Pretender Fanatic- It is a lot of people isn't it. And guess what I have four more appearing in the chapter after next. Yup I'm a glutton for punishment. Will and Alley are adults now. You'll find out more about their life in the next chapter. Which brings in two more characters. Ugh how am I keeping all of these people strait?

I must admit I did had fun naming the new kids. Logan, hey I got to have my X-Men/Dark Angel allusion some where. And actually in this chapter you'll learn who gave Logan his name.

Annette- I love receiving your reviews you keep me on my toes. As for the physic kids, most of them are related to Catherine Parker which is where they get their physic abilities. The rest of the Black Files who are physics were breed to be physics, as well as pretenders.

As for Ethan and his wife's three children they get abilities from both sides of their parents -pretender abilities, and inner sense from Ethan, and Logan get's his retrocognitivity from his mother-.

But yeah I get your point there are a lot of physics. As for Jarod's last name, I just decided to stick with the last name of Russell mostly because it's my dog's name. I had meant to change it before I posted the chapter in The Black Files with Jarod's last name, but I never got around to it.

Erikstrulove- Who's heading all of this up. Well you'll probably figure it out in this chapter. I do kinda make it obvious. As for Markus you have 17 to 18 more chapters to go.

CHAPTER 3

A BAD DREAMS RETURN

October 29, 2010

1:43am

Unknown location

Holding Cell

Pete sighed inwardly as he paced the twelve by twelve foot cinder block cell for what seamed to him the hundredth time. He had felt sleep fast approaching but refused to rest until he had learned who was behind his and his brothers abduction. Pete stopped in front of the camera and began to ponder who was in charge of the operation.

"Who are you?" Pete asked the tiny red light in the corner of the room. The camera had no reply. Pete ran a hand through his hair and continued his pacing. In effort to stay awake he began to make a mental list of his parents' enemies.

Mr. Parker and Raines were of course at the top of the list. The two men had lost their entire empire due to Pete's family. Then there was the Triumvirate, they had lost a valuable resource when the Centre fell. And though Pete's Uncle Sam was nephew to one of the Triumvirate members, Sam had long ago lost what ever protection his ties to the Triumvirate offered.

Pete supposed that Willie and Cox could also be behind the abduction. But neither man was truly that intelligent to pull of such an operation. 'Not Willie anyhow,' Pete thought to himself. 'That idiot can't even tie his own shoe unless given the ordered and even then he'd screw up.' And it was the truth Willie was a lackey who did as instructed.

Then there was Lyle, biologically Pete's half brother. And though Lyle like Mr. Parker and Raines had been imprisoned following the fall of the Centre, Pete did not view Lyle as a threat. Lyle seamed to have welcomed prison life. Pete supposed that the spark of humanity that remained in Lyle wanted to atone for his past misdeeds. Not to mention the fact that Lyle had three very good reasons not to cause problems for the Russell family; Greg, Jeremiah, and Melissa.

The red haired triplets were biologically Lyle's children. Over the course of six years Lyle had come to care for his children. Lyle wanted the best for his children considering he had taken so much from them, their mother, their childhood, their innocense. And if the Russells and their extended family made the triplets happy then Lyle wanted for the Russells and their extended family to remain safe.

Pete also knew that his parents had enemies that weren't involved with the Centre. During the years the Centre had hunted him down, Jaord had made many enemies from his pretends. Douglas Willard the Blue Moon Killer was one. But Willard was dead, and had been for close to seven years. Willard had kidnaped Aaron, Andros, and Alex shortly after their seventh birthday. Had Sam not arrived in time the triplets would have been dead.

Jarod had made another enemy from his pretends. In fact the man was Morgan's enemy as well. Efram Bartlett. Jarod had crossed the racist's path several times and each time Bartlett had ended up in prison. As far as Pete knew Bartlett was still in prison but things might have changed.

If Raines, Mr. Parker, Willie, Cox or Lyle were behind Pete and the twins kidnaping that meant that they had either managed to escape prison or had enough influences and connections to orchestrate the abduction.

