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A/N: Character may be OOC.
Chapter One: Captus
I was running as fast as I could, breaths filling the silence as pants of exhaustion, following the mop of blonde hair running in front of me. I could hear them and I knew she could to if the way she kept looking back at me and behind me was any indication. Her eyes were filled with worry for me and fear, no not fear something deeper and I knew what it was because I felt it to. It was terror, terror was like fear on drugs, it pulses through your veins, making your stomach flutter and your heart race. I forced my legs to move faster, willing my heart to pump more oxygen through them so I can escape.
As I follow the sure footed and long legs of my friend, everything goes black as if someone had shut the lights off and I knew they must have sent a new person because this had never happened before. I tripped and fell to my hands and knees, I stayed in the position and listened. I could hear everything and I went to scream for help but nothing came out, it was like my voice was stolen right out of my throat. More terror and adrenaline flooded my system as I heard feet run past me and a pair of feet stop right next to me.
My breathing was erratic and I moved my hands around to find something, anything but as I brushed my fingers from hard and rough concrete to the soft fabric of clothing, the feeling disappeared. It felt like nothing, like I didn't have hands at all, as if they were cut off or numb. I moved them thinking that my hands had just lost feeling but I didn't even know what the other parts of my body felt, the concrete was no longer hard against my knees. It was like I was floating in a dark void. A voice filled my head sounding from right in front of me.
"Its okay, don't be afraid." I jerked my unfeeling limbs back, but it felt as if I hadn't moved, but I knew my brain was telling my limbs what to do, I had to have moved, I was in a kneeled position so I started to move my body as if crawling, I still felt nothing but the voice sounded again. "Damn it stop moving, If you stop I will give you some senses back". I nodded my head quickly and stopped moving. My body still felt suspended. "Okay I am going to give you your touch back but if you try anything, I'll take it away again and your hearing too okay?" I nodded once again. "Alright you might be in pain you were flailing around on concrete."
The first thing I feel is pain like she said I would and I move to groan in pain but no sound comes out. I can feel the concrete against my body and tears escape my eyes in joy at that one little thing. The feeling of nothing is one that will haunt me forever and I hope she got away, I pray to the god she believed in that she wouldn't come back for me. The attackers voice filled my ears again. "I am going to help you up alright?" I nodded again wishing for my voice back. I begged my power to actually work for once but it wouldn't, I hadn't felt it since they started persuing us. I couldn't see my attacker and my power was always a little haywire but that didn't explain why I couldn't feel it.
I heard two set of feet and tensed up. Two voices filled my ears, at the unknown one fear made my stomach flutter but the second voice, it made me both relieved and terrified.
The first was a woman's, who spoke to my captor. "I got the other one, she doubled back and got in range." I heard my captor mutter a 'thank god'.
"What the hell did you do to her! Rachel are you alright? Let go of me you fucking psycho." I can hear her struggling and I did the same trying to pry myself away from the one who stole my senses. Suddenly my feeling disappeared again and terror filled me again. I could hear her voice. "Stop whatever it is you're doing to her stop, we'll do anything. Please stop!"
My feeling came back as did my site. I blinked blearily, tears running down my face. I looked into her eyes as she pulled against her captors hands. "I am sorry I had to do that, but you two need to come with us for your own and others safety." I moved my eyes from one blonde to a taller older blonde, the one who had my hands bound in front of my body with her left hand gripping the handcuffs. She looks apologetic and guilty I turn my head back to my blonde traveling companion.
"Its okay Quinn." My voice works and my eyes water in relief. Quinn moves in her captors hands again and my captor hands moved, Quinn flinched in fear and i'm guessing mine uses her hands to take away my senses because Quinn is staring at me and the other blonde. I give her a shaky smile as they lead us to a ford focus.
Quinn's captor, a dark curly hair, women with a built frame places Quinn in the back seat, removing her hands that were handcuffed behind her back to around her front like mine were, on the drivers side. The blonde places me on the passenger side and shuts the door. Something like the metal that is in police cars to separate the front of the car from the back is in this car, keeping us from touching either of our captors in the front seat. The blonde one speaks. "I'm Holly and this is Beiste, we're going to take you guys to a place just for people like us. I'm sorry to have scared you guys but it is dangerous out here. Rachel we will treat your scratches once we get back, I am sorry you got hurt."
I don't say anything, I just look out the window at the dull city Quinn and I had been in for three weeks, it was the longest we had ever stayed in one spot and we paid for that mistake. Quinn glared at the driver but didn't say anything, she shifted her shoulder, looked at me, and I took the invitation. I slid my head under her arms, my face laying out on her chest and right shoulder, her cuffed arms rest around my back and shoulder and mine curl into her shirt as I fold my legs up onto the seat.
