Lying down, no upside down. I actually cannot open my eyes. I try, that's better. The light sizzles my eyes a bit; only for the time it takes for my eyes to adjust to the surroundings, Light filters through the cracked windows. Seats are ripped out of their places, hanging by just a thread and some slivers of plastic. It almost looks like some people are dead, blood dripping down their faces and forming puddles on the floor; for some their is no blood, so they have either got away with it, died before they got the chance to bleed or have internal bleeding. Instantly I know what has happened, it is hard to believe that I caused it all on my own. Using my telekinetic skills I pull a phone towards me to call 999. Marie-Anne is still next to me, if that is what you would call it, proof these seatbelts do not serve for much protection and the chairs are what you need to be careful with. The bus has been turned upside down and the glass windows have cracked. Not only on its side, the bus is fully upside down. Which isn't possible, is it? There is a wide gash in Marie-Anne's shoulder, bleeding heavily. It looks ugly and probably will cause a scar. Using my telekinesis I undo my seatbelt and, using a bubble of some kind of force field to gently tilt me upright, latch onto the wound. I have never developed the conscience to tell me this behaviour is wrong but I know that normal people find it so. Slowly, my fill is taken and it is hardly anything. When that has finished I float along (careful not to bang my head on the floor[or new ceiling, it depends how you look at it] or any of the seats) and inspect the damage. We really are completely upturned, how has this happened? We are not on a busy road and seem to be in the middle of nowhere. Our bus was rectangular but now has enough dents that would have allowed it to roll. I hear sirens and land on the rook (or new floor). Caution is taken to make little noise. Someone wakes up and screams. Instantly I recognize it, Bryony from the year above, very popular with friends in every year.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ63Mzviwl9G
"Omygod, what happened to my leg?" She sobs. "And why am I upside down?"359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOIfYajevS0
"Bryony, I'm going to help you," I reply calmly. "but you need to calm down." I have never done this on anything heavier than myself, but I hadn't had an energy boost when I tried. Bryony cannot be much heavier than I am.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7crD5N0fD
"Just calm down, don't scream." All my concentration goes to moving her from her awkward state. Slowly, she moves out of her seat onto the new floor. Inspecting her leg, there is blood spreading rapidly around bone sticking through the black trousers. The hospital will have to sort her out. Her eyes open wide.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtKyEGlOYji
"How did you do that?" She asks. The sirens get closer, closer. I must act quickly. I ask a question.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXMGb1zWS6l
"Can you remember what happened Bryony?"359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8HdLNJ46rm
"No, Emily, it's all foggy." Something sparks inside me.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAx2hpTl7nx
"Wait a mo'" I whisper. Grabbing my rucksack. Pain shoots through my left arm. I find the empty test tube in my pink bag and walk over to Mrs Filler. She is a good pick because she is close and wearing a skirt. I find the fleshy back of her leg and make a small but deep nick. The test tube fills up scarily quickly. It is still bleeding even after I try to make it stop.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ411TviU3WJ
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"Emily, hurry up." Bryony's weak voice calls. The sirens are almost here. I tip the contents of the test tube into her mouth. Not allowing a chance for her to think about it so that by the time she comes to her senses she has drunk most of it and she doesn't have any questions to ask.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtz0x2XjMGD
"More." She whispers. It is said softly, but sounds very much like a demand. I get more. We carry on for about three more test tubes when she slowly licks her lips, sits up and goes:359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPGJX74Vl1l
"Wow, I can remember my birth!" I shrug and ask the question:359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7fvj2CzAZ
"What about what just happened?" The answer that follows is strange.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxNltpWeB4B
"Oh, so vividly now! You passed out and started calling something bluh- or something like that."359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpnQEEHcLUf
"Blood." I suggest in case it might be the right word.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWCwAVQ8ufa
"Yeah, anyway, you started having some sort of fit. Then the bus started crunching in and the walls came in with a terrible sound of grating metal and the driver panicked, hit a sign and the bus rolled onto its roof - which you know never happens." The sirens have just got outside the bus in a large flash of blue lights. A policeman, no he is actually a paramedic (I think), walks in through the window that is most cracked.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELiBx9d1yo
"Hey you guys, are you okay?" He asks, casting an eye around the wreckage. We tell him that we are but need to get Bryony's leg looked at. "What on earth happened in here?" Bryony gives him a quick run through as he approaches us and his colleagues come in to remove the unconscious and dead.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRSfe3uCdJ0
"Okay you two, outside there is an ambulance an my friends will drive you straight to the hospital." He looks at Bryony's leg and realises she cannot walk. "I will quickly escort you out." He calls someone over to keep Bryony's leg straight and as soon as a larger hole is cut through the bus by the fire crew she is placed in a wheelchair and wheeled out the wreckage with me walking alongside the paramedic. We are put in the back of an ambulance and I am sat down but Bryony gets to lie on the bed. The woman in the front drives off as soon as the door is closed.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmyRQzckxYL
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We get put straight to A&E. After five minutes we go to the nurse. It is a totally different hospital to the one I'm use to. At our hospital everyone has to wait the same sort of three hour wait but here we get through really quickly as they are concerned about Bryony's leg.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PUoS6KEDm
"So, what happened?" The nurse asks. Bryony touches her forehead. Both pairs of eyes grow wide. After about thirty seconds the nurse pulls away, both pairs of eyes return to their usual size.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfhnLDiKBRR
"Thank you, Miss..." The nurse starts.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcZqFnEeN4w
"Randa, Nurse," Bryony said. "I'm Bryony Randa and this is Emily..."359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl1QVQowif7
