Unknown Powers
The next morning Christian awoke to the beeping of his alarm clock. His hand swung over and hit the alarms off button. He woke up and went into the kitchen to make some coffee.
All of a sudden the coffee machine started to overflow. Christian flung out his hands and the coffee stopped pouring. Christian walked over and took the coffee pot off of the machine and put it in the sink, after he walked back over and turned the machine off.
"Well that was one mess taken care of." Christian mumbled to him self. "I better get ready for Gabe. He'll be here in an hour."
An hour later Christian was sitting out on the front pouch when a silver convertible drove in the driveway. A young man with dark brown hair got out.
"Hey Gabe how you've been?" Christian called as Gabe came up the walkway and up the stairs to
the porch. As Gabe stood in front of his brother they each gave each other a hug.
"How've you been? Not getting into any trouble are you?" Gabe joked.
"Nah I decided to stay away from it for awhile. You want a cup of coffee, I just put on a fresh pot."
"Sure I'd love a cup." Gabe said following his brother into the large kitchen. He sat down at the small kitchen table and watched as his brother grabbed two cups out of the cupboard.
As he finished pouring coffee into each cup he placed sugar and milk on the table. Then Christian sat down in front of Gabe.
"So there's always a reason why you invite me over. So what's the reason?" Gabe asked.
"Well did you receive a large leather bound book with the two people standing side by side intertwined in three triangles?" Christian asked.
"Yeah I did. I went into my cabin and there it was sitting on my chest." Gabe explained.
"Gabe the two people on the front...well they're us." Christian blurted out.
"WHAT!" Gabe yelled. "I don't think so."
"Gabe we were picked at birth to be the two protectors. To protect the innocents." Christian
explained.
"Okay Christian nice joke but I really need to get going." Gabe said standing up and starting to
head towards the door.
"Can you move things just by thinking about them?" Christian asked. Gabe stopped in his tracks and turned to face his brother.
"How did you know that?" Gabe asked with a shocked expression.
"Gabriel you have more powers then that. I have powers as well. I can freeze time and blow up objects. Gabe you have the power of telekinesis and the power to shimmer. Which means you can go from one place to another just by thinking about it. You just have to learn how to use your powers and harness them." Christian said.
"You're just pulling my leg Chris." Gabe said.
"Oh yeah you wanna bet?" Christian asked.
Back on the Vast Explorer Judson and Mac were just sitting down to dinner when Judson's cell phone rang. Judson looked down at the caller ID and saw that it was Gabe.
"Hey Gabe what's up?"
"Nothin much. I'll be over to the boat to pick up my stuff tomorrow." Gabe said.
"What do you mean your stuff?" Judson asked looking over at Mac with a questionable look. "Um
I'll explain it all when I get to the boat. Talk to ya later."
"He hung up on me. Said he'll explain when he gets here." Judson told Mac.
"Do you think he's leaving us?" Mac asked.
"I don't know I really don't know." Judson said.
As Gabe walked out of the bedroom that he would spending the night in. He walked over to Christian who was sitting in the living room watching the evening news.
"Christian." Gabe said but Chris didn't pay any attention to him. Gabe got fed up and pictured the remote flying into his out stretched hand. As he looked down and sure enough there it was. Gabe hit the power button and the TV turned off.
"What was that for?" Christian asked with an agitated voice.
"You weren't paying attention I called you name but you didn't answer."
"Wait a minute you used your powers didn't you?"
"Yeah so what." Gabe said. "This is important and you need to listen carefully. I'll stay with you for a while and you can teach me how to horn my powers and teach me how to shimmer. Deal?"
"Deal. How you gonna tell them your leaving them and that I'm going to teach you to use long lost powers?" Christian asked.
"That's the thing I 'm not going to tell them that I have un-natural powers. Just that I'm taking a vacation and will be back soon." Gabe said as if it was the easiest thing in the world to do.
The next morning as Gabe woke up he turned over to the alarm clock that was sitting on the nightstand, he saw that it was only 8:00am. He decided to get up and take a shower. Fifteen minutes later Gabe emerged from the shower his hair still wet. He walked into the kitchen in a pair of jeans and a red muscle shirt. He went over and poured himself a cup of coffee and sat down at the kitchen table. Half and hour later and a second cup of coffee was when Christian emerged from his bedroom and sat down after he too had a cup of coffee.
"How long have you been up?" Christian asked.
"I got up around 8:00 and took a shower then had a couple cups of coffee and read the morning paper." Gabe replied.
"So when are you going back to the Vast Explorer to tell Mac and Judson that your leaving them for awhile?" Christian asked with interest.
"I was going to leave in ten minutes and be back around 9:00 tonight." Gabe said.
"Oh okay, sure not a problem."
"I'm going to get going so I'll see ya later." Gabe said getting up from the table and putting his coffee cup in the kitchen sink and walking into his room and grabbed his car keys and wallet off of the nightstand.
"Hey wait a minute you didn't answer my question. How are you going to tell Mac..."
"I don't know I'll think of something on the way there." Gabe snapped back as he opened the front door and walked down the porch stairs and in to his Ford Mustang. As Gabe backed out of the driveway he looked up and saw Christian up on the deck watching him leave a concerned look on his face.