Open Finished Balancing Act

Everything was rather silent while Shinji sat on the bench by himself awaiting the time when Hal would return to the world that Shinji knew and loved. He didn't know exactly what was happening with Hals ability but it was different than anything that Shinji had every known. Soon enough, though, Hals hazy appearance had shifted through the air and made it to his actual body. "Is he finally getting back to his own body?" Shinji thought to himself as he watched the haze disappear.

After a few seconds, Hal had awakened from inside his own physical body. He sat up in his seat and seemed to be trying to get comfortable. His neck being out stretched in each direction to avoid a cramp or knot in his neck. This was a smart thing to do considering the position he left his body in before. Soon after getting accustomed to the area around him, Hal had spoken to Shinji apologizing for the extended period of time that they waited. Standing up Shinji replied calmly, "It's no problem, I had nothing better to do." Ending his reply with a slight chuckle, he listened to what else Hal had to say. "It's fine, really."

Shortly after this, Shinji extended his arm to his fellow student at the academy for a hand shake. "It's nice to officially meet you physically. So what is your special ability exactly anyways?" Shinji asked. He was curious on how he was able to do such a thing and why it was so hard to get back to his body. He was hoping that Hal would indulge him with this information.

Hal had returned the handshake that Shinji had attempted to give him. Within moments of the handshake, Shinji felt a little lightheaded. He didn't know what it was that made him feel in such a way all of a sudden but he shrugged it off for now. He didn't think much of it because it may just be from his being tired from that last training session with Mr. Cunninham earlier. Upon letting go of each other's hands, they continued conversation. Shinji though didn't feel better for about a minute after words. It was odd to him in many ways.

Without further ado, Ha began his explanation of his powers. "Astral Projection, huh?" Shinji thought. To him it was interesting and he had to learn more about it. Though he wouldn't ask Hal about more information on it because he wanted to know everything there was to know about it and obviously Hal wouldn't be able to deliver every single detail because he is still trying to understand it himself. He also had a second power that was tied to it. Shinji was a little less fascinated with this though. After his thoughts had subsided, Shinji tuned back into Hal's words more than before hearing the following: "...but I learned I kind of have an effect on anything that runs on electricity..." Shinji gasped a little once he heard this and began to think again. "That must be what I felt earlier. It makes so much sense now!" Shinji had a mini epiphany obviously and was slightly proud of it now that he knew the feeling he had wasn't someone's intentions on hurting him.

Tuning back into Hal's words once again, Shinji heard him ask about his own abilities. "What about you though? I could have sworn I felt a pulse earlier. Was that you?" he said. Shinji smirked and said, "Yea that was me. My primary ability is to create lightning from the electrical currents the brain naturally emits through the nervous system. Like so..." Shinji finished his explanation and followed up with a demonstration. He held out his hands around a foot apart from one another and within a few seconds lighting currents traveled from palm to palm showing off the bright blue display of light. "The ability I like to call secondary is healing. I can heal small injuries once they happen. Nothing big though. I did feel your interference with the lightning coursing through my own body when we shook hands though, it wasn't a pleasant feeling to be honest." Shinji finished as he put both hands in his pockets.

Upon finishing his explanation of his powers and the fact that he was able to feel the slight but noticeable disturbance between there physical contact, Shinji saw that Hal was feeling guilty. The only way that Shinji could tell Hal was feeling guilty, besides the profanity that was being let wildly slide from his lips, was his expression. His face seemed to fall quickly directly after mentioning it. Shinji began to laugh. This small laugh began to grow as he thought on it more and more. "Excuse my rude laughter, but umm..." He paused to recompose himself and get himself together. "There is no need for the words you just uttered nor is there a reason for you to feel like you do. Really, it's fine. I didn't die so there shouldn't be a problem at all." Shinji said with a grin on his face.

"But in all seriousness, this disturbance that you seem to have when you come into contact with electronics and electrical based objects may be a problem in the future." Shinji stated as he put his thumb on his chin. Looking into the sky thinking, he continues. "I don't know about you but I don't mind being acquaintances or friends or what not. But that may get in the way of a lot of future events that we may both be taking part in. Correct me if I'm wrong."

"I've... had accidents with it from time to time. But most were manageable." Hal said trying to convince Shinji that he had it under control for the most part. Shinji did believe him for a moment even though Hal wouldn't make any kind of eye contact at all. Shinji shrugged it off since it was probably just Hal being modest. Though they had only been chatting for a small moment of time, it seemed like the day was going by rather fast.

Looking up to Shinji, still without eye contact, Hal had asked what Shinji meant by future events. "A battle royale?" Shinji asked in a confused voice. "Nothing like that" He began with a little chuckle. Continuing he said, "I hope there wont be anything like that. But I meant smaller things. I run almost completely on electricity or lightning, whatever you want to call it. If small contact like that was to make me a little light headed then other things me be worse on me. Just thinking of the possibilities that's all."

"That would be your choice if you'd rather not have anything to do with me for that." Hal replied to Shinji. To Shinji this made him feel like he had said something wrong. Hal seemed to be getting the wrong idea from what Shinji said. He didn't want to keep Hal from his life just something as small as this. This also made him think that Hal may have had issues with people not wanting to be around him before. "No, that's not what i meant. I have no intention of ridding you from my life from something like this. If anything, it makes me want to keep you around more so i can see how your ability works and so I can develop a way to prevent it from happening to me." Shinji explained. He tried to play out the words to that he would say it correctly without making the situation worse.

"I can't say that I'm not worried about these 'spikes'..." Shinji started but paused to think to himself. "How do I put this?" he said in his thoughts. "I should say that I am not as worried as I could be but I don't figure that they would give me that type of feeling just by standing 2 feet away from me. That is just nonsense." Shinji said finishing his previously started sentence.

Shinji looked into the sky and thought to himself for a moment before Hal could reply. "Time is starting to pass rather fast now that he and I are actually talking and not writing short notes." The sky was beginning to turn a hot orange as the sun was beginning its decent from the sky. "I think I may want to go to the roof tonight again. I need to do something thinking. Maybe even some experimenting..."