58. hindsight is 20/20

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I shoot awake to the sound of metal and realize I'm in a padded room?! A headache rushes through me as my brain now pounds against my skull.

I try to move when I realize I'm in a straight jacket?!

I hear someone coming for the door and I immediately scramble back away from the door towards the wall as I sit myself in the corner as my body shakes in fear. I start to hyperventilate as the large metal door slides open as a 2 older blond men enter

They starts speaking Russian and I don't know what's happening when one of them turns to me

"Power?" He says in clearly broken English

I don't say anything in response

"POWER" he shouts now and I flinch.

The other man then says something and the other man nods before walking back out of the room?!

He walks back in after a few seconds holding a metal electric baton?! Fuck that

"Power" he says as he tazes the baton in warning

"Earth" I say as he raises it to me. Couldn't they just see my marking?

The other man pulls out a note book and jots something down nodding.

"Good" he says before nodding and leaving out the door again, closing and locking it behind them.

I raise off the ground and walk to the door, staring out the tiny scratched window as I can see a room across from me.

"AARON" I shout out. "CLIFF"

"They can't hear you" I hear from a female voice behind me. I spin around to the empty room. Am I going crazy?

"Hello?" I call out

"Hello" I hear a few seconds later from a strange unrecognizable broken English voice that sounds Indian

"Who is this?!" I say walking across the room towards her voice when I see a vent at the top of the wall that must be leading into the next room.

"Iris" a soft sad voice says

"Where are they?" I say resting up against the wall closest to the vent

"They house the men on the other side" she says and I slide down the wall to my knees

"Violet must have found you?" Iris asks out

"Yeah" I say as regret deeply sets into me

"I'm sorry" she says and I nod as tears start streaming down my face. I'm going to die here. I start to hyperventilate as the panic starts to set in.

"I saw them bring a blond and a Red head across the hall with Violet" she says and I can't stop crying and I can't even wipe them away because of this fucking straight jacket

"How many where there of you?" She asks me

"7" I say softly

"If that didn't do it nothing will" she says and I can hear the defeat in her voice

"What are you?" I say looking up at the vent

"Light" she says after a few moments. One of the core elements?

"What is that?" I say crying

"Exactly when you think" she says and I nod. Wonderful. I try my powers for the sake of it but nothing happens.

I start to cry louder until I'm utterly sobbing as tears run down onto my face.

I lay down onto the padded floor crying as I kick the wall. Why did I do this. Why would I think we could do this. Why couldn't I just be selfish and just care about myself and not put myself into this mess. Why did I have to be the good guy.

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