Beth Lizzie- Will won't get married in this story, but that doesn't mean he won't get engaged. I'd like to put his wedding in here but I just don't have a place to put it. I might write a side story that will have Will, and Alley's wedding in it. But right now I can't promise you anything.
And my spelling had nothing to do with me wanting to finish this story I'm just a horrible speller and spell check doesn't catch everything. And trust me you aren't the only one who cant' see an end I sight but there will be an ending one of these days. Maybe by New Years.
Nans- only nine more chapters to go
Erikstrulove- Yes you'll have to wait till around chapter 80 for Sydney/Bobby time. But Bobby will appear in chapter 65 and 67 and he plays a brief role in the events in chapter 66. All three of those chapters are Jeremiah centric by the way. There will be a lot of allusions about Jeremiah's past in the up coming chapters and it will all lead up to those three chapters.
I can promise you that as of now I have no intentions of killing of Allen. I rather like him at the moment.
LadyJadePerendhil- Yup it's Angelo. Not much happens in this chapter but it will help to set everything up.
CHAPTER 54
PHONING HOME
November 29, 2010
2:30am
Bangor, Maine
Safe House
The phone ranged in Angelo's room. He hadn't been asleep so the empath answered it on the first ring. "Angelo," the empath spoke.
"It's me," Jake said. "I need your help. Or to be more precise, Adam, Jer, and Katie need your help. They're in Carthis, doing what I have no idea. You need to take the next plane out of Bangor and head over to Carthis. You've got just under an hour to pack your stuff and get to the airport. I've already ordered your ticket, you just need to print it out. I'm sure you won't have a problem finding them, once you arrive."
Angelo suppressed a grin, at the same time he was saddened. Of all of the Black Files, Jake was the one who never had much of a childhood, even after the children's escape. Angelo supposed that Jake had played leader of the Black Files so long he didn't know how to just be a child.
"Get sleep Jake," Angelo told, the boy. "Angelo take care of everything, find Little Mouse, Oz, and Eddie." Jake smiled at Angelo's names for Alex, Jeremiah and Adam. With, Alex being the baby of the group, Angelo had taken to calling her Mouse when they were all still babies. Though Oz was Aaron's middle name, it was the name Angelo called Jeremiah because like everyone else, Angelo saw the similarities between Jeremiah and the redheaded werewolf from Buffy.
"I'll sleep, when my family is together again, Angelo. Look after them for me, tell them I love them." With that Jake hung up. Angelo stared at the phone in his hands. He could sense that Jake was scared. Things were out of the young pretender's hands, and Jake didn't like it. Nor did he like not being able to protect his brothers and sisters.
Putting his phone down, Angelo went to pack. Like Alex and Jeremiah he took nothing but his laptop, a cell phone, some money and two changes of clothes. With that Angelo took one of the cars, and left for the airport.
November 29, 2010
2:03pm
Carthis, Scotland
Bed and Breakfast
Angelo arrived at the Bed and Breakfast he didn't even stop to ask the man at the front desk for help. He just headed up to the room where he knew his niece and nephews were staying. Angelo knocked on the door. Alex was the one who answered.
"Little Mouse," Angelo smiled at the sight of her.
"Angelo," Alex laughed giving him a hug. "I missed you."
"Angelo missed Little Mouse as well. Jake worried about you, Oz and Eddie. So are mothers," Angelo said a bit sternly.
"We'll call them and let them know we're all okay," Alex said pulling Angelo inside. Angelo paused when he laid eyes on Benny. He knew that this boy was not Pete, as far as Angelo knew, Pete was at home with his family. Unless things had changed in the last eight hours. Angelo looked over at Alex, who chuckled nervously.
"You might want to sit for this Angelo," Alex told him. "It's a long story"
"Parker, cloned Pete three times. That there is one of Pete's clones, Benny. Kaine, the second clone, is posing as our Pete. Parker has our Pete. The third clone, Seth, died when he was little," Jeremiah spoke.
"Apparently not that long," Alex muttered.
"That why Mouse, Oz and Eddie here? To find Tiger?" Angelo asked.
"Son of a bitch," Jeremiah muttered in a normal conversational tone.
"You know when most people swear, they put more emotion into it," Steve told the boy.
"Jer, what's wrong?" Alex asked.
"Alley. She knew that Pete had been cloned. But she didn't remember," Jeremiah said.
"What are you talking about Jer?" Alex questioned even more confused.
