New Fiction Idea #44

Basically Eat Your Heart Out with a big step away from the fandom, combined with a dream of which I remember frustratingly little.

Working Title: Eat Your Heart Out

Genre: Horror/Suspense/Fantasy/Dystopian (still sorting that out)

Protagonist: Emilee, an Other who's new to the regenerative immortality thing. She's a little shy but doesn't have much trouble trusting people within reason.

Other Main Characters: Jason, who believes that they were given their powers in order to stop the war.
Ian, Alexandra's former boyfriend and much less of a pleasant optimist than Jason. He keeps most of his bitter thoughts to himself, though.

Antagonist: Alexandra, a former member of the group who was generally the kindest and most optimistic of the lot. Once the plot gets going, though, she's a maniac literally after the hearts of her comrades and others of their kind.

Setting: A war-torn, near-future America, somewhere in the Midwest. Emilee and her friends are Others, humans who have at some point in their lives gained the ability to regenerate quickly after injuries, including lethal ones. They hide out in a nice/large but run-down and utility-less house.

Plot: After her younger brother is killed by one of the Others, Alexandra cracks. Drawing on a legend concerning eating the hearts of one of her kind being the only way to kill them, she commands Ian to secure the heart of the one most closely responsible for her brother's death. Upon eating the heart, however, she gains the Other's power and becomes a bit unhinged. By the time she's eliminated everyone at the scene of her brother's death, she's too mad and power-hungry to stop. The Others and her old friends alike try to stay alive, and Emilee's group also tries to find a way to bring her back.

Point of View: Third person, limited to Emilee.