"Cook." I state guessing that they need my surname.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGKB45X1Zd
"Well," The nurse looks confused. "That was awfully odd, but let's get you to x-ray." I walk alongside her as she pushes Bryony to the fracture clinic (obviously, Bryony is in a wheelchair).359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRbqqux2cA
"Excuse me, Nurse."359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF39byts5nb
"Yes, Emily."359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsqH3Q5MSJ
"Well, isn't it a bit, you know, getting an x-ray and that, when it's obvious to a five year old that it's an open fracture."359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ91GaZ4c7iv
"We still have to x-ray it. Now while she is waiting let us get you checked over." I get escorted back to the check up room. They want to know why I had the fit in reaction to the energy rush but they do not really want me traipsing back and forth to here so they call a couple of quick tests and then decide that they will hand me over to my local hospital to figure that out. So really, they are letting me off quite lightly.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7t36iO4ps
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When I get to the fracture clinic I am told that Bryony has been wheeled to her own room. They do not seem to notice that I am five. They just point the way and tell me where to go. The room is in a maze of rooms with a painting of snow white and the seven dwarves on it. I think it is the surgeon with her.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfEaImDsxlQ
"We have to take her to theatre." He says. I let confusion show on my face.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjFQbZY1qf
"Theatre?" I ask. "Isn't that for performing?"359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjmDcem26EO
"No, young girl, we will have to put her under."359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfs4QeFn0cD
"Under?"359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLYsniC1RbE
"Under anaesthetic."359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkoO5eLvJh
"So you are giving her an operation?"359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIjXTYzKMJw
"Yeah."359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcVriqcXe4
"Why didn't you say so?" I ask. He classes her as an emergency, which is wise considering a bone is sticking out of her leg so there is a high risk of infection. The anaesthetist strides in and gives her a thing they call giggle gas. Bryony has to put a massive snorkel thing in her mouth and take deep breaths in and deep breaths out. Then the anaesthetist gets this injection and the surgeon pins her down so they can give it to her. All of Bryony's giggling makes me want to giggle too. So we are both giggling for a while. Then Bryony falls asleep. So I wait whilst they wheel her away on the gurney.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Wq1U8MMGs
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This is very disappointing.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxeM0bLWSY8
In the after surgery ward. Bryony has just come out. She is still asleep. She was only in there for about half an hour. Before they bought her out they stitched her up. So I did not get to see them perform a real live stitching.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0sTVcNjrr1
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When she wakes up enough to speak she says, it is very slurred, her leg hurts. They do not do much about it. We chatter about random stuff. At one point we get moved to a young children's ward. It has pictures of various fairy tales in it. We got one with Cinderella opposite us. The beds are cool. Usually, if a child gets admitted to hospital, the parents get a choice to stay or leave. So the hospital has beds that actually fold into the wall. I stay in one such bed, the one next to Bryony's gurney. They are using Miss Filler's phone to ring up all the parents. Bryony and My parents are coming to get us tomorrow.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa9cQ8v0BeV
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That was a trip well wasted.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcJIMeJ9BpN
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Oh, my bed is ready. That was quick considering they had to do the bedding as well. I clamber in, lie down, and wait for them to put Bryony in and leave us alone.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtrvP7z3ZFb
The questions started.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDTM4KsLEdp
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She wants to know everything: how I caused the bus to upturn. Why I had fed her blood. Now I look back myself, why did I feed her blood? Her new abilities? My telekinesis? Did she have to keep drinking blood? What was her new power? Even my boffin brain does not know the answer to all of these. It is really hard trying to explain to a six year old.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY84Pxx2Ypl
"Don't bother explaining." Bryony interrupts. I am staring up at the ceiling, about a quarter of the way through my explanation.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdWDhI3mAj
"What! I splutter, puzzled. "You ask all these questions, but don't bother with the answers?"359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJDDzD93l7
"No, I mean, I'm taking it all in, but my memory is dragging a bit at remembering all this. Maybe if I use my power. By touching your head, when you feel my hand, just stay calm."359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4miCXHnEXR
"Okay." I grumble, it is annoying because I am being cut short, and do as she says.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡogSSDVACKk
Approximately a minute later she drags her hand away.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwUTR0vzF4L
"Fascinating," She nods.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5VjXrtFUH
"What?"359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ24d0RGHtbY
"Oh, nothing."359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFlE748Roa
"Bryony..."359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNqb4jCkXy
"Okay, I'm sorry, I cannot control these things."359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHY3TvSqR2l
"Bryony, how deep did you look?"359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7Ul2VraVl
"I saw you hunting the other night." That relieves me a bit as she has not gone that deep. Then comes what sounds like her biggest fear. "Will I have to hunt like that too?"359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR0tQe4mMTN
"I do not know." I reply. "But since I've been doing that I haven't gotten ill." Then I add. "And for God's sake go to bed. I thought surgery was meant to leave you tired."359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjS36EgZrlU
"It does," She whispers. "Night." I turn on my side and go to sleep.359Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Cy4pjmCfK
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