Chapter 2: Adapting and Interruptions
I awaken and look over to a clock on the wall, it reads a quarter to six and it is still dark outside. I try to get up but my arms are like lead weights. I turn over and try to sleep again recovering from the heavy painkillers they must have injected me. All I remember is talking to Kurt, Kitty, Rogue and Evan and then Jean came in to sit and talk, then they all left leaving me with Kurt. He was talking to me but I wasn't really listening, just so tired.
I was sleeping peacefully until...
A man whispered to a team of nurses and doctors, pointing to me and calling me 'SL5'. I stretch out to a nurse, she sees my hand and goes to hold it when she is dragged away screaming. Someone puts a mask over my face, I feel needles prickling my arms. I'm crying, everything is so bright and I can't see what anyone is doing, only a white light that sways above me. I'm trying to move, to kick and scream but I'm restrained, my head strapped to a table. My cries are muffled, then it happens. I concentrate hard on my pain and a high pitch sound resonates and brakes the glass, makes the machines react chaotically, the light bulb explodes. There is darkness.
"Sally, Sally wake up!" Kitty is shaking me, Kurt is also above me with a look of concern.
I hear Jean's voice in my head but she isn't talking to me. //Kurt, I'll get a sedative.\\
//No you won't, no needles please! No more!!\\ Kurt looks at me shocked.
//Jean, she knew we were sending. What should I do?\\
Kitty is holding my arms firmly and is looking worried. I concentrate hard on my remaining pain and the sound screams loud, not affecting me but Kitty and Kurt are covering their ears and their faces cringe. The window panes have smashed but I think I must done that earlier. A picture on the wall fulls and the glass smashes.
//What's going on up there?\\
//Its Sally making this-\\ Kitty tried to channel back to Jean. //Making this noise, just like earlier!\\
//Jean, where's that sound coming from? Its awful!\\ Scott sounded like he was in pain.
//Scott-\\ Jean tried to channel but the sound was making it difficult. //Its Sally making-\\
I channelled to Jean. //If you want me to stop making this racket, do not and I repeat, do not give me any injections of any sort. Agreed?\\
//Yeah, O.K.. Just stop!\\
The professor channelled to all of us. //My chair's gone haywire, can someone escort Sally to my office please, at once.\\
The noise fades out and Kitty and Kurt relax. They both ask, "What was that?"
"I dunno?"
They leave the room and I change into my jeans and shirt, hanging my jacket on the end of the bed. I'm a mass of bandages and bruises. I make my way out the door where I'm met by Kurt again, he holds my hand and transport me to Prof. X's office door.
"Thanks, and sorry about earlier." I say giving his hand a squeeze.
"Oh, that's alright." He smiles back and leaves in a cloud of smoke.
I meet the professor sitting behind a desk, his chair is out of action and over tuned in the corner of the room.
"Please take a seat, Sally, and relax. We don't mean to harm you." The Prof. says calmly. "Where are your parents?"
"They're not in town at the moment."
"When will they be back?" He asks, trying to read my thoughts.
//I know what you're doing Prof. so I'll be honest. I don't really have any parents and I just moved here.\\
"Your telepathic ability is reasonably proficient, how long have you known you were a mutant?" He stopped searching stared at me.
"I've been reading peoples thoughts for a long time, it came in handy when one lives like me." I straightened out my shirt and looked to the window, waiting for his reply.
"Can I do something to you?" The Prof put his hands out towards me, gesturing for me to come forward.
I shook my head. "No, I don't need you reading my mind, there is stuff about me even I don't want to know. And you don't need to know either!"
I got up and left, slamming the door behind me and making back for my room. Gathering up my stuff, I walked down the hall and the stairs towards the main entrance. I was greeted by Evan.
"Where you going?" He asked me, holding his skateboard.
"Home." I replied back, biting my lip holding back the tears. "I'm going home." In all truth, I didn't want to leave this nice place they offered as a home, but I had to go otherwise people would ask questions I couldn't answer alone.
I could hear in my mind, the Prof. sending out messages to everyone on the grounds telling them to let me go.
"O.K., see ya later Sally."
Walking down the driveway, I was stopped by Logan on his motorcycle. Before he said anything I spoke what he was thinking in his mind.
"Where does she think she's going now, better stop her from doing something stupid! Well, you can't! You don't own me and I'm leaving."
Logan glared at me and grumbled, then his face softened. "Do you need a lift?"
I thought for a moment and cheered up as I replied. "Yeah, to the Supermarket would be nice. Thanks!"
On reaching the Supermarket, Logan held my hand and said to me, "You're alright kid, are you sure you don't need to stay with us?"
"I'm positive, Logan. I can stand on my own two feet, y'know."
He let go of me and sped off, leaving me with a crumpled $5 note and a piece of paper in my hand which I shoved into my only pocket.
I walked into the Supermarket and it was cold, pulled my threadbare jacket around me. I asked the clerk where the damaged, cheap food was and he pointed to the last aisle in the store without looking at me. I walked over there, grabbed a basket and filled it with tins of tuna, anchovies, spaghetti and canned peas'n'corn. I looked at all the food I'd gathered in my basket when a shadow cast over me.
It was Quicksilver. He flung me over his shoulder and ran out of there to the local school, I still had the tins of food when he finally stopped in the school kitchen.
"Magneto wants to see you." He said.
To be continued...
A.T.- This was a bit longer, I wasn't expecting that but I was trying to find a way of ending this chapter. Go R'n'R'n'Whateva!
