Author's note- Okay boy's and girls. I need some reviews. It's discouraging to only get one or two reviews every chapter. I won't hold my post ransom because it isn't fair to those that do review. But please for the sake of my self esteem drop a line or two. I just want to know if you liked the chapter or not. Any way enough with my rant.
LadyJadePerendhil- Alley and Jeff will get more screen time, but sadly it is going to be a while, try over twenty chapters. But on the good side there isn't going to be much of Jamie and Will either, you'll soon find out why.
And yes Pete does need he but kicked. And yes you will get an explanation on why Pete did what he did in Chapter 42. And what chapter 42 doesn't explain 43 will.
CHAPTER 38
LOST AND FOUND
November 23, 2010
1:05pm
Blue Cove, Delaware
Jamieson Manor
The manor was in chaos no one could find Keegan. Lex and Julia was trying their best not to panic, while Mike and Maddie were beyond panic and down right hysterical. Everyone was crowded in the livingroom
"Will are you sure you can't sense him?" Maddie asked tears beginning to form in her blue eyes.
"He must be blocking me," Will said a look of worry on his face.
"Wait where are Jace, Jack and Amy?" Alex asked. The group looked around seeing that Jason, Jack and Amy were no longer sitting on the couch where they had been moments ago.
"Alright look, no one snuck into this house to take the kids. They are here somewhere," Jarod stated. "Will, Alley see if you can sense your... Alex where are you going?" Jarod asked seeing that Alex had left the room and was headed upstairs.
"I think Jace, and Jack know where Keegan is. Over the past few days they've connected, haven't you watched them? Their actions are always reflecting each other," Alex said.
"Keegan's an empath it's not that strange that he would be reflecting the twins' movements.
"Then what about the fact that the three of them are talking without talking?" Aaron asked.
"Air what are you talking about?" Morgan asked her son
"I didn't pay much attention to it at first mostly because well, Alex, Andy and I do it all the time. Small stuff you know passing Alex the sugar even though she never asked for it out loud. Well that's what Keegan, Jace, and Jack have been doing," Aaron explained.
"They've never shown that they had any abilities other than they're pretenders," Jake said mulling over Aaron's words. "Yet they could be empaths. After all the five of you are," Jake stated looking at Will, Alley, Aaron, Andros, and Alex."
"That stupid drug the Centre gave us may have resulted in the boys becoming empaths," Sam said.
"Yeah and if I'm right that drug has also resulted in two other people gaining a new power," Will muttered. Greg shot his older cousin a glare.
"Look let's just go and find the kids. We can discuss this later," Tobias said tersely. The group split up each taking a different wing of the manor.
November 23, 2010
1:05pm
Blue Cove, Delaware
Jamieson Manor
Jason and Jack pulled Amy off the couch with them. Amy opened her mouth in protest but the twins silenced her with a shake of their heads. Slowly the three of them made their way up two flights of stairs.
"Do you know where Keegan is?" Amy asked the twins where they were out of ear shoot of the adults and the Black Files. Jason and Jack nodded their heads.
The trio entered the Black Files room. "I don't see him," Amy stated when she steeped foot inside the room. The twins walked over to the closet door with assurance and each placed the palms of their hands against the wood of the door. Satisfied Jason opened the door, and there on the floor laid Keegan curled in a ball.
Amy gasped and made her way over into the closet and knelt next to Keegan. Jason and Jack went into the closet closing the door behind them. Not wanting to be in the dark Jack reached up and turned on the closet light.
"Keegan," Amy said softly as she gently shook the older boy. Keegan did not respond. "Keegan what's wrong?" Amy asked frightened by her new cousin's behavior.
"Shadows safe," Keegan whispered. Jason and his twin exchanged looks and Jack quickly turned the closet light back off.
"In the shadows now Key," Jason whispered. "We're safe now."
"He sacred me," Keegan sniffled. "He was like Erik." Jason and Jack shuddered upon hearing Erik's name.
