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div class="userstuff module" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 1088.63px; float: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" role="article"
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"It took nearly a month and a half before the concrete for the buildings to be completely finished. That's how long Mary and the other construction workers said it would take for it to fully dry. It also allowed Calvin and the other scouts to find the rest of the supplies for the buildings. The buildings went up slowly, but since they were doing them in an assembly we were able to watch all the buildings go up slowly. It took almost three months for the eighteen buildings to be finished. They were ugly, but we didn't make them look pretty. Though they would serve their purpose, since they could hold up to seven thousand two hundred people. There would have to be four kids per room, but since kids could pick their roommates within reason, and they had more privacy than before, no one really cared./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Six buses came into the camp, bringing more than a hundred kids with each one. While the search teams found even more. Before the buildings were complete, it was so crowded that some of the younger kids had to double up, and we had to start putting kids in the infirmary beds. When that was filled, and we could no longer double kids up, we had to start putting kids in the warehouse on mattresses stolen from Cuckoo./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"When they were finally finished with the buildings, everyone took a deep sigh of breath. As soon as Macy gave the all clear, I instantly gathered the security team to start directing people into the new buildings. For now silvers and oranges would be sharing two buildings, since there weren't enough of them to have their own building. Yellows, purples, and reds would also have two buildings each. While blues and greens would have four total for each color. The last two were split between the whites and the adults. The ones without kids would spend their time in the top floors of the building, while the ones with them would stay on the lower floors. The other building was entirely for the ones without parents./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"One thing I was happy about was finally moving out of the infirmary. There were only about eighty reds in the girls' building. Which left a lot of empty beds for me to stay in. Since I was still technically dangerous in my sleep, Mary told me that she could just shut off the electricity in my room before I go to sleep. Since I needed to touch an electrical current to control it when I slept, that gave me a lot of relief./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"We were just wrapping up the moving process that night, when I spotted Ziva standing nearby, talking with some of the other yellows, probably theorizing about their powers again, when I saw Ziva's eyes blank. The cup she was holding in her hand jumped out of her hand and started shaking in the air. Everyone around her started slowly backing up, knowing what was happening with growing horror. I stepped forward, and instead of dropping to the ground like I expected, she looked down and the cup dropped to the ground./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Ziva," I called, and she looked at me scared. "Come with me please. Everyone else, back to your rooms." The girl ran over to me, and I bent down to scoop her up into my arms. I hugged her tight and whispered in her ear, "come on sweetie, let's take you to the infirmary." She nodded into my neck. I turned slowly as if turning too fast would hurt her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"I turned and headed in the direction of the infirmary, every second my heart beating out of my chest as if she might die at any second. I got strange looks from everyone else, but I didn't care. As I approached the door of the infirmary, the door popped open and Isabella looked at me concerned./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"'Get inside now, and start up the x-ray machine. Do it now', I thought to her, and without a single question she turned and ran back inside. I could hear her feet pounding and her yelling at a kid to get out of her way. I grabbed the door with my mind and held it open as I walked through the door. I walked calmly as I could the stairs, and into the hallway./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""She's in there," Macy said, pointing at the office at the end of the hallway that was farthest from the hallway./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Thanks," I said, and walked calmly through the hallway. Trying to keep my heart calm to not scare Ziva. I took a deep breath before turning into the office. Inside Isabella, and Felicia, were running around trying to get the room ready./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You can lay her on the bed," Isabella ordered, and without a word, I did as she asked. "Felicia get out of the way." The girl instantly followed the order, and stood in the corner of the office. Isabella took her right finger and tapped her forehead in the, I want to talk but not out loud happened to her?