Chapter 37: Clinic Days 10 - 21 - What the hell is she?

I was not hearing anyone moving around outside my room when I woke up again. Normally, there is at least someone banging around or a TV turned up loud enough that I could hear it. Closing my eyes and using the place in my head, I didn't see any squiggly lines in this ward or the other one on this floor. I made sure this was still the same ward. I hadn't moved. I wondered what was going on as I worked my way into the bathroom to pee before finding clothes, so I could go eat.

Having worked my way back and forth to the cafeteria closest to the ward enough times now, I quickly made it to the door where the guard should be. There was no one there so I got a bit worried as I went down the stairs to the cafeteria only to find it empty. It worried me that something bad had been happening here, so I found one of the secret passages and used the Light Saber to find my way up to Steve's office.

He seemed surprised to see me as he asked, "David? What are you doing up here today? Is something wrong?"

"That is why I came up here. There was no one anywhere on my floors or in the cafeteria. I got worried that something happened, or I had a really bad power surge that killed them all. I can only see people from the squiggly lines of energy going through their bodies," I said seriously.

"So I see no one saw fit to tell you about today and tomorrow," Steve said in with a mix of humor and disgust in his voice. "To save time, today is payday for the clinic. All the child patients from the clinic are moved to their own private, secured sections of clinic buildings spread all over the city. There the families or guardians meet with the doctors to review results of the treatments used over the past month. We discuss discharge dates for those patients ready to leave or are being taken from the clinic. For the rest, the recovery time of the latest procedure is discussed and additional treatments to be performed are agreed upon. Before close of business tomorrow, all charges for the past month and upcoming treatments will be paid by wire transfer. No checks in the mail here David. So for the next two days you will be on your own. Everyone who worked the cafeterias and kitchens you use is now spread all over making meals for each of the patients. You lucked out though; they have to eat the specific cultural meals as shown on their paperwork. You get to pig out from the snack room."

I started to head back when he stopped me.

Asking me to sit down he said, "That was a very good job reporting to us about the girl you found in the storm. She has been sheltered and kept from harm by someone we have not identified yet. From what she has related so far, her story matches up closely to what you were told. I personally confirmed the details regarding her family situation and have taken some measures to ensure it will not become a problem for her. She will be undergoing power testing tonight of her own free will. I would like to ask that you be present when she is finished to help her clean up as you are familiar to her. After that she will be returning to the clinic for treatment of her blindness. I hope that we find whoever has invisibly guided her to keep her abilities in check without her becoming aware of them. I expect they could be a very valuable ally."

With that he said he had more to tell me, so he might as well get it done now. I just had to wait on Paula.

"David as soon as we are sure your eyes are healed from the removal of the contacts; you will be heading home. The school believes I have been tutoring you since you came into the clinic. We both know that was never needed, you can catch up with the rest of our class in a few weeks easily. Your parents will be expecting us in a few days. I know they are excited to show you all the work done to your house to accommodate your light sensitivity. There are a few extras the families of the girls you saved have added in as a small way of saying thanks," Paula said happily. "Dad has already cleared it with your parents that I will be staying in your room with you until we go back to school. There are some other matters being discussed to help protect you transparently. You will get told of those once all the details are worked out. As it stands you can expect to be starting back after the Christmas break."

It was already this close to Christmas? I did not think I had been out of the coma so long already.

I didn't know how to ask it right, but I had to, "Paula, what about the rest of the girls I saved and all the other ones that want to have me screw them now for one reason or the other? Won't it cause all sorts of problems when I get back to school? I have seen how girls fight over boys and the way they treat each other really badly when they are fighting."

"We are working to address those concerns and provide you with some guiding hands to keep issues from getting blown out of proportion. It is foolish to think anyone could placate your female peers with something as trivial as a scheduled date, an appointment on a calendar or the like. You will just have to endure what comes your way for a while until we get it all worked out," Steve told me.

I just realized that with my eyes still covered up and no kids on any of the wards, I had nothing to do today. Sure Paula and I were going to sneak off to do it for a while, but before too long we would be done doing that. I could not watch TV, play on my tablet or laptop, and there were no areas I could go do things like swimming right now. I could go use the Light Saber to read a book. It was better than being bored. I got up and reached for Paula's hand to see if she had somewhere we could go kill some time screwing.

As we started to leave, Jane said from in front of us, "Uh, uh David. You two will have almost a month to do that to your heart's content. You are going to be kept occupied by doctors and scientists for the next two days. We need to test the power of your shield in ways the power testing chamber was never designed to evaluate. They have a huge gauntlet of nasty little ways to check out your new ability. If you are lucky and cooperate, there is a good chance you may be allowed to go to the sexual response studies lab. They have not yet had a male capable of pulling sexual stimulating impulses from others and then using them to cause mind blowing intense orgasms. If you want to get a chance to be wired up and then screw like a rabbit with girls between thirteen and sixteen, then there had better be no whining, refusals or any other crap from you. That means no zapping anyone either, no matter what they did to you."