"Who scared you Keegan?" Amy asked.
"Pete."
"Keegan, Pete wouldn't try to scare you on purpose. It must have been accident," Amy said, she knew her cousin Pete. Pete was the kindest, sweetest person Amy knew next to Jeremiah.
"Said you wouldn't believe me," Keegan stated.
"We believe you," Jason and Jack said. Keegan stared at the boys in disbelief.
"Really?"
"Pete's different he's changed," Jack said turning the light back on.
"No more shadows Key," Jason said and made Keegan uncurl himself from the fetal position he was in, and sit up.
"We can't let them control us." Jack spoke echoing Keegan's words from when the boys first met. Keegan nodded his head knowing that the twins were right.
"He still scares me," Keegan said.
"But Pete won't hurt us," Amy protested. But looking at the expressions on the boys Amy was filled with doubt. "Pete wouldn't hurt us would he?"
"He's different now," Was Jason's reply.
"We have to stat out of his way. It's safer that way," Keegan said recalling his years he spent under Erik's care.
"We have to stay together too," Jack added. The other three children nodded their heads agreeing with Jack's words.
"Someone's coming," Keegan said. "They're looking for us."
"Is it Pete?" Amy asked.
"No. We're safe," Keegan said. A moment later the door opened revealing Maddie and Alex. Relief crossed the girls faces upon sight of their brothers and Amy.
"There you four are," Maddie said picking up her brother. "You had me scared little brother."
"'M sorry," Keegan apologized, relived to be safe in the arms of his big sister.
November 23, 2010
3:53pm
Blue Cove, Delaware
Jamieson Manor
"Keegan baby, can you tell me what happened?" Julia asked her son later that day.
"Nothing Mum," Keegan said softly.
"Baby you can tell me anything, you know that right?" Julia said.
"I know Mummy," And yet Keegan knew that he could not tell his mother about Pete. She wouldn't believe him, had it not been for Jason and Jack, Amy would not have believed Keegan.
"Mum, if I asked you a question would you reply truthfully?" Keegan asked his mother. Julia's breath caught, and Keegan could sense his mother's uneasiness.
"I won't lie to you Keegan," Julia replied, in that moment she had made her decision that if Keegan asked about his origins she would not lie to him, he would be told what he was.
"How did my uncle Andrew and my brother Markus die?" Keegan asked looking up at his mother with his big blue eyes. Julia let out a sigh of relief. This was a question she could answer with out too much difficulty.
"No one knows how your brother died, your cousin Will has a theory.You will have to ask him to explain it to you, because I don't understand it. As for your Uncle Andrew he died saving my life. Sweepers had spotted us during our escape, they fired their guns at me and your Uncle Andrew dove in front of the bullets," Julia said and Keegan could hear the sadness in his mother's voice.
"He loved you," Keegan stated simply.
"Yes he did," Julia confirmed. Keegan tilted his head to his side as though listening to a voice only he could hear.
"Uncle Andrew says that he has no regrets. That if he had to he would do it again, he would save you again," Keegan said softly. Tears began to fall from Julia's eyes.
"Don't cry Mum," Keegan said crawling into his mother's lap. "I didn't mean to make you cry."
"Sweetheart it's not you," Julia said wiping her tears away. For so long Julia had carried the burden of Andrew's death around, blaming herself. But now, knowing that Andrew -or at least the voice of Andrew- did not blame her took the weight off her chest.
November 23, 2010
4:16pm
Blue Cove, Delaware
Jamieson Manor
After talking to his mother Keegan had been left with more questions concerning just what caused Markus death. So Keegan left his mother's side and went in search of Will. Keegan found Will in the room that was once Mr. Parker's office.
"Will," Keegan called softly knocking on the door frame.
"Hey short stuff, what can I do for you?" Will asked looking up from a stack of files Keegan assumed to be his, Markus's, Mike's and Maddie's.
