Time Warp: Pain (Closed)

[Kane Woonren]

October 13th 1993

Kane was having a hard time focusing in his class, which wasn't all that unusual. He winced as a particularly strong jolt of pain shot up his spine, grunting and laying forward in his desk. The teacher glared at him, probably thinking that he was trying to be disruptive on purpose. Honestly, he'd have liked nothing more than to be able to pay attention and stop being a disruption. He was in pain practically every moment of every day, although today was a bit different. Usually it came and went at random times, but today there was a solid stream of pain streaking down his back. He bit down on his cheek, trying to keep himself from crying out. His eyes darted over to the clock.

The pain had come and gone since the day before he was recruited into the school. It was part of the reason he was there in the first place. The pain and his increased body heat had brought him to the hospital, and they had alerted the school. As far as he knew, it didn't have anything to do with his powers. Heck, they suspected that his powers were probably something fire related because of his body temperature, but they couldn't be sure. Still, they couldn't be that far off base. What sort of powers would cause his body temp to be 5 degrees higher than the average person? Certainly wasn't an ice power. Either way, he spent an hour a day getting poked and prodded in the infirmary to make sure that the pain wasn't his spine exploding out his back or something weird like that.

His head was beginning to swim, and the pain was beginning to make it buzz. He groaned, he had to get down to the infirmary soon... he didn't really like taking any of the pain medication, but at this point he would beg them for a morphine drip. He almost didn't hear the bell ring over the buzzing in his head, and the six foot 14 year old stumbled out of the room, bumping into a couple of desks and muttering apologies when he bumped into a couple of people. As he started heading straight towards the infirmary. The pain made his legs weak, and his knees began to twitch.

He made it two hallways away, pushing through the crowd, before it started. The pain changed, rather than a steady amount... well, it felt like someone was stabbing his back in two places. He let out a scream of pain that stopped everyone in the hallway and directed everyone's attention towards him as the scream continued. He clutched his sides as his legs buckled, falling forward onto the ground. His face slammed into the ground, his nose getting bloody as he rocked back and forth. He didn't really notice, however, as the pain got more intense.

Those observing would see something looking like it was straining against the back of his shirt. Although, it wasn't all that noticeable... yet. At least not compared to the screaming six foot tall teen that was writhing in pain on the hallway floor. Most of them seemed like they were sitting there in stunned silence, staring at this... rather unusual spectacle. If he was capable of thinking anything other than "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" it probably would've been "Someone call the damn doctor!"

[Dorothy Wilson]

October 13th 1993

It was senior year! Dorothy was doing all she could do to have fun and she was extremely happy that she was able to make it through her time here at Hammel. At first she hadn't been the most... excited about coming, and especially not about being able to shift into a chinchilla. It was just.. opposite of everything she was. By now she was able to control her power. Mostly.

It was still awkward to be shifting into this tiny animal that was nearly the size of her hand. It hurt like hell most of the time and she almost hated to, but it had to be done. Otherwise she wasn't able to feel right. She was still very confused as to exactly why it was a chinchilla, but that didn't mean that she wasn't well, accustomed to her power by now. She wasn't shifting automatically anymore and could control when and where she shifted. That was a major step in her training, at least that is what the trainer said. Either way it didn't change the fact she was headed to the office to get graduation information.

She did see someone winding his way through the halls. It was weird, and she wasn't sure if he was ok or not. The office was right next to the nurse and she suspected that was where he was going. For a bit she followed hi, not intentionally, but she was going the same direction. Dorothy furrowed her brow, wondering what was wrong with him. she would be there to help if it was needed.

Oh shit. What the hell was wrong with the boy. before she knew it he was collapsed over and screaming in pain. He didn't look like he could move and it was all she could do to go try and wave her way though the crowd that was gathering. Stupid people, they needed to do something about the situation, not just stand there and stare! She was trying to make her way to the nurses when she turned around to check on him.

