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Ignite

Chapter Eight: Appointment with the Doctor

'This has to be the worst situation I've even been in, in my entire life!' Lily sighed as she hung her clothes into her temporary closet. She stood motionless for a moment, her life playing out in her mind.

Never, had she thought something like this would happen, or even possible. Before anything negative could come into her head, she stopped herself and shook her head. The first thing she needed to worry about was reversing everything. 'If I can do that, then I won't have to worry about any of the other problems-' Her thoughts were cut off by the sudden flickering of lights. She raised an eyebrow as the lights shuttered back on, and quickly opened her room door. She looked across the hall and gave her neighbor a confused look as Johnny stood in the doorway, just as confused. He pointed to Lily, as she shook her head, and scratched the back of his head.

"That was weird," he said as Lily nodded, opening her door fully, and took a look down the hall.

"I wonder what that was all about," she mumbled as Johnny shrugged, walking back into his room but keeping the door open so he could speak with her.

"Probably faulty lights, I wouldn't push it past Reed," he said as Lily hesitated for a moment but shrugged, pushing the little moment aside. She stared at Johnny's wide open door and glanced at her own. She left it open and walked back over to her bed and continued to move into the room.

"How are things in here?"

Lily quickly turned around and watched Johnny walk into her room. She rolled her eyes as he sat at her desk, and turned her attention back to her clothes.

"It's rude to come in without asking,"

"And it's rude to ignore someone when they're trying to have a pleasant conversation with you," Johnny retorted back as Lily span around, her hands on her hips. She narrowed her eyes at him as he stood his ground. She rolled her eyes and smiled slightly, shaking her head.

"You're still the same little boy I remember,"

"You really shouldn't be talking about little," Johnny commented. He laughed at her reaction as he stood up and walked over to a picture frame sitting on her dresser. He stared at the picture and smiled slightly.

"You still have this?"

Lily raised an eyebrow as she looked over at him and then smiled, nodding her head.

"I found it a few weeks ago. It was in an old box of stuff I had," she explained as she folded her sweats and placed them in a drawer. Johnny smiled down at the picture of the two of them. They were out with the neighborhood kids, messing around, when Susan had come up to them with her new camera. Johnny chuckled and set the picture down.

"It's weird,"

"What's weird?" Lily asked, deciding to humor Johnny, as he stared at Lily's back.

"You're different, but you're exactly the same," he said. Lily looked at him slightly surprised as she chuckled and lightly slapped his cheek.

"And you haven't changed," he laughed as he placed his hand on top of her head.

"As in I'm still awesome? Good-looking-"

"Stupid, annoying, conceded,"

"Hey! That's insulting!" Johnny playfully said as Lily couldn't help but laugh. She sighed and picked up her empty bag, placing it in the closet. She clapped her hands together and smiled.

"Finally, I'm finished!"

"Took you long enough,"

"And I'm guessing you just threw your stuff around and called it a day?" This made Johnny smirk as he shrugged.

"It's very efficient and simple,"

"More like messy and stupid." The two stared at each other for a long moment and found themselves locked in each other's eyes. Lily's heart began to beat quickly as she tried to look away but failed to miserably. She tried to speak, tried to move, but she just couldn't muster up enough strength to do anything.

Johnny lost himself in her eyes. He was slightly confused by the strange fluttering feeling in his stomach, but tried not to think too much of it. Following his instincts, he took a step closer to Lily and waited to see her reaction. She kept her ground and he took it as a sign of assurance. He took a few more steps closer to her before stopping only a mere inch or so away.

Lily could feel the heat radiating from his body and it almost made her sweat, or maybe that was just from the fact she was so nervous, for some reason. She couldn't control herself, and around Johnny, she just wanted to let everything go, throw her inhibition to the wind, and that scared her.

As Johnny slowly reached his hand up to her cheek, a deep voice filled the air, making both of them jump. Johnny quickly span around, shoving his hand into his pocket, as Lily stumbled back, but landed safely on her bed.

