Illusion 8

As soon as Raferty was out of the door. Sarah smacked Caleb "stop it" she said he kept laughing at her. "All right enough its not that funny" said Sarah "yes it is" said Caleb. "We should go downstairs he usually doesn't ask for everyone to be there unless it's important," said Sarah. "Fine come on we might as well hear him out" said Caleb.

He still thought the whole idea was ridiculous but given what Sarah had just told him he could think of no way to get them out of this mess. He followed Sarah as she made her way to the door and down the stairs. They were halfway down the stairs when they heard Reid yelling. "Like hell we are!" said Reid.

Sarah sighed she had anticipated this sort of thing. "Reid!" yelled Caleb "what?" he yelled back "just chill and hear him out" said Caleb "hear them out do you even know why were here?" said Reid. "Sarah" said Pogue under his breath Caleb glared at him and he looked away guiltily. "Yes I do and just give them a chance," said Caleb.

Sarah went over to her girlfriends. They were grinning at her. "So what happened?' asked Monica Sarah shrugged and sat down "we talked" said Sarah "talked that's all?" said Selene."Yeah right girlfriend" said Monica. "So what's Reid so upset about?" said sarah."Oh Raferty told them why there here, he didn't take it so well" said violet. "Yeah he's really flipping," said Spence."Yeah might want to get him to calm down or they might just throw him in solitary until he does" said Selene.

Selene should know all about that she had been in solitary more times than they could count."Right I better talk to him" said Sarah. Caleb was already over there trying to talk some sense into Reid. Reid was ignoring him and getting more agitated by the minute.

Sarah approached the group of boys. She glanced uneasily at the door expecting guards to show up any minute. "Reid please calm down" said Sarah "calm down, calm down that's rich coming from the girl who helped kidnap us" said Reid. He stepped towards Sarah and got in her face. "Reid don't" said Caleb.

He took a step towards Sarah. Sarah held up her hand telling him to back off. If Reid was going to do something she didn't want him hurting Caleb instead. "Fine what's really bothering you, because we already dealt with that or I thought we did" said Sarah "oh baby doll we ain't even warmed up yet" said Reid "Reid stop" said Pogue. "No its ok Pogue let him talk" said Sarah.

Cindy popped up beside Tyler. Tyler instinctively grabbed her to keep her out of the way "guards are here," said Cindy.

"Reid please just calm down and go back to your seat," said Sarah "no" he said back Sarah glanced at the approaching guards nervously. One of the guards was reaching for his gun. Sarah knew they only had stun darts in their guns but they still hurt like hell. Reid didn't deserve to be hurt. He was just upset about the whole situation. They all should be, though some were handling it better than others.

"Sirs please step aside," said one of the guards. Pogue saw the gun in his hand and mistakenly thought they intended to shoot Reid for real. Pogue lashed out with his powers and pushed the guard back wards. The other guard saw his eyes go black and shot him.

Cindy screamed and ran from the group. Tyler having been freed from Cindy ran towards the falling Pogue. The other guard raised his gun to shoot Reid. And Reid's eyes started to go black. It seemed to be moving in slow motion. Sarah grabbed Reid's arm and went invisible just as the man fired. The dart passed through empty air. "Code Sarah, repeat code Sarah," he yelled into the radio attached to his neck.

Reid froze he felt weird and the guard was looking for them but they were right in front of him. The guard stretched out his hand and felt the empty air in front of him they stepped sideways. Sarah keeping a grip on his arm. She put her finger to her mouth in a shushing motion. Reid was glancing at her with a mischievous grin on his face. Sarah nodded towards the closed door.

Reid understood and used to make the door open. The guard headed for the open door. While two other guards retrieved pogue's unconscious form. Sarah knew he would be spending the night in solitary. After the guards vanished Sarah brought them back into view. "What are they going to do with Pogue?" asked Reid

"Take him to solitary where they were going to take you" said Sarah. Reid looked guilty for a second. "Don't worry I'll let him know that the guards only carry stun guns" said Raferty."Don't bother they can tell him themselves since they will be in adjoining cells" said another guard "nice try Sarah" said the guard. Sarah groaned, great just great. "Fine lead on" said Sarah. "This way please" said the guard.

The other one with him pushed Reid after her. Reid turned like he intended to hit him. The guard raised his stun gun and Reid backed off. They led them down another set of hallways to the detention rooms. The guard punched in a code and the door slid open. He pushed Reid inside without preamble. And the door closed Reid angrily punched the door. The guard punched in another code and Sarah walked into her cell. The door slid shut behind her.

"Pogue" said Reid. He was looking through the glasslike panel at the occupant of another cell. "He'll be out for another two hours," said Sarah. "How do you know he's just tranquided??" said Reid "because we're much too valuable to kill and I've been tranquided before, several times actually" said Sarah Reid snorted he was still angry at her." You know if you fight them they'll only make it worse" said Sarah "thanks for the advice traitor" said Reid.

He flopped down on the bed in the cell. He tried to use to throw the pillow on the bed to the other side of the room. It didn't budge, so he tried again. Then got frustrated and screamed. Physically throwing the offending pillow this time.

Sarah sighed would he ever get over that, she hoped so; she actually liked Reid and didn't want to see him hurt

They would hurt him if he didn't eventually cooperate. They'd push him until he broke. Sarah didn't want to see that happen. Not only because it would hurt the others but because Reid was a friend even if he was mad at her. "You know I really didn't have a choice about bringing you guys in," said Sarah

He snorted, "yes you did, you could have said no," said Reid "they don't listen to no around here" said Sarah sadly. "Still could have refused," said Reid. "It wouldn't have done any good, they would have just picked you up themselves" said Sarah.

"So how did they pick you up?" he asked

Sarah sighed might as well tell him, Caleb knew already. "I was on a 747 when it crashed, I walked away without a scratch" said Sarah "whoa! so they brought you here?" said Reid "yeah after they declared there were no survivors" said Sarah. "That's fucked," said Reid "yeah it is but they've done it to all of us, even you guys," said Sarah. Reid was standing by the cell door listening to her.

"So this is it we're royally screwed," said Reid. "Yes we are" said Sarah "so how did they know about us, did you tell them?" said Reid "no, they actually were tracking Chase and were going to figure you out anyways, then Caleb told me when I was wearing a wire" said Sarah "great, that's ironic, he yells at me for potentially exposing us and he's the one who does" said Reid he ended with a short mirthless laugh. "I tried to warn him really I did, I even tried to avoid him, unfortunately Chase had other plans" said Sarah Reid snorted "so you were actually supposed to bring chase here?" said Reid "yes but chase was well crazy for lack of a better word" said Sarah "oh I don't know I can think of several words to describe him" said Reid