/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"'She caused a cup to twist before dropping it,' I said looking down at her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"'And you want to make sure that she is a black?' I nodded. Blacks were rare, and rightfully so. The running theory is that the only reason I survived the process was because I was a teenager when I started, and not as young as the rest of the population when they started. Sam seemed to have kind of backed that theory, but for some reason he had stopped at only three. I heard the x-ray machine start up, and I looked down at Ziva. She looked up at me scared./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You'll be fine," I reassured her. She didn't say anything in response. I looked at Isabella again, and I heard the computer beep. She looked at me concerned, but remained calm for Ziva's sake. Isabella waved me over, and I quickly walked over to see behind the computer. On the screen was an x-ray picture of Ziva's head. I knew enough about what I was looking at to see that Ziva had red, yellow, green, blue and purple powers. Two more and she would be a full on black. I looked at Isabella, then Ziva, and Isabella again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What's going on?" Ziva asked, sitting up. I walked around the computer, and gently sat down beside the young girl. I sighed trying to explain what was going on with her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You have red, yellow, green, blue, and purple powers," I said and she gasped. "I don't know if you're going to survive getting the other two." The girl just seemed to break, and I didn't hesitate to bring her into my arms. She broke down crying, and she wrapped her arms around my chest./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You're going to be alright," Isabella said, coming around to sit on her other side./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""No, I'm not," Ziva cried, and put her face in her hands. I looked over her head and looked at Isabella. I couldn't say anything about what was going on to her, because no one had ever gone through this before. Me figuring out my powers was sudden and was hard, but Ziva knew what could happen to her, and how she would be treated by everyone else. I slid out of my seat and knelt in front of her. I reached up and tilted her head up so she could see into my eyes./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Look, I'm going to be honest with you, I have no idea what is going on," I admitted. "I don't know if you're going to get all seven powers, or if you're just going to have the five powers you have right now. If you only have these five then great you only have five. If you end up with all seven, then you will have all seven. Let's not panic, until we can run some more tests and figure out what's going on. For all we know you could be like Sam. Okay?" She gave a sad nod./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""For now," I continued. "Let's have you be monitored by the silvers, just in case."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Okay," she whimpered, and I smiled at her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Felicia," I said looking at the young girl in the corner, who perked up when her name was called. "You mind sitting with her for a minute while Isabella and I talk?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Of course," she said with a bright smile. Isabella and I stood up, while Felicia took Isabella's spot beside Ziva. Isabella shot me a look, and I followed her out of the room. I closed the door behind me, and followed her down the hallway, into one of the rooms. After I gave a look around I realized that it was the room the search teams used to keep track of everything./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"We had started a small group to find kids and family members who were out there and we couldn't find them through our friends. There were only about fifty people in the program, mostly Calvin's old army buddies and a few others who were willing to risk their lives searching for others./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What did you want to talk about?" Isabella asked, turning my attention back to the problem at hand./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""We need to redo the x-rays of all the kids in the camp," I said, and she raised an eyebrow./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""That's over two thousand kids. That could take weeks."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I know, but what if there are kids here who are getting more powers, but we aren't realizing it. Project Genesis only extends to the kids who don't have powers when they show up. Not the one with powers. We could have an epidemic here."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I get that," Isabella said, "but Ava, the biggest concern is even if we manage to figure out which kids are starting to look like a black now, how are we going to make sure that none of the kids who we test are going to get the rest of the powers."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Until we know more, we can offer them a part of Project Genesis, or we can do regular x-rays," I suggested. To be honest, I hadn't really put too much thought into the blacks showing up here in Tundra. Sure Project Genesis helped relieve the stress of knowing, but I had always assumed that the powers would show up around the same time and not at one time. An assumption that was clearly false thanks to Ziva's sudden power appearance./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Fine. It's almost dark, how do you want to play this?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Let's start with the silvers, then go oranges, reds, purples, yellows, blues then greens. I think everyone should be settling into their rooms by now, but we can have Alex release a message to everyone and do Mirable's crew one at a time. If we use those portable CT scanners that Bob found, things will go much faster and we don't have to make everyone pass through here."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Alright, you go get Ziva into the red building, and I'll gather my team. They should be here within a few minutes. Get her settled and we'll get started on the retesting."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Thanks."