Authors Note: So I have been given the fantastic opportunity of being Properties Master for my school's production of The Importance of being Earnest. While it's a great opportunity I don't know how it will affect my updates. I want this story to be done by Christmas, and I will try and keep my normal schedule for posting. But if I do disappear for a while around the end of September and the first week of November. I am not dead and I didn't give up on the story I'll just be extremely busy.


Lizzie- you're response is in the mail I hope you enjoy it

Erikstrulove- Sorry I lied it's not twelve new characters...it's fourteen. Six sweepers, a few Centre projects, and a triumvirate heir. Project Shadow will not be clones of Keegan. More will be explained about Shadow in four or five more chapters I believe. And yes I'm well aware I said no more clones. And yes you get Bobby in fourteen more chapters. In fact he'll be around for two chapters and then he has to go away for a while but he will be back.

LPJ- Yup babies all around for Will and Jamie, Alley and Jeff, well actually just a baby each. And no Peter and Parker left the foundation long before the boys were rescued and they never came back. They've been in Carthis every since. It would have been ridiculous for them to have stayed hidden in the Foundation with all the supper powered people walking around. I've gotten away with a lot of stuff in this series but there was no way I could get away with that one.

Oh and your scene is in chapter 60, which sadly is not even the climax of this story meaning this story is going to be around for quite a while. Who knows I might be done by Christmas. Which is doubtful but hey it could happen.


CHAPTER 51

CONFESSIONS


November 28, 2010

10:21am

Charlottesville, Virginia

Russell Family Home

"Keegan can I ask you somethin'," Amy questioned, she was laying on her bed drawing in her sketch book.

"I believe you just did," Keegan said looking up from his copy of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, a look of innocence on his face. Amy wasn't falling for it.

"You know what I mean," Amy sighed theatrically.

"Was that another question?" Keegan asked. Jason and Jack snickered.

"Keegan," Amy warned between gritted teeth.

"Ask away," Keegan said before Amy was tempted to beat her new cousin to a pulp.

"What are you?" Amy asked. "Besides a clone." Jason and Jack looked up from their game of chess, curious as to what Keegan had to say. The four children had an unwritten code as to not ask each other about their Centre past. All knew that everything would be revealed with time, so they were patient with one another.

"I'm a Black File. Just more. I'm all the Black Files rolled into one, I've got all their abilities and then some. I just don't really know how to use them," Keegan answered. "I guess I'm the next evolution of the Black Files. Smarter, stronger, in a word, better,"

"Why haven't you told Will and the others?" Jason asked.

"They basically know all that," Keegan replied shrugging his shoulders.

"If you're all of them rolled into one that means your like a supper psychic. Can you see how this is gonna end?" Jack asked.

"Don't ask me that," Keegan said softly. Amy, Jason, and Jack exchanged glances and made their way over to Keegan.

"Key what did you see?" Amy asked sliding next to her cousin.

"I told you I don't really know how to control it," Keegan said and went to pick his book back up.

"You must not have gotten just their abilities but their personalities as well," Amy told Keegan. "Just like them, you try to avoid things, keep the rest of us in the dark."

"No it's not that it's just...It's all mass confusion and utter bollocks," Keegan spoke his English upbringing becoming more prominent in his speech. Amy giggled slightly.

"It's not funny Amy. The things that I've seen...still see...the things Uncle Andrew and Markus show me. Not all of it is good, it scares me. I-I think that they might be trying to make more like me, and maybe, maybe more like Will, Alley, Jamie and Jeff. I don't know it's all in there bouncing around," Keegan sighed. Amy wrapped her arms around her cousin.

"It'll be okay Key. Alex and Jer will make sure of it," Amy told him.

"Keegan if you can see this how come the others can't?" Jason asked.

"You can't see what you don't want to," Keegan said sagely. The other three children mulled over Keegan's works as Amy went back to her drawing, Keegan to his book and Jason and Jack to their game of chess.

An hour later Mike entered the children's room. "You guys ready to go to the clinic?" He questioned.

"Why do I have to go?" Amy groaned.

