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Xavier confronts Elie and she retaliates, freeing herself.
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[center][h3][color=DC143C]Xavier[/color][/h3][/center]

An audible sigh filled Xavier's office. He sat back in his chair, crossing his arms on his chest as he read the recent reports from the staff. His brows furrowed in annoyance. Countless subjects refused to comply, and he was beginning to lose what little patience he had. He sat forward and clicked on the surveillance footage of the experiments he deemed the most important. Mostly because they were the ones he'd invested the most in. He knew each of them had mutated with 100% success. Unfortunately the human side of them was proving to be the only variable he had not accounted for when he first began these experiments.

He clicked through four different cameras. One for a particularly difficult subject named Carmen currently in what he called the fridge, another on a set of triplets. Each of the triplets were being subjected to various rough treatments. The other two were of the subjects named Alex and Vayne, who had yet to comply as well.

Finally he landed on footage of the last subject. Elie. She'd only been at the lab for a month, and had shown no signs of any mutation. It wouldn't be long before she was scheduled for another experiment to make the mutation develop further. Maybe then she would finally make herself worthy in the eyes of the government. She was a fiesty subject, and he grinned as he watched clips of her thrashing at the guards. He saw her now in an isolation room, sitting in her little corner looking defeated. "[color=DC143C]Why is she holding her arm?[/color]" He thought aloud, looking around at the room. Had she punched the wall? He sat straighter, smirking as he finally noticed the door to her cell. "[color=DC143C]So, she finally figured it out. And damaged the door, no less.[/color]" He stood, gathering a few guards to take with him as he headed towards the isolation ward.

He nodded to the guard outside of her door, who promptly moved to the side to let Xavier approach it. "[color=DC143C]Don't let her give you another black eye this time, Andrews,[/color]" he quipped, smirking at the guards before he scanned his ID card and pulled open the door. The guards filed into the room first, and Xavier followed to stand in the middle of them.

Elie gasped softly as the door swung open, her heart immediately beginning to race. She moved to her feet, hiding her wrist behind her back as if she were a frightened child. She'd done something wrong, and they were here to punish her. Her gaze moved over the guards, finally resting on the man in the middle of them. She had only seen him once, but the memory made her skin crawl. She shifted in her spot, clenching her jaw as she tried to hide her fear.

Xavier looked the girl over, noticing how she hid her arm from view. He turned slightly, shaking his finger at the door. "[color=DC143C]Do you have something to tell us, Elie?[/color]" He said condescendingly. If she was going to act like a child, he was going to treat her like one. Elie glanced at the door before looking back to him. She didn't answer, preferring not to speak. It was obvious enough what had happened.

Xavier sighed, feeling rather irritated that she remained silent. "[color=8B0000]Show me your arm.[/color]" He commanded firmly. Elie swallowed, looking down at the floor before she moved her arm into sight. "[color=4682B4]It's fine,[/color]" she said, wiggling her fingers to prove that it still worked. Was she defective? Would they kill her if she was a failed experiment?

Xavier frowned, looking to Andrews. "[color=DC143C]Hold her still. It looks like there's an issue with her abilities.[/color]" He turned to examine the door, listening as he heard the guards close in on Elie to grab her. Elie stepped backwards, feeling her heart race within her chest as the guards reached for her. She struggled against them, but they quickly overpowered her. Andrews held her right arm in one hand, the other gripping her hair tightly to ensure that she would comply. The other guards grabbed her other arm, pushing her roughly towards Xavier.

The man turned from the door, smiling at the sight before him. "[color=DC143C]Now, no nasty tricks, okay Elie?[/color]" He purred as he stepped over to her. He grabbed her wrist with both hands, hearing her gasp in pain. After a quick feel, he sighed softly and looked up at her. "[color=DC143C]What have you done to yourself, Elie? I thought you were smarter than this.[/color]"

Elie jerked against the guard's grip, sticking her chin out as she glared at Xavier. "[color=4682B4][i]You[/i] did this to me, so why don't you tell me?[/color]" She hissed. Andrews tightened his grip on her hair and she grimaced, going limp within the guard's grips so that they wouldn't hold her so tightly.

Xavier shook his head, tsking at her remark. "[color=DC143C]Take her to a demonstration room and get her to repeat whatever she did to this door. If she says her arm is fine, then she can surely do it again.[/color]" He stared into her eyes, a look of determination on his face. "[color=DC143C]I don't care if you have to beat it out of her or not. Just keep away from that pretty face.[/color]" The guards all nodded, beginning to force her towards the door. Elie struggled to keep her footing, now beginning to panic as she worried if she could even repeat the act again. She felt the panic swell in her chest, feeling as if her body were shaking in fear. It felt as if the whole room was shaking as well. Xavier frowned as he felt something strange in the air, stepping aside to let them pass as he watched Elie closely.

It was then that the building's security alarm went off, filling the room with a sound that made Elie's ears hurt after the silence of the isolation room. Xavier growled, raising a hand to halt the men. "[color=DC143C]Nevermind. We'll come back to her after we figure out what's going on. Maybe then she'll be willing to explain herself.[/color]" The guards grunted, each visibly disappointed that they'd have to wait to return the bruises that Elie had given them. They turned and threw her to the floor in the back of the cell. Elie caught herself, whimpering lightly as she put her weight on her wrist. She turned to see them all heading towards the door, and the frustration of being locked away in this room again overwhelmed her.

"[color=4682B4]No![/color]" She yelled, raising her left palm towards them and releasing a second wave of pent up energy at them. A blast of vibrations released from her palm, creating a shockwave that knocked all of the men off of their feet. Two guards hit their head against the wall, emanating an audible crack as they were incapacitated. Andrews was thrown against the door to the cell, and Xavier fell face first into the concrete. 

Elie panted, quickly moving to her feet as she realized what she had done to them. She looked down at her hands, glad to feel no pain in her left arm at all. [i]That was lucky,[/i] she thought, looking over each of the men. [i]What now?[/i] She took a deep breath, still feeling panicked about her current situation. If they got up, she was surely going to be punished severely. Moving quickly she stepped over to Xavier, who was beginning to groan and shift in his spot. With only a moment's hesitation she grabbed the ID card from his pocket and rushed towards the door to the cell. She pushed it closed just in time to see Xavier look up at her. His nose was broken and bloodied, and he looked at her as if he wanted to kill.

Elie slammed the door shut in his face, panting as she stepped away from the door and the unconscious body of Andrews. The alarms in the hallway rang in her ears, and in the distance she could hear yelling and screaming. [i]What now?[/i] She thought again, looking around as she tried to decide which direction to go.

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Xavier confronts Elie and she retaliates, freeing herself.
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