Author's Note:
Thank you so much for reading and leaving reviews. Next chapter will be up once this gets to 8 reviews. It will be much better also, this was kind of just a filler chapter. But time for some new recruits for the Tomorrow People - Stephen and Kurt.
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Chapter Four – New Recruits
Cassie stood there with her arms crossed listening to Stephen call us crazy. The normal reaction when others find out who they really are. John played his normal game and used his telekinesis to lift Stephen in the air. Stephen still wasn't buying any of it though.
Stephen turned the attention towards Cassie, "Since when did you go to her school?" Stephen directed towards in her direction and she couldn't help but roll her eyes.
She walked over getting closer to them, "I've been going to school with you since freshman year, jack ass. I'm in honors classes, though, and well, you're not." She batted her eyelashes towards him and her lips formed into a side smirk.
He chuckled before giving her a dirty look, "That's cute."
She shrugged and smiled at him widely, "I'm actually surprised you don't remember me. I'll help jog your memory, last year at our school's dance. You had an episode and accidently," I made quotation marks with her fingers, "Spilt punch all over my new and expensive dress."
He shook his head and pursed his lips together, "I don't remember doing that. See," He looked over at Cara, "You have the wrong guy." John grabbed his arm and they all walked out of the room but Cassie stayed behind.
A few minutes later, John came back into the room alone, "Where did Cara and Stephen go?" Cassie tilted her head to the right and he sat down next to her on the couch.
"Cara took him home," He said uncomfortably and she sighed. "He doesn't want to believe he's like us. He actually reminds me like someone, a lot."
Cassie raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"
He snuck a glance towards her without her noticing, "He's neglecting to believe. We even showed him the message from his father. It's normal for new recruits to be eerie at first, but they accept it after a while. There has only been one other newbie that has been this against it, accepting who they are."
She sighed and glanced over at him then away quickly and stared in front of her, "And who would that be?"
"I get why you didn't want to believe it. Cara left you and your family at a young age. You were a little girl, but she did it to protect you. That first day, when I brought you back here. The look on your face. It was like you were staring at a ghost," He explained watching her caringly.
Cassie shrugged her shoulders, "She was supposed to be gone. She was supposed to be deaf and mute. After not seeing her for five years, the first thing she says to me was, 'He's telling you the truth Cass'. You know she still hasn't even told me why she left. We've been living here together for more than a year now and she's yet to explain herself. Not even a sorry or an, I missed you," Cass hissed angrily. "It's like she never cared about me at all."
He shook his head to the side and placed his hand on her knee, "Cass, you know she cares about you. She doesn't have a great way of showing it, but she does. She's been through a lot, you two have been through a lot of the same things, more than you think."
"I don't care," Cassie laughed manically and her upper lip twitched. "I've been fine by myself for the past five years. I'm perfectly capable of doing it again, I don't need her help." She shook her head and stood up, walking out of the room leaving John sitting on the couch alone.
She was sitting in John's office by herself, she had her feet propped up on his desk and was leaning back against his chair. John walked into the room followed by Cara and Russell, Cass put her feet down onto the ground and placed her chin in her hand. "What's happening?" She asked curiously.
"We think we found a new break out," John explained and Cassie nodded. "There's been a series of bank robberies recently, TIM bring up the files."
A screen popped up and it showed a robbery, there was a kid there. "Do you know who it is yet?" Cass asked standing up from behind the desk and John shook his head. "Wait, that one," She pointed at the screen towards the kid, "Him right there. The one with the long black hair," She watched the screen carefully.
"TIM, find a match," Cara announced to the computer and it started to search for a name to match the face. "TIM, is it just me or are you getting slower?"
TIM answered back, "I'm sorry but facial recognition is a slow process and as you know I am due for a system update."
John shook his head letting his lips curved into a smile, "Sorry, I can't take you back to where I stole you from for maintenance. Ultra wouldn't like that very much."
"I have it, a 99.99% likelihood. Kurt Rundle, went missing two weeks ago. Mother just filed a missing person's report," TIM replied.
Russell shook his head, "He's out of control."
"So what's the plan? Until his break out's complete, I can't pick up on his voice telepathically," Cara informed John and he stroked his chin with his hand then crossed his arms. "Wait for him to rob another bank," John answered back simply.
Cassie slammed her hands down onto the desk gathering everyone's attention, "You can't be serious."
Russell chuckled under his breath and John ignored her, "Hope Ultra doesn't find him first."
"Good plan," Russell retorted sarcastically and Cassie shook her head. Russell stood up and walked out of the room leaving the three of them in there alone.
