Subject: Teresa Agnes
Diagnosis: Agoraphobia [Telepathy]
Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety in situations where the sufferer perceives the environment to be dangerous, uncomfortable or unsafe. These situations can include wide-open spaces, uncontrollable social situations, unfamiliar places, shopping malls, airports and bridges.
[Telepathy is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction]
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Everyone said that she is agoraphobic, that hearing all that voices in her head is just an excuse to avoid crowded places. No, is not, she can catch glimpses of other people thought, and in the crowded place that became unbearable.
So this new clinic they sent her, this WiCKED place, is empty enough and so is fine for her, even the cafeteria, that she was fearing most of all, contains only five people including the dinner ladies.
With such a small number she can manage to keep their voices to a low level, just ground noise.
Three more guys, all more or less of her age, are entering now, but she still manage to keep their thoughts out as well.
And then, the shorter of the three, the blonde one, leads the other two, a cute brunette and a physically fit asian guy, to her table. "Hi Teresa, how is going so far?" is the blonde greeting as he sit down in front of her.
"Sorry, do I know you?" is her answer, but the other two just burst out "so SHE is Teresa…" and they sit with them, the brunette on her same side of the table, the black-haired one near to the blonde.
"What?" she's even more confuse now, so she skim over their minds.
The Blonde guy, Newt, gives her a beginning of an headache, he knows her from a party she is did't partake yet, the bigger one, Minho, is just amused that Newt is messing with the timelines again, and the third one… the third one is the most surprising one. Explore his mind is like coming back home. Then he, the brunette, Tom, starts to talk "please, forgive Newt, in the last two weeks he gave me multiple headaches, but basically he can see the future, and sometime he forget that we cannot…"
Minho grins and Newt is ready for a retort, when a nurse approach their table.
"hey Vince" Newt recognize him, even if the guy is behind his back.
"Newt, is time for your therapy… And by the way, you're not suppose to use your power outside the test chambers!"
"Involuntary power, do you remember?" Newt answers standing.
Vince's hand go on Newt's back to stabilize and lead him. And in that moment, like a bolt, Teresa feels the second hand overwhelm of Newt's vision. She wasn't perusing him, in this moment, so what she's feeling is more like an empathic recognizing than a proper thought readings, but she can feel Newt's concern and fear for Minho wellbeing.
The sight might be a powerful one, as in a second Newt is crumpling to the ground, and Minho is pushing the nurse away as he grabs Newt in his arms.
And then the fire starts.
It's all around Minho and Newt as the black-haired one tries to revive the blonde in his arms.
"Minho, stop!" Tom yells, and a fire extinguisher gets detached from the wall and flights in Tom's hand.
But the fire extinguisher is not enough. And the flames are tighten the circle around them.
Teresa then tries something she never did before. She tried to communicate with Minho in his mind.
/Minho, Minho please stop!/
She fails, but then she tried Newt's head /Newt, please, Minho needs you help/ it's a long shot, but it's wort the effort. Newt, at least from what she can sees through the flames, is coming back to consciousness. Newt blinks and after Teresa mind is flooded with a litany of 'no no nonono, not already' and she assist as the blonde tries to remove Minho ignite t-shirt. The blonde hisses, for sure he's burning himself is this attempt.
Minho grabs Newt's hands, and the shorter one cries in pain, as both guys hands start to blister.
That wakes Minho from his trance.
He stands, and tries to put as much space as the flames let him between him and Newt. but the blonde is standing as well. "Minho, Minho, breath. I'm fine, you are fine, breath… Tommy, keep going with that bloody fire extinguisher"
And that's it. Minho and Tom works together and quell the fire.
Newt turn to another teenager in the cafeteria, a short guy with grey spot in his black hairs. "Clint, can you come here and take care of Minho's wounds?"
"No, take care of Newt, first"
"no bloody way, shuck face!"
As the shooting fight go on, Clint places his hands on both teenagers' shoulder, and the burns start to magically heal.
Teresa and Tom can just watch as Newt leaves with Vince and Minho all but run away from the room.
"This place… Is it this way all the time?" asks the girl.
"Yes, I'm afraid so…"