Jenessa accepted the bottle of water with the start of a nod and smile, only to gasp as the cold hit her hand. She barely kept from dropping the bottle as she stepped over to a table and quickly put it down, rubbing her hand against her pant leg to warm her hand back up.  She blinked in confusion as she watched Dan take the bottle like it was nothing. "Isn't that cold?  My water bottle was freezing." She asked curiously as she reflected on the odd look on the officer's face.

"Still buzzing from the adrenaline babe, I can barely feel anything" Dan says.

Dan places the cold bottle against his bruised face, then opens the bottle to take a sip.

It gets colder and colder almost unbearable but then Jen feels nothing. Out of reflex she drops it to the ground and it shatters!

Jenessa frowned at Dan, "My name is Jenessa or you can call me Jen," she shook her head  as Dan's bottle of water seemed okay.  She looked back at the bottle of water she placed on the table and it looked normal, there was zero condensation on it, which she expected on something very cold.  She picked the bottle back up and gasped as she feels the coldness again as her eyes widen in shock as the bottle seemed to turn to ice and what was more surprising was that it stopped feeling cold, she let go of the bottle out of shock and watched the frozen bottle shatter on the ground!   "What the!!!" She gasped as she looked around wondering what was going on!

"What's up Jen?" Dan asks, looking at a shattered bottle on the ground. He looks puzzled for a second, then forgets about it.

Jen was looking down at where the plastic bottle filled with ice had shattered on the ground and the ice was slowly melting, water spreading across the floor. "That water bottle was filled with water like yours, but when I grabbed it, it turned to ice and shattered when I dropped it??"  She murmured in wonder at Dan.  She looked at her hands and then down at the ice spread across the floor in wonder.  She bit her lip nervously as she looked around, wondering if she had somehow frozen the bottle of water, looking around for something to test on.  She walked over to a table with a potted plant on it and hesitantly touched the plant with just the tip of her pointing finger.

The plant begins to freeze and soon it looks like well a ice covered plant.

"What.....How....." Dan struggles with his words, seeing Jenessa seem to freeze a plant.

"I.. I don't know," Jen said with wide eyes as she yanked back her finger and crossed her arms, covering up her hands.  She stared at the frozen plant as she chewed nervously on her lips.  This was bad, her touch was freezing stuff, could she not freeze stuff?  If she couldn't, how was she going to eat?  She glanced over to a bowl of fruits, she reached over and thinking don't freeze, stay warm, she picked up a piece of fruit.

The apple that was touched is now frozen.

Jenessa drops the apple in shock as her touch freezes it, jumping back as the frozen apple shatters across the floor. "Oh shit!  This is bad!!  What is going on?  How is this happening!" She gasped to herself and Dan as she looked at him wide eyed! "How am I supposed to eat if I freeze everything I touch!"

"What if I feed it to you?" Dan asks.

He grabs a banana, splits the end open, and offers the end to Jenessa.

Jenessa looked unimpressed at Dan, what adult would want to be feed food by someone else for the rest of their lives.  Of course there were people who suffered that, paralyzed people, but bets on how happy they were with that option.  Of course thinking that, Jenessa realized she might not have a choice if she wanted to live, just like them. Sighing in resignation, "Thanks Dan, lets see if this works," she opened her mouth and bite off the end of the banana, hoping that it didn't freeze solid in her mouth as she went to chew the banana.

Delisious. It goes down easily enough. Seems to not be frozen. Well for now. With the bodies removed, things seems to be getting better.

"See, it worked! Do you want the rest of it?" Dan asks.
He takes a look out of the window, trying to figure out what all the cops outside are doing.

After a few minutes two cops walk in with anklets "Please sit. " With all that has happened...

Good thing the cops don't see the broken bottle. Yet.

She sighed in relief, "Thanks Dan, but not right now.  That gives me hope that I can work around things."  She walked over to a closet, looking for a broom and dustpan to clean up the broken bottle and cubes of ice before they had much more chance to melt when the two cops can in and requested they sit down.

"Are those really necessary?  We haven't tried to run," she tried to point out as she was holding her breath as she held her foot out, hoping that the cop didn't touch her skin, not sure if that would cause a problem yet, but maybe the cold was only in her hands.

She wondered how that feeling of coldness that had suffused her body for a moment connected to her freezing things she touched.

"You know those things are just a scam to make money for the tagging companies right?" Dan says to the cops. He still sits down.

When the cop grabs a hold of her, nothing happens. He puts them on Dan and Jess. They just simply ignore Dan-why argue? They are doing their job "Yes they are. You were involved in several attempts resulting in three peoples deaths. Your lucky you are not in the cells. I'd do it, you two are just scum." The other cop watches his partner and shakes his head. When he leaves, the other somewhat nicer cop looks at them "I don't know who did it or why, but ignore him. Not every day when you get a call and have to load up three bodies. We'll be in touch. Keep your noses clean." And then they are gone leaving the two of them alone. And the power came back on.

From (IC) Community Center: Outside

Erica barged into the main room, passing the cops as they left. She saw Jenessa and Dan sitting there, both with ankle monitors.

"This day sucks!"

"Cheer up, at least Tony's finally stopped bullying me. Just took him trying to punch me off a roof and falling for it to stop." Dan tries to smirk, then winces slightly from the bruises on his face.

"So you came back? Me and Jenessa thought you'd run for it."

Erica shrugged.

"I did run for it." There was no way she was going to tell them what really happened "I just... Well, the cops caught up to me and brought me back." She looked around..

"So, that's it? There's only the three of us left." Looking at the ankle monitors, Erica shook her head. "They can't do this. This is a halfway house. We're allowed to leave. The judge said so." She collapsed straight down into a seated position with her legs crisscrossed. with her elbows on her knees, she dropped her chin onto her hands. Her face bore a scowl

"So, now what?"

Jenessa frowned as she watched the cop place the bracelet on her ankle with no trouble.  The brunette was still looking down at the bracelet when the cops ordered them to stay there and then just left.

She looked up when Erica returned, "I am not sure if it is legal or not.  But what the heck are we supposed to do about it?  We are here because we broke the law, so the cops aren't going to be exactly nice to us."  She sighed defeatedly, "I wonder if someone is going to be sent to replace Tony as supervisor of community center?" 

She walked over to a plant and touched her elbow to the plant to see what happens.
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The plant freezes up as soon as Jen touches it.

Seated on the floor and pouting, Erica watched curiously as Jenessa went over to the plant. It wasn't clear what she was doing, but when she saw the ice creep out over the plant from where Jen touched it, her eyes widened.

"Oh my God. What the actual frick." She jumped up and ran over, gazing at the plant in disbelief. "How did you do that?"