LJP- Morgan, Sam, Julia, and Lex couldn't punish Keegan. After all that's happened to the kid in the past two weeks his parents aunts and uncles would feel too much guilt. Keegan, Jason, and Jack have a get out of jail free card for the next seven years of their lives. And yup, Allen is one of the many new characters. He does have a back bone doesn't he. I'm rather fond of him myself. You'll get to see more of him in chapter 56.

Nans- Yes there will be a bit of Sydney Bobby time. Sadly it's not going to happen till at the earliest chapter 80. Hope you have a lot of patience. Oh he dose have a brief appearance in chapter 63.

CHAPTER 53

CALLING FOR HELP

November 29, 2010

7:28am

Carthis, Scottland

Bed and Breakfast

"Will you stop that," Alex said smacking the back of Adam's head.

"Ow," Adam hissed. "And I can't help it, it's so short," he argued. He was talking of his hair, Alex had made him cut a few inches of his blonde hair off, so it now stopped just at the nape of his neck, his hair a bit of a shaggy look to it..

"I still don't see why I had to dye my hair. It was just fine when I was a blonde" Adam muttered.

"We're posing as siblings Connor, normal siblings have the same hair color. You don't see Ben moaning about dying his hair red." Alex snapped.

"That's because Benny, thinks it's funny. I mean come one his name Ben Riley, and just like Ben Riley from Spider-Man, Benny get's to be a red head. I on the other hand was rather fond of my natural hair color," Adam shot back.

"I could have just shaved it all off, now quit being such a girl," Alex told him. Adam scowled but didn't reply. Jeremiah, Benny, and Steve sat on the opposite side of the room silently laughing.

"So what are we doing here?" Adam asked changing the topic.

"Investigating," Jeremiah said.

"Investigating what? I mean I understand that this is were Benny was kept and Parker has some sort of agreement with the monks. But would he really bring Pete here?" Adam questioned.

"It's where the voices told us to go," Benny said shrugging his shoulders.

"Couldn't they give you guys a bit more information. God there worse than Kay and Kale and Angelo com...," Adam trailed off and looked up Alex and Jeremiah met his eyes.

"We need Angelo, he knows everything there is to know about the Centre," Alex said.

"Not to mention if Angelo meets Kaine he will know that Kaine is not Peter. And blow our whole plan out of the water," Jeremiah spoke.

"Remind me again why we aren't telling your family about this," Steve said.

"If Parker learns that Kaine's position has been compromised then he will take Pete and go into hiding. If he does we may never find Pete. Right now Parker doesn't know that we know Kaine has replaced Pete. I want to keep it that way," Alex said.

"How are we going to get in contact with this Angelo, without alerting everyone that we need him?" Benny asked

"Contact Ames and the boys. Get Amy to call Kay and Kale, who will let Angelo know," Jeremiah said picking up his cell phone.

"Jer, it's two a.m. over there you can't call Amy now she's asleep," Adam told his cousin.

"You're right, but Jake isn't. Call him," Jeremiah said tossing Adam the phone.

"You want me to call Jake?" Adam asked. "B-But..."

"He's your brother," Alex pointed out.

"Yours too," Adam replied.

"Wait, I thought that Alex's brothers were Will, Aaron, Andros, Jason, and Jack.," Benny said confused.

"They are, but Jake, Jer and the other boys are basically my brothers too. Same goes for Maddie and the rest of the girls in my group. They're my sister and they and the boys have watched over me my whole life," Alex said smiling.

"Well that's nice, and the way I see it Jake's my brother, but he's your leader and your brother. So you or Jer should call him," Adam said

"He's not mad at you. Call him," Jeremiah said firmly. Adam sighed and dialed Jake's cell phone.

"Jake," The eldest Black File answered.

"Hey Jake it's me," Adam said hesitantly.

"Alex and Jer with you?" Jake asked whispering. That was Jake, business first.

"Always the leader Jake. When are you going to be just Jake, and stop worrying about the mission bro?" Adam asked.

"I'll take that to be a yes," Jake sighed.

"She made me cut and dye my hair," Adam wined.

"And you hadn't done it already. Adam have I taught you nothing?" Jake asked. Adam could tell that his brother wasn't disappointed, in fact if he wasn't mistaken Adam thought he heard a bit of pride in his big brothers voice.

"I need a favor," Adam said getting to the subject at hand.

"What?" Jake asked.

"We need Angelo here," Adam answered.

"He'll leave first thing. I'll contact you once he boards his plane. Where are you all staying?"

"Promise you won't tell?" Adam asked.

"You have to ask?" Jake shot back.

"Yes," Adam replied.

"You can trust me," Jake reassured his brother.

"Not the same as promising not to tell. But we're in Carthis," Adam answered.

"Angelo will be there. Be safe baby brother," Jake told him.

"I promise," Adam said. "And Jake, you be safe too. Everything isn't as right as it seems to be." With that Adam hung up the cell. "Jake said Angelo will be here ASAP."

"Good deal. Now what?" Alex asked

"Surveillance," Steve replied.

"I'm guessing we're going to start checking out the monastery," Adam commented

"That would be our best lead,"Benny sighed, he had no desire to enter the monastery again.

"Um here's the thing. Benny and Steve can't go. They may have new do's but the monks will recognize them." Adam spoke.

"He raises a good point. Looks like it's the three off us," Jeremiah said.

"You'd be better off going at night. There's never any one keeping guard. And if you go at night Dad and I can come," Benny said. Though he had no desire to return to the monastery he and Steve were the only ones who knew their way around the building.

"If you go Ben and are spotted, you will blow our cover," Jeremiah stated simply.

"Jer's right, we can't risk that. Jer, Ad, and I will go," Alex said.

