Chapter one

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   "We can't!" I yelled, my anger showing in my words.
"I don't see anyone from S.H.I.E.L.D! And we haven't eaten since yesterday's breakfast . I'm starving." Fitz responded angrily as he looked out the window again. 
"Fine. Be quick ."
"You know I will."
A few minutes pass and I hear,
"I'm back, and I bought cake!" Fitz sounded happy, for the first time in weeks.
"That's great, but someone is here. I see them. We have to move." I say.
I can sense someone close. It's like I enter their brain, I know, it sounds like I possess them. I could tell this person wasn't from S.H.I.E.L.D, but they were from another organization.
"Who are they?"
"I think it's that new one on the news. The one that's doing all the good or something.''
" L.I.F.E or something like that right?"
" I believe so. Let me turn off the television."
" Stop saying television, and start saying T.V."
I ignored him, and we heard a knock on the door.
The voice said, " Open up, I just want to talk." It was a man, blonde hair, brown eyes. His name was Luke Burns, and he really just had to talk. As I exited his mind, I nodded to Fitz and he opened the door.
"Thank you." Luke said.
I made some tea, and Luke sat down on the beds.
"Cheap hotel, beds are filled with Styrofoam." He said after glancing around.
" Yeah well it's what we got so just talk." Fitz wanted to leave, I could tell.
"I want to talk to Gemma. You can listen, but don't speak." John said, pointing at Fitz.
"Fine." He wanted this over with as soon as possible.
"So, what is your name and your story, Gemma?" He asked looking at me. I took a deep breath.
"My name is Gemma Ryne. I was born in Massachusetts, and by the time I was 3, I was solving college math. My parents realized they couldn't handle my brain, so they sent me to S.H.I.E.L.D. I was fine there, learning everything and all, until I was about 5. The scientists I was working with made me mad. I started to go crazy, started to shoot fire out of my hands. They did tests on me for another 5 years to figure out what had happened. I wanted to know what they had found out, so I entered their minds. I left when I was 10; I escaped, using my persuading powers. I was sick of them.  Then L.I.F.E found me."
Fitz was staring at me in shock; even he hadn't known the whole story. I sipped my coffee.
Luke just nodded and said," I know L.I.F.E, and that's why I'm, here. Continue".
"L.I.F.E, who you're involved with, wanted me as a weapon. The wanted me to be seen as the enemy, which I don't want to be.  So I got mad, and I went crazy. Fitz can tell you the rest. I need to go get some more coffee. "
I really did need more, but I could tell Fitz wanted to say something.  And I didn't want to speak. Speaking about the past makes me sick
Fitz continued where I left off, "I came in when I was 10 too. I'm not special like Gemma, I just can talk to people, calm them down. My parents were therapists, before. Well let's just say one of them when crazy. So I went in, and talked to Gemma. We became good friends, she had said I was her only friend. We were fine, until we were both 15. L.I.F.E had continued their attempts to weaponize her, but they couldn't. Gemma is too good natured. L.I.F.E had decided to cut her brain out of her body, study it, so we escaped, Gemma using her powers, and me, just taggin along. Gemma discovered she could control people, shoot substances out of her hands, and become objects.Her powers are limitless. We have been on the run for 5 years since then, and both S.H.I.E.L.D and L.I.F.E have been on our tail ever since."
Luke Burns had got what he wanted. He was planning an attack.
Suddenly, Agent May, from S.H.I.E.L.D, blasted through the window, and jumped on John's back.
"RUN!" She screamed, "L.I.F.E has guards everywhere. They plan to take you in or take you out. RUN!!!!!"
We jumped out the building, me, changing into a parachute, and Fitz strapped to me. We continued running into the forest where I found an abandoned cottage.
We were safe, for now.  
Right after we arrived, Fitz mumbled something about ruined cake, and went right to bed. I, however stayed up, trying to take in what happened. I knew if I fell asleep, my dreams would come. The dreams were killing me. Every night, I dream. I see good people make bad choices. I scream. I yell.   Fitz says it's like I become a zombie.
But I only know what happens after.
A voice appears in my brain. Always the same words.
" Don't leave me. No Harm. Keep the plan." It's someone's voice, familiar, but distant. Every night, since I was born. It used to be yelling, now it's only a whisper.
I hear Fitz dreaming,  this time I sense something in his dream. I don't enter Fitz's dream, though. He made me promise not to.
Suddenly, my eyes fly open. I had been asleep. Fitz is right beside me, sleeping.
I hear the voice, but for the first time in 10 years, the voice say something different.
" Listen, Gemma, it's me. You need to use your powers. They want you. They think they need you, but they don't. Just keep Fitz safe, and don't listen to anyone."
I hadn't realized I had started to scream, but Fitz had.
" Gemma! What happened! Is someone in trouble? Are we in trouble?" He yelled shaking me.
I replied, " We have to leave."
" Now? But we just got here! And this cabin is really old, and I mean really old.No one knows where we are. Plus, I need more sleep. "
" No! We have to leave, I heard someone, and they told us to leave."
"It must be a trick!"
Suddenly, the roof blows of the cabin, and a tall, hooded, figure comes up to me.
It says, " We leave. Now."
I hear Fitz scream, " Gemma!"
And my mind goes blank.
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I awakened in a room full of white. My clothes were white. My skin was white.

This was a hallucination. I could tell. I got out of my white bed, to see Fitz. He wasn't doing good. He was black, black skin, black clothes. He was close to death. I ran to him, he wasn't breathing.

" Fitz! Wake up! We have to move!"

Nothing.

He was whispering, "Gemma, Gemma," over and over.

I knelt beside him, noticing my surroundings. I see a door.

I grabbed Fitz, but he turned blue. I started to burn. Scream. Cry. I was having a breakdown. Meltdown. I couldn't lose my best friend.

I took a deep breath. I walk out, him in my arms, and right onto a cliff. Guards come out another door and start to charge.

I throw Fitz into the abyss, not knowing what will come next. I take one last look at the guards, and before my feet could leave the cliff, I blanked.

I see a guy. No older than 25, standing next to me. I'm back in the white room.
"Sup' girl." The guy says.

I slapped him, and his skin turned black.

"Alright, a little tense. Well now that we have had some fun, let's get to the point."

" Yeah, let's get to the point when I leave." I feel odd, like this is real. But it can't be. I jumped.

He laughs, a deep, villain laugh. Like he wants to be bad.

" Alright sweetheart, I'm Alex. I'm with a different organi-"

" Yeah, L.I.F.E, I know. Can I leave?" I retorted angrily.
I imagine a door, a one pops up.

" Hey, sweetheart! Come back here, I AM NOT WITH L.I.F.E!!!"

I run, those last words sticking in my brain. I blank again.

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⏰ Last updated: May 30, 2016 ⏰

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