I woke up in a white room with no decoration except a mirror. I know it's a one-way mirror because they like to keep tabs on us. I look around a bit more and find Mr. Black sitting next to me. He is a tall man, quite pale with pale blue eyes and dark black hair. He is the director of Patriarch Skyfold, he also is the one who told me to come. Safe to say, I don't like him much, but he doesn't know that.
"Well, it's nice of you to wake up. We have been waiting for you." Mr. Black says ominously.
"Who's we? I thought I was the only one recruited for this." I said with a touch of sarcasm.
"Why the staff and I. You very well know I can't do this by myself." Mr. Black as if he didn't catch my sarcasm.
I sigh. A moment passes.
"Do you know how long you were unconscious?" Mr. Black says.
I shake my head not trusting myself to say something nice.
"Ten days, Can you believe that, ten days? We kept a good eye on you to make sure you stayed alive since we like you so much."
Chee thanks.
I think to myself. But I don't dare say that out loud since they did keep me alive. Ijust don't know what they did to me while I was unconscious, and I'd rather not find out.
"Thank you, Mr. Black. I appreciate being alive." I say trying not to sound disgusted.
"You're welcome!"
"I'm kind of tired now so can I go back to my room or do you still need to monitor me?" I ask, already knowing the answer.
"Oh really?! So soon? You need to stay here but I'll leave you be so that you can rest. You have a big assignment ahead of you." Mr. Black said happily while standing up.
"Ok. Thank you."
He walks out and once he does I get a huge headache. Then I realized I Knew what he was going to say. Mr. Black is normally unpredictable, no one ever knows what he is going to say or do. I know this after being here for a year. One very long year so much has happened since my parents have died. I Realize I'm about to cry. I haven't thought of them in a while. The pain is too great. It was so hard to watch my adoptive parents die the same way my parents did. I use that pain to do whatever they ask me to, resulting in me being at the top. Me being 23 I should be over my parents. I have no time to grieve. Grieving is for the weak and I'm not weak. I close my eyes and the headache intensifies.
Oh, why does my head have to hurt at a time like this?!
I Think to myself as I wish I had some pain pills. The pain intensifies until I blackout.
I woke up to my head throbbing and doctors working over me. I noticed I had an IV attached to me and a blood pressure unit on my arm. I don't know why all this stuff is attached to me because I Just have a headache! My claustrophobia is flaring up since at least four doctors are standing over me. I hate to admit it, but I started panicking.
"Leave me alone! Please!" I say desperately to breathe without the doctor's smell.
They try to continue working but then they start walking back grabbing their heads. Then they started screaming, which did not help my headache. Mr. Black walks in and sees his doctors on the ground whimpering. To my amazement, he smiles. I take a moment to breathe before he opens his mouth which I know he's about to do.
"I see you have discovered your abilities." He says, amused.
"What? Abilities? What do you mean? What did you do to me?!" I say starting to panic again. I sit up and take off the blood pressure unit and rip out the IV. I'm alive, am I not? I Don't need an IV. But I regret ripping it out... Ow.
"Don't worry. We are just helping you by giving you powers of sorts." He answers.
"What kind of powers?" I say slightly curious at this point but still panicked.
"I don't quite know the extent of yours but they, in their simplest form, are used for interrogation, mind reading." He says like he's pondering and didn't realize he was talking to me.
"What? Have you given this to others?"
"Hmm. About ten others, yes. And one more being tested for it so twelve in all including you." He says still distant as if he was under a truth serum or something.
"Who is she?"
"Sydney. You remember her from your group. Wait. Why am I telling you this? It's classified." He says as if he's waking up. I do remember her. She was the person in second, right below me. She was ruthless, and she fit right into a crowd. She has blond hair and blue-grey eyes that pierce your soul. She was truly terrifying. I was only above her because I had better control over my emotions and better aim. If you give me a sniper and a moving target I can hit it square in the heart, a good clean shot. And I can do it from an angle where no one can trace it back to me, or Patriarch Skyfold.