"Are you okay?" Cara asked John and Cassie sat back down and leaned back into her chair.
John looked over at her before glancing away quickly, "I'm fine." Cassie rolled her eyes and looked down at her nails and started to pick off the dark blue polish from her manicured nails.
Cara ignored his answer, "No you're not. You're tired and stressed. You feel responsible for everyone, not just down here but up there."
John shook his head, "Hey, get out of my head. Dark place, don't wanna be in there."
Cassie stood up and cleared her throat, "Well I guess that is my cue to leave, goodbye!" She chimed obnoxiously before walking out of the room and gagged once she closed the door completely.
She walked into her room and decided to take a long, hot shower. She got undressed and wrapped her towel around her body and walked out of her room. She walked down the hallway and into the bathroom. When she opened the door, she noticed John was standing by the sink washing his face. She jumped backwards and hit her back against the door and he shot his head over to her.
"You scared me," She held the towel tighter around her body. "I didn't know anyone was in here. I was going to take a shower," I pointed with her thumb at the shower in the corner of the room.
He smiled weakly and dried off his face, "Don't let me stop you from keeping up with your personal hygiene." He made his way over to her and Cassie moved out of the way of the door and he walked out. Once he was gone, she leaned back against the door. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, God, he's so attractive. She thought to herself selfishly.
She pulled the towel off from around her and hung it up on the hook. She walked into the shower and turned the hot water on. Once I was finished, she climbed out of the shower and wrapped the towel back around her and put her dark brown hair up into a bun on the top of her head. She walked out of the bathroom and down the hallway and into her room. She changed into a pair of black soffee shorts and a T-shirt, brushed her hair and put some lotion on her legs.
Cassie heard a rapid knock on her door and she opened it up to find John standing on the other side wearing his coat. "Seems like we found our guy, he's stepped up from robbing banks to army trucks. Let's go, two minutes," He yelled as he walked away. She nodded and turned around and changed into a pair of jeans and pulled on her leather jacket. She pulled her combat boots on and walked out of her door following John and Russell.
They walked down the alleyway and saw the army truck crashed against the wall, "Looks like we were too late again." John exclaimed as they got closer to the scene.
Cassie saw someone jump out of the back and the boy turned to look at us, "That's him." John announced and they all picked up their speed after him. Kurt started to run down the alleyway but John yelled, "Kurt Rundle." He stopped running and turned around to face them, "We're not going to hurt you."
Kurt stared at them for a few seconds before smirking and moving the dumpster to block their path with his telekinesis. Cassie threw her head back, "Are you kidding me right now?"
She went to take a step forward to follow him when she heard police sirens and lights from behind them. They turned around and cop cars were blocking them in, "Let's go," John shouted and they all teleported out of there and back to the hideout.
They stood around in a circle, "Stephen called it. At some point, we're going to need to stop playing defense and fight back. We've been hiding out down here for two years," Russell complained.
"Which is two years longer than any of us would have survived up top," John retorted and Cassie sighed understanding that he was right.
"We're all for survival, but if we're not going to stand up for our own than what's the point of surviving?" Cara intervened and Cassie stepped forward agreeing with her sister for once, "I think we should save this kid."
She was playing a game of pool with Russell when she heard them come back. She looked over to find Cara and John. They weren't alone and she noticed that someone was standing behind them, Kurt. Cassie handed her stick to another person standing by the pool table and ran over to them, Kurt was looking around confused. John walked away leaving Cara standing there with him.
"Looks like we won this argument against John," Cassie cheered walking over to her sister and she chuckled. She knew that John heard her and she turned around to look over at him, he just shook his head at her. "Put that in writing somewhere because it doesn't happen very often."
Cara shook her head smiling, "I'm going to go freshen up, since I just had to punch him a few times so he would listen to me."
She walked away and Cassie stared at Kurt, she stuck out her hand towards him. "Hey, I'm Cassie," She smiled widely at him but he hesitated, "It's okay. I won't bite."
John joined her side and placed his folded elbow on her shoulder, "What she means is: She won't bite…too hard." Cassie snickered and elbowed John in the ribs and he jogged away from the two of them.
Kurt grinned revealing a dimple in the side of his cheek. "I'm Kurt," He shook her hand a little longer than necessary.
"It's good to have you here, it was getting kind of boring around here." Cassie laughed and he returned one, "Do you wanna play a round of pool with me?" She offered and he nodded. They made their way over towards the pool table and everyone greeted him and welcomed him into their home.