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At first Gaia thought she was in Heaven. After all, Heaven was white… or was it? It could be pink for all she knew; she'd never been there before. "Wow," she said. "I died." She knew it was a lame thing to say, but she was so swept up in the coolness of it all that she couldn't think of anything better.
Jinx noticed that Gaia was at her side. At first, she thought she was in Heaven also because everything was white (not pink). But after a while, she began to feel like she was just in a white room. "No, Gaia, you are not dead. We are somewhere else."
"So what happened? We were abducted by aliens?" Gaia laughed nervously, not entirely disbelieving her words.
Jinx noticed that there were needles attached with wires in Gaia's veins. Then she looked at her own veins to see that she, too, had needles there. "Wait a minute," she said, looking at Gaia. "Do you think the aliens are doing experiments on us? I mean, look around! I have never seen a room like this!" Jinx tried to sit up, but there was too much pain in her ribs. "Agh! I think a few of my ribs are broken!" she cried.
Gaia started to tug the needles out of her arms. (Needles hurt too much anyway; she had deep veins.) "That is IT! I am going to talk to whoever is in charge here and-" She tripped over a power cord on the way to the door, falling flat on her face. "Ow…"
Jinx rolled her eyes. "Well, I can't go talk to anyone. My ribs hurt even when I sit still. Please help me up…" Jinx grabbed the handrail in front of her for support. "Hey!" she yelled at Gaia. "Help me out now! We are not going to achieve anything if you're just going to hang there on the floor!"
"What do you expect me to do?" Gaia retorted as she stood up. "Carry you in my backpack?"
"Oh," Jinx matched her sarcasm, "Would you please?" She chuckled to herself. "Okay, I really mean it, please help me up."
Gaia began to tug at Jinx's arm. She'd nearly lifted Jinx when the door whooshed open. Gaia hid behind Jinx. "Gaia!" Jinx whispered violently. "What are you doing? Help me up!" She saw a dark figure within the light shining through the doorway. "Oh my god," Jinx gasped. "It's Jesus!"
Gaia squinted at the figure. "I didn't know Jesus wore sunglasses…"
The figure stepped out of the light. Both Jinx and Gaia looked faintly disappointed, as it was not Jesus. It was a man. A very handsome one, at that. He was looking at both girls. "It looks like they're awake."
Another lady came to his side. "Scott, I think you should go." As he walked away, he kissed her goodbye.
"I will see you later," he said.
Gaia didn't want to admit that she was jealous of the woman, but it was plain enough for Jinx to see.
"Hello," the woman said in a reasonably friendly manner. "I'm Dr. Jean Grey." She stuck out her hand for the girls to shake. Jinx had to ignore it because of her broken ribs. Gaia chose to ignore it because the woman was not making any sort of a good impression on her.
"Well, Dr. Jean Grey, I'm non-Dr. Charlotte Monahan, otherwise known as Gaia, and I'd be very interested in knowing why we're in your research facility. My friend here does not need to be poked and prodded with your needles. She needs ME to take her to a hospital." Gaia could be very hostile when necessary… or, apparently, unnecessary. Jinx was willing to bet her unbroken bones that a very bad storm was brewing outside; such things tended to happen when Gaia was angry.
"You really shouldn't be moving either," Jean said, collecting the various tubes Gaia had scattered when she removed the needles. Gaia's annoyance was beginning to show inside the room; the temperature inside had dropped ten degrees. Armed with her adrenaline, Gaia was able to pull Jinx to her feet in a single motion.
"It's OK, Mommy, I swear we aren't going out to see boys and drink beer," Gaia said acidly as she half-carried Jinx out of the room. In the elevator, Gaia realized that she'd gone postal without a plan. Still, Gaia had said she was going to get Jinx out of this place and into a hospital, and she was not going to let an annoyingly lucky doctor get in her way! She would do what she'd said if she had to walk all the way to the nearest city!
"What, walk all the way carrying her?" a male voice spoke in her head.