Chapter 13

3rd Person POV

Mr. Davenport flew up to New York on a plane to make things more realistic to the government-rather than just appearing out of nowhere, as he would via Bree. He managed to convince the police to at least check out the tunnel by the laboratory once the demonstration was over. Due to the fact that his claims were indeed accurate, and it was his technology from Davenport Industries that detected the bomb, combined his connections in the FBI, he was permitted to question the criminals by himself, provided they were given adequate humanitarian care.

While they were waiting for Mr. Davenport to return(rather anxiously, as his return would reinstate Chase's hearing, and his voice would be checked a final time-so hopefully reinstating his voice as well), Adam, Bree, Chase, and Leo discussed (via writing) what occurred during the mission.

"Chase,"Bree wrote out first."How did you know to turn around when you did?"

Chase didn't anything for a moment, but after glancing at the extremely curious faces of his siblings seated around the table, he uncapped his pen.

"It was almost as though...I could feel it," he wrote, feeling just as baffled himself as they looked to be.

"I finished with the bomb two minutes before it was scheduled to detonate. I stayed in the position I was crouched in for a moment, clearing my mind, and suddenly...It was almost like I could SEE wavelengths around the room that made up the room, different shapes amongst them. I knew where you guys were standing, based on the outline the waves made around certain shapes. I knew when Douglas and his...friends had entered the room. I could tell when different people were speaking, who they were based off of their point of origin. I stayed where I was as soon as I detected Douglas saying "He won't be able to hear them,", because he would never expect me to know he was there. After all, it did make for an awesome surprise attack.

It's almost like Sonar, or echolocation, but I don't need to use sound."Chase finished.

Everyone was still for a minute.

"That's AWESOME!" Leo suddenly wrote.

"Why are we even talking on paper still?" Bree scribbled excitedly.

Chase grimaced. "It requires a TON of concentration just to detect the wavelengths. Decoding words and sounds is almost impossible. I only could decode up until Douglas commented on my deafness-then I wanted to save up my strength to fight,".

Of course Bree was amazed that Chase had discovered a new ability at such immpecible timing. But she wasn't going to lie-Chase had been pretty indifferent thus far as to finding out the rest of what Douglas said, and Bree was fine with him never knowing. If he was weakened physically, he didn't need a blow emotionally too.

And alright. She was worried what Douglas had up his sleeve in terms of fact for persuading Chase that his true family wasn't worth fighting for.

"Congratulations on your super-detection,"wrote Adam"even if I don't get what it is,".

Chase rolled his eyes, but with a grin.

"Now, Chase, Douglas told us that the guards holding us were Viktor and someone named Sydney. Do you have anything on your internal hard drive related to a billionaire creep who so happens to be called Sydney?"Bree wrote, peering at him anxiously.

Chase put his index and middle finger to his temple, and his eyes became dilated for a minute. He shook his head.

"Alright," Leo wrote with an uneasy look on his face. "We'll ask Bid D tonight,".

"In the meantime,"he wrote. "Chase, we should tel-".

Bree cut him off mid-word, making as though to grab her pen, but sending his pad across the room. It was an exceptional intentional "accident".

While Chase went to retrieve it, Bree

spoke to Adam and Leo quietly, ignoring Leo's arched eyebrow,"There's no sense in scaring him. I think any of us can safely say WE'D be terrified for the rest of our lives if we found out someone was out to tear apart our minds-not just invade them. Besides, Douglas is captured,

he doesn't have a way to get to any of us. No sense in worrying Chase over what MIGHT'VE happened,"

Adam and Leo nodded just as Chase returned to the table.

Abruptly, Chase wrote out,

"Excuse me-I really need to use the bathroom,".

...Bree had underestimated Chase.

He could tell that his siblings were talking about him while they thought he was couldn't hear them.

He knew whatever they were saying had to be either important or bad.

So he braced himself for the splitting headache and switched on his word-decoding.

What he decoded was definitely fragmented, but one thing was certain. Something bad would have happened to them had they been captured-and his instincts told him that it had to do with him. Chase, handing Leo his pad, went to the restroom.

There, he used his photographic memory to record the conversation wavelengths while they were in that tunnel, and decoded just what exactly had been said.