Post by Jason "Twitch" Daniels on Aug 11, 2008 16:28:15 GMT
Name:
Jason “Twitch” Daniels
Codename:
None as of yet, but it might eventually be Reflex
Age:
23
Mutation:
The basis for all of Jason’s mutation is that his heart is an electrical generator. Every beat of his heart creates strong electrical impulses that are then pumped throughout his blood system to anywhere in his body. When Jason is calm these pulses are stable and Jason can somewhat consciously deal with all the electricity running through his veins. When he is nervous or scared and his heartbeat increases is when his power starts to cause problems. When his heart starts beating faster and stronger the electrical impulses sent throughout his body also increase in strength and frequency and if these impulses become too strong Jason’s body responds by making him pass out so that his body can return to its normal state.
Having electricity coursing through his veins gives him a variety of powers, but they are all internalized save the rare moment of overload where his skin begins to crawl with the static and the subject of his blood. The first of his internalized powers is also the one that earned him the nickname Twitch. When the electricity in his blood stream leaks out into his muscles it causes instant muscle spasms that allow him to move in short jerky bursts that are fast enough to avoid a bullet shot from ten feet away. When he is calm and focused he can keep these impulses under control, but when he gets nervous or goes deep into though he subconsciously siphons off excess energy by flexing the muscles in his fingers. It is a relatively unobtrusive type of spasm but looks very odd, especially since these spasms generally happen in quick succession and can be hard to follow with one’s eyes. At the moment he has very little conscious control of this power and it is primarily a knee jerk type of reaction to danger for him.
The second power that his heart generator gave to him is that it increased his brain processing speed to the extreme. Touch, smell, hearing, taste, and sight are all drastically increased. That is not to say that he can see further or hear better, but he is much more aware of what his five sense do. The best way to think about this is that because his brain processes and gives feedback to his senses so quickly in the time it takes for someone to glance at something it is as if he’s been staring at it for hours. He won’t pick up on things that someone wouldn’t be able to pick up with a good stare, nor will he hear things that others can’t. He simply will be able to better tell what it is that he is looking at or hearing. The side effect of this power is that because he is more aware of everything he loses interest in things very quickly and has trouble staying focused.
As an extension of this brainpower he can think and react at a speed to match the speed of his body and can move through logical steps to a conclusion at high speeds. A physical example of this would be if Jason was given a rubix cube his fast twitch muscles would be able to flip through the combinations at high speeds and his mind would be able to process every color and where it went along with what to do next. It gives Jason a very three dimensional sense of the world and he can guess fairly accurately where something is when it disappears from his vision so long as it stays on course with where it was going when it vanished from sight.
Jason’s blood is the one minor exception to his internalized powers. As one would expect with his heart acting as an electrical generator his blood is electrically charged, and surprisingly powerfully. This is a big plus to Jason’s immune system because there has yet to be a virus that entered his blood with could survive the massive volts his body provided. These volts however can be a very large problem when either someone attempts to give him a shot or he bleeds. Someone who is unprepared who attempts to administer a shot to the young man will be inadvertently putting their life on the line seeing as how they are using a very conductible metal object and putting it into his electrically charged blood. The volts running through his body are not very controllable for Jason and so will escape to whatever surface they can.
The other major negative impact of having his blood be electrically charged is that he can become grounded. Because of the nature of his mutation his body has become as accustomed to the electrical charges flowing throughout his body as it has to the blood that keeps him alive. If this electrical charge becomes grounded and the electrical charge escapes his body faster than his body can create it there is a chance that Jason would die by bleeding out. The reason that he would die by bleeding is that as his body looses charge it will try and make up for this lost charge by increasing the heart rate to generate more electricity. Since this new charge is obviously grounded all his body succeeds in doing is pumping more blood through his wound faster. This means that having an open wound lay onto any grounded surface is potentially fatal to him.
Ironically having his blood keep its charge outside the body, at least for a time, is the only offensive part of his odd ability. A drop of his blood will release all of its charge upon the first object it touches, besides his own body, giving the object it lands upon a shock that is dependent upon the amount of blood that touches that object. Of course this makes cleaning and dressing his wounds incredibly dangerous since any blood that comes in contact with the other person potentially fatal. On the aesthetics side of things when his blood is outside his body, and before it releases its charge, it sparks and can actually sear closed small wounds with said sparks. His body has also gained a very high resistance to electricity
Physical Description:
Despite Jason’s twenty-three years of life he hardly looks to barely be out of high school. His baby face, gentle blue-green eyes, and short trimmed light brown hair don’t help his cause. As for his body type he is incredibly thin, almost certainly due to the electricity running through his blood that breaks down fats faster than average, and a little gangly. The only hint that he might be older than eighteen is that he has a small light brown goatee and that his left ear is pierced with a small silver ring, something that is now electrified unfortunately. Jason stands at five foot eight inches and weighs barely over one hundred pounds.