Mr. Black turns to walk out.
"I suppose you will find out your powers soon but until then, know we have control over them." He says over his shoulder.
He presses a button on a remote that I didn't realize he had and I almost blacked out from pain again. I grab my head in pain and lay back down gently so I won't make myself worse.
"Please, enjoy your stay here until your assignment comes." Mr. Black says.
He walks out and then a few moments later, I black out again. I've got to stop blacking out. It's gonna look bad if I keep doing it.
I wake up to Mr. Black standing over me brandishing his remote.
"Oh. You're awake. Good because I was about to wake you." he says and I know what he was planning on doing. I sit up.
"You don't have to wave that thing in my face. I'll do what you tell me too." I say.
"Oh right. I forgot! You are much more agreeable than the last person I was with! And that's why you are my favorite!" Mr. Black says excitedly.
"Thank you?" I say. I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that I'm his favorite. I also am wondering who he visited before me so I can make sure to talk to them.
"You're welcome! Your file came in. Be sure to read it carefully. You will be sent out tomorrow with a partner to carry out your task." He says as he hands me the file.
I wonder who my partner is. He doesn't normally assign partners. I work better alone and he knows that, so I wonder what he's assigning me. I open the file and read it.
"You want me to do that? I can do that with my eyes closed and my hands tied behind my back" I say confused about why he gave me this task. It's just a simple murder of an average man.
"I know. But I want to see how well you do with a partner who has taken the serum as well." Mr. Black.
"Who am I going to be paired with?" I ask still kind of confused.
He gets a glazed look and answers me almost immediately which I thought kind of unusual. "You are going to be paired with Vivian. She has invisibility and doesn't like people much" he replied.
Great. She doesn't like people. I bet she was easy to hire. I blink a few times as another headache hits.
Why am I getting so many headaches? I've never had this many before.
(His powers are getting stronger by the hour, but I expected this from him.) I heard Mr. Black's voice but I didn't see his lips moving. What's going on? He said reading minds but I didn't think it'd be like this.
His look changed from glazed to shocked. He presses the button and slowly backs away. I grab my head as the pain intensifies yet again. Then it slowly goes away. I drop my hands and watch Mr. Black as he looks a little scared and shocked. I wonder why.
He presses the button a few more times and I act as if it hurts but it doesn't anymore.
(Do whatever you're about to do, then go away!) I plead without saying anything.
To my surprise, he walks over to me, takes a few samples for my DNA, then walks out. All with that glazed look.
I think about it some more then I start planning what I'm going to do tomorrow with Vivian and my new powers.
I wake up to a loud noise blaring in my ears. I jump up, thinking it's an alarm, then I take two steps before realizing that it's dark. They would turn the lights on if it was an alarm. I search for a light switch and when I find one I'm a tad bit surprised that they have one in here. I flip the switch and find a bed across from mine that's freshly made and a....floating air horn? It must be Vivian.
"Vivian. Are you in there?" I hear myself say.
There is no reply.
"Vivian. If you are in here and we are going to be partners, you'd better show yourself." I say annoyed.
She appears closer than I expected. I hold back a flinch of surprise.
"Well. Here I am. I have two questions" she says, holding up two fingers in front of my face. "One. How do you know my name? Two. How did you know it was me and not someone else tricking you or something?"
"Mr. Black told me you were going to be my partner and what your powers were," I reply shortly.
"Oh? He didn't tell me anything about you. How did you manage to get him to tell you anything?" She says while turning away.
"I don't know. I guess he likes me more. That and whatever I say he seems to respond to. So maybe it's my powers." I am a little unsure.
"How come you don't know what your powers are yet?" Vivian asks, walking towards her bed.
"I've only had them for three days, I was unconscious for ten days before that though. He kept pressing that button and giving me headaches." I say unsure and not going to confess that I passed out.
