flamesburned | Room 515 - Thursday Morning

Somehow Liz managed to fall asleep given the events of the past couple of days. She didn't think she'd have a peaceful night's sleep and she was right.

Liz had just left for school that morning in early December. She hadn't gotten very far when she saw four students from her year nearby and instantly panic filled her. She started running and almost instantly they started chasing her.

"Hey freak!"

"Get her!"

"Get the freak!"

"You can't run from us freak!"

Liz desperately climbed onto the fence and she tried climbing it. Without warning the four teens had started throwing rocks at her, it didn't take long for them to hit her and she gasped in pain as she felt the impact. She sat down on the ground as she felt the cut made on her forehead from the rock. Suddenly her hands became engulfed in flames.

"Oh no, not again," Liz gasped as the flames spread along the fence that she had been sitting by, she stood up, the four teens stood back in disbelief as she desperately gazed at them.

"Help me!" she started screaming as the flames started to engulf her body, "help me somebody!" no response, "somebody help me!"

She stood there, screaming as the area around her caught fire. Within seconds the inferno exploded and it spread through the city block just as quickly as the inferno had exploded.

With a scream Liz awoke, gasping for breath. Trembling she got out her dream journal and made note of the nightmare, unable to stop herself from shaking as she wrote it down. No sooner had she gotten ready for the day did she drop to her knees, sobbing uncontrollably as she was unable to keep control of the emotions that she had supressed from the previous day.

[ooc: door's closed, post is open]

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"Only once," Liz said softly, "when I was abducted and experimented on by aliens...during the rescue, I ended up destroying the alien ship,"

"I heard about the alien abductions. My best friend was taken during that." She looked at her. "It sounds like your subconscious was reacting to protect yourself in that situation, Liz."

Liz nodded slightly, "my guardian said that my powers would sometimes react based on what I was feeling. There's been isolated incidents over the years but...nothing really terrible,"

"I know that my family's powers are often tied to our emotions, so it makes sense that other people with powers would have the same thing happen."

"I've been trying to control it through meditation but sometimes that's been difficult,"

"Yeah, I have a really hard time controlling mine... as in I can't. I can only imagine that yours has to be difficult sometimes, too."

"It hasn't been easy," Liz said softly, "knowing that the pain and destruction I've caused is because I couldn't control it,"

"That's why you never give up and you keep doing your best to work on it." She said quietly. "Losing control doesn't make you a bad person or mean that it's going to be the end of anything good ever happening. It just means you need to find that strength and patience within yourself and keep trying -- no matter who makes it hard for you."

"It's sometimes difficult to remember that,"

"That's why you let your friends help remind you of that."

"I guess so," Liz said softly.

Phoebe smiled. "I'll help. We'll see if we can find the rumour monger and we'll make sure that no one believes in them."

Liz managed a small smile, "thank you," she said quietly.

"I don't take well to people being lied about... or being made to feel like you're feeling right now," she explained.

Liz nodded slowly, "that means a lot to me," she said softly.

"I have a final in a few minutes that I need to go to, but if you need me? I'm in room 518/520 right down the hall from you."

Room 515 - Thursday Morning

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