[h3]Ash Mareinos and Jamie Drummond[/h3]

“Please everyone.” Mrs. Standiford’s voice cut through the room, chaos still filled it. “Attention everyone. If you are able please exit the gym and head to the parking lot. If you are not able give us a moment and we will assist you out.” A few students started out.

Ash turned to Katalina, “I’m going to find Jamie.”

“Okay, see you in the parking lot.” Katalina said and started of to join the group that was leaving the building. Ash hurried forward and squeezed through the crowd. She eyed the dragon, [i]this school is weirder than I thought[/i]. Finding Jamie was easy he was leaning against the wall of the Gym just outside it.

“Jamie, are you okay?” Ash started to reach out to comfort him and saw her skin was still blue. She had no idea how to change it back, and had even less of an idea of how to explain it to Katalina when she did finally ask about it.

“Maybe, maybe not,” he said with a shrug, but he didn’t seem to question Ash’s change in skin colour. “The world’s gone a bit strange. It’s turning funny colours – and no, I don’t mean–” Jamie cringed and gestured to all of her. He made no move to stand up, even with the students trickling out of the building.

“Mrs. Standiford is having everyone head to the parking lot.” Ash explained the stream of students. “There’s a dragon in there.” She adds, almost as if that was more important than the evacuation. “Mrs. Wellington punched Miss Standiford.” Ash leaned against the wall, but didn’t sit. She looked at her hands, still blue, not sure if she liked it or not.

“Don’t worry about it, you look pretty in blue,” Jamie informed her in a matter-of-fact tone only a moment later, almost as if he hadn’t heard all of what she said. Ash felt her face heat up, she wasn’t sure how the rush of blood to her face would mix with the blue. He pulled himself up shakily, using the wall as a crutch to lean on. “So [i]that’s[/i] what happened. Standiford didn’t even feel anything from it, but Mrs. Wellington sure did. I was wondering…” He trailed off.

 “Yeah Mrs. Wellington called her out on having something to do with this.” Ash gestured at the students that were still leaving the gym most still wet from the water that Katalina had pulled from the sprinklers on accident. Others showing signs of some other issue that had cropped up. “So... if everyone has a power, and mine is breathing underwater, what’s yours?” A question that had been pressing Ash for ages. Well the question was in a different form now, one from knowledge that Amy had given her and the rest of the students. 

Jamie’s brow furrowed. “You’re sure it’s only breathing underwater?” 

“No, I can move it too, control it. It has always felt like water was in my veins instead of blood.” Ash continued to look at Jamie expectantly though, waiting for what he could do, what made him special enough for this school. That wouldn’t change her opinion of him though, he was perfect.

“Explains a lot, doesn’t it?” At first it seemed like he was going to just leave it there on the rhetorical question to avoid answering Ash’s, but he did smile in the end. “Emotions. Well, I mean – well… I can feel other people’s. Change ‘em, too, if I was so inclined.” Jamie rubbed the back of his neck nervously. “It’s all very weird, and probably pretty girly too.”

Ash snorted, “Yeah super girly.” Her voice was sarcastic. “Just like it’s super girly to know just about everything.” Her voice caught a bit at the memory of Amy. “I’ve been an ass.” She added.

“How’d you mean?” he asked, raising an eyebrow. They started to move in the direction of the others, albeit slowly. Jamie looked as if he was about ready to keel over.

“To everyone, well except you. To- and well to Katalina.” Ash kept pace with Jamie, prepared to catch him as afraid to touch him as she was unsure if that’d spark something powerful.

Jamie rubbed at his jaw but continued to walk on. “If you were a bad person, a nasty person, I wouldn’t like you as much as I do,” he ended up saying. “And trust me, I can tell when someone’s one of those. Don’t worry about it, yeah?” Ash smiled, believing him.

As they reached his car Mrs Standiford was starting to speak again. “Everyone if you have a car please take as many people as you can down into town. We’re evacuating the school. Dr. Mann will drive the bus.” A small thing used for field trips to Denver or Belleview.