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You're welcome." I turned and walked out of the door, Isabella right behind me. I turned right, while she turned left to walk to the room where we kept the portable CT scans. I walked back to the office room where Ziva and Felicia still were. The door was pushed open and I could see that they had moved from hugging each other and were now talking about something. Felicia noticed my presence as I approached and she stopped talking instantly to look at me./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What's going on?" she asked as I approached the door./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""We're retesting everyone to make sure no one else is going through the same process as Sam and Ziva," I said, leaning against the door. "Ziva I'm taking you over to the red building, I'll move your stuff later."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Do I have to?" she asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""It's the rules, sorry," I said. "If you didn't have the red powers, I would consider leaving you in the yellow building, but since you have them, I don't want you to have an accident while you're asleep."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Fine," she said, slightly sad./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You can still see your friends, but you can't sleep in there for now," I said. "Come on. Let's get going."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Fine," she said and both girls stood up. I pushed myself off the door so they could walk past me. Together we started walking down the hallway, and as we walked down the stairs I saw some of the workers walk into the building, giving us side looks as they did. They didn't say anything, but they were mostly curious looks. We walked down the street, and turned left. We walked down the small road, and turned left again. The red, orange and silver buildings were towards the left side of the camp. So we turned left and walked into the last little street. The red girls building was in the corner of the camp, and without a word we walked through the small courtyard up front, waved at several girls sitting in the common area, before turning left to head towards my dormitory wing./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"We reached the next corner and turned left again. We walked down to room 102, it was the empty room next to mine. Most of the reds started living in the other wing on the first floor, and there were a few in this hallway, but most seemed to want to give me space. I opened the door, and pushed it into the room. It wasn't a large room, with most of its furnishings being the two bunk beds, and a couple desks shoved in the corner./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You'll stay in here for now," I said. "We'll get your things later. Felicia if you want to stay here I'll test you later."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Okay," she said, and walked into the room to plop down on one of the beds. Ziva followed her and sat down next to her. I took a second just to look at them before I turned and walked out of the room, closing the door behind me. I walked out of the building, through the courtyard and down the street, where some of the silvers were starting to gather. Mirable seemed to have noticed the growing crowd, since she was standing among the crowd. I walked over to her and settled next to her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What's going on?" she asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Ziva has five powers. Not sure if she's going to get all seven, or if she's going to be like Sam," I said, looking as the silvers finally started moving towards the orange cabins. "We're checking everyone to make sure that no one else is going through the same thing."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Really?" she asked surprised./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Yeah, didn't notice the change in Ziva," I paused for a second, before looking at her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What?" she asked, and I took a second to honestly look at her. There wasn't anything particularly interesting about her, but she seemed different than she had a few months ago. Before I could say anything though, Isabella walked up to us./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Hey, Mirable, why don't I test you now so that I could clear you?" she asked, and Mirable looked at her unsure. Her brain seemed to be going through a million miles and hour before she slowly nodded. Isabella walked up beside her, and put the machine against her head. The machine took a few seconds before sending a beep to the tablet in Isabella's hand. The hand holding the machine dropped as Isabella used the hand to see what the result was, and to my surprise she gasped. I looked at her with wide eyes, and she turned the tablet to show me that she actually had all seven powers. I looked back at Mirable, who looked at us confused./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I'll let you two talk," Isabella said, slowly backing away to go and start checking someone else./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What's going on?" Mirable asked, confused./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Mirable, you have all seven powers," I said surprised./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You have to be kidding me? That's impossible."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Do you want me to drag Isabella back over here?" She looked at me with widing eyes. I knew she was confused, though she finally seemed to understand what I said./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""How did I not notice?" she asked, more to herself than me. "I'm supposed to notice these things."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Mirable," I said and she looked back up at me. "You were busy with your job, and you didn't know that it would randomly show up. I mean, look at Sam and I. We didn't notice when we were getting all these powers until someone else told us we had them. Unless you directly lit something on fire or started hearing thoughts you wouldn't have really noticed. I mean with all the kids we have here who don't know how to use their powers, you could have assumed that someone else is doing it."