Its not the most comfortable position thanks to the handcuffs but we both take comfort from one another like we have for the last six months. I listen to Quinn's breathing and I can tell she is trying to use her power as her breathing changes from deep calming concentrating breathes to harsh angry and frustrated breaths. I shake my head in the negative against her clavicle when she looks at me, a question spilling out of her eyes instead of her mouth.
Our powers were dead they didn't work, both of us had hated our powers, wished for them to disappear, to leave us alone and now that we had our wish we were scared and lost. Our powers saved us more than once and now they were useless. The car hit a bump and I saw the blonde look up into the rear-view mirror from driving, her eyes were filled with concern and it confused me. I shook the thought of this woman being worried about us out of my head, she and her friend had just kidnapped us, we need to have our guard up.
My body aches and exhaustion soon overtakes my body, I know Quinn feels the same exhaustion, her eyes droop but she manages to keep them open and stay awake. I try to follow her lead and stay awake but my eyes blink slower and Quinn's steady heartbeat thrumbs in my ear, like a steady lullaby.
My body jerks awake as the car hits a bump. I go to rub my eyes forgetting that I have handcuffs on. I frown as I manage to rub my eyes uncomfortably. Quinn looks down at me and I question her with my eyes. Six months together had let us understand one another with just a look. She looked down at her hand and I let my eyes travel down, she had four fingers up, her thumb down. We had been driving for four hours. I went to apologize for falling asleep but she shook her head, silently telling me it was fine.
I shifted and she lifted her arms up as I moved off of her and stretched my muscles the best I could. I looked up and saw the blonde, Holly, watching us then eyes moving back to the road, concentrating on driving. The car is completely silent and I begin to fidget, my knee bounces, then my fingers begin to tap in a rhythmic beat. That last for about fifteen minute before I let out a sigh of boredom. Quinn looks at me amused, I roll my eyes and begin to tap my foot.
I let out another sigh and shift in the seat. I lean against the passenger side window, watching the road, trees and sometimes houses pass by. I turn to look at Quinn and unlike me she is sitting straight and staring ahead, except for when she looks at me out of the corner of her eye.
Time passes by as if dragging each second behind it is making it slower, finally I speak. "How long is this car ride suppose to be?"
Holly looks at me then Quinn. "Sixteen hours give or take, its been almost five so only eleven or so hours left." Her smile takes over her face as she says this optimistically. I just let out another sigh.
"Are we just going to keep driving or will you stop? And why aren't we on a plane or something, I mean whoever hired you sent a lot of people after us." Quinn gives me a look and I realize my big mouth may get us in trouble. She tenses before Holly begins to laugh.
"Yes we will stop sometime, but we are driving the whole way there so you're sleeping in the car. And because we didn't need to waste money on fueling and flying the plane to get you two." She looks at Beiste a smile on her face, Beiste just shakes her head and leans it once again against the window, she looks worn out.
Quinn doesn't say anything so I just nod my head and wait for us to stop at a gas station. Holly had looked forlorn that I wouldn't talk anymore and decided to turn on music, it was a top twenty hits station. A song I didn't know was playing on the radio and Holly was singing along with it. As the song ended she pulled into a gas station. She looks at both of us then nudges Beiste. "Alright we are going to uncuff you two, but if you try anything I will do what I did when I caught you, do you understand?" I nodded and Quinn glared at Holly before nodding.
Holly comes to my side of the car and uncuffs me but grabs my bicep, pulling a bag out of the trunk before leading me to the restroom. Once we get in there she locks the door. I use the restroom and as I wash my hands wincing as the hot water hits my scraps she speaks. "I am sorry you were hurt Rachel, it was never our intention. I forgot that some people flip out when I use my power on them." She looks at me guiltily, I just turn my head away and hop onto the counter. She sighs before she gets to work on the scraps to my knees and the ones on the palms of my hand. I wince at the burn of alcohol. She finishes up bandaging with my knees and hands. She move to my face rubbing alcohol across the scrap on my chin. "Sorry." she says this guilt inflicting her voices as I wince again. She leaves the scrap on my face unbandaged. "The reason your body hurt so much after you got feeling back was because feeling nothing to suddenly feeling is a drastic change, you didn't break anything thank god, but you did scrap yourself up pretty good. You might have some bruises where you hit the ground but you should be okay."
