Black Lightning

TRANSLUCENT FREAK

Janelle POV...

We make it to some barn and I help Khalil sit.

Me:I thought the toxins help you heal.

Khalil:Yeah but we gotta...

He tries to stand but falls straight down.

Me:Relax, you have an infection, your clammy, your temperature is high and you look like you've been staying up for weeks without sleep. Let me see if I can draw the infection.

Khalil:What?

Me:Maybe I can pull the elements of it out.

Khalil:You just a wonder woman huh?

Me:Boy now is not the time.

Khalil:Alright, alright.

I take a deep breath and squat next to him and gently touch the cut, its extremely hot, I gently press on it and close my eyes, I think about what infected cells look like and try to pull them out. I feel a liquid running down my finger tips and continue to think, I think about the fever, and I feel more pour. Soon when the leak clears up I open my eyes and see blood all over my hands. I stand up and look at him. The color has came back to his face that's good the cuts on his face are healed.

Me:Great, I can add healer to the list.

Khalil:Damn... You really amaze me.

Me:Thank you. But get some rest I gotta get you some electrolytes. You lost alot of blood.

Khalil:What? No.

Me:Not up for debate, plus we need some gauze and other stuff just in case to avoid another infection. I'll be back, if anyone comes shoot em.

I kiss his forehead and leave out of the barn.

Third person POV

After Lynn's conversation with Jefferson, she decided to go talk to the other person who's dealing with this like her. Khalil's mom. Once Nichelle let's her inside she asks to see Khalil's room.

Nichelle:It's pretty much how he left it I'm not sure you'll find anything that'll do you any good but...

Lynn:They have alot of pictures together.

Nichelle smiles and nods.

Nichelle:Those two were-are always together, she was a really good influence on him... I consider her one of my own. She was up at that hospital more than me. She told me verbatim what the doctors said and everything, she records all his meets for me when I can't make them, she used to stay over when I worked graveyards just to keep him company. Cooked for him, helped me with small things when she seen me on the street. Checked in on me when he was gone. She's a great girl.

Lynn looks at her slight shock in her system but she smiles.

Lynn:Thank you...You don't mind if I snoop around a bit?

Nichelle:Nope have at it. Just being in here breaks my heart. I knew I had done everything right this time around. But when that bullet hit, I knew he was no better off than my other son.

Lynn opens the art case and sees a few Polaroids the first one is of Jan and Khalil both wearing matching Garfield track suits his arm around her as they sit on the grass. The next is a picture of him in a wheelchair with a man and a another with a boy closer to his age.