" America is still reeling from the shocking story of Tom Whizmore. The brilliant scientist who was held at captivity since the age of nine and forced to worked for the United States Government. Now after 50 years he is finally re entering society. Stay tuned for an exlucisve interview at nine o'clock. Only here on NBKUW".
Nicole shut off the TV but sadly she could do nothing to shut off the panic in her heart. The story had dominated the media for days. Tommy Whizmore a brilliant wunderkind had been abducted by the government in the sixties and forced to work on developing software for the CIA for nearly fifty years. The boy would have still been in captivity if the current president didn't want to throw the opposition into chaos and tear himself away from the influence of the older members in his party. Although of course officially it was purely a moral gesture by a President who had been outraged by this violation of human rights Nicole could see right through this b.s and it terrified her
She always knew just how dangerous the world was for people like Jessi and Kyle. How everyone would try to exploit their genius but to see it laid out in this horrible way….she just didn't know how to react. Of the entire family has talked about it in the last few days but it was mostly idle chatter. She wanted to have a real heart to heart about this and how it made her and new brilliant kids feel. She knew that it wasn't going to be easy for either of them but they needed to talk
She started by going to Kyle's room first. She knew how sensitive the boy was and wanted to take her time. She smiled as she saw that he was working on a new painting of his which was centered around him and Jessi standing in a beautiful lake surrounded by doves. She was glad that she managed to overcome her doubts about this relationship. It seemed to be nurturing for both of them
"Hello Nicole. How are you? "he said suddenly looking up from his painting
" I am fine Kyle. I was hoping to talk about how you feel today"
"How I feel?" he asked confused
"About the Whizmore case" she clarified
" Oh of course" he said smiling brightly" I am really happy that he got his life back. I hope to meet him someday. His work in networking algorhytms is truly brilliant and…."
"Kyle" Nicole interrupted him before he went on another one his truly adorable but sometimes quite annoying musings. Sometimes he forgot himself when he was excited " I meant are you worried for yourself and Jessi. If you are afraid it's good to share. To let it out.
" Why would I be afraid?" he asked in his usual innocent way
Nicole could only gape for a few minutes. Of all the answers she expected this was not the one. She expected everything from denial to pride even but this?
" I mean " he said clarifying himself after he saw the confusion on Nicole's face" it was an awful crime the President said that he would show zero tolerance towards those involved and the director of homeland security said that this was a rogue operation that was done without his knowledge. So the government wasn't involved and I am sure that from now they will be even more vigilant and prevent something like this from happening ever again"
Nicole continued to stare. She wasn't the same wild child like in her youth always questioning everything and rebelling against the Man but even someone as deluded as Carol Bloom could tell that was a truly bad cover up. Was her son really that naïve to believe it?
In the next few minutes she understood that yes. Yes he was indeed. She ended up being consoled by him instead of the other way around and frankly each of his reassurances reeked of naiveté and youth. She always liked the innocent of Kyle but she had forgotten that innocence often translated into being a sucker in the real world.
While trying to desperately formulate any plans on how to make Kyle more cynical and suspicious and hating herself for it she went inside Jessi's room. She was only a little surprised to find Jessi doing the same thing as Kyle. Literally. It was even the same picture. Lately they seemed to be getting more and in sync with each other. They tried to explain something about connection and stuff but she didn't quite understood it
" Hello Nicole" said Jessi brightly all traces of the previous shy girl gone. In the last few months she had truly found her place in the Tragers's household and her confidence had increased a lot .
" Hello Jessi. How are you today?"
" Well I stubbed my right toe at 6:48 when I was getting out of the bed, then at 7:12 I experienced annoyance when Josh spent 20 more minutes then necessary in the bathroom probably due to activities involving sexual self gratification, afterwards at 9:23 I borrowed one of Lori's skirts and I was quite happy at how well it fit me then….."
