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Josephine woke up with a jerk from a restless dream, she stood up when the morning alarm sounded, which sent her judder slightly with shock. She leapt in the shower, and let it release her from the groggy, dull side effects of rest. Unfortunately she remembered how easily she'd let her tongue slip last night. It was really starting to get to her being in here, and it was showing. She needed to try and start using her powers again, not just for herself but for Adam. Even though he'd made her really angry last night, she couldn't even begin to imagine what this must be like for him, if it was getting bad for her. How long has he been in here? Did he already say?

"Thirty years" She muttered to herself under her breath "That's such a long time." She flung a towel around her, and stepped out the shower. She turned round and began dressing, it was when she was pulling her trousers' over her right leg. She heard the door handle turn, and hastily she dragged her leg through the trousers and twirled to face Elle at the door with a tray.

"Morning happy camper how are you?" She said tilting her head, like a sweet little puppy. The kind you want to crush.

"Fabulous thanks" I said, shooting her a glare through a distinctly unconvincing smile. She lay the tray down on the bed, and pulled herself up a chair.

"I've got some great news for you, I've managed to clear time for you. So that you and I can have some female bonding." She said, eagerly. She had her eyes carelessly gazing out the of the blinds. Quickly I grabbed the dosage in the little cup, I tipped the contents into my palm and gripped them tightly, thinking on my feet once again I thought I'd test how well my abilities were coming along. But then Elle turned around, I quickly put the cup to my lips and flung it back, and then chugging down the juice. Meanwhile behind my back, I cupped the pills in my hand, and incinerated them. I imagine a small tuft of smoke arose from behind me because Elle immediately gasped. "What was that?" She said in a patently accusatory tone, yet slightly bemused.

"What was what?" I said, rather patronisingly.

"Don't go all I'm British and far cleverer than you, you did something." Standing in front of me, she played with the electric energy between her fingers, it looked wonderful. What she didn't know was that soon I'd be able to match her capabilities. I watched as her face turned into a smile, and she shot a short sharp blast of electric energy straight into my chest.

"ARRH!" I cried out at first "AHAHAHAH!… You silly girl, I didn't do anything." I held both my hands up. "You can plainly see that. You can spark me up all you like, and I'll still be blowing you kisses. So I win again, and again." I stood up, taking a few strides, till we were face to face. "And you can put your money on that." I looked right into her eyes, and deeper right past them. I'd unnerved her, she was completely off guard.

"I've got other things I need to deals with now." She walked towards the hall, but stopped and turned at the door. "This isn't over, we're not finished here." She said, before letting the door fall shut behind her.

"Well looks like you got up on the wrong side of bed today. What's wrong, rough night?" he said. "Look, I guess I'm sorry about last night, I made it seem like well myself and the world expects something of you. I don't expect anything from you, though I do think you could do amazing things, if you wanted to." He said all so suavely.

"Oh it's fine. Well actually it's not fine, it's not fine at all." I let myself blurt out, like a fool.

"What's wrong Josephine?" There was a tone of genuine tone of sincerity in what he said, something which had never come across before when he spoke.

"No I'm not, Adam I can't I can't brake through these walls, I've tried just to do things I could normally do so easily, and they're so difficult here. Even destroying the medication, took up so much of my energy.

"Have you tried to get through the wall?" He asked

"Once or twice." she replied, which was true, but every time there was something preventing me.

"Try now." He asked, Josephine walked to the end of the bed, and stood facing Adam's wall. Her leg's were shoulder width apart, and she had one palm firmly pressed against the wall. Josephine concentrated harder than she ever had, and then she could see it. Like a jigsaw puzzle, each particle moving around her frame. When she opened her eyes, all she could see was her palm flat against a brick wall. She tried again, this time attempting to force her had through the well, she pushed. Trying to combine her physical and mental energy but it was futile. "Josephine?" Adam asked.

"I can't do it Adam!" She said slamming her fist against the wall. It was overwhelming, everything was. This place, the isolation. Josephine kept pounding her fists against the wall, slamming harder and harder. "Why can't I fucking do it?" She screamed in desperation.

"Josephine it's okay." Adam insisted, he could hear the distress in her voice, and could hear the relentless pounding at the wall. "Josephine stop it! They'll hear you"

"I don't care" She persisted beating at the wall, her hands were hurting now as her flesh hit the rock. Then suddenly she felt nothing, just a cold sensation. She felt something grab her, a hand. Was it a hand? It yanked her forward, and all at once she opened her eyes to find herself hurtling through the wall. On the other side she was held tightly, in a long warm embrace. Adam stroked her soft hair, and felt a fragile frame in his arms. He held her at arms length, and smiled with a slight glisten in his eyes.

Josephine had a faintly tanned complexion, her hair was tremendously long, and lustrous. It was all kinds of colours; predominantly blondes, but with browns, dark browns, and black running through the under layers. She had a fringe which swooped over to the left, framing her face. Her eyes, were a grey, blue, almost like the moon, they were rimmed with a dark navy blue, which was freckled across her eyes. She had bridge of freckles across her nose, and rosy cheeks. Her lips were full, a deep rose colour. She was quite tall, and very slender, she looked amazing even in that uniform. Her presence lit up the cell that for thirty long years had felt so lonely and desolate. He let his hand glide down her arm, and gently toying with her finger tips. She cast a spark of static electricity that sent a sharp pain through his hand, that nearly immediately vanished. She grinned at him, he noticed a little crinkle in her nose. She was like Elle, in a sense but not at all. They were two sides of the same coin, parallels that somehow seemed to cross-over. Could that be where he recognised that look from, but he was sure it was something else.

