Crazyrussiangal- You'll find out about her in this chapter. I'd say more but I don't want to reveal anything to people who haven't read The Black Files yet. As for your wait, wait no longer, here's the next chapter.
LJP- You'll find out who the telekinetic is in this chapter, I'll tell you know you've already meet the telekinetic. Will didn't forget about his siblings, he never really knew that he had any save for Alley. He had dreamed about Aaron, Andros, and Alex, but he didn't really know if they were his siblings. Yeah Debbie's a pretender. A low level one, but she still is a pretender. As for Jarod, he wasn't really helping Parker, he was helping Broots, since Broots was with Jarod at the time, during the whole Damon thing. Oh and Jarod gave Parker the stained glass piece when Thomas died, and that was in May. On that note Thomas will be entering the picture soon.
CHAPTER 37
LIES, TRUTH, AND DREAMS
January 13, 1999
1:36pm
Blue Cove, Delaware
The Centre
'I dare ya,' Aaron whispered telepathically to his brother. He along with the rest of the Black Files sat in what seemed to be a small class room. There where six tables facing a black board, in front of which Sophie stood writing the days lesson on the board.
'I don't know Air,' Andros said.
'Andy don't be a baby,' Alex sighed.
'But what if I get in trouble?' Andros said.
'Andy it just Sophie's pass card. Not like it Raines's air tank,' Alex replied. 'God you such a wimp.'
'Am not,' Andros said angrily 'Just don't wanna get in trouble.'
'Like Lexie said Andy you a wimp,' Aaron retorted.
'Shut up, Aaron,' Andros told his brother.
'Fine I do it,' Alex said not caring if she got in trouble or not. Alex knew that Sophie wouldn't dare lay a hand one any of the Black Files. Not that the Black Files hadn't had their share of bruises from the hands of Raines's sweepers.
'Alex no!' Andros said but it was too late. Alex had already gotten up from her seat and quietly but quickly made her way to the table where Sophie's pass card laid. Seconds later the girl was back in her seat as though nothing had happened. Alex grinned at her brothers and they grinned in return -even Andros who had been leery of swiping the pass card-.
Alex glanced back at the other's behind her. Michael and Maddie were trying to stifle giggles. Melissa, Jeremiah, and Greg had amused smiles gracing their faces. Marc and Cassie were smirking. Jake and Rachel were eyeing the pass card more than likely wondering what the could do with the small piece of plastic. Only Tobias and Terra had frowns on their faces. Alex smiled at Tobias, and the boy sighed.
'Won't be happy till she gets caught,' Tobias thought. Alex picked up on Tobias's thoughts and stuck her tongue out at him. Tobias frowned. Alex slipped the pass key up her sleeve and returned her attention back to the lesson at hand.
Alex had a hard time paying attention to Sophie as the woman taught the children how to conjugate irregular verbs in Spanish. The youngest of the Black Files had the feeling as though she were being watched. Alex of course knew of the cameras that watched her every move but she had grown use to that feeling long ago. No this feeling was different. Unable to stand the tingling sensation in the back of her head any longer Alex turned around and directed her gave to the air vent. There she saw a boy a few years her senior staring out at her. She held his gaze for a few moments trying to use her emphatic abilities to sense anything the boy might have been feeling.
Finding nothing Alex turned back around. She sensed the boy leaving and found herself being disappointed that the boy had left. She wanted to talk to him. Though she had sensed no emotions off of the boy, he somehow seamed familiar to Alex.
January 13, 1999
2:19pm
Blue Cove, Delaware
The Centre
In order for Will to make it the Black Files room and back to his own room Will had to leave one set of air vents cross the hall and enter another set of vents. It was as he was crossing the hall that he was spotted.
It was not a sweeper, a cleaner, Lyle, Cox, Raines, or any other Centre personal who had spotted Will. It was another child of the Centre. A girl his own age, exactly Will's age, give or take a few minutes. When the girl saw Will cross the hall on his way back to his room she gasped. For the past seven months she had been told that Will was dead. That he had died from and unknown disease, that the Centre had been unable to cure.
