Here's chapter 2. I really hope you like it. Please review! Please, I need to know if someone atcually wants me to keep going so I know I'm not writing to a wall.

Chapter 2

"Take the voltage up another notch."

"But sir, it could kill her."

"I said do it!"

"Ahhhhhh!"

"No!" I shot up screaming. Sweat just streaming down my face. I brought my knees to my stomach and put my head in my hands. Doing that I got shocked. I looked at my hands and saw blue sparks bouncing around.

"Not again." I mumbled. I grabbed my gloves from the nightstand and put them on. Does Flash and Kid Flash have these problems? Probably not. I sighed and decided to go for a run. It was only... four in the morning. I got up and put my shoes and goggles on. I also took the hair ribbon that I keep tied on my wrist and put my hair up. I also grabbed my leather jacket and ran out the window. I always go for a run to clear my mind. Which means I go for a run every morning after I have a nightmare. I have no clue what they mean. But I think they have something to do with how I got my powers.

I went from running to jumping off roof tops. It's more of a rush. With my speed it's pretty easy, but I have tripped before. I was out for probably an hour. I ran around Central City probably about thirty times. I got back to my room and just fell asleep as soon as I came in the room.

7:45

I heard rooting around downstairs which woke me up. I looked at the clock and was shocked by what time it was. Mom would usually wake me up by this time. I got up and quickly got dressed and was downstairs. Dad was trying to make coffee. Mom usually makes it for him so I don't think he has a clue.

"Where's mom?"

"Hospital." he as still at the coffee maker.

"This early?"

"Yes." he then started hitting it.

"Oh my goodness, move." I pushed passed him and made him a cup. He really is hopeless sometimes. I handed him the cup and looked at him. He looks like he hasn't slept in day's. He looked sad to.

"What's wrong with you?" I asked.

"Nothing." he took the cup. "Thank you." he started to walk off but I was in front of him in seconds.

"You know you can't out run me right?"

"Don't start with that. I'm having a long week." he grumbled. Oh my, he's actually talking to me in full sentences.

"Dad, what's the problem? Where is mom?" I asked more sternly.

"I told you. She is at the hospital. Go check if you must. Now, if you'd excuse me I have work to do." I decided to let him keep walking.

"Alright then." I said. I grabbed a few granola from the cabinet.

"I'm so sorry." my dad said before he left the room.

"Excuse me?" I asked shocked. But he was already out of the room when I turned around. Now this is starting to scare me. I still had eight minutes until school, but I decided to run to the hospital. I ran until I got to the front entrance then I walked to the front desk.

"Julie O' Riley please." I asked the woman.

"Upstairs, room 234."

" Thank you." I ran up the stairs and found the room. Mom was asleep on the bed. I shook her lightly. She started to mumble and then opened her eyes.

"Pepper?"

"Hey mom, you ok?" I asked.

"Shouldn't you be in school?" she asked.

"Yes, but I still have six minutes. Now, you didn't answer my question." I gave her a look and she sighed.

"I guess I should have told you dear, but-" tears started to pool in her eyes.

"What?" I asked.

"I have cancer again." the tears flooded down her face again.

"No, is there anything they can do?" I asked.

"They're going to try and operate." I was now in tears. "Oh sweetheart." I just shook my head and was out the door. I can't lose her. I can not be left alone with me father, if I should really call him that. I decided to skip school today. I have all A's and two B's, they won't care if I skip one day. I ran laps around Central City again. Soon I ran out of granola and I was getting lightheaded. So I went back to my place. It was about ten now and Dad already left for work. Now I decided to be sneaky and go through dad's study. Sadly the door was locked and I'd rather not try and vibrate my molecules. But I do have a bobby-pin, which I'm a beast with. I finally got the door opened and started to go through his files. Nothing but boring medical stuff. But I wasn't buying it. I stated looking under things and in things. I finally found a hidden compartment behind some books on his shelf. There was a file marked 'Project Bolt'.

I opened it and was shocked with what I found. It was my file and it tied directly to my nightmares. My nightmare did have something to do with how I got my powers. It listed my blood type, how long I was being experimented on, my stat's. It listed voltage numbers to, which has to explain my sparking fingers. But the most shocking thing I found was a hospital list that listed all deaths in the hospital. The date was marked November 11, 1994. It was the date of my birth. Why was this in here? I looked at the list that only had about nine names on it. One name stood out to me. Pepper West, born November 11, 1994. Died at birth. I dropped the list and backed away.

"That's not possible." I started hyperventilating. I quickly put the stuff back into the compartment and backed away.

"It's not possible." but it all point's to possible. Pepper West was born in the same hospital I was and apparently died that day. But I didn't, I didn't die. I took off out of the house and back to the hospital My mom was watching TV.

"What are you hiding?" I demanded.

"Pepper? Why aren't you at school?" she asked.

"Don't change the topic mom. If I should call you that." her eye's grew. "Tell me the truth mom. Am I your daughter?"

"Pepper, your father brought you home from the adoption agency. We couldn't have kid's."

"Adoption agency? Don't you mean he brought me home from work? He brought me home November 12th, the day after my birthday. Adoption agency's don't take the babies from the hospital's until they are at least three day's old."

"What?" he eye's widened.

"I went into dad's study and found a file about me. About how I got my powers. It had a list from the hospital fifteen years ago. It listed everyone who died in the hospital that day, November 11, 1994. One of the names was Pepper West. It said she died at birth." Mom's eye's looked like they were about to pop out of her head.

"Pepper, I swear I didn't know." she was in tears.

"You didn't know that dad kidnapped me and sold me." her eye's dropped.

"Holy crap you knew!" I snapped.

"I didn't know that you were taken, but, five years ago we came into some money problems. A man came to your father and said he would give us money is we let him use you in some tests. But I didn't know it was an experiment." she was crying.

"I'm sorry, mom. But I can't stay here anymore. I need to find my birth parents and show them I'm not dead."

"I understand."

"Just don't tell dad. Just tell him you never saw me. Later." I ran out the door and back home. I quickly packed a backpack full of clothes and left. I would have to go back to the hospital to find my birth certificate. Unless me "father" burned the copy the hospital keeps. I got back to the hospital and looked around. I did see a room marked FILES. So I'm guessing it could be in there. I did find where the keep the copy birth certificates. I looked through the files. Only one name under West and it wasn't mine. Damn, dad must have burned mine. The name that was under West was a boy named Wallace. He was born on the same day I was. The parents names were Rudolph and Mary West. I wonder if that means anything.

"Hey!" I turned to see a doctor behind me.

"Whoops, got to bolt." did I just say that? I darted past him and was gone before another word said.

The Doctor POV.

"What was that?" asked one of the nurses.

"I don't know. But I'm going to call the Flash and tell him to keep his sidekicks in check." I called the mayor to get a direct line to Flash.

"Yes?"

"Flash, you need to keep your sidekicks in check!" I snapped.

"What do you mean? Kid Flash is with me."

"Not him, the other one."

"I don't have another one." he told me.

"Well, a young girl was snooping in the files and she just sped past me."

"Really? Well I'll look into it."

"Thank you."