I woke up in a peach colored room, lying on a bed that wasn't my own. Confusion was once again my main reaction. My head started to throb, bits and parts of memory came flooding back. Just like clock work Reed came through the door.
"Good, your finally awake, we were starting to worry." He said, in his usual tone.
"How long have I been out?" I asked, trying to sit up.
"About 2 hours." Susan said, concerned and walked into the room. I widened my eyes, it only seemed like minutes.
"Ya you scared us, but the paramedics said you would wake up soon so they let us bring you back here." she said, sitting down on the bed next to me.
"That's good." I said, still confused. "So where am I exactly?"
"Oh, your at my place. Since the bridge incident, we decided that it would be good if we stayed here. We didn't want to take you back home so we brought you here." Reed said.
"No you decided!" A voice boomed from another room. It sounded like Johnny, Reed just rolled his eyes and continued.
"Oh OK." I said, touching my head. It had some gauze taped onto where the cut was.
"How are you feeling?" Reed asked.
"Hungry." I said "What do you have to eat around here?" I asked smiling.
"Ya, just follow me." Sue said. I got up and followed her out the door into the kitchen.
"What do you want to eat?" She asked.
"PB and J?" I asked.
"Ya." she said nonchalantly.
"So what did I miss?" I asked.
"Not much really." she said somewhat perplexed.
"Sue?" I said, knowing she was hiding something by the sound of her voice.
"What?" she said defensively. I gave her the look of 'come on you know what I'm talking about.'
"There isn't anything Angie" she said even more defensively than before.
"OK, OK, don't snap my head off." I said, just as Johnny walked into the room. Sue looked at me I nodded, I guess we would finish this conversation later. She handed me my sandwich and walked out of the room leaving me with her brother.
"Hey, how ya feeling?" Johnny asked me and walked a little closer to me.
"I've been better, but I've also been a lot worse." I said with a smile, and took a bite out of my sandwich. He smiled back at me and went to the fridge.
"So your pretty pissed about Reed making you stay here?" I asked.
"Well, I'm one of those guys that can't stay in one place at for a long time. I need to be free." he said.
"Right." I said sarcastically, knowing what that meant and sipped some water.
"What? I like sports." he said as he sipped some water he just got out of the fridge.
"And women." I added nonchalantly. He choked on his water out of shock that I was that upfront about it. I smirked at him in amusement.
"Just because we just met doesn't mean I don't know about your promiscuous life." I said somewhat with an attitude of all knowing. He turned around and acted like he was offended, by having his mouth open and his arms flailing about.
"Don't look at me that way. I've heard about you from your sister." I said, in reality she kinda hadn't. Hell as of a week ago I didn't know he existed. She had only told me he was promiscuous and a man whore.
"Well I can be different." he said with a smirk and leaned on the counter towards me. I had to stifle a laugh.
"Right." I said, rolling my eyes and started walking toward my room, swaying the hips just a little more than normal, just for fun. My room was located by the entrance to the apartment. I started to think about what Sue had said before she left. About the guys I always dated. They were the guys that were womanizers or weirdos, which also were the type of guys I fell in love with. I'm not saying I'm falling in love with Johnny but I to admit was very attracted to him. Plus he was gorgeous.
When I got to my room I heard the main door open and slam shut. I leaned out the door from my room to see who it was and why they slammed the door. It was Victor.
"Victor, I am glad to see you walking around." I said, with the whole 'he's my boss gotta act like a kiss ass' attitude.
"Why are you here?" he asked, not really caring.
"I was in the bridge incident." I said.
"Oh well, I no longer need your assistance with the Von Doom company." he said, like water off a ducks back.
"So your firing me." I said with anger, sadness and happiness running through my body.
"Ya." he said, turned and left.
"Great." I muttered to myself, as Ben walked into my view.
"Who are you talking to?" he asked.
"Victor, He just fired me." I said with some sadness. I was now jobless and I had been fired.
"Wow I'm sorry." he said walking over to me.
"In all honesty I hated that job, and I wanted to quit but couldn't." I said with a stifled laugh.
"I'm sure Reed could use some help with the testing and stuff." Ben said cheering me up a little.
"I'll have to ask him, thanks for the thought Ben." I said and gave him a hug.
We heard Victor yelling splitting us from our hug and conversation. Ben and I went to look out of curiosity and wonder. We didn't have to go far, as Victor and Reed walked with haste toward the door.
"Victor wait. I just wanted to say I'm sorry the mission didn't go as planned." Reed said.
"Didn't go as planned? It was a catastrophe. You ruined the lives of four people." Victor said back with venom.
"With all due respect, we're both to blame. I told you to abort." Reed said matter of factly.
"Abort? I put my company, my name, billions of dollars on the line. I will not let you make me look like a fool." Victor said his rage was rising you could tell by his face.
"If we could understand..." Reed began and was interrupted by the very pissed Victor.
"I don't want to understand it! This isn't one of your science projects! I just want to fix it, fast!" Victor yelled, as the lights faded in and out.
"Is there a problem?" Ben said, making our presence known.
"No. No problem Ben" Victor said calmer.
"Just pay your damn electric bill and get to work on finding a cure." Victor said as he walked out the door. All three of us stood there for a moment in shock and wonderment about what had just happened.
"Well I'm going to go take a nap." I said, lightening the mood and walked past Reed to my room.
I went into my room and sat on my bed, taking everything in. Three of my best friends were mutated, I was just fired, and I am attracted to my best friends brother. I curled up and fell asleep. Even though I slept the majority of the day I was exhausted.