"Little Phoenix's prophecy," Angelo murmured. Alex raised a questioning eyebrow.
"When Alley was dying, her inner sense over loaded. She made a lot of predictions. One was that there was more than one Tiger. Or..."
"More than one Pete," Alex finished for Jeremiah. "Maybe we should have gone to Alley instead of Will."
"Doesn't matter now. Things are as they are," Jeremiah told her.
"Now what?" Adam asked.
"Well we need to fill Angelo in on everything. And then call our parents," Alex said.
"So not a conversation I'm looking forward to," Adam told her.
"I know. Momma and Uncle Sam are going to be beyond pissed," Alex sighed.
The group took their time filling Angelo in on Benny and Steve's past, Pete's abduction and Kaine's role in everything. The children then questioned Angelo if they were doing the right thing.
"Doing best you can," Angelo replied.
"Do you think we should tell our parents?" Jeremiah asked.
"Say Kaine very dangerous. If Kaine know his identity revealed, might not care about safety and hurt family. Might hurt babies," Angelo said.
"I guess," Jeremiah said his thoughts flashing back to Amy. He was worried about her and the boys. They were powerful yes, but they barely had a grasp on their abilities. Keegan included, he was proficient when it came to telepathy, and the boy was working on his telekinesis, but even then Jeremiah knew that Keegan was capable of much more. When it came to the boy's other abilities, Keegan had almost no control, they worked when they wanted to.
"Well time for that phone call," Alex sighed reaching for her cell phone. She dialed the number for home, nervously waiting for someone to answer. It was just her luck that it was Will who picked up the receiver.
"Hello," Will spoke.
"Hi Will," Alex said hesitantly.
"Alexandra Katherine Russell have you completely lost your mind!" Will yelled. "You know better than running off like that. Everyone around here is half out of their minds with worry."
"Well none of us were ever completely in our minds anyway," Alex muttered.
"What was that?" Will hissed.
"Will do us both a favor and back off. Jake asked me and Jer to find Adam and we're working on it. Jake want's the family back together again and I'm inclined to agree with him," Alex lied smoothly.
"I could have told you where he was," Will told his sister his anger still very much there.
"He's not in Galway anymore. Jer and I went to the Inn he was staying and the woman said Adam left a week ago," Alex snapped. "Now can I please talk to Momma and Daddy or are you going to yell at me some more."
Will grumbled something that Alex couldn't make out. She heard the sound of the phone changing hands and assumed Will gave to phone to their mother.
"Is this my runaway daughter?" Morgan asked wryly.
"Hi Momma. Sorry I didn't tell you I was leaving, but I knew you wouldn't let me go otherwise," Alex apologized.
"I don't know if I'm more upset over the fact that you and Jeremiah left with out telling or that the two of you rode your motorcycles. In fact I'm almost as furious as I was when I learned you all got tattoos," Morgan said calmly.
"You knew we got tattoos?" Alex asked wincing.
"I'm your mother Alexandra there is very little you can hide from me. Besides it was rather obvious when all the boys started growing their hair long," Morgan replied.
"Just for the record it was my idea, the tattoos that is. So you know don't go killing the others on account of me," Alex said. She herd he mother mumble something about lemmings and how if one of the children jumped off a bridge the others would follow with out a moments hesitation.
"So how mad were you and Uncle Sam?" Alex asked changing the topic.
"We grounded your brothers Jake, Greg and Lissa and gave them a large amount of chores. But that didn't really matter much since the rest went to go and help. And then Zane, Gabriel and Keegan had a bad day at the clinic so they were all left out for good behavior."
"What happened at the clinic?"
"Your brothers had problems letting Will and Alley draw some blood," Morgan answered.
"I shouldn't of left, not with them like this. Marc and Cassie should of gone instead, or Terra and Toby. The boys still need me there," Alex said feeling guilty about not being there for the boys when they were at the clinic.
"Your brothers and Keegan will be fine Katie. They have more brothers and sisters here than they know what to do with. Besides you and Jeremiah are trying to find Adam, and I'm sure that Jake, Rach, Kay, Kale, and Logan would like their brother back. I know Ethan and Sara want their son back," Morgan sighed.
"And how long has Daddy had you practicing that speech?" Alex asked grinning.
"Oh since I was calm enough that he could actually talk to me," Morgan answered and Alex chuckled.
