The whole morning I was trying to come up with another plan of action against Desmond, I know that Nightwing guy wasn't going to back off and I had to find a way around him. I was sitting at my desk waiting for class to start but I was lost in thought, the so called superhero thought he could fight me and win. Whatever is happening to me I had to be careful, the dents I put in that brick wall last night prove to me that I could shatter all the bones in his body. I felt a hand touch my shoulder catching me off guard, I was about to react to it when I looked up seeing it was Dick and I felt my pulse relax along with the rest of my body. He flashed me a smile before sitting next to me before pulling out his belongings and I got up moving to the safety area to grab our experiment in one hand and two pairs of goggles in my other hand. Moving back to our station seeing Dick standing there waiting for me, I handed him a pair of goggles and placed the experiment onto the table in front of us. I retrieved my notebook from my desk then opened it to the notes placing them onto the station table and we began the experiment while everyone was filing in late. Thursday classes always sucked because it was three hours long but this grade was important not just for my future but for my placement next semester. The next procedure in our experiment we had to find the boiling point of the experiment for every sixty seconds for the next thirty minutes and when I turned to look at Dick I could see that he looked like hell today.
"Didn't sleep well? Rough night?" I asked returning my eyes to the clock timing the minute when I saw that he was rubbing his eyes.
"Yeah...you can say that." He exclaimed when I saw a minute was up so I documented the temperature into my notebook as Dick was shaking the sleepiness from his body next to me and I noticed that he was fighting back a yawn.
"Blüdhaven will do that to you, the people here never sleep that long at night. Don't worry you'll get used to it...eventually." I answered flashing a smile before writing another few more temperatures into my notebook which I continued to do before the thirty minutes were up. The next step in the experiment was mixing the ammonia with the potassium nitrate and the calcium nitrate into the beaker. Dick added the salt water to the mixture slowly watching the reaction that I knew was correct flashing a smile to Dick to let him know that we were on the right track. Almost an hour into the experiment something compelled me to look up and the direction ahead I could see Redhorn with his buddy goofing around like always. I watched his friend pour Methanol instead of Potassium Nitrate into the Ammonia and he was about to heat the experiment under the Bunsen Burner. That combination would cause those chemicals to overheat and shatter into pieces in a small explosion that could hit them as well as us too. "Ummm Dick, we need to duck? Right now!" he looked into the direction where I was before I could see the glass cracking slowly before us. He seemed to notice what I was talking about when I felt his hand grab me and we both ducked down by our station. The glass beaker shattered, Dick pushed my back to the station next to us using his body as a shield. I looked up to see the Bunsen Burner from there table went flying heading towards us and it was probably still very hot. I could feel Dick pinned his chest against me which he left his back exposed to the Bunsen Burner where I lashed out my free hand catching it into my hand without Dick noticing. I could see steam from the hot Burner starting to singe my hand, I didn't feel anything and I dropped the Burner to the floor. I looked at my hand seeing a burn that looked almost second degree imprinted onto my skin when I saw Professor Wilkins rush over towards us and I squeezed my hand tightly into a fist. Once he got there and Dick moved away from me I pulled my sleeve over my hand so no one could see it and I tucked it away. Dick stood up first holding out his hand which I took with my other one helping me to my feet where pieces of glass bounced off his leather jacket. Everyone in the room turned to look over see Redhorn and his partner were both fine but they had a few chemical burns on their faces.
"Are you guys alright?" Professor Wilkins asked standing in between our station and Redhorn's, I placed my burnt hand behind my back. I turned to see that Redhorn was glaring at me and Dick was also looking over at me too.
"I just need to get some air...." I gasped pushing passed Dick and Professor Wilkins walking out of the room walking down the hall slightly pinning my back to the nearby wall. The halls were empty thank God before pulling my sleeve of my burned hand to check the injury out for myself. I could see the skin healing over the burn almost like the cut did the other day but this time it was quicker than last time. At the corner of my eye I could see Dick emerging from the room as I quickly shut my hand and pulled my sleeve down again.
"Hey? Are you alright?" he asked coming up towards me as I shook off the tension and gave him a smile signalling that I was. I could distinctly remember he body touching mine again and my heart was still racing from that.
"Yeah I'm okay, thanks for shielding me from the glass. You really didn't have to do that you know?" I answered I lifted both of my hands showing him that I had no burns or cuts from what happened.
"It isn't a big deal...if anything I should be thanking you for the heads up on the explosion, how did you know that would happen anyway?" he asked I bit my lip thinking of a good excuse but then I remembered that Redhorn mixed Ammonia and methanol together which is highly explosive when heated up to a boiling level.
"I saw Redhorn mixing Ammonia and Methanol together when you add heat those two chemicals together it is highly explosive. Remember chemistry expert over here, how about you? Are you hurt at all?" I exclaimed he showed me his hands and I saw no blood or burns, luckily that I deflected that Bunsen Burner from hitting him.
"I'm fine thanks, oh ummm Wilkins is cancelling the rest of class and rescheduling the experiment times because of what happened." Dick replied I felt a sigh of relief where we headed back into the room to grab our belongings while the custodian entered the room to clean up the chemicals and the mess. I grabbed my notebook placing it into my bag and Dick did the same following me out of the room into the hallway. "So are you heading to the gym again?"
"Of course, I got to maintain this perfect figure if I'm going to be able to compete again in the next competition. Why do you ask?" I asked him watching him following me towards the Fitness building down the long sidewalk from the Science building.
"Well I figured I would work out myself, do you mind showing me where the men's locker room is?" he smiled when we entered the building, I shook my head leading him down the hall to the stairwell then we both went down them quickly. I stopped at the first door after the stairs ended with Dick pointing it out to him.
"I guess I will see you in there." I replied he nodded leaving me in the hallway where I looked at my healed hand feeling the skin that felt normal not rough. Whatever these gifts can do they are growing inside of me and if that wannabe superhero tries to get in my way I will stop him and then I will stop Desmond permanently.
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