LJP- I figured it was about time to give Adam a power. A couple other kids will be getting a power as well. I like having the story told across four locations. It's not too difficult, I just have to remember not to leave out characters for too long or I forget where I put them.

Loveroffanfic- Adam's new power will help him out a lot when it comes to his insecurities as to were he stands in the family. As for Pete being affected by the brain washing you are right, but you have no idea just how much he was. The Russell clan is in for some serious hard times.

Lizzie- I got your review right before I was about to post. I'm glad you liked the chapter with Keegan, Jace, and Jack. Look for them to become closer as the story continues. As for an Alex and Lyle scene with a new flashback I'll see what I can work out. I can tell you that there is an up coming scene between Will and Lyle -or should I say Will and Bobby- but it's not for another seven chapters.

CHAPTER 25

POWER

November 20, 2010

9:28pm

Blue Cove, Delaware

Russell Summer Home

"Hello," Will said answering his cell.

"Hi, Will," Adam replied.

"Ad, what's up? Has Jake called you yet about Keegan?" Will asked softly as he watched Jason, Jack, Keegan, and Pete sleep. After ice cream Will, and Alley prepared dinner. For the first time in close to a month Pete, Jason, and Jack ate real food, and for the first time in his life Keegan sat down to dinner with his family. Afterwards Will and Alley laid out several air mattresses in Catherine's old studio and Jason, Jack, Keegan and Pete nodded off.

"Will something's wrong with me," Adam said and Will could hear the fright in his voice.

"What do you mean, Adam what's wrong?" Will asked.

"I think I'm an electrokinetic," Adam said nervously. Will was silent. "Will say something please."

"Damn, I was so hoping this was confined to Amy," Will said shaking his head.

"I don't understand," Adam said.

"Back when our parents were younger the Centre gave them some drug to bring out their "hidden potential". It didn't work on them, but apparently it's had an effect on us. A week or so ago Kat got Amy mad and we all discovered the hard way that Amy is a telekinetic."

"Why didn't you tell me?" Adam asked.

"I didn't want to upset you further. With everything else going on I didn't want you to worry about that as well," Will answered. "When did you discover your ability?"

"It was after Jake told me about Keegan. I got a bit upset and next thing you know I'm an X-man," Adam sighed Will chuckled at his cousin, whenever Adam felt a bit overwhelmed he tended to incorporate comic book tall into his speech.

"Why are you laughing this isn't funny," Adam scolded.

"Sorry little cousin. It's just you fall back on your comic books when your overwhelmed. It's your safety net," Will answered.

"And." Adam said a bit tersely.

"Nothing Ad. Chill I wasn't making anything of it," Will said keeping the other boy calm.

"Will what do I do about this?" Adam asked.

"Mostly you just need to keep your emotions in check. Once you get home I can train you better," Will replied.

"Will I'm kinda scared. I mean I always wanted a power like the rest of you. And now I got one, but I have no way of controlling it. Was it like this for you?"

"Actually no. I was pretty psyched about it. Alley and I were four and Lyle -Bobby-...," Will trailed off. Even after six years it was still a bit hard for him to talk about his years at the Centre. "Anyway, it was a way for us to defend ourselves. But if I were in your position I think I'd be pretty scared, freaked out to say the least," Will told Adam.

"So it's normal for me to be overwhelmed by this whole thing?" Adam asked.

"I'd say yes. But you're not telling me something. Care to share?" Will prompted.

"No. There's nothing," Adam replied his voice going up an octave higher than normal. He didn't know why he lied to Will. Adam knew that his family had all right to know about Benny. But he couldn't bring himself to tell Will about Benny.

Months later after everything had settle Adam would look back and realize the reason he had lied to Will was because Adam wanted a chance to prove to his family that he was not just a little boy. That he was capable of the things that his older siblings and cousins had done when they were his age and younger.

"Right," Will drawled out. "Fine tell me in your own time."

"I will," Adam said. "It's pretty late I'm gonna go to bed now."

