I look at myself in the mirror, nothing much, all of Heath hickeys had faded due to our mutated bodies. I feel the pain still from earlier. I brush my hair and tie it up in a bun so I can sleep without it in my face, I was wearing a silky-smooth pink nightgown with black lace on the ends it has a matching robe that I carried out of the bathroom with. The lights in the lab were off, but the hall lights were dim. I walk back to room 40 and open the door the lights were off and the bed was remade. Did Heath go home or is he still in the shower?
I shrug it off and slid into the Queen-sized bed. I put myself on the right side which had the smallest space to get on and off the bed with; it was the closest to the wall. Heath and I would have to rearrange the room. The bed was quite comfortable, as I slowly fall into slumber. The next thing I know, my alarm is going off. I reach for my phone to hit the snooze button when I find it hard to turn. My mind slowly wakes up when I realize that Heath came to bed after I did. "Heath; turn off my alarm." I groan as I feel him move and silenced my phone. He returns his left arm to my waist as I realized it's my odd: 'I get up a three in the morning to study' alarm.
He groans; "Why did your phone go off at 2:59 am?" I snuggle closer to him, "In normal everyday school I would get up and prep myself by studying at this time and making notes for almost all of our classmates last year, it just so happens that that alarm is still there." He kisses my head when we heard the door open, I wanted to die! Who is coming in right now? I hear small feet; crap it is Dix.
She came over the larger/wider side of the bed; "Heath, Lilia; I had a bad dream." Heath groans as we both sit up in bed; "Okay; why not tell Dr. Kellie?" Heath asked her as she held a small worn dog plush in her hands; "I couldn't find Dr. Kellie and Dr. Icy, then I went to Dr. Staff, but he wouldn't wake up to my voice because he was snoring too loud, and Shi got mad when I woke him up." Heath looked exhausted; "Okay why don't you come and lay down with us; just for tonight though." Heath said just wanting to get back to sleep.
Dix crawled up on the bed, and got between us; I yawn; "Why not tell us about your nightmare?" I said hoping that would get her asleep. Heath turned his back to us to make more room, and hopefully to hide his boner. "Okay, I was playing with all of my siblings, all 16 of you guys. When I heard father laughing really loudly as he started to take everyone away, I couldn't find you guys, nor could I find Dr. Kellie." I groan, "Really?" she nodded and continued; "Then I was back in father's lab, where he was tossing away those apart of the 3rd creation. I mean he was putting their husk of a body in the trash; big brother was helping him as he was counting up to ten."
I could hear the fear in her voice, "When he got to me, he said; 'Too, bad you ten were rejects like the last three; only the first creation can give me what I want.' Then he pulled out a bottle with CN on it with 26.02 g/mol as well." That was too close or right on with Cyanide. I listen to her ramble on, now about how the dream twisted and became an odd kid's dream. She finally fell asleep, and I followed, I'm sure Heath passed out a while ago. A little later both Heath and my alarms go off about 6:30.
Heath and I both sit up and looked at each other, Dix is still sleeping in between us, when Dr. Kellie walks in. "Has Dix graced you two last night after another bad dream spell?" We nod and motion her to the bed and nodded. "Leave her she can sleep in a little bit today since we're doing blood test then we'll be sitting the classroom for the school's sake. I have breakfast ready if you'd like some now or sleep a little longer." Heath rubbed his face and groaned, "Do you have coffee?" I smile at him; "I'm sure they do." I remember what Dix said last night about not finding Dr. Kellie or Icy. "Last night; Dix said you and Icy were not in your respected rooms?" Dr. Kellie nodded, "I was taking Dr. Icy to the airport, her three-year-old daughter is ill, and needed to return home: to Florida. Her husband was shocked by how the fast the fever grew; they're at the hospital right now."
I nod understanding now; "I see; we should get ready." Heath groans, "I'm not getting ready until I've had coffee." I smirk as I slide around Dix and put the robe on, "I guess we can get ready after breakfast." Dr. Kellie moved out of the doorway and let us through; "I've already contacted the others class will start in the classroom this later in the morning and we'll be taking a short pop quiz on the level of villainy, to make sure you kids are ready for the test tomorrow." I nod as Heath slowly moved down the hall. We leave the blue hall as we entered the green hall which was a kitchen and dining room big enough to hold the entire county. Dr. Staff was the one serving breakfast. "I must have been fast asleep if I didn't know Heath and Lilia both slept here last night." Heath grunts and takes a cup of coffee, as Shi moves tables to sit with us, "Guys look what I've been working on."
