Finding Ida's sister

Faith Eliza Cord

Faith Eliza Cord

Four Thousand Club
Finding Ida's sister (cont. of An Unusual Child)


After Faith has shown Ida to her guest room in the Cord home for the night, she goes to Liza and begins to prepare her for bed, explaining to her what she has been asked to do- to guide Ida backward 14 years through Ida's dreams, in order to find out information about Ida's sister's disappearance. Liza is, as usual, excited about the prospect, and goes to sleep readily. As Faith exits Liza's room, knowing that the following day they will prepare Liza to do what is required, she is still a little confused about Ida's story. If Ida's sister disappeared so long ago, how much of her can Ida remember now? What are the facts and what has become vague and inaccurate in Ida's mind?
 
Ida entered the guest room, nervous about this whole plan. Who knows what she could uncover from those unclear years ago? Would it even be worth it? She wasn't sure, but she had to try. "Thank you for the room Faith, it's extremely kind of you." She said, taking a deep, contented sigh. 'What a nice room...' she thought.
 
The room is fairly large and nicely decorated, not overly feminine in style but with expensive and comfortable furniture. After Faith leaves, Sheena, who has been lingering in the hall, stands slightly apart from the doorway. She is very curious about Ida and feels partly wary, partly drawn towards her; on one hand, she does not easily trust, but on the other hand, for Ida, like Sheena herself, to have lost a sister, and for Ida to have possibly run away...not to mention that Ida, a girl about Sheena's age, seems to be on her own, like Sheena was for so long. And it doesn't hurt that Ida's pretty...
 
Jason was glad it had stopped raining; but he wished he knew how long he had slept. The sky was darkening overhead.


Pausing at the entrance to his alley, he suddenly remembered that Mr. Grin's apartment entrance was there. The Grin threatened to leer once more; but before images of his alternate self could overwhelm him, he squeezed his eyes shut, covered his ears and stumbled away from the place. I'll go somewhere else, he thought; Anywhere but here!


Even through his hands, he could hear a loud noise come from behind; and he spared a glance over his shoulder.
 
She heard a small creak at the doorway, and jerked her head, looking behind her. There was Sheena, the girl she had heard so much about. "Hey. I'm sure it must be weird having a stranger staying at your house..." She said, with a slight frown.
 
Sheena, not expecting Ida to have heard or noticed her, flinched, then quickly covered, shrugging. "Well...I mean...it's my sister's house, and my dad's. Mine too, but I only live here half the time...they have the say, and all." As soon as she says it she realizes that you'll probably think it very, very strange that her sister and her father are married, and rushes to cover her tracks. "They aren't my BLOOD sister and father. I mean, Faith, we go way back, we lived together when I was older than her...it's a long story. She's too young to be my mom, and after all the things we did back then, that would be just creepy. And Macal, well, he's like 15 years older than her...we said he was my brother at first, but, you know...he's too old for that. And anyway he started saying it, not me." She stops, realizing she's probably rambling and Ida probably doesn't care anyway.
 
She nods, strongly taking in all the things Sheena had to say, she chuckled a bit. "I see. So you have your own house somewhere else... or?"
 
Sheena nods, playing with the ends of her hair, picking apart some of the tangles absently. "Yeah, I have a lot of houses actually. I have my own apartment, even though it's kind of useless because I'm like, never there...and I have my quarters at S.H.I.E.L.D too, where I'm training. And I stay at Alex's quarters half the time, my boyfriend, and he wants me to get a new apartment with him too, only I'm not doing that yet." Realizing again she's giving way too much information, she stops talking abruptly. "So...you have an apartment or something?"
 
She bit her lip, a bit of awkwardness in her voice. "No... no not really. I'm looking at a beautiful condo, closer to work, but I can't afford it. My current residence is a hotel room." She said, shaking her head. A bit ashamed in herself.
 
Sheena's eyes widen; this is another point of similarity between herself and this girl, and she blurts out, "You're homeless? Why, if your parents were so great? For how long?"
 
​She was shocked by the abundance of questions, in such a short time. Sheena reminded Ida exactly of Liza. "My parents were good to me... when we were kids. They both passed five years ago." She said, sighing. Both died of a heart attack in the same month, such bad luck.
 
