Chicago, IL

Ronnie heard Symone in his head. His demolition training kicked in, "Symone, hang on this is going to be Ground Zero all over again" Ronnie thought in his head.

Ronnie started tensing up as he started glowing red more rapidly than other times. Ronnie knew if two explosions detonate at the same time in close proximity, the energy blast from each explosion riccochets off each other, meaning Ronnie would be shielded front most of the energy....as would Symone/Nina, the downside was that that energy would go somewhere....meaning the condo building was about to become a crater in the ground.

"Symone....you gotta tell me when it's going to snap...if I let go too early....well...you know" he said in his mind. "Just help me not incinerate you...and...you"

"Love, I seriously don't know what the fuck your doing..." Symone said simply.
Nina clutched her head, her nose bleeding from the massive amount of mental power she was letting off.
"Just let me see if I can calm her down." Symone said.

" Nina. You're frustrated. Because you believe you've lost all control. You're wrong. I am that control you seek, you just have to learn to accept it."

"I'm not you."

"No. I am you. I am all that you want. I am your anger, frustration, yearnings. Everything you hide away. You created me to protect your
pysche. Because of your abilities. I was able to take shape but understand everything you are, I am the other half"

"I can't stop it."

"Yes, You can. Let me help."

Nina dropped her eyes.

"Ronnie, Power down. I can get her to stop. How about some words of encouragememt?"

"Listen Nina, I know the feeling, all of a sudden you can do all sorts of stuff that shouldn't be possible. You're mind is stronger than your ability, if it wasn't you wouldn't be able to control it, just breathe and focus" Ronnie said thinking in his head.

Ronnie slowly released the energy as he felt the tension in the atmosphere start to dissipate. He stood in the living room, unsure of what was going on in the bedroom down the hall, but he could feel the energy Nina was letting off...any burst she'd give off in a meltdown would be wide enough that even with a big head start Ronnie wouldn't have been able to out-run the blast radius. His fist still closed...it wasn't ideal, but if she did snap, the only way he was walking out of it would be by riccocheting the blast with his own.

He was glad to feel the tension slowly lower, "Good work girls" he said in his head, waking up in a crater once was more than enough for him.

Nina slowly began to calm as the rumbling ceased and gravity seemed to slowly return to normal.

"There, you're in control now." Symone said. Her snark and sarcasm gone.

Nina looked up teary eyed.
"You know, You are allowed to-"

"Don't." Nina said sharply. "You would have...We would have...I don't even know him."

"Let me clarify something for the last fucking time. I. Am. You. I'm not anyone else. So If you don't like something. Neither do I. So If I want something. Or in this case, someone. Then that means, without a doubt you want it or them too. The bolder I am the more you want them. I can not make you do or want anything." She said and Nina went to the bathroom. She cleared her face from the blood and sighed. God Her head hurt.
"Why can't you just go away."

"For a genius you really are stupid..."

"..."

"You need to accept the fact that I am you. More importantly. you need to accept you, This is a part if who you are."

Nina sat against the wall.

"It's safe, She won't listen to me. You talk to her. She doesn't get that, I am her and that I'll only 'go away' when she fully embraces me. She wants to get rid of her power. Not only that, she doesn't realized that I am her. She hide this part of her away for so long she can't even recognize that it is her."Symone told Ronnie.
"Perhaps she just needs someone other then her own pysche telling her these things."