"Because Ames it's almost time for your six year check up," Mike replied.

"That just means Momma and Uncle Jarod's gonna give me lotsa shots," Amy grumbled.

"Actually no, but you will get your blood drawn. Will and Alley want to run some test on you blood and see how it compares to your blood sample from last year. Especially since you went and got yourself a power and all" Mike told her.

"Fine," Amy sighed.

"What are they going to do to me?" Keegan asked his brother. Mike walked over to the little boy and pulled him in to his arms.

"Don't worry squirt, no one is going to hurt you. Dad's going to take a little bit of blood, and check you over. Make sure that your healthy," Mike reassured Keegan.

"And Jasa and Jack?" Keegan inquired.

"Same thing. Except Uncle Jarod's going to take an X-ray of Jack's wrist to make sure that it's mending right. Pete, Alley, Will, Dad, Aunt Jen, Maddie and I are going to be there the whole time, too. So after your check up you we can all go out for lunch and maybe a movie. I hear that the theater in town is showing the first Harry Potter movie, you want to go see it?"

"Is it as good as the book?" Keegan asked.

"Almost. But no movie ever stands up to a good book. Now you four put on your shoes and jackets and we'll be off," Mike said.

"Mikey, are Lissa and Greg commin'?" Amy asked. Mike sighed.

"Lis, Greg, Andy, Air along with Jake are kinda grounded for not telling anyone that Alex and Jeremiah were leaving. Uncle Sam and Aunt Morgan are not to pleased, so they assigned the five accomplices chores, they have to much the stables, wash the cars -all twenty of them-, not counting the fourteen motorcycles..."

"Twelve," Keegan said absentmindedly. Mike looked down at his little brother. Amy, Jason and Jack's eyes went wide as the glanced over at Keegan. Keegan realizing his mistake tired to pretend as though he had said nothing, but it was too late.

"Key why did you say that there were twelve motorcycles?" Mike questioned. Keegan looked over at his cousins. Not knowing how to better the situation, Amy, Jason and Jack just shrugged. Keegan sighed.

"Jeremiah, and Alex took their bikes to the airport this morning. Please don't be mad at us Mike, we promised them that we wouldn't tell anyone they were leaving to find Adam," Keegan begged. He wasn't entirely telling his older brother the truth, but Keegan knew that the matter of Kaine needed to stay as secret for as long a possible.

Mike looked up at the ceiling and closed his eyes, at a loss of what to do. He knew that the four little ones wouldn't be punished for not telling the adults about Alex and Jeremiah. They would receive a good scolding though.

Then again the little ones had been sworn to secrecy. In order to keep things hidden from his parents -like the tattoo he got over the summer- Mike, himself had confided in his sisters and cousins more times than he could count. And Mike didn't agree with the punishment given to Jake, Aaron, Andros, Lissa and Greg. Didn't his aunts and uncles understand that if Alex and Jeremiah were going to leave not even their parents could stop them, no less their siblings?

Mike did have to admit he was a little put off that he hadn't been told of Alex's and Jeremiah's departure, although Maddie, Terra, Tobias, Cassie, Marc and Rachael hadn't been told either.

"Mike..." Amy called out shaking Mike of this thoughts.

"Alright here's what we'll do," Mike said "I don't see why anyone else has to know about this save the five of us, and maybe Jake."

"Why Jake?" Keegan asked.

"Cause he's their leader," Amy answered.

"He's not our leader," Mike scoffed.

"Well he's the oldest, and all of you listen to him, most of the time any way... even Alex does sometimes when she doesn't hit him that is," Amy shot back. "Not to mention your group confides to Jake more than any one. He's like the Black Files, surrogate priest."

"What do you know about the Catholic Church, Miss Amy? Everyone around here are lapsed Catholics," Mike said slightly defensive. He knew all to well that Jake was the leader of the Black Files, the group always joked about it. But none of the Black Files ever said it seriously, if they did it just meant that there was even more Centre training left in the children than they cared to admit.

"We may be lapsed Catholics but that doesn't mean I don't read or watch t.v," Amy replied. "Now are we going to tell Jake or what?"

