Bending Light

26~Lockdown Reading

    "Elise?" (Y/N) gasped in surprise, shoving the door open and creating a ball of light to blind her sister with. "What are you doing here!?!?"

"Ahhh!" Elise screamed.

    Before (Y/N) could say anything else, Elise threw a book onto the roof and turned into a cat. She teleported out of the window and tried dragging the book along with her tiny cat fangs, but to no avail.

(Y/N) stuck her head out the window, calling: "Why don't you just teleport away with it?"

Elise reformed into a person, crossing her arms and pouting. "I can't."

"How about when you're human?" (Y/N) suggested.

"Doesn't work," Elise muttered, most likely wishing she hadn't come at all.

"What about...um...what if you changed halfway, like into some sort of cat-human hybrid—oh, a werecat!—and then teleported away with it?" (Y/N) asked helpfully.

"Can't do that either," Elise huffed. "Didn't you hear me? I can't teleport with it."

"Whatever," (Y/N) shrugged. "Just trying to help." She began again brightly: "Now, how about you pick up the book and come back inside—I think everyone in this house heard you scream, and they're bound to think we've been attacked by wights."

"Sounds like your problem," Elise smirked, resembling the Cheshire Cat as she transformed back into a tabby, strutting away arrogantly.

"I can make it your problem back at the Priest Hole when I tell Mom and Dad what you've been doing this whole tiiime," (Y/N) sang deviously. She wasn't really a manipulator, but she didn't see another way to explain the issue without her sister there. "They might not believe you're a peculiar, but I can tell them about how you disappeared for the whole week they were gone," (Y/N) grinned, acting as if she'd won (when in fact she was completely desperate).

Thankfully, the tabby hissed at her, nudging the book back through the window. (Y/N) took it and stepped back, allowing her sister to slink back inside annoyedly.

(Y/N) looked down at the volume lying in her hands. "The Map of Days?" she blurted incredulously. "What were you doing with that?"

Before Elise could answer, the footsteps and frightened whispers in the hallway finally arrived at the doorway. "Is it a wight?" (Y/N) heard Claire ask fearfully. Miss Peregrine burst in, flicking the switch to the chandelier—the only electric lighting in the house.

The lights came on. Reacting quickly, Elise became a cat. Before the peculiars could do anything, she wrapped her tail around (Y/N)'s leg, who all of a sudden found herself in the mansion's moonlit backyard.

"I thought you said you couldn't teleport with things?" (Y/N) gasped exasperatedly.

"Yeah—not with things. But with people I can," Elise explained smugly.

(Y/N) rolled her eyes, and upon finishing, asked the first question that came to mind. "How long have you been around?"

"The whooole time. Literally. I even got to see you and your boyfriend kiss," she scrunched her face up and stuck her tongue out. "Well actually, I saw you making out with the air, which was wayyy more entertaining!"

(Y/N) blushed and stared at the ground to hide it. She hadn't had time to think about the kiss, but the reminder left her struggling not to smile...

    "What were you doing here in the middle of the night?" she interrogated her sister, trying to hide her reaction.

"Oh, just catching up on things, you know," Elise replied casually. "Hey, did you know that creepy birdwatcher guy is probably a wight? Who would've imagined!?"