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Project: Unified protectors (Super hero)

...Kill the family...

December pressed her fingers firm to her temples. Between every thought from the surrounding apartments, her parents,' her own, and... whatever it was she was getting her head was getting too crowded. But it was this... extra that she was picking up on that bothered her. Fuzzy like a radio station that wouldn't tune in and you couldn't quite make out the song on it.

"I can't do this. Something isn't right. Please, just listen to me, both of you." She stood up, jostling the table as she did and sloshing some of the wine from the other two glasses on the tablecloth. "Go into the living room and turn out the lights. Stay there until I get back and don't move."

"Emmy, what are you talking about?"

"Please just listen to me!" She had already shut out the lights herself. She was pushing them both toward the living room, away from the windows. "Stay here."

She left her jacket behind on her way out the door. The elevator was forgotten and she raced down the stairwell, flight after flight passing in a staccato tapping of boot heels on concrete. She burst out the side exit onto the sidewalk and started running. She didn't even know where she was going. Just that she had to find a parking garage.

Send... a message.

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...I catch you leaking secrets...

"So, what made you decide to run off and do that anyway?"

December had been asked the same question by her father more than once, and she just didn't have an answer that had satisfied him, apparently. She couldn't tell him the truth. "Oh, you know, I needed to get out in the middle of nowhere so I wouldn't hear other people's thoughts in my head anymore. No biggie." Yeah, that just didn't work.

She sighed, still not able to come up with a better lie. "I just needed to get away," she shrugged. "Empire is... a mess. It was when I left, and it's worse now. Night after night after night on the news, it's all crime and depressing stories. I just needed somewhere I didn't have to hear that anymore. Or anything at all, for a while."

"Well you could have stayed on the continent at least, you know. You didn't have to go half way around the world."

"Jim." Her mother's tone was sharp. The two of them had had this argument before, apparently. Her father seemed to be sure that something awful had happened. Her mother blamed him for refusing to move because he was waiting on a promotion that never came...

...kill... ...beautiful women... ...booze...

She lifted a hand, rubbing at her forehead. The room was becoming almost as unbearable as the rest of the city. The uncomfortable feeling was only growing, and she didn't think it had anything to do with her parents, either. Something about... a moving truck?

...tacos...

"Maybe I should stop coming home. All you guys do is argue when I'm here."

That caused both of her parents to stop talking, but it only made their inner thoughts rage harder, and that was worse. She picked up her wine glass and drained the rest. She didn't even feel hungry anymore.

Project: Unified protectors (Super hero)

Empire was miserable. She had spent so long away from civilization that she had all but forgotten how loud it could be, inside her head and out. She felt as though she'd lost all ability to tune even the slightest bit of it out. While the headache she'd gotten on the plane was severe, it was nothing compared to the raging in her head now. The discomfort must have shown on her face.

"Something wrong, Emmy?" her mother asked as they all sat around the dinner table.

December forced a smile. "Just jet lagged I think. I couldn't sleep a wink on the plane."

Her father did his best to not sound like her long absence wounded him, but of course, she knew. "I hear if you travel frequently it doesn't affect you so badly. Maybe you should drop in more often."

"Oh, Jim, don't start," her mother chided, passing the plate of dinner rolls around the table. "We're very glad you're here honey, and we know that you couldn't afford to travel much on your stipend."

She nodded and had a bite of mashed potatoes before responding. "Sitting out in the middle of nowhere monitoring seismic equipment doesn't pay a lot, yeah. It's even harder to find someone to come out and take over though, that's the real problem. Someone has to be there. Until they found a replacement I couldn't go. I wanted to come home sooner, I promise, Dad." She didn't realize she was drinking quite so deeply from her glass of wine until she saw both of her parents staring at her.

"Rough flight?" her father asked with a bushy arched eyebrow.

She nodded and kept up the façade. "Two obnoxious toddlers behind me the whole way. You know how it is, parents that just ignore the fact their children are bothering everyone else on the planet."

She felt a strange little prickle on the back of her neck, as though she were being watched. Of course, she wasn't alone in the room, but it was more than that. Momentary glimpses like she was observing herself and the room from a distance. She just tried to shake it off. It wasn't as though it were the strangest thing that had happened so far to her now that she was in the city once more.

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Vaguish superhero idea added.

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