Chapter Sixteen:
Jedikiah had managed to pull himself together fast enough to grab the power suppressant bracelet he always keep handy in his pocket and slapped it onto Roger's wrist. Roger then began struggling; resorting to physical means to escape, but one carefully aimed punch from John knocked Roger out.
Jedikiah then ordered a team to shift through Rogers mind while going through the reports from Cara and Russell's mind search. It turned out that Roger had left a failsafe. After a certain period of time had passed without his presence to activate, which had been a 2 weeks before he had caught The Tomorrow People. The message outlining everything they had to do to get him back. Which they had done. With the Founder currently silent, immersed in his latest research project, everything to do with ULTRA had become Jedikiah's decision. He had to decide what to do with his brother, who he had thought was dead until a couple of hours ago.
So with his mind whirling Jedikiah decided the best thing to do was to see how Stephen was. Offering John and Charlotte a lift home as an excuse, they made their way to the house. He followed John and Charlotte inside, and was immediately greeted by Luca and an invitation to stay for dinner, which he accepted. He looked around for Stephen and saw John's eyes very careful raise upwards towards their room and then back down again, coinciding with footsteps of Stephen coming downstairs.
Stephen looked awful, his face red and blotchy with his eyes bloodshot from all the crying he must have done since leaving ULTRA. Without even a second thought, Jedikiah opened his arms to Stephen embracing his nephew as he began crying again. Marla came in and stood beside Luca both looking worriedly at Stephen.
"Kiddo?" Jedikiah asked.
"Yeah, tell them." Stephen whispered still crying into Jedikiah's shirt.
After a few moments of deciding the best way to tell them, he decided on the direct approach. The only approach that he knew.
"Roger's alive." He told them. Marla dropped her cup causing it to shatter, giving Jedikiah de javu over how he reacted when he saw Roger earlier that day.