They stared into one another's eyes for a moment. His eyes were electric blue, and they glimmered like city lights in a river. He had a roguish, wayward look about him, the way he stood looking right at her, raising one eyebrow. He looked so confident, a boyish smirk crossed his face. Could he really be Kensai; one of history's myths, he had all the ambition, and strength of a hero. His hair was gleaming blonde, it was short and spiky. Although above all else, Josephine noticed his flawless smile, the way he toyed with his tongue between his teeth, and chewed absent-mindedly at his lip as he looked at her. Everything about him was so casual, mysterious, but so sincere. His body was strong and firm, but graceful, and elegant. She held his hands in hers, and spoke under her breath.

"Shouldn't we get out of here?"

Adam nodded, and without a moment hesitation Josephine made a dash at the wall, still grasping Adam's hand. They ran through cell after cell, until they came into a hallway. By this point the alarm was sounding that there had been a security breach. Josephine and Adam pelted down the hall. Josephine followed Adam through infinite corridors, pulling a left and then a right, and then a left. All of a sudden he stopped in his tracks, Josephine peered down the corridor. The pair had been trapped by Elle and one of The Company's cronies.

"Step back Josephine."

"What no you step back I'll be fine."

"We don't know that, we don't know how far you've come along yet. And that guy, that tall black guy, he can erase your memories Josie. And it hurts, please just let me I can't die I'll be fine"

"I can do this Adam, I can heal myself too. Since when did you call me Josie?" She said striding in front of him.

"Well, well… I knew you'd be trouble. But Adam, I though you said you weren't going to forget me. Well you've really hurt me because-"

"SHUT UP! Elle" Adam blurted out.

"What?" She replied in complete dismay.

"It's always meehmehehemmehh with you all the time, your talking. But you never actually say anything. You've been a complete waste of time, but don't worry I've got plenty of that." He snapped.

"Oh you think so, well I beg to differ." She said playing with a ball of electricity in her hand.

"Your not going anywhere near him, neither of you are." Josephine stated.

"You're going to stop me, I'm way out of your league. My daddy said so." She spoke with such ignorant pompousness.

"Your daddy lied." She said playing with a flame in her palm, mirroring Elle. Who sneered at her.

"Ooooh this ought to be interesting." She said, flirtatiously.

"Not really you haven't seen half of what I can do." Josephine said as she leapt off her feet towards Elle, soaring down the hall, like a missile going for a target. Josephine threw Elle's henchman off his feet in, she sent him flying into the wall. Adam heard a loud crack which may have been his neck or skull. Elle dived out of the way. Josephine landed on her feet, turning round to see where Elle had gone. Suddenly she found herself face to face with her, Elle sent Josie an electrically charged punch, which jolted Josephine's neck to the right. She spat blood onto the floor, and lifted her gaze right into Elle's, smirking at how pathetic she was. "Punch me in the face, and I'll still be blowing you kisses." She blew her a kiss "So I win a again motherfucker, still sporting a ludicrous grin too." Josephine said smiling right at Elle, who was looking at her in bewilderment. Josephine put all her energy into one flaming punch, which sent Elle cascading through the air, slamming her back hard on a door, and then slowly sliding down it. Feebly she pulled herself to her feet, and sent a bullet of electricity at Josephine which she deflected. Josephine strutted towards Elle who didn't move from the door, firing multiple static shots at Josie each one she deflected. Josie was stood about a metre from her now, she extended her arm out, and concentrated hard on lifting Elle's matter. Steadily, and then suddenly quite quickly Elle rose from the floor, kicking and screaming. Josie had negated her power, she let Elle fall down the wall and grabbed her by the throat before she hit the floor. "Don't ever underestimate me, because, I could end you." She muttered, softly and calmly into the ear of a fragile shuddering Elle. Josie ripped the handle from the door beside her, and gripped it tightly in her hands, Elle watched in amazement as its shape began to shift. From it Josephine forged a knife, Elle flinched as it glinted in the light. Josie held it to Elle's arm and slowly increased the pressure until blood began to seep from the edge of the wound. She held the knife to her own arm and cut her self where she had Elle, only much deeper as the wound wouldn't stay open long. In one sharp movement she pushed her arm into Elle's, there were a few sparks for a second before Josie released Elle's arm. Elle held the still bleeding wound to her chest, and sobbed. Josie turned round to see Adam still standing there, staring at her. "Come on then lets go." She said smiling, she turned to leave but then swivelled round and delivered right next to Elle's head a bullet of electricity. Elle looked at her in both awe and horror, Josie winked at her before turning to leave. Adam followed after her.

They ran through a set of iron doors, out into a courtyard. The fences were a good twenty feet high. Adam looked up at them.

"What you did back there was amazing… but err… now we might be a bit stuck "

"Thanks, but if you take my hand, I can fly us over this wall." She said extending her arm to him, he took her hand and the fingers laced together, entwined into one another like the laces of a shoe. Then in one fell swoop they were into the air. Travelling ever higher, and higher, over the wall and into the clouds.

"It's like you aren't flying me, I'm flying myself." Adam said, in disbelief.

"That's because when I hold your hand, I can transfer my power to you. It's called power transference." She shouted back, as the rushing wind muffled their voices.

"It's bloody amazing!" Adam shouted into the early morning sky. The air had never smelt fresher, but most of all, he'd never felt this alive. Not in such a long time, the suns rays beamed across the landscape below, some needle thin, and some covering entire villages.

"Where are we going by the way?" Josephine asked in disillusion.

"To find Carp" Adam replied in a strangely stern tone.