Paula was definitely not happy when she let my hand go.

Jane led me to an elevator, and we worked through the secret hallway until we ended up in a lab area very similar to one I had been to when I first arrived. Inside a tech just stripped me down without ceremony. I was led into a shower area where a gloved hand grabbed my limp dick, and I was told to pee. I did not really have to go, but tried anyway. Once it started I heard it go into a cup for a few seconds before my dick was left to pee all over my feet. Somewhere I heard a shower get started, and then more gloved hands pushed me towards it. I was scrubbed head to toe three times before being dried off. I told them I could do it myself, but was told to shut up if I wanted any chance at having the next two days be better than a living hell. I expected them to ask for a sperm sample the way things were going. Instead, they told me to let them guide me to where we would start the initial testing. I was pushed into a hallway, and the door was closed behind me quickly.

"I am going to give it to you straight up kid," a guy said over a speaker somewhere. "What we are going to do to you will probably hurt like hell. We will stop just short of causing you life-threatening injuries or doing any permanent damage. You are the first of those who survived a shared electrical experience that can demonstrate some form of shielding. Lucky you. So let us get this over with already. First, we are going to shoot at you. It seemed the easiest test to set up and judge the point at which you feel pain and what begins to cause physical injury."

There was no warning before I started to feel hundreds of things hitting against me at the same time I heard little pfft sounds coming from everywhere around me all at once. I did get told to move forward a bit so that I was in the center of the testing area. I looked at my shield to see that the energy they hit me with was just absorbed by the shield to strengthen the place where it hit my shield. A minute or two of this and the shooting stopped. I was guided to the middle of another target area.

This time the sounds were more of a funk-fop sound. I knew this one; it was from paintball guns. I had been caught in the crossfire of some boys at school as they were trying to tag each other with them. It hurt like hell, and I was ten feet away from the boy who shot me. From how close the guns sounded; they had to be right next to me. The only difference from before was that I could tell the objects were bigger. There was no pain or discomfort.

From the speaker, the tech said, "Trust me, you are going to want copies of the video and images from this test. I just cannot describe it; you will have to see it when your eyes are healed. Right now, it is time to move on up the ladder in your testing. Please continue to the next room. I will guide you to the center."

When I got there I was immediately getting hit again and this time I was pretty sure it was bullets of some form. Again, there was just pressure of something pushing into me, but it was no harder than the first two tests. I watched my shield closely as I saw the hundreds of things hitting against me as my shield was just taking the energy from them instead of it going on into me.

Over the next three rooms of guns shooting at me, I started to wonder what I was really feeling. I zoomed in on one area to see that it was not anything pushing in through my shield; it was the shield itself surging with the energy from what hit me. I was feeling the shield sucking in the energy. I had no idea how it was working at all. All I cared about was that nothing was actually pushing in on me, and this was just the shield protecting me. If the only thing I was feeling when hit with bullets was like someone's finger pushing in a tiny bit, then I was good with it. At least, I knew something was hitting me, so I could act like it hurt if I needed too.

The tech was getting really excited as I was going from room to room. Me? I was getting bored. I knew how the shield seemed to deal with the bullet's energy so that all I was doing was standing there as he shot at me. Finally, I got out of the shooting gallery and was taken back to a shower again. Once I as clean I got taken into a room where I heard the tech talking to someone excitedly.

"David, that was fucking amazing! If you can somehow get it so all of those like you can do this, then they can protect themselves against those government butchers," he told me really fast.

Not being able to see what had him all excited, he put what felt like a bullet in one hand and then something smaller in the other. I felt them both and then he took out the bullet. I was given a lump that felt about as heavy as what I in my other hand, and then he took them both back.

The tech was not even able to calm down enough to talk so a woman across the room said, "David you were first given a dummy 10mm round. In your other hand, you were given one of the fired bullets from the testing chamber for this ammunition. Finally, you were given another fired bullet of this caliber reclaimed after test firing into a dummy. The latter was misshapen perfectly for a round which has struck a human analogue. What has my colleague so animated, is that every round fired at you during your testing was found to be free of any deformities. If I had not personally observed the testing, I would immediately discredit his findings as impossible. The only projectiles that were not recoverable were the paint filled gelatin capsules."

"Shit man, you never even flinched. Here feel these," he told me.

I had a really big, heavy bullet in one hand and a slightly lighter slug put in the other.

"That is a fifty caliber sniper round. It has so much power that it can accurately hit targets up to a mile away. That is the slug from the bullet in your other hand. We fired one hundred rounds of that at you, and you just stood there looking really bored. My supervisor here lost the bet too. She said you were finally bored enough to start giving your penis a good flogging. I still can't get how you did not even get knocked around a bit," he told me. "Well kid, that takes care of projectiles. Now we have other fun things to run you through. Good luck with those. I hope you continue to do well on these tests as well."

What the hell else could he throw at me?

I had to ask, didn't I?

