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CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
SHE WAS INSANE






HER HEAD THROBBED, SLAMMING AGAINST her skull like a sledge hammer as she stirred in her sleep. Everything hurt. For a moment she swore that familiar fire that filled her veins had come back, causing her to shoot up and breathe heavily in and out. She placed a hand on her heat, closing her eyes as she tried to calm herself down. She swallowed thickly before removing the covers from her body and getting up, and walking to the bathroom. She closed the door and looked at herself in the mirror.


Dark circles were under her eyes from the lack of sleep that she had gotten in the past two years. Her hair looked extremely unhealthy and so did she. But she wasn't focused on that. She was focused on the pounding that refused to stop. She pressed her palm into her temple, hoping that it would ease the pain somehow but it didn't. The pain only seemed to grow worse and worse, to the point that standing up straight and looking at the bright lights made her dizzy.


ย  ย ย  "Stop it." She silently begged. But the pain only grew more and more, tears rolled down her cheeks before she yelled out, "Stop it!" And ice shot from her hands, covering half of the wall and the sink. Her head suddenly felt better. Sapphire blinked in surprise, before catching herself in the reflection. Her hair was white as snow, her eyes an ice-blue color, and her lips were painted dark blue. It was almost as if she had become a whole different person.


Sapphire stumbled backwards, tripping over herself and causing her to slam into the wall. Panicked breaths left her lips, wondering what the hell was happening to her. It didn't make sense. Had that ice come from her? There was something wrong with her. She was panicking. Thousands of thoughts were running through her head all at the same time, wondering what she should do. Should she tell the team? Try and figure this out with the help of her friends and sister? Or should she keep a secret.


Of course, she would choose the latter. She had seen enough shows and movies in her life to know that keeping things to yourself never turned out to be a good thing. In fact, something almost always seemed to go wrong when you kept secrets. But this was different. Sapphire wasn't sure if she was even human anymore. Well, of course she was, but the thought of frozen water coming from her own palms just shook her to core. She couldn't just walk into her sisters lab, freely yelling out about her new found powers. Everyone would think she was insane.


Hell, maybe she was. For all she knew, she was knocked out, and this was a dream. A nightmare of some sort. Another test that HYDRA placed upon her. It would makes sense why it felt like her veins had been burning earlier. All of those unknown liquids they had pushed into her body, burning her insides with unknown chemicals, that was a feeling that she would never be able to forget. Being strapped down to that chair, screaming her lungs out until her voice was completely gone, she would never forget that.


Because that was now permanently a part of her. What HYDRA had done to her, they had made it permanent. They had took an iron and printed their mark right on her forehead, laughing at how she was their success. She was their property now. She had these powers because of her. And if it hadn't been for May, Sapphire would have become their weapon. Maybe she already was. Maybe their was a switch inside of her mind that could be turned on, allowing HYDRA to gain full control of her movements. The thought made a shiver crawl down her spine.


Sapphire swallowed thickly,ย  steadying herself before forcing herself to place a hand over the ice, and watching in surprise as she forced it to turn into water. She looked down at her hands like they weren't her own before quickly turning around and exiting the bathroom. She crawled under her blankets once more, the warmth bringing her a sense of comfort and safety. The feeling of laying on an actual mattress that didn't feel like bricks almost felt foreign to her now. She never realized how two years of captivity could really mess her up.


Warm food that wasn't bread or some disgusting slop was foreign to her. It made tears form in her eyes before she suddenly found herself sobbing. She wished that she could go back, be more careful, choose to bring someone along with her. Sapphire wished she could change that entire day, but she couldn't. She wanted to turn back time, stop the experiments, keep her from becoming this. . . whatever this was. She would rather them have killed her than live her life as a monster.


Daisy Johnson was walking down the hall, coming to a slow stop beside of Sapphire's room and listening as the girl sobbed. She deeply frowned, wishing to know what it was that was causing for the girl to sob. Daisy hadn't a clue what Sapphire was forced to go through when she was with HYDRA, all she knew was that she wanted to help Sapphire. She wanted to talk to the girl, become friends with her, help her heal. And maybe that was too much of her to ask.


She didn't even know the woman, hearing about her every so often over the past two years. But Jemma had always seemed to avoid the subject of her sister, seeing as it had brought her sadness. And so with a soft sigh, Daisy kept on walking, not wanting to intrude on Sapphire.


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