So hey guys, first of all I want to dedicate this chapter to spartacus1997 and Sevenofdiamonds7 for their great reviews!
I'm not sure if I will be including Sky, Phoenix and Crystal in this story(ies) tell me what you think!
Okay here goes. Hope you love it.
EJ x
The sirens. Fast speed. Blood. The lights.
"Charge! CLEAR!"
Just a blur. The highway drone. Speeding through the streets.
BANG! A flashback I didn't need right now. GET DOWN! I could still feel the heat on my face. The shattering of glass.
"Faster!" The paramedic ordered.
"CHASE!" The echo of his name being screamed. My scream. "ERIS!"
I jolted as the ambulance stopped. "Go!" The doors fling open and Chase was already out the back.
I walked through the automatic doors, following the gurney. The impact of hospital emotions hit me, words, talking. Noise. So much. "MOVE! OUT OF THE WAY!" Someone ordered. I had to get my composure back. I thought, stumbling out of the way of the second Gurney from the second ambulance. My hand brushed Eris's briefly. The cold hospital air pinched at by bare skin, the light hurt my eyes, and the thought that so many unknown people had the upper hand here.
"What have we got?" A Hispanic doctor asked. he was tall, and I hate to say it, drop dead friggin' gorgeous.
Get a grip, Jazz! Your family has been hit. My conscience has a mind of his own and only uses that mind to insult me. Not give me my moral right or wrong like it's suppose too.
"Two bomb blast victims, male 23 and female 19..." They rushed off down the hallway with Eris.
Someone yelled. A horde of people rushed around, doctors, nurses , assistants, pushing carts and machinery. All were hovering around the patient, frantic, high pitched voices. My patient. Chase.
"Young lady, come with me." A nurse took my arm.
Beep. Beep. Beep.
The noises form the machines bounced in my head. Echoing. I opened my eyes. The harsh white light of the hospital blinding. The trauma large room. cramped with machines, wires, bags of liquids. Blue colored walls. Lit by the long, white, fluorescent light bulbs. A heavy smell of antiseptic in the air. A TV droned on in the background, adding to the orchestra of noises already present from the beeps from medical equipment, the sound of doctors and nurses being paged on the P.A system in the echoing hallway that I was paying not attention to. I pushed off the uncomfortable chair, the metal frame freezing cold in my sweaty palms.
I reached the door in a few steps. Wrapping my hand around the steel, I pushed it closed. Dimming the sound to just the hum of machines and the TV. I turned leaning against the door. Looking at the two unconscious bodies on the beds. Chase's hand was drooped off the bed.
I flicked off the lights. I looked at my fingers lingering on the light switch. My hand bandaged up leaving on my fingers free. It was night again, and the New York skyline was glittering with lights in the deep blue sky. Street lamps cast an orange glow into the room. Cars arrived and departed. People talking below.
I took off the steri-strips that were on my head and sat back down in the chair between the two beds. We'd been here for a day and these two had been in and out of consciousness without really knowing it.
Chase a sprained wrist, one or two fractured back bones, one dislocated shoulder and a deflated lung. You know, the usual. He was topless, gauze wrapped around his chest. I felt my cheeks blush. Even though he was as close as my brother, seeing him topless was blush-worthy. I scooted over to Eris. Taking a wipe from my face wipes in my bag, I gently started wiping the blood from her mouth and nose. She looked so innocent. And peaceful. And dead. The machine monitoring her heart-rate was the only thing telling me she was still alive.
Eris had more exterior damage. Her arms, hands wrapped in bandages and face red and pink with bruises, burns and abrasions. A gash down her left cheek, there was damage to her mouth so now she had ceramic braces on her teeth. I chuckled. She always bragged how she didn't need braces because her teeth were perfectly straight when I'd had braces. My turn.
"How do we keep ending up in these situations?" I asked no one in particular. I sat back in the chair. Eris looked a little better.
My name is Jasper. I'm a Shadow. And I'm a Savant Assassin. My name is Jasper. I'm a Shadow. And I'm a Savant Assassin.
