Editing Locker Incident (section)

== Aftermath==
During the first few days of her stay in the hospital, Taylor was near-catatonic. She was visited by the PRT, intending to do a crisis point check to see if she had triggered, but due to Taylor's insensate state nothing came out of it.<ref>Wildbow:<br>Generally the PRT will pay visits to likely triggerees - special cases, victims of extraordinary violence or disaster, etc. They paid a visit to Taylor in her hospital room, for example, though nothing came of that.<br><br>Discreet:<br>If she did get visited by a hero, I'd find it odd that she'd never mention it, especially when at one point or another she's fighting them later in the story or stuffing centipedes in their mouth<br><br>Wildbow: Taylor was near catatonic when she got a visit. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/44301909 Wildbow on Discord], archived on Spacebattles</ref> Eventually, Taylor became communicative enough to recount what happened to [[Danny Hebert]]. In her sedated state she said more than she normally would've, revealing to Danny that she was being bullied by a group of students, though she was still together enough to omit names.<ref name=":7">The second possibility wasn’t much better.  He knew Taylor was being bullied.  Danny had found that out in January, when his little girl had been pulled out of school and taken to the hospital.  Not the emergency room, but the psychiatric ward.  She wouldn’t say by whom, but under the influence of the drugs they had given her to calm down, she had admitted she was being victimized by bullies, using the plural to give him a clue that it was a they and not a he or a she. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/07/02/interlude-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 1.x]]</ref> Soon, Taylor recovered further, and eventually figured how to use her power and shut out some of the sensory information from her bugs.<ref name=":6">“I figured out what my power was at the hospital, while they observed me, which helped ground me, make me feel sane again.  Bugs are a lot easier to wrap your head around, when you realize they’re bugs.  After a week, maybe, I was able to shut some of it out.  My dad got some money from the school.  Enough to pay the bills for the hospital stay and a little extra.  He was talking about suing the bullies, but no witnesses were really talking and the lawyer said it wasn’t going to be successful without hard evidence to identify the responsible.  We didn’t have the money for it, if it wasn’t going to be a sure thing.  I never wound up telling my dad about the main group of bullies.  Maybe I should have, I dunno.”<br><br>[...]<br><br>I shrugged, “Basically.  I went back after being in the hospital, and things were as bad as they ever were.  My so called friend wasn’t making eye contact or speaking to me, and they didn’t even go easy on me after seeing my, uh, episode.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/shell-4-3/ Excerpt] from [[Shell 4.3]]</ref> After a week, she was discharged.<ref name=":8" />

As recompense for the incident, Winslow High paid for Taylor's hospital bills. While Danny considered suing, the lack of any witnesses willing to talk and the financial burden the case would entail led him to give up.<ref name=":6" /> After spending the first month of the semester away from school, Taylor returned to Winslow. The student that she had befriended before refused to acknowledge her, not making eye contact or speaking, and the trio continued to bully her as usual, not going easy on Taylor despite the aftermath of the locker.<ref name=":6" />

As an indirect result of the incident and subsequent freak-out, Taylor became notorious among the Winslow students, becoming known as the "locker girl". Later, this would be how [[Charlotte]] recognized Taylor during a [[Archer's Bridge Merchants|Merchants]] rally.<ref name=":5" />