Left for Dead (book 1 in the Super Nova series)

Chapter 15

I say "she knows me?"

Blaire says "apparently."

I say "I've never seen her before in my life."

She says "well apparently she knows you."

A weak voice says "Nova..."

My eyes widen. I've never seen this girl in my life, and now she knows my name.

I say "wait a minute... what's your name?"

She says "who are you?"

I stand in front of her and say "I'm Nova. Now, tell me your name."

She says "Nova!"

I say "yeah, that's my name. What's yours? No two people have the same name."

She says "I've found you!"

Blaire says "are you from the Government?"

The girl says "please don't insult me like that."

I say "are you planning on giving me to the Government?"

She says "why would I do that? What do they want with you?"

I say "you know, the danger alert? Having three powers? Being Atmoskinetic?"

She says "so it is you!"

I say "who are you?!"

She says "my name's Kathryn. I came from a group working to bring down the Government." She sits up, and for the first time I can see her clearly. She was still pretty pale, but now I could actually see what she looked like. She's tall, she has short brown hair, and when she looked at me I could see she has blue eyes.

I say "how do you know me?"

She says "everyone at our organization knows who you are! It's finally happening!"

I say "alright, you have two seconds to tell me what is going on."

She says "you're not the only one who wants answers here, pace yourself Nova."

I say "who are you?!"

She says "I'll explain everything just help me get out of this giant puddle."

I slowly reach out my arm and help her up. Her clothes were soaked.

Blaire opens up her bag, pulls out a pair of clean clothes, and says "here, try these on."

Kathryn takes the clothes and says "is there like, anywhere private?"

I say "go behind a few trees, we'll keep the guys looking in the opposite direction."

She nods and starts walking into the trees.

Blaire and I go over to Finn and Ace.

Blaire says "okay, so we've got something strange going on."

I say "apparently there's a whole organization that knows exactly who I am."

Ace says "seriously?"

I nod and say "it's freaking me out. That girl, her name is Kathryn. She's from them. She knows who I am, she knows it's me, she's freaking me out."

Blaire says "hopefully she'll give us some answers."

Finn says "does she seem dangerous?"

Blaire says "not really, but her organization might be."

Ace says "so what're we gonna do?"

We're all silent for a minute, then I say "we figure this out."