LEO’S PERSPECTIVE
What the fuck happened? One second I was about to probably get an earful from mom but the next I’m on the ground. “Unnnnngh what happened?” I asked with a groan as I slowly lifted myself from the asphalt as I kept hearing a constant ringing, also why the hell do I smell pork? I got onto my feet wince as my body was still pretty messed up from when the gorilla threw me as I felt everything stopped when I looked forward.
Where was my house? What happened to it? Did we get teleported by one of those underground members because that wreckage can’t be my house No we had to be teleported and they tried blowing us up Yes! that's what happened my house is fine everything is fine nut when I looked around the neighborhood was the came from Mrs Normans oddly painted house to the halfway being built house at the end of the street. So it is my house th-that's that's fine mom is probably not home hell we won’t even have to pack when we get out of this dam city. My eyes widened as I saw her half burnt car in the driveway………….if mom was home when the house exploded that would mean that would mean “MOM!!!”.
I ran without a second thought ignoring my body screaming at me to rest as I felt pain and exhaustion run through every fiber of being but that wasn’t important, not even close. As I got closer to the burning wreckage I could immediately feel the shift in heat. The heat got even more intense as I finally stood where the entrance of my house used to be. My home was gone and all the memories that came with it I…..I……I Mentally slapped myself as I needed to focus.
I tried to use my energy sight to help locate mom but I nearly was blinded as the flames seemed to intensify in brightness. “God fucking dammit!” of course the thermal energy would mess with energy sight, this situation just keeps getting better and better. I stared at the burning wood, I couldn’t just blast it away because I might hurt mom but it’s still on fire damn it’s not a time for hesitation.
As soon as my hands touched the wood I winced as I felt the burn wood sing my hands as I pulled the wood back. I started to shoveling handfuls of burning wood, it hurt so fucking much as I could feel my skin slowly burning from the heat and bleeding from splinters that stab and tore into my skin.
I teared up from the pain I wanted to stop but I needed to keep going. I can't let mom, I just can’t so I grit my teeth and kept digging through the wood. It didn’t take that long for my hands to turn pitch black as my hands were covered in a mix of blood charcoal and chard skin. “Fuck fuck fuck!” I pulled my hands back as the pain was too much. I instinctively held my hands to my chest as I tried to calm myself. I took several deep breaths as I looked down and saw that my shirt was covered in that same black mush that covered my hands fuck mom was gonna kill me wait fuck mom!.
I was about to shove my hands back into the rubble but a blast of wind quickly dissipated the flames. I turned to see the cause of the wind to see Richard wearing that weird face mask. His back was steaming as his pale white hair was now a dark ashy color. Before I could do anything his pink eyes glowed a blackish color as he pointed at a pile of rubble ten feet away from me “she's over there”.
I was already on my feet as I felt sweat start to pour on my hands as I felt that weird pulsing feeling in my hands. As soon as I got to the pile of rubble my hands were now glowing a light purple as I shove them into wood and as if I was lifting up a pile of paper towels I easily lifted the wood and tossed it to the side.
I froze as everything seemed to freeze around me as I found mom but she…she......she wasn’t……….I….......she seemed halfway dead. Her body was covered in burns, it looked like………it looked like skin was about to slide off. Her left arm was completely gone, all that was left was all that was left was a mangled and twisted stump that looked more like a burnt tree branch than an arm. She still had her other arm but it was………flayed as the bloody muscle was exposed to the air.
Her legs were mostly fine but her face one half was the same face I saw every morning when I woke up for school. when I hurt my leg when I tried football and she told me I still did great, when it was my birthday and she always made sure it was better than the last and the other half was covered in burns, skin cracking and leaking pus and blood. To tie the bow on her already fuck physical state there were several pieces of wood and metal were stabbing through her shoulder, side and her thigh. She looked dead but she wasn't as her chest slowly rose up and down as she let small but raspy breaths as if every breath caused her pain.
She was alive…………thank god she was alive! but she was horribly injured, she would never be the same and it's my fault. I’m the reason she’s in pain I’m the reason she’ll never die if I wasn’t a fucking idiot and didn’t attack Mia if I wasn’t always trying to be a fucking HERO the underground wouldn’t have targeted you. Maybe if I wasn’t so fucking weak maybe I could have done something I could have protected made sure she was safe like I always said I would guess I can’t keep my promises like always.
