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Chapter 7 In which Alexis gets a visitor
Cassie was sitting in her last period history class where they were investigating the history of Paganism. She couldn't quite hide her amusement, luckily everyone else was too busy laughing and joking about 'witchcraft'. Rolling her eyes at one particular comment from Aaron Abbott and his cronies Cassie felt her eyes drawn to the other side of the room where four boys were hiding their unease behind fixed smiles. As she scanned along the line of eyes she finally came to the last of the four boys, the youngest whose eyes were staring directly back into hers. Cassie tried to tear her eyes away, hoping he couldn't see the ironic amusement in her eyes but for some reason she was unable to. She sat there looking directly into Tyler's eyes as he looked right back at her and in that moment nothing else mattered, nothing else existed except those eyes and the person hiding behind them.
As Cassie continued to gaze into the deep blue eyes across the room she began to sense the thoughts behind those eyes, it was unlike anything she had ever felt before. Just below the surface flitting about like tiny silver fishes, instinct guided her as she mentally leapt forward, fixing onto one of those flitting little thoughts.
'Who is she? Why do I feel connected to her? Why won't she ever talk to me?' and then the next flash of thought 'This class really blows, Mr. Murphy has no idea about any of this, I wonder what he would do if we stood up and showed his some real power. Caleb would have a coronary'
The bell rang snapping her out of Tyler's mind Cassie snapped her books closed with a sense of relief. Classes were over for the day and hundreds of students were pouring from the doors of Spencer Academy all looking forward to the weekend. Cassie was right there with them, heading back to her dorm room almost at a run but as she traversed the hallways and paths her mind was filled with the images she had seen in the mind of the youngest son of Ipswich, was all that real? Had she imagined it? Was she developing another gift? It was all too much to take in at once. Cassie was very glad she was heading straight out to her brothers, just as soon as she finished packing her stuff anyway and with that thought she entered her dorm room, dumping her book bag onto the bed and proceeding to throw seemingly random items into the sports bag at the foot of her bed.
Within minutes she was packed and hefting the bag onto her shoulder Cassie made her way down to her car for the drive to Cambridge and her brother's apartment just off the main campus at Harvard.
What Cassie didn't realize was at almost exactly the same time someone else from her class was doing almost exactly the same thing. If she had Cassie may not have been quite so excited about escaping the restrictions life in Ipswich imposed on her. Thankfully Cassie was completely unaware and looking forward to a weekend of both partying with her brother and brainstorming over the most recent developments in the continuing Saga that was her life in Ipswich.
A little over an hour later Cassie pulled into the parking lot of her brothers complex, grabbing her bags she let herself into the building and made her way to his door, knocking once she used her key to let herself in calling out to her brother as she did so.
"Hey, Lex? It's me, anyone home?"
When she got no response Cassie dumped her bags before grabbing a soda from the fridge in the small kitchenette and heading down the corridor to the small room hidden behind the bookcase in the second bedroom. After flicking the hidden catch Cassie proceeded to enter the room, turning on the light switch as she did so. The room before her was instantly lit with a soft yellow light as the bookcase closed behind her, sealing her in.
Cassie allowed her eyes to scan the room taking in the walls of books, the cupboards of what appeared to be herbs and spices and in the centre of the room something that looked like a font from a church, filled with water. Moving slowly around the font Cassie made her way to the one item in the room that seemed completely out of place, the large overstuffed couch sat before one of the bookcases, hiding several shelves from sight. Cassie grabbed a large brown book from the shelf to her left before collapsing unceremoniously onto the couch soda in hand and book on lap as she began to read.
Two hours later the door to the secret room opened and Alexis walked in, a bag of chips in one hand and a couple of sodas the other. "Hey sis" he spoke reverently in hushed tones as if there was a weight in the room, and Cassie considered, perhaps there was this was, after all, their family legacy in the books all around them.
"Hey Lex, just doing some light reading" she smiles gesturing to the large book that all but filled her lap.
