Under the Same Stars

First day of "Testings"

It was broad daylight.

I saw a field of flowers ahead of me.

I started running for some reason, I wasn't exactly sure why but I kept running anyway.

I heard my mother's voice whispering voice, surrounding me, echoing.

"MOM?! MOM!"

I looked frantically for my mother.

Where was she?!

Where was I?

I started running faster and faster looking through the fields hoping I would find my mother.

"Caitlin, Don't let them harm you like they harmed me".

My mothers voice sounded worried.

"Mom! Where are you?! What's going on?"

"RUN, CAITLIN, RUN"

"RUN"

The skies turned dark and began brewing up a nasty storm.

I began to run.

I heard my mothers voice echoing and gradually growing closer to me.

I ran faster

"RUN, RUN, RUN"

"Caitlin? Caitlin? Wake up!"

*SCREAM*

I started having a hard time breathing and couldn't stop gasping for precious oxygen.

John had woken me up and pulled me close to him.

"You're okay Caitlin, it was just a dream, look at what you did in your sleep! You must've been really scared!" John shared a short smile and smirked.

Wow.

No Joke. I looked around me and noticed I had frozen most of the wall behind me and my bed.

"Comm'on Caitlin, we gotta go! Today Wendy set up an appointment to have you tested!"

"Wait for what?"

"They want to get a better understanding of you supernatural abilities."

"Who's they?"

Not gonna lie, I matured pretty quickly overnight after from that incident I had with my sister

"Some scientists, they would like to conduct some tests and studies to see how powerful you are and what powers you obtained from your parents, get dressed quickly! We gotta go in 5!!"

"Ok, John"

I didn't fully understand what was wrong with me but I was interested to find out why I kept on freezing everything I touched and how I could control it.

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Later at the lab

"Hello! Good Afternoon, my name is Louis Vanteen! I'll be testing and studying your supernatural abilities today! Follow me to room 4B please!"

Louis Vanteen's accent was so harsh, I almost couldn't understand him

John and I followed Louis Vanteen into the special science lab room all in silence.

"Okay, please sit down in this chair young lady."

I sat down as instructed.

Everything seemed fine until I looked up at the ceiling... wires, cables, strings,ropes, dangling from the ceiling.

Louis attached me to what seemed to be more than a dozen wires to my head.

"Um, Louis... What is this?"

"This tests your brain levels to see how hard your brain works when you use your abilities and by using this machine, I can determine how many supernatural abilities you have."

"Oh... um...Okay"

Louis then turned on all of his machines and headed outside the room, made up of windows.

I was basically the science rat of this whole experiment

I looked up and saw John who looked nervous for me behind the window.

Then I gave him a worried look back

Just then Louis interrupted our silent conversation by talking into a mic outside.

"Test, Test, 1, 2 , 3 is this thing working?!"

I nodded slowly

"Okay, I'm doing your first test, Stimulation, to see how powerful you actually are, whenever your ready"

" and how exactly am I supposed to do this?"

" Well... what makes you freeze things, young one?"

"Ummm.... whenever I get scared, sad, or angry I guess I shoot out ice"

"Ok,well then think of a time that happened"

"Is this going to hurt?"

No response.

"Is this going to hurt?!"

Still no response, Louis continued to fiddle with his lab coat

" HELLO? IS THIS GOING TO HURT?!"

I was starting to get frustrated and could feel a cold chill run through my arms into my hands

Soon enough the machine began to pick up on my actions and immediately started shocking me.

Then as I became more flustered, the machine repeatedly shocked me, the shocks caused my body to go numb, making me feel scared something was going to happen to me.

I started screaming.

"JOHN, JOHN!"

"HELP! HELP ME!"

I started screaming again

The pain was excruciating and unbearable, I was moving around uncomfortably in the seat I was strapped down to.

I then began to hear men yelling at each other in the distance

All I could hear now was me screaming, my sound waves bounced off the walls, and made a continuous echo.

I screamed once more.

The lights flickered and soon dimmed.

Ice began to form around me, surrounding me, freezing everything and anything in its path.

Icicles began to appear on the roof.

The shocking sensation stopped.

I suddenly out of no where gasped for air again like I had that same morning and felt my eyes getting heavier by the minute.

I attempted to shout for John's name

"Joh- Joh- Jo"

but it only came in short whispered breaths.

Everything around me started moving in slow motion.

I heard the echoes of my screaming repeat over and over again and my desperate calls for John to come and save me from this death device.

John ran, but only in slow motion towards me

Then my head began to slowly droop towards my chest.

"CAITLIN, CAITLIN!"

John finally approached me with my head resting on my chest and grabbed me in his arms.

I knew I was safe and sound once he saved me.

As we exited out sparks began to fly from Louis' testing machines in slow motion as well.

I heard my screams and shouts over and over still as I listened to the song and rhythm of John's heartbeat.

I NEVER wanted to go back there,

EVER.

AGAIN.