Super Beginnings

Chapter Forty One - Loss of Powers

-Mia-

Mom and Dad were keeping me off school the next day. The lightning strike seemed to completely wipe me out that as soon as I got home I slept through dinner and breakfast. Mom was worried and she wanted me where either Dad or I could see her.

"Can I at least get some fresh air. Is that allowed in my condition?" I sigh and she gave me a pointed look

"Go on." I left the house just as Dad was trying to do the feeding rounds

"Mia! I could use your help. I loved all the hay my... how are you feeling?" he changed from talking at me to talk to me.

"Exhausted. Mom's let me out for a walk around the yard. What's the problem?" I asked and answered

"The trucks stuck up to it's axel in mud and..."

"The cows aren't going to feed themselves." I smile a little "Don't worry, get in." I bent down to pick up. Dad got in and set the truck going but I couldn't lift it up. It was too heavy. I tried pushing swell but I just felling the mud.

"Mia, come on we don't have..." I pushed myself up "Sweetheart, what's wrong?" he crouched down

"I...I don't know." I wiped my nose and looked down...blood. "I'm bleeding. Dad i'm bleeding." He helped me up and into the house. There Mom helped me upstairs and I was run a bath.

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After I was clean, Mom settled me into bed, like she did when i was little. Now her and Dad sat on either side of a freshly cleaned me.

"I don't understand. How can I bleed?" I shook my head

"Maybe it's apart of your development like with your x-ray vision or maybe the lightning had something to do with it, i don't know." she answered stroking my hair back.

"It's weird,I've never actually been sick before. It feels strange." I glanced down at my hands I squinted trying out my x-ray vision but nothing happened "That's not possible." I breathe I had control over it enough that it should have worked

"What's not possible."

"my x-ray vision. There's nothing." I got out of bed going to try my speed it was a older power. I ran up it was a normal run not a natural speed run. I came back "My speed has gone as well."

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Mom and Dad left me to rest while I took my phone and I called chloe and asked to speak to Clark, the phone was passed over.

"Hey, mia what's up?" Clark asked

"Clark. My powers are gone." I spit it out "Like non existent gone."

"Seriously. Hold on." There was a click of a door "Repeat that to me. Your powers are gone? How?" he questioned

"I don't know. Speed, strengthen vision. Nada. i'm even bleeding like human nose bleeds." The more I said it the more I felt weirdly freer. Someone I was a normal regular no freak.

"I'm coming home during lunch. I gotta go." he hung up and i sighed laying back down and falling asleep.

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When I woke up I had slept through most of the da and I headed downstairs Mom was in the kitchen making dinner when I grabbed a orange.

"How are you feeling?" she wondered coming over to me "You've slept on and off for 24 hours, that's not like you."

"I know. It feels strange. Physically and mentally it feels like i've been run over by Dad's truck. Is this what normal being un well feels like?" she smiled a little

"Kind of yeah." I made you some soup earlier but you were still asleep. I'll warm it up for you." Clark and Dad came in a little later.

"Mia, your nose." Clark took large strides over to me and lifted up my face wiping it "You are actually bleeding."

"Told you, what I don't understand is how." I brushed him off and Mom handed me a tissue "The first one happened this morning, after I fell." he sat down next to me

"Do you think it come be something to do with the lightning?" he wondered

"Maybe, but what I don't get is how. I got hit with that much of a charge and I was still able to pull up Eric." I shrugged "But what's also strange is...I love it." I laugh a little

"You do?" he questioned

"Yeah, nosebleeds, fatigue, generally feeling crap. It feels so human, like what we've always wanted. Question how human am I? Am I meteor rock safe or is it just little things? I have so many question and I wanna and can experience the answers."

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The next day Mom reluctantly let me out for a couple of hours under strict instructions that if anything happened, then I came straight home. So I met up with Pete and Chloe after school in town.

"Clark said you've been having nosebleeds. What's the Doctor say?" Chloe wondered

"I haven't seen a doctor." I shrug "I got hit by lightning and survived, that's gonna have some side effect and they stop and start. We figured that it will settle and if it doesn't then I'll see a doctor and get berated for not coming in sooner."

"Mia." We stop with Eric in front of us "You're okay. You haven't been at school."

"Yeah, my parents kind of freaked out, so they're keeping me off for a couple of days. Letting me out for a little bit. How are you doing? You're not wearing your glasses and you've had...a makeover? Near death experience, bring you out of your shell?" he chuckled

"Kind of like that. Actually I had a question...You and Whitney are you...." he stopped staring at me i looked between him and the others

"What?"

"You're nose is bleeding again. Here." Chloe handed me a tissue and I held it to my nose "Come on let's get you home. 'xcuse us Eric." Chloe wrapped her arm around me and guided me. We were heading to her car when I was shoved and someone tried to forceable take my bag. The three of us started to fight but in the midst of it all Chloe's arm wasn't around me and I was shoved that hard I lost grip of my bag and went head first into the wall. Ouch.

"Mia, Mia are you okay?" I stood back up touching my head more blood

"Yeah, it's just a cut I..." there was a crash and my head snapped to the side watching the bag their then crash into the road. What the hell? I thought then turn my attention back to Eric. He made his way back over to me and handed me my bag back.

"Thanks." I breathed

"Anytime." he smiled nervously