Author's Note: Slightly longer chapter that will get us into one of the main emotional storylines in this story. That's why its so long, I had to get it going. Last update for a while, since I'm on my way to Florida in the morning for my Spring Break...and I'm so excited! Hope everyone enjoys this chapter. Keep the reviews coming!

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Chapter 2: Choices:Julie

"So," I say, looking out over the class, "Any questions?"

"I have a question," One of the girls, Gale raises her hand. "Guy says that its fate. But you just said that it's our genes. Which is it?"

"I've never known you to be one of Guy's disciples Gale," I say, she blushes and everyone laughs. "It's both, Guy's a geneticist, obviously, he believes it in there somewhere, but he also likes to romanticize, it's fate, you were destined to have your powers." She smiles.

"Julie," Adam walks in, I turn and smile at him, "Can I see you a second?"

"Sure," I nod and walk out, "What is it?"

"It's Parker." He says, "He just collapsed in my class. Then when he came to, said he needed to talk to you." I nod.

"OK," I say, "Can you,"

"Yeah," He says, "He's in the caf, I gave him food, just like you always say to," I smile and walk off. I walk in and he's sitting at a table. He looks up at me. Parker Pierce, age sixteen. My student.

"You OK?" I ask, he nods. "What is it?"

"I know where she is," He whispers. I look at him. "Kaylee, I found her."

The house is in shambles. Everything is thrown around, some things had caught fire. I glance over at Charlie who sighs loudly.

"They beat us here," he looks down. "Shit!"

"We should go inside," Fulton looks at me, I nod. Charlie shakes his head in disbelief. He's discouraged. "If there was a struggle it means that she probably didn't go willingly, she might still be inside."

"The last thing we need to see is another body," Connie shudders. I agree with her there. She's especially worried, she always is, she hates leaving Justin.

"I'll go," I say.

It could be dangerous baby. Charlie thinks to me. I smile at him

Ten years later and you still don't think I can handle the danger? I tease him.

"Catlady," Goldberg says to me, "Sense it first, see if it's safe." I nod and close my eyes.

"She's gone," I shake my head, they sigh, "But there are two other people in there."

"Powered?" Charlie asks me. I shake my head.

"No," I say, "Young though."

"Cowboy, Goldberg," Charlie nods to them, "Go get them." They nod, Dwayne grabs Goldberg's arm and they disappear inside. He looks at me. "Do you think?"

"They weren't scared enough to have her be dead." I shake my head at him. "God, I can't believe they beat us to another one."

"Scooter's got to be getting stronger," Fulton says, "If he's sensing them as quick as Jules."

"Or Riley's been focusing in on the psychic powers," Charlie says, "I should have developed mine more."

"Julie's still got more power than both of them combined," Connie shakes her head, "It was probably just luck." Goldberg and Dwayne appear again, this time with two young boys at their side.

"Where's Kaylee?" The youngest one asks. I walk over to him and bend over.

"We're looking for her too." I say softly, he smiles.

"What do you people want with her?" The older one asks. "She didn't do anything wrong!"

"No, we want to help her," Charlie says to him, softly but firmly.

"The other people said that too," the kid responds, "then when she wouldn't go with them they lit our house on fire."

"Did they take Kaylee?" I ask him gently.

"No," the youngest one says, he's already warmed up to me. "She was screaming, and then she ran away." I look over at Charlie.

"Julie, can you find her?" He asks me. I nod.

"What's your name?" I ask the little boy, who has now attached himself to my leg.

"Bobby," he whispers.

"OK," I smile and put my hands on his forehead, "I need you to trust me Bobby." He nods. "I want you to think about Kaylee, can you do that for me?" He nods again. I focus. I can see what she looks like.

"What's she doing to him?" The older one jumps at me and pulls me off him.

"She won't hurt him," Connie says sympathetically. "She's going to use his memories of your sister to find her. What's your name?" He stares at her, his jaw dropping. The thing is, in her costume, Connie is a boy this age's fantasy. She's all legs and her curves are spectacular. The look is just sexy enough without being threatening. Oh, and she's dressed like a superhero.

"I'm um, uh, John," he manages to stammer.

"Well John," Connie smiles at him, everyone's trying not to laugh at his reaction to her. "I know this is scary, what's happening to Kaylee, and with you, but we really want to help."

"I want to help you find Kaylee!" Bobby stands proudly and I bend back down to him and put my hands on his head. I focus in and close my eyes. I have what she looks like, and now, a location.

"I found her," I stand up.

"Alright," Charlie says. "John, Bobby," They look at him, "Stay here."

"Can she stay with us?" John points to Connie. That's too much for the guys to take and they start laughing.

"How far is she?" Connie asks me.

"Not far," I shake my head, "No need for flight, stay with them."

We approach a small tree house around the back. I can hear her in there, she's so afraid. Charlie and I climb the ladder to where she is.

"Stay away from me!" She shouts.

"Kaylee, we want to help you," I say softly.

"I'm serious, I'm dangerous!" She says sharply.

"No you're not," Charlie says in the same soft tone as I used. "You just need help to learn how to control yourself."

"I lost control," she whimpers and starts crying, "And I hurt people. I killed my brothers."

Izzie. I think to Charlie.

You think? I hear him.

