The Middle

Both of my son's were 52 when they died that was the normal age for a person to die at their wifes soon followed after them. I was lost with grift I shut myself in a room for three days with nothing but a few candles to see by. I had alway loved to play tricks with fire I never feared being brunt because I could heal small burns. My children and grand children loved seeing the tricks I could do and it was on that that last night of my confinement did I find myself playing with the fire once again . You know when you put your hand over a flame how it will hardly move, but you can only hold it there tell it starts to burn you and you have to take your hand away.
Well I was finding that I didn't have to take my hand away and that the fire was draw up and never burning me. in my head I wished the flame would split and forming a ring around my hand. Before I knew it the fire had done what I was wishing I was shock this could be normal not that I was normal to begin with,but still this wasn't right. I pulled my hand away fast thinking that I would be able to pull out of the fire, but It followed my hand like some animal.
I stared at the fire in amazement it was fantastic I clinched my hand in to a fist and the fire swam around it in circling it. I know I shouldn't have been happy about this but I was elated I could help, but think what I could do now with this. Like did I have to have a live flame at first or could I just spark one to life on its own.
I didn't hear anyone banging on the door or the threats to knock the door the down.I was in my own little world and what brought me slamming in to the real world was Edward and our grandson John breaking my door down. They scared me and as a reflex I threw my hands up to protect myself, but at the same time the fire released itself and went fly and hit Edward across the face. He fell to the floor clutching his face and I knew then that I would have to learn how to control this new power. I rusted over to him and knelt next to him and pulled his hands away from his face, but his own ability was taking affect and healing his burnt flesh, but that didn't stop me from seeing the deep wounds I had made.
This was the first time I had hurt a person and seeing that this person was the man I was in love with made me hurt even more. I can remember that night like it was yesterday it was the first time I had never seen my husband look at me in fear.

"Grandpa are you ok!?" asked our Grandson taking a step forward."Johnathan leave and close the door behind you I need to talk to your Grandmother about something". Our eyes never left one another as he talked "Edward Oh my god Edward I'm so sorry I..I don't know what happened I was just putting my hand up to protect myself and I guess the movement made it fly off my hand or my mind did I'm not sure." I had started to cry by now I was so sorry and I he still had a look on his face or fright and curiosity."Elphie what was that you where holding that fire are you mad it could have burned you." " No, Edward you don't understand I was controlling the fire I don't know how I did it, but I just did." I stopped and look into his eyes I saw that he believed me "Elphaba is this new, have you been able to do thing for awhile and just didn't let me?" "Edward no you know I would tell you as soon as I found out that I could doe something new." I stopped talking and lifted my hand up to where the burn had been it was just pink now almost like I had slapped him "Oh Edward I'm sorry" and I flung myself in to his arms and cried.

I can't remember how long we stayed like that it may have only been a few minuets or hours. Thats one thing about never really getting older time starts to slip by you like its nothing.Friends get old and older and die at sometime and you make new friends and the same happens to them. The hardest is the family you lose our sons, our grandsons and granddaughters and their children as well.I wasn't the only one to gain a power Edward also did to when our last two grandson's went to fight in the Civil War. It tore him apart because he was had been so close to them. His new power was just as dangerous as mine had been.It called Telepathy he can get in to the minds of people and look around or talk to them or even cause them pain. His night was much like mine,but he hadn't locked himself in a room. He just sat on the roof of our barn for two days and he said that he could hear me talking even thought I wasn't there, and when I came to get him down was when he found out that he could use this power for harm.

"Edward, please come down from there, I'm scared and you are scaring the servants they thing your going to jump.""Elphaba, I don't give a damn what the servant think I can here you all anyway I know what they are saying." I looked at him in confusion and thought "he knows what they where thinking how is that possible " "Oh it possible my dear it is." "Edward! you just answered my thoughts not my words. " "I KNOW !!!" he yelled this time and not just with his voice,but with his mind as well. The pain was like someone had taken a hot poker and slammed it into my head I remember screaming out in pain and falling to the ground then I knew nothing more.

I had passed out from the pain I woke in Edward's arm he was crying saying he was sorry and that he would never do it again.Those two great grandsons where our last we never had another child after that. Our children had children and they did to but none of them ever where gifted with any kind of powers. Why we don't know we went on and lived our live tell one day our world changed and Edward and I would no longer together,but ripped apart by some evil force.