Chapter 6 is finally here! Sorry for the long wait, but I just had SO much going on, and I couldn't upload anything for a really long time. But, now it's here! Hope you enjoy! :)
Chelsea's POV
They took me into a small white room with a table and two chairs, forcing me to sit down. The man in the green suit sat down at the chair across the table.
"What is your name?" the man asked.
"What's yours?" I retaliated. A vein pulsed in his forehead.
"My name is none of your concern. Now, answer my question."
"Fine. My name is Chelsea."
"Chelsea…"
"Corrigan. Chelsea Corrigan."
The man scribbled something on his clipboard, then looked back up at me.
"Age?"
"I'm 15."
He wrote that down, too.
"How long have you had your…powers?"
"For as long as I can remember."
"Do you have any family?"
I froze. Oh god, why did he have to mention family?
Just hearing the word made me think of Dad, and Mom, and Sissy…
Don't think about them! I scolded myself. It'll just depress you.
"Did you hear me? I asked you if you had any family!" the guy snapped, pulling me from my thoughts.
"I…um…" I didn't know what to tell him.
"You could say that." I finally decided on.
His eyebrow raised slightly.
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Um…"
He sighed. "Do you have family or not?"
"Well…not anymore." A single tear slipped down my cheek, and I quickly brushed it away.
The man didn't say anything as he wrote on his board.
"Explain how you got here." he said after a minute. "Start from the beginning."
So, I told him everything. About flying, and my house (I left out the little detail about Hawk, however,) and suddenly finding myself in an energy ball above New York.
"So…you didn't make yourself come here?" he asked when I was done.
"No."
"Hmm…" the man sat back in his chair, looking thoughtful. "Holiday?"
A door I hadn't noticed opened, and a woman with black hair in a bun walked in.
"Yes?"
"Take Chelsea to have some tests done."
"Tests?" I stiffened. "What kind of tests?"
The woman looked me in the eye.
"Don't worry, the tests won't hurt you. Now, come with me."
She took me to a larger room, filled with all kinds of high-tech machinery, and made me sit on a white table, akin to the ones I had sat on at the doctors office, back at home.
"We're going to have to do a blood test." She plucked a large vaccine needle and a cotton ball from a nearby counter, walking over to me and swabbing my arm with the cotton.
"Um, what are you doing…?" I asked suspiciously.
"Taking a sample of your blood. Now, hold still, and try not to clench your muscles, or it will hurt more later." She reached down, preparing to stab me with the needle, but I jumped off the table and ran as fast as I could.
Nobody's gonna be jabbing me with any suspicious needles anytime soon!
I burst through the lab door, into a hallway, and I started running in a random direction. I heard footsteps behind me- two pairs of footsteps.
"The guy in the suit is after me too!" I growled. I morphed into a wolf and sped up, my newfound paws skidding on the cold tile floor. I turned a corner, and-
crashed right into the kid- Rex. Crap. I morphed back into a human, I was so surprised.
Suddenly, the two pursuers came sprinting around the corner.
"Rex! Hold her still!" the man commanded. I tried to jump up and run away again, but Rex grabbed my arms and pulled me down again. I kicked out, struggling to get away from his firm hold as the woman bent down with the needle in her hand.
"Hold still! It will be ok!" he whispered in my ear, but I wouldn't listen to him. Absolutely not.
The woman finally managed to get the needle into my arm, stabbing it in to my shoulder, and searing pain filled me as the needle filled up with blood. I gasped out loud, and the woman pulled the needle out.
"Ok, we're done." She said, slapping a bandaid on the place where she had put the needle in.
"See? Not so bad. Anyways, you learn to get used to them-they do it to me all the time."
I looked up at the boy, who had spoken.
"Dude, two things. One, I'm not hanging around long enough for them to do that again- ever. Two-can you lease let me go?" I snapped.
"Oh. Sorry." He blushed, letting go of my arms. I immediately jumped up, and turned to walk away.
"If you'll excuse me, I'll be going."
"Not so fast."
I looked behind me to see the woman- and she didn't look very happy.