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""It's not just that, but I knew deep down that something was wrong, I mean I noticed people listening to me more, but I thought that they were just respecting me. And I noticed a few things here and there, but I never strung it together."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Hey. It's alright. Let's just be happy that you survived all the powers," I said. She nodded and took a deep breath before letting it go. "How about you get your things from your room and move it into the female red housing?" She nodded slowly, before walking away. I turned to go and walk with the silvers in checking everyone./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Hours later when everyone was finished, I could take a deep breath, and let it go. Everyone had been checked and the most scared kids went into Project Genesis. It seemed that most of the kids were fine with the multiple black thing, though they might have been putting up a show. There were five people with more than one power who had been hanging out around that weren't Sam and I./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"There were only two with a complete set of black powers, while there were three with less than seven. Two of them didn't have the upper scaled powers yet, so they were allowed to remain in their cabins, while the last one, a fourteen year old boy named Gage, had to move to one of the empty rooms in the red building. I was walking around the camp exhausted when Alex rang for me. I changed directions and walked into the tower. Alex's office was on the first floor and the door was open as I approached it. The office didn't have much. There was a desk, chair, a computer and books on the desk. Alex was sitting behind her desk, typing something on her computer./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Please tell me you have good news, Alex," I grumbled as I walked into the room. Alex thankfully seemed to have noticed that I wasn't in the best position to make the big decisions right now, and that I probably didn't want to hear a long winded explanation./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Just got news from Derek, and Malika," she said happily, turning to face me. Derek and Malika were two team leaders from two different small tracking crews. Derek's team usually tracked down people's family members to bring them in, while Malika usually tried to track down kids. They usually didn't cross paths on the outside, so hearing that they both had news was slightly concerning, but Alex's face just confused me even more./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What's going on?" I asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Malika found a camp. Derek called in and said he found someone building another camp. He thinks it might be overflowing for this one since it's only a few hundred miles from here over in Wyoming. No kids are out there yet though."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""How many kids are in the first one?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Oh, Second Horizons. About three hundred, it's a green, blue and purple camp. It doesn't seem to be all that bad of a camp in all honesty. Not like what we've heard about in Thurmond and Blackrock. Anyway, it's over in Utah. Malika is really wanting to get them out."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Isn't Jemma's team out there as well?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Yeah, why?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Have her team move out there and have Malika's team continue searching for kids. Her team is better at finding kids than Jemma's and I know Jemma's team had an orange who can mind control people. Malika's doesn't."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Alright," she said, and typed something on her computer, before looking at me again. "How are you honestly? I know you've been excited about finding another black. How is that treating you?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Reminded me why black's are so terrifying," I said with a shake of my head. I walked into the room, closing the door behind me. I leaned up against the wall next to it crossing my arms as I did. "Until now I've had to deal with one person having one power, or having the easiest one's to control. I have no idea how to teach three kids with a varying group of them, or what that means for the leadership here. I mean the only reason I was put in charge was because I was the only one who could see the perspective of everyone."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Well now there's more, and we're going to have to figure out how to deal with that. Honestly no one is going to really listen to Ziva, she's too young. Mirable and Gage have been here long enough to know that people are going to listen to you. Harry, and Tony don't have all the powers yet. Speaking of which, how are they doing?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""All of them are scared, for good reason. They've been here long enough to know what it means and how dangerous each color is, what comes with the risks. Give them a few days and they'll calm down. How are you doing?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I'm fine, I'm doing well, my kids are fine," she said with a shake of her head. "Ava, I'm nervous about Second Horizons. What if we fail? What if something happens to the kids while we sit here doing nothing about their situation. I know we can't do something right now, but…"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Alex," I said and she took a breath to see what I had to say. "The PSF's hate us, but they've never really targeted the greens, blues or purples. They weren't even going to be hurt when the upper scaled were a few months ago. I'm nervous too, but I know for a fact that we can help them. I have no idea how to do it at this very second, but we will help them."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Thanks for that."