A four bar? How could she be a four bar? "So, are you going to let me in, or do I have to wait around here all night whilst you stand gawping?" Said the girl. Caine stood aside so she could go past and he shut the door behind her, securing the bolt. "I think we'd better talk." Said Caine, leading the way down the hall. As they walked Diana asked "so, what's your name? You already seem to know ours but we don't know yours."

"Mina." Said the girl.

"Mina." Said Diana smiling "I like it, it's a nice name."

Caine shot her a look "since when did you become that nice?"

"Just because you can't make conversation, Caine. Doesn't mean the rest of the world need to sit in silence." Snapped Diana. They arrived in the kitchen. A kitchen that hardly deserved the name anymore considering there wasn't any food there but it still had the same things any other kitchen did, minus the food. "Sit down for a minute, won't you? Me and Diana have something to talk about. We won't be long." Said Caine, roughly grabbing Diana by the arm.

"What?" She said, once they were in the room across from the kitchen.

"What do you think?"

"If she stays with us, she'll be great. But I wouldn't like to face her and Sam, so I hope she stays."

"What are you scared of? Her hearing your thoughts?"

"Yes, actually. I don't like people going through things in my mind. That's precisely why I think them and not say them out loud."

"But, come on. A four bar and all she can do is read minds? The question is, what else can she do?"

Wouldn't you like to know said Mina. But the thing was, she said it in Caine's head, not out loud. Caine physically jumped and Diana said "What?" rather irritably.

"She just spoke! In my head!"

Yep, I sure did. Neat trick, huh? Said Mina to Diana.

"What were you saying Caine? Only read minds? She can speak to people in their heads too."

"Oh, great! She's really going to kill us with that. I have this feeling she's not telling us something." The door swung open to reveal Mina who said "You haven't asked me any questions yet! How am I supposed to know what you want me to tell you when you don't ask. Anyone would think I was a mind reader."

"This was a private conversation. Don't you know how to stay out of my head?" Said Caine coldly.

"I could barely ignore it. You were only a few metres away. Look Caine, don't judge me before you have all the facts. If people are close enough, I hear their thoughts without even trying and trust me, that's no picnic. Some things, I could do without hearing. When you're telepathic you have certain limits you hold yourself to. You don't look through people's thoughts unless necessary and if you hear something private, you don't mention it. It's just polite. So you can have your secrets about what you've always dreamed of or who you love but don't keep important things away from me that I should know. I'm just going to find out anyway and it hurts more to know people are keeping things from me. Oh, and there's another thing I should mention. Don't talk about me behind my back and never, never lie to me. Funnily enough, I can always tell when someone's lying."

"Right," said Diana "how about we have that chat?" Once they were all sat in the kitchen Caine said "I'm going to ask you now. What are your powers? What can you do apart from reading minds and talking in other people's heads? Because I fail to see how you could be dangerous, why would we hate to have you as our enemy?" Caine was getting angry, he was tired and impatient and stressed about too many things. "You might be a four bar but I'd like to see you defend yourself against me." He moved a plate that was on the side towards Mina. It should have hit her hard but it didn't. It stopped in mid air and then dropped to the floor where it smashed into little pieces.

Mina stared at Caine, her expression fierce. "Are you afraid yet, Caine?"

Diana looked from one to the other and said "are you telekinetic then?" she said "I didn't think it was possible to have two powers."

"Telekinetic?" Said Mina "no. It was Caine who dropped the plate." With that, Caine began to shake.

"Caine?" Said Diana, a little worriedly.

"She was in my head." He said. "She made me...controlled me." He looked at Mina and said "I would be afraid if you weren't on my side."

Mina raised her eye brows "and what makes you think that I am?"

"I mean, if you were on Sam's side. If you're on mine or your own, it's ok. I am right by thinking if you're on your side you have no reason to hurt anyone?"

"Yes. As of now, anyway. So, in answer to your question I can read minds and not just thoughts but memories as well. I can dig around in someone's mind to find out most things that are in there. I can speak to people in their mind and they can answer me with their thoughts, the further the distance between me and the person the harder it is for me to make a connection. I can control people with their mind, make them do a lot of things, depending on their resistance."

"Anything else?" Said Diana

"Yes, I can make people see things that aren't there. Sort of like a mirage. I can make people feel pain when they shouldn't. Basically, I can mess with people's minds. I don't like doing anything really bad though, because I could ruin them...and me. Some things aren't just dangerous for the person but me too."

A slow smile spread across Caine's face, he looked over at Diana and said "I think Mina just stole Penny's thunder."

"I'm glad. Penny needs taking down a notch or two." Said Diana. Nobody bothered to explain who Penny was to Mina because she probably already new, what with her reading minds and all. "Can we go to sleep now, Caine?" Said Diana, "I think it's quite safe to sleep in the same house as Mina here. She's not going to slit our throats or anything." Caine nodded and Diana led Mina up the stairs, leaving Caine alone in the kitchen. He sat there with his head in his hands and sighed. Mina's as powerful as me...and Sam. If not more so. I just hope she stays on our side...or her side. She'd be great to have but...something strikes me she's not quite up to it. I think she's too nice. Alright she can be cold and show people who's in charge but I don't think she'd hurt anyone. Only time will tell. With that he got up and went up to bed, thinking about this new girl who could be so dangerous if she wanted to be.