Chapter 1: The beginning

The beginning

What is trauma? Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, ****, or natural disaster. However, a person may experience trauma as a response to any event they find physically or emotionally threatening or harmful. My name is Alex Haze and I know this might sound weird to some people but I have superpowers, sounds cool right well it's not. Ever since I was born I was different from other children, I had the unbelievable ability to see the emotional trauma that people were going through with just one look. I didn't understand it at the time but according to my parents it, made me different, or in other words, they thought I was a freak. At first, it didn't bother me obviously because I was a child but as I got older it became hard to ignore it because not only can I see people's trauma I can feel what they're going through. They say as you get older, you grow and well it seems that was the same for my abilities because I began to feel the slightest irritation or distress from the people around me, and trust me It did not get better. It irritated me so much that I would sometimes lash out at some people, imagine sitting next to your high school pal and then you turn to him and say "hey your daddy issues are getting in the way of me trying to focus on this test". Let me tell you it does not end well, it also doesn't end well when you tell your teacher who has been nagging you for her assignment for weeks to "stop taking out your anger on me just because your husband left you. After a while, I started getting bullied for it, and let me tell you it pissed me off. After high school, I got into Harvard on a scholarship and eventually got a master's degree and joined the military. For a while I moved around with the special forces, soon left the although, I was advised not to by my commander. My unique skill set/ abilities may it easy to integrate and intimate enemy soldiers. The commander said it was like he had a soldier who could read minds. Well he was only half wrong I could, in theory, read their minds and understand their emotions but those were only the negative ones.

         When I left the army I decided to make good use of my ability for a change and I became a physicist to help people. It was boring for a while because I had not gotten used to it ok pause for a minute. Let's go back to my army days there was a reason I left the army. It went like I was 26, a member of the special forces, and a total badass we had orders to extract an asset from a town in Afghanistan the asset had been compromised. When we got there it was too late, luckily new intelligence came to us that he was moving North we ambush the squad transporting him and with no problems took the hostage back in our care. But to my surprise, the man had a secret like yours truly he was an esper I know crazy right which Is exactly what I told him I pulled him into a corner I had no idea there were more people like me in the world. At the extraction point, my squad was ambushed and the man was badly injured in short he was going to die but before that happened he told me that he had a daughter that was special just like us and he wanted me to take care of him him him her. I was a little confused at the time but he told me I would understand when I meet her.