Disclaimer: I don't own these characters or the plot of the movie, I do however own Maria. If I did own the rest, I'd be typing this story on a brand spanking new laptop so I can keep this one safe, but I can't afford one. Chapter title is a David Bowie song, so also not mine…
Chapter 4
Maria didn't remember the ship landing, or the emergency services that flooded the shuttle as it came down from orbit. In fact she didn't remember anything before waking up in a bed at the quarantine wing of Victor's hospital centre.
Since then she'd watched very bad television show, gone to see her father and listened to him complain about some trick Johnny played on him involving a mirror, said 'hi' to Sue and Reed, before begging the nurse to let her go outside for a walk. Turned out they were allowed to go out anyway, they didn't pose much of a threat. In fact the doctors and scientists who prodded and probed her hadn't found much wrong with her.
She looked around the grounds of the centre, and pulled her coat tightly around her to block the wind. That was when she realised that something was different. She didn't feel cold, the wind that was blowing in her face, snowy mountains surrounded them, but she didn't feel cold at all.
She walked over to the fountain that was in the middle of the grounds and put her finger to test the temperature of the water. Her finger disappeared. "Arrrrggghhh!" she screamed and pulled her hand away and looked at it, her left index finger had disappeared. She began to feel very sick, then as she stared in horror at the hand she saw that it grew back, only it had a tinge of blue to it. In fact her whole hand had turned blue. She glanced at her right hand, that too had gone blue.
Maria's breath was coming in gasps as she closed her eyes. "You're hallucinating," she told herself. "You have been through a traumatic experience, and you are now seeing things!" She spun around and ran back to the building, before she got to the door she let out another scream. Her reflection in the glass doors of the building was blue, she grabbed her hair and stared at it, it too was beginning to turn blue before her eyes.
She grabbed the door and tugged it open, she had to find her father quickly.
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She ran through the building on the way to where her father's room was. She had no time to react when she saw Johnny standing before her, and wen smack into his back. A burning sensation went through each part of her body where her skin came into contact with Johnny's, and she screamed out in pain.
She looked at her hands, they were burnt, but before Reed and Sue even had time to see if she was all right, the burns had healed themselves. She looked at them, "Yeah, I know. I've gone blue, I need to find my dad!" she said, "It's all too weird, so I've come up with the conclusion that I'm hallucinating." She wasn't in the mood to talk, she just wanted to find Ben.
"We'll talk when we find your father," Reed explained and led the way to his friends room.
Maria didn't even question what was happening when Reed stretched his hand under the door to unlock it from the other side, she was more concerned with the noises of the animal that was in her father's room. She was even more afraid when she saw the hole in the other side of his room.
It was obvious where he was going, to Debbie.
End of chapter