I just nod my head and she tell me to stay put as she uses the restroom. When she is done and has washed her hands we head to the grocery part of the gas station. I see Quinn and Beiste standing by the car. Quinn sees me and relief floods her features. Holly walks around the food and drinks, picking up random items and walking through isles. I follow her and five minutes later I hear the door chime, I look to the entrance and see Quinn and Beiste. They walk straight towards us. Holly seems to have gotten five energy drinks, three bags of chips and two packages of powdered donuts. She sets them on the counter and looks at us. Beiste moves grabbing things she wants and Holly smiles at us. "Get whatever you want girls, its on us."
Quinn looks around and moves about the aisles, Beiste is busy making two huge cups of coffee to care. I follow her and feel Holly's eyes watching us. I shiver remembering her powers. Quinn is grabbing energy drinks and depositing them in my hand. I knew enough from the last six months that this was to keep us awake and alert, Quinn and I were going to try and escape. I nodded my head and started grabbing things high in sugar, I looked at the labels knowing they weren't vegan but I had given that up when I left my home nine months ago. Vegan food is expensive and hard to steal on the run, so I had to drop my veganism.
We ended up with two energy drinks apiece and two candy bars apiece. Holly didn't even bat an eyelash just paid for the gas and food with cash and we walked back to the car. Beiste kept looking at us as she sipped her black coffee. Once Quinn and I were in the back seat Holly smile then handcuffed me to my door. I stared at her in shock. "Blondie was planning an escape." She looked at Beiste who then handcuffed Quinn to her own door. "Now you both are stuck, drink up we have a ten hour drive. Though you might want to rest." With that her and Beiste both shut the doors and climbed in the front. I look at the clock it says 5:56. We had been captured for almost five hours now. We left the drinks untouched.
I slouch against the door and Quinn growls in frustration, pulling at the handcuff. Beiste looks as if the coffee isn't helping her at all. She looks dead tired. I slump again before I look at Quinn. She gives me a look to tell me that we will get out, we just have to have patience. So we waited, I saw Quinn close her eyes and her body slump slowly, her mouth opening slightly to let out soft puffs of air. She looked asleep but I knew better, Quinn never sleeps with her mouth open, she barely makes any noise as she sleep.
I move to follow her idea, but I can't seem to get comfortable so I just stare out the window for an endless amount of time, my eyes flitting between Quinn and the two abductors. Holly has the music on low as she sings along to it. I can't make out the lyrics but I move my eyes to Beiste who seems to be dozing off, Holly thumps Beiste on her arm and she jerks awake. Holly gives her a look as Beiste shakes herself awake, giving in and grabbing one of the blonde's energy drinks, her two coffees not doing anything to her tired body.
I close my eyes and search for the presence that had been my power, the warm yet sharp feeling that I got when I used it. I felt nothing as if my power was never there. I search again begging it to work, to do something. Again nothing happens. As tears of frustration fill my eyes I stare out the window into the endless black. I looked at the clock, we had been in the car for almost an hour and thirty minutes since the gas station. Bored I start to count from one hundred to one first in English then in what little Spanish I knew.
Finished with counting I started to draw on the window, which was foggy due to the cold outside and the heat in the car. I shivered as my finger touched the glass. It was the middle of December, somewhere around the fifteenth maybe. We had stayed in that small town in Wisconsin because of Christmas coming up, Quinn had never seen a white Christmas and the people in Wisconsin had been nice. We thought we were safe for once.
I drew the beast from the game temple run, the one that chases the person. I then drew a dinosaur, my imagination getting the best of me as I added a saddle to it along with a gun. I was breathing heavy as I drew these. I shook my head and ran my hand over the drawings, erasing them. I looked up, Holly was watching me.
I shook my head before pressing it against the glass.
I had been staring out the window for about four hours when Beiste started to fidget. Holly looked at her and Beiste pointed to a gas station. We pulled into it and Beiste waited for Holly to get out, she uncuffed me and Beiste did the same for Quinn. Quinn walked to me rubbing her wrist as they lead us to the bathroom, it was a one person bathroom so Beiste went first. Then Holly went before I went. Quinn went in and gave me a look, she wanted us to escape once she got out of the bathroom. I didn't move or make a sound fearing Holly would look over at me from where she was waiting and where Beiste was filling up the car.
Beiste was about 20 feet away from us. Holly's phone rang right as I heard the toilet flush, as she answered it Quinn came out of the bathroom and I looked at her, then took off running, she was right behind me. "God damn it get back here!" Holly yelled at us and that spurred me to run faster, I did not wanting to lose my senses again. Quinn was running beside me.