"Oh? Really? It hurts me all over when he presses the button near me." Vivian says shivering. She sits down on her bed and sighs. "Maybe it's related to our powers. I can turn invisible so it hurts me everywhere. You must be able to do something with your mind otherwise I don't think it would hurt there." Vivian says.
I nod thinking that she may be onto something.
"Yeah, I think I can like, control minds, or something because if I say something they'll do it,"
"Ooh! Try it on me!" She says excitedly.
"Ok," I pause to think of something to say. "blow that air horn until it runs out"
She does. The loud noise hurts my ears and head and I hear myself yell "stop!" She does.
"Wow! Cool! I totally couldn't fight what you told me to do. And I tried." She is looking at me with stars in her eyes, as if she has never seen anything like it before.
"I have a question for you. Mr. Black told me you don't like people but you seem to like me. Why did he tell me that?"
Her face changes from excited to defensive.
"I don't know." She says defensively.
(Because I think you're cute and I like how confident you are.) I hear her say in my head. This reading minds thing is really weird.
I think about that for a second then wait a minute. She thinks I'm cute! What the!? This is going to be a long day. I inwardly groan. Girls with crushes are the worst. I've known plenty of them. Especially since I was on the football team throughout high school, that, and the fact that I was valedictorian. A lot of girls liked me. But I knew that it wouldn't last so I didn't bother getting to know them. But, it seems as if I'm going to be paired with Vivian for a while so I may as well get to know her and her fighting style.
"Well let's start preparing for today," Vivian says, bringing me back to reality.
I decide that for now, I won't tell her I can read minds. "We are in a 20/15' room, what makes you think we can prepare in here?" Iask.
"Well, we can stretch and warm up until they come and get us." She suggests.
"Okay? I'm not used to stretching before an assignment but ok." I say walking to the wall opposite the door. I can't believe I'm going to be stuck with a girl who likes me and whom I met ten minutes ago! Ugh! Just because I said I'd tolerate her doesn't mean I'm happy about it.
She starts stretching and showing off how flexible she is. I try to stretch but I'm nowhere near as flexible as she is. I mean, she's a girl, I'm not. But still. How can you put your foot near your head and say it feels good?! After a few more minutes of that torture, we finally finish stretching.
"Help me move the beds to the wall so we can work out some." She orders
"Okay boss," I tell her jokingly. She gives me an exasperated look. "I'm joking. Lighten up." She sighs.
"Okay, but come help me anyway," she says.
I do help her. The beds were surprisingly light. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. For as much money and Patriarch Skyfold has, they buy cheap stuff for us.
We start punching the beds as if they are punching bags and after a while, I start recognizing a pattern with her movements. Left punch, right uppercut, left hook, right punch, then it starts again.
"How about we spar a little bit. Touch pull contact so we don't get too tired before our assignment." I suggest.
"Okay," she agrees.
We push the bed frames aside so that way we can have a sort of ring. Then we start sparing, pulling punches and kicks so that we don't hurt the other person before our assignment.
The door opens. Mr. Black walks through.
"Oh. I see you've gotten to know each other. That's nice. Come with us now. We are going to get you ready for your assignment." He says.
We stop sparing, shake hands, her hand lingering after we stop shaking, then she lets go and follows the people with Mr. Black. I start walking out then Mr. Black stops me.
"Be careful and know that we will be keeping an eye on you." He says,
I shrug past him and follow the people going in the opposite direction as Vivian.
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Please. I know it's cringe. Bare with me as I work on developing my writing. Hopefully you'll see me improve through these chapters.. I believe writing should never stay static. If you learn a new technique or way of writing then you should use it in the thing your writing. It's hard to stay in an old simplistic style of your trying to write something hard an complicated. I fully expect this to go with zero reads for a decent bit. But anyways. I'm new. So please leave comments and critiques. If your mean don't even bother commenting. I am a human and I have emotions so don't just try walking on me because I'm anonymous. That's just mean. There's no reason to do it. Unless it's helpful criticism keep it to yourself. Please and thank you.