Eek that was NOT good. Dorothy tried to push past the mass of people that had somehow mysteriously accumulated but was unable. She was stuck there, slowly being pushed forward towards the encroached boy. She wasn't sure what to do, but from what was happening she was sort of frightened. What could she do?! " What is it?" Dorothy managed to croak out before going wide eyed as she was pushed forwards towards the encroached boy.



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[Tarak Rana]

Tarak maneuvered his way through the crowded halls of Hammel, his mutters of excuse me and pardon me, coming through almost unheard. Several years worth of invisibility and its side effects had resigned him to this fact, and a personality averse to confrontation meant he was unwilling to raise his voice enough to change that.

Before him a much taller figure moved, parting the crowds with ease. Tarak felt a wave of jealousy wash over him; would that people would move aside for him with no need for apologetic murmurs to get attention. Probably the other boy's height helped, of course; he towered above the heads of the other students, whereas Tarak hadn't reached his full height quite yet. He'd only turned sixteen four days ago, and he hoped still for a growth spurt to push him out of scrawniness. Given his power that still was unlikely to do him much good as far as people noticing him, but he couldn't help but fantasize.

Those fantasies were interrupted when the boy he was admiring crashed to the ground, emitting horrible shrieks. It was as if every student in the hall were rooted to the spot, staring with wide eyes. Power related pains weren't unheard of; scorch marks and sudden rain and iced over stairs were all hazards of attending a boarding school full of teens not quite in control of their powers. But in almost four years of attending Hammel this was the first time Tarak had witnessed someone fall to the ground screaming.

His first thought was that surely a teacher would hear and come and ask what the matter was; but this didn't happen, even after what seemed like an eternity of listening to the other student scream.

His second and third thoughts were that he hoped the other boy was okay and to wonder what was wrong with him. He was a naturally curious individual, and while he felt a pang of guilt for it he really wanted to know why the taller boy was screaming.

While he was contemplating this someone pushed into him from behind, and he turned his head to see an older girl he'd seen around campus some. He shrugged uncomfortably in response to her question, "Do you think we should call someone?" He raised his voice to be heard above the screaming. "Maybe if we think really loudly Dr. Neville will come out?"

Assuming he was somewhere he couldn't hear the dreadful noises.

[Kane Woonren]

Kane could barely process as he laid on the ground, writhing in pain as his screams echoed down the hall. What was happening, WHY was it happening? It felt like someone was stabbing him with a pair of ridiculously long knives from the inside. Tears streamed down his face as his only thought was "MAKE. IT. STOP." His eyes were clenched shut, his hands on his head making an attempt to keep himself from slamming his head against the ground as he twitched and moved, staying off his back. As far as he cared at this point, he was the only one in the hallway, at least because no one seemed to be doing anything other than standing there, staring at him.

The straining against his shirt was starting to become more noticeable by the second, but it hadn't gotten too big yet. Blood started coming out of his mouth a little bit as he bit his tongue, the pain little more than a ripple against the massive tsunami that was his back at the moment. He felt like his body temperature was rising, and seeing as he already ran hotter than the average person he was starting to boil a little bit. Sweat mixed with the tears and blood on his face as his hands grabbed his shirt, ripping it as if it was being cut by talons. He started ripping it to shreds before pulling it off, revealing the bulge to not just be in his shirt, but under his skin, something pushing out against it.

After what felt like hours, and had probably only been a minute or two, they started ripping out of his back, causing the screams of pain to get louder. Other students had started to gather around, and there were the sounds of a couple of the students starting to vomit from what was going on. A couple of teachers had finally poked their heads out of their classrooms, noticing the boy twitching violently on the ground, but no one seemed particularly keen on approaching him as blood started oozing from around the wings, at least that's what they were starting to look like, as they continued to rip slowly and painfully out of his back

((Apologies on the shortness of my posts, hard for me to do a whole lot. I think I'll probably have one more post after this one before Kane finally passes out <.< Poor guy.))

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