Chapter 17 - Acting 101 2

"I don't remember."

She finally decided to speak, her dry and rough voice working perfectly well to match her appearance of someone that had been through a terrible situation.

Answering his question she decided to go the amnesia route. It was the best route to go with since it helped avoid giving away the fact that she didn't have a past— while still having her act however she wanted.

Her reply left the man stumped, he was really hoping she would be able to give her a name at least because then they could find some relatives or something faster— but she couldn't.

He didn't want to draw out this complicated case because he would cause his little town— and himself— to be involved in a mess.

"What can you remember?"

He asked trying to get any sort of information from her— he hoped to at least understand how she stumbled into the station, let alone the town since she wasn't from here.

She had already come up with an idea of how she would get by his line of questions while she was pretending to be asleep— she would just be as vague as she could be while still giving some roundabout hints.

"I don't remember much. Just, a dark room, some men."

She said as she gazed down, playing the part of a traumatized girl that was trying her best to remember the cause of her trauma, to begin with.

"They spoke differently but I can't remember what they said. I ran away when they were taking me somewhere— I ran fast."

She muttered as tears began to roll down her eyes— she was such a good actor she even amazed herself.

"I remember just running, and running until I couldn't run anymore."

She said as tears ran down her face like a broken waterfall— her words stopping as she was too focused on crying.

It seemed her acting was so good it made even the man believe her— who wouldn't after all? He couldn't help but pity her, stopping his line of questioning in order to let her rest.

"Get some rest, you don't have to force yourself."

He said as he sighed and stood up— patting her on the head as he headed towards the door.

He planned to try and sort out the information he had gained from her so far than figure out how to deal with the girl tomorrow.

She couldn't stay in the hospital forever after all.

Once the man she couldn't help but hide a smile under her hand as she laid back down and thought about what has happened so far.

Things have been going smooth— oddly so— and she just hoped it would keep going this way otherwise she would have to take drastic measures.

Her plan wasn't to stay in this small town which was why she made it sound like she was being trafficked— such a matter would be outside of the hands of a small town like this and they would need to get a bigger station involved.

Maybe even a bigger organization.

When that happens they would have to move her from this town to a place where she could be kept safe and be monitored in case anyone tried to find and silence her.

Granted no one was going to do that— but they didn't know that.

Her only concern would be if a mutant with some sort of ability to reveal the truth were to be among the people that come— as they would possibly reveal the words she says as false or even the way she looked as false.

Yes— looked.

Before stumbling into the station she had obviously altered her looks a little, shortening her long hair and changing it to a dark color— while also changing her eyes to a brownish hue.

Doing this was easy with her ability to alter and even replicated atomic structure— she just slightest made some changes to her own.

It was temporary though— as it wasn't her true form— but it would last much longer than she needed it to so there wasn't anything to worry about.

She just hoped no mutant showed up.

But the likelihood of that wasn't very high, to begin with so she didn't worry.

Instead— she drifted off to sleep peacefully as she finally had a bed to lie down on.

Unknown to her— after the man had left the hospital he went and made a report on his work computer, a report which was picked up by the FBI as it sounded very similar to a case they were currently working on.

And they decided to send some ground units to check out the situation and see if it was related or not— if it was they would properly get involved and take action to secure the girl.