Chapter Six:
Jedikiah left telling them he expected them both at ULTRA tomorrow morning. John and Stephen spent the rest of the day as couch potatoes, as John was still not feeling 100% from all the alcohol he drank. The day passed quickly, and soon it was the next day, Johns first back at ULTRA.
It felt weird for John as he walked side by side with Stephen through the front doors of ULTRA. Stephen went with him to Jedikiah's office, passing the glares and mutterings of the other ULTRA employees. Stephen telepathically asked John if he wanted him to come in with him, but John declined. John took a deep breath and pushed open the doors.
"John," Jedikiah greeted, using his hand to motion towards the seat, busy with the documents in front of him. John sat and looked around the office, it hadn't changed at all since he had been in it last, all those years ago. Looking at Jedikiah's desk, he froze for a second. The photo of him and Jedikiah, taken on his 15th birthday, was still the only photo on his desk. Jedikiah had removed the photo of his brother when he had died, but he had kept this photo even though John had gone rogue.
John looked up to notice Jedikiah watching him with a small smile. "We have a busy day today, two meetings but first up we're going to supervise training downstairs." Jedikiah rose and John followed as they made their way to the training room.
Watching Stephen and the others train was funny. How they managed to survive and actually capture breakouts, he had no idea, as he was pretty sure he could take all three of them blindfolded. He snickered again as one of them fell, causing all the trainees to stop and look at him as well as Jedikiah.
"What?" Jedikiah asked.
"You lowered your standards a bit, since I left," John answered with a massive grin. Stephen was the only one to return it as he realized John wasn't being mean just honest, and Stephen had seen John fight so he knew just how bad they were in comparison.
"You think you could do better?" the female trainee asked scathingly.
"I know I could," John answered back honestly.
Jedikiah looked between the trainees and John, and after a few moments, shrugged.
"You against the three of them. They can use their powers, you can't." He directed John. The rest of the trainees smiled, thinking it would be an easy victory but Stephen was looking pleadingly at Jedikiah, who just smiled and shook his head in return.
John shrugged his jacket off, placed it on his chair and then walked forward.