Chapter Fourteen

“Holy shit! What the fu- damn it Nasia, what the hell?!” He cries out, his heart slamming hard against his chest. “Will you stop doing that!”
She stands there titling her head, not bothered that she nearly scared him to death.
“Your energy was off, so I came to check on you.” Was her reply.
“My energy…” After his heart rate slowed down to normal he looks at her with a deep frown. “Energy. Is that how you’ve been finding me?”
“Of course. Everyone has their own distinct energy waves. I pinpointed yours earlier so I have it in my memory core and can instantly sense it whenever it’s out of order. Which seems to be now. Something has happened.”
“Ry honey are you out here?” His mom suddenly calls from the front porch looking worried.
“Yeah, it’s me mom! I’ll be right in just talking to…someone.” He calls back uncertainly.
“Alright, don’t make it too late dinner will be ready in a couple of minutes.” She then goes back in and shuts the door.
“I always found it odd that humans keep their young from the day they are born. You even keep them well after they are fully grown. It’s…different.”
Looking at her strangely he asks, “Your kind doesn’t do that?”
“No. Once an energy being is born we are given to the cosmos of dead stars where we must learn to harvest our abilities until we are deemed ready enough for our first mission.” She simply says.
“Dead stars…right. Anyways, I was looking for you.” He cuts to the chase; not sure he was ready to hear more of her explanations of who she really was.
She stands there patiently waiting for him to continue, with that ever blank stare of hers. Clearing his throat he was at a loss for words on how to ask her about Kevin. Maybe being blunt was the only way to go.
“Kevin’s cancer is gone. Just like that when not hours ago it was completely eating him up inside.”
“Yes, I sensed that the moment I saw him. Which is why I stated what I did upon arriving at his room.”
“So, explain to me why it suddenly isn’t there anymore, Nasia. I fell asleep with you sitting in the chair just to wake up with you nowhere around. You left, why?”
“Because I had to…” She suddenly stops what she was about to say.
She didn’t think it was such a good idea to tell him about the rare flower. Then he would question on why she was trying to find it and if she told him then he would know about his world coming to an end. She was pretty sure that part she wasn’t allowed to state to any human on this earth.
He waits for her to finish her sentence but when she becomes quiet he realized that she wasn’t planning too. “Because what?” He urges, feeling a bit frustrated.
“That’s not really important right now.”
Squinting his eyes at her he wondered what she was hiding. And maybe he should be a little more concerned on why she was on his planet than everything else that had happened so far. For now he drops it though. He’ll eventually find out.
“Did you get rid of Kevin’s disease Nasia?” He asks gently, a little afraid of her answer.
“Yes. I did.” Was the straightforward reply.
He just stares. “You did? Just like that?”
Shrugging she nods her head.
“Wha-I don’t understand. If you could have done that all along then why didn’t you do it sooner? Why sit there watching him suffer, watching him be in pain for hours?”
“Because it wasn’t something that required attention at the time.”
“Required…what the hell does that mean? You have the ability to take away diseases but only do it when you feel like it?” His body was starting to feel tight, his breathing a little more difficult as a wave of emotion swam through him at the mere thought.
“No. I only did it because I wanted to see how your reaction was going to be.”
“My reaction?” He scoffs in disbelief. “So, you just did it because, what, to experiment on me?” He was starting to get angry now.
“More or less. I wanted to see what emotions you would express if I had completely cured the child. You and the mother of course. Her emotions seemed quite more dire than your own.”
She continues to stand there, looking exactly the same as always. Never showing anything other than confusion from time to time.
Rubbing his forehead roughly he tries to keep his emotions under check, afraid he was going to blow up on her with this backward, selfish, and unemotional thinking on her part.
“So, you have the power to save them all but just choose not to. You’ve spent seventy years on our planet, went through all the flu outbreaks, the AIDs when it was discovered, the pandemic that basically closed our entire world down, knowing that all these people are sick, are dying and you did nothing. Do you realize how heartless that is?”
“Humans die all the time. Life dies eventually for all living things in the universe. It’s inevitable. Changing the course of death isn’t something we should tamper with.” That confused look was back, but she still held no other emotion at his outburst.
“But you did it for Kevin.” He points out on her contradiction of herself.
“Yes. Because of you. Changing one life isn’t as big or catastrophic as saving thousands.”
“It’s inhumane.” He states sadly.
“I’m not human.” She again points out.
His face sobers and looks at her emotionless. “Right, a fact I need no reminder of.”
“You’re angry again.”
“Of course I’m angry!” He snaps, his feelings getting the better of him now.
Not ever had he dealt with another person who was so emotionless, so unconcerned for another human being that he didn’t know how to handle it. But she wasn’t human, was she? As she keeps pointing out time again and again. He wasn’t sure if he wanted to get to know her any longer. He wasn’t raised to be the way she saw the world around her. He wasn’t accustomed to allowing another to be so unmoving, so heartless that they were willing to sit back and do nothing that could change for the better.
“Your emotions confuses me. Just moments before you seemed joyful of his recovery. There was happiness inside you but now you’re angry. I don’t understand.”
He had to look away from her. How can you get through someone who has never felt anything other than confusion their entire life? Rubbing the back of his head he states,
“I’m not angry at what you did. I’m angry because…” Seeing that blank stare he hated so much he knew whatever he said wasn’t going to get through to her one bit.
Sighing deeply, shoulders deflating in defeat, he says, “Forget it. How could I possibly explain to someone who has no emotions of their own.”
Pushing past her he heads for his front door, and she doesn’t follow but watches him go. Before turning the knob he looks back to her one last time.
“Just answer me this one last question.” He asks gently watching as she stands there waiting. “His cure, is it permanent?"
“It will never come back for as long as he lives.”
Nodding his head he gives her a small sad smile. “Thank you for saving him. Even if it was for a reason that shouldn’t be a reason at all, I thank you.”
With that he steps inside and shuts the door with her still standing there, looking more confused than ever.