Never one to really stand out in either appearance or dress he generally wears blue jeans of some sort a plain t-shirt and perhaps a hooded sweatshirt of some kind. He likes to stay away from rubber soled shoes if he can simply because they make him feel uncomfortable.
Personality:
The easiest, fastest, and most accurate way to describe Jason is subservient.
Jason is the type of person he simply doesn’t know how to use the word ‘no’. If someone asks something of him he’ll do it. He constantly tries to please everyone and so is willing to help out in any way requested of him. No matter what, if someone requests something of the man, he’ll drop anything he's doing to accomplish the request. Kind almost to a fault he has been known to go out of his way to make others happy. He is a firm believer in random acts of kindness and that philosophy can be seen in his daily life.
Always with a cheery smile on his face it’s hard to think that anything could ever bring him down. He is however very susceptible to what others think of him, which is where his subservient nature took root. When someone is mad or upset with him he takes it to heart and broods over what he did and how he can make it up to him or her. A very empathetic individual Jason also feels very sad or hurt when he sees someone else in a similar mindset. He thinks it’s his responsibility to make them happy and more cheerful.
Jason’s mutation has also greatly affected the man’s ability to focus. Since he processes everything so fast he often gets impatient when someone talks slowly or tries to explain things to him. Unless he has a set goal in mind and is set on that goal he is very difficult to keep up with. He was diagnosed with ADHD as a child due to his mutation and still takes Ritalin religiously to this day. Though the medication has no actual impact on his brain functions and lack of focus he thinks that it does and if he doesn’t take the meds then he is noticeably less focused and more wired.
Background:
Jason Tallia Daniels was born into a middle class family in one of the better suburbs of Los Angeles, California. As the only child to older parents he never had to fight for attention and so became a very relaxed individual, though was very quick to try and please his parents and family members. From an early age he fell in love with sports and, like most little kids, often came home covered in dirt and scrapes. The one thing that he fell in love with more than any other sport however was Basketball. He would play on the hoop that was in his front yard until the lack of light made him stop. For a middle school student he was fairly good, and was projected to start varsity at his high school by his sophomore year.
Not everything worked out the way it was supposed to for little Jason. A month before high school began his mutant powers began to emerge. At first the only difference was that he seemed to be wired all the time, but his parents attributed that to being able to start high school and continue to play basketball at a higher level. Two months into the school year they started to suspect that there was something else at play in the boy’s behavior. Though not always a bright student Jason’s grades had dropped to the bare minimum of basketball eligibility and his teachers often told his parents that they thought it was very difficult to Jason to stay focused for long periods of time. Worried about their son they took Jason to a doctor who diagnosed the freshman with ADHD and gave him a prescription for Ritalin. The drugs helped the boy a little, but it wasn’t a significant increase.
The first time that Jason noticed that there was something wrong with him was during basketball practice almost six months after his ability had begun to emerge. During intense scrimmages when his heart rate would increase his shot would begin to very wrong very quickly. At first the coaches assumed it was nerves to playing at a higher level and so comforted the boy. It quickly became apparent that it wasn’t simply nerves and Jason was dropped off the varsity squad a week before the first match. Frustrated Jason worked and worked but anytime his heart rate increased he would begin to loose control of his body and on a few occasions began to twitch so badly that he couldn’t move. Afraid of what was happening to him he decided to quit basketball altogether and began to gain a sort of loner status. His lack of good friends and rumors as to why he was no longer playing basketball spread around the school and earned him the nickname Twitch; a name which stuck with him through high school and part of college.
By the time sophomore year started Jason was being bullied and all but gave up on sports. The few times that he tried he reduced himself to senseless seizure like symptoms on the asphalt. Despite all the time not playing sports gave him his grades never improved much and since he didn’t want to worry his parents any more than he already was he never told them about the bullying. One odd thing that Jason did notice was that more often than not the small scrapes that he received from the bullies would sear themselves shut instead of just scabbing like they used to. This was the first real physical appearance of Jason’s mutation, though at that time he didn’t know what it was yet.