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""No problem. Now get some rest, you've been for how long?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Since lunch," she answered./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Okay, take some time off, and get some rest. We'll continue this conversation tomorrow, okay?" She nodded. I turned to walk back out of the building again. /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"It took nearly a month and a half before the concrete for the buildings to be completely finished. That's how long Mary and the other construction workers said it would take for it to fully dry. It also allowed Calvin and the other scouts to find the rest of the supplies for the buildings. The buildings went up slowly, but since they were doing them in an assembly we were able to watch all the buildings go up slowly. It took almost three months for the eighteen buildings to be finished. They were ugly, but we didn't make them look pretty. Though they would serve their purpose, since they could hold up to seven thousand two hundred people. There would have to be four kids per room, but since kids could pick their roommates within reason, and they had more privacy than before, no one really cared./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Six buses came into the camp, bringing more than a hundred kids with each one. While the search teams found even more. Before the buildings were complete, it was so crowded that some of the younger kids had to double up, and we had to start putting kids in the infirmary beds. When that was filled, and we could no longer double kids up, we had to start putting kids in the warehouse on mattresses stolen from Cuckoo./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"When they were finally finished with the buildings, everyone took a deep sigh of breath. As soon as Macy gave the all clear, I instantly gathered the security team to start directing people into the new buildings. For now silvers and oranges would be sharing two buildings, since there weren't enough of them to have their own building. Yellows, purples, and reds would also have two buildings each. While blues and greens would have four total for each color. The last two were split between the whites and the adults. The ones without kids would spend their time in the top floors of the building, while the ones with them would stay on the lower floors. The other building was entirely for the ones without parents./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"One thing I was happy about was finally moving out of the infirmary. There were only about eighty reds in the girls' building. Which left a lot of empty beds for me to stay in. Since I was still technically dangerous in my sleep, Mary told me that she could just shut off the electricity in my room before I go to sleep. Since I needed to touch an electrical current to control it when I slept, that gave me a lot of relief./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"We were just wrapping up the moving process that night, when I spotted Ziva standing nearby, talking with some of the other yellows, probably theorizing about their powers again, when I saw Ziva's eyes blank. The cup she was holding in her hand jumped out of her hand and started shaking in the air. Everyone around her started slowly backing up, knowing what was happening with growing horror. I stepped forward, and instead of dropping to the ground like I expected, she looked down and the cup dropped to the ground./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Ziva," I called, and she looked at me scared. "Come with me please. Everyone else, back to your rooms." The girl ran over to me, and I bent down to scoop her up into my arms. I hugged her tight and whispered in her ear, "come on sweetie, let's take you to the infirmary." She nodded into my neck. I turned slowly as if turning too fast would hurt her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"I turned and headed in the direction of the infirmary, every second my heart beating out of my chest as if she might die at any second. I got strange looks from everyone else, but I didn't care. As I approached the door of the infirmary, the door popped open and Isabella looked at me concerned./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"'Get inside now, and start up the x-ray machine. Do it now', I thought to her, and without a single question she turned and ran back inside. I could hear her feet pounding and her yelling at a kid to get out of her way. I grabbed the door with my mind and held it open as I walked through the door. I walked calmly as I could the stairs, and into the hallway./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""She's in there," Macy said, pointing at the office at the end of the hallway that was farthest from the hallway./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Thanks," I said, and walked calmly through the hallway. Trying to keep my heart calm to not scare Ziva. I took a deep breath before turning into the office. Inside Isabella, and Felicia, were running around trying to get the room ready./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You can lay her on the bed," Isabella ordered, and without a word, I did as she asked. "Felicia get out of the way." The girl instantly followed the order, and stood in the corner of the office. Isabella took her right finger and tapped her forehead in the, I want to talk but not out loud happened to her?