I still couldn't feel my powers, they were still missing. I heard a car engine to the right of us and saw Beiste driving the car, her expression pissed and determined, Holly wasn't in site. Quinn and I cut across road to the left and ran towards the woods, our feet trying to find traction on the mucky ground, snow was everywhere slowing down our movements. Our breaths were coming in pants as our feet pounded against the ground. The cool air burned my throat and lungs with each breath I took. We kept running and running. I didn't hear anymore footsteps or the car, but Quinn didn't slow down, not until she tripped over something and rolled down a hill before hitting a tree, she groaned in pain and I rushed over to her side, landing on my knees next to her, water and cold seeping through my jeans and bandages.
She gripped her left shoulder, her face an ashen white as she panted, both out of breath and pained. "Quinn come on lets go." I grip her right side and help her up. Her teeth are grinding in pain as her left arm hangs limply by her side. "I think you may have dislocated it." I look at her and she nods her head before she turns her head the other way. "Okay on three." I grip her arm as I had seen my father do plenty of time at work when I used to go with him. "Ready." She nods and as one is halfway out of my mouth I pop her shoulder back in. She lets out a grunt, almost a scream of pain.
I rest my forehead against her chest before I pull off my scarf, she shakes her head in the negative before I shake my head and begin to create a sling for her arm. Once I finish with that we begin to walk. Quinn is shivering, her jeans soak along with the black long sleeved shirt she had thrown over her navy blue tank top. I wrap my arm around the right side of her body, her right arm rests over my shoulders as we walk, her left arm cradled to her chest by my scarf.
A shiver racks through my body, my jeans are wet where I kneeled on the ground to help Quinn and they are ripped from when Holly captured me. I shiver again as the cold air seems to pull the heat away from us, Quinn's wet cloths not protecting her and my wet jeans and tee-shirt have the same effect as her do, they seem to allow the cold in. Her teeth chatter and I pull her closer to me. I hear footsteps and Quinn tries to take off running again, I grip her right hand with my right hand and shake my head in the negative. "Rach go, run, we can get away or at least you can."
I shake my head no again. "Quinn if we keep running we will get hypothermia, and your shoulder was dislocated, let them catch us. We are safer in their car right now then we are out here." She goes to argue but I shake my head.
We hear the footsteps coming from behind us so I turn us around to face our pursuer, Holly is about thirty feet from us. I raise my right hand up, my left still wrapped around Quinn's waist. "Don't do anything, we surrender don't take our senses away. We will do whatever you want."
I keep my right hand up, Quinn's right arm and hand grip my shoulder like a constrictor. "Alright you two, I am going to come closer, if you try anything I will use my power on you." At our nods she comes closer until we are just five feet away from her. She pulls out her phone never taking her eyes off of us. "Beiste, yeah I have them, just follow my coordinates."
She hangs up the phone and stares at us. Her expression is livid and we stand there under judgement shivering for about five minutes before we heard Beiste crunching through the snow. "The car is about a two minute walk from here, lets go." Beiste's tone is stern and pissed off.
Holly nods for us to move forward and we walk, Beiste and Holly right behind us. Quinn's teeth are chattering uncontrollably now and mine soon join hers. Our bodies shivering, trying to heat themselves up when we are freezing. Finally the car comes into view. They make us stop before they had us some clothing from the trunk. "Here you guys need to change before you get hypothermia." Beiste averts her eyes and turns around.
Holly looks at both of us, she takes away all feeling for just one second and then it's back. That was her warning, she would turn around to give us privacy but if we tried anything she would not hesitate. With both their back turned Quinn and I quickly change. Used to changing on the run and in each others presence we strip down, leaving our bra and underwear on we both pulled on sweatpants and a hoodie. Quinn had difficulty due to her recently dislocated arm so I helped her. We stood still, our feet are bare against the cold concrete.
I clear my throat and they turn around. They motion us towards the car. They handcuff us both to the doors again before throwing thick socks on our laps, this time Quinn is on the passenger side due to her dislocated left shoulder.. "Put them on your feet, leave the shoes off. You risk getting sick with cold feet." Holly shut the door after she says this and moves to the driver side of the car, getting in then driving. I look at the clock, it read 10:53, we had run for about ten minutes before they caught us.
I pull my socks on and see Quinn struggle to do the same, her left arm in pain with each move and her right handcuffed to a door. I motion with my hands and she tosses me the socks. Her feet prop up onto the seat and I pull her socks on with one hand. Her eyes thank me as she curls up in a ball, trying to retain body heat. I hear the heater kick on before Holly speaks. "Quinn what happened to your shoulder?"
Holly looks through the rear-view mirror until she catches Quinn's eye. "I fell and dislocated it, Rachel put it back."
Holly looks concerned but nods. "We'll have a doctor look at you both when we get to the house."