"Hey, Reed wants all of us in the lab. He's gonna start his testin' now," Ben called out as he walked into Lily's room. As he looked around, he raised his eyebrow as best as he could, Johnny standing innocently in front of him and Lily giving him a nervous smile. He looked at the fire-boy as Johnny gave him a smile in return.

"What are you doin' in here?" Ben asked cautiously as Johnny shrugged and looked back at Lily.

"I was just making sure she was getting her work done," he said casually as he began to walk out of the room. He patted Ben's back as he made his way down the hall, not looking back. Lily nodded her head as she stood up and quickly walked out after him.

"Why else would he be here?"

Ben stared at their backs for a moment, not sure how to register the situation. He shook his head and shrugged, not wanting to think too hard about it, his head hurt enough.

"Now, what exactly am I supposed to do here?" Johnny looked around as he stood in a small little metal heat generator.

"Just try and light yourself on fire, like you did before," Reed instructed as he pressed the intercom button. Lily shook her head as she chuckled a bit.

'That's not something your hear often.'

"Alright then, here I go!" The three watched from the control room as Johnny concentrated on making his body burst into flames. He stared at his hand as it slowly became engulfed by fire. He closed his eyes and snapped them open as the rest of his body turned into fire, the sensation thrilling for him.

"He's heating up from his core," Reed muttered as he looked at Johnny's charts.

"And his vitals are completely normal," Susan mumbled. Lily stared out at the generator and then down at the computer screen. Her eyes widened.

"He's so hot!" This caused both Reed and Susan to look up at Lily with confused looks on their faces. She looked up at the two and raised an eyebrow. Her eyes widened as she blushed slightly and glared at the two.

"Not like that!"

"In order to identify the source of the mutation, we're going to have to isolate your DNA so we can take a look at your genomes." Ben stared at Reed with a blank expression as he looked over at Susan for answers. She chuckled softly as she patted his shoulder.

"We're going to give you a physical in order to see what got zapped,"

"Oh! Why didn't you just say so?" Reed smiled at his friend as he walked over to the computer screen and began to run his scan. Susan walked up beside him and both of them stared in shock.

"His internal organs are completely solid.." The two looked up at Ben as he gave them a nervous look.

"How bad is it? You know, I used to smoke!"

"It's not invisibility, per-say. You can bend light around other objects, even people, that is, if you could control your emotional state better," Reed began to write down his results, his last comment striking Susan slightly.

"Excuse me?"

"I'm saying, if you had a little more self-control you could locate the trigger," Reed explained, not going around anything or trying to make Susan feel better. He span around in his chair as he looked at the computer screen in front of him.

"Can you remember your exact emotions on the bridge?"

"Hn. Anger…rage, frustration," she snapped her head right to Reed, hoping he'd get the clue. Of course, he didn't.

"Ok, is there any way to duplicate that feeling? Some memory or.." Reed waited for Susan's answer as she narrowed her eyes at him and smiled a bit.

"I'm sure I can think of something."

"Do I really have to be in my bathing suit for this?" Lily frowned as she crossed her arms over her chest, feeling slightly uncomfortable with the eyes of Reed, Susan and Johnny watching her, especially Johnny.

"It'll be necessary for your other tests that are coming up. For now, I just need you to stand on the scale in front of you," Reed instructed as Lily sighed and nodded. She stepped on to the scale, not really sure what to expect and stared up at the three others as they stood in the control room.

Johnny smirked as he saw an opening and decided to take a quick little shot at Lily.

"If it makes you feel any better, you look real good in that two piece." Lily glared up at Johnny as he laughed slightly and shook his head.

'That face never gets old.'

"Johnny!" Lily snapped as she felt her anger rise slightly. Susan rolled her eyes as she glared at her younger brother, who looked at her innocently. Reed ignored everything around him as he began to gather Lily's data. His eyes widened slightly as he read the charts and motioned for Susan to take a look.