I take the paper as Shi proudly shines over when looks like a comic book he made. "Wow, that looks great Shi." I tug on Heath to look at it; he was really invested in his coffee. "It looks, cool kid." Shi really likes Heath; like he was an older brother; I get up to grab a plate. I walk over to where Dr. Kellie was talking to Dr. Staff, "Well aren't you just glowing this morning." Dr. Staff said as I try to ignore them. "I think you both are glowing." Dr. Kellie stated as I grab a bagel and spread some cream cheese on it. "If you two would please not talk about last night like it was your business."
I gripped and rolled my eyes; I noticed Heath coming closer. He planted a kiss on my cheek; "Cupcake; hurry and return to our table Shi is becoming annoying." I smirk; "Aw, Heathy you have an admirer." I smirk and put an orange on my plate, with some granola. "Do you want coffee, Cupcake?" "Nah; just a cup of water is fine. What do you want I'll take a plate to the table for you?" He fills his mug, "Well; just put some eggs and toast on a plate for me." I nod and make both of our plates.
I return to the table where Shi was eating some yogurt and fruit. "Lilia is it true you'll be staying with us?" I smile; "Just until my grandmother feels better." Shi nodded; "Cool, that means I can ask you for help with my homework." I smile, "Yes, but you need to try your best on your homework first okay?" he nods as Heath brings the drinks over. "Shi please just eat your breakfast." I take Heath's hand as he sets his mug down, "Now Heath he's just a kid who's excited that his favorite person is staying here in the compound with him." He looks at Shi and sighs, "I guess I'm not really a morning person all that much. Sorry about that kid." Shi had sparkles in his eyes, ��Wow! Lilia, don't you think Heath's so cool?" I nudge Heath as he livens up a bit.
He laughs, "Alright stop buttering me up and eat." I open my orange as everyone ate in silence except with a few questions from Shi here and there. I finished first and decided to go back to the room to check on Dix. I walk in the darkroom and find that Dix started to wake up. "Morning," I said as I walk over to the dresser, she looked tired; "Where am I?" I put more of my clothes in the dresser as Dix walks over to me. "Lilia; I'm sorry for stealing your sleeping time with Heath." I smile at her, "Honey, Heath and I were sleeping you didn't steal from us. I promise if anything you made it all the warmer for us." She smiled as I hug her. "Can I sleep with you again?"
I smirk; "I think you need to work on sleeping in your own bed." She puffed out her cheeks, "But, you said I made the bed warmer!" I pat her head; "Yes, but you need to become braver, and learn to sleep on your own." She nodded as Heath walks in, "Alright all little kids out, I need to get dressed." Dix walked to the door, "We could all get dressed together." Heath crossed his arms, "Out." He stated firmly as Dix sighed and walked out like a sad puppy. "Heath: that might have been a little harsh." He sits on the bed rubbing the sleep from his eyes, "Yes, but I'm not playing parent with these kids, I can play brother, uncle, cousin, and friend with them just fine, but Lilia they aren't our kids if anything they are your uncle's children thus your cousins. I'm just their cousin's super cool and handsome boyfriend/ one day husband."
I laugh and sit with him on the bed and look at our pile of dirty clothes, "We need to get those washed and put away." I stated and pointing over to the pile. "Nah, this compound has literally everything; it even has a robot that does the laundry." I smirk, "But we still have to do it ourselves on a daily basis soon right?" He groaned, "Right; we can do it after school today." Roll my eyes at him, "Sure you will." He smirks and gives me a quick kiss. "Come on you know I will."
We laugh, as I look at the old school bag in the corner. "Will you continue to stay or will you return to your apartment?" Heath; lays back on the bed; "Not going to lie; I think you're a better roommate already than the guys." I giggle; "You think I am now, but you might want to wait a few weeks." "I guess we will, now do you wanna get dressed or play around some before that?" I smack his arm, "Right; playtime after the children go to bed." Heath said and pulled out some pants and a dirty old hoodie, it had some St. Louis team on the front. I check the time and temperature. It's about 55oF outside and we have a small chance for rain in the late evening.
I grab out a baggy sweater it was pastel pink it's long enough to be a dress the sleeves went a little past my forearm and a pair dark blue faded skinny jeans with a few rips in the middle. I pull out some mid-calve boots with one-inch heels. Pull out a belt that with a thick black one that hugged one hip and was off the other. The buckle part was a large silver circle; I pull out silver hoops and grab my makeup bag. "I'm going to finish getting ready okay." Heath sat reading over his phone, "Cupcake you already look fine." "My hair isn't brushed yet, and I wanna look nice, for you."
He pulled me into his lap; "I think you always look good." I laugh, "Well I'm glad to hear you even like this natural sleep look." I kiss him, and head for the door. In the locker room someone was showering, probably Dr. Kellie or Dix. So, I continue to clean my face from any leftover makeup that wasn't cleaned off from last night. I mostly wear eye makeup and lipstick. The shower turned off as I applied the last of the pink eye shadow.
