Jodie Holmes met up with Cole Freeman in a park. She speed-walked over to him.
"Little Princess!" He was surprised to see her as they embraced. "My, what a beautiful young woman you've become! How've you been?"
Jodie nodded a bit and shrugged.
"And how's Aiden doing?"
Aiden made a noise. Cole simply nodded off at nothing, as he couldn't see Aiden. Jodie couldn't really see him either except in her dreams, but that was besides the point.
"Did you find out what I needed to know?" Jodie asked with a fake smile, her eyes opening up to show concern.
Cole sighed. "A woman, Norah Gray... She gave birth around the same time we found you. Her child was..."
Jodie stared up at the older man.
"... stillborn."
Jodie shook her head. "She's my mother... Where is she now?"
"... She's... She's in a hospital. They say that she burst into hysterics after giving birth... She's in a mental hospital, Jodie."
Jodie looked like she was about to cry as she looked away from Cole. "Why...? My mother's been locked up in a mental hospital for all this time... I have to see her."
"Wait, Jodie!" Cole grabbed Jodie's arm when she tried to walk away, and she looked back at him with her watery brown eyes. "Norah is in a high-security DPA facility. You're not just going to walk in there, not when the DPA might want to take you back."
Jodie shook her arm free of him, looking stubborn and determined as usual. "I'm going to see my mother. Nothing can stop me from seeing her." She was storming off, but stopped when Cole spoke again.
"You don't really think I'm going to let you go alone, do you?"
She smiled at the man, and together they headed toward the hospital Norah Gray was staying in.

Jodie Holmes stepped into the DPA facility with Cole Freeman following her closely. She hadn't wanted him to come with her, but he had insisted.
"Let me try to talk to him." Cole said when she took a step in the direction of the receptionist. "I already know what room Norah is in; I know about all of the patients here."
"That's useful." Jodie rolled her eyes and took a step back.
Cole walked up to the receptionist and tried to play it cool. "Hello, I'm Cole Freeman of the DPA. I'd like to take my cousin -" Cole lied calmly. "- here to visit Norah Gray?"
The receptionist glared at him.
Cole looked over at Jodie.
Jodie sighed. 'Do it, Aiden.'
Aiden tickled the receptionist, who giggled like a French schoolgirl.
'DAMMIT AIDEN, BE SERIOUS!'
Aiden possessed the receptionist and made him open the door. Jodie and Cole hurried inside, and Aiden made the receptionist shut the door before releasing him and floating back over to Jodie.
"We have to get past that guard now. It'll be no problem, though. We just have t-" Before Cole could finish, Aiden had already made the guard start dancing to Katy Perry and opened the door. "Or, you know, we could do that."
The duo, technically a trio, walked into the small hallway leading to the cafeteria. The door into the cafeteria itself, however, was locked.
"The fuck?" Jodie frowned impatiently.
"The rooms are in the corridor to our right. Aiden will have to clear it out if anyone's in there."
Aiden 'jumped' at the opportunity and he floated into the corridor.
He couldn't reach the man sleeping in a chair, so he 'frowned' and started fucking shit up in the cafeteria. The man leaped out of his skin (almost literally) and walked over. Once in reach, Aiden possessed him. He walked to the door, opened it, handed Jodie the keycard, and then knocked himself out on the wall, returning to Jodie.
Jodie smiled a tiny, cute smile. Her and Cole walked over to the corridor, opened the door, and stepped inside. The rooms all had white doors and looked pretty much the same inside; Jodie knew because of Aiden and his sudden obsession with looking into all of the rooms.
Aiden kept checking into all of the rooms, observing the patients inside as Jodie and Cole walked in search of Norah's room, when suddenly one of the patients screamed when he peaked in and backed away wildly. Aiden retreated to Jodie quickly, hitting her with a brief wave of vertigo and pain.
"God, what, Aiden?!"
Aiden made a noise that only Jodie could understand as something like 'That one over there.'
Jodie slowly walked over to one of the doors and peaked inside through the little viewport. She saw a man inside who looked horrified. Slowly, he approached the window, but didn't get too close.
"You said you know all of the patients here?" Jodie asked Cole.
"Yeah?" Cole responded.
"Who's this guy?"
"Why?"
"Aiden says that he reacted to his presence in the room..."
Cole thought for a moment. He looked at the room number. "That might be..." Cole pushed Jodie aside gently and looked into the room before taking a step back again. "Ah, yes. This is Norman Jayden. He's an ex-FBI profiler from Washington, D.C. who went mad during his latest case. He hasn't been here very long; just came in from a mental hospital in Philadelphia a month ago after the DPA found out that he wasn't lying when he said he could see and sense things that normal humans couldn't..."
Jodie perked up and looked at Cole. "Do... Do you think he can see Aiden?"
Cole shrugged. "Maybe...? I don't know, why don't you ask him?"
Jodie pulled out the keycard.
"I was kidding, Jodie, don't you dare open that door. He's completely lost it. He murdered two people and kidnapped a child before the DPA got a hold on him."
"He could be of use to me if he can see Aiden. Like, real use. It'd be so useful to be able to see Aiden all the time, Cole, you don't even know."
Before Cole could even open his mouth to argue further, Jodie had already practically ripped the door open and stepped inside. Jayden backed away from her, pressing himself against the wall.
"Can you see something with me?" She asked.
Aiden moved away from Jodie and approached Jayden, who swatted at him in fear.
"Holy Christ, what the fuck is that thin'?!" Jayden shouted.
"That's Aiden. He's my entity. You can see him?"
"Ohh, I can see him, alright! Get him away!"
"Aiden, back off." Jodie commanded calmly. Aiden slowly moved behind Jodie.
Jayden looked up at her. She could see the madness in his eyes, but she could also see the loneliness.
"..." She looked back at Cole. "Cole?"
"What, Jodie."
"Can we keep him?" She asked with a sheepish smile, sounding as if she were asking to keep a stray kitten.
"My God, Jodie! We came here to visit your mother, not help an insane murderer escape!"
"Why not do both?" She looked back at Jayden. "Do... Do they keep any other clothes around? Anything you could wear to disguise yourself?"
Jayden was silent for a moment. He looked at a door behind Jodie and to her right. "They put my suit in the'e. I could technically weah that, but the door's locked."
Aiden broke the door open.
Jayden stared, wide-eyed in fear.
"Put your suit on and come with me - I'm sure that'd be better than staying here and waiting for them to test you. But just be warned, Norman. If you try anything funny, I'll let Aiden kill you."
Jayden hesitantly nodded and walked over to the closet, grabbing his suit. Jodie looked away as he started to undress, and she stepped out of the room.
Cole looked disapproving. Jodie simply shrugged.
Soon, Jayden stepped out of the room as well, wearing his typical grey suit. He glanced at Cole. "Hello, Mr. Freeman." He said.
Cole looked only a little taken aback. "So you know my name."
"I know everyone's names." He looked at Jodie. "Yer Ms. Holmes."
Jodie cleared her throat. "Please... Just... Just call me Jodie."
Jayden nodded. "Yer motha' is Norah Gray, and yer fatha' is Jonathan Nichols."
Jodie looked pleased yet surprised. "What else can you tell me about myself?"
"Yer a CIA Op'rahtive."
"Can we just go visit Norah now?" Cole asked impatiently, looking a little pressed for time.
"Fine, fine..." Jodie gestured for Jayden to follow as she continued down the corridor.
"I can't just sit here and do nothing while you let a criminal walk free!" Cole shouted.
"Oh, just you watch!" Jodie shouted back.
Soon, the three (not counting Aiden, who was too busy staring at some plants) found Norah's room.
"This is her room?"
"Should be." Cole responded.
"It's definitely ha' room." Jayden said. "She's inside."
Jodie reached to open the door, but Cole shot a arm out to stop her.
"Jodie..." He said as if he were speaking to a child, which angered her. "She's pretty far gone... She might not even recognize you... Maybe you shouldn't..."
Jodie shrugged him off and stepped into the room. As punishment, she left Jayden out there with him.
Jodie's breath nearly caught in her throat when she saw her mother. She sat there, eyes widen open, staring into space.
Jodie walked over and knelt before her mother, gently clasping her hands. "Mom...? Mom, it's me, Jodie... I'm your daughter..." She said.
Her mother did not respond.
"I'm your daughter..." Jodie started to cry against her mother's cold hand.
Aiden made a noise briefly, but Jodie ignored it and kept crying until she felt a gentle hand on her shoulder. She snapped around to look and saw Jayden backing away.
"I-I'm sorry. I know this is pahsonal fer ya... but I heard ya cryin' and I..."
Jodie shook her head. "It's okay... Thanks for trying to comfort me, I guess..." She sniffled.
Jayden smiled just a little. It was a shy, warm smile, and it made Jodie wonder whether he was really crazy or not.
Aiden made a noise again as Jodie stood.
She rubbed her tears away. "What...? What are you trying to show me, Aiden...?"
