Adaptation
[REBOOT COMPLETE..]
[REPAIR SUCCESSFUL..]
[TIME ECLIPSED..10 H : 50 M :34 S ]
[OPTIMIZING...]
"Optimization is a process that happens after adapting a new form as we slowly adapt to it, gain an understanding of the body," the An Chaeyoung next to me said
First her vision, Then her hands, One after another, she began to be able to control her body, she began to regain movement, then her hearing came back.
Loud noises, crowd of people talking
Banging on the door
"An Chaeyoung? An Chaeyoung? Are you in there?" a woman's voice
Crying
A woman's Voice
"let's break the door"
"10-33, Dispatch, we are breaking the door. Requesting backup." a woman's voice
"10-4 Ok, Acknowledged." through the radio
"Backup In route ETA 4 Min" through radio
"10-4 OK, Acknowledged"
a man's voice
"Let's break the door"
a woman's voice
"Everyone please move aside"
An Chaeyoung got up from the floor, her movements were slow and robotic, She held onto the shelf by the entrance for support, she was barely able to stand, staggering she ran to the door, as the policeman was kicking the door open, she opened it and stood leaning on the door, the policeman that was kicking the door open fell inside the apartment
An Chaeyoung looked towards him "oops" she uttered
The policeman turned towards An Chaeyoung and looked up towards her from the floor,
The woman police officer "coughed" signaling the policeman to get up from the floor.
As the crowd of residents that had gathered outside the apartment looked silently.
"Huph"
The policeman corrected his hat on his head, before getting himself into a more comfortable position, before getting up in one jump.
A woman barges in through the door pushing away the policewoman, as the policewoman tries to stop her.
"An Chae, you brat" the woman screams, slapping An Chae on her arm.
An Chaeyoung tried to use her power, by moving her hands but it doesn't work
"Huh?"
An awkward silence falls, everyone looks at what she is doing
She tries again, but to her unavail she is unable to use her power.
That lady, hugs her tightly, as she cries
"Don't you recognize me, your mom"
"What has happened to you"
"You poor kid"
"Why are you like this, why do your clothes have blood?"
"What have you done, An Chaeyoung?" That lady asks
"Why you don't answer, why there is no reaction"
An Chaeyoung's had no reaction to this all at all
The lady officer radios dispatch as she steps into the apartment,
An Chaeyoung, holding her stomach crouches as her mom holds her,
"What's happening?"
"emmoa, it hurts"
"Dispatch, 10-52, we have a person with stomach pain, requesting immediate medical assistance"
"10-04 Ok, Acknowledged"
"Medical Assistance on way"
As the policeman is done looking around the apartment, signals the policewoman all clear.
"Are you alright ma'am?"
"Ambulance is on the way, Please lie down."
My surroundings changed, I was standing in the hospital next to me An Chaeyoung as the other An Chaeyoung of her memories sat on the bed across from us. IV in her hand, on the monitor.
A doctor flipping pages through a clipboard says
"When did you last eat?"
An Chaeyoung's mother looks at her, as both the police officers look at the doctor
The Doctor continues,
"Her pain tolerance is too low"
"Eat on time, if you don't, how will your body get the energy to work?" the doctor tells An Chaeyoung.
An Chaeyoung looks up to the doctor, and nods.
An Chaeyoung next to me blushing "Since it was my first time feeling pain"
"Understood" I nodded, without questioning her, she certainly had a very low pain tolerance even when I first met her at the mountain she was like this.
"If you eat something delicious you will be fine," said the doctor
"Can she be discharged?" Asked her mom.
"Yes"
Her mom sighed a breath of relief.
Surroundings, Changed again,
An Chaeyoung sat behind a table across from her sat the policewoman.
The door opened, barged in, the policeman holding cup noodles in his hands, placed both the cup noodles in front of An Chaeyoung, before breaking the chopsticks, separating them, and placing them on top of the cup.
An Chaeyoung picking up the chopsticks tried to hold them correctly but at first, she struggled, before she finally managed to do so and started to slurp the noodles as fast as she could.
They both kept looking at An Chaeyoung eating.
The woman cop turns towards the policeman, the policeman hands her a brown envelope,
An Chaeyoung looks at the brown envelope being passed over as she continues eating,
Placing, the envelope on the table the policewoman said
"Why is there blood on your clothes? Why is there so much blood outside your apartment?"
"There was a murder in the area, close to your apartment building, you really don't know anything about it?"
The policewoman opened the envelope taking out few things from it, she placed a photo on the table, 'a guy laid on the ground, next to him yellow evidence marker'
An Chaeyoung stopped eating and took the photo looking at it up close, before placing it back on the table.
"NO" An Chaeyoung nodded.
"You really don't know?"
"How about this one?"
The policewoman took the old photo from the table and placed a new one
A completely burnt car.
"The blood from your place has been sent for sampling, once the report comes back and you will be marked as noncooperative, you know what that means?"
"Another" An Chaeyoung said, moving the cup noodles forward, the lady cop gestured to the policeman to bring another noodle.
The lady cop continued
"It, means you will not get a reduced sentence, but if you cooperate now and confess, they will take it into consideration, and you will get a reduced sentencing"
"That policeman just went to bring the report for blood samples"
"If you want to confess you should, once he comes back with it, it's over"
An Chaeyoung remained silent.
Minutes passed, the policeman came barging through the door, running out of breath, handed the lady cop a red envelope.
"You can still confess"
An chaeyoung remained silent.
As the lady cop, opened the envelope,
"Still so resilient, ha?" said the lady cop.
As she took out the paper, her face turned white, she looked at the policeman, he nodded his head.
She looked at An Chaeyoung, before looking at the results again scratching her head.
"Are you sure?"
"They didn't sent a wrong one"
"Yes, i also thought the same so i called them to reconfirm it"
"They ran it thrice"
"It's correct"
The lady cop, tapping her finger on the table said,
"Well it seems like you are free to go, i will walk you out"
As An Chaeyoung walked out the station, they looked at her scratching their heads, looking at the report.
The blood was a complete match with her but there was so much blood that with that much blood loss no person could survive, besides she didn't even have a scratch mark on the body.
She walked on the footpath barefooted in a daze, a nail in her feet, blood, she sat on the footpath, trying to heal it, but it didn't work, her powers were not working.
She had completely become a human.
"Hungry?"
She got up and limped home..when she reached there she sat, looking at all the memories of An Chaeyoung.