I felt a hand grasp my shoulder “she'll live, nothing vital was hit and a lot of her injuries were cauterized so she won’t bleed out but she definitely needs medical attention especially with that arm”. I turned to see Richard as he had that same blank look in his eyes “I’m guessing you don’t have some sort of healing power?” he shook his head as I sighed “yeah it would be nice if you could pull another power out of your ass”.
“That would make things so much easier” He kneeled down “I heard some of the neighbors calling some paramedics and the fire department so she should be good”. It was annoying, I know he meant well but the way he talked and acted so casually when my mom was in total agony not even a foot away from us it just made me so……..I mentally slapped myself none of that was important right now is making sure I still have a mom.
I gently grabbed mom as I made her as light as possible as I gently lifted her up “tell me when you hear the sirens”. Richard nodded as I started walking away from the burning wreckage that was my home. I made sure to hold mom as gently as possible as if the lightest amount of force would shatter her like glass probably would.
It only took a minute to walk to the sidewalk but felt like an eternity as all I could do was focus on her raspy breathing. I could hear how lungs slowly forced themselves to work even with the damage from smoke. Each raspy pained breath she took kept reminding me of how much pain she was in and it’s my fault she’s like this.
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“Sir What happened!?” my train of thought was interrupted as I looked away from my mom to see a paramedic looking at me with a worried expression as several firefighters ran past us, huh didn’t notice they were here. Apparently I was in some sort of trance as I finally heard the deafening sirens. Several paramedics had run over to Richard who had taken off his mask, “sure we need to get her to hospital now, she’s in critical condition”. She went to grab my mom to take my mom away to some hospital, she’ll be alone again “if you touch her I swear you’ll be fucking matching” I nearly shouted as the words left my mouth as the woman stepped back.
“Sir at least come with us to the ambulance” I took a deep breath, I’m fucking stupid for yelling at her she’s trying to do her job and here I am yelling at her. “Sure” I quickly followed her into the ambulance as they quickly took my mom and strapped her to a stretcher.
The car started moving as I sat there not making a single sound as I just closed my eyes and tried to drown everything out as if that could take me away from everything, I wish it was that easy. I don’t know how long I sat there. It could have been ten minutes, it could have been an hour I really couldn’t tell as I just tried to drown everything out. I only opened them when I finally felt the car stopped, I saw the medics quickly rushed my mom out of the ambulance.
I didn’t want to get up, I was so tired that I felt like I was going to pass out any second and I could feel every muscle ache but that would be selfish of me. A son needs to be with his mother especially in a moment like this so I sat up and quickly rushed after them. I made sure to follow them though the building constantly keeping an eye on mom. It didn’t take them that long for them to get her to the operating room as I wanted to run in with them but I knew I wasn't allowed in so I sat down on a chair outside the room and waited.
Everything started to glow as I activated energy sight as I kept glancing back at the operating room I needed to make sure mom was safe. I gently grabbed my necklace as I Held it tightly squeezing the cold steel. I stopped looking into the operating room as I put my attention fully on the necklace. “You're a Romain Leo you’ll be strong enough to protect people heh what a load of bullshit” you would be right dad if I actually could do shit.
Today has shown me time and time again it has been shown I’m useless. I didn't do anything against that guy who attacked us at the diner or when we were chased by the police or when Roger attacked us, no all I was annoyance. At least Mia took out Roger all by herself and Richard, he kept saving our asses over and over again. He help my mom more than I did, it’s funny really her own son did less to help her then some random guy no it’s fucking hilarious.
My father was Nova, he had a whole city named after him, he was a walking sun! While if I try to do anything that isn’t shooting lasers I’ll nearly pass out. I thought the child of an evolved would have stronger powers then their parents, guess I'm in the minority. What’s the point of me having powers if I’m completely useless? I can't do anything? If I’m pathetic? Why can’t I do anything? Why can’t I help the people I love? Why can’t I be stronger? WHY AM I PATHETIC!?
“You ok?” Those two words quickly snapped me out of my session of self loathing as Richard sat besides me. He was now wearing a gray hoodie and had a bandage on his forehead but it was still him in all of his extra large albino glory.
