A/N: Here is chapter two! Still a little strange but it should get better.. Haha Enjoy!

-Carter

When I arrived home, my mom rushed me, hugging me close, tears down her face, refusing to let go. Apparently, my little incident had made the news. I wasn't really surprised but I hadn't noticed a news crew. Oh well.. I reassured her I was fine and stayed to help with dinner so she would calm down and stop crying. She was only worried, after all. She was still the best mom anyone could ask for.

Later, I went up to my room and tried playing video games, but I couldn't focus. I finally turned it off and went to open my window, climbed out onto the roof, and pulled out my pack of smokes. I kept thinking back to when that thing's hand went through me. It was the weirdest feeling I had ever experienced.

It felt as though it really had passed through every inch of my body. Through even my organs, I could still feel the tingling it caused when it happened. But it had also awaken all of my emotions. Like when the hand passed through me, I could feel adrenaline and anger and fear and sadness and happiness and sickness and butterflies and hate and love and so much more. I can't even explain what I felt but it left me exhausted and so intoxicated.

I finished off yet another cig and decided it was time for bed. I changed into pj pants and took off my shirt and popped into bed, falling into a deep sleep.

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I was sitting in a hospital, bored. In the waiting room, but I don't know how long I had been waiting for. The place was quite busy but no one seemed to take notice of me. I was facing a room that seemed to have an odd glow to it, under the door; it was like a blue/gold glow that seemed strangely familiar. I rose and approached it; no one tried to stop me, so I entered.

The room was slightly dark with that dreamish glow to it, but there didn't seem to be a cause of the glow; it was just emanating around. Along the right hand wall, was a single hospital bed. From where I stood, I was facing the left side of the patient laying there. Of what I could see, it didn't look too pretty. The patient had a heart monitor hooked up, an oxygen machine, UV, the works.

I stepped closer, noticing it was a man laying there, smooth blonde hair, surrounding his head like a halo. He must have sensed my presence, as his eyes snapped open. I was met by cold, ice blue eyes, trying to glare into my soul, but they just seemed too tired. There was something very familiar about the man though.

His voice brought me back, realizing I had been standing there staring at him for a while. "Who.. are you?" His voice was broken and strained. I didn't know what happened to him, but he was in rough shape.

"Mail." I managed.

"I don-" He coughed. "I don't get.. many visitors.. What are you doing here?" His voice was still strained but it seemed to be getting easier for him, like the problem was just that he didn't talk much.

Then I remembered his question. "I'm not sure.." I tried remembering why I was at the hospital but I just couldn't. "I don't remember why I'm here."

"You're strange, aren't you?" He smiled a little but it looked painful. I noticed a cup of water beside him.

"Would you like a drink?" I grabbed the cup from the table and he nodded, pushing a button beside him to raise him to more of a sitting position. I carefully pressed the cup to his lips, tilting it back slowly as he drank quickly.

"Thank you." His voice was much less hoarse now but still strained. "So who are you, why are you here, and why are you shirtless and in pjs?" I looked down at myself and flushed when I realized he was right.

"I don't know. The last thing I remember is going to bed."

"Strange."

"What's your name?"

"You really don't know who I am?" I shook my head. He sighed. "Mihael. Mihael Keehl. I'm dying."

I opened my mouth to say something; ask him why, what from, but nothing came out. I noticed my body flicker in that familiar way the giant had and suddenly, I was opening my eyes in my own bed. Just a dream. Really? What the hell, mind? That was so weird! It was only five but I was wide awake so I just got up and went to take a shower and get ready for school.