Most of my life from the day I could talk till I was ten, that was all I could remember. From a young age I was a talker. Never stopped and often secrets came marching out of my mouth before I had a chance to shut up. My parents who were high up in the Agency had to get 'rid' of me. But they didn't want to kill me. Talk about tough love. So instead they had me locked up in an institute which was were I met Eris. A small girl that often sat in the shadows. But at ten, someone had looked over files. And seen the word 'Savant' come up in the reasons why I was locked up. Not because I am one, because I used to talk about being one. Skipping around the school grounds singing 'I'm Savant, which means I have superpowers!' and snap, everyone automatically thinks too much TV, until I became so persistent they suddenly realized, that I was crazy. Obviously. Because superpowers are too far fetched for that of the human mind.
The man took me away with Eris and her brother joined us a few months later. And from the word go he trained us to me lethal. In a warehouse somewhere in the middle of nowhere. He trained us in precision, reaction and murder. Amoung other things.
My name is Jasper. I'm a Shadow. And I'm a Savant Assassin.
There was really nothing more to me. A few other details. A Savant. Savant. I often find if you repeat a word over and over it looses all meaning. And right now that word has caused nothing but trouble, so I'd wish being a Savant was something you could shrug away like being American.
But I can't. In either. I'm not American, I was born in Holland. So I'm Dutch.
And being a Savant means I can do things others can't. Humans can't. I was born with a gene that gives me the ability to do things, like communicate telepathically. Like lift things with telekinesis. Like an extra gear to a bike; shift to a car. But each Savant has a gift special to them.
Chase has the ability to overload a persons mind, causing pain, memory loss, coma, death. Psychic attack. Telepathic Torture. Another reason why we all have to maintain super strong shields, if Chase gets angry then his ability flares and we're all in a lot of pain. Although he could easily smash through shields, we make it harder for him.
He could also take more than a human, so his dislocated shoulder would just be a dead arm for a little while.
I touched Eris's deathly cold hand and closed my eyes. I pushed through my body, down my arm and into Eris. My eyes opened at the sound of her heartbeat getting stronger and Eris taking a deep breath.
"Am I dead?" Chase asked. My head snapped around to him.
"Almost. Why you're nearly dead? I don't know." I admitted.
"Because the Net hates us." Chase croaked.
"Does you head hurt?" I cooed, turning to him.
"No." He replied, shifting slight and then wincing.
I cuffed his head. "What about now?" I asked.
"What was that for?" He asked.
"Ya idiot, you nearly got us killed again!" I sighed.
He gave me the look. "Says the person that nearly drowned us last week." I shrugged.
"I told you the risks."
"But I didn't blow up the car."
"No but you could have warned me!"
"I did," He defended. I towered over him.
"You told me to run." I reminded. "That's it."
"Sorry," He chuckled, hissing at the pain.
"Yea, buddy, ya should be!"
"How's Eris?" He asked as the door opened.
"Unconscious." The doctor informed. I felt my jaw drop and my mouth dry at the was the Hispanic one.
Close your mouth, Jasper. Chase ordered.
"But recovering." The doctor smiled, walking over to Eris, Chase hit my arm. "Now how did you three, get injured by a bomb?"
"Aren't you a doctor?" I asked. Chase snorted.
"He looks to young to be a doctor." Chase muttered. You look to old to act immature.
"Fast learner." The doctor chuckled. I bet he is.
"Brings me no comfort." Chase said, shaking his head and getting comfortable. The doctor fiddled with the machines.
"Waa..." He jumped back. Chase looked behind me and I looked to the doctor who was recovering from a little shock. Eris's eyes were open. Ha. Do you think she's awake?
No, I don't think so.
"Problem?" Chase asked.
"Nope." He went to brush her eyes closed but jumped back instead.
"Did she blink?" Chase asked. The doctor shook his head and rubbed his fingertips with the other hand. I laughed.
"Electric shock?" I chuckled, he nodded. "She's always been kinda sparky."
He turned to us, a charming smile on his face. "I'm a Junior doctor,"
"We'd like a senior doctor." Chase informed watching the doctor closely. He laughed.
"Why'd you ask Miss...?" He gestured.
I didn't inform him of my name. "You were asking questions, Mr..." I smiled politely.
"Benedict, Xav." He smiled back.
"Xav?" I asked. "As in Xavier?" He nodded. Chase and I exchanged looks.
"I need your names." He announced.
"You do?" I asked. Eris, if you've ever been helpful, please be helpful now!
"Yes a little case of insurance." He laughed. Eris sneeze dramatically and all her machines went pop! there was a small fizz before the hum of no more electricity. "Umm." Eris put on her best wide-eyed shock face. It turned to true shock when the lights went out as well. Chaos erupted in the corridors.
