it's electrifying (open)

[Faith Thompson]

Snow. Thick snow covering the courtyard and everything in site. The trees, the grass, the sidewalk, the buildings, the light poles, the benches, everything, glistening in the sunlight looking oh so pretty. This sparkling fluffy frozen flakes of water, so innocent looking, yet so deadly.

Faith stared at the offending powder for a long time before stepping foot on it. She was never a huge fan of snow. She'd grown up in a relatively warm place, Atlanta. It didn't snow there and if it did it was never enough to really cause anything but excitement. Of course back then her powers hadn't manifested too, so the fear and loathing of the fluffy powder also hadn't manifested yet.

Since she grew into her powers however Faith developed an extreme distaste for snow. Electricity and water, of any form, didn't really match up and if she had a flare, which tended to happen when she had a cold, which she did currently, she was sure to fry. Frying hurt. But even worse than that, her hair would friz up like mis frizzle from the magic school bus on a bad day. No no no, it was not good and no amount of hair products would help tame the beast. And she just couldn't handle that. Faith was pretty, she was known as pretty and that included her hair and she'd rather DIE than be caught dead looking like a frizzy mess!

But even more important today was getting to the damn mail box to mail her documents to the hospital she was born in. She was determined to find out who her birth parents were... she didn't even have their names... she didn't have a thing and she knew that the hospital would have records. She was sick of not knowing and needed to mail this today, before she changed her mind.

So the tiny, fair skinned girl carefully shuffled across the packed snow, being so careful not to slip. She was moving so slowly, she was so careful and was sure she looked absolutely ridiculous.

Finally she reached the big oak tree, perfect, only 2 thirds left to go! Faith stood up straight, clutching her envelope to her chest and taking a breath celebrating her small accomplishment. Just as she was about to continue she felt a large snowball hit her square in the cheek. Just as predicted Faith's powers went nuts, the frozen water seeping into her pores and her body went in shock sending a huge electrical current through her body and making her hair go poof. She was furious. And even worse in the midst of her self electrocution she'd lost control of her limbs and her envelope went flying! "SERIOUSLY!?" She said not having the time to worry about her hair and chasing after the envelope, it landing right at the feet of the asshole who threw the snow ball.

[Olivia James]

The cold wasn't exactly Ollie's strong suit. In fact she kind of hated being cold, but that didn't stop her from finding some way to enjoy it when she was outside during the snowy times. After all, she had lived her entire life seeing snow every year practically. And if there was one thing Ollie loved the most about snow, it was being able to pack it up into a tight little ball and toss it around, while getting some good little giggles and laughs about where she hits someone.

It wasn't like throwing a snowball at someone covered in all kinds of winter clothing would hurt them. Ollie had been smacked with plenty of snowballs and other than the cold, they weren't really a big problem. At least that was what she thought. But Ollie hadn't exactly had much experience with having snowball fights around people with powers. If she had known what would really happen she never would have started it.

Ollie parked herself on a bench in the courtyard, wrapped up tightly in a blue and white snow jacket and two layers of pants and a blue and yellow hat with a big poof-ball on top of it. Her lizard wasn't with her, at home since she couldn't exactly wrap him up in warm winter clothing.

From there, Ollie was leaning over and gathering packs of snow with her gloved hands. Her first victim of a snowball assault was a passing younger student, that she hit on the back and the girl seemed to hardly even notice she had been hit with a snowball. Which made Ollie pout.

The next victim, however, was completely different. Ollie's shot, originally aimed for a chest or arm, instead smacked squarely on the girl's cheek as though it had been a bullseye. Ollie had just about been ready to bust into a giggling fit, when she noticed the girl's hair frizz up and electricity it almost seemed, fume around her. So instead her eyes widened as she stood up from the bench. She really had no idea what just happened, but it didn't look good!

Add all that to the fact that some kind of envelope had blown from the older girl, Ollie had hit, and landed right at her feet. She couldn't very well keep throwing snowballs now, what if that happened to others!? Snowballs weren't supposed to electrocute. That was a bad snowball! Bad snowball!

Ollie leaned down and scooped up the envelope before prancing over to the girl she had struck. She stopped dead in her tracks when the girl yelled seriously? Which Ollie didn't really understand why she was saying that. But it didn't sound very good with the way she said it, it reminded her of how angry her older sister would get at her sometimes.

So Ollie sidled the rest of the way closer with the envelope clasped in her gloves. She held it out to the girl, and attempted smiling toward her. "Sorry! I didn't know snowballs could electrocute! The snowball must have had a special power like all the kids here."

[Faith Thompson]

It took all Faith had in her little body not to turn into a strong electrical current and fry any ipod, computer, harddrive, anything the girl had on her. She wanted to KILL her. She was sure her hair was sticking out in every which direction and even worse she was still sparking quite a bit and if anyone were to touch her they'd get quite the jolt of electricity. Faith really needed to spend more time working on her abilities as to prevent any more instances like this, granted she would have probably freaked out at the small child regardless.

Faith painted on her sweet smile. "Oh it's alright." She said huffing heavy breath of steam out. She wasn't about to explode at her, no not yet. Even the tiniest of minions could still make good slaves and this little one was clearly new and didn't know what was what. Perhaps she'd make a good pet... perhaps she'd be a good project to take in. Faith was graduating after all and SOMEONE would have to take her place. And truth be told Faith would rather DIE than to have one of Charlie's or even that Becca girl's recruits taking over as queen bee which Faith so accepted as her own title. Though that was debatable.

