Illusion 14

Sarah could tell he was faking when he kissed her. She wasn't sure if she wanted to take it all the way to the bedroom. She didn't feel like going through the motions without the feelings behind them. So instead she called it off and had him escorted back to his room. She feigned tiredness she was far from feeling and a headache.

As she watched him leave she couldn't help but feel disappointed. Her relationship with him would never be the same. She closed her door and leaned on the backside of the closed door. She was trying to stifle the rising wave of misery that threatened to send her into tears. Reluctantly she had to agree with Raferty they were going to have to be chipped. She sighed and walked over to the table snuffed out the candles and headed for her bathroom.

Maybe a soak in the tub would help relieve her tension. She sighed again and started the water n the tub. When it was filled she stripped off her clothes. Frowning at the lingerie she had chosen for the evening, how disappointing she thought as she watched it hit the floor. She climbed in and sank into the water closed her eyes as she leaned back.

Caleb walked silently back to his dorm room. She had obviously sensed he wasn't in the mood anymore. It irritated him that she had that much influence here to just send him away like a misbehaving pet. The guard opened his door for him and he angrily stomped into his room.

Tyler watched him storm in and tug off his shirt angrily. "didn't go as planned huh?" said Tyler "no she believes this shit' he stated angrily. He wanted to take her with them when they made a break for it. Now he knew she would most likely turn him in. he sighed and ran his hands through his hair. "hey man I'm sorry" said Tyler. Caleb sat down on his bed to pull off his shoes. "yeah me too now go to sleep baby boy" said Caleb.

The next morning Pogue talked to Caleb about the plan. Caleb gave the go and told them to avoid talking in front of anyone else. Reid was keeping an eye on the guards, picking out the lazy ones they could take advantage of while they continued their training. The girls went out three more times that week and Caleb used their absence to plot behind Sarah's back.

He told them to not even think about the plan in the lunch room because he didn't know what some of the other groups could do. He didn't want to find out the hard way that one could read minds. He had no doubt they were being monitored. They just had to find a way around it. On the fourth week there they got their chance. The guards were all watching the game and not really watching the cells.

They used to unlock their doors and used again to slip past the guards. They used four more times to avoid capture before they made their way out the front doors. They crossed the barren landscape, fortunately for them it was night. They slipped past the guards and headed out of the area. They hiked across the open desert until they reached a road.

That's where they got picked up by a trucker. Sarah and her team didn't even know they were gone until she returned from an assignment. She found Raferty, Xavier and the general waiting for her. She knew it was something bad when she saw them all together. She saluted them and stood at attention waiting for the bad news.

"they broke containment" said Raferty he sounded less then pleased by the tone of his voice. "are they being tracked?" said Sarah. The general said "follow me" so Sarah did she didn't bother to hide her frown. As there intake supervisor they had just gotten her in trouble as well as themselves. It irritated her that Caleb would be a party to something so foolish. They entered the command center. On a monitor it showed four dots moving steadily away from the center.

She nodded in relief glad they had taken her advice about chipping them. She noticed the tracker was also present she was hovering over some maps doing her thing. She approached the girl "where are they heading?" she asked "home" the girl answered in a breathless whisper. Sarah looked at the others. "We've already sent agents to intercept them" said Xavier his voice sounded angry to her and she met his gaze. Xavier hadn't liked her since she got here. He routinely referred to the teams as the freaks or freak show. She wondered why he would even involve himself in such a project if he found it so distasteful.

Sarah turned back to the board "how far are they from target?" said Sarah "about twenty miles or so from target" said one of the agents stationed at the monitor. "Good send out the containment teams and be ready with the clean up crews, and tell them to exercise caution" said Sarah she cared about Caleb and his friends but she also cared about her team mates. She wanted to injure both continued to be healthy.

"Already in place" said another agent. One of the radio guys turned to Sarah and her group. "orders?" he asked Sarah was irritated with them for not only causing such a fuss but also jeopardizing everything she had worked so hard for."Tranquilise on sight" said Sarah the general nodded in acquiesce, this was Sarah's mess and he would give her a chance to clean it up.

Xavier snorted in contempt; a freak had no business being in charge he had stated often enough to irritate most of the staff. The general and Raferty ignored his snort and disparaging comments. "Use the nodolax" said Sarah. the tech raised his eyebrows in surprise. Nodolax was nasty stuff that rendered the recipients powers useless as well as giving them a migraine the next day. "A little irritated my dear" said Raferty. Sarah's jaw tightened "you think?" she answered sarcastically.

The boys decided to separate when they reached town so they could talk to their families. Tyler was walking up to the back door of his house when the agents surrounded him on all sides. He used for a brief moment to fling one of the agents to the side.

He passed out on the porch steps after being shot multiple times with the tranquilizers. His stepfather had looked out the back door when he heard the commotion. So they had to call in the clean up crew to wipe his memory. Reid had gone to his dad's work instead of home. He assumed that they would most likely have some one waiting for him. So they ended up tranquilizing him in his father's law firm in front of a room of witnesses. Containment was called again and this time they had to retrieve video feeds and cell phones.

Caleb found his mother in his fathers old house and was able to tell her what was going on before they caught up to him. She screamed at the agents when they tranquilized her son. Clean up had ended up wiping all her memories out in an effort to keep her from going to the press. Since she didn't seem to be deterred by the threats of jail time they gave her.

She watched blankly after they were done with her as they loaded Caleb's unconscious form into an ambulance. She now believed him to be an escaped mental patient instead of her son. Pogue found Kate with one of Aaron's friends. She was necking with him out on inspiration point.

So he decided to go talk to his family. It was between the two places that they caught him. He raised his hands in surrender but they shot him anyways. Then they checked to see if he had made contact with either Kate or his family. Fortunately he never got that far so they left them be. They placed them on another government plane back to the center. They woke up in solitary with armed guards watching there every move.