↠ Same ↞ ✦Enoch O'Connor✦

Chapter 4

•Katelyn•

The lights came back on and everyone stared at me. I felt something cold and wet drip onto my hands, I was crying. Enoch put his hand on my shoulder.

"Katelyn..."

I stood up and ran upstairs to my room ignoring the sound of Enoch and Emma yelling my name. I just wanted to be alone...

Forever...

•Enoch•

She... she saw... her brother... her own brother... I turned to her.

"Katelyn..." she stood up and ran for her room. Emma and I got up and called for her when Miss Peregrine stepped in front of us.

"We should let her calm down b-"

"No!" I interrupted her "I'm going up stairs and I'm GOING to help her." Miss Peregrine was taken aback and was about to yell at me when I shoved past her and darted up the stairs. I got to her room, I could hear her quiet sobs on the other side.

"Katelyn?..." the sobbing stopped for a moment.

"Go away Enoch please, I just want to be-" she broke out into more sobs. I walked in closing the door after myself. She was in the corner of her room, her head in her knees. I sat next to her and pulled her close to me, she buried her face into my chest. After fifteen minutes she stopped crying but kept her face in my chest.

"Katelyn?" She looked up at me, her hazel eyes puffy from crying. Looking at her shattered my heart, someone so sweet and innocent doesn't deserve what she got. I tucked some of her lose hair back behind her ear, she managed a small smile that went away quickly. 'Where were they when they were attacked.' I thought to myself, 'where were they that hollows would be wandering around'

"I can tell you if you'd like." I looked at her in confusion for a moment then I remembered, telepathy.

"No no it's ok you don't hav-"

"No it's fine, I think I can do it." I looked at her for a moment, worried she'd cry again. I sat down next to her.

"It all started when I was seven, that's when I started getting my peculiarity. I heard voices in my head and it scared me, I thought I was possessed by the devil or going mad. So I decided not to tell my parents, until one night I had a nightmare that I told my parents and they killed me. I woke up screaming and my brother, Lucas, came in there to calm me down." She stopped for a moment taking deep breaths. "He asked me if I'd notice anything out of the norm, peculiar you could say. I chose not to lie to him anymore and told him about the voices.

I expected him to call me a freak or spawn of satan, but instead he hugged me. He told me he heard them too, that we peculiar. We were telepathic, and he taught me how to control it. Easier said than done, just block out the voices, ignore them. It works as long as I don't get too scared or sad, then it's hard to block out.
After a week we were playing outside, trying to act like there was nothing wrong when our mother came out, tears in her eyes, and told us our dog had died.

She brought us to the edge of the woods near our house and told us he had been attacked by coyotes, but when we got to our dogs body, it was obvious that he wasn't killed by coyotes. They don't take the eyes of their prey. I was about to take a closer look at him when Lucas grabbed the top of my dress and pulled me away from the woods 'don't go near there Katie' . I was going to ask why but he started pulling me toward the house.

Once we got inside he told me to pack a very small bag of valuables and to hurry. So I did as he asked. When I finished I found him at the front door waiting. I asked him why we were leaving, he told me we were going to go to a place where we'd be safe. Under the care of a woman named Miss Peregrine. He also explained what hollows, wights, ymbrines, and peculiars were. He grabbed my dad's shot gun and we left.

We didn't get for before the wights found us, he fought bravely. But they took us, tried to use our peculiarity to find ymbrines. They wouldn't let us see each other unless it was to threaten to kill one of us to get the other one to do something. Once the-they."

She stopped tears filling up in her eyes. She looked up at me her hazel eyes sparkling
"They threatened to kill Lucas if I didn't kill this peculiar girl they had."

She just stared at me tears running down her cheeks. I pulled her into a hug, tears threatening to spill from my eyes too. She had to kill someone to save her brother, when she was seven. Thinking of this made me pull her closer, show her she'll be safe, that she's loved.

"After I... finished it... they let Lucas and I hug for a moment a-and Lucas... he-he... let all his anger loose. He discovered he too had two peculiarities, telepathy and telekinesis. He turned to Mr Barron and his fellow wights and screamed death threats for what they made me do. Lucas, he didn't know the room they had put us in, had a caged hollow in it. All the wights had to do was press a button to let it free, they pressed it.

Lucas and I ran to the farthest part of the room away from the cage, sadly that was only twenty feet away. The wights watched, laughing, behind their bullet proof glass as I screamed my head off. Lucas, being the selfless hero he was, stood between me and the hollow.

The hollow knew we couldn't run anywhere so it slowly stalked us, like a cat playing with it prey. I saw it's shadow slowly making its way over. The hollow leaped at us and I closed my eyes. I didn't feel any pain all I could here were sirens, wights screaming, and something screeching in pain. When I opened my eyes Lucas was standing there his hand outstretched and his eyes closed and before him was part of the glass dangling in mid air.

He had stabbed the hollow.

He opened his eyes and realized what he did so we ran away as fast as we could. But apparently the wights had reached a safe area and set another hollow loose and... well that's when Horace's dream comes into play."

She sighed. I pulled her even closer and kissed her on the forehead. I didn't know what to say so I sat there, afraid of saying the wrong thing.
'Wait doesn't she have three peculiarities?'

"Yeah but, I think that's another story for another day. Well I guess we better get ready for bed." She yawned.

"Oh yeah." I smiled lifting her up bridle style, making her face turned slightly red. I sat her down in her bed and gave her a quick kiss on the lips. I headed for the door and turned off the lights,

"Goodnight Katelyn."

"Wait Enoch, um I was wondering if uh maybe you might wanna you know um stay? With me, just tonight?"

I nodded and climbed into bed with her. We stared at each other for a little bit before she rolled over. I couldn't help myself so I wrapped my arms around her waist and pulled her close.

"I love you Enoch."

Her words surprised me, but not as much as my reply.

"I love you too."

A/n well now you know a bit more about Katelyn's past. I hope you liked this chapter! I made this one a little longer since the last chapter was only 800 words long. Well I love everyone of you who reads my stories! ❥