be dead by the time she is of age I am afraid, and if by some chance I am not, all the better.”
“I hope to have her in a family rather quickly; she is such a cute child. We have a back story and fake records prepared already.”
Everything got very fuzzy and the room dissolved into thin air.
~//~
I woke in Doctor Z’s lab covered in sweat and shot bolt upright, “What do you know about Joseph Madison?”
“He used to own all of this; he died a few years back.” Sam said, “Why?”
“I just had a hell of a dream.” I rubbed my head.
“What happened?” Doctor Z asked.
“My parents were getting rid of me.” I closed my eyes trying to remember all the details. “My father was Joseph Madison.”
“I will look into it.” Sam said.
“Can you use your abilities?” Doctor Z was irritated with the detour that we had taken away from the reason he gave me the treatment.
I held out my hand and concentrated on a powerful flame. Foot high flames burst out of my palm.
Doctor Z clapped his hands and whelped for joy. Sam smiled but still looked disturbed.
I got off of the bed, my legs a little weak as I stood up, and ignited my other hand with flames.
“I’m going to take another scan, keep the flames active.” Doctor Z brought out the electronic crown and placed it once again on my head.
“Could you dial them back a bit though?” Sam worried that I might burn the place down.
I lowered the flames down to a two inch height while the good doctor took his readings. As the results began to appear, he frowned.
“This is interesting.” He projected the picture to the big screen.
The lines were similar to the earlier scan. The blackness that they thought was a mental block was still there, but it was much smaller and only the extreme ends of the graphs were blocked.
“It was only partially successful. You may only be able to use your powers in the tier three ranges. And that may be only with extreme concentration.” Doctor Z zoomed into the blocked areas.
“I’ll work on it; I mean at least I can use my powers some.” I smiled and took the scanner off of my head, “Thank you doctor.”
He took the scanner and put it back in its case, “Please keep me updated on any changes.”
Chapter 16: Emotions
I lay on the ground in the middle of that desert again looking up at the sky. I couldn’t remember how I had gotten there, but I wasn’t worried about it. I was content to just lay there in the warm sand.
Clouds began to fill the sky, threatening to dump rain down on top of me. I decided that I could do one of two things; lay there and get rained on, or I could try and find some shelter. I turned my head either way, and couldn’t see anything until the horizon.
So I just laid there.
Lightening struck behind where I was laying inches from my head. It scared the crap out of me, and when the light from the flash finally went away I was somewhere else altogether.
It was an old Victorian era house, white with peeling paint. I recognized the house but I couldn’t remember from where or when. Since I was somehow now standing, I decided to walk inside and take a look around.
As I walked through the front door I was hit by a massive cold chill that shook my whole body. I rubbed my shoulders, and started to look around the house.
“Hello.” I said aloud.
There was nothing but silence. I checked the rooms on the first floor. Every single one was either empty or the door was locked. I became frustrated with one door, and melted the handle, but before I could actually open the door the handle had reappeared.
The memory of this house scratched at the back of my head. I knew that I had been in it before. The kitchen was empty and so was the living room.
I decided to finally stop wondering around on the bottom floor, and go upstairs. Each step creaked under my footsteps. When I reached the landing at the top of the stairs the memory hit me like a ton of bricks.
The house came back and even the night. I remembered what was happening now.
And it was too late to turn back.
I walked down the hallway where my room had been. This house was one of the orphanages that I had lived