When I opened my eyes, I was laying on a cold surface, with Jess, Steven, and Warren standing over me. Jess looked really nervous, Warren looked concerned, and Steven looked mildly interested. I groaned as I sat up, and the others shuffled away quickly, as if they were scared. I rubbed my eyes, which hurt like they were on fire. I started running my hand down my face, but quickly stopped when my cheeks began to hurt excruciatingly bad.

"Ah. What the heck?" I asked, looking at my hand which had a little bit of blood on it. I looked over the other's who were watching me apprehensively.

"Why does my face hurt?" I asked. Jess looked at Steven, then at Warren, then she stepped forward to address me.

"We...don't know what happened?" Jess said slowly, and it sounded more like a question than a statement.

"What do you mean what happened? Can someone tell me what they think happened? Did anything happen?" I asked, very confused. Steven sighed, then stepped closer to me, while Jess stepped back. All eyes were on Steven as we waited for him to say something.

"Let's start with you telling us what you remember." Steven said, giving me all of his attention. I thought back to the last thing I remembered, though it took a moment.

"I had Pip pinned against the wall, and I was crying, and I was yelling at him. I was so flipping angry, and I just wanted him to hurt, so I was breaking his hand, and slamming him against the wall. I remember you guys shouting at me and trying to pull me off of Pip, but I wouldn't budge. Then I screamed, then everything went black." I explained, swinging my legs over the edge of the metal table that I was laying on, facing Steven and the others.

"Oh, ok, so you remember a lot. Alright, well, let me explain what we saw." Steven said. "To put it bluntly, you started glow. Like, you literally started to light up. It started in your feet, then traveled up all the way to your head, then you passed out. It was really bright, like the sun, and your eyes are still glowing. We didn't really see everything clearly, but we're pretty sure your face hurts because you were crying, and we think that your tears were burning your skin."

"Wh-what...?" I asked, not understanding what Steven told me. "You said my eyes are glowing?"

I stood up and dashed to the nearest bathroom, looking into the mirror. Sure enough, my eyes no longer had any pupils, irises, or white. Instead, they were glowing bright yellow. In thin lines below my eyes, were trails of blisters and burnt skin. I guess my tears feeling like they burnt, my entire body feeling hot, and me feeling like super strength was traveling through my body, was all real.

I was freaking out. Not only was my face burnt and blistered, and my eyes were glowing, but I had also lost a whole lot of weight. My face was thin, and my jaw line was sharp. The rest of my body was pure muscle, and I looked good, but I hated it. I was comfortable with my body before, and I liked it. Ty liked my body before. He said I was soft, and warm, and really good at hugs. Now all of that was gone, and I didn't even know how. I needed an explanation.

"Guys? What....what's happening?" I asked, confused and scared as I stumbled out of the bathroom to find Jess, Steven, and Warren watching me. I knew that they wouldn't have any answers either, but I decided to ask anyway.

"We don't know. None of us know anything about what happened, or why it happened. However, as a man of science, I suggest we run some tests on you." Steven said, looking a bit excited.

"If you're ok with that, of course." Jess added, placing a hand on Steven's shoulder.

"Yes. Please. I want answers."

The others led me back to the lab were Steven took a few vials of my blood. Why he had the stuff to do this just sitting in his lab? I'll never know. Steven also pulled some puss out of the blisters on my face, which hurt a lot. That didn't hurt as bad as him sticking a needle in one of my eyes and pulling some fluid out of it. Steven never did anything without my permission, but man did some of it hurt.

Steven kept looking at the samples he took under microscopes, and running multiple tests on all of it. Warren and I sat patiently on one of the metal tables, waiting to figure out what had happened to me, or how to fix it.

"What happened to Pip?" I asked Warren quietly. Warren pointed over to the  wall that I had pinned Pip to when I was angry with him. There was a black silhouette of a man Pip's size stained onto the wall. I put my hand over my mouth, and stared at the form in shock as I stood up and walked over to the wall.

"I killed him?" I asked, my voice breaking. Warren's eyes widened and he looked concerned as he hurried over to me.

"Hey hey hey. It's ok. You didn't do it on purpose, and he was an evil man who needed to be stopped anyway." Warren told me, pulling me into a hug.

"But I didn't want to kill anyone." I whispered into Warren's hold. Tears began to run down my face, burning me once again. I pulled away from Warren quickly, and focused on getting the tears to stop.

