Ethics
Chapter 1

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"Being able to read someone's mind, feel what they're feeling? Emotionally. Physically. It leads to a deeper – I don't know how else to put it … intimacy."

Damn it, why had she had to say that? She wasn't dumb; while Stephen was a perfect gentleman around her, she knew he had certain desires that came with being a young straight male. And then to put the cherry on top, she had to add mental mutual experience to being able to experince her body, which, if she flattered herself, was quite attractive.

If Cara were honest with herself, she knew. She knew deep down. He was her "conquest". Stephen and his damned talk of conquests! Planting that seed and watching it grow. And he had just said it, in that earnest, almost innocent way he had about everything he did or said.

It was because Stephen excited her, somehow. Drew her in with his words and his unrelenting push for the Tomorrow People to get out of their shells, to get out and do things – be a part of the world that had already rejected people like her and John.

Cara shook her head. The irony – the damned irony of it all was Stephen could only be like that because he was a double agent and had to not act like the rest of them.

And, she forced herself to admit, a little tiny part of her felt betrayed by John. It had become almost an article of faith over the years she'd been a Tomorrow Person: none of them could kill. But in one stroke, John had wiped away that thin line that made the Tomorrow People ethically superior to ordinary humans.

As she got out of the shower, she wiped the fog off the mirror and looked at herself. She thought back to the events of the night before – being inside Stephen's mind as he was inside her, the heights of ecstasy conbining, multiplying to their height, then free-falling to the final shattering, crashing conclusion.

She shook her head, slamming the mental door on those thoughts. She'd made a mistake. That was all. She'd made a mistake and that was the end of things. Stephen would just have to deal.

Fleetingly, as she glanced away from the mirror, she wondered if any one of them could really lay claim to being that ethically superior in the end.

Even Tomorrow People weren't immune to cheating on each other.


Author Notes: Just a little vignette. The Tomorrow People 2013 reboot is promising to be very interesting. :)