"IT'S OKAY, THE BACKUP GENERATOR WILL COME ON ANY SECOND!" Someone yelled in the corridor.
Oopsy daisy, Eris smiled in our heads. Out of all the words of all the languages she knows, she just caused a probably fatal disaster...and she says oopsy daisy.
The hospital came back to life a few seconds later. Eris, also a Savant. Power of electricity if you haven't already guessed. Her favorite thing to do it is bring the tips of her fingers together and get electricity running between her fingertips and then stretch out her hand very quickly, the electricity snaps and disappears; the noise sounds like the crack of a whip and gets annoying after a while. "Right, let me get...some people..." He said running out. I felt the energy change dramatically in the room.
"If I've just killed a load of people, that's on you!" Eris hissed at me. Chase chuckled beside me already making jokes and laughing a little harder.
I felt it like an ice cube down my spine. As though the room was calmer. Colder. My eyes narrowed on the direction 'Xav' had left in. I clicked my fingers and pointed at Eris. "When did you wake up?" I ordered, turning my head to look at her. She shrugged.
"Um... about five minutes ago." She replied. "Why?"
Yes indeed why? I thought. What had got me on the edge of my seat?
The doctor had a high energy. A strong energy.
Too much red bull in his coffee? My conscience suggested. No that would be physical energy. This is mental energy. Maybe he's doing one of those mind things, where they strengthen the spirit? No. I snorted. He has a problem with his ego.
"Jasper?" Chase asked.
My eyes snapped up to the door. "He said Xav Benedict...right?" I asked.
"Yea." Eris said absentmindedly as she was concentrated now on her braces.
I looked at Chase. "Oh," He said. "Oh god."
"What?" Eris asked.
"We've just come this close..." I held up my thumb and finger with about an inch in between. "...to one of the Benedict boys."
"Of the Net?!" Eris squeaked. Chase frowned at her. I pushed off my chair.
"I'll be back in a second." I called, walking out the door. From what I heard, Xav is the third youngest and the healer probably. Which means I have the upper hand. My gift?
Power over life-force. Or life energy. I can sense it, take it away, give it too you, manipulate it. All sorts. But I often rely on my physical attributes to help me out of a situation. My looks and my ability to kick butt unconscious.
What if Xav knew? Then he'd get his entire family out here along with half the net. He doesn't know we're the shadows. If he knows we're Savant's then we're just Savant's without names at the moment. I stopped at the corner of the nurses station. I could hear him on the phone.
"...just...I'm...Vick..." The after math of Eris's little 'oopsy-flippin-daisy' was still causing noise. I had to get closer. A heard of Junior doctors walked into the station. I walked confidently behind them. Casually as I can. I ducked into the room opposite the phone. The room was dark the only light from the open door. I crouched in the dark against the wall and listened. "...Vick, I got a feeling." He started tapping the tune with his foot. "NO, she didn't tell me their names and then one of them blew the electrics. I think it might them..." He paused. "There are three of them, one boy, two girls...yea...no...well if it is the Shadows..." He paused as another doctor came past. "...then they'll disappear very soon... I can try and keep them... okay. See you then..." He hung up the phone. He paused at the door. Looking in. But he walked off. I slipped out a few moments later and got back to our room quickly. Closing the door, I checked he wasn't inside before I started talking.
"We have to get out. He's sending for the rest of his family. He suspects we are the Shadows." I informed quickly. Chase had already gotten out of bed. I clapped my hand on his shoulder giving him a silent boost.
"Eris, get up we need to go." She detached the wires and pulled the IV out of her arm. She was still in the short sleeved blood-stained red top and dark jeans. Her boots and Chase's top were in the corner of the room on a chair. Chase was tying his shoelace. I stood watch by the door as Eris zipped up her boots that came just below her knee. She pulled the jeans over the boots and stood up, slipping on the leather jacket she always wore and the biker gloves that always accompanied the jacket.
Chase was in the near same. The jeans a little loser and he was all in black. Xav was coming up the hall. "He's coming." I hissed. Chase pulled open the window and climbed out onto the ledge.
Closer. Eris followed, slipping a little on the wet ledge.
He was almost at the door.
I went last Climbing out.
The door opened.
I shut the window and ducked out of sight.
"DAMMIT!" Slam.
Please review! xxx Sorry about any mistakes or mix up with names. DO you think I should keep Sky, Phee and Crystal? Or start new ones. Tell me what you think!
EJ x