I start tracing my eyes as Dr. Icy comes out. "I thought you returned to Florida."
Dr. Icy had a towel wrapped around her as she came to the mirror, "Yes, but I flew back in this morning my child is at the nearest Mercy Hospital, with my husband. The Hero League flew us across the country to one of their normal and superhero hospitals." I nod; "They are finally allowing my family to come live in the compound. Since our research center isn't where my husband works, he actually is a retired hero, who would rather live closer to HQ than one of our smaller district buildings." I apply the mascara as she looks at her eyes. "So, are you a hero, or a norm?" Icy smirks, "I'm a norm; you guys are about 7% of the population."
I smile as I dig around for a nice shade of lip gloss, or lipstick. "I heard you and Heath stayed here last night." I roll my eyes; "My grandmother has gone insane from having failure children that she decides that Heath is too abnormal for her." Dr. Icy nods; "Such a shame if only she saw him the way we do." I find a light red color called: candy apples, and start to apply it. "True; Heath does personally have a bad boy vide to him, no matter how clean he is." We both giggle about how Heath looks like he rolled out from under a rock if he didn't tend to himself.
I then proceeded to brush the curly mass and tie up some of the hair in a sides-up closer to the top of my head. I smile in the mirror and put the hoops in; when Dix walks into the room. "Lilia, I found you! Heath said you were getting ready, but I wanted to show you this picture I drew! I did you guys in your hero suits!" I smile at the picture as Dr. Icy peeks at it. "Wow! I love it, can I keep it, or do you still want it?" She smiled brightly, "You can have it." I nod and start to walk out of the locker room with my things.
Dix was tailing me like a lost puppy. "Did you do your hair?" I nod, "Wow, can you do my hair sometime?" I smile at her; "Sure; but right now, you need to get ready yourself." I start to walk back to room 40. Heath is on his phone still, I sit next to him as he sneaks a kiss, "Do you wanna take a walk?" I ask him as he pulls away from my cheek. "Sure," I stand up and grab my school bag: I packed it with me. I look at Heath's hair and notice it's gotten really long I come up behind him and pull it up in a ponytail. "I see I need a haircut." Heath said pulling the ponytail; "If you want one, I think you'll look good with anything, but a bowl cut."
We both laugh as we look at the bed; "Right…we should make that." I said as Heath nods, "I guess we should." Once we make the bed, we also make a small pile for our clothes and walk out. I look at the time as we walk down the hall; 7: 30 not too bad for waking up at 6:30 and taking my time. We head for the main entrance and hope we can take a leaser walk through the woods before ten when we'll be required to sit in the classroom. Heath and I fly out and begin our walk. "If you want a haircut get it fashioned like before," I stated as I playfully tug his ponytail. "If I get it cut, the bun goes and just a little bit of hair stays on tops, and I'll shave the sides again."
I smile; "Sure, you like your man-bun too much to let it go." We laugh it off and head for the exit. We were only stopped once by Dr. Staff who was more like a wandering grandpa asking us questions and remembering the old days when his wife was still alive. Heath and I finally get away from his grasp and begin our walk. The sun was poking through the hazy clouds and the horizon. The dew dripped grass made my boots wet and a small pathed where we walked from. The birds were chirping; and the squirrels playfully ran from tree to tree. I smile and hold Heath's hand. "Isn't this great? It's like the morning is welcoming us." Heath smirks at me; "Are you sure it wasn't the sex?" I smack in the chest, "Please it just seems calm, you know the world doesn't seem like we're going to be destroyed every five minutes today." Heath nods but returns his gaze back to the horizon.
I look when I notice something…or someone flying our way. "Crap; get down!" Heath said as we fall on each other. I look up and notice two kids circling us. "We found them! Brother; we found Creation 1A and 1B." The girl said to the boy who set her down as he continued to float. The girl clapped her hands and gave a little jump here and there, Heath and I slowly back up; the girl giggled, "Oops can't have you guys running away, now can we?" Heath throws me back as the girl freezes him. I hide and hide behind a tree. "Come out dear sister! Father wants you back home where he can create his best creation yet."
My heart was pounding out of my chest; I open the watch and call everyone. "We have two of the 3rd creations coming after me, Heath is down. He was hit with the girl's ice powers." I jump as two laughs come from above me, "Hello sister," The boy said as my eyes make contact with his brilliant green eyes. The girl reached for me, "Your turn sister," I feel everything in me burn. I pull all my fears inward and think about what it means to be a hero. "What you are doing is wrong, come with us…we can help you." The girl giggles as she continues to reach for me; "Now older sister, you should know that father always gets what he wants."