" I was actually thinking more along the lines of the Whizmore story Jessi" Nicole said quickly. She had forgotten that she needed to work on Jessi's social skills. My god what were they thinking at Madacorp. As if you could simply dump a personality into someone " I thought that we could discuss it more in depth to share your fears and concerns"
" Oh yes. I can see how the story could relate to me and Kyle. But don't worry I am not bothered by it. So don't worry my emotional and psychological state is currently quite stable" she finished with a bright smile
" You are not worried because you believe that this was done by a rogue group within the government and it can't happen again" Nicole asked hoping against hope that at least in this Jessi wouldn't be so similar to Kyle
" Oh I doubt this. The official government version seems fabricated as a means to avoid persecution and prison time for high ranking government officials. It's very likely that if they found out about me and Kyle they would treat us the same way or maybe even worse due to our different physiology. Apart from forced intellectual labor they will quite probably do a variety of experiments on us and probably even a vivisection" she said in the same calm and confident voice
Nicole felt her throat going a little dry. Ok maybe she preferred Kyle's naiveté more. The grim picture Jessi painted would probably haunt her nightmares
"Then why aren't you worried or afraid or.." Nicole said after finally finding her voice
" Oh I made sure that I have a contingency should the government ever try to attack us" Jessi said while she carelessly kept on drawing"
"Such as?" Nicole couldn't help but ask
"Well " Jessi said her attention back on the conversation" I set up a network around the house that would pick up any government frequency which would indicate an upcoming attack . And I also planted several programs into the homeland security mainframe that would track any information of an upcoming plan to attack. I also studied twenty three forms of martial arts. Combined with my perfect hand eye coordination I should be able to intercept and disable the usual twelve man team used in capture and contain missions "
Nicole was left speechless for a moment. She though naivete was bad but it seemed like overconfidence was even worse
" Jessi" she said delicately. She didn't want to break down the girl's hard won confidence " You are a very special girl but you can't think that you can fight the government on your own"
"Oh yes. I am aware that there is a high chance that I and Kyle could be captured even with our superior skills. That's why I developed a special worm. With him I manage to use a flaw in the Windows software system to crate a botnet which is currently composed of approximately two hundred and forty eight million computers with an average of nine hundred thousand more being added each day. I called it Skippy. I have put a micro sub dermal implant in my left buttock which would allow me to activate Skippy from any point in the world even underground. Then Skippy will use it's vast networking power to target all government employees especially all armed forces including police and private security and wipe out their entire digital footprint from all systems as well as completely erase all of their financial resources. Which would essentially leave them not only with no resources apart from the cash on their hand but technically they wouldn't exist in society and would have to recover their identity from hard storage. This ought to put me in a position of power and allow me to negotiate mine and Kyle's releases from government confinement" she finished with a big smile
Nicole once again felt like fish out of water. She couldn't follow everything but the she got the general gist. Chaos and economical breakdown if Jessi's left buttock is activated.
" So you are planning on blackmailing the government?" asked Nicole once she finally found her voice again. She still couldn't believe just how bizarre the conversation has gotten
"Essentially yes. But due to the arrogance and general incompetence I have noticed in government officials it's quite possible that it won't work that's why I also have a stage two planned. Since we are likely to be taken to a secret government facility I have instructed Skippy in stage two to take control over the guidance system of all satellites in Earth's orbit and instruct them to reenter orbit directly above all current secret facilities of the USA it's allies and it's unofficial partners. It's kinda ironic that I didn't even need to find a lot of the coordinates myself since they have taken themselves out of satellite maps essentially giving their location. Anyway the satellites high velocity impact on the ground would be akin to a missile. I of course thought about using actual missiles by taking control over Predator drones…"
"Of course you did" mumbled Nicole who felt that she was slowly going into hysterics
" ….but this proved needlessly complicated and I feel that even though improvised the satellites would have grater impact. Especially among the highly religious people since it would look like fire falling from the sky which would impact them on a psychological level. With the satellites gone communication would be down to a minimum and the resulting damage from their fall would combine to create an opportunity for me and Kyle to escape"
Nicole was a professional who always knew the right thing to say to a teen but now she was stumped. Seeing her silence as a cue to continue Jessi went on
" Of course if this doesn't work I have instructed Skippy to take control over the nuclear..," Here Nicole abruptly stood up.
"Jessi we will talk about this a bit later. We will talk about it. A lot. There would be a lot of talking yes. A lot of talking with Stephen. Yes with Stephen. But now I have to go prepare dinner. But we will talk a lot. Later" and with that Nicole got out of the room fast
Jessi looked curiously at the empty chair where Nicole used to sit. This was strange. It was barely two o' clock. Nicole must be preparing some kind of a really special diner tonight
Later on Stephen came back to a strange sight. His wife was lying in her bed with a box of wine and a wide eyed expression that …well he wouldn't call it crazy because calling a woman crazy always ended bad for you but it was very crazy like
"Honey? Is everything all right?" he asked gently
She looked at him with a mixture of surprise and relief
"Well apparently we have to teach Kyle not to take candy from strangers and Jessi is a few steps away from calling the UN out of a hollow volcano base and demanding one hundred billion dollars"
Stephen sighed. He had a long night ahead of him.
So yeah. I am back. After a long long pause. I am guessing there are probably no more fans of Kyle XY left on the site but still in case there are some I hope you enjoy the new chapter. Also don't forget to watch the lovely Jaimie in Thor and in the new episode of Covert Affairs.(and yes I am so gonan write a crossover with both of them :) )