He nodded flopping onto the coach beside her, handing her one of the sodas before popping his own. "Yeah, I see that, so have you found anything interesting yet?"
"Well I started with Aunt Sandra's journal, then Grandma's. From what I've been through and her and Grandma's ideas I have something of a working theory as to how this all happened. The problem is it may just have some very large holes in it."
"What sort of holes?"
Sighing Cassie closed the book and turned fully to face her brother, "Ok, think of a number between one and, oh lets say a million"
Frowning Alexis opened his mouth to reply, "Wait, don't tell me, you got a number?"
He nodded and Cassie squinted in concentration, focusing solely on her brother and what was going on behind his intelligent grey eyes. The power came easier this time, she felt it rising up like a bubbling spring, rather than the slow tide it had been earlier in the day.
With a cry of triumph Cassie sat back "two thousand, one hundred and eighty three, no eighty sev.. three. Would you make up your mind!"
Lex worked his jaw in astonishment, fighting to find the words, "Holly cow, did you just pull that from my mind?"
Biting her lip Cassie nodded "Uh-hu, Freaky right?"
"Hell yes, when did this happen?"
"Earlier today, you going to eat those chips?" Wordlessly Lex handed over the family sized bag of Doritos. Cassie immediately began munching on the snack.
"Yeah, so can you tell what I'm thinking all the time?" Cassie could detect the worry in her brothers' face.
"Don't be silly, right now it takes quite a bit of concentration, but I'm guessing by how much easier that was compared to earlier that in time, with practice I might be able to"
At the look of shock on her brothers face Cassie had to laugh before continuing, "But I won't. I respect your privacy far too much. It would be completely unethical of me to use this new 'gift' for my own personal pleasure. Relax your thoughts are safe around me."
"That is a relief, so can you control it? What about the telekinesis?"
Cassie paused in her munching, leaning back on the arm of the couch and propping her feet on her brothers lap. "well this whole telepathy, or whatever 'I've not really classified it yet' seems to require direct thought to activate. The telekinesis, that's a bit more scary I have to be very careful and if I get a shock I'm not sure I can be held responsible for what will happen"
"Sounds fair, I'm guessing with time you should be able to get that under control too." Patting her legs in a comforting gesture her brother continued "So this theory of yours, how does it fit into the mission?"
Cassie finished the bag of chips and looked around her, "You got any more of those, I'm starving"
Alexis laughed, standing up, and then pulling her with him. "How about we go out to eat, catch up on normal brother sister stuff, my treat."
"Well why didn't you say so earlier, let me grab my purse" As Cassie dashed out of the room she heard a half cough- half laugh behind her, "Perhaps you should change out of the Spencer uniform too, cute as you may be it might draw a little too much attention. If you get my meaning"
Looking down at herself Cassie rolled her eyes, "well, duh! Of course I'll change first. It will be nice to go out as Cassie the girl rather than Cassie the mouse"
Alexis got down on his knees, hands clasped before him as he begged "Please, for me, dress like a normal person, don't go overboard. It's only dinner, not clubbing in New York!"
"Yeah, yeah, Chill out Lex, you worry too much" Cassie shot over her shoulder with a wave as she headed to the kitchen to grab her bags. On her way to the room she considered 'belonged to her' when she stayed with her brother Cassie grabbed an apple and a box or Oreo's from the kitchen.
"Whoa, don't spoil the dinner. Its not often your big brother takes you out"
"Yeah I know" Cassie shouted from her room as she sorted through the clothes she had brought with her, Coming out Cassie muttered to him under her breath "Its just you know what the power does when you use it, and I have been rather busy today." She was wearing Jeans and a long sleeved scoop neck top with her hair down and glasses off Cassie pirouetted "Meet with your approval?"
Lex nodded his approval as he grabbed his keys and wallet from the counter, "Let's go, seen as someone ate my snack I'm really hungry"
Linking her arm through his Cassie grinned wolfishly "Me too, I'm famished" Ignoring his huff on incredulity she continued "So where are you taking me?"
