A/N: I'm sorry that this is a little late, and every ten chapters I will go through and update/fix parts such as out of character moments and grammar. So please, don't be afraid PM me and tell me what's wrong and needs fixing. Thank you.

Alex swung his legs out, stood and nearly collapsed. He was still weak from the whole ordeal.

"You should rest." The doctor forcefully guided Alex back on the bed, despite the younger male's protests.

"I'm fine." He tried to convince the doctor, but it fell on deaf ears.

"Drink this." The doctor handed Alex a cup.

Alex did as he was told. "I'm telling you I am fine." Then he passed out.

By the time he came to the sun was out.

"Good afternoon." The doctor walked in.

"tch, what was that."

"That was something to make sure you get necessary rest, as well as something to help with your recovery."

Alex turned and sat on the edge of the bed. Absentmindedly he brought lightning to his hand, except nothing happened.

He frowned and focused, coaxing the magic to his hand. "This isn't my magic." He muttered

"Excuse me?"

"This is not my magic, I-just look!" Alex jumped to his feet and showed the doctor his hand and the pure blue electricity coursing over it.

"Your magic?"

"My lightning is, its different andand-"

The doc patted the air "alright, just calm down."

"What? Why should I…" and then Alex noticed what the doctor was staring at, blue electricity was arcing over his body.

Alex looked back at the doctor. "What's...?"

"Wrong, nothing you're just losing control, although I have not seen it to this extent in a long time." The doctor motioned for him sit and pulled out a little red bottle "this was brought in with you last night. We thought it was related to your injuries, but we were not sure how."

Alex calmed downed and told the doctor about the potion. After a few moments the doctor said "I see, well we will have to run a few tests before you can go, just to be safe." And the doctor stood to leave.

"Can I have my clothes back?"

The doctor gestured to the stand next to the bed, where Alex's stuff sat.

"Oh. Thanks" But the doctor already left.

Alex closed the curtain around the bed and proceeded to remove the more troubling bandages. He heard the door open, "hey doc, you're going have to hold off on the tests for a moment." He said while slipping his pants on.

The curtains were yanked back by a familiar person.

"Verna?" then Alex realized he was half dressed. "Verna!" Alex ripped the curtain from her grasp regaining some measure of privacy.

"Hey, I thought you would be happy if somebody gave you a surprise visit."

"No! Not… just don't" he responded as he struggled with his shirt. After a minute he pulled back the curtain "how did you even know?"

"Well I heard that one of our members got hurt, I had some free time so I came by. I didn't realize it was you until I ran into the doctor… so what about tests?"

Alex pulled back the curtain. "The tests are probably to make sure I'm safe and I don't end up exploding, or something."

"Exploding? Why would you explode?"

He didn't want to tell her, but it would be better if he did. So he sat on the bed and motioned for her to do the same before telling her about him buying the potion and him waking in the clinic and everything else.

"So, you bought a potion that you knew nothing about and drank it without hesitation."

"Well, I figured it was so expensive that it would work."

Verna gave Alex a deadpanned look "you. Are. An. Idiot." And cuffed him on the side of the head.

"Yeah" he sighed "and at best I will be a mage that can't use magic, and at worst I will be a threat to the guild."

"Mm possibly, but highly unlikely." Seeing that this had no effect on Alex's mood she decided to change subjects "how did you learn your magic?"

Alex looked up "how is that even relative?"

"It's not, but I'm curious."

"Sure." At that moment someone entered with a tray of food "but after I eat."

Alex stood to get to the food. But Verna beat him to the tray "before." She stated, keeping herself between Alex and his food.

"Fine." He sighed not even bothering to put up a fight. She handed him the tray and he placed it on the bed "where to begin, well It started because of my brother-"

"You had a brother who was a mage?"

"-when. Tch, no he was not a mage, hell he wasn't really my brother. But he is still the closest thing I have to family. And the best thief I ever met, he taught me a lot of what I know and…what is with that look?" he said to Verna

"Your rambling, get on with it."

Alex groaned "well we were completing a job when we decided to take a little more from the target, I stole some jewelry and Yurei stole a few books. I pawned the jewelry and he kept on reading the books. So one day I tried to read one of his books, and that was when I noticed the magic inside of me. Of course Yurei found out and insisted we train this 'skill' and handed me the three books he had."

"Stolen." Verna stated and Alex didn't bother to deny it.

"But there was one slight problem, I could barely read. So we worked on that too and by the time I could proficiently read and write, I was learning lightning magic. Then we fell into a crew and a little later Yurei told me "If you want to be somebody, hell if you want to be a professional, then get out of here and join a guild." And I did."

"What happened to Yurei?" she asked, fully enwrapped in the story

Alex gave her a withering glare "I don't know, now let me eat."

"Is that all?" Alex looked to the doctor

"Yes, and you shall be given a detailed report of your condition in a few day, but you are okay enough for release." The doctor handed Alex the release papers

"About time." he signed the forums, handed them back to the doctor and left.

Alex made his way up the hill and back to the guild. He made it all the way to his room when another member approached him. "The master wishes to speak with you."

Alex nodded and immediately closed his door, damn he thought, and went to the master's study.