Angry that the Center had once again lied to her, Alley ran back to her room. She deactivated the loop she had placed on the camera and then did the only thing she knew capable of getting a Centre employ's attention. Alley began to wreck havoc on her room. The little bit of furniture that was in her room and not bolted down to the floor Alley flung against the wall. As Alley continue the destruction of her room her bed began to rattle. Alley was startled, and rightly so, for she was no where near her bed. Alley studied her cot and saw that the blots that had been holding it down had somehow ripped themselves out of the concrete they had been embedded to.
'This can't be good,' Alley thought to herself. She had no further time to investigate the bed for the door to her cell suddenly flung open.
"What in the hell is your problem!" Lyle roared and hit Alley sending her careening into the cinder block wall.
"You lied to me," Alley said picking herself off of the floor.
"Be a bit more specific Alyssa. I've told you many lies, you can't expect me to keep track of them all," Lyle said cooly.
"You lied about Will. You told me he was dead!"
"Will is dead. You were there," Lyle reminded Alley.
"Funny thing about my memories Lyle. I find them a bit fuzzy," Alley spat.
"Well you were both deathly ill Alyssa and in and out of unconsciousness. Your memories are bound to be a bit hazy." Lyle said.
"Well I must still be ill because I seam to be having delusions of my dead twin roaming the halls of the Centre!" Alley yelled. Unnoticed by Alley or Lyle, her bed had begun to rattle again.
"Your brother..."
"Is alive, and well," Alley interrupted. "Does he think I'm dead too?"
"Yes," Lyle sneered no longer bothering to keep up the lie. Lyle knew that if there was one thing Alley knew it was when she was being lied to.
"I want to see him," Alley said.
"To bad, you can't. Against orders. And if your brother should by chance find out you're alive I will kill him. We only need one of you. We prefer to have Will but you'll do just as well." Lyle said lifting Alley up off the ground by her neck cutting off her air supply. Lyle then released her and Alley fell to the ground in a heap gasping for breath. Lyle left her there and locked the door behind him.
Alley gazed at the door her body filled with anger and hate, as she sucked in oxygen. Suddenly Alley heard the screech of metal. She ducked in time from being hit by her bed as it went flying through the air and crashing into the door in a twisted heap.
"Well damn," Alley muttered and collapsed into unconsciousness, drained by her new found power.
Lyle had left Alley's cell to inform Raines that the girl knew that her brother was alive. The fact that Alley had seen her brother slightly complicated matters but it had changed nothing. One maybe even both children would inherit the Centre. 'They just need a bit of reeducation. To see things the way they actually are,' Lyle though to himself.
Mr. Lyle made his way to Raines's office. "We have a slight problem," Lyle said closing the door behind him. "Not only has young William, been exploring the Centre unsupervised once again. Alyssa has as well and she has learned that William is alive. What do you want to do?"
"Though the girl has discovered her brother, your father won't allow for either of the children to be transferred. His too frightened that someone might try to manipulate Phoenix," Raines hissed.
"And we can't have that now can we?" Lyle replied sarcastically. "I still don't see why Dad want's one of those kids to run the Centre. What about me, hell even my sister -though I'd hate to say it- would make a decent candidate."
"I've told you before Robert that you or Miss Parker will just warm the seat until either William or Alyssa is prepared to run the Centre. The chairman fears that there is too much of Catherine Parker in his daughter, and that Miss Parker would fail to run the Centre the way her father has envisioned it. And he views you as a wild card, until he gets to know you better your father will not change his plan. Not to mention that William and his sister are easier to manipulate than Miss Parker or you are."
"How does he plan on doing all of this anyway? I mean Alyssa has already learned that her brother is alive. And if Dad wants both of the children to run the Centre they will eventually learn that they were lied to."
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," Raines said. "Right now we have a pretender to deal with." Raines wheezed and began his journey to Will's cell. Lyle went to go and set up his equipment for dealing with Will.
January 13, 1999
2:32pm
Blue Cove, Delaware
The Centre
Raines and his pair of sweepers had made it to Will's cell before Will had returned. They laid in the shadows awaiting the boys return. The vent creaked open and Will sunk to the floor.