Quinn and I say nothing and Holly just shakes her head. Both adults look worn out and annoyed. I see Quinn and she slumps against the cold window, he body curled into a ball, preserving heat and protecting her hurt arm. He mouth is closed and her eyes move around under her closed eyelids, she is really asleep, not faking it. I stay awake, looking after her like she did when I fell asleep. The time passes slowly with quiet songs on the radio.
I look at the clock and it reads 5:03. We are driving through New York City and curiosity overtakes my body. I had always wanted to go to New York. I nudge Quinn with my foot and her eyes open slowly, she takes in the city with the same awe I feel. We were both from small towns and tended to in the last six months, stay in small towns. The traffic is horrendous and we finally make it to a dock at 5:34. Holly flashes a card and they let us drive onto a ferry, which takes off the second we are secured onto it.
Holly makes us stay in the car for the fifteen minute boat ride. Finally I see and island and I know right away we are heading for it. Fear and awe consumes my body at the sight of this island, I can tell Quinn feels the same way. I stretch my right hand across the seat until it brushes against Quinn's thigh. I squeeze it in reassurance, for both me and her. The ferry docks and the car drives off the dock, Holly waves the ferry goodbye and drives up a long winding road. After a few minutes, a huge mansion comes into view, but its not the mansion we notice first its the wall of a fence and its gates. The wall is made of stone about fifteen feet high and five feet thick, the gate is thick iron. We drive through the gate until we pull into a huge partially underground garage.
Holly shuts the car off, she seems to be stuck in her seat before she takes a deep breath and opens her door. Beiste hops out of the car, yawning then stretching, her back pops a number of times, causing me to cringe at the sound. Holly opens my door and uncuffs me, she once again grabs me by my bicep leading me to Quinn and Beiste. Beiste is standing behind Quinn, not touching her, worry evident on her face as she looks at Quinn's left arm.
Quinn's face isn't as white as it was before, but the sweat she had broke into when she dislocated it is dried on her face. Both of us are dirty, leaves clumped in Quinn's hair, dirt covering our faces, and the scarp on my chin bleeding once again. We look like crap. They begin to lead us out of the garage taking us through a door and into a mudroom. We move from the mudroom to a huge kitchen, to a foyer type room, huge mahogany doors are to our right, with big window to each side of them. "Nobody should be up yet since its almost six in the morning, but I sent Figgins a message." She is talking to all three of us and at mine and Quinn's confused looks she elaborates. "Figgins built this place, he owns it. He's sort of like a principal of a boarding school." We nod our heads and she continues. "We'll explain everything when we go to see him.
We move into a hallway, it continues down but we stop outside the door that says 'Figgins Office' the door behind us says 'Emma and Will'. Holly knocks on the office door and an African-American man opens the door, his faces remains emotionless as he leads us through the door and into his office. It looks like any typical office would, a wooden desk with a leather chair behind it, bookshelves surrounding a door behind his desk, and some chairs for visitors to sit in.
He motion for us to sit as he sits down. "I am Mr. Figgins, but you can just call me Figgins. Ms. Holiday and Ms. Beiste have brought you here for a reason, do you know what that reason is?" His emotionless voice fills the room, it is soft and controlled, like he can't let anything slip through.
Quinn looks at me and I nod my head, she wants to know if I want to go or if I should let her. I begin to speak annoyance and anger overtaking my voice. "Yes, these two women have kidnapped us because of our powers, which is illegal, so if you would let us go that would be preferred."
He looks at our to captors. "Holly, Shannon did you explain why these two were brought her." Shannon or Beiste as we were told her name was, looked exhausted as she straightened up in her chair. Holly decided to speak.
"We explain that we were chasing them and captured them because of their powers but we didn't get into every detail, they managed to escape once and slept through the ride on intervals." Figgins nods his head before he looks at us, his eyes taking in mine and Quinn's appearance, stopping at my chin and Quinn's arm.
"I am very sorry you two were injured, it was not meant to happen. You two will be treated for any injuries once I explain why you are here." Quinn and I both nod our heads, curiosity runs through my body. "You both have talents, volatile talents. We take in people, teenagers like yourself and we help them control their talents. We have been trying to bring you guys here for about two months. You left a trail of destruction wherever you went these last six months together." He doesn't even look at the file on his desk as if he has it memorized. "A mall destroyed in Wyoming, trees uprooted and missing along with the sign at Yellowstone park, four men hospitalized for severe injuries, crushed limbs and broken bones, an entire ring of drug cartel disappearing out of thin air during a police raid, and animals released from a petting zoo due to as they said, a rampaging bear on steroids, running havoc on the town in Idaho. There are many more I left unlisted. You two have threatened to expose people like us. So I had teachers from our school try to bring you here, but you guys are good. Emma and Sue found only traces of you before Sue was attacked by a strange creature. Both of you are powerful, yet volatile. You both lack control and could hurt somebody. We are here to offer you a spot here, we will train you and help you. There are other people you age here, it is up to you. Do you want to stay here or do you want to be on you own again out there."