That's what she does. I say. Makes you see yourself hurting the people you love. I should know, Izzie got in my head once. I'm surprised I survived it."Kaylee, you didn't hurt anyone, and your brothers are fine. They're right out front."

"I can't leave them!" She says, "I'm all they have." She shudders. "They didn't understand that."

"We'll take them with us," I say.

Julie! Charlie thinks to me. We can't do that.

Charlie, it's not like we don't have the space. I stare at him. And they might manifest, they're too young now, but later.

That isn't your decision. He's angry. Whatever, he gets like this, he thinks that because he's captain he gets to make all the decisions with the school.

Would you rather Riley come back here and kill her when she won't come with him? I say. He sighs. We've seen it before. He knows that.

"Who are you?" She finally says, now that she's calmed down, she's curious about us.

"We're the good guys," Charlie smiles. She laughs weakly. "My name's Charlie Conway, and this is Julie Gaffney, also known as Captain Duck and The Catlady. We run a school, for people like us, people like you."

"You can do what I can do?" She says excitedly. We sigh.

"Not exactly," I explain, "Everyone has their own gifts."

"Like the X-men right?" She asks.

"Exactly like the X-men." Charlie smiles, "Do you want to show us what you can do?" She nods, and flicks on the flashlight that's sitting next to her. She pulls the light out of it, so it's this ball of electric energy, and then she sends it out the window striking a pole outside like lighting.

"Wow," Charlie says. "So, Kaylee, you ready to come to school?" She smiles and nods.

Once we're back at Eden Hall, and we've got Kaylee, John and Bobby settled in rooms that are right next to each other, and we finally get them to sleep, I head out towards where Charlie and my room is.

"Julie," He stops me in the hallway. "You completely disregarded the rules today."

"We wanted to keep them all safe right Charlie?" I ask him. He nods. "Well, without parents, because they obviously don't have them, this is the best way to do it."

"We can't bring in families!" He says, "The other kids aren't going to,"

"The other kids aren't orphans keeping their siblings safe from Riley," I retort. "Look, I'll take personal responsibility for the boys if you want."

"That's not the point!" He stresses.

"No, the point is, I made a call without you and that pissed you off." I say crossing my arms and staring at him. "You can't have control of everything Charlie, deal with it." I walk off.

"Where are you going?" He asks me.

"I'm going to sleep in one of the extra rooms tonight." I say, the last thing I want to do is sleep with him tonight.

"Trouble in paradise?" Portman leans against the door frame as I spread some sheets on an extra bed. I look at him and smile. The one thing I've always been able to count on is Dean Portman's timing.

"You of all people know," I shake my head, "It's not paradise."

"What happened?" He shrugs and walks in.

"The girl that we brought back tonight," I explain, "She has these two younger brothers, and no parents, and we brought the brothers."

"Which strictly speaking we're not allowed to do," He nods, "Which Captain Duck thinks,"

"Is the absolute end of the world," I sigh, "I don't know, we've been fighting a lot lately,"

"You two have always fought," He laughs, "It's like your thing."

"It's different now though," I explain, "I mean, normally yes, we would fight, and then you know, one of us would apologize and we'd kiss and it would be fine, but lately," I shake my head, "He doesn't trust me, not to make decisions at least,"

"I'd trust you," He says, I laugh, "I'm not kidding." He takes my hand.

"Dean," I say softly.

"I'm still in love with you," He says, "I'm sick of pretending that I'm not. I love you Julie." I look at him and then as though something inside of me snapped I sit up and kiss him. It's like we can't keep from each other, I gasp as he starts to kiss my neck, I whimper and pull away, but it's less than a second before he's kissing me again. Charlie hasn't kissed me like this in years. "I knew you felt the same way," He smiles, "I knew, you had to." I lower my head to his chest.

"Dean, I," I start to say. "I have to think about this,"

"What's to think about?" He looks at me. "I love you."

"I know," I say quietly, "I've always known."

You're supposed to stay out of my head He thinks. I look down sheepishly. Sometimes I can't help myself, especially when it comes to him. He's always thinking about how beautiful I am, and that kind of thing, it makes me feel good. "I don't mind so much." I smile. He kisses me again.

"Dean," I stop him.

"I can't wait another ten years Julie," He says simply.

"I know," I say, "I know that. It won't take me ten years this time." It won't. It can't.

"Julie," Charlie catches me in the morning. I look at him. "I want to talk to you."

"What?" I sigh, "I don't have time for this right now, I have to work with Parker and then I have a class. If you're going to yell at me some more,"

"This isn't captain talk," He says and takes my hand, "This is us talk." I smile. "I think I know how to solve our problem."

"What problem would that be?" I say quietly.

"You know," He says, "The fighting, and the mistrust," He doesn't even know. I hope he's not reading my mind. "I think we should get married." I burst out laughing. "What?"

"We can't just get married," I say. "That won't magically fix all our problems." He kisses me gently.

"I love you," He says, "I want to be with you for the rest of my life. Julie, marry me."

"I need think about this," I swallow. He nods.

"Get to Parker," He kisses me. "We'll talk later." He walks away. Oh my God. I'm fifteen years old. And Charlie Conway and Dean Portman want me to choose between them. And somehow ten years later, the choice doesn't seem any easier.

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