Better Undercover

Chapter 16: Every New Beginning...

Chapter 16: Every New Beginning Comes from Some Other Beginning's End

I gasped and sat upright, but something stopped me and the sound of beeping filled my ears. I groaned as the pain from everyone crept into my head. I felt like I had gone splat and everything in my body had been broken.

Surprisingly, that was my first thought before I actually remembered what happened. A door opened and there was more beeping, this time from button pushing. The hospital bed that I was laying on slowly rose up so I could actually see around the room, instead of being stuck supine on the mattress.

"Good morning, Courtney," the nurse said to me. "Your friends were concerned that you weren't going to wake up. The red head kept repeating something about 'she won' but I don't see how you could've possibly won."

My head hurt so much and I reached up to try to stop the pain, somehow, but my hand wouldn't budge. I glanced over and saw that both of my wrists were strapped down. "Um, you don't know why my hands are strapped down, by any chance?"

The blonde nurse smiled as she looked at me over top of the forms she was filling out. "Of course I do, sweetheart."

I waited for her to continue, but she had gone back to her papers. "Are you going to tell me?"

She laughed softly. "I thought it was obvious. They did the red head too, but they left the other two alone, for some reason. They'll probably be here to see you soon. You're brother and sister seem so concerned, despite the circumstances."

I glanced back at the restraints and I connected what Kelly said in the parking lot. There were many people that would be mad at me for many reasons, and my first guess would be that the government was responsible for my hands, but I wasn't sure why they would tie down Foley too.

The door opened and Cameron and Lillianne walked in. The nurse looked up. "I'll leave you be, but you know what will happen if the restraints are touched," she directed that statement at the two who had just entered. She walked out and the door clicked shut behind her. Lillianne and Cameron stood next to my bed.

"We don't have much time and we're being watched," Lillianne said as she cut straight to business. "We're glad that you're ok, but now we're treading on tough ground. When we exposed our powers to the world, it was on a mission to help people. Dad, Joshua that is, took care of more legal and security stuff that we could ever imagine, and now we're just beginning to look at what he did, and we can't do it half as fast as he can."

"But it can be done, right?" I asked.

"Foley is going to get out faster than you, most likely. But you both will be in captivity for a while."

"What? Why Foley?" I was concerned about myself, of course, but I was more confused about Foley. "She helps people."

"Not how the government sees it. She was with us, which meant she should've told them about her powers," Cameron said.

"Ok, so they know about her powers, but they know how she's helped too. Doesn't that make up for it?"

"Again, that's not how they see it."

"Didn't you guys try to talk with the officials about anything?"

Lillianne sighed. "We did, and we tried, but there are some things that just have to be done."

I pulled myself upright as much more as I could. "Then send them up here and I'll talk to them and get her out."

Cameron sucked a breath in. "That's not a good idea."