The next time his mutation did anything physical almost killed the young man. One time when he was being bullied the older boys pushed him and he tripped bashing the back of his head into the metal edge of a bench. He began to bleed profusely from the back of his head and the scared boys ran off. Luckily for Jason a teacher had seen him go down and quickly rushed over to help him up. In that short time however Jason’s power had become grounded for the first time and his increased heart rate was pushing blood out of his body far faster than normal. Jason was rushed the hospital and quickly treated. When he woke up it was to see a nurse checking his monitors and preparing to pull out the needle that had pumped blood back into the boy. As soon as the nurse touched the needle to remove it Jason felt a slight weakness sweep through him and then the nurse screamed. The needle had become electrified by contact with Jason’s blood and when she had gone to remove it that charge had passed into her and knocked the poor woman unconscious.
Panicking Jason pulled out the needle and threw it across the room before rolling off his bed and sprinting down the hallways and stairs away from his room. The boy didn’t slow down until he got home, thankful only a little more than a mile away from the hospital, where he collapsed into a chair in the living room. His parents, who had heard the door slam when he arrived home, came down to see him twitch almost spastically, covered in sweat, and crying. When he finally calmed down and explained what happened in the hospital his parents gave each other a nervous look and then embraced the fourteen year old in a big hug. The three of them knew that Jason wasn’t just a normal boy with ADHD anymore and while they were afraid they made a silent pact to try and move on as if he was.
Jason went through the last two years of high school alone. He was afraid to try any sports again and after they had split his head open the bullies stayed away from the boy less he tell the principal what they did to him. Jason didn’t mind however, he had his parents and that was good enough for him. After high school Jason tried to take the normal route for high school graduates and went to college. Granted with his grades it wasn’t a good college, but as his parents told him a degree is a degree. When Jason first heard about the cure at the end of his third year of college it dawned on him that perhaps he was one of them. The electricity that had knocked out that nurse was a mutation inside him. Thinking that he could finally become normal again in the summer before his final year of college he got the Cure, and it worked…for a time.
Jason began to see things as he used to and stopped taking the Ritalin that he had taken religiously since it was prescribed to him. He picked up basketball again, and even though he was out of practice his shot came back easily enough. That year he made the basketball team as a bench warmer and loved every moment. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and felt like the world was open to him once again. Just as he felt like he was on top of the world he began to feel the anxiousness that had plagued his teenage years once again. Afraid that his powers were re-emerging he began taking the Ritalin once again and drifted further away from the few friends that he had made over the last year.
By the time the summer ended his powers had fully re-emerged, though this time he had more control over them. Even with this new control he hated this mutation and searched eagerly for a way to get rid of this curse of his permanently. He heard of the Xavier Institute and thought that they might be able to help him, so he is now headed there.
Current Affiliation
Unaffiliated, but going to Xavier Institute for help
Sample:
The bright lights that hang above the counter make Jason squint as he looks around the kitchen to survey how much more work he has to do before bed. All of his plans this evening had been reduced to naught when his boss had asked him to clean up the back two hours ago. In that time he’d managed to clean all the dishes and get the garbage taken out of the small restaurant kitchen. He wipes his brow and pickes up his trusty sponge again. Weapon in hand he attacks the grime of the final counter with renewed gusto.
He’d given up on dinner with his parents to help out his boss, but he was sure they’d understand. Though he was sure he would have to make it up to them later. “After this,” he says between breaths, “I’ll get them…something…nice…from the…mall.” With a new goal in mind he returns to the mindlessness of scrubbing the white marble cutting surface. Finally finished ten minutes later he is breathing heavier than normal and he can feel the electricity inside him begin to gain a mind of his own. He goes to toss the sponge into the sink only to have it go flying in the back wall. He stares down at his hand even as his fingers begin to flex on their own. Taking a deep breath he focuses on the current running through him and calms his heart. He flexes his hand a few times to make sure its his before retrieving the sponge and dropping it in the sink, after all he didn’t feel like picking it up a second.
After one last look around the kitchen he flicks off the lights and heads over to his bike. He had owned a car for a while, but after a few incidents he decided that a motor vehicle was not a good fit for him and had pulled his old bicycle out of the garage at his parents house for daily use. The thing wasn’t in the best of shape, but it got him from point A to point B and who was he to ask for more. He kicks up the bike stand and begins to peddle onto the streets. A quick glance in both directions shows him the lack of traffic and so he sets off down the lamp lit street toward the mall and then home, making special care to keep his mind focused on how he should make this up to his parents.