His voice didn't even change when he spoke, it remain monotone but the emotions that flashed across his face were genuine. Quinn looked at me and I knew what she was thinking. This place had a warm bed, food, other people our age. They may have kidnapped us but we were out of control, they could teach us, we wouldn't have to run anymore. Quinn nodded reluctantly so I spoke. "We'll stay here. It will take awhile for you guys to earn our trust but we believe you can help us."
Figgins nods before addressing Holly and Beiste. "Take them to Sue, she'll hate being woken up this early but she'll help them. Then take them to their rooms, Emma should have breakfast ready by eight." They both nod and we get up. My manners get the best of me and I quickly thank Figgins. He just nods his head.
Quinn looks at me before sidling up next to me. We are barely an inch from each other. Holly walks in front of us and Beiste behind. We leave Figgins office and turn right, we pass a room with the label 'Beiste' then pass a room labeled 'Holly', I am guessing that those are their bedrooms. We finally make it to the end of the hall and there is a room labeled 'Sue'. Holly knocks and the door is pulled open fifteen seconds later by a very annoyed looking blonde. She has short blonde hair and in plaid sleep pants and a long sleeved shirt as she towers over us, looking to be 5'11 or maybe six feet tall. In other words, she is intimidating especially with a scowl on her face. "Why the hell are you knocking on my door so early?"
Holly speaks up a grin spreading across her face. "Good morning to you to Sue, and Figgins sent us here. Got two patients for you, Quinn and Rachel." Sue looks at us before slamming her door shut, Holly just smiles and we wait in silence for about a minute before the door opens again. Sue is now in a dark blue tracksuit. She stalks down the hall and leads us into the foyer. She hits a button on the keychain she is carrying and like in the movies a bookshelf moves.
Quinn tenses before we follow them through the door, it is an elevator, Quinn's body remains tense so I grab her right hand, she grips it like it is a life-line, her claustrophobia getting the better of her. We ride down it until we met the level Sue had pressed. She leads us until we come across a glass door labeled 'Medical Ward'. Sue opens the door and barks at me and Quinn to sit on a bed. Quinn sits on one bed and I sit on the one right next to her. Holly is standing in the doorway her smile still in place as Beiste struggles to keep her eyes open.
Sue looks at me then looks at Quinn. "Blondie, you look to be in pain, what hurts?" Quinn looks at her then at Holly and Beiste. "Beiste, Holiday get out so I can treat my patients."
Holly looks shocked Beiste expression remains tired. "Sue these two have tried to escape and managed to escape once. Their powers can be unstable, we can't risk you ge-"
Sue looks pissed. "I don't care if they are dangerous or threaten to kill me, they are my patients and I am telling you to get out of my infirmary. If you are so worried about their powers leave Beiste to guard the door, but you will not be in the room when I examine them. And in case you have forgotten Holiday, I have powers too." Holly just nods before she turns and leaves. Beiste follows, her feet dragging. Sue looks at us. "Alright blondie off with the top, I need to look at you arm." Quinn obeys and unhooks the scarf from around her neck. She winces as she tries to pull the hoodie off. I jump of my bed and head over to help her. I grab the fabric of the hoodie but Sue stops me and begins to cut away at the hoodie with scissors.
There is slight bruising already forming on Quinn's back and shoulder where she had hit the tree. She holds her arm close to her body as Sue examines her. Sue's face looks startled at the prominence of Quinn's ribs and her collar bone, but she continues to examine her shoulder, her face moving back to impassive. "It looks like you dislocated it, but it was relocated." She touches around Quinn's shoulder pressing and running her hand and fingers over certain places. "It seems to have been placed back correctly, but to be safe I need to x-ray it." She helps Quinn off the table, before handing her a hospital gown. She pulls it over Quinn before tying it then Quinn drops her sweat pants laying on a machine in a room with glass walls.
Sue brings her back to the table I am standing by. "Alright the x-rays will be back soon just lay here and rest, I didn't find any other problems beside a few scratches and bruises." She looks at me. "I treated all her wounds, all we need to do is wait on the x-ray and then we give her a brace and pain killers. As for you lets see what all you have." I take off my hoodie and pants, leaving me in my underwear and bra. I nervously fidgeted my fingers and look at Quinn, she gives me a reassuring smile and my nerves calm.