I grab them with a vine and send both kids to the ground. The boy groaned, "That hurt sister, the girl froze my vine. They broke as she moved; "Sister come on, let's go home and see so that you can meet father." I scowled, "What about Shi and Dix?" I back up the two kids seemed unfazed. "They are nothing but worthless children now." The boy said as he started to float up, "That's right, father; doesn't need such worthless children at home." The girl giggled as my back-hit Heath the ice was still covering him, even with Pyrokinesis; he can't thaw himself out that fast.
I can't take both on at the same time; I could get caught in the girl's ice. She needs to go first, but how? "Hey, um what are your names?" I ask as they continue to come closer. The boy looks at me; "Are you giving up so early, sister? Well if you are then I guess there is no use hiding our names; I'm Pyatʹ, and this is my twin sister." The girl waved with a slight giggle, "I'm Sei, I can't wait for you to come home with us; we can play all day until father wants you, but that's okay. We can still have fun." The girl touched my arm, and I take my chance, "Sorry, but you won't be returning to your father for some time." I flip her on her back knocking the air out of her. She gasped for air as I kick, Pyatʹ into a large oak tree. I wrap Sei into my vines and Pyatʹ comes charging at me, "Leave her alone!" I jump and take for the sky as he chases me.
The kid was fast but not as fast as me. I hit about plane level aptitude before turning and watch the kid come closer. I dive towards him as streaks of; pink and white clash. I have him in my grasp as we made contact with the earth. Pyatʹ had passed out as we lay in a crater we created on impact. I cough as streaks of gold and electric green dive down to me, "Lilia what the heck happened?" Yukii yelled as she grabbed me; "Where's Heath? He was frozen by the girl, and I took them on by myself." Tucker picked up Pyatʹ, "The girl and Heath are fine we found the girl still out of breath and watched you take off in the sky with the kid on your tail. Vee and Ryan are with them right now." I sigh and collapse on the ground, "Thank the Lord I thought we were going to be taken by these kids."
Yukii goes to grab me when we hear yelling, "Yukii! Tucker! Where is she?" Heath jumped down into my crater. I was exhausted but smiled up at him, "Hey there," he picked me up, "Cupcake, for how intelligent you are, you can be so dumb." Yukii rolls her eyes, "Come on let's get you guys back to the compound, the idiot and I will fill in this hole." Pyatʹ was thrown over Heath's shoulder, as he flew us back to the compound where Ryan and Vee waited for us.
Ryan took Pyatʹ as I was in the death grip of Heath. Dr. Kellie ran over to us, "What the heck happened out there? My security system picked up on two unknown figures; then out of know where there is an explosion!" She noticed me; I guess I looked worse than I thought because she nearly had a heart attack when she looked at me. "What happened, where are Yukii and Tucker?" Heath took me back to room 40 while Vee and Ryan explained everything. I was covered in dirt and cuts from my reentry. I look over to our clothes on the floor as his hand rest on my leg.
I lean closer to him, as he pushed me back against the pillow. "Don't push yourself; you could have done more damage than you think." I smile at him as I take his hand, "Were you scared?" I asked him with a smile; he coughs out a sob; "Of course I was, I was frozen and couldn't help you!" I smile as he leans over and cries on me. Dr. Kellie walks in with medical equipment. "Heath; you can stay, but you need to stay out of my way, while I run the test. He climbs over and sits next to me, as Dr. Kellie begins her work. "Your readings are stable, but I don't have enough equipment here to finish helping you. I think sending you to Mercy Hero clinic is the only thing we have to help you if you are bleeding internally, or have a ruptured organ."
Heath and I were quiet as she called someone. "Hello, yes I have a class 8 teen who might have a class 5 damage levels from fighting two class 7 villains." I cough as blood falls from my mouth which is what freaks us out; "The class 8 has just coughed up blood!" Heath took off my shirt and pants and put on some old sweats of his and hoodie. "There you won't get your clothes dirty." I laugh a little, as two people in navy blue uniforms just appeared in the room. "Thank goodness you're here; which one; are you guys taking her to?" the woman who was helping me on to the stretcher looked over at her; "We're taking her to Kansas City; the higher-ups want to look over her."
I watch Dr. Kellie nod as I was strapped into the moving bed; "I'm coming too, her grandparents are norms, they wouldn't last a minute in the hero clinic." Heath said as he took my hand; "Alright let's go." The man said as we close and open our eyes to an eyry quiet intensive care united, I jumped when alarms went off; "We have a code 9856 in the entrance of intensive care. With a class 8 hero, this is not a drill; the best doctors are needed for quick scanning. I repeat this is not a drill." Doors open; and I kid you not five doctors rush out and they all look normal just like me.
A man starts to push my stretcher; "What happened?" the doctors all start to ramble off what they heard from the call. I'm just listening as Heath is running with them as I begin to cough up more blood. A nurse stops Heath from following the group of doctors, as they take me into the first room, where I go unconcise.