"But you three have no idea where you are going. Neither of you have set foot in the monastery," Steve argued.

"That's where you two come in. We need a floor plan," Alex told Benny and Steve.

"Fine," Benny said he was a little upset that he was not allowed to go along. He felt as though he were a burden, he couldn't walk, he was too recognizable, the only thing he had going for him was his inner sense and knowledge of Kaine, Parker and the monastery. Which in Benny's opinion wasn't much.

"Stop thinking like that," Jeremiah snapped at Benny. Benny looked up at Jeremiah in shock for one Jeremiah had just read Benny's mind, Benny knew that Jeremiah could borrow powers but as far as Benny knew there was no telepath near by. And then there was the fact that Jeremiah had snapped at Benny. Benny had yet to see that side of Jeremiah before.

"Close your mouth Benny, your catching flies," Alex smirked. "And Jer look what you did. Scaring poor Benny like that, Shame on you big brother. By the way stop being so paronid and drop the whole telepath, empath thing. If I remember correctly we made a promise not to intrude on people's minds."

Jeremiah didn't look the slightest bit sorry on either accounts of reading Benny's minds or breaking his promise. As far as he was concerned, Benny was dwelling on trivial things, it wasn't as though the boy was never going to walk again. According to Adam, Benny was making excellent progress. Within the next few days Benny would be out of his wheelchair and walking with the assistance of a cane.

Not to mention Jeremiah would use which ever powers he needed when he saw fit. They were in enemy territory and Jeremiah was no going to let his guard down.

"Which poor telepaths powers are you stealing anyway?" Alex asked Jeremiah

"Keegan," Jeremiah replied. Alex glanced over at Jeremiah impressed.

"Didn't know you could borrow that far," Alex commented.

"Neither did I," Jeremiah said, looking up from the list he was making and flashed his cousin a grin. "I need the stuff off of this list Steve, where can I get it?" Jeremiah asked Steve.

"Lock picks. Flash light. Rope. Slim Jim..." Steve continued reading of Jeremiah's list, casting a incredulous look at the boy.

"When we were little, Jer wanted to be a thief when we grew up. Looks like he's working towards his goal," Alex said. Steve found himself worried slightly that he was in the company of a boy who's goal in life was to a thief.

"I'm afraid to ask what you two wanted to be when you were little," Steve said to Alex and Adam.

"Wolverine, or Gambit," Adam said. "Wolverine's got the wicked claws and kick ass healing factor. And well Gambit's just cool."

"Indiana Jones," Alex replied with a grin. Jeremiah and Adam began to laugh at Alex's answer. Steve and Benny were lost as to what the boys found humorous. Seeing that Steve and Benny were lost in the conversation, Jeremiah pulled out his wallet, and handed Benny a photo from it.

It was a standard 3x5 photo, that had the Black Files standing in front of a paper mache cave, all wore tan shirts and pants, in the very front stood Alex unlike the others, she was also wearing a brown felt fedora, a brown leather jacket, and whip. It was one of Jeremiah's favorite photographs of his group and not just because of the pretend they had all done that day. The picture symbolized just how far his family would go for him.

Jeremiah knew that the only reason that Will had consented in allowing the Black Files to pull of their Indian Jones pretend was because, Will like the rest of the Black Files wanted to take Jeremiah, Greg, and Lissa's minds off of the visit they had paid Lyle a week or so before.

"Well that explains a lot," Steve said passing the photo back to Jeremiah. "I've got to hand it to your parents though, I would have freaked to find that in my backyard."

"Momma, Aunt Jen and Aunt Emily did. Daddy and the rest of the boys just thought it was cool. It was a real working set too. Boulder and everything," Alex replied.

"How did your parents deal with all of you kids?" Steve asked.

"Every single type of lessons they could find for us we took," Jeremiah answered.

"Dance. Singing. Sports. Martial Arts. Fencing. Art. Music. The list goes on. See our parents gave us the choice of going to school or not. And well it's kinda odd having fourteen kids all born with in a year of each other, and all multiple births going to the same school. So we're home schooled," Alex elaborated.

"Pete, and I are going to school next year though. So are Amy, Jace, Jack, and Kat," Adam spoke up. "Mom's tired of having all of us underfoot."

"Will, Alley, Chris and Deb went to school too," Jeremiah commented.

"How come your group just doesn't split up and go to different schools in your area?" Steve asked. Adam laughed.

"You don't know much about the Black Files, Steve. They can't bee split up. I mean, they're all fifteen years old and all share the same room. The fact that it's just Alex and Jeremiah here is amazing. Normally the Files have to be with in a mile radius of one another, and even then you never see just one. Always two or more. How are you two doing by the way?" Adam asked his cousins. Alex and Jeremiah each gave a half hearted shrug.

"Not a hundred percent. I really don't like being this far away from my boys," Alex said referring to Aaron and Andros. "I'll probably have wicked nightmares tonight again tonight. Had them last night. Always did when Raines separated us."

"Same here," Jeremiah said. "Good thing we don't sleep much."

"How much do you guys sleep?" Benny asked.

"We're usually good off of just three hours," Jeremiah replied.

"We think it has to do with are genetic engineering. The Centre wanted to turn us in to assassins, soldiers, or what ever the highest bidder wanted to do with us. We've got the whole Dark Angel thing going on, minus the cat DNA," Alex said.

"Yeah you guys even got the bar code tattoo's on the back of your necks," Adam snickered.

"Adam remember you were sworn to secrecy on that subject and if any of the parents find out I will have to hurt you," Alex warned.

"Hey I like living. Speaking of which aren't we suppose to working on this suicide mission that involves of sneaking into the monastery?" Adam asked.

Up Next: Angelo shows up to help Alex and the boys. And Jeremiah and Alex call home.
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