"Now Chloe we are going to talk to you, we are not trying to hurt you. You do not need to get upset, do you understand?" Nina says. Chloe nods and Nina turns away from her. "She will be fine."
"Chloe," Rosen says Chloe turns to face him her face calm and relaxed. "Are you ok now?" Chloe nods and her eyes squint.
"Yes I am fine." She says frowning. "What did you do to me?"
"Like I said Nina can be very persuasive. We just did not wanting you hurting yourself." Chloe looks around and locks her eyes on Bill.
"Or anyone else?" she says menacingly.
"Well it was Nina or the sedation." Rosen says losing some of his patience this makes Chloe look at him. She raises her eyebrows. "I don't like to use threats but these are my friends and I do not want then getting hurt. You understand." He says sounding like someone's dad, Chloe laughs.
"It's not funny." Gary says making Chloe stop. She looks at the man and he looks away she can't help but feel bad for laughing.
"Sorry." She says and everyone looks at her then Gary. There is a silence which makes Chloe uncomfortable, more uncomfortable than she had been feeling before. "So, err what did you want to talk to me about?" Chloe says leaning over and pouring a glass of water and taking a drink. Rosen looks at her and sits down next to Gary.
"We wanted to talk to you about your ability."
"What about it?"
"What can you do for a start?" The man who tackled me to the ground asks.
"What can you do?" Chloe asks sitting back and crossing her arms feeling defensive. Cameron looks at Rosen who nods, Cameron takes out a baseball and throws it down the hallway he walks over to Chloe and takes her hand. She resists and he smiles at her.
"Trust me." He says holding her hand steady and a few seconds later Chloe hears the ball roll across the ceiling, she looks up and notices a loose tile and the ball falls out into her hand. She cannot help but smile.
"So what is that then she says looking at the ball. Super accuracy?" She asks.
"Close, very close." Rosen says smiling at her. "I call it Hyperkinetic. It basically means that Cameron's minds imagining system and muscle control are perfectly in sync with his motor skill giving him perfect aim, balance hand there for enhancing his motor skills."
"That's pretty cool." Chloe says throwing the ball back to Cameron. "What about the rest of you?"
"Well you know what Nina does; you have now experienced that first hand. She is very useful to us as she can get past almost every security check point and is able to get information from people they are not normally going to give over easily." Chloe nods.
"It doesn't work on me." Gary says from his chair. "My brain is different from the others, so Nina cannot push me."
"That's right Gary. I can't." Nina says smiling at him. Chloe looks at him and she notices for the first time that he is fidgeting a lot he is flicking his hand in the air and seems to be looking around himself at things that are not there. Rosen notices Chloe staring and clears his throat.
"Gary here is our computer genius. Gary can see electromagnetic wavelengths in the air, from cell cameras, computers and cell phones."
"Not Nokia. Nokia is different I cannot intercept it." Gary says frowning Chloe smiles.
"Well I set fire to myself when I am angry, so no one is perfect." She says to Gary who laughs quickly and lowers his eyes back to the table and starts moving his hand around again. Rosen smiles and looks between the two of them.
"Rachel here is a Synesthete; she has the ability to heighten all of her senses. She has the ability to hear, see and smell things at an incredible distance." Rosen says Rachel smiles at Chloe who instantly likes the look of her. She looks very nonthreatening and kind. She turns her attention to the last one, Bill.
"What about you? What can you do?" She says sounding bored and uninterested. Bill looks at her still obviously not trusting her.
"Go on Bill show her." Rosen says trying to relieve the tension between the two of them. Bill looks at him and scowls.
"I am not a performing monkey." He says angrily Rosen just looks at him and he groans he walks over to a metal chair in the corner of the room and picks it up. Chloe sits forward interested despite herself. Bill starts breathing heavily and in a matter of seconds he crushes the chair into a lumpy metal ball. Chloe sits back in her chair slightly worried but also impressed, She'd be damned if she was going to let him know that though.
"So you are the muscle? That's not as impressive as the others." She says in a bored voice, Bill glares at her but does not rise to her blatant attempt to aggravate him. Chloe smiles at him and then looks back at Rosen who has his head resting on his hands. "What about you doc, what is your special ability?" Chloe asks.
"I do not have one Chloe, I am just a doctor. Nothing special not lie all of you." He says smiling to the room. Chloe looks around at the others and see them all looking proud and she sighs.
"So, what now show and tell is over, what's next?" She says.
"Well that is entirely up to you."
"Me?" Chloe says snorting in disbelief.
"Yes Chloe, you can choose what you want to do from here on in. I must add that your options are limited due to the trouble caused over the last few weeks."
"What trouble?" Chloe says frowning.
"The exploding and burning down of a house, the injured police officers."
"I didn't mean any of that!" Chloe said angrily. Rosen lifts his hands.
"I am aware of that and how you cannot control yourself when you are angry or upset. That is why I want you to stay with us and we can help you."
"Why would you want to do that?" Chloe asks suspicious now.
"I believe, and correct me if I am wrong. You have had a hard life and you have had to rely on yourself from a very young age. I believe that with the training and practice you could be in full control of your abilities and would be able to use them in a productive way." Rosen says Chloe smiles when she realises where the conversation is going.
"So, and correct me if I am wrong," she mocks, "You want me to join your team?"
"Trust me not all of us want this." Bill says and Rosen raises his hand and Bill falls silent. Chloe only has eyes for Rosen and lets Bills comment slide, for now.
"You are right we would like you to join us." Rosen says Chloe laughs and sits back in her chair.
"And what is my other option?"
"Prison." Bill says with a smile. Chloe sits in silence for a moment her mind racing. She knows what she will have to do but she is not thrilled about it, she never had much patience for being told what to do.
"Have I got any other options?" Chloe asks already knowing the answer; Rosen shakes his head and puts his head back in his hands and waits patiently for her answer. "So I cooperate or get locked away, that seems like an unfair set of options."
"Take it or leave it." Bill says Chloe sighs and draws the water out of everyone's damp clothes and sends in out the slightly open window. Everyone feels their clothes and smile at her.
"When can I start?" she says with mock excitement.
