I was sitting down on the table as Dr. Holiday was checking on me.

"This temporary loss of powers is occurring more than we'd like. What happened this time?" She asked me as she checked my eyes with her light.

"That E.V.O just wouldn't stop laughing." I said, narrowing my eyes. "It really made me lose it."

"We know your powers must have a direct link to your emotional state, Rex. Have you tried the calming techniques I suggested?" She said as she walked off to write something.

"Uh, yeah." I did but it doesn't mean it helped.

There was a time when I was supposed to drink tea but as I drank it, it burned my throat.

"Hot, hot, hot!" I yelled, falling back l, grabbing my burning throat.

Alaine and Bobo just looked at me laughing.

Then, there was another time when I was suppose to meditate.

"Om, Om, ommygosh this is boring."

There was also another time when I was balancing on one leg until I fell out of balance.

"Didn't really work." I said as she came to me. "Whoa! What are you doing?"

Dr. Holiday was putting on some weird metal thing on my hand.

"Sit still, there are less pleasant ways to get a reading." She held out a really scary pointing thing and I just sat still.

"Don't worry, your girlfriend did hers. I managed to figure out what was going in with her nanites that is making her prone to more attacks."

"She's not my...wait what?"

"Alaine's condition is really rare. I ran some tests on her and each time she uses her powers, her biometrics are higher."

That was weird.

"Do you know what causes it?" I asked.

"Unfortunately, no, however, I did find something interesting. Inside her body, there's an insane amount of energy that goes off the charts. I took a blood sample but the nanites in the blood didn't have the same amount of energy it did when it was inside her body. So, I had her fight off a harmless E.V.O in the control room and had her wear the same thing on your wrist and I noticed that her biometrics go off the chart when she's using her powers but when she's done her biometrics return to normal. It was really odd. She's only had a few chest attacks but they're strong enough to make her feel a good amount of pain."

Damn. Alaine's case is really crazy. I don't think I ever heard of it. But I was also worried. She didn't tell me about her chest attacks. But then yet again, she doesn't tell me much about her powers. It was always about us. But she did act different when we were going back to Providence.

She was almost...sad.

She bought that puppy with her and I felt a little jealous as she placed her attention on that puppy than on me. The puppy was cute but I wanted attention from Alaine. Should that be weird?

"So, does that mean she'll be okay?" I asked.

I was worried about her and I didn't want to lose her. I wanted protect her. It felt like a need I couldn't control. I wanted to protect her, make her feel safe and make sure she was happy.

"I hope so, Rex. I really do." Now, I was starting to worry.

Before I could dwell on it, Dr. Holiday spoke up. "If we're going to figure this out, I need a clean baseline measurement. No missions, no strenuous activity."

"And what if I don't want to?"

"Rex, in this line of work, we all have to do things we don't like."


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