Sue looks at me for permission before she begins to remove my dirty bandages and clean my scraps. She finishes with my knees quickly, moving on to my hands. Her eyes stop at the small scar across my side but they move on as she looks for an injury anywhere else. They then stop at my ribs which are showing as bad as Quinn's are, we are very skinny. She finishes with my hands and places some bandages on my hands. She begins to clean my chin carefully, I look towards Quinn and her focus is on Sue looking to see if she is a threat. Once Sue finishes with my face she beings to speak. "I cleaned the scraps up, you should probably take a shower sometime, I will give you some bandages to place on them after you shower, you'll want to put antibacterial ointment on them." I nod and she pats my shoulder softly before moving to where a machine is beeping.
She picks it up and holds it to the light before placing it on the thing doctors put x-rays on. She looks at Quinn. "It was dislocated but who ever relocated it did a good job." Quinn looks at me and Sue nods before continuing. "There shouldn't be any problems, but I am going to give you some painkillers just incase. You need to take Advil or ibuprofen for inflammation then the pain killer if you need it." She starts to head over to the cabinets, pulling out slings before she finds the right size. "Alright Blondie you're going to want to take a shower, you both are. So I am going to take you down the hall to the bathroom, there should be some clothing that you can wear in there. We always have new clothes around for new students." She leaves Quinn in her hospital gown and tosses me one. Quinn's arm stays close to her body as Sue leads us to the bathroom keeping a close eye on Quinn, we pass Beiste whose eyes are wide awake as if she just had a shot of espresso. We make it to the bathroom which looks like one you would find in a gym. Small cubicle showers and restroom stall and lockers with benches in between the rows.
Sue moves over to a locker, before unlocking it. She takes out two pairs of sweats and a long sleeved shirt along with a button up shirt, long sleeved also. She set them on the benches as she moves to another cabinet unlocking it and pulling out two sports bras and two normal bras that look like they will fit us and some unused underwear. "We always have extra undergarments and clothes for the new kids, they almost always show up without a change of clothes, so use whatever you want. Someone will take you shopping or you can order clothing online. The school will pay for it but you will have to do chores around the house." We both nod, Sue looks at us both before telling us she will wait outside.
Once she is gone Quinn looks at me. A question bleeds out of her eyes and I nod. "We are doing the right thing Quinn, this is a first. We can live here, learn to control our powers, just think, we won't have to worry anymore."
Quinn looks skeptical and I look into her eyes pleading with her, she sighs but answers me. "Fine. Fine it is good not to worry about hurting anyone and it does sound nice to be able to control it, but I don't trust these people, they hunted us for two months."
I remember the nights we spent running away and hitching rides on the train praying we wouldn't be caught. "I know Quinn but we were dangerous, what if they're telling the truth, I believe them, they can help us."
She sighs before nodding. "I know Rach but it pays to be wary. I have to look out for you and for me, we have to be cautious." I nod my head understanding Quinn's reason. And I admit Holly still gives me chills and I hate that they chased us for two months but this is the first place that we can stay at to learn and maybe even live at longer that two weeks.
Quinn smiles before she heads to the shower, she growls in frustration. "Rachel I need help." I can hear the pout and the frustration in her voice. I laugh as I head to where she is, knowing she needs help with her bra. I throw the curtain open unlatching her bra before I quickly hit the cold water handle in the shower. She screams as the icy water hits her skin, retaliation for all the times she had used the 'hot' water.
Laughter splutters out of my mouth as I hear her cursing me. I quickly strip before getting into my own shower, the hot water kneads the aches out of my muscles and burns my wounds, but it feels amazing. I hadn't had a long hot shower in many months. When Quinn and I were on the run we stayed at crap motels that only offer lukewarm water that lasted for about two minutes, it was never really hot but it was better than freezing.
I hear Quinn's shower shut off after fifteen minutes as I rinse the conditioner that was in the shower out of my hair. I hear her shuffling around, cursing at every little thing. I chuckle softly before shutting off my water. I grab the towel and dry off before wrapping it around me and walking to where Sue put the cloths. Quinn had her underwear on, pulling the sweats up her legs. Her bra laying unclasped across her body. She looks at me pleadingly. I nod as she turns around and I hook her bra together, she drops the towel that was around her shoulders, before grabbing the button up shirts. She pulls it on her left arm first, and I help her, keeping her arm close to her body, a grimace of pain crossing her features. It shoots a wave of sadness and sympathy through my body. She finished pulling it on her right arm and I button it up for her.
