I'm Faster

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I spoke to Fury about letting my friends stay and he agreed. I explained to everyone what I was trying to do to Evie's mind and they understood. Kinda. They believed me but they were weary of me.
"When I was inside her brain I found the last memory she had. She was in the cage and boom. Just like that it was gone," I retold my side of the story.
"What do you mean gone?" Steve asked me.
"Like someone had turned off everything. All feeling and senses had abandoned me. It felt wrong."
They took this information and went on with their day. Fury is looking into finding Suzy's parents and Garrett said he's staying here. Theo and Daniel are together so they're sharing a room on the floor below us. Jackie is trying to adjust. I was still distraught about the whole Evie thing so I went back down to the cage to clear up some thoughts. I checked out the footage from the security cameras. It only shows them all reacting to gunshots then it goes black. How about the survivors? Fernando was asleep when I found him but when I looked into his mind I found nothing. What the hell?
"Looking for something?," it was Garrett.
"Yeah." What's this guy's deal?
"You know when people go snooping around they wind up getting hurt," he started to inch towards me.
"Are you threatening me?"
"Nope. Just a bit of advice."
"Don't need it," I turned my back on him and walked out. 

Later that day I went down to the empty gym to blow off some steam and try to think through all of the events taking place. I was in the heat of beating the shit out of a punching bag when I felt a presence in the room. I stopped and turned around. Son of a bitch.
"Thought you could use a spotter," Garrett smirked at me while he stretched.
"You just won't quit! Why are you following me?," I shouted.
He threw his hands up in surrender. "Just trying to keep my fellow mutant's safe. There's a huge threat around here so we need to be on alert."
"I don't need to be watched over like a toddler," I zoomed out of there before he could say anything. What the fuck is going on? I washed up and felt a twinge of panic. Today Bucky and I are gonna be joining the Avengers for dinner. Ever since Garrett talked to me about safety, plus Fury announced that we should stay together and be on high alert. He looked at us when he said this. Why do people hate introverts? I promised myself this if I start to feel panicky I'll just get up and leave. This is going to be so fucking awkward.