"Well, well haven't we been a busy boy," Raines sneered. Will cringed as Raines two sweepers neared him. "I see you haven't learned from your last beating that you are not to leave your room. Escort young William to Lyle's office." Raines told the sweepers.
"Yes Mr. Raines," The sweepers replied, Raines then left the room to deal with other matters.
"Come on kid we can either do this the hard way or the easy way," One sweeper said. "Pick one,"
"What do you think," Will growled his eyes flashing red, ready for a fight. Will was outraged at the fact that the Centre had once again created children from his parents without their permission. And thought he was only seven, Will knew that with his abilities, he could inflict serious damage on the two sweepers before they got him to Lyle.
"Kid we don't want to hurt you." The other sweeper said.
"I don't plan on being the one getting hurt," Will replied. "Now lets go." The two sweepers lunged at Will, but both were thrown off guard when Will lobbed a pair of fire balls at the sweepers. The sweepers yelled in pain as the flames came in contact with their flesh. Will then yanked the paper towel dispenser from off his wall and proceeded to beat the closest sweeper with it as the other sweeper rolled on the floor trying to smother the flames.
Will might have managed to beat the sweeper to death had Sam not entered the room, and yanked Will off of the sweeper.
"Will, stop. Look at what you're doing and stop!" Sam yelled horrified at what the boy had managed to do. The red haze surrounding Will's brain dissipated and Will dropped the paper towel dispenser in shock of what he had done. The sweeper that Sam had ripped Will off of, laid on the ground unconscious, and a mess of bloody bruises. The other was unconscious as well his body covered in burns.
"What have I done," Will gasped. He then managed to wiggle out of Sam's arms and run down the corridor, trying to escape the reality of what he had done.
Sam would have gone after the young pyrokinetic but he knew that the two sweepers needed immediate medical attention. Sam pulled out his walkie talkie and alerted Jen that their were two sweepers down in Will's cell.
Will ran blindly through the Centre, letting his feet carry him to his destination. Will came to a door typed in a code, on the pin pad and the door slid open. Not until he studied his surroundings did Will realize where his feet had taken him. It was his father's old room. The Centre had yet to convert it in hopes that their pretender would one day return. The room was still cleaned regularly so there was a lack of dust. The room was the same as Jarod had left it, down to the origami Onisius. Will picked up the origami model and clutched it to his chest. He then walked over to his father's bed and collapsed, tears streaming down his face.
Will had a strong urge to be held by his father. For Jarod to take over all of the responsibilities Will had been shouldering for the past seven years. Will was tired. Each revelation he learned over whelmed him. And with Alley was gone there was no one left to help Will shoulder his weight.
He wanted to tell his father everything. Why Will and Alley had been created. Alley's death. Will's baby brother's and sister. Who his and his siblings mother was. What the Centre had done to Will. The sweepers Will had killed. The sweepers Will had almost killed. Everything. For the first time in his life Will truly was like any other seven year old. He just wanted his father to come and make everything better.
"Dad," Will cried as he held the origami figure against his chest. Eventually Will fell asleep. And as he slept he dreamed. It wasn't just any dream it was The Dream. Or a variation of it anyway.
Will stands in a kitchen holding a plate. Around him is his family -his parents, his aunts, uncles, and all of the Black Files. He has to be thirteen at least. Suddenly a voice fills his head 'Hello Big Brother,' The voice says. Will drops the plate he is holding. His family asks him if he is alright. But Will doesn't hear them instead he whispers one word "Alley". Will slowly makes his way to the front door. Will opens the door and there she stands. His twin. His other half. He touches he face to confirm her existence. He then pulls her into his arms and the two hug . 'I'm back now Will. I found you and I'm back. Remember I told you nothing could keep us apart.' Alley whispers in his head.Hello Big Brother,' "Alley" I'm back now Will. I found you and I'm back. Remember I told you nothing could keep us apart.'
"You were right Alley. You were right," Will muttered in his sleeps.
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Up Next: Will and Mr. Parker talk. Will reveals a secret to Sam. And we see more of Alley.