"Hey it is. What time is it over there2:30?" Will asked. "Why are you up so late?"

"Well I actually got my power about seven hours ago. I just need time to think about it and stuff before I called you," Adam said

"Oh. Well listen, you get some rest, alright? I'll talk to you soon."

"Kay. Hey Will, you won't tell any of the adults will you?" Adam questioned.

"Course not. They'll find out when you're ready," Will replied.

"Thanks Will," Adam said and hung up.

"You're welcome little cousin," Will whispered.

"Who was that?" Alley asked sitting next to Will on the window seat a mug of hot tea in each hand.

"Adam," Will said drawing his knees up to his chin, as he watched the four younger boys sleep.

"What did he have to say?" Alley asked passing Will one of the mugs.

"Turns out little Ad, got a power," Will said with a wry grin.

"No shit," Alley said sipping from her mug.

"Really. He's an electrokinetic now," Will replied.

"Little Adam," Alley muttered. "I still remember when Daddy, Uncle Ethan, Jake, and Rach brought him home with Aunt Joanna. He was so quite, Pete was the one who got Adam talking. Those two took an immediate liking to each other. He's turned out to be a pretty good kid, Adam has. Despite everything."

"What do you mean?" Will asked.

"He lost his Dad at such a young age, a few years later he lost mom. He was so afraid of losing someone he loved that he distanced himself from all of us. If it wasn't for Uncle Ethan, Adam would have become like Momma was when she was at the Centre," Alley said. She then sat her mug down next to her and leaned against Will. Will wrapped his arm around his twin.

"What's wrong?" Will asked.

"Nothing," Alley sighed.

"Liar. Come on Al tell me," Will begged.

"A part of us always believed that the Centre would come back. That they would come for us. We took precautions, but not enough of them. We got sloppy, we relaxed, we didn't teach them enough to protect themselves. If we had they wouldn't of been caught, and even if they had been caught they would have known enough on how to get out," Alley said softly as she looked at her sleeping baby brothers, and new found cousin.

"Alley we don't know that for sure," Will told her.

"Even still Will, it was, no it is our job to teach them how to protect themselves. We failed. Again. First Air, Andy, and Alex got taken and now the boys."

"And we got them all back. They are all safe, and they are all healthy," Will said taking Alley's face in his hands.

"Physically healthy yes. But mentally. Willard had Air, Andy, and Alex for barely a day, six years later they still have nightmares about it, and Willard is dead. Old Man Parker had the boys for twenty three days, Will. They are going to have nightmares for the rest of their lives, just like us. When they were born we swore that they would never have to live through what we did," Alley said her blue eyes meeting her brothers.

Will could see that Alley's eyes blazed with anger and were filled with unshed tears.

"Listen we can't do this okay. We can't dwell on what we should of done. It's like I told Alex, we must be strong for them. Keegan helped Jace, and Jack out a bit today, but you and I both know it's going to take more than that. The next few months are going to be hard, we have our work cut out for us. There are going to be nightmares, lots of them. When Dad got Alex, Air, Andy, and me out of the Centre the nightmares were pretty bad. Every other night I'd wake up holding back a scream." Will told her.

"No one ever mentioned you having nightmares after you got out. Momma said you got a bit funny when you found out she was pregnant with Jace and Jack. But never anything about the nightmares. Hell you never even mentioned them," Alley commented.

"I'm the oldest -save for Chris and Deb- I couldn't have nightmares. I had to be the strong one for, Aaron, Andy, Alex, and the others," Will said with a slight bit of regret in his voice.

"You and Jake, I swear," Alley chuckled softly.

"What?" Will asked.

"You two always put everyone else's needs in front of your own," Alley replied.

"Yeah well, It was the way I was raised. Dad and Uncle Sam were the two men who had the most influence on my life. They would put their lives on hold for the ones they loved. That philosophy made sense to me. I wasn't joking earlier when I said that being the older brother was a burden. But it's a burden I shoulder willingly," Will said.

