Editing Locker Incident (section)

==The Incident==
On the morning of the first day back from winter break, Taylor arrived at her locker. At the sight of the locker's contents, she began to throw up before being roughly grabbed by the hair and shoved into the locker by Sophia Hess, with the door being shut and locked shortly after.<ref>[Sophia] was Emma’s best friend.  The person who had shoved me into the locker, back on the day I’d gotten my powers.  On countless occasions, she had pushed and tripped me, often several times a day.  She’d knocked me down the stairs, when I was near the bottom of the flight, even got others to do similar things.  Given that she’d been suspended after my last meeting with her, I somehow didn’t think she’d walk away without confrontation if she saw me. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/buzz-7-5/ Excerpt] from [[Buzz 7.5]]</ref> Taylor was trapped in her own locker, locked inside the cramped space surrounded by tampons and her own vomit.<ref name=":1" /> As the other students had been cowed by intimidation or manipulation in part by Emma Barnes and the trio, no one rendered any assistance.<ref name=":2">I believe it comes up again towards the end of the arc. Emma pressured others to avoid the situation, not interfere or help or befriend Taylor. What Taylor took to be apathy on the part of the larger student body was actually more orchestrated behind the scenes. - [https://redd.it/4zr928 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref><ref name=":3">“Enough!” I shouted, suprised at my own temper.  The group of teenagers who were having drinks by the bathroom turned to look at us.<br><br>Seeing my burst of anger, the girl did a complete one-eighty, from awe and surprise to desperate apologies.  That didn’t necessarily improve things.  “Oh god, I’m sorry.  You know, I didn’t think about how it would bother you, saying that.  I really did want to help, you know, to do something back then, but-”<br><br>“But you didn’t,” I growled at her.  “Just like everyone else, you left me in that locker.  You didn’t go get help.  You didn’t report the people who did it, not even anonymously.  You ''felt bad''?  You ''wanted'' to help?  Is that supposed to mean something to me?  Is it supposed to be some consolation? You were too lazy or cowardly to step up and do anything about it, but hey, at least your heart was in the right fucking place, huh?”<br><br>“No, that’s not…” there were tears in her eyes, and she was having trouble stringing words together.  I should have felt bad, for going off on someone who was probably in a pretty delicate emotional state, but I wasn’t feeling particularly gentle.<br><br>“You obviously heard the story about me being hospitalized, you probably helped ''spread'' it.”<br><br>“You don’t understand,” she said.  She startled as Brooks passed Minor and Senegal and approached us with a brisk stride.  It threw her off her stride, and she stumbled over her words as she tried to pull her excuse together.  “Um.  It, um.  It was Emma Barnes, she-”<br><br>Brooks had reached Lisa’s side and informed her, “Found him.”<br><br>“Emma Barnes what?” I asked the girl, trying to bring her focus back to the conversation we’d been having.<br><br>She looked from Brooks to me, and I could see how lost she was.<br><br>“Nevermind,” I cut her off before she started stumbling over her words again. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/infestation-11-5/ Excerpt] from [[Infestation 11.5]]</ref>

Taylor, unable to move within the locker, began to panic. Over the course of about an hour of entrapment, she realized that no one was coming to help her, and within the mixed feelings of disgust and despair, she triggered.<ref name=":4">“I panicked, freaked out.  My mind went someplace else, and it found the bugs there.  Not that I knew what they were, at that point.  I didn’t have a sense of proportion, and with all the info my power was giving me then, my brain didn’t know how to process it all.  As far as I knew, all around me, in the walls of the school, in the corners, and crawling around the filthy interior of the locker, there were thousands of these twitchy, alien, distorted things that were each shoving every tiny detail about their bodies and their fucked up biology into my head.<br><br>I sighed, “It’s hard to explain what it’s like, having a new sense open up, but you can’t understand it all.  Every sound that they heard was bounced back to me at a hundred times the volume, with the pitch and everything else all screwed up as if they wanted to make it as unpleasant and painful to listen to as possible.  Even what they were seeing, it’s like having my eyes open after being in the dark for a long time, but the eyes weren’t attached to my body, and what they were seeing was like looking into a really dingy, grimy kaleidoscope.  Thousands of them.  And I didn’t know how to turn any of it off.”<br><br>“Damn,” Lisa said.<br><br>“When someone finally let me out, I came out fighting.  Biting, scratching, kicking.  Screaming incoherently.  Probably putting on a good show for all the kids that had come out of their classrooms to watch.  The teachers tried to deal with the situation, paramedics eventually came and I don’t remember much after that. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/shell-4-3/ Excerpt] from [[Shell 4.3]]</ref><ref>Taylor's classes are an hour and a half long, or an hour and fifteen minutes long, IIRC, with a bit of extra time for homeroom announcements and whatnot. She arrives at the start of the day and goes to her locker, she gets shoved into her locker and she has time to get a glimpse of people looking - and enough time passes that she realizes that those same people who saw didn't take any action on her behalf. She's not really in a position to bang, facing in, too cramped to turn around.<br><br>Not so much time passes that the next class starts - or it's as the class opens that people realize what happened and that's when she's let out. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/9ap0iv/ Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> With the sudden development of her power came a sensory overload from the surrounding bugs in the area, with the overwhelming amount of information causing her already fragile mind to fracture, leading to another [[Trigger Event#Double Trigger|consecutive trigger]].<ref>"But I'm afraid that power you're digging for is out of your reach, Weaver."<br><br>I looked at him.<br><br>"Or it's already in your reach. You can't have a second trigger because you already had one," he said.<br><br>I blinked.<br><br>"Given the signature, it's very possible you had two trigger events in quick succession. Not uncommon. The horror of manifesting your power, it prompted another trigger."<br><br>"No," I said. "There's got to be ''something''."<br><br>"If there is, a second trigger event isn't it," the Number Man said. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/03 Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.7]]</ref> After the end of the first class, Taylor was noticed and let out. She came out scratching, kicking, and screaming incoherently, and had to be taken away by a group of paramedics and cops.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5">“Yes. You’re the locker girl. I almost didn’t recognize you without the glasses, but everyone at school knows who you are. You’re with the Merchants now?”<br><br>“You’re thinking of the wrong person,” I said, with a note of irritation in my voice.<br><br>“No, I’m almost positive. You were that girl that got shoved in that rank locker with all that stuff they carted away in biohazard bags. The girl who went so mental they had to have a group of cops and paramedics haul you away for the first month of the semester.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/06/02/infestation-11-5/ Excerpt] from [[Infestation 11.5]]</ref>

After being removed from the locker, Taylor was taken to the hospital and interned in the psychiatric ward due to her violent behavior. She was sedated in order to calm down, and was kept under observation in the psychiatric ward for a week.<ref name=":8">It had been hard, too, to go back in January.  I’d spent a week in the hospital under psychiatric observation, and I’d known that everyone else had heard the story. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/agitation-3-1/ Excerpt] from [[Agitation 3.1]]</ref><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />