The assault on Latnock felt like a lifetime ago. After they escaped from the facility Jessie wiped Nate's memoires of all events clean thus no longer making him a threat. Foss retired to his home to make sure that Latnock didn't have any more tricks up their sleeve. He advised the Tragers and Amanda to stay indoors for the rest of the night and to keep their houses locked up tight. They all agreed that they didn't need to be told that twice and returned home. Now the seven individuals were all sitting in the Trager household living room trying to think of what they were going to do where Declan's father was concerned. Eventually he was going to come asking about him and they very well couldn't inform him that he was dead.
"I'm going to have to alter his father's memories." Jessie said not making eye contact with anyone. "You know that's the only way."
"I hate to say it, but Jessie's right," Lori said; the sadness could be heard within her voice. She still couldn't believe he was dead. That image…that horrible image kept replaying in her head over and over again. She wiped a few stray tears off of her face as she tried unsuccessfully to deal with the situation.
"What about Kyle?" Amanda asked watching him stare out the window at the stars. He seemed to do that a lot. "What are we going to do about the whole… memory erasing thing?" Amanda was still very much confused. In the span of a few short hours she had discovered her ex-boyfriend that she wanted back was actually some sort of genetically altered super clone created in a lab at what appeared to be an average organization. She also learned that she had been kidnapped and had her brain violated by some sort of chip to make her forget what events had transpired during the kidnapping. Her life had basically been turned completely upside down and it'd probably never be the same ever again. The only thing that she still knew that was the same was how she felt about Kyle. Despite everything that had transpired she couldn't deny that she still had feelings for him, but the question that still remained was how did he feel about here? He seemed like he might want her back the day she kissed him before the Latnock business, but until he recovered his memories she could only wonder.
"His memories are still in there somewhere. We just have to figure out a way to bring them back," Jessie explained.
"Right now we can only try to help him get readjusted…again," Josh added with a sigh remembering how Kyle raided the fridge when he didn't have any memories the first time.
"Amanda, I think it is best you go home now. We'll let you know if we get through to Kyle in any way." Nicole told her.
"Ok Mrs. Trager," Amanda nodded in agreement. "What am I going to say to my mother?" Amanda wondered as she exited the Trager household. Kyle walked back into the living room to join Jessie and the Tragers.
"So, I live here with you?" he asked them all.
"Yes Kyle. We are your family and we all love you very much," Nicole said to him hoping that he would somehow just remember everything on his own.
"I wish I could remember but everything is such a blur to me. It's like whenever I try to remember anything there's just this thick mist surrounding all of my memories."
"Kyle please," Jessie pleaded placing her hand on his arm. "You have to remember."
His eyes widened and his mind momentarily spiked.
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"What are you looking for?"
"Nicole."
"Why?"
Jessie answered his question by throwing her arms around his neck and kissing him like it was the last thing she would ever get a chance to do on this earth. Kyle found himself kissing her back with just as much passion. The electricity between them was so great that it caused the lights in the chandelier to overload and short out.
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Kyle pulled away from the hand on his arm and grasped his head; it felt like it was on fire.
"Kyle! Are you ok!?" Jessie asked with deep concern in her voice. She walked over to him, but he held up a hand to stop her. Jessie froze in her tracks shocked that he didn't want her to come any closer. He was still gripping his head when his cell phone went off. He pulled it out of his pocket and saw that he had a message from that Tom Foss guy.
"Kyle, who was it?" Josh asked curiously.
"It's Foss. Says he wants me to meet him at a specific address and that directions will follow."
"Kyle wait a minute are you sure about this?" Lori questioned stepping in front of him. "You don't remember a thing. You shouldn't be going out there alone."
"I'm sure I'll be ok… Lori is it?" He said then exited the house.
After a few seconds silence Josh spoke up. "Someone's going to have to monitor amnesia boy at night so he doesn't waltz out of the house again like he did the last time."
"I'll do it," Jessie volunteered still in shock from what had transpired before. "He seems to trust me the most as of now."
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"I was wondering if you were going to actually show up or not Kyle. Especially given your most recent loss of memories," Foss said as Kyle entered their old training warehouse.
"Why are we here?" Kyle asked.
"You know that you have great power Kyle. I've been helping you to get better control over it. Due to recent events we're going to have to start from scratch to see what you remember the most."
"How do I know I can trust you?" Kyle asked.
"You're the human lie detector as the Tragers call you. You tell me." Kyle looked at Foss for a few seconds trying to discern whether or not Foss was telling him the truth. He appeared to check out. "Alright, I believe you. So what are we going to deal with first?"
"This," Foss answered and flipped a switch that covered the room in total darkness.
"What are you doing? I can't see anything." Kyle called out into the dark.
"That the idea Kyle," Foss answered him from somewhere in the warehouse. Focus your hearing and try to seek out my heart beat," and then Foss went silent. Kyle shut his eyes and tried to concentrate. He couldn't remember ever trying this power before and his telekinesis just came to him when he was in danger. Would his powers work now that he was no longer in the presence of a threat? Only one way to find out; so Kyle focused on blocking out any and everything around. Focusing on the sound of Foss' heart beat. He took long slow breaths to keep himself calm and focused and then he heard it; Foss' heart. Kyle began to follow the sound of the beat behind one of the structures spotting Foss hiding behind it.
"Not bad Kyle. This refresher course might not take as long as I thought," Foss said when Kyle put up a hand to silence him.
"Something wrong?" Foss asked putting up his guard.
"Shh. I can hear another heart beat. It's coming from…up there!" He quickly revealed pointing to the top of one of the structures. A mysterious figure jumped across the gap just narrowly catching the edge and began to pull himself (or herself. They really couldn't tell) up. Foss pulled out a gun and fired at the figure but missed. They followed the figure who managed to reach the edge of the structure and launched off it landing on top of Kyle and Foss knocking them both down. Wasting no time the figure sprinted towards the exit and ran out into the night.
"Foss. Are you alright?" Kyle asked helping him up.
"Where is that guy?" Foss asked wincing slightly from the pain he from where that person had landed on him.
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Cassidy's cell phone vibrated on his desk; he opened it and read the text message for him.
Found test tube boy. Undergoing training with Foss again. They spotted me and I made a run for it. What are my further orders?
-Z
Report back for now. Will deal with XY when the time comes.
-C
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Jessie sat by Kyle's bathtub as he slept. He returned to the house two hours and didn't say anything about what he and Foss had done. All he said was that he felt tired and needed some sleep. Shortly after he was out like a light Jessie took her shift of guard duty. Nicole and Stephen volunteered to share guard duty with her, but Jessie declined on the grounds that they needed their sleep while she could essentially go for days without sleep. Kyle looked so peaceful as he slept. Jessie slowly reached forward and ran a hand across his forehead.
"You have to remember, Kyle," she whispered stroking his cheek. "You just have to. Come back to me. Please." And without thinking or caring for that matter Jessie bent down her head and softly pressed her lips against Kyle's. She only intended for the kiss to last a second, but before she could pull away she felt Kyle start to respond. Jessie started to deepen her kiss opening her mouth wide enough so that Kyle's tongue could enter it. He lifted a hand and ran it through her jet black hair while she began to stroke his cheek. Not wanting to chance Stephen or Nicole walking in on them Jessie broke away from Kyle and walked out of his room as he stirred awake. He rubbed his eyes for a moment and then looked around the room. When he didn't see anyone around him he laid back down in his tub and drifted back to sleep. Jessie stood just outside his door and knelt against it; still reacting from the feeling of his lips on hers.
Next Time
Hillary: Hey Lori. Did you hear that Declan dropped out?
Lori: Yeah. Weird isn't it?
Hillary: Totally. I smell a story.
Nicole: Stephen. Are you sure we should let Kyle back into school this early?
Josh: Come on guys. What's the worst that could happen?
Kyle grabs his head as his powers send his senses into overdrive.