Faith took the envelope from Ollie, when their hands touched ever so slightly in the exchange Faith let her have a little shock and let out a seemingly unrelated chuckle. "How were you to know that i... am quite... electric." She was finding it hard to simmer down. "Just be more careful next time... say are you new?" She asked, "I'm Faith."

[Olivia James]

It was an immense relief to Ollie that the girl she had hit with the electrocuting snowball was okay. It had looked like it hurt more than a really really big snowball would. And she would have felt bad if something really nasty had happened. When the envelope was taken from her, she shot her hand back and gripped it, exclaiming, "Owww!"

"How did the snowball electrocute me too?" She continued, her brow furrowing while she rubbed her gloves together a few times. But quickly looked up at the other girl, now it made a bit more sense. So this girl had some kind of electric ability, and that was what had happened. And it must been because of the snowball that Ollie got shocked as well! Now Ollie felt really bad.

"Oh.. Hi Faith! I'm Ollie. My brother used to come here, and my sister does, and I just started coming here too. It's so much fun. A lot different than my other schools. I just got my power. Though I still have trouble using it, I make stuff appear out of no where. I accidentally blew a hole in a tree the other day! It was soooo scary! I'll be more careful though." Ollie breathed real quick before adding. "You're really nice.

Somewhere in between talking the pain from the shock had completely disappeared and was forgotten by Ollie. Her hands were at her side and she was bouncing a bit on her heels and the balls of her feet, thinking about how she just made a new friend named Faith, completely by accident. "And I really am sorry that I hit you! I just like snowball fights, and its a good thing it was just a normal snowball. Could you imagine a snowball with a superpower?"

[Faith Thompson]

Faith just chuckled when she asked that question. She was adorable and Faith always wanted a little sister..... and if she squinted her eyes she could maybe see her potential.. maybe. Unfortunately this young girl was still in her awkward age but there were measures that Faith could take to remedy some of it at least. She could use some highlights... maybe a wardrobe update... definitely. Potential, that was key. Yay project!

First order of business... jeeze this girl never shuts up! Faith could feel her eyes glaze over by the time she said "so much fun.." She tuned back in somewhere around "be more careful." She smiled. "Thank you." She was glad that she was coming off as nice. That was the first step.

"A snowball with a superpower would be really scary... but perhaps kind of fun" SHe chuckled. "I mean every great superhero needs weapons.. so long as they use them for good and not evil." She said with a smile. Yes, talking about good vs. evil. She was teaching her! Aww she was such a good person! Faith smiled to herself, damn she was just such a saint! "But of course all great superheros have a couple little... mishaps at first." She chuckled thumbing the edge of her envelope.

"So.." She looked at the girl eyeing her up and down a couple times. SHe was so antsy! SHe wanted to shake her! "How old are you?" She knew she was young but wasn't entirely sure how young. She also had a sister, "Who's your sister? And brother?" She wondered if she knew them, if this could get complicated. She wasn't in the business for overly complicated home improvement jobs.

[Olivia James]

It was rather surprising how easily Ollie was following along, nodding her head. She hadn't really ever thought about it, but they were kind of like superheroes. She wasn't exactly a leading expert on superheroes, but she understood the basics. They fought evil and they had special powers, simple enough right?

She kind of giggled along with Faith too, especially about having a weapon with a superpower that was a snowball. But then again, it wasn't that far-fetched. It made Ollie wonder if she could use her power on a snowball before throwing it? That is if she could even get her power to work.

Once again though, Ollie's attention focused when she heard the dreaded 'So' word. Questions she could answer easily. In fact she brightened up even more and stopped bouncing on her feet as she exclaimed, "I'm twelve and three-quarters! And my sister is pretty mean, she might end up growing up to be a super villain. Her name's Alyssa. My brother is a teacher here though, I call him BrenBren, but I guess at school I'm supposed to call him Mister James. That sounds funny though to me."

Ollie's lips flipped askew as she contemplated for a moment about how she would address her brother if she ever took Art class. She nodded a few times while looking deep in thought before smiling back at Faith. "Do you have siblings? I wish my sister was as nice as you. Then we would have all kinds of fun! She doesn't even let me try her make-up or her hair dye or anything. It's just not fair!"

[Faith Thompson]

Faith watched the little ball of energy wondering what on earth could be special about her. It was entirely possible she had something like Faith, and if she was electric there was absolutely no doubt in Faith's mind that she'd take in this little duck and turn her into a beautiful swan that'd be the envy of all the other birds at this school, once Faith had graduated of course.

How to go about training though... the first thing she'd have to work on is Ollie's running mouth. She just talked and talked and talked and talked and uhgg! Perhaps a little shock every time she talked too much would do the trick... but she wouldn't touch her now, not obviously at least. That would have to wait till she really had the girls trust and interest and she'd have to want it. Faith wasn't about to waste her time and God given talents on someone who would just throw it away.

"Twelve, you're on the younger side for being here." Faith praised her, "You must be really smart and already showing some great skills." Faith's smile was beaming and encouraging. "Alysssa.. hmm i don't think i know her." She said and then thought about the other sibling. James. Hmm she'd heard rumors about him and didn't foresee him being a major problem. She was sure she could dig up some dirt about him if she needed to and risk his job... she was always very good at traveling through wires and therefore could sneak into most rooms. So finding dirt was fairly easy for her.

"I only have brothers." Faith sighed, "But i've always wanted a sister... I'm the youngest though, like you." She chuckled. "I'm sure your sister will come around though. She just is jealous because you're so pretty and already so smart."