She gives me privacy to get dressed when she heads to where the mirrors are behind a wall, I hear a hand dryer start. I quickly get dressed pulling on the sweats and shirt over the underwear and bra. I started to towel dry my hair as I walk towards Quinn. She has her head above the hand dryer, which she flipped the silver nozzle to face the ceiling causing it to blow dry her hair. I laugh as her hair flies in every direction. She grins at me as it shuts off. Her hair which is just barely past her chin and has some light soft pink hidden throughout it, is poofy.
I let out a giggle at her hair, still not over how poofy it gets sometimes. She just shakes her head as she smooths her semi dry hair down. She begins walking to the door to leave and I follow her, my towel laying around my shoulder, keeping my wet hair from soaking my shirt. Beiste is outside the door like a guard dog, she looks up at us and give us a tired smile.
She gets up and follow us to where Sue was still in the Medical Ward. Sue greets us as she heads over to Quinn, slipping Quinn's arm through the sling and adjusting it to her body, she keeps asking if anything hurts to bad or makes her uncomfortable. Once Sue is sure that it is fitted right she looks at my hands. She shakes her head as she pulls off the tape that had kept the soak bandages on, as she redressed all my wounds Quinn kept looking at Beiste who was in the doorway, her eyes no longer wide awake like they were when we went to the bathroom.
Sue finishes up with us as she give Quinn an advil and another small pill for pain. "You'll have to come to me every four to six hours to get the pills, but they should take away the pain." Quinn nods her thanks and downs the pills, her face grimacing as she swallows them without any water. I shake my head as does Sue. "I'll get you sometime between 10:45 and noon to give you your pill." Quinn nods and Sue addresses Beiste."Beiste, you should go to sleep, i'll take the girls to their rooms, you haven't slept in two days and frankly you look like crap." Beiste looked at us warily. "It'll be fine Beiste, their powers won't get to haywire with me to keep them in check." Beiste nods as she leaves the room.
Sue begins to shut off the lights in the Med Ward or as she called it, the infirmary. As the last light is shut off, just a small light keeping the room from being in complete darkness she leads us to the hallway. Following the same path we took to the infirmary, we come out of the bookshelf door way/elevator, it shut with a click. We walk towards the stairs before something comes flying down them.
I scream as a dark colored wolf comes running down the stairs. Quinn's right arm grips my waist as she pulls me away. It goes running through the kitchen, Sue yelling at it to slow down. We hear feet on the stairs as a tan skinned girl comes running down the stairs, her body starting to glow an eerie reddish-orange. Sue steps in front of us then. "Lopez calm down before you blow the mansion sky high! Then tell me what the hell has you about to go off." The girl begins to take deep breaths.
Anger still evident on her face and in her voice she speaks. "Matt busted the fucking door to the bathroom me and Britt were in. Britt managed to flip a breaker upstairs or something cuz the electricity is off. Matt had the fucking balls to look at us before I told him to get the hell outta the bathroom! Now the door is broken and Britt is freaking out over using her power near water and making the power go out." It was then that I realized the girl was only in a towel and water was dripping down her face.
Sue looks annoyed. "Matt come here now!" The wolf comes slinking into the room, tail tucked between it's legs. Quinn is looking at it warily as Sue grabs the towel from my shoulders and throws it on the wolf. Soon the hair begins to recede and a boy with tan skin and dark hair is left completely naked except for the towel that is now wrapped around his waist. "What happened?"
He looks at the girl fear evident on his face. "Well Puck was screwing around and he managed to break the walls through Artie's room then my room so I shoved him out of the room and we were screaming at each other. I called him childish and uncontrollable. He got pissed and called me a flea bag, I shoved him then he shoved me but I ended up flying through the bathroom door, I was shocked and I kinda froze until Santana started screaming at me so I shifted and ran as fast as I could." He is nervously pulling at strings on the towel as he looks at the girl, Santana. Sue sighs as she rubs her hands across her face.
"So Puck managed to break through three walls and a door, which he shoved you through?" The boy, Matt nodded. "Santana go upstairs and calm Brittany down, do not touch Puck, I will deal with him. Matt go get dressed, your's and Puck's punishment will be given once everything is settle, do you understand?" They both nod as Santana walks up the stairs. Matt waits a minute before he runs up the stairs. Quinn and I look at each other, the back at Sue who looks beyond annoyed. "Alright lets get you to your rooms. You will be introduced to everyone else later."
Quinn and I both nod, before following Sue up the stairs. Quinn looks at me silently telling me she has my back and to be careful around the girl named Santana. I nod my head, I have her back too, but curiosity runs through my head, wondering what Santana's power is.
A/N: I was thinking about seeing if anyone would want to draw character bios (Like a picture of the person and then something to do with their power) for this story or a cover-page. PM me if you would like to do this. :) Review if you can thanks for reading.