WESTCHESTER
Jason “Twitch” Daniels
Codename:
None as of yet, but it might eventually be Reflex
Age:
23
Mutation:
The basis for all of Jason’s mutation is that his heart is an electrical generator. Every beat of his heart creates strong electrical impulses that are then pumped throughout his blood system to anywhere in his body. When Jason is calm these pulses are stable and Jason can somewhat consciously deal with all the electricity running through his veins. When he is nervous or scared and his heartbeat increases is when his power starts to cause problems. When his heart starts beating faster and stronger the electrical impulses sent throughout his body also increase in strength and frequency and if these impulses become too strong Jason’s body responds by making him pass out so that his body can return to its normal state.
Having electricity coursing through his veins gives him a variety of powers, but they are all internalized save the rare moment of overload where his skin begins to crawl with the static and the subject of his blood. The first of his internalized powers is also the one that earned him the nickname Twitch. When the electricity in his blood stream leaks out into his muscles it causes instant muscle spasms that allow him to move in short jerky bursts that are fast enough to avoid a bullet shot from ten feet away. When he is calm and focused he can keep these impulses under control, but when he gets nervous or goes deep into though he subconsciously siphons off excess energy by flexing the muscles in his fingers. It is a relatively unobtrusive type of spasm but looks very odd, especially since these spasms generally happen in quick succession and can be hard to follow with one’s eyes. At the moment he has very little conscious control of this power and it is primarily a knee jerk type of reaction to danger for him.
The second power that his heart generator gave to him is that it increased his brain processing speed to the extreme. Touch, smell, hearing, taste, and sight are all drastically increased. That is not to say that he can see further or hear better, but he is much more aware of what his five sense do. The best way to think about this is that because his brain processes and gives feedback to his senses so quickly in the time it takes for someone to glance at something it is as if he’s been staring at it for hours. He won’t pick up on things that someone wouldn’t be able to pick up with a good stare, nor will he hear things that others can’t. He simply will be able to better tell what it is that he is looking at or hearing. The side effect of this power is that because he is more aware of everything he loses interest in things very quickly and has trouble staying focused.
As an extension of this brainpower he can think and react at a speed to match the speed of his body and can move through logical steps to a conclusion at high speeds. A physical example of this would be if Jason was given a rubix cube his fast twitch muscles would be able to flip through the combinations at high speeds and his mind would be able to process every color and where it went along with what to do next. It gives Jason a very three dimensional sense of the world and he can guess fairly accurately where something is when it disappears from his vision so long as it stays on course with where it was going when it vanished from sight.
Jason’s blood is the one minor exception to his internalized powers. As one would expect with his heart acting as an electrical generator his blood is electrically charged, and surprisingly powerfully. This is a big plus to Jason’s immune system because there has yet to be a virus that entered his blood with could survive the massive volts his body provided. These volts however can be a very large problem when either someone attempts to give him a shot or he bleeds. Someone who is unprepared who attempts to administer a shot to the young man will be inadvertently putting their life on the line seeing as how they are using a very conductible metal object and putting it into his electrically charged blood. The volts running through his body are not very controllable for Jason and so will escape to whatever surface they can.
The other major negative impact of having his blood be electrically charged is that he can become grounded. Because of the nature of his mutation his body has become as accustomed to the electrical charges flowing throughout his body as it has to the blood that keeps him alive. If this electrical charge becomes grounded and the electrical charge escapes his body faster than his body can create it there is a chance that Jason would die by bleeding out. The reason that he would die by bleeding is that as his body looses charge it will try and make up for this lost charge by increasing the heart rate to generate more electricity. Since this new charge is obviously grounded all his body succeeds in doing is pumping more blood through his wound faster. This means that having an open wound lay onto any grounded surface is potentially fatal to him.
Ironically having his blood keep its charge outside the body, at least for a time, is the only offensive part of his odd ability. A drop of his blood will release all of its charge upon the first object it touches, besides his own body, giving the object it lands upon a shock that is dependent upon the amount of blood that touches that object. Of course this makes cleaning and dressing his wounds incredibly dangerous since any blood that comes in contact with the other person potentially fatal. On the aesthetics side of things when his blood is outside his body, and before it releases its charge, it sparks and can actually sear closed small wounds with said sparks. His body has also gained a very high resistance to electricity
Physical Description:
Despite Jason’s twenty-three years of life he hardly looks to barely be out of high school. His baby face, gentle blue-green eyes, and short trimmed light brown hair don’t help his cause. As for his body type he is incredibly thin, almost certainly due to the electricity running through his blood that breaks down fats faster than average, and a little gangly. The only hint that he might be older than eighteen is that he has a small light brown goatee and that his left ear is pierced with a small silver ring, something that is now electrified unfortunately. Jason stands at five foot eight inches and weighs barely over one hundred pounds.
