Jenessa sighed as she watched the plant freeze up, her arms dropping to her side in resignation, jumping as Erica screamed in shock.  She tucked her hands under her arms as she crossed them defensively/protectively as she turned to face the blonde.  "I don't know.  but now if I touch something, I freeze it."  She looked down at the anklet, confusion covering her face, "But when the officer touched my ankle to put that thing on, he was fine.  I thought maybe it was just my hands that did the freezing, but I touched the plant with my elbow." She looked at the blonde and shrugged, "I don't know what is going on!  I am scared of touching anyone or thing in fear of freezing them."

"Yeah, the only way she could eat a banana was if I fed it to her. Crazy." Dan is not good at explaining, but tries to be helpful.

Erica glanced over at Dan, what was in his head. She was trying to comprehend what she was seeing and had no room for what she assumed was an attempt at humor.

"You said now. So this just started?" She turned back to Dan. "What about you? Have you... um... experienced anythin weird too?"

"I dunno....I got a huge adrenaline rush fighting Tony, everything stopped hurting for a minute and I was able to knock him off the roof." Dan downplays what happened.

Jenessa frowned as the crossed her arms across her belly defensively, hands tucked under her elbows as she looked over at Erica, "I don't know and I wish I could stop it. Maybe ten minutes ago, right after Tony... fell." She shrugged her shoulders, "We got sent here and suddenly everything felt cold for a minute than went back to normal and now when I touch things, they freeze up." She looked at the frozen plant again that was starting to melt.

She nodded as Dan responded, "That looked like a really powerful punch, Dan.  And you just shrugged it off," she clarified as she looked at Erica curiously.  "Have you felt anything different? Anything strange happening around you?"

Erica looked away, obsessively stroking her hair behind her ear. "Maybe. Maybe I'm crazy." She shrugged "When I was running away, Luke followed me. But he wasn't like Luke. Luke was nice. This version of Luke was angry and abusive. He blamed me for his death. Then, on my way in, I saw Tony and Imogen watching me, even though I knew they were gone. And Tony looked normal." She shrugged again.

"So, either I'm raving, or I can see dead people."

Jenessa bit her lip nervously and tilted her head thoughtfully as Erica explained what she had experienced, "If you had told me this before I frozen things solid with just a touch, I wouldn't have believed you," she admitted to the blonde with a shrug. "But if I can freeze things, you seeing ghosts seems quite possible." 

She looked at Dan, "I think something happened to you know too?  Maybe?  It was that lightning storm?"  She wondered out loud.

She tilted her head thoughtfully and looked at her clothes, which weren't frozen.  She picked up a cloth to cover her hands with and picked up a plate with her cloth covered hand.

And the cloth freezes up when touched. If the plate goes to be touched it freezes as well. What is going on?
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"The storm? Well, it was freaky and that lightning scared everybody. How can lightning do that to a person though?" Dan shrugs, trying to think of an explanation.

Erica watched. It was fascinating, but so hard to understand.

Jenessa cursed as her clothes froze, "Fuck!" She hissed as she stopped touching the cloth, dropping it in disappointment. She glared at her hands as she closed them in fists as she crossed her arms and tucked them into her elbows. "This bites if I can't figure it out!  I can't touch my flutes anymore!" She looked ready to cry as she looked at the frozen plate.  She was now wondering if she could change clothes without freezing the new clothes while putting them on. She looked over at the other two helplessly. "How am I supposed to live my life if everything I touch, I freeze!"

She shook her head, as if dashing away the defeatist thoughts as she looked at Erica, "Are you seeing any ghosts around now?"  She wondered, trying to focus on something else instead of her own problems.  "So you can communicate with the ghosts?"

Erica looked around for any ghosts, but she was more intrigued by Jenessa's problem. "Jen. You've touched things seeing if they will freeze. Have you tried touching things with a desire not to freeze them?"

"I think that was the second thing I tried," Jenessa informed Erica with a sigh. "It seems to be when I touch things, because Dan wa able to feed me a banana without it freezing up.  The officer was able to put the anklet on without it or him freezing up."She sat down on a chair and slumped, "I would ask one of you to touch me, but I don't to take the risk again," she admitted to the two.

As she was sitting there, she was looking inside of herself to try to feel if anything had changed, did she feel differently now than the other day when she was normal?

Dan, not wishing to be frozen, tries to distract people with idle chatter.

"I hope the next boss we get is better than Tony was, and by that I mean the vindictive git Tony, not trying to push me out of a window or down the stairs Tony. They never make this easy do they?"

As the three converse, time passes. Jessessa seems paranoid with her ability. When she goes to sit in the chair, it begins to freeze! Erica listens to what is going on. And Dan seems to feel well tough. Odd.

"Erica, do you need a blanket? Don't want you sticking to the chair if it freezes."
Dan sighs.

"Do you think the cops are going to do anything?"

In reply to The Storm (msg # 172):

Erica shakes her head. "No. I'm fine. Thanks. If the char freezes, I'll get up."

Eric, while finding a place on the couch to examine the cuff around her ankle, suddenly looks up. Her hand covers her mouth to stifle the gasp, as her eyes scan across the room as if following movement. "Speaking of cops."

"I can see you." She says to the apparition "What happened?"

Jenessa sits in the chair and while it is chilly, it isn't uncomfortable for her.  "I am fine," she responded resignedly. She curled up, arms wrapped around her knees as she rested her head on her knees.  This day was just getting worse and her life was ruined.

When Erica asked what happened, Jenessa lifted her head and looked where Erica was looking, tilting her head when she didn't see anyone.  "Are you talking to a ghost Erica?" She asked curiously, "What are they saying?"

"Um, if I'm not crazy, yes." It felt so strange to admit that out loud. "It's one of the cops from earlier. Detective Haliwo's partner. It looks like she was hit in the back of the head, but she hasn't said anything yet"

Jenessa's eyes widened as Erica shared what she was seeing. "You don't think Tony has come aback alive again?" She wondered as she looked at Dan.  They had seen Tony apparently killed several times, but he had gotten back up.  She really didn't think a couple of bullets and a fall was going to keep him down.

She looked around as she worried her lower lip with her teeth, "Can someone turn on the TV and scan the news," she didn't think the news would be carrying it yet, but she didn't know how else to check for what was going on.  She didn't want to touch the TV remote or controls for fear of freezing things to uselessness. "I can't touch anything," she admitted as she pulled her sleeves over her hands defensively.
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"I'll put the telly on, put your mind at rest" Dan says as he gets the remote and flips to the news channels.

"The news is dead boring most of the time, but maybe this storm is weird enough people will be talking about it."

The news flicks on and there is a emergency broadcast "A sudden storm suddenly hit and lasted a few moments. Power shortages and blackouts had occur but they are being taken care of. Several areas have been checked out due to high abilities of possible strange occurances but police and other people are taken care of it. This storm has been a odd occurance but for now it is just a storm. We will keep you informed." The newcaster smiles and motions for sports.

Erica gasped, covering her mouth and taking a step back. The wound on the the police woman's head was ghastly. The blood in her mouth was horrifying.

Jenessa watched the news, biting her lip nervously as the announcer talked about how the storm was over the entire city.  She looked over at the other two, "Do you think others got special abilities like we did?"

Jenessa's head snapped over to Erica, "What's wrong Erica?"  She asked the blonde supportively as she kept her hands tucked under her arms and her knees drawn up to her chest, making herself as small as possible.

Dan has been watching the news, and says "Yeah, maybe if the strange storm's been striking other people? But apart from your freezing power, I don't see any really freaky stuff."

He looks over at Erica, uncertain if he should go and comfort her or let her have space.