In the first room, he got thumb tacks stuck randomly all over the floor and walls. No matter where I stepped or walked I had the points pushing into me. Unlike bullets, I was pushing down against them, and they were not using any energy toward me. None of them were breaking my skin, but they still hurt as I touched on them. It was nothing like before I was struck by lightning. The further through the hallway I got the bigger and sharper the things were that I was stepping on and walking up against. All of them had a light sting to them without actually cutting me.

I kept watching the shield to make sure it was not running out of energy. Each time I stepped on or brushed up against something sharp, it would pull energy from other parts to protect me there. Not a lot of the shield energy was needed each time it protected me, but it still got drained down. More than once I saw it start to seem really low and what I had been stabbing at my body in one place or the other actually felt like it was going to cut me. Then without me doing it, energy was pulled from around me. The parts my shield needed were pulled and the rest push into the nearest ground wire. It was nice finally to get back to where the techs asked me what I had felt and how my shield had protected me.

I had not even realized it was so late until they told me they would see me tomorrow morning. I was given directions on how to get back to the ward from these offices and a robe. It was a lot easier than at other times because I was using dedicated elevators and hallways reserved for the staff. Being the only one on the floor was a little creepy. I forgot all about it when I started digging through all the cabinets, refrigerators, and boxes of food in the snack room. Very few of the things had Braille on them, so had to rely on my Light Saber to read out the information. I only picked cold food because I was not about to try to nuke anything without being able to see the time on the microwave.

Back in my room I went ahead to get a shower. It was the first one where no one was there waiting on me when I got out. I had found a few books I was going to use the Light Saber to read while I got sleepy. Luckily, I was still feeling around for things that might have been moved, or I would have slammed into the tray table someone had pushed over my bed. Why someone did this was a mystery until I started feeling around on the top. There was a note in Braille, but I was only able to read part of it with my fingers.

Using the Light Saber, I found that it said, "These pills will help you sleep for around twelve hours. Take them after you get back to your room tonight."

Where was I going to go?

I had completely forgotten about the girl from the storm having power testing. I sat down and was having the Light Saber read the book out to me when someone knocked on the door frame. He told me that I had another appointment tonight, and he would be taking me to it. We did not go very far before I was in an office and told to wait to be called back. Anna came to get me as soon as I heard the door to the office close.

"You sure are good at finding cute girls David," Anna said as we worked our way through a maze of the secure hallways. "She doesn't trust anyone either. So far, all anyone has been able to get out of her was some very basic things about how her parents were killed by lightning and then months later she went blind. All of those like us can tell when we find others, but she is really tight lipped. Everyone was careful to be sure that nothing she told you was said when they were questioning her. I still do not know what Paula said to her that made her finally spill the beans about surviving multiple lightning strikes or willing agree to the power testing. If I was to guess, I expect you being there when she got done has something to do with it."

Shrugging I said, "Who knows. Paula is pretty good at getting what she wants all on her own, and I don't think I am much of a bribe for anyone. Steve said he wanted someone she knew down there for when she came out to help clean her up. I am pretty sure I am not supposed to hang around once Jane takes her up to the scientists."

"Think what you want David, I know different," she said with a laugh. "You also need to bust your ass to help them figure out how you are doing that shield around your body. I saw some of the video with the huge bullets. They did not even push you around when they hit you. It is like you are invincible."

"I have no idea. It happened in the testing chamber all on its' own. I see the place in my head shows blue, and if I want to be affected by light hitting my eyes, or something like that, I have to fight it to turn green again. Whatever is making it happen is doing it automatically. When the bullets were hitting me, the shield was sucking out the energy when they hit the shield and turned it into something to power up the shield. The big thing is that instead of needing to use specific energies to cancel other ones causing me pain, I am able to pull any energy and make it give me what I need. It seems almost like magic somehow. All of this seems like magic to me though. I keep thinking I am in a dream somewhere." I told her.

When we got to the shower area outside of the testing chamber, she told me to strip and then pointed to a robe. The girl had been in there for hours already, so she should be done anytime. Jane would be coming down to work the machine that removes the restraints and extend the walkway. I just needed to have a seat and wait. At least, I could listen to TV, even if I was not able to watch right now.

I was taking a nap when Jane shook me awake.

"Time to do your duty David. Better you helping to wash the sweat, shit and piss off her than me. If it's not too much of a burden, you have all the time you need to go as many times as you can get hard again. We are expecting her to be walking bow legged when you bring her out to go talk with the scientists," Jane crudely explained. "You sure found one hot little survivor. I won't get the full analysis until sometime tomorrow. What they did tell me was that when they shocked her nipples, asshole, vagina, or clit, she would climax hard and pull all power sources until she tripped the breakers. Initial data really looks like the more power going into her, the longer and harder it was for her."

While I would never say this about any other girl, ever, I trusted Jane enough to keep it under her hat as I told her, "I don't think your machines will give you a good idea of how strong it happens for her. I don't know how she could walk after the storm during the blind survival course trip. I was pulling lightning into us until the storm was gone. There was no way the egg inside her was not going to get fertilized from how many times I went off inside her."