I awaken and look over to a clock on the wall, it reads a quarter to six and it is still dark outside. I try to get up but my arms are like lead weights. I turn over and try to sleep again recovering from the heavy painkillers they must have injected me. All I remember is talking to Kurt, Kitty, Rogue and Evan and then Jean came in to sit and talk, then they all left leaving me with Kurt. He was talking to me but I wasn't really listening, just so tired.
I was sleeping peacefully until...
A man whispered to a team of nurses and doctors, pointing to me and calling me 'SL5'. I stretch out to a nurse, she sees my hand and goes to hold it when she is dragged away screaming. Someone puts a mask over my face, I feel needles prickling my arms. I'm crying, everything is so bright and I can't see what anyone is doing, only a white light that sways above me. I'm trying to move, to kick and scream but I'm restrained, my head strapped to a table. My cries are muffled, then it happens. I concentrate hard on my pain and a high pitch sound resonates and brakes the glass, makes the machines react chaotically, the light bulb explodes. There is darkness.
"Sally, Sally wake up!" Kitty is shaking me, Kurt is also above me with a look of concern.
I hear Jean's voice in my head but she isn't talking to me. //Kurt, I'll get a sedative.\\
//No you won't, no needles please! No more!!\\ Kurt looks at me shocked.
//Jean, she knew we were sending. What should I do?\\
Kitty is holding my arms firmly and is looking worried. I concentrate hard on my remaining pain and the sound screams loud, not affecting me but Kitty and Kurt are covering their ears and their faces cringe. The window panes have smashed but I think I must done that earlier. A picture on the wall fulls and the glass smashes.
//What's going on up there?\\
//Its Sally making this-\\ Kitty tried to channel back to Jean. //Making this noise, just like earlier!\\
//Jean, where's that sound coming from? Its awful!\\ Scott sounded like he was in pain.
//Scott-\\ Jean tried to channel but the sound was making it difficult. //Its Sally making-\\
I channelled to Jean. //If you want me to stop making this racket, do not and I repeat, do not give me any injections of any sort. Agreed?\\
//Yeah, O.K.. Just stop!\\
The professor channelled to all of us. //My chair's gone haywire, can someone escort Sally to my office please, at once.\\
The noise fades out and Kitty and Kurt relax. They both ask, "What was that?"
"I dunno?"
They leave the room and I change into my jeans and shirt, hanging my jacket on the end of the bed. I'm a mass of bandages and bruises. I make my way out the door where I'm met by Kurt again, he holds my hand and transport me to Prof. X's office door.
"Thanks, and sorry about earlier." I say giving his hand a squeeze.
"Oh, that's alright." He smiles back and leaves in a cloud of smoke.
I meet the professor sitting behind a desk, his chair is out of action and over tuned in the corner of the room.
"Please take a seat, Sally, and relax. We don't mean to harm you." The Prof. says calmly. "Where are your parents?"
"They're not in town at the moment."
"When will they be back?" He asks, trying to read my thoughts.
//I know what you're doing Prof. so I'll be honest. I don't really have any parents and I just moved here.\\
"Your telepathic ability is reasonably proficient, how long have you known you were a mutant?" He stopped searching stared at me.
"I've been reading peoples thoughts for a long time, it came in handy when one lives like me." I straightened out my shirt and looked to the window, waiting for his reply.
"Can I do something to you?" The Prof put his hands out towards me, gesturing for me to come forward.
I shook my head. "No, I don't need you reading my mind, there is stuff about me even I don't want to know. And you don't need to know either!"
I got up and left, slamming the door behind me and making back for my room. Gathering up my stuff, I walked down the hall and the stairs towards the main entrance. I was greeted by Evan.
"Where you going?" He asked me, holding his skateboard.
"Home." I replied back, biting my lip holding back the tears. "I'm going home." In all truth, I didn't want to leave this nice place they offered as a home, but I had to go otherwise people would ask questions I couldn't answer alone.
I could hear in my mind, the Prof. sending out messages to everyone on the grounds telling them to let me go.
"O.K., see ya later Sally."
Walking down the driveway, I was stopped by Logan on his motorcycle. Before he said anything I spoke what he was thinking in his mind.
"Where does she think she's going now, better stop her from doing something stupid! Well, you can't! You don't own me and I'm leaving."
Logan glared at me and grumbled, then his face softened. "Do you need a lift?"
I thought for a moment and cheered up as I replied. "Yeah, to the Supermarket would be nice. Thanks!"
On reaching the Supermarket, Logan held my hand and said to me, "You're alright kid, are you sure you don't need to stay with us?"
"I'm positive, Logan. I can stand on my own two feet, y'know."
He let go of me and sped off, leaving me with a crumpled $5 note and a piece of paper in my hand which I shoved into my only pocket.
I walked into the Supermarket and it was cold, pulled my threadbare jacket around me. I asked the clerk where the damaged, cheap food was and he pointed to the last aisle in the store without looking at me. I walked over there, grabbed a basket and filled it with tins of tuna, anchovies, spaghetti and canned peas'n'corn. I looked at all the food I'd gathered in my basket when a shadow cast over me.
It was Quicksilver. He flung me over his shoulder and ran out of there to the local school, I still had the tins of food when he finally stopped in the school kitchen.
"Magneto wants to see you." He said.
To be continued...
A.T.- This was a bit longer, I wasn't expecting that but I was trying to find a way of ending this chapter. Go R'n'R'n'Whateva!