Sam heard beeping. It ran in time with her heart beat, she clenched her fist in frustration. She was in hospital again? Well this time she would get Edward to bring her some damn clothes, she wasn''t wandering around with her ass hanging out like last time.


    She tried to recall what had happened this time. She could remember the ship in a mega storm and her bringing down a plane with weather Magi inside, was that it? She opened her eyes and blinked furiously as she adjusted her eyesight to the glare. Damn Mendes. Sam was sure the doc had the light on too bright just to piss her off.


    A doctor walked into her vision and she focused on him, a white icon popped up and tagged him with a tag Dr Mathews over it. Sam felt her throat. Dry and rasping as she called out to the doctor.


    “Hi doc, where''s Mendes?”


    The doctor looked up in surprise. “Well, You''re awake! That has to be a miracle. Or at least another one. How are you feeling my dear?”


    “Yeah I''m good, throats a bit dry. Where''s Mendes? You didn''t say.” She went to move but found her wrists chained to the bed, she quirked an eyebrow at the doctor. “Er...what''s up doc?”


    The doctor grinned sheepishly. First at the bugs joke. One million and one. He thought to himself and at the fact his miracle survivor was chained to the bed. “Ah yes try not to be alarmed. Erm what is the last thing you remember before waking up here?”


    It was then that Sam actually looked at where she was. Oh this doesn''t look good. She thought to herself. Then she double checked the icon colour, hmm, still white.


    “Caero?”


    MISS HOLDEN. GOOD TO SEE YOU FINALLY AWAKEN.


    Finally? How long have I been out?


    TWENTY SIX DAYS. FOUR HOURS AND THREE MINUTES. APPROXIMATELY.


    “Oh right, great, approximately. Wait twenty six days? Oh that can''t be good, do you know what''s going on Caero? that''s not Mendes and we aren''t on the ship.”


    WHAT IS THE LAST THING YOU REMEMBER?


    Sam shook her head.  “God what this again? That''s what the doc just asked.”


    IT''S IMPORTANT.


    “Right, hmm.. I''m not absolutely sure, but my last memory is just after the fight with the weather Magi after that I get the feeling there is more but I can''t get through the fog.”


    She looked up at the doctor. “Erm, nothing actually, can you help me?” The doc nodded. “I''ll be right back!”


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    “OK the doc''s gone Caero now what the hell''s going on?”


    IT WILL BE EASIER TO SHOW YOU. WORDS WILL NOT BE ENOUGH. THIS IS THE BBC''S NEWS CHANNEL BRIEF OVER VIEW OF EVENTS.


    Sam had a dark foreboding feeling as Caero started to explain. If the British national news was broadcasting what happened it had to have been big, really, really big. She held her breath as a satellite image of a scene of great devastation just on the coast of Spain.


    Valencia it stated in the headlines. But there was no city there, just one god almighty hole. Sam felt herself go cold as she saw a helicopter pull a lone unconscious body from the crater.


    She instantly recognized herself even with the wrappings around her. She blinked tears away as the commentator relayed what they had pieced together. A potential nuclear device. Terrorists, a million dead. A MILLION!.


    “D-did I?”


    THE SWORDS OF LIGHT INFILTRATED THE REPAIR CREW FOR THE STORM HAVEN AND LAID EXPLOSIVES THROUGHOUT THE HULL.


    THE EXPLOSION COMPLETELY WRECKED THE SHIP AND KILLED EVERYBODY ABOARD. MY SYSTEMS WERE KNOCKED OFFLINE FOR TWENTY FOUR HOURS.


    AS WHAT WAS LEFT ONLINE GATHERED TO REPAIR DAMAGED FILES. I WAS UNABLE TO HELP WHEN MEMBERS OF THE CREW AND ACADEMY WERE ATTACKED IN THE AFTERMATH.


    I AM UNSURE OF WHAT HAPPENED BUT YOU WERE FOUND IN THE CENTER OF THE CRATER. THE ONLY LIVING BEING IN A FIVE MILE RADIUS.THE ACADEMY AND EVERYONE ASSOCIATED WITH IT APART FROM YOU IS DEAD.


    Sam lay there motionless as she ran through the report time and again. Everyone was gone?


    Memories of Rae, squealing with delight as she shot down the road on the scooter. A flash of a miles long park, happy smiling faces. Edward holding her around the waist as they walked around the aquarium.


    Paul dead on the floor of a bar as an orange icon turned to red as the man shot at them. she felt despair turn to rage as Rae flew back when another orange icon shot her full of holes. Sam siphoning his essence, but too late!...Edward in a pool of his own blood.


    Sam''s head swam as memories flew into her mind and she struggled to free herself. Suddenly the bed was in pieces and she staggered out into the hallway.


    she had to get out of there! A million people, DEAD! She had done that. ONE MILLION PEOPLE! She felt herself battering everyone out of her way as she staggered drunkenly down the hallway. Then looked down as a bullet entered her stomach, she looked up in rage as the white icon turned Red.


    The security guard dropped to the ground withered and lifeless. She felt her fury connect with her essence and breathed in deep. She looked around as people ran in terror.


    Most collapsing before they got more than a few metres away. it was happening again! She was killing again! Was she a monster? She felt another impact from another security guard and instinctively sucked the life from him.


    Why was everyone trying to kill her!? She looked around and almost fainted at the withered lifeless bodies lying on the ground. slumped on desks, on Gurney''s, all dead!


    Oh fucking hell. She just wanted it all to stop! She hated magic. She was fine before she''d left for the ship. She hadn''t been a killer then. She felt the thrum of power from the generator and from the mains.


    A phenomenal amount of power from a nearby power station. It all sank into her flesh as she wailed in despair. Why her? She had been a good person, oh for the love of god if only her mum hadn''t woken her up, she should have stayed in bed, she should have let the taxi go, life would have so much better.


    She remembered sucking the life from the defence force, strangling corporal Reed, yanking the life from the weather Magi as the plane crashed into the sea, so much death! So much destruction! She wished with all her might that it had never happened. She just wanted to go home.


    Sam felt her skin flail off her body as she instinctively sucked in energy from everywhere! Her whole body was burning up and the hospital was an inferno. Oh god. Not again!


    She heard Caero trying to contact her but it was too late! It was all too late! the world around Sam burned like the nine pits of hell and then the universe went exploded.