“Yeah I’m just having a mental breakdown while my mom is getting operated on in the next room so yeah I’m peachy” it came out a bit harsher than what I meant it to be but it got the point across.
“Yeah that was a dumb question”.
“Yeah it was like asking a one armed man if needed a hand”.
“Heh more like telling a short person to walk away and be the bigger person”.
That got me to start smirking “so why are you here?”.
“Oh decided to make sure you were fine and you know make sure you're safe just in case another underground member wants to ruin your even more” I nodded “makes sense”.
“Hey Richard, I have a question”.
“What is it?”.
“How did you get all these powers?” I know it’s a stupid question but maybe I’ll get a good answer.
He sat there for several seconds just blankly staring into nothing, it was kinda creepy “I guess I got lucky well depending on how you look at it I got unlucky” I gave him a confused look “explain”.
“Well after I got these new abilities yeah I’m getting stronger and I’m approving in other area but I almost died so many times I made enemies and I have gotten caught up in stuff that could affect my life and other people's lives around me” Richard sighed “I know Leo you want me to give you some answer that will make all those self loathing thoughts in your head disappear but the best I can say is if your strong your gonna get dragged into trouble and if your weak your gonna have problems and your gonna need to be stronger to deal with them”.
“Wow it’s actually shocking how wise you sounded, you sure you're not an old man with some de-aging power” ok there was a mix of actual shock and sarcasm.
Richard shrugged as I heard a door open as we both turned to see a female nurse walk out of the operating room “oh I guess you two know the patient?”. “I’m her son” and I pointed to Richard “he’s a friend” The nurse nodded. “Well she’s stable but unconscious we don’t know how long she’ll be out” I gripped my necklace “figured”. “Well some goodness” she pointed at me “you're aloud to see her since you are next of kin”.
A part of me didn’t want to see her since it was my fault but I needed to have some time alone with her “that would be nice”. “Well follow me” I got up and gave a quick nod to Richard as I followed her into the room. As we walked into the room there was no medical equipment, It looked like a normal patient room “hey wasn’t this an operating room?”. “Oh lately there have been so many patients that we've needed to turn patient rooms into operating rooms”.
“Let me guess about gang violence?” she gave a solemn nod “well I’ll leave you alone with your mother now” the nurse gave me a bright smile as I walked over to the hospital bed where my mom lay and sat in a chair next to it. She looked better I guess, she was covered in bandages, had a iv stabbed into her and was using a breathing machine hell they even cut her hair leaving only a short blond mess but it was still a major improvement she's even wearing a hospital gown.
“Hey mom it’s me Leo I know it’s been a couple days but I’m here now” no reaction. “Well I’m sorry for making you wait for so long I uhm got busy with stuff and uh………………I messed up mom” still no reaction. “I fucked up again and led to me pissing off some bad people and they decided that to hurt me by…………by hurting you” still no reaction.
“I’m so sorry mom for everything if I was just better you wouldn't be like this you wouldn’t be in pain if I was just a better son maybe I could have done something! But I’m not, I'm pathetic, I’m sorry for being such a horrible son” I felt tears streaming down my face as I held my face in my hands. I felt something gently wrap around my hands “L-l-le-leo” I opened my eyes to see mom had opened hers as soon as mine. Her voice was quiet that was barely a whisper; it seemed like it hurt even for her to talk. When I looked into those blue eyes I felt nothing but love and calming warmth but as soon as they opened they closed.
I gently held her bandage to my face “sniff I’m sorry mom I’m sorry that you got hurt maybe if I didn’t piss off the underground maybe……wait” In that moment I realized something it wasn’t my fault that mom got hurt no no no no it was the underground fault if they just had let me and Mia go none of this would have happened.
My mom would have been fine hell even threatening me with would have been better then blowing her up. I grit my teeth my teeth as I felt anger slowly boil inside me, there fucking animals and I’m gonna treat if them like animals. I’m going to make them go through what they put my mom through tenfold not just for me but for all the other people they hurt, Yeah, it would be a good thing to get rid of every last one of them but I can’t do it alone I’m weak but strength doesn't just come from someone individually no it can come from numbers maybe Richard will help me. I sat up with renewed energy as I gently kissed mom on the forehead “I love you mom I’ll be back I promise just as soon as I make sure karma is served” huh Karma I actually like that the sound of that.