Pete glanced down at his watch. It read 2:04am. Pete knew that he should get some sleep. He had been awake for over twenty hours. 'And if who ever is in charge is running this place like the old Center they'll have me up at seven,' Pete thought.

The boy hunkered down between Jason and Jack on the cold concrete floor. Finding himself uncomfortable due to his wallet in his back pocket, Pete pulled the black leather wallet -with his initials P.S.V.R.-out of his pocket. . He was surprised that he had been allowed to keep it. The men who had abducted Pete, Jason, and Jack had removed the boys necklaces, each necklace had a pendant of the eye of Ra dangling from a silver chain. Pete ran his finger over the silver R on his wallet.

It was time for Pete to stop lying to himself. He knew why he and his brothers had been kidnaped. Peter by blood was a Parker, and the one true heir to the Centre. Someone was trying to found a new Centre and so far was doing a damn good job. They already had the legitimate heir to the Centre as well as two exceptionally bright pretenders.

Pete ran his finger's over his initials again. "P...S... V... R... Peter Simon Vincent Russell." he whispered as he ran a finger over the letters. He then looked up at the camera.

"I won't be who you want me to be," He told the camera. "I'm a Russell not a Parker. I won't run this place I won't be a Parker."

A few yards away a man ran a finger along the image of Pete that was on a televison screen.

"Once a Parker always a Parker, my boy. And everyone knows that Parker's and the Centre go hand in hand."

Adam awoke to find a tiny lump curled at his side. Logan had fallen asleep next to his brother. The toddler had his index, middle, and ring fingers in his mouth and sucked on them as he slept. Adam smiled at the sight of his younger brother remembering how he had received his name. It had become family custom for older sibling to name their younger brothers and sisters. Adam had been in the middle of an X-men obsession when Sara had been pregnant with Logan. Adam's favorite X-man at the time had been Wolverine, but he knew that there was no way on God's green earth that Sara or Ethan would allow for one of their children to be named Wolverine. So Adam had suggested Logan, the other name Wolverine went by. Needless to say the name went over quite well.

Adam's uncle Jon often joked that the real life versions of Marvel's comic book characters lived at the mansion. There was Logan, Kat -often called Kitty by the other children after the X-Men character Kitty Pryde-, Pete whose original name was Peter Parker, and Alley whose code name -along with Will's- at the Centre was Phoenix.

A few years back on of the kids -Marc supposedly- had a sign made that read 'Russell's School of the Gifted' placed on the gate to the mansion. The mailman had seen it and jokingly asked Morgan if there was danger room in the mansion and a jet under the basketball court. The Black Files having been with in ear shot of the mailman's question got a far away look in their eyes that didn't go unnoticed by Morgan.

Morgan had remember the last time the children had gotten such a look in their eyes, she had ended up with a replica of the set from Indian Jones in her back yard. The next day Morgan removed the sign.

Adam glanced over at Logan and saw that he was shivering. Adam took off his jacket and placed it on Logan. The jacket already large on Adam, engulfed Logan. It was an old EMS jacket given to Adam by John Cody the day Adam's mother had died. Cody had been the one to arrive first on scene and pronounced Joanna dead. Cody had wrapped Adam up in his EMS jacket and taken the boy to Ethan. Adam had tried to return the jacket to but Cody told Adam to keep it. Cody, no longer and EMT was a doctor who worked at the Catherine Jamieson Foundation in Blue Cove.

'Blue Cove'. Adam wondered if that was where Pete, Jason, and Jack were. Adam figured that only an idiot would take the boys to Blue Cove. According to the license plate on the Lincoln the boys might be in Arizona. And as Adam and all of the other children younger than him where heading to the safe house in Bangor with their parents, the Black Files, Will, Alley, Chris, Debbie, Jarod, Morgan, Ethan and Sam where all headed to Arizona in search of Pete and the twins.

"Ad?" Logan yawned looking up at his older brother.

"Hey Wolvie," Adam said using his pet name for his brother.

"Dey, gonna find, Pete, Jasa, and Jacky right?" Logan asked.

"Of course they are Lo, you know that," Adam told the little boy.

