Chapter 12

The interior was not what I was expecting at all, looked like Delsin had done a lot of renovating.

"I guess you can take that couch over there," he pointed with a long yawn.

We didn't exchange any other words, I made my way to the large couch and lay down and closed my eyes.

My sleep was pleasant for once, quiet - I could feel my consciousness slowly creeping in several hours later, I could see the light beyond my eyelids informing me that it was morning, that was until it was all blotted out by a sudden darkness. I snapped my eyes open and threw my hand out, I took aim but relaxed my power once I took note of the stranger stood over me.

"Woah!" the stranger backed off "sorry I didn't mean to wake you."

He wasn't a threat I lowered my hand and rubbed the back of my stiff neck - maybe I hadn't slept as well as I'd thought, "who are you?" I asked "where's Delsin?"

"It's me," he replied "Eugene."

"Eugene," this was the guy behind those massive and mighty video angels and demons – I guess looks can be deceiving "it's good to finally put a name to the face."

"Likewise –" he stuttered "well, I mean I've only ever seen you through the cameras."

I raised my brow as I took in Eugene's nervousness, I hadn't expected this persona at all.

"Oh hang on a second!" Eugene rushed off to the other side of the room.

I groggily got to my feet and trundled off to join him. He'd taken a position at a large computer console – several large screens displaying various camera footage, - other monitors displayed pages that looked like confidential DUP information.

Eugene raised his fingers almost touching the screen and his video power pixels poured into it. I watch in silence as he typed at an invisible keyboard and through the camera I could see he had beckoned a swarm of video angels and demons. I said nothing initially I didn't want to distract him but as I took a closer look at the monitor I could see Delsin and he was a one man army against hordes and hordes of DUP. He dispatched them fairly easily from the looks of things.

"Okay, Delsin I'm pulling out" Eugene announced – perhaps one of his video angels conveyed the message – I gotta admit Eugene's power was pretty impressive. I watched as the largest angel of them all swooped down and lifted a huge crate and began to flee the scene.

"What you got there?" I pointed toward the flickering image of his angel on the monitor.

Eugene didn't answer at first, he was really focused – it wasn't until his angel was in the clear that he actually lifted his eyes from the screen to acknowledge me - even if it was for just a few seconds.

"Some supplies," he answered "food, clothes, medical stuff."

"And you're just taking it?" I asked "aren't the supplies for everyone?"

Eugene didn't remove his eyes from the screen, "we can give back what we don't need... I guess," he shrugged "I mean Delsin says we have to look after our own, so …"

"I don't think we should be taking it," I replied firmly "you gotta take it back."

Eugene grimaced "I can't do that," he finally replied, "Delsin would be really mad."

"What?" I shook my head "are you scared of him?"

"No... no" Eugene replied "of course not. We need to eat too and I can send my angels back with the crate once we've got what we need."

I didn't press further, I nodded – it was better than nothing - plus, come to think of it I was feeling pretty hungry.

His angel must have been close, Eugene stood and wandered toward the thick glass to welcome it. Delsin was not too far behind – Delsin hovered spraying concrete shards from his limbs – he lifted his hand and sucked the glass away absorbing it and creating an entrance. The angel set the huge crate down inside and disintegrated away into pixels. The crate was huge.

"Woah I think we hit the jackpot!" Delsin grinned.

"Let's just grab what we need and take it back," I announced.

"Wait, what? Are you kidding me?" Delsin frowned "it's been days since the last drop – we gotta stock up man, who knows when they'll drop another of these bad boys?"

"What about all of the … 'normals'" for lack of a better word – I continued "they're relying on these supplies!"

"The normals can look after themselves! Let me take care of the conduits."

"Us three?" I looked about the room to exaggerate my point.

Delsin gritted his teeth and his eyes filled with malice, "would you quit with this justice bullshit!?" his hands flared up with electricity and then smoke – his anger always seemed to trigger a slight loss of control in his power. I looked to Eugene and could see that he was intimidated, but Delsin didn't scare me.

"You're really starting to piss me off!" Delsin snapped again, but choked a little on what he said next "you sound like my brother!"

I shrugged, "well then maybe you should have listened to your brother more often … " I was going to continue but I'd clearly a deeper nerve than I'd intended to.

Delsin approached me and raised his hand summoning up claws of glass, Eugene retreated but I stood my ground – my eyes bore into his. He dropped his hand and gave a spiteful smirk "you know," he began retracting his glassy talons "the reason you probably sound so much like my brother is because you spent so much time down at the station."

"What are you talking about?" I genuinely had no idea.

"Reggie was a cop," Delsin announced as if that would shed some light on the point that he was eluding to – I was still drawing a blank, Delsin turned to Eugene "what? You didn't show him?"

Eugene shook his head he attempted to answer but only managed to stammer on the spot.

Enough! "show me what?!" I asked.

"Eugene did some digging and it looks like you and me aren't so different after all," Delsin folded his arms "so you can quit with this superhero high and mighty bullshit!"

I looked toward Eugene for answers.

"Screw this," Delsin spat "I'm gonna go cool off," he headed for the window and took off – neither I nor Eugene did anything to stop him.

"What's he talking about, Eugene?" I asked.