/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"'She caused a cup to twist before dropping it,' I said looking down at her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"'And you want to make sure that she is a black?' I nodded. Blacks were rare, and rightfully so. The running theory is that the only reason I survived the process was because I was a teenager when I started, and not as young as the rest of the population when they started. Sam seemed to have kind of backed that theory, but for some reason he had stopped at only three. I heard the x-ray machine start up, and I looked down at Ziva. She looked up at me scared./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You'll be fine," I reassured her. She didn't say anything in response. I looked at Isabella again, and I heard the computer beep. She looked at me concerned, but remained calm for Ziva's sake. Isabella waved me over, and I quickly walked over to see behind the computer. On the screen was an x-ray picture of Ziva's head. I knew enough about what I was looking at to see that Ziva had red, yellow, green, blue and purple powers. Two more and she would be a full on black. I looked at Isabella, then Ziva, and Isabella again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What's going on?" Ziva asked, sitting up. I walked around the computer, and gently sat down beside the young girl. I sighed trying to explain what was going on with her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You have red, yellow, green, blue, and purple powers," I said and she gasped. "I don't know if you're going to survive getting the other two." The girl just seemed to break, and I didn't hesitate to bring her into my arms. She broke down crying, and she wrapped her arms around my chest./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You're going to be alright," Isabella said, coming around to sit on her other side./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""No, I'm not," Ziva cried, and put her face in her hands. I looked over her head and looked at Isabella. I couldn't say anything about what was going on to her, because no one had ever gone through this before. Me figuring out my powers was sudden and was hard, but Ziva knew what could happen to her, and how she would be treated by everyone else. I slid out of my seat and knelt in front of her. I reached up and tilted her head up so she could see into my eyes./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Look, I'm going to be honest with you, I have no idea what is going on," I admitted. "I don't know if you're going to get all seven powers, or if you're just going to have the five powers you have right now. If you only have these five then great you only have five. If you end up with all seven, then you will have all seven. Let's not panic, until we can run some more tests and figure out what's going on. For all we know you could be like Sam. Okay?" She gave a sad nod./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""For now," I continued. "Let's have you be monitored by the silvers, just in case."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Okay," she whimpered, and I smiled at her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Felicia," I said looking at the young girl in the corner, who perked up when her name was called. "You mind sitting with her for a minute while Isabella and I talk?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Of course," she said with a bright smile. Isabella and I stood up, while Felicia took Isabella's spot beside Ziva. Isabella shot me a look, and I followed her out of the room. I closed the door behind me, and followed her down the hallway, into one of the rooms. After I gave a look around I realized that it was the room the search teams used to keep track of everything./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"We had started a small group to find kids and family members who were out there and we couldn't find them through our friends. There were only about fifty people in the program, mostly Calvin's old army buddies and a few others who were willing to risk their lives searching for others./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What did you want to talk about?" Isabella asked, turning my attention back to the problem at hand./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""We need to redo the x-rays of all the kids in the camp," I said, and she raised an eyebrow./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""That's over two thousand kids. That could take weeks."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I know, but what if there are kids here who are getting more powers, but we aren't realizing it. Project Genesis only extends to the kids who don't have powers when they show up. Not the one with powers. We could have an epidemic here."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I get that," Isabella said, "but Ava, the biggest concern is even if we manage to figure out which kids are starting to look like a black now, how are we going to make sure that none of the kids who we test are going to get the rest of the powers."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Until we know more, we can offer them a part of Project Genesis, or we can do regular x-rays," I suggested. To be honest, I hadn't really put too much thought into the blacks showing up here in Tundra. Sure Project Genesis helped relieve the stress of knowing, but I had always assumed that the powers would show up around the same time and not at one time. An assumption that was clearly false thanks to Ziva's sudden power appearance./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Fine. It's almost dark, how do you want to play this?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Let's start with the silvers, then go oranges, reds, purples, yellows, blues then greens. I think everyone should be settling into their rooms by now, but we can have Alex release a message to everyone and do Mirable's crew one at a time. If we use those portable CT scanners that Bob found, things will go much faster and we don't have to make everyone pass through here."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Alright, you go get Ziva into the red building, and I'll gather my team. They should be here within a few minutes. Get her settled and we'll get started on the retesting."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Thanks."