"Dey gots t' find um soon Ad. For somethin' bad happen t' Pete. Or is it for Pete do somethin' bad? Can't member," Logan yawned, and climbed into Adam's lap.

"Wolvie what did you see?" Adam muttered into the boys hair.

"Saw a light, an' heard two gunshots an' two peoples screamin'," Logan said snuggling into Adam's embrace. Adam was thankful that Logan was not frightened by his visions.

"Ad?" Came Logan's muffled voice.

"Yes sir?"

"You sleep. Can't help if you gets no sleep," Logan commanded his brother.

"Okay Wolvie I'll sleep," Adam promised.

"You sing first?" Logan asked hopefully.

"Anything for you Lo. Anything for you," Adam said and began to sing Logan's lullaby, which was Billy Joel's 'Goodnight My Angel'. It was custom for Adam and Pete to sing their younger brother's to sleep each night. Adam wondered if Pete was singing the twins to sleep.

As Adam began to drift off to sleep as he sung to Logan he thought of what Logan had said. Adam had a brief flash back to six years ago. Jason and Jack had been but a few months old which meant the Centre had yet to have been brought down. Adam remembered walking to the bathroom late one night. Will had been on the phone talking to someone, curious Adam stopped to listen.

January 13, 2004 3:06am

Charlottesville, Virginia

Russell Family Home

"It's me." Will speaks into the phone. Adam clad in his X-men pyjamas pauses outside of Will and Alley's door "Couldn't sleep, wanted to make sure you were okay." Will says a short while later. "Good." Will says weakly. "Yeah. They're getting worse. Woke up and my bed was on fire, Al's too." He says his voice wavering.

"Yeah, we put it out before anyone found out." Will tells the person on the other line. "I got a burn on my arm, but it's not so bad. I took some Advil so it doesn't hurt anymore." The boy says quietly.

"I didn't want to worry her. She was already concerned about you. I caught her chuggin' a bottle of Pepto-Bismol earlier. I didn't want to make her ulcer any worse." Will says and Adam realizes that Will is talking about Morgan. 'Which means that Will is talking to Uncle Jarod' Adam thinks.

"Me and Alley are walking down a corridor looking for somethin'. We get to a door and it's c-closed. We don't want t-to go in but somethin' —makes us. W-we o-open the door an-and there's a-a blind-blinding light. Th-then g-gun shots are fired. T-two of 'em. We h-hear a m-man and woman scream. Th-the l-light goes a-away and there's b-b-blood, lots of it. Every-everywhere. Then m-me and Al wake up screamin'." Will finishes. Adam's blood runs cold never has he hear Will speak in such a manner. Will was normally so brave, so calm, nothing ever worried him.

"Y-yeah." Will stutters

"What if it's real, Dad?" Will whispers. "What if it was a premonition?" 'It is Uncle Jaord,' Adam thinks.

"I don't think it was. I think it was a warning." Will says obviously shaken. "Kay... Yes...Sleep, next t' me. I gave her some pills...Yes...Kay...Please, I can't. Can you tell her? I don't wanna see it again." Adam is still in shock Will is so obviously scared of what he and Alley dreamed about.

"Check on the others." Will says and Adam realizes that is his cue to return to his room but he waits outside of Will and Alley's room a bit longer.

"Dad?... When are you coming home?...Dad, can me and Alley be sick tomorrow? I don't wanna go t' school...Okay, night Dad...Dad...Can I check on the others then call you back. Just to talk. I don't think I'm going to be able to go t' sleep...Kay." Will says. "I'll be right back." Adam then quietly but quickly makes his way back to his room. He says up for the next hour wondering why such a silly dream shook Will so badly.

Logan's dream/vision sounded an awfully lot like Will and Alley's. 'Oh God,' Adam moaned. 'Pete what have you gotten in to.'

Authors Note#1: For those of you who would like to read Jarod and Will's full conversation it's located in Chapter 50 of THE BLACK FILES

Authors Note#2: I have a play starting up tonight, and the next two weeks are going to be crazy. I will try to update in three days, if I don't it's just because I've been swamped, but don't worry you can expect an new chapter.

Reviews are always nice, and they give me something to look forward

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