"Oh...damn, that sucks," she muttered awkwardly. "I'm...sorry." After several moments, with difficulty, she adds, feeling she has to after she makes you say that, "My...my mom is dead." Letting this hang heavily in the air for a while, she tries to change the subject again. "Uh...how old are you?" (lol she's really not at all like Liza...she just is impulsive and blurts whatever she's thinking a lot. She doesn't act like Liza does with others though at all, not nearly as trusting and outgoing and happy)
 
Yes, just the asking questions part. xD


"19. Turnin' 20 in a month. How about you?" She said, the similarities between the two girls almost shocking.
 
(Sheena's background is ridiculously tragic...you can check out her bio in my character gallery if you feel like it some time, she's based off a book/movie character) "I'm eighteen and a half." She shrugs again, still playing with her hair.
 
Ida nods, and sat down on the soft bed. Her eyes scanned the girl, up and down. She couldn't help but compliment her beauty. "Wow... you're stunning." She said, looking in the mirror at herself. She didn't think that she was very good looking, she had many flaws in her eyes.
 
(her character in the movie was played by teenage Angelina Jolie, who was obviously quite attractive lol) At this statement, Sheena's eyes widen again, and she looks at herself quickly in the mirror, then back to Ida, then back at herself again, somewhat disbelieving. It was one thing if her sister or her father or her boyfriend said she was beautiful; she could shrug off that they were biased, that they thought she was beautiful because they loved her. It was also easily dismissed if any man said that, because in her mind, men would say and do whatever they thought would get her to sleep with them. But for a girl she barely knew, a girl not much older than herself, who wasn't showing any signs of wanting to sleep with her or wanting anything in particular, really, at least not from Sheena herself...this was just mind blowing to her, and she continued to stare at her reflection in disbelief.


What she saw looking back at her was a girl who was too tall, too thin, with long, bony arms and hands and legs, feet that were also larger than average to match, hair that was badly snarled because she so seldom bothered to give it more than a hasty brushing of less than thirty seconds, too-large lips, and rather small breasts, and on top of that, she was dressed in her usual outfit of baggy boyish clothing, almost sagging off her frame. She could not see in the mirror anything that the girl could possibly think of as beautiful enough to comment on, and she spoke out of impulsive disbelief.


"Are you gay, or bi, or something...'cause that's like the only reason I can think of you would say something like that."
 
She snorted laughing. "No." She laughed until her stomach hurt. "I like men, promise. You've just got a natural glow most girls don't have. Intricate features." She looked against in the mirror. Everything about Ida's figure was like a stick. Short, choppy hazelnut hair, tall, thin. Long bridged nose. Chocolate brown eyes.


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(just a reminder of her appearance)
 
:3


She shook her head as well. "How could you not realize that?" Being a girl herself, she's seen a lot of her kind. And none of them were nearly as beautiful as Sheena.
 
"Uh...I don't do girly crap. I don't do makeup. I don't do painted nails and jewelry and dresses and all that kind of thing, I don't even hardly brush my hair. I don't even LIKE being a girl. I mean...look at you, then look at me, and it's pretty damn obvious who's the pretty girl here," Sheena states with utter conviction, rolling her eyes.
 
"You're right.... it is." She said, smirking. Because it was obviously Sheena. She ran her fingers through her hair. It wasn't like she liked doing the maintenance of doing her hair, putting on makeup... she was just born a perfectionist. As she thought about what Sheena said, it made her feel like one of those preppy bitches. But she wasn't.
 
Sheena takes this to be Ida admitting that Sheena is right, Ida is the pretty one, and she exhales, then slowly sits on the bed. She wants to ask Ida more about her sister, about her parents, but she isn't sure if that would be okay or not, and isn't sure she'd want to have to share too. She plays with the bedspread edge, then looks up. "Did you know about us before this? Like, supernatural people...are you one?"
 
She sighed, hugging the bed pillow in her arms. "No, I haven't heard about you guys. And no, I am not." She said, for some reason, annoyed with that question.
 
Sheena raises an eyebrow. "Okayyy, it's not like a requirement, you know." She is quiet for a while, then shrugs again, her voice hesitant. "I mean, I didn't know stuff, when I first came to stay with them. I didn't even know I was half Lycan. I didn't get my powers til I turned eighteen, and I was only 17 when I came to stay with the Cords."
 
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