"He wants ya to hold ha' hands again, I think..." Jayden clarified as he stared at Aiden, watching him make bizarre gestures. He was really scared of the dark, ghostly silhouette, but he hid it fairly well.
Jodie slowly knelt in front of her mother and held her hands. Jayden watched Jodie tense up and her eyes rolled up into her head. He stood there quietly, Aiden making a gesture as if trying to tell him to stay back.
Jodie opened her eyes and in front of her was her mother. "... M-mom...?"
"My little girl..."
Jodie rushed to hug her mother, but was startled when she fell through her. "What did they do to you...?!"
"The drug they gave me... They put me into a permanent coma."
"I... I have to get you out of here! I'll save you!" Jodie was determined until her mother told her it was futile.
"Live your own life, my sweet daughter... It's too late for me..." With that, darkness overtook her.
"MOM!" Jodie cried out. Next thing she knew, she was back in the room with Jayden and Aiden. Crying, she stood and took her mother's necklace, putting it around her own neck. She walked past Jayden, who calmly turned to watch her, and opened the door a little.
Aiden made a noise. Jodie, still sobbing a little, walked back to her mother and closed her eyes.
Jayden watched as Aiden reached into Norah's chest, and he too shut his eyes, feeling sympathy for the poor girl and her mother before him. Sympathy... It was an emotion he hadn't felt in a long time, and it made him feel a little good just to feel it.
"... Do it, Aiden..." Jodie said in a broken voice.
Aiden started to press down on Norah's heart, forcing it to stop. Jodie started to cry more as her mother smiled in death.
Jayden sighed and gulped before he slowly reached his hand out. He pulled it back, however, not wanting to seem intrusive, but Jodie turned and clung to him regardless, making him freeze up.
Jodie cried into the ex-agent's chest, not caring that she didn't know him enough to say whether or not he'd take advantage of her now that she'd shown she was weak and in need of comfort for the time being.
Aiden seemed just a tad jealous.
Jayden twitched a little, making Jodie look up at him. He was staring down at her with this new look in his pale green eyes, and he sorta moved his jaw from side to side idly. It seemed to be a look of scorn, and she worried that she'd somehow offended him.
Aiden then charged himself up, and with a blast sent Jayden flying against the wall behind him.
"AIDEN, WHAT THE FUCK?!" Jodie screamed, trying to look at him.
Cole opened the door quickly. "What the hell happened?"
Aiden tried to tell Jodie that he'd noticed a change in Jayden's personality and that he knew that she would have been hurt, but she wasn't listening, and now Jayden seemed to have snapped out of it.
"Shit, Norman, I'm sorry, please forgive me on Aiden's behalf. Are you okay?" Jodie asked quickly.
Jayden shook his head and held up a hand as a gesture of 'Forget it'. "I think he just saved ya the'e... Ya should be thankin' him..."
Jodie raised a brow. "Saved me? What do you mean?"
Jayden did another gesture, this time of 'What do you think?'.
Jodie was still noticeably confused.
"Maybe I'll explain latah. We'd bettah be goin' though, befo'e that noise attracts some unneeded attention..."
Cole looked at Jodie. "I hate to say it, but he has a point."
Jodie looked back at her mother one last time, before she solemnly turned her head away. "Fine. Let's get out of here."

Later in Philadelphia, Scott Shelby had just been surprised with a visit from Norman Jayden and some girl named Jodie Holmes. He immediately called Ethan Mars.
"Hello?" Ethan answered.
"Ethan... It's me, Scott Shelby You're not going to believe who just visited me..."
"Goddammit, Scott, stop calling me out of the blue like this."
"Ethan! Jayden just fucking came knocking on my door! I think I have a damn good reason to call you!"
Ethan seemed stunned. "... No, Scott. You're crazy. Norman is in a mental hospital."
"Apparently not! Some Jodie girl broke him out. Both of them just left on a motorcycle no more than a minute ago. The girl was fucking nuts, Ethan. What if she drives Jayden further to madness than he already is?!"
"God fucking dammit..." Ethan cursed. "I'm done, Scott! I'm done with Jayden. I have to take care of my family right now."
"So you're just going to let Jayden kill that poor girl and some others when she inevitably pushes one of his many intricate buttons?!"
"He looks like your brother, Scott! If you care about him so much, why don't you do something about it?! Because I'm through with him!"
"Maybe I will do something!" Scott slammed the phone down and took a puff from his inhaler before breathing deeply. He cursed, slammed his fist on the desk he sat at, and pulled out his gun. He made sure it was loaded, then he grabbed his coat and hurried out the door, going straight to his car.
'I promised I'd help you, Jayden. It's time to finish this.'