"Can I talk to you about Markus?" Keegan questioned.
"Sure thing, I need a break from these files anyway, they're giving me a headache," Will said. Keegan walked over to Will and climbed into Will's lap. "So what's buzzing around in that head of your's?" Will asked
"Mummy told me that you have a theory on how Markus died. She said she didn't know how to explain it to me but that you could," Keegan stated.
"Well it's not just my theory, it's Greg's as well, and it's based on information from Bobby," Will said grabbing the letter opener from the desk. With it he pricked the tip of his finger and a tiny dot of blood appeared. From one of the desk drawers Will reached for a glass slide and squeezed a few drops of blood on to it. He then took the microscope from off the shelf behind him and placed it in front of him and Keegan.
"My blood type -like your's- is AB negative, it is the rarest blood type there is," Will said focusing the slide on the microscope. "Only about two percent of the people with our blood type contain a certain anomaly, an anomaly that makes us pretenders." Will gestured to the microscope Keegan peered in and he saw a spiky yellow circle.
"Now the reason that we have all our other abilities, pyrokinesis, telepathy, empathy, and such is because of or lack of junk DNA. Markus on the other hand had a large amount of junk DNA, more so than what is healthy. And we believe that Markus's large amount of junk DNA is what attributed to his death."
"Will I die, like Markus because I'm his twin?" Keegan asked, Will heard the fear in the boy's words.
"You my be Markus's...twin, but from what I've seen in your files your blood structure is not identical to Keegan's. You, like Mikey have very little junk DNA," Will said reassuring Keegan.
"So I'm okay?" Keegan asked.
"You, young sir, are better than okay. You're perfect," Will replied
November 23, 2010
4:52pm
Blue Cove, Delaware
Jamieson Manor
Terra and Tobias laid on their beds opposite of each other, going through files. "That's it. I give up," Tobias sighed tossing the file he was studying on the floor. "I can't make heads nor tails of this code."
"This should be a breeze, we're experts in cryptology," Terra muttered.
"And yet we haven't gotten past square one," Tobias replied. "Maybe Jake and the other's are doing better with this."
"No they aren't. And to make matter's worse no one has been able to find just how Mr. Parker was communicating with Ford, Cody and the others."
"They aren't talking?" Tobias questioned.
"Ford knows squat, and Cody is too frightened to speak. As for the others they remain loyal to Parker. Idiots," Terra scoffed. "Toby?"
"Yeah," Tobias said sitting up.
"You don't think Willie will be able to get out like Parker did, do you?" Terra asked.
"Parker hates Willie, so unless that flunky made new connections, he's not getting out." Tobias reassured his sister.
"If he was on death row then there would be no way he could get out," Terra said scowling. Tobias sighed, Willie was always a touchy subject for the two siblings, Terra especially.
The twins father, Andrew, had been killed by Willie. Through a few connections Terra and Tobias had been able to help the prosecution charge Willie with homicide. Much to the twins anger the jury did not give Willie the death penalty, but instead life without parole.
"He knows you know," Tobias said changing the subject.
"Who knows what?" Terra asked.
"Will, he knows about us. Well not that we're the ones with a new power, but that someone received a new power," Tobias clarified.
"We're going to have to tell Uncle Lex and Aunt Julia soon," Terra murmured.
"Yeah," Tobias agreed, he then rolled over on to his stomach to meet his sister's eyes. "You think we could ask Keegan what Dad would think about our powers?"
"Toby, Keegan isn't a medium to Daddy," Terra said smiling sadly.
"I know that but..."
"Keegan has been used enough by the Centre during his six years of life. He doesn't need us using him too," Terra interrupted.
"Even still, I wish we could know what he would think about or powers. I wish I knew what he thought about us," Tobias said whispering the last part.
Up Date: Alex remembers a part of her past and surprisingly it's a good memory. The gang in Blue Cove return home, and Mike has a bit of an outburst, which doesn't bode well with Jake.
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