"Momma I promise we'll be home as soon as possible. Once we find Pete uh Pete's best friend," Alex inwardly cursed when she realized she had almost reveled what she and Jeremiah were truly searching for. Thanking her pretender skills, God, the powers that be and anyone else she could think of, for her quick recovery and the fact that her mother did not catch on.
"Just be safe, Katie, Parker is still out there," Morgan warned.
"We will. Can I talk to Daddy now?"
"Of course," Morgan said and handed the phone to Jarod.
"Hey Katie-girl," Jarod said into the phone, he was more than relieved to be hearing from his daughter.
"Are you breathing easier now knowing that I'm alive?" Alex said joking slightly.
"Very. Should I keep worrying about you?" Jarod asked.
"I'd be sorely disappointed if you didn't worry about me, Daddy. It'd make a daughter think her father didn't care," Alex replied. "How are the boys and Alley?"
"Everyone is fine. Air and Andy went with Mike and Maddie to take the boys and Amy to the movies. According to Mike, Keegan's first movie was a major success. So successful in fact that Keegan has gone and completely buried himself in all things Harry Potter."
"If he gets too bad, Will's going to set that poor boy down and make him watch every single episode of Buffy, Angel, and Firefly."
"I think I saw him dusting off his DVD's the other day," Jarod said. "Now, do you and Jeremiah need anything. I can wire money to your bank accounts," Jarod said growing serious.
"Jer, and I have plenty of money. It pays to manipulate the stock market," Alex replied. Jarod just sighed.
"You're suppose to use your abilities for good not evil, Alexandra," Jarod reprimanded her lightly.
"Well it was for a good cause. I need money so I could return my little cousin home. Well I have to go now Daddy, Jer needs to talk to Uncle Sam and Aunt Jen," Alex told her father.
"Alright Katie-Girl, be safe."
"I will, I promise. Love you."
"I love you too," Jarod said. He then went to go and give the phone to Sam as Alex gave Jeremiah the phone.
"Hello," Sam spoke into the phone.
"It's me," Jeremiah said.
"You know you're grounded when you get home," Sam said, he was trying his best to sound angry, but Jeremiah knew that his father had stopped being angry a while ago and was just relieved to be hearing from his son.
"I'll except what ever punishment you give me," Jeremiah told Sam. "How's Amy, Greg and Lissa."
"Well Lissa is more or less furious with you, for leaving her behind. Greg's... I never thought I'd say this, but he's quiet. In your absence he seems to matured a bit. It's kind of disconcerting." Sam said.
"I'm sure Greg will be back to his usual self when I get home." Jeremiah reassured his father.
"As for Amy, she's been fussing over her boys. Gabe, Keegan, and Zane had a bit of a -how did Maddie put it- a "freak out" at the clinic the other day, when it came to getting their blood drawn," Sam told Jeremiah
"She's going to spoil those boy rotten. Um, Greg and Lis, didn't have any..."
"Nightmares last night," Sam finished. "You seriously think that they would tell you mother or me? As far as I know they didn't. But I'm guessing you did or else you wouldn't be asking. Unless you just skipped sleep altogether."
"It wasn't that bad. I guess 'cause I'm with Alex," Jeremiah said.
"It's always been hard on you kids to be apart from each other," Sam commented.
"Yeah... So can I speak to Mom, let her know I'm okay?" Jeremiah asked.
"Actually your mother is out. You see unlike you your brother and sister's can't drive, and so your mother volunteered to take them, along with Amy, the boys, Mike and Maddie shopping," Sam said wryly
"Better her than me," Jeremiah replied. "Tell her I called."
"I will Jer. And you be safe. I know I trained you kids well, use what I taught you," Sam commanded.
"I will Dad. Oh and tell Lissa not to tell Bobby I'm gone," Jeremiah said.
"Will do. Bye son," Sam promised.
"Bye Dad," Jeremiah said and hung up the phone.
"Well with that out of the way it's time to do a little bit of shopping," Alex said.
"Why Mouse want to shop?" Angelo asked the girl. He knew that the one thing Alex hated more than anything was shopping.
"Not for clothes Angelo, toys, so we can break into the monastery," Alex told the empath.
"Angelo come with. Keep Mouse, Oz, and Eddie safe," Angelo said.
"That's fine," Jeremiah said grabbing his wallet.
"Steve, Benny, we'll be back in an hour or two," Alex told the two that were staying behind, and with that Alex, Jeremiah, Adam and Angelo left.
Up Next: Alex, Jeremiah and Adam, head off to the monastery and meet Adam who explains a few things
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