lady hit me with her purse very hard on the way over here."

"Geez, are you okay?"

"Yeah, the pain is subsiding."

"Well, I oughta leave you kids alone to your study date," said Elena.

She walked past them and towards the hallway.

"Oh, and Kyle. Don't forget to tell Dylan I said hi."

Elena nearly puked at the comment.

Johnny ran through the penthouse in the search for Ben. He had just discovered something unbelievable and needed to share the news with somebody else. Ben was found sitting on his bed, reading a book in his room. Johnny rushed in nearly out of breath.

Ben looked up from his book and said, "Don't kill yourself, kid."

"You wouldn't believe what I just found out."

"Let me guess…Jessica Simpson asked you out."

"No," he paused and smirked to himself, "but that's not a bad idea."

"Look while you smirk to yourself, I'm gonna read my book."

Johnny came out of his smirk and took the book from Ben.

"What the—!"

Ben got up from his bed towering over Johnny.

"I know in the past I have said many things that are…irrelevant, but this is actually important."

Ben dove for his book in Johnny's hand. In turn, Johnny moved back. He lit free hand with fire holding the book over it.

"Just hear me out and then you can go back to reading."

"Fine just get on with it," Ben sighed heavily.

"Alright like I said you won't believe what I just found out. I was helping Reed out with a few files and when I put in Alex and Elena's…the computer started bringing up DNA matches. So I decided to look more into it. It said that it matched perfectly with Alexandra and Elena Bennet's DNA to Alexandra Alicia and Elena Susan Richards's DNA."

Ben looked at him wide-eyed. "You're not saying that—"

"Oh yes, Ben—Alex and Elena are the twins that left us sixteen years ago."

Thanks for reading! I hope you guys are having a good summer.

~Emyrox567