Never one to really stand out in either appearance or dress he generally wears blue jeans of some sort a plain t-shirt and perhaps a hooded sweatshirt of some kind. He likes to stay away from rubber soled shoes if he can simply because they make him feel uncomfortable.
Personality:
The easiest, fastest, and most accurate way to describe Jason is subservient.
Jason is the type of person he simply doesn’t know how to use the word ‘no’. If someone asks something of him he’ll do it. He constantly tries to please everyone and so is willing to help out in any way requested of him. No matter what, if someone requests something of the man, he’ll drop anything he's doing to accomplish the request. Kind almost to a fault he has been known to go out of his way to make others happy. He is a firm believer in random acts of kindness and that philosophy can be seen in his daily life.
Always with a cheery smile on his face it’s hard to think that anything could ever bring him down. He is however very susceptible to what others think of him, which is where his subservient nature took root. When someone is mad or upset with him he takes it to heart and broods over what he did and how he can make it up to him or her. A very empathetic individual Jason also feels very sad or hurt when he sees someone else in a similar mindset. He thinks it’s his responsibility to make them happy and more cheerful.
Jason’s mutation has also greatly affected the man’s ability to focus. Since he processes everything so fast he often gets impatient when someone talks slowly or tries to explain things to him. Unless he has a set goal in mind and is set on that goal he is very difficult to keep up with. He was diagnosed with ADHD as a child due to his mutation and still takes Ritalin religiously to this day. Though the medication has no actual impact on his brain functions and lack of focus he thinks that it does and if he doesn’t take the meds then he is noticeably less focused and more wired.
Background:
Jason Tallia Daniels was born into a middle class family in one of the better suburbs of Los Angeles, California. As the only child to older parents he never had to fight for attention and so became a very relaxed individual, though was very quick to try and please his parents and family members. From an early age he fell in love with sports and, like most little kids, often came home covered in dirt and scrapes. The one thing that he fell in love with more than any other sport however was Basketball. He would play on the hoop that was in his front yard until the lack of light made him stop. For a middle school student he was fairly good, and was projected to start varsity at his high school by his sophomore year.
Not everything worked out the way it was supposed to for little Jason. A month before high school began his mutant powers began to emerge. At first the only difference was that he seemed to be wired all the time, but his parents attributed that to being able to start high school and continue to play basketball at a higher level. Two months into the school year they started to suspect that there was something else at play in the boy’s behavior. Though not always a bright student Jason’s grades had dropped to the bare minimum of basketball eligibility and his teachers often told his parents that they thought it was very difficult to Jason to stay focused for long periods of time. Worried about their son they took Jason to a doctor who diagnosed the freshman with ADHD and gave him a prescription for Ritalin. The drugs helped the boy a little, but it wasn’t a significant increase.
The first time that Jason noticed that there was something wrong with him was during basketball practice almost six months after his ability had begun to emerge. During intense scrimmages when his heart rate would increase his shot would begin to very wrong very quickly. At first the coaches assumed it was nerves to playing at a higher level and so comforted the boy. It quickly became apparent that it wasn’t simply nerves and Jason was dropped off the varsity squad a week before the first match. Frustrated Jason worked and worked but anytime his heart rate increased he would begin to loose control of his body and on a few occasions began to twitch so badly that he couldn’t move. Afraid of what was happening to him he decided to quit basketball altogether and began to gain a sort of loner status. His lack of good friends and rumors as to why he was no longer playing basketball spread around the school and earned him the nickname Twitch; a name which stuck with him through high school and part of college.
By the time sophomore year started Jason was being bullied and all but gave up on sports. The few times that he tried he reduced himself to senseless seizure like symptoms on the asphalt. Despite all the time not playing sports gave him his grades never improved much and since he didn’t want to worry his parents any more than he already was he never told them about the bullying. One odd thing that Jason did notice was that more often than not the small scrapes that he received from the bullies would sear themselves shut instead of just scabbing like they used to. This was the first real physical appearance of Jason’s mutation, though at that time he didn’t know what it was yet.