"What is it?"

"In an average adult female, the body holds up to fifty-five percent of water," Reed explains, Johnny standing on his other side.

"Yea, so what?" The young man asked as Reed glanced at him and pointed at the screen. Both, Susan and Johnny, stared with awe.

"Her body is holding up to ninety percent,"

"Hey! What's going on up there?" Lily asked as the three looked down at her. They glanced at each other and then looked back down at her.

"Wow."

"Can you feel anything?" Susan flicked Ben's knee with a reflex hammer as best as she could, waiting for some sort of reaction from him. He shook his head and shrugged.

"Not a thing," he said as Reed walked towards Ben, a hammer in his hands. He took a deep breath and pulled the hammer back.

"Ok!" He slammed the hammer into stony man's knee and their eyes widened as Ben's leg kicked out, hitting a chair, and sending it across the room. The two stared back at Ben as he smiled weakly.

"Oops."

"Reed, it's getting way too hot." Said man walked over to the scanner as Lily stepped aside, showing him Johnny's rising temperature.

"That's a lot hotter than I anticipated." He turned on the intercom and spoke swiftly.

"Alright, Johnny, turn it down,"

"I can go hotter!" Johnny called out as he began to concentrate more, the heat rising even faster than before.

"Johnny, just back it down," Susan instructed to her brother. The three watched from the control room and Lily's eyes widened.

"He's actually reaching the temperature of the sun!" Lily shouted. Suddenly, the computer sparked, the heat too much for it too handle. The fire from Johnny busted through the metal, the light and heat causing everyone to cover their eyes and faces.

"JOHNNY! BACK IT DOWN!" Reed shouted once more. He took a shaky step forward and quickly slammed his hand on a red button, dousing Johnny out. The three quickly ran out of the control room, looking down at Johnny.

"You guys are really cramping my style!" A foam covered Johnny called out lightheartedly as Lily rolled her eyes, crossing her arms.

"Johnny, you were at 4000 Kelvin, do you know how hot that is?" Susan asked as Johnny looked through the burnt hole he had created.

"Any hotter and you would have reached Super Nova," his sister explained.

"Sweet,"

"No, not sweet. That's the temperature of the sun," Susan tried explaining once more.

"Not only could you kill yourself, but you could set fire to the Earth's atmosphere and destroy all human life as we know it," Reed explained. This caused Johnny to think for a short moment. He nodded his head and looked up at the three.

"Got it. Super Nova, bad," Lily shook her head and sighed, walking back into the control room.

"What an idiot."

"Are you sure this is really…safe?" Lily stood on the highest diving board in the Baxter Building's pool room and stared down at the three little people looking up at her.

"Don't worry, everything will be just fine," Reed assured as Lily rolled her eyes.

"That's what you said about the space trip," she mumbled to herself as she took a deep breath and nodded.

"Ok, what do you want me to do?" she asked as Susan and Johnny sat down at a table, an umbrella sitting over them, just in case.

"Just try and control the water, just like you did at the bridge," he said as Lily looked down and nodded her head. She took a deep breath and sighed, holding her hand out, her palm facing the water. Reed watched closely as the water sat completely still for a moment. His eyes widened though, waves slowly forming in the pool.

Susan slowly rose to her feet as she stared with awe, the water slowly rising into the air like a string. She approached Reed's side as they glanced at each other and then looked back at the pool. Johnny watched, having no words to say as the water rose up to Lily's hand. It's shape was wavy and it never ceased it's movement, but it looked like it was solid.

Lily concentrated on nothing but the image of the water in her head. She slowly moved her hand down, the water following her movements with grace. She then slowly opened her eyes and they widened as she saw the water. She laughed slightly, in shock, not sure how else to react.

"Try doing something with it," Reed called out as Lily nodded her head. She concentrated and bent her knees, trying to keep her balance on the board. She quickly span around and the water spiraled around her like a tornado, and she was standing right in the eye of the storm.