"I'm glad to hear that," Alex said softly entering the room, in her hand she held a blanket and a pillow. Behind her where Aaron, Andros, Mike, and Maddie, like Alex the other four children each carried a pillow and blanket.

"You guy's ready for bed already?" Alley asked.

"It's been a long day," Mike said stopping by Keegan's to stare down at the young clone. Mike gently brushed the hair from Keegan's face, and Keegan stirred in his sleep.

"You five do know that the attic was converted into a bedroom large enough for all of you," Alley muttered as she and Will got off of the window seat to help the younger children lay out their bedding.

"Are you saying you don't want us here?" Aaron asked in mock offense.

"No we were just wondering why the five of you want to sleep on the floor," Will replied.

"We just wanted to be close to you big brother," Andros replied with a wry grin.

"Sure," Will drawled out tossing a pillow at Andros.

"We just thought that it would be best if we were all together tonight," Alex said softly as she sat down on the bedding that had been laid under the window seat.

"Uh, it truly has been a long day," Maddie groaned as she plopped down on the floor next to Alex.

"That it has, that it has," Will agreed. Returning back to his spot on the window seat, Alley joining him.

"Mike, Maddie, how are you two taking all of this?" Alley asked the twins, concern in her voice. Neither Mike or Maddie had voiced their feelings about Keegan.

"Dad's not going to tell him. He's not going to tell Key what -who- he is." Will didn't need to look at the younger boy nor his twin to see that there was anger shining in their eyes. There was anger radiating off of Mike and Maddie in waves. "It's not right Keegan has a right to know who he is. Dad's pullin' a Jake, and in the end it's going to all come crashing down just like it always does when Jake holds something back to protect us," Mike sneered.

"What about your Mom? Does she want to tell Keegan?" Alley asked.

"I think so. But she's not saying anything. I guess she realizes that at this moment in time there's not a snowball's chance in hell of changing Dad's mind," Maddie answered.

"It's stupid. Your Dad not wanting to tell Key. In the end he is going to find out. Either on his own or someone is going to accidently spill the beans. Why not tell him now? Well not now, but you know soon," Aaron said.

"Real soon," Will spoke darkly. "Al and I found references to Keegan in the old Centre Database. He's files pretty encrypted, but we've managed to decipher some of it. Unfortunately we can't make heads or tails of any of it yet. But I can tell you right now, Keegan isn't an exact duplicate of Markus. We don't know what Markus's powers would have been, but let's say that they would have been the same as your's," Will said to Mike and Maddie.

"Go on," Maddie instructed.

"You two are psychic. You get visions, Markus probably would have as well. And of course you're pretenders. Keegan is more than that. When I was trying to take a peek inside of his mind, not only did he block me, he sent me across the room. Later when Alley and I were giving him a bath, he said that he was a telekinetic and a telepath. We can also assume that he is a pretender as well, and probably has visions," Will informed the other kids.

"Let's back track a second. You said that Keegan blocked you from looking inside his mind," Alex stated. "Will..."

"I know," Will sighed.

"Will. No one's ever been able to block you. I mean they have but it's hard as hell. I'm speaking from personal experience," Andros said.

"I know," Will repeated a bit agitated. "I can usualy get into a person's mind undetected. Either Keegan knew I was taking a peak and set up blocks immediately, not a small feat, might I mention. Or Keegan already had his mental blocks in place."

"In other words either way baby brother is quite powerful," Mike whispered as he watched his brother sleep. "Which means Keegan will lean the truth about who he is, no matter what Dad wants."

"Exactly," Will replied.

"Will you and Alley are the most powerful out of all of us Centre projects. Even more powerful than us Black Files, because when Raines created you two he wasn't truly sure what he was doing at the time. But what if when they created Keegan they knew exactly what they were doing. What if they intentionally made him more powerful than you or Alley. And if so what did they plan on using him for?" Alex asked. Will didn't reply.

Up next: We see the after effects of the boys abduction. And learn that Will had something to do with the boys kidnaping.

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