Chapter 5: Answers To The Questions
It had been a few minutes after the girl had taken Gary with her, and the men with guns had gone. They had used a gas bomb to escape before they had a chance of capturing them.
The only thing that Dr. Rosen could think of what to do, was to wait in the same place that Gary and the girl were last seen, hoping that they will come back.
The rest of the team stood behind him, still trying to take in what had just happened.
Bill was pacing back and forth, trying not to lose his temper or get annoyed and bored with waiting.
Cameron had his arm wrapped around Nina and the other on Rachel shoulder to comfort the both of them.
Just as Dr. Rosen turned to tell his team to make their way back to the office, a white-blue light came from behind him. When he turned, he saw Gary and the girl looking at him. He suddenly felt happy that Gary wasn't hurt.
"Gary!" he said loudly and went up to him quickly. The rest of the team followed. Nina and Rachel ran to Gary's side when Bill and Cameron walked slowly up behind the girls, just in case the other girl had second thoughts.
"Gary, are you alright?" Rachel asked, almost in tears, the sudden urge to hug him, but remembered that he didn't liked to be touched.
"Yeah Rachel, I'm fine." He said with a smile on his face, as he saw all of his friends again. "Dr. Rosen, this is Lucy. She knew me Dr. Rosen, and I didn't tell her anything. She knew me Dr. Rosen" Gary said almost excitedly.
"Gary, what do you mean that she knows you?" he asked Gary and then looked up at the girl Gary had called Lucy.
"She knew my name, Dr. Rosen, and… and I didn't tell her my name. She said she knew my name because we were friends once. She said that we were friends in high school, but I don't remember her." Gary said to Dr. Rosen.
Dr. Rosen looked at the girl, Lucy again and had a confused look on his face.
"How do you know Gary, if he doesn't know you?" Dr. Rosen asked placing himself in front of Gary and Bill and Cameron came forward, when Nina and Rachel tried to lead Gary away, who refused to move.
"Because… because I made him forget after what I did to him." Lucy said sadly, and Dr. Rosen had detected it in her voice.
"Yeah, she… she said that Dr. Rosen. She has already said that when she took me to the place, just a few minutes ago." Gary said, informing the others happily.
Dr. Rosen looked back at Gary in alarm. "What place Gary?" he asked worriedly.
"The place where I went to when I was in high school. The place with no signals, the place with trees. I remember finding that place, but… but I never told anyone about it, not even mum. And she knew, Dr. Rosen, she knew that places, my place." Gary replied pointing at Lucy but showed no sign of being afraid of her.
Lucy made no movement to move or to 'teleport' out of the alleyway. She just stood there, watching or maybe even waiting for something. But no one knew what it was that she was doing, or what she was going to do next.
Everyone was focused on her, watching her very intensively.
"So what, you've been stalking Gary since he was a kid. Watching him, following him everywhere and knowing every little detail of his life?" Cameron said angrily and at the same time, was protecting Gary from her line of sight.
"No. I am not a stalker, and I am not following Gary. In fact, it was you lot that were following me." Lucy said calmly and didn't dare raise her voice at them.
"Ok, so you didn't follow Gary. But then how do you know him?" Dr. Rosen repeated a question again.
"Both me and Gary have told you. We were friends back in high school, and after what I did to him, I wiped his memory about me and everything we did with each other. For his own good." Lucy said just as calmly as before, looking at everyone in turn, even Gary.
"But… but why did you wipe my memory? What did I do to you?" Gary asked, looking past Cameron's head and was now playing with his sweatband again.
"You didn't do anything to me. Like I said, I was the one who had hurt you, but you don't remember it because I made you forget." Lucy said in a slow, sweet, soft voice to Gary, who instantly stopped playing with his sweatband.
"But who can you make someone forget about you? I mean… we still remember you." Dr. Rosen said looking at his team and then back at Lucy.
"You remember because I want you to remember and I haven't hurt you yet." Lucy replied, not wanting to get near them.
"Was that a threat?" Bill asked disgustedly and both Bill and Cameron took a step forward.
"No, believe me. You'll know if I'm threatening you, and that was not a threat." Lucy replied also taking a step back away from them. "Please, I don't want to hurt anyone. Not again."
At that, Dr. Rosen looked worried again. What did she mean about again? Did she mean Gary? He thought to himself.
"Look, I'm sorry for taking Gary and for hitting you guy's earlier, but I didn't know who you were or why you were following me, but I am telling you now, I can do a lot worse to a lot more people if you're not careful." Now Lucy said this as a threat and both Bill and Cameron stopped moving.
Dr. Rosen was now getting scared of what might happen next. He had to take charge.
"Lucy, you have a right to be scared, and you are right. We didn't tell you who we are. As I have told you, my name is Dr. Rosen and we are trying to help you." He said this in a calm voice, not wanting to know what she could do, yet. "I'm sorry if we scared you but we just wanted to talk about your ability, or well, in this case- abilities." Dr. Rosen watched her to see her reaction. He was right; she reacted just as she should have: worried and scared.
"How do you know I have more than one ability? I know you saw my teleporting but what else did you see?" Lucy said, looking back and forth through all of the faces looking at her.
"Well, I know you have a quicker reaction and flawless aim than any average person. But I can't see why you would say that it is so dangerous. You can't hurt a lot of people with that." Dr. Rosen said in a voice that tried to tell her the truth about herself. "That ability makes you a 'Hyperkinetic'. With help, you could be better at controlling it." Dr. Rosen said trying to make her to calm down, which was working.
Lucy looked at them all and then settled her eyes on Dr. Rosen, and then she started laughing.
Dr. Rosen looked at her in a confused look. Why was she laughing? He thought to himself.
Lucy stopped laughing and looked back at Dr. Rosen. "You don't know do you? What I am capable of. You only know of two of my abilities. I have a lot more than that." She said in a happy voice, looking at their reaction to her laughing.
"What do you mean more than two abilities? How much more do you have?" he asked, now getting a little worried of what she was actually capable of?
Everyone was starting to get worried now. Bill and Cameron took a few steps back, away from her.
"Even I don't know for sure. I've lost count. So…I'm guessing you haven't met anyone like me before then? I figured just as much. What makes you so sure you can help me, when you don't even know what it is that I am capable of?" She fixed her gaze on Dr. Rosen as if she was looking into his soul or was trying to read his mind.
Is one of her abilities able to read minds, or is she just trying to make me think this? Dr. Rosen asked himself, not wanting her mind-reading ability to be true.
"You are right Lucy. I have never met anyone else with more than one ability, but I have to say… I am very fascinated of what other abilities you have?"Dr. Rosen asked her, fascinated and a little scared at the same time.
Lucy saw that he sounded a little worried, and the others didn't seem any better. She had scared them or was terrified of her.
"Don't worry. I'm not going to hurt anyone. If you want to talk in your office building, I'm happy enough talking there. Or if you want, we can stay out here, waiting for them to come back an open fire again?" she asked. She had obviously gotten their attention as they started to look around them again.
"Fine, we will talk at my office. It will indeed be safer there than it is here." Dr. Rosen replied, looking around for a second and then looked back at Lucy.
Lucy then had a smile on her face, as she started to walk with them back to their van.