"Anyone ever tell you that you're too much like Lissa and Alex for your own good?" Mike asked the little girl.

"Anyone ever tell you that you have a penchant for changing topics you don't want to discuss?" Amy shot back. Keegan, Jason, and Jack snickered.

"Let's go," Mike sighed, Alex might be gone but in her place was a smart mouthed not quite six year old. Amy had spent far too much time in the company of her older sister and cousin Alex.


The quintet made there way out to the stables where Jake, Andros, Aaron, Mike and Maddie were mucking the stalls. Mike wasn't all to surprised to see Rachael and the rest of the Black Files -sans Maddie who was showering to go to the clinic- were helping Jake and the others. 'All for one and one for all,' Mike thought. Sometimes Mike wondered if the groups project name should have been The Musketeers instead of The Black Files.

"Mikey what's up?" Greg asked, though is was chilly outside, the older teen was sweating from lifting bales of hay.

"These four have something to confess," Mike answered, gesturing to Amy, Keegan, Jason and Jack.

"Go on," Jake urged wiping the dirt off his hands and onto the seat of his coveralls.

"Alex and Jeremiah told us that they were leaving. They took their motorcycles," Amy said not feeling the slightest bit of guilt from keeping her knowledge secret.

"When did they tell you?" Jake questioned.

"Early this morning. They woke us up just before they left," Keegan spoke up, Jason and Jack nodded along and Jake grinned. He knew that the twins were their normal talkative selves when they were just with Amy and Keegan. Jake also knew what Mike didn't, he was being lied too.

Alex and Jeremiah may have told the four kids goodbye right before they left, but Jake was positive that Amy and the boys had been aware that Alex and Jeremiah were leaving longer than anyone.

Alex loved her baby brothers too much to disappear and not tell them were she was going. And the same was true concerning Jeremiah and Amy. As for Keegan, Jake supposed that the little boy had more of a role in the story than he was letting on.

"I have a confession too," Jake said crouching down in front of the four children.

"What?" Amy asked her right eye brow raised, Mike was once again reminded of a miniature Alex and Lissa rolled into one.

"I know that Alex and Jeremiah didn't leave to find Adam," Jake said. He grinned when Amy's mouth dropped, Keegan, Jason and Jack remaining impassive. Behind Jake the rest of the Black Files resembled Amy.

"Well where the hell did they go?" Aaron asked, he hadn't really believe that Alex and Jeremiah had left to find Adam.

"Don't know," Jake said standing back up.

"You didn't ask? Jake you always ask," Aaron stated.

"Not always. Look Jer, and Alex my not have told me where they were going but I know that they are safe," Jake said.

"How do you know? Are you in contact with them?" Lissa questioned. She wouldn't admit it but she was worried about her brother.

"No I'm not in contact with them. But six of you are maybe seven," Jake said. Amy, Keegan, Jason and Jack exchanged looks of worry and confusion, while the other Black Files were just confused.

"Jakey, your making no sense," Greg said shaking his head.

"You all are forgetting what you are. What the Centre made us to be," Jake pointed out. "I'm not sure about Keegan, but Andy, Air, Mike, and Maddie share a telepathic bond with Alex and Greg and Lissa share one with Jeremiah. You six can't tell me you wouldn't sense if anything happened to Alex and Jer."

Aaron shook his head grinning. How could he have forgotten the bond he shared with his brother, sister and cousins. Relief coursed through him knowing that if anything happened to Alex he would know.

"Well now that we all are relieved that Alex and Jer are okay for now, I believe that there are four of us who are supposed to be at the clinic," Aaron said glancing down at his baby brothers and cousins.

"Do we have ta?" Amy sighed.

"Yes you have ta," Greg told his sister. Amy scowled.

"Alright you four lets go," Mike said the four children reluctantly followed Mike back to the house.


Up Next: Things don't go to well at the kids check up. And we get a new character, Allen David Grey age ten, I think that's right. That also means the "Cast List" Will be updated soon. In fact in the upcoming chapters it will be heavily updated.


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