"Oh! Sweetie, I know this isn't the time, but can we get a vial of your tears?" Jess asked kindly, already holding a glass viale. I nodded, and let myself cry a bit more, so that way Jess could get some of my tears in her viale.

"Do you guys want to test this stuff?" I asked, wiping the tears from my eyes, and pointing back at he shadow on the wall.

"We already did." Steven responded, without looking up from the microscope where he was looking at my blood. Soon, he did look up, and he had a bit of a smile on his face as he looked over at Warren and I. Jess took Steven's place at the microscope, looking interested.

"This is amazing." Steven announced happily. "There are extra cells in your blood, and they're glowing, much like your eyes. I think whatever happened, is something that was genetically bound to happen. Like it was written in your DNA somehow. If I had a sample of some of your blood before this all happened, I might be able to figure out if I'm right."

"I know where we can get some." I said after thinking for a moment. I hadn't washed the clothes I was wearing the night I met Bell after getting beat up. There was still some blood on my shirt from my bloody nose and mouth.

Warren drove me all the way to my apartment building, where I climbed through the window of my room, grabbed a bloody shirt of of the floor, then climbed right back out. It seemed like a lot of work just for a little bit of dried blood, but I was willing to do it if it meant that we would get answers about what happened.

I'm going to be honest, I was scared. I didn't know what had happened to me, or why it happened, or how to fix it, and I didn't know if something else was going to happen that would result in someone else dying. That was another thing, I killed someone. Pip was a horrible person, and he deserved what he got, but he was still another human being, and I took from him what he took from Ty. I didn't know how to deal with that.

Warren tried to reassure me that it was for the best that Pip was dead, and I knew he was right. Pip probably would have killed a lot more people, and ruined a lot more lives if he was still alive. But I just couldn't bring myself to think that what I did was ok. I never thought that there would be a day were I looked in the mirror and saw a murderer, but that's exactly what was happening.

I sat in silence on one of the tables in Steven's lab while he ran his tests. The other's talked lightly, but I didn't catch anything they were saying. It was all just white noise to me as I stared blankly at the floor. I tried to imagine how the others must have been feeling about everything. They didn't know what happened either, and they were all just trying to figure things out, but none of us knew what we were looking for, or how to test for it. Not to mention, they had to watch everything happen, when I wasn't even sure if what I was feeling was real. I'm sure we were all floating in the same boat of unstoppable confusion.

"Gill, sweetie?" Jess called out softly, getting my attention.

"Hm?" I hummed in response, looking up at Jess who had pity in her eyes.

"We figured something out." She told me. I looked to Steve who appeared to be bursting at the seams with the anticipation of telling me what he found out.

"It was a bit hard to figure anything out from the blood that you got me, because it was dry and there wasn't very much if it, but we were able to confirm that my theory was correct. You've spent your whole life with irregular cells in your blood, they've just been laying dormant this whole time." Steven explained happily.

"So, why am I only affected by it now?" I asked.

"I'm not entirely sure, but I think what happened is, to put it simply, you got angry. Your lack of sleep, and lack of food, combined with being emotionally distressed, and incredibly angry must have all worked together to trigger the cells. It may sound impossible, but I think you have super powers."

"How is that even possible? You said it's in my DNA, which would mean that someone else in my family has superpowers, but none of them do." 

"It's possible that they all do, but this is just the first time in your family's history that they right combination of chemicals has occurred in someone's body to unlock the powers. It's unlikely, but not impossible."

"So, what do we do about it?"

"We figure out what all you can do, and we help you learn how to use your powers."

"But we start tomorrow. It been a long day, and I think we could all use some sleep." Warren said quickly, making Steven look at him in slight irritation.

"I have school tomorrow." I groaned, before realizing what that meant. "Oh God. How am I going to hide this? My face is scared and my eyes are glowing."

"You can take the day off of school tomorrow, and we'll get you some contacts. It'll be ok. I promise." Warren told me, placing a comforting hand on my shoulder. I nodded, though I didn't really believe Warren. I didn't feel like anything would be ok.

The next day consisted of Jess, Steven, and Warren trying to make me focus as hard as I could, and do something with my new found 'powers'. It was really hard to run tests on something when you didn't know what you were looking for, and it was hard to do something when you didn't know what you were trying to do. We didn't know if I even had powers. All we knew was that my eyes glowed, my tears burnt, and I managed to vaporize someone.

We didn't exactly have a lot to work with.