Grace- Glad you liked the first chapter. I was hoping it would go over well.
LJP- I don't know if this is a welcome back per say. I still need to finish posting the rest of Genesis. But I was really anxious to start posting this as well. As for things being set for this story they mostly are. Within a month all of Genesis should be up, just in case I made some references to the later chapters of Genesis.
Erikstrulove- Hey you're back. Man did you have some catching up to do. See you go away for two months and you miss the posting of a new story :) I hope that I posted this chapter up in time before you have to leave again.
CHAPTER 2
SEARCHING FOR CLUES
October 28, 2010
5:10pm
Charlottesville, Virginia
Russell Family Home
"What do we do?" Jake asked, at fifteen Jake was oldest of the Black files. He was also their unofficial leader. Granted he and the others did have a tendency to but heads every now and then; and occasionally Jake's head met Alex's fist.
"Get the babes stuff together," Will said referring to Logan and the other children that were downstairs.
"We might need Lo," Rachael spoke. "Lo's a retrocog and may pick up something if the rest of us can't."
"We need to get to the site now. It's been over an hour an we all know that as time passes we're least likely to pick up any psychic residue," Mike said.
"We have to wait for Dad first," Jeremiah told his cousin. Jeremiah's father, Sam was a detective with the FBI. He worked along family friends in the violent crimes unit.
"Wait's over, Dad's home," Greg said glancing out the window. Sam's convertible pulled up in the drive way. Two seconds latter Sam's wife, Jen pulled in, followed by Lex, Julia and Ethan. The four had left from the doctors office. As the five sprinted into the mansion, Emily along with Ethan's wife Sara pulled up and Nick parked behind them a few moments later.
"Good they're all here, that means we can go to the sight," Aaron said running a hand through his hair. The sixteen children then bounded down the stairs nearly running into Ethan.
"Jake, Rach where's your brother?" Ethan asked his eldest children.
"Asleep," the twins replied continuing down the stairs.
Ethan sprinted the rest of the way up the stairs and down the hall to the room Adam shared with Pete. Ethan entered the boys' room. It had changed little over the past six years. There was still the Spider-man mural on the wall that had been painted by Will, Alex, Aaron, Andros, and Chris. The boys had refused to part with it. The bunk bed that once furnished the room was gone and in it's place were two full size beds. One bed had Spider-man sheets, the other X-men.
In front of each bed were two desk. On one sat a laptop and a neatly stacked pile of books consisting of "On Writing" by Stephen King, "The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe", and "Canterbury Tales". There were also a stack of notebooks each filled with stories, poems and drawings. It was Pete's desk.
On the other side of the room sat Adam's desk, the complete opposite of his cousin's. The desk was in total disarray. Homework papers and graded test strewn every where. A Red Sox's hat propped haphazardly on Adam's laptop. Comic books -X-Men, Spider-man, and Wolverine- were teetering perilously on the edge of the desk. Next to the laptop sat a photo of Eddie and Joanna Noonan, Adam's biological parents, both had died before Adam had reached his sixth birthday. Next to the picture sat another framed photograph. It was a family photograph of Ethan, Sara, Jake, Rachael, Adam, Logan, Kale, and Kay taken just a month before Kay and Kale's first birthday.
Ethan sat on the edge bed next to his sleeping son. 'He needs a haircut,' Ethan thought as he brushed Adam's damp hair out of his face. Adam stirred slightly and opened his eyes.
"Dad?" Adam said sitting up, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
"Hey champ." Ethan said.
"I'm sorry Dad. I'm so sorry." Adam sobbed. Ethan pulled his son into his arms and began to rock him.
"It's okay Ad. It's okay. What happened it's not your fault." Ethan told his son. He had been afraid of this. Ethan knew his son better than anyone. After Joanna had died, Adam blamed her death on himself. He believed that it was his mother's love for him that had caused her death. Adam had closed himself off from everyone after Joanna had died, afraid that if he let anyone in they too would die. It was Ethan who had finally broken through, who had convinced Adam that he wasn't cursed.
But now Adam's cousins, his closest friends had been kidnaped, when they were with Adam. And the boy blamed himself.
"I should have gone back for them. I could have helped." Adam muttered into his father's chest.
