Number VI

Chapter 4

7/11

I wake up to someone nudging my shoulder. Opening my eyes I see Joyce waiting for me. "Hey wake up. Sleepy head"

Rubbing the sleep away from my eyes I ask," what do you need? Can't I just sleep some more we don't have anything today."

"Actually Rowan we have a lot to do. Now get up." Hopper rudely says as he lifts me out of the car and stands me up.

Instinctively I grab his arm and pin him again the car with electricity surging at my fingertips.
Realizing what I'm doing I let go of him and take a few steps backwards."Sorry, I didn't mean to"

Hopper rolls his shoulder and assured me it's okay. He pops open the front of the car to start working on fixing it. Joyce goes over to the hostage and tries to explain to him that the machine broke her magnets. I take a seat in a spot of sunlight.

Playing around with the sparks on my fingertips I stare off into space.

~back flash~

I'm standing in the forest hiding from the demagorgon. It's dark and cold. And as I'm walking I step on a twig making a loud cracking noise. The demagorgon snaps his head toward me and charges at me.

I shoot a charge towards him and miss. It hits a tree. The demagorgon continues charging and I aim again. This time I shoot and it hits it right in the chest.

I sit and catch my breath as I hear a loud screeching noise from somewhere off in the distance. Listening I hear another snap and turn towards another demagorgon. I try to shoot a charge and miss. The last thing I see is it jumping towards me.

~end flash back~

Next thing I feel someone holding my hands and shaking me. "Rowan! Hey Rowan. It's okay it's just a flash back."

Shaking I feel myself start to seize. I've had seizures since I got my powers. That's why dr Brenner said I was "special." Whenever my body is overpowered with electricity and I'm not using it I start to seize to get rid of the extra power.

My vision goes blurry and I feel myself being laid on the ground. Someone is holding my hands. And someone is holding my head with what feels like a wallet in my mouth. I can hear yelling but can't make out the words. They all sound jumbled.

The feeling being all too familiar. I had lots of seizures at the lab. Whenever I wasn't being tested on I would be left for days on end in a small room.
Though my seizures there usually ended with me hurting myself somehow.

As my body stops shaking my vision clears up. I flutter them open and see Joyce and the hostage. Joyce is holding my hands as the hostage holds my head gently in his hands.

I reach up and take the wallet out of my mouth and sit up slowly. I hand back the wallet and try to stand up. While trying to stand up I just end up falling back down. But I don't hit the ground. The hostage is holding me up.

He and Joyce lean me up again a tree. When they're sure I'm okay they go back to what they were doing. Joyce introduces herself and says, "that's Hopper" she point to Hopper working on the car, "and that's Rowan" she points to me.

His eyes follow Joyce's finger and stares into my eyes. "What's your name?" She point to him. He just smiles brightly and shakes his head.

He points to her and says, "Joyce" and then he points to Hopper and says," Hopper" then he points to me and says,"Rowan." He pronounces my name so differently. His accent makes it sound prettier.