I stopped trying to help people, until senior year. My mother was out working the night shift as usual at the hospital when armed men waltzed in. Apparently they were searching for some awakened who had hurt someone they knew, and was recuperating at the hospital my mom worked at. It was all over the news within the hour. I must have caught a glimpse of the breaking 9 o'clock news, but when they mentioned my mom's workplace I ran out. I put on the costume I swore never to take up again and rushed over there.

The cops were surrounding the building ordering the intruders to surrender before anyone was hurt.

The electricity I was able to control allowed me to supercharge my body to move faster so I ran in before anybody could notice me. There in the front lobby where all the employees. My mom among them. The guys were bickering amongst themselves not knowing what they were going to do. before they could do anything to anyone I took them out before they could notice and escorted the employees out, all of a sudden I feel a tug on my shoulder. It was my mother saying thank you. I never expected her to say thank you to an awakened, after all the reason her husband was gone was standing right in front of her.

She thanked me regardless saying how she could not have imagined not making it home to her son.

She asked me to be safe, and to return wherever I came from cautiously.

I left and returned home. My mom was probably going to pull a double to try and help out in the aftermath so there was nothing to worry about. When I got home I went to change and hide the costume, yet I noticed blood seeping out of a wound. The adrenaline must have prevented me from noticing and feeling it. It sure was bleeding and hurt a lot too.

All of a sudden my mom walked in the bathroom while I took care of the wound.

"Honey how did you? Wait that's a bullet wound. I noticed a wound on the person who saved us from the attackers at the hospital. Was that you? Wait, but that person used the same powers as...."

I saw the light leave her face. In that moment she knew. She knew her son was the reason her beloved husband had not come that fateful night.

"You may be a hero to some but you are no hero to me"