"Incredible," Reed muttered as Susan nodded her head. Johnny didn't even bother saying a word, just stood to his feet and walked up beside Reed.

"…Now that's cool," he mumbled as Reed just nodded his head.

An idea popped itself into Lily's head as she dumped the water back into the pool, confusing everyone.

"Um, Lily, what are you-" Reed's eyes widened as he watched Lily walk up to the edge of the board.

"Lily! Don't do it!" Susan called out, already reading her mind. Johnny watched her with amazement. If she was going to do what he thought she was going to do, someone needed to be there to catch her. He quickly walked up to the side of the pool, his eyes glued to the woman.

The water controller stared down, her blood pumping quickly. She closed her eyes and counted to three.

'Here goes nothing.' She stepped off the board, causing both Reed and Susan to shout her name. She began to fall slightly, but her eyes widened as she felt herself jerk to a stop. She held her arms out, as if she were on a balancing beam, and looked down to see herself standing in the air. She began to laugh as she imagined herself rising higher, her body doing as she pictured.

"That's amazing," Reed muttered as Susan nodded her head with shock. Johnny laughed as he clapped a few times.

"Impressive!" he shouted as Lily looked down and laughed back. Before she could reply, her eyes widened as she lost concentration and began to fall.

"Lily!" The three shouted as she fell into the water.

She thought the fall would hurt more, but surprisingly enough, it didn't. She opened her eyes and looked around to see she had indeed fallen into the water, but it was as if the water and caught her, sensing the fact that she had been in danger.

Lily gasped slightly as she felt an arm grab her and pull her up to the surface. She coughed as she held tightly to the hand and pulled herself to the edge of the pool.

"That was pretty awesome, dangerous, but awesome." The water controller took a few deep breaths and looked up at Johnny to see him smirk down at her. She smirked back and nodded as she held her other arm out for him to grab. He took it and pulled her out of the pool with ease.

"Are you…alright?" Reed trailed off as he and Susan stared at Johnny and Lily. The two raised an eyebrow as they looked at each other. Their own eyes widened as they stared at the steam coming off from their hands.

"Wait," Reed quickly grabbed Lily's towel and rushed back over, helping her dry off. She hugged herself with it, keeping an arm free, and looked over at Reed as he motioned towards Johnny.

"Grab his arm again," He said as he and Susan watched for any sort of reaction. Lily glanced at her dry arm and then back at Johnny's and shrugged. He held his hand out to her and smiled slightly.

"I don't bite." She hesitated but smiled, taking his hand with her own. Everybody stared with awe as they watched the steam slowly rising into the air. Reed and Susan blinked as Lily watched with a great amount of fascination. Johnny looked, a wide grin on his face, and laughed as he squeezed a bit more tightly to her hand.

"Not going to lie, this is really…amazing.." Lily mumbled as Susan chuckled and Reed smiled, shaking his head. After writing down all of the results from the physical contact between the two, Reed sighed and smiled at them, his job finished.

"Well, you two are free to go. The only testing I have left is for Susan," He explained. Lily glanced at Johnny as he gave her a slight smirk, heading out of the pool room. She followed after him, waving a quick goodbye to both of them. As she caught up to Johnny, he glanced at her and smirked.

"Did I mention how good you look in that bathing suit?"

"Did I mention that I'm much stronger than I look?" Lily threatened playfully. Johnny shook his head as they walked into the elevator.

"So, how long before those to blow up at each other?" Lily asked as Johnny shrugged with a smirk.

"I'm giving them a week at most,"

"I think it'll be sooner than that,"

"Think so?"

"I know so." Johnny chuckled as he shook his head and sighed, staring at Lily. She glanced at him and raised an eyebrow, seeing him stare at her with a strange sparkle in his eyes.

"What?" She asked as he shook his head.

"Nothing, just enjoying the view,"

"You are such a pig!"