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You're welcome." I turned and walked out of the door, Isabella right behind me. I turned right, while she turned left to walk to the room where we kept the portable CT scans. I walked back to the office room where Ziva and Felicia still were. The door was pushed open and I could see that they had moved from hugging each other and were now talking about something. Felicia noticed my presence as I approached and she stopped talking instantly to look at me./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What's going on?" she asked as I approached the door./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""We're retesting everyone to make sure no one else is going through the same process as Sam and Ziva," I said, leaning against the door. "Ziva I'm taking you over to the red building, I'll move your stuff later."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Do I have to?" she asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""It's the rules, sorry," I said. "If you didn't have the red powers, I would consider leaving you in the yellow building, but since you have them, I don't want you to have an accident while you're asleep."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Fine," she said, slightly sad./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You can still see your friends, but you can't sleep in there for now," I said. "Come on. Let's get going."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Fine," she said and both girls stood up. I pushed myself off the door so they could walk past me. Together we started walking down the hallway, and as we walked down the stairs I saw some of the workers walk into the building, giving us side looks as they did. They didn't say anything, but they were mostly curious looks. We walked down the street, and turned left. We walked down the small road, and turned left again. The red, orange and silver buildings were towards the left side of the camp. So we turned left and walked into the last little street. The red girls building was in the corner of the camp, and without a word we walked through the small courtyard up front, waved at several girls sitting in the common area, before turning left to head towards my dormitory wing./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"We reached the next corner and turned left again. We walked down to room 102, it was the empty room next to mine. Most of the reds started living in the other wing on the first floor, and there were a few in this hallway, but most seemed to want to give me space. I opened the door, and pushed it into the room. It wasn't a large room, with most of its furnishings being the two bunk beds, and a couple desks shoved in the corner./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You'll stay in here for now," I said. "We'll get your things later. Felicia if you want to stay here I'll test you later."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Okay," she said, and walked into the room to plop down on one of the beds. Ziva followed her and sat down next to her. I took a second just to look at them before I turned and walked out of the room, closing the door behind me. I walked out of the building, through the courtyard and down the street, where some of the silvers were starting to gather. Mirable seemed to have noticed the growing crowd, since she was standing among the crowd. I walked over to her and settled next to her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What's going on?" she asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Ziva has five powers. Not sure if she's going to get all seven, or if she's going to be like Sam," I said, looking as the silvers finally started moving towards the orange cabins. "We're checking everyone to make sure that no one else is going through the same thing."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Really?" she asked surprised./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What?" she asked, and I took a second to honestly look at her. There wasn't anything particularly interesting about her, but she seemed different than she had a few months ago. Before I could say anything though, Isabella walked up to us./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Hey, Mirable, why don't I test you now so that I could clear you?" she asked, and Mirable looked at her unsure. Her brain seemed to be going through a million miles and hour before she slowly nodded. Isabella walked up beside her, and put the machine against her head. The machine took a few seconds before sending a beep to the tablet in Isabella's hand. The hand holding the machine dropped as Isabella used the hand to see what the result was, and to my surprise she gasped. I looked at her with wide eyes, and she turned the tablet to show me that she actually had all seven powers. I looked back at Mirable, who looked at us confused./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What's going on?" Mirable asked, confused./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Mirable, you have all seven powers," I said surprised./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""You have to be kidding me? That's impossible."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Do you want me to drag Isabella back over here?" She looked at me with widing eyes. I knew she was confused, though she finally seemed to understand what I said./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""How did I not notice?" she asked, more to herself than me. "I'm supposed to notice these things."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Mirable," I said and she looked back up at me. "You were busy with your job, and you didn't know that it would randomly show up. I mean, look at Sam and I. We didn't notice when we were getting all these powers until someone else told us we had them. Unless you directly lit something on fire or started hearing thoughts you wouldn't have really noticed. I mean with all the kids we have here who don't know how to use their powers, you could have assumed that someone else is doing it."