The next time his mutation did anything physical almost killed the young man. One time when he was being bullied the older boys pushed him and he tripped bashing the back of his head into the metal edge of a bench. He began to bleed profusely from the back of his head and the scared boys ran off. Luckily for Jason a teacher had seen him go down and quickly rushed over to help him up. In that short time however Jason’s power had become grounded for the first time and his increased heart rate was pushing blood out of his body far faster than normal. Jason was rushed the hospital and quickly treated. When he woke up it was to see a nurse checking his monitors and preparing to pull out the needle that had pumped blood back into the boy. As soon as the nurse touched the needle to remove it Jason felt a slight weakness sweep through him and then the nurse screamed. The needle had become electrified by contact with Jason’s blood and when she had gone to remove it that charge had passed into her and knocked the poor woman unconscious.
Panicking Jason pulled out the needle and threw it across the room before rolling off his bed and sprinting down the hallways and stairs away from his room. The boy didn’t slow down until he got home, thankful only a little more than a mile away from the hospital, where he collapsed into a chair in the living room. His parents, who had heard the door slam when he arrived home, came down to see him twitch almost spastically, covered in sweat, and crying. When he finally calmed down and explained what happened in the hospital his parents gave each other a nervous look and then embraced the fourteen year old in a big hug. The three of them knew that Jason wasn’t just a normal boy with ADHD anymore and while they were afraid they made a silent pact to try and move on as if he was.
Jason went through the last two years of high school alone. He was afraid to try any sports again and after they had split his head open the bullies stayed away from the boy less he tell the principal what they did to him. Jason didn’t mind however, he had his parents and that was good enough for him. After high school Jason tried to take the normal route for high school graduates and went to college. Granted with his grades it wasn’t a good college, but as his parents told him a degree is a degree. When Jason first heard about the cure at the end of his third year of college it dawned on him that perhaps he was one of them. The electricity that had knocked out that nurse was a mutation inside him. Thinking that he could finally become normal again in the summer before his final year of college he got the Cure, and it worked…for a time.
Jason began to see things as he used to and stopped taking the Ritalin that he had taken religiously since it was prescribed to him. He picked up basketball again, and even though he was out of practice his shot came back easily enough. That year he made the basketball team as a bench warmer and loved every moment. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and felt like the world was open to him once again. Just as he felt like he was on top of the world he began to feel the anxiousness that had plagued his teenage years once again. Afraid that his powers were re-emerging he began taking the Ritalin once again and drifted further away from the few friends that he had made over the last year.
By the time the summer ended his powers had fully re-emerged, though this time he had more control over them. Even with this new control he hated this mutation and searched eagerly for a way to get rid of this curse of his permanently. He heard of the Xavier Institute and thought that they might be able to help him, so he is now headed there.
Current Affiliation
Unaffiliated, but going to Xavier Institute for help
Sample:
The bright lights that hang above the counter make Jason squint as he looks around the kitchen to survey how much more work he has to do before bed. All of his plans this evening had been reduced to naught when his boss had asked him to clean up the back two hours ago. In that time he’d managed to clean all the dishes and get the garbage taken out of the small restaurant kitchen. He wipes his brow and pickes up his trusty sponge again. Weapon in hand he attacks the grime of the final counter with renewed gusto.
He’d given up on dinner with his parents to help out his boss, but he was sure they’d understand. Though he was sure he would have to make it up to them later. “After this,” he says between breaths, “I’ll get them…something…nice…from the…mall.” With a new goal in mind he returns to the mindlessness of scrubbing the white marble cutting surface. Finally finished ten minutes later he is breathing heavier than normal and he can feel the electricity inside him begin to gain a mind of his own. He goes to toss the sponge into the sink only to have it go flying in the back wall. He stares down at his hand even as his fingers begin to flex on their own. Taking a deep breath he focuses on the current running through him and calms his heart. He flexes his hand a few times to make sure its his before retrieving the sponge and dropping it in the sink, after all he didn’t feel like picking it up a second.
After one last look around the kitchen he flicks off the lights and heads over to his bike. He had owned a car for a while, but after a few incidents he decided that a motor vehicle was not a good fit for him and had pulled his old bicycle out of the garage at his parents house for daily use. The thing wasn’t in the best of shape, but it got him from point A to point B and who was he to ask for more. He kicks up the bike stand and begins to peddle onto the streets. A quick glance in both directions shows him the lack of traffic and so he sets off down the lamp lit street toward the mall and then home, making special care to keep his mind focused on how he should make this up to his parents.
WESTCHESTER
