"Yeah?"
"What happened to your cut?"
Jess gave Avie a strange look, then glanced at her arm, where the cut had been.
"Why, it's, it's not there!"
"It could be just me, but I don't think bad cuts like that heal in two days." Isaac said.
Their eyes met.
"A healing factor?" Taylor suggested.
"Well, there's only one way to find out…" Zac hesitated.
Jess stared at them.
"There is not way I'm going to purposely hurt myself -"
"Hey relax." Isaac said, lifting up his index finger and turning it into a pin. "Little pin prick never hurt anyone. Well, not badly anyway."
Isaac pricked his index finger on the other hand.
"See? If it makes you feel any better, people with diabetes have to prick their finger every day."
Jess hesitantly held out her finger. Isaac pricked it. A little blood seeped out, then stopped almost immediately. Wiping it away, and comparing it to Isaac's pricked finger, the answer was obvious.
"That is so cool." Avie said.
Jess gave a smile, then, suddenly reach over and took Isaac's hand.
"I wanna try something." She said, putting a finger on the spot.
A moment later she took her hand away. Isaac looked at his finger in interest.
"Awesome. Little pin prick gone bye byes."
"Just as long as you guys aren't planning on doing anything any more than that." Jess warned. "I'm not gonna let you inflict me with anything else."
"Hey, no prob." Taylor said. "We don't want to hurt you - badly."
Jess rolled her eyes.
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Later that day, Walker went out to do some grocery shopping while Diana took Jess and Avie out to do some badly needed clothes shopping. Isaac and Taylor went out about the town to practice their Telepathy skills, so Zac was stuck at home looking after Mackie and Zoe.
Zac looked up as he heard the door open.
"Yo?" he called.
There was no answer, and Zac figured it must have been his imagination.
The next thing he knew, Mackie cried out and a sweet-smelling cloth covered Zac's mouth and nose.
The world went blank.