[Damaged Soul]

Cool These Burns

{Midnight}
(Renney's POV)

Roaming around at night because of my stupid insomnia. And because my bedding almost caught fire again. I'm now in the training room, my usual room but it's not designed for me, just for people who need more privacy. And I need more privacy even if no one is up. I want to hide from fate.

I break the metal bar in half, tearing it in two easily with my hands. It was a dumbbell. I already snapped 12 of them tonight. It was like digging my fingers in cake. I almost wanted to scream. Why am I so cursed? I punched a hole in the wall a few times then sat down. I hugged my knees and took my pill, two this time, dry. I didn't have water. I can take the pills dry easily but I do it with water so people aren't scared of me.

Because honestly people who take pills dry have so much chaotic energy in them. And hell, that's what's in me literally! Chaotic energy, is what Ripcord has called it. It's supposed to kill me. Why hasn't it? Because Hawk forces me to put all that energy to good use.

A knock sounds and I lift my head to the doorway. It's a silver visor, reflecting my distorted face. A black masked head, and a full body incased in black. Snake Eyes.

"What do you want?" I ask, not being mean just trying to get this over with. I'm really not into human interactions right now or ever really. He stares at me continuously. I open the door for him and he comes in.

"What do you want, Snake." I ask with a small sigh that I hide with my words. I'm sure he caught it. He stares and then starts signing with his skilled hands. I watch, absolutely dumb founded. I never learned Sign language. I know that Scarlet and Hawk has, they can translate if course. Ripcord knows a bit but barely enough to understand what Snake Eyes is saying. I sigh and reach out to push his hands down, but I reel back when a spark flashed between us, when my hand was an inch away from his. I hold my hand to my chest as I back away a few steps in surprise. My breath and his catches in our throats.

"I-I have to go. I'm sorry, I can't understand Sign Language." I tell him honestly, feeling nervous and scared as I run out of the room. I teleport to Ripcord's room. I knock on the door hard, the metal is heating up at my hands heat and how close my body is to it.

"RIPCORD! I HAVE AN ISSUE!" Lightening shoots from my fingers when I sense a presence. The lightening is blue and it courses from my chest to my fingers in mere seconds. I look to see Snake Eyes. Why is this happening around him? Ripcord opens the door and yells as he gets shocked by me. I curse and apologize lowly.

"Fuck." I curse out again as I sigh and hit my back against the opposite wall. Snake Eyes looks at me, alert and worried, I can tell. I read his mind.

"What was that spark? I saw it. It was a light blue. Should I be worried? Why would she run to Ripcord?" He asks himself. He is quickly trying to formulate all the why's and what's.

"Ok, get inside. QUICKLY!" Ripcord pulled me in since I was so in shock and dis responsive. He locked the door and told Snake Eyes to go back to his room. Ripcord gave me a handful of full length metal poles. I held them in my two hands, like a staff. I melded them together as they melted at a very quick rate. I can see the what around my hands. You know when you see a car in the heat? And you see the air above it kinda wobbly and stuff. That's what I see as I melt the poles down. The liquid drips to the floor as Ripcord frantically calls Hawk. I gasp and drop the poles into the floor, they melt into the floor and cool there quickly once free from my death like vise. I curse as I fell something shoot up my spine. I tear off my shirt. Ripcord hangs up the phone and gets some cold water in a bucket. He starts pouring it onto me, it turns to steam in the air around me quickly and the steam floats up into the vents. I gasp and cry as I am falling back, off the table and onto the floor. I roll from side to side. It's hot! It's fucking scolding! Fuck fuck fuck!

"SNAKE EYES WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE?!" Ripcord yells. My eyes are squeezed close as I try to combat this heat that wants to kill me. I am lifted up back onto the table by my teleportation, gasping in and out of shallow lungs. I feel like I'm breaking!!!

I suddenly feel a hand on mine. I gasp at the touch and electric sparks start fizzing up my arm from my chest up Snake Eyes' arm. He doesn't withdrawal from me tho. He stays beside me and suddenly, the fire is gone. My body cools and the metal table feels hotter than my body. Snake eyes pulls me up into him and hugs me there. My shirtless chest cools at his skin and I sigh in relief. He hands me my shirt and I slip it on. The blood tears cease and I can finally breathe. Ripcord and Hawk watch and start writing notes of the occurrence. They send me off with Snake Eyes, but not before Hawk gives Snake Eyes some specific orders.

"Keep in physical contact with her. You're body seems to be able to take away that access energy that's in her veins. If you keep in contact, she will be ok. This means you will need to stay with her constantly, keep her on a 52/50." He explained. Snake eyes nodded, like he was getting ready for a mission. I felt like a bother than, he's obligated to watch me. I sigh and get a little sad at that. Why? Because I'm a bother like always. Fuck.

"Thank you, by the way Snake Eyes. I should probably explain a lot of things to you." I said as we made our way towards his room. I was holding his hand, feeling like a child. He nodded and walked.