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Jean, Kitty and Xavior entered the room with the bar door and glass walls. Kitty looked around at all the computers and monitoring screens while Xavior talked to Matt.
"So what did you find out?"
"Well, we've discovered that the words Lhach are saying are some how two separate people saying two separate things so it's all jumbled up. However, we don't know where to split the words."
Jean turned around, "So you know that the words are backwards?"
"No."
Jean smiled, "Yeah, I'll show you. Um, can I have a pen and a piece of paper?"
Matt leaded over and grabbed a note pad and a pen from on his desk and gave it to Jean. She wrote down what Lhach had said and what it was backwards. The paper read: teg yepleh emwa morf em = get helpay awme from me.
"But that doesn't make any sense." Matt commented.
"But that's where you need to split up the words. Then they'll made sense."
Matt scanned the words on the paper but frowned, "It still doesn't make any sense."
Xavior moved up, "Then lets concentrate on something else. Matt, what did you say about it being two voices?"
Matt turned to his computer and opened up a Media Player document, "We surveyed Lhach every time he said the words and found this:" Matt hit play and it was a recording of Lhach screaming. He slowed down the tape and hit a different button. It had Lhach screaming but someone else was screaming too. Xavior starred at the screen.
"See." Matt said, pointing to a little box at the top of the screen that had two lines running across it. One red and one blue. The lines where moving with Lhachs scream.
"There are two people." Xavior whispered. He looked up at Matt. "Yesterday I told you about the double pulse, right?"
Matt nodded, "Yes, we looked into that and found that Lhach has something along the lines of schizophrenia. There seemed to be two brain waves coming from him but unlike normal schizophrenia, Lhach isn't just imagining it. This is real."
At that moment Xavior remembered what Lhach had said to him, 'How do you trust someone when they think you are crazy.'
Xavior did think Lhach was crazy. He just wouldn't admit it. So he led himself to believe that he thought otherwise.
"But the only problem is that we don't have enough information."
Xavior stared, "Matt, I told you in the beginning that I…"
Mat threw up his hands, "I know I know, but this is important."
Xavior lowered his voice, "Matt, I told you I won't make Lhach change so that you could take information. That's not right. He has nightmares every time he changes. Do you know the terror that boy is put through everyday because of it? My purpose is to teach him how to control that so that he doesn't have to change anymore."
"Xavior, please. We need to do his."
Xavior looked at Jean and Kitty, "What about them, I won't let them in there if Lhach is going to change."
Kitty looked at him suspiciously, "What do you mean 'change'?"
"They don't have to go into the cell." Matt said, ignoring Kitty's question, "They can wait out here. But this time we're not locking the doors. Last time he almost killed you. You're lucky we were able to get past the flames."
"Flames?" Kitty gulped.
"Well, nevertheless, I do not want them to see Lhach. You know what eye contact with him could do." Xavior said quietly.
Matt nodded, "I know."
Xavior sighed, "Well, all right. But I'm only doing this to help him."
"Okay, so, what are you talking about." Kitty coughed.
"I'll explain it to you later," Jean said.
Outside the maximum security holding cell, Kitty and Jean waited patiently for Xavior to finish with Lhach. However, no one told them what would be going on in the cell. Xavior tried to talk to Lhach but he wouldn't listen. Lhach changed again but Kitty and Jean weren't expecting screaming from inside the cell. Even though the walls were sound proof the scream still penetrated the silence outside the cell.
Jean and Kitty looked at each other and then at the cell. The screaming started up again.
"What is that?" Kitty asked softly.
Jean listened for a moment, "Is that, Lhach?"
Kitty started running towards the cell, "C'mon!"
Jean looked back at the room, "But, we're supposed to stay here."
"Fine," Kitty said, not turning around, "Then you stay."
Jean rolled her eyes and ran after Kitty. She grabbed Jean's arm and threw herself into the wall, phasing through. The sound quickly made its way to their eardrums and Kitty froze. She looked around in terror at the flames and then she saw Lhach. Jean was already with Xavior, mentally blocking Lhach from them but Kitty was frozen. She couldn't move anything but her eyes. She brought them up to Lhach. The black cloth on his head was turning red again and two piercing red circles were making it's was through. Kitty scared at the cloth, unable to take her eyes off it. The same, 'TEG YEPLEH EMWA MORF EM' cut through the air. Xavior turned and saw Kitty starring at him. He yelled for her to look away but Kitty couldn't hear him. All she could hear was the screaming and all she could feel was the heat from the fire.
Xavior never stayed this long and Lhach had always changed back by now. The cloth on his head slowly fell from his face. Lhach's scream grew louder and he noticed Kitty staring at him. Blue flames rose up behind her as Lhach lunged. He ran straight towards Kitty but she phased right through him, leaving him slamming into his own fire. But when he got up, his body wasn't damaged at all. However, the cloth fell from his face. Kitty stared at his eyes. She didn't want to look into them but she couldn't draw herself away. Her eyes began to burn but she couldn't stop starring. His eyes were almost hypnotic. They were like two great pits of darkness that seems to be endless, then she began to fall. Or at least she thought she was falling. Kitty threw her hands up to head and started screaming.
Jean heard Kitty and mentally threw Lhach away from her. He slammed against the wall and shot his head up at Jean. He starred her in the eye but when Kitty screamed again Jean looked over towards her, away from Lhach.
All Kitty could see was black. Her body grew lighter as she fell. She closed her eyes tight but still felt herself being pushed down. Even though hers were closed she could still see Lhach's eyes. The maddening darkness engulfing her in shadows. And then everything went black.
Kitty woke up the next day at noon. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around. She was in her room. Was that all just a dream? No. It was too real to be a dream. Kitty could still see Lhach's eyes, moving like fire. Then Kitty saw Jean, sitting next to her. Jean looked over and smiled.
"Good morning." She said gently.
Kitty stared at her, 'What happened?"
"Do you remember anything at all?
"I remember like, going into this weird prison and talking about someone like, named Lhach but then I…"
All of the sudden Kitty had flashback. She saw Lhach's burning eyes and felt the heat. And then he stared at her and she fell.
"I remember going into a cell."
Jean smiled, half relieved that Kitty didn't remember the incident, "You passed out after you saw Lhach standing there."
"I…passed out?"
Jean nodded. But Kitty knew she was lying, although she said nothing.
Jean stood up, "Well, I'd better go tell professor you're awake."
"What's gunna happen to Lhach?" Kitty asked softly.
Jean paused. "Xavior's not going to see him anymore."
"What? Why? I thought he, like…"
Jean shook her head, "He said that as long as Lhach gave up hope there's no use working with him, ya know?"
Kitty nodded although she didn't understand.
When Jean left Kitty's mind wandered back to Lhach. She felt something when he looked at her. Something other than fear. He said something to her. Kitty thought back to what he said and slowly found herself repeating it in a whisper. Almost a chant.
"Pleh em."
Jaina12: Yes, I'm pretty sure that's how you spell Xavior. If I'm not then I got a lot of corrections to make!
Another long chapter. There may be a lot of those. I didn't expect the story line to go this far! Happy me. Sorry it took me a while to update. The Long In thingie wasn't working and I had a party to go to so that's my excuse. Thanks for reading. Please review!