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Hey. It's alright. Let's just be happy that you survived all the powers," I said. She nodded and took a deep breath before letting it go. "How about you get your things from your room and move it into the female red housing?" She nodded slowly, before walking away. I turned to go and walk with the silvers in checking everyone./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Hours later when everyone was finished, I could take a deep breath, and let it go. Everyone had been checked and the most scared kids went into Project Genesis. It seemed that most of the kids were fine with the multiple black thing, though they might have been putting up a show. There were five people with more than one power who had been hanging out around that weren't Sam and I./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"There were only two with a complete set of black powers, while there were three with less than seven. Two of them didn't have the upper scaled powers yet, so they were allowed to remain in their cabins, while the last one, a fourteen year old boy named Gage, had to move to one of the empty rooms in the red building. I was walking around the camp exhausted when Alex rang for me. I changed directions and walked into the tower. Alex's office was on the first floor and the door was open as I approached it. The office didn't have much. There was a desk, chair, a computer and books on the desk. Alex was sitting behind her desk, typing something on her computer./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Please tell me you have good news, Alex," I grumbled as I walked into the room. Alex thankfully seemed to have noticed that I wasn't in the best position to make the big decisions right now, and that I probably didn't want to hear a long winded explanation./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Just got news from Derek, and Malika," she said happily, turning to face me. Derek and Malika were two team leaders from two different small tracking crews. Derek's team usually tracked down people's family members to bring them in, while Malika usually tried to track down kids. They usually didn't cross paths on the outside, so hearing that they both had news was slightly concerning, but Alex's face just confused me even more./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What's going on?" I asked./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Malika found a camp. Derek called in and said he found someone building another camp. He thinks it might be overflowing for this one since it's only a few hundred miles from here over in Wyoming. No kids are out there yet though."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""How many kids are in the first one?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Oh, Second Horizons. About three hundred, it's a green, blue and purple camp. It doesn't seem to be all that bad of a camp in all honesty. Not like what we've heard about in Thurmond and Blackrock. Anyway, it's over in Utah. Malika is really wanting to get them out."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Isn't Jemma's team out there as well?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Yeah, why?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Have her team move out there and have Malika's team continue searching for kids. Her team is better at finding kids than Jemma's and I know Jemma's team had an orange who can mind control people. Malika's doesn't."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Alright," she said, and typed something on her computer, before looking at me again. "How are you honestly? I know you've been excited about finding another black. How is that treating you?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Reminded me why black's are so terrifying," I said with a shake of my head. I walked into the room, closing the door behind me. I leaned up against the wall next to it crossing my arms as I did. "Until now I've had to deal with one person having one power, or having the easiest one's to control. I have no idea how to teach three kids with a varying group of them, or what that means for the leadership here. I mean the only reason I was put in charge was because I was the only one who could see the perspective of everyone."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Well now there's more, and we're going to have to figure out how to deal with that. Honestly no one is going to really listen to Ziva, she's too young. Mirable and Gage have been here long enough to know that people are going to listen to you. Harry, and Tony don't have all the powers yet. Speaking of which, how are they doing?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""All of them are scared, for good reason. They've been here long enough to know what it means and how dangerous each color is, what comes with the risks. Give them a few days and they'll calm down. How are you doing?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""I'm fine, I'm doing well, my kids are fine," she said with a shake of her head. "Ava, I'm nervous about Second Horizons. What if we fail? What if something happens to the kids while we sit here doing nothing about their situation. I know we can't do something right now, but…"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Alex," I said and she took a breath to see what I had to say. "The PSF's hate us, but they've never really targeted the greens, blues or purples. They weren't even going to be hurt when the upper scaled were a few months ago. I'm nervous too, but I know for a fact that we can help them. I have no idea how to do it at this very second, but we will help them."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Thanks for that."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""No problem. Now get some rest, you've been for how long?"/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Since lunch," she answered./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Okay, take some time off, and get some rest. We'll continue this conversation tomorrow, okay?" She nodded. I turned to walk back out of the building again. /p
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