"You might have been taken too," Ethan told his son. "Now listen to me Ad, you can beat yourself up about this later. Right now we need you to show us where this happened. And then I need you to look after the babes. We're sending all of you to the safe house in Bangor. Jake and the others aren't going so you need to help your Mom, aunts and uncles look after brothers, sister, and cousins. Kay?"
"Kay," Adam sniffled rubbing the tears from his face.
"Start packing some of your things then. Pete's as well. I'll see you down stairs in a bit." Ethan said getting up from the bed.
"Yes sir," Adam replied.
"Adam are you going to be okay?" Ethan asked his son. Adam's grey eyes grew dark.
"I will be once we find those bastards that took my cousins," Adam replied. Ethan nodded his head and left Adam to his packing. It didn't thrill Ethan that Adam's self pitying had been replaced with anger. Objects had a tendency to fly around the room or be set ablaze when any of the children lost control of their emotions. But then again anger was better than self pity.
Ethan left his son's room to check on Morgan and Jaord. He found the couple in Jason and Jack's room packing some clothes for the twins into the twins Wolverine backpacks.
"How are you two holding up?" Ethan asked his half brother and sister.
"We're not as bad as we were when the triplets were taken," Morgan commented and Ethan could hear the hint of disgust in her voice.
"Mor it's alright that you're not as crazy as you were when the triplets were taken," Sam said entering the room. "Willard had Air, Andy, and Alex then and we knew that he would kill them. More than likely the Centre or what's left of the Centre has Pete, Zane and Gabe." Sam told her. Only the adults called Jason and Jack by their first names.
"Morgan we all know that the Centre won't hurt the boys they need them too much." Ethan said with a pained look on his face. He was just as worried about the boys as their parents. Pete was one of the last remaining links to the mother Ethan had never been allowed to know. Pete- as well as Morgan, and Lyle- shared Catherine Parker as their mother. Neither Pete or Ethan ever had the chance to know Catherine. Ethan was born minutes before his mother had been murdered, and Pete was born decades later.
"We don't even know if it is the Centre," Morgan sighed.
"Hate to play the role of the cop right now but Ethan, I need Adam. And Jar, Mor, which kids do you want me to take? And are either of you coming?" Sam asked knowing that he need to get everyone to focus on the task at hand.
"Both of us are coming as well as Will, Alley, Jake and his band of merry men," Jarod answered.
"It's more like pissed off men. Right now Alex, Andros, and Aaron are in the workout room giving the punching bags all they have. And lets just say I saw a bit of smoke wafting off of Will and Alley." Sam said.
"What about Deb and Chris? Has anyone heard from them?" Ethan asked.
"Chris on his way here from Richmond breaking every single speed limit. Deb should be here soon she was already on her way home from D.C.. She was with Jon and Holly Looking for wedding gowns" Jarod informed his brother.
"And what of Charles, Margaret, Sydney and Michelle?" Sam asked.
"Dad, and Michelle, are with Angelo and are flying out of France. They're going to meet everyone in Bangor. Charles and Margaret are flying to the airport now with the plane to take everyone to the safe house." Morgan answered.
"Good then lets get Adam and the others and get going." Sam said.
October 28, 2010
5:26pm
Charlottesville, Virginia
Odds Lane
Adam led the group of nineteen people to where the abduction had taken place. For the next twenty minutes the sixteen children that made up the majority of the group studied the scene by touching various things to see if they could get a vison or emotion that would give them a clue as to where Pete, Jason, and Jack had been taken.
"Nothing," Marc sighed tossing the rock he held in his hand on to the pavement.
"Did anyone pick up anything?" Will asked. He was answered with fourteen no's. Will stared at his baby sister. Alex had not answered. She was leaning against an oak tree staring at Adam. Will nodded at Alley and the two of them walked over to Alex.
'Where are you baby sister?' Will asked Alex telepathically.
'Crime scene,' Alex replied. 'There,' she said triumphantly and broke her telepathic link with Will.
"What did you find Katie girl?" Alley asked using Jarod's nickname for Alex.
"License plate. Arizona tags. Number was 1611811," Alex said. She had gone through Adam's mind and searched through his memories of the abduction for any clues that would lead them to the boys.
"Good work, Baby girl," Will said and kissed his sister on top of her head. Will and Alley then went to tell their parents what Alex had seen.
A short while later the group made it back to the house. Ten minutes later a caravan of cars fled the mansion.
Up next: Pete and Adam do some thinking.
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