Excerpt from Extra Ordinary, My Life as Number Seven by Vanya Hargreeves.

Growing up, I felt like an outcast. Someone who wasn't needed, and it was true. I was always alone growing up, always wanting to go to missions, spend time with my siblings. It was lonely. Though, I had one person I could count on. Estelle. The only person who ever made me feel like I had belonged. I met Estelle at the age of nine. She had recently moved to the house across us. Her family and herself came from France and moved to expand their company. Auclair's Sweets.

She was so happy, so cheerful. There was nothing negative anyone could have ever said about her. She got along with everyone, including my brother Five and he tends to hate everything.

But with Estelle, if youre sad, she will try her best to make you smile. That was how nice she was. She would always try to hide from my siblings and spend time with me. It made me feel special and loved.

Later on, we found out that she was one of us. We always thought we had a normal friend but that wasn't the case. She was as fast as that one comic character, the Flash.

Don't get me wrong, sure I was close to my brother Number 5 but Stell... Estelle was the only true friend I ever had but...

I never got to thank her for being my friend.

France
October 1989.

In the small part of France, there were two bakers. One named Lou, the other named Valentin, both carrying the last name Auclair for they are both married. Happily in love.

They owned a little bakery in the quietest part of France. For a small bakery, it was very popular. Lou looked over at her husband who felt her gaze on him and looked back. He smiled at his wife. He went back to making the goods while Lou serves the customers. As she was serving, she felt a sharp pain in her stomach. She shook it off and went on with serving and entertaining the customers.

It was fine until the sudden sharp pain came back but more intense. She gasps and drops the tray of food and holds her stomach. The lady whose she had just thrown on the floor, got up quickly to help her.

"Are you okay Ms Lou?" She couldn't even answer, the most she could do was scream. Valentin hearing the noise leave his station and came to the front.

"What's going - What the fuck?" He exclaims as he watches his wife's stomach grow.

"Don't you see my damn stomach growing?! Someone do something!" She yells.

"Maybe we should get her to a hospital?" Questioned a customer. Before Valentin could reply Lou screams.

"No no no! I won't make it. Just get some towels!"

A small crowd of customers gathers around them. They quickly place her on the floor and grabbed some napkins and towels from the back. They placed it around her and tried assisting her.

After an hour of long screams, blood and yelling, something amazing happened. The couple's, as well as the customers in the store eyes, widen when they saw a baby girl.

"How did this happen, Lou? You weren't pregnant. " He said as he gently rubs the baby's cheeks. She giggles at the actions, making him smile.

"I-I wasn't, not that I was aware of..."

"Aware of? What do you mean by that?" She looked at him in shock

"If you're implying that I cheated, no. I haven't cheated. I would never do this to you" They looked back at the smiling baby.

"What should we do with her?" He questioned.

"We're keeping her. She's our baby." He hums.

"What should we name her?" She asked. He looked at the baby again. Multiple names came through his mind, but one stood out.

"Estelle. Estelle Auclair."

NUMBER EIGHT
'ESTELLE'

France
March 12th 1993

Valentin was frustrated. It's been an hour and he's been trying to bathe young Estelle, but the young girl finds herself enjoying playing in the mud. He couldn't keep up with her. She was too fast. His little flash.

No matter how many tricks he tried, she would always outsmart him. It annoyed him at times. He sat there on the ground watching the giggling toddler smile at him, all mudded.

"Ell...please baby come inside, you need to be cleaned"

"No"

"But your mother will be home soon, don't you want to be clean for her?"

"She can join us daddy" He sighs at her. He looks up at her and sees her blonde hair muddy.

He starts remembering the day a man came to them. He was a strange man, but a rich one. He called himself Reginald Hargreeves. He came asking them if he could have their daughter, to which they replied no. So then he thought that he could persuade them, with a grand. The grand would have been able to do many things for them, such as opening a bigger bakery, fixing their house, pay their bills. It would have even supplied them for life.

But it wasn't worth it. It wasn't worth giving up their precious thing, their baby. Reginald tried twice before he gave up, seeing that his methods would never work.

"Here Papa, I made you a cake!" The toddler said breaking her father out of his thought. He looked down to see a mud cake in her hands, he took it and thanked the girl.

"Thank you cupcake"

August 15th 1994

This was the day when Lou thought it would be good to train their daughter with her powers. It took them a year to realize the fact that their daughter wasn't normal, she was unique, special though it didn't make them love her any less.

Valentin stood at one side of the park, while Lou was on the side, tracking Estelle's speed. They chose the park since it was bigger, had more room and nothing would be able be destroyed easily. They would track how fast she could run. Lou raised the flag then lowers it, and off Estelle goes, running at a speed of 215mph. Estelle didn't know how to stop, so she ran into her father making the both of them tumble to the ground. Lou's eyes held shock. She knew her daughter was fast, but not this fast. She quickly ran over to them, asking them if they were fine. But she got giggles and laughter as a response. And only at age five.

"My little flash"

April 21st 1995

Estelle looked at the small baby. Its eyes are a dark blue. It was beautiful. Remel or Remy for short as Estelle likes to calls him.
He was a serious baby, which was weird considering Estelle was a happy baby. Both Valentin and Lou never thought much of it.

They watched as Estelle took great care of her brother. She would feed him, clean him, try teaching him words even though he didn't understand him.

June 10th 1995

Two months after the birth of Remy and Estelle started her training with her father without her mother ever knowing. Her father was a well-known fighter throughout France, one of the best though under an alias. Knowing that his daughter has powers, she would be bound to get attacked so he decided to train her which she enjoyed. He taught her Martial Arts, Boxing and her favourite how to use the bow and arrows. She questioned him before as to why she needs to know this but he never fully gave her a direct answer, all he would say is "A young lady should be able to protect herself"

October 1st 1996

At age seven and the young Auclair grow to be a beautiful girl. Today was her birthday and the only thing she wanted to do was watch Disney movies, her favourite the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast. It wasn't the common ones like Cinderella or The Little Mermaid. She chose these movies for one reason, they all had someone to love them for them. Out of the list, her favourite was the Hunchback of Notre Dame, she loved it. In some ways, she relates to Quasimodo. She loved how humble he was, and that he view people by personality and actions, not looks.

Her mother wasn't a fan of Disney movies, which seemed to fake but she still watched them with her daughter and husband, enjoying their silly actions.

January 10th 1998

Now at age nine, she grew to be an intellectual girl. Her family was moving to the US where they would expand their bakery. The family was ecstatic, new scenery, new people to talk to. It was great. They stood in front of their house and smiled.

"The Auclair's are in the US."

NOTES

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