I followed Cassie through the streets of Hong Kong; eventually getting to a part of the city where there was much less hustle and bustle. Barely anyone was on the streets and the only real sound you could hear was coming from the heart of the city. Cassie and I made our way to a better version of my apartment building and came to a stop in front of an apartment door. "Now what?" I asked. Cassie took out her cellphone and dialed a number and waited a couple seconds before talking.
"Hey Nick...Open the door Nick, and put down the gun." Cassie hung up after that, looking rather smug. I raised an eyebrow at her demeanor, before a voice popped into my head.
Careful Nick, slowly take off the safety.
My eyes widened at the voice, I know that voice! The door finally opened and on the other side was Blue Eyes himself; holding a glock in his hand. His eyes traveled from Cassie to me before widening themselves.
In shock, we ended up both speaking at the same time.
"Blue Eyes?" We both asked, our eyes growing a bit bigger. Cassie shook her head and laughed as she walked into the apartment like she was the one that lived there, leaving something on the guy's counter.
"You're Nick?" I asked, finally something coming out of my mouth. "Nick" nodded his head before whipping it around to face Cassie who was raiding his fridge.
"Hey! Whoa whoa whoa," Nick grabbed the container of chicken Cassie ended up finding and just looked confused. "Excuse me?"
"This is how you treat your guests?"
"This is how I treat random strangers that barge into my apartment."
"Like the Division Sniffers who were just here." Cassie said, looking around. I stiffened at the mention of the Sniffers; I did not know we were getting involved with something from Division.
"Division? Cassie, you didn't tell me anything about Division." I said, making my way through the apartment, anger and fear bubbling in my stomach.
Nick had just put the chicken back and just looked at us, "Who are you two?"
"I'm Cassie," Cassie walks around me and then holds her hand out for Nick to shake, "I'm here to help you."
"And you are?"
I look up to see Nick talking to me, "Very confused as to what is going on." Nick rolled his eyes and grabbed Cassie's arm who reached over to grab me.
"Look Cassie and...Cassie's friend, I'm sure your families are nervous about you right now so-" Right as Nick went to open the door to get us out, Cassie raised her leg and kicked it back closed.
"You don't understand."
"Not really." Nick said before going to open the door again but Cassie again shut it.
"This is about the three of us finding 6 milling dollars." Cassie explained. She went and grabbed the notebook from her bag again and showed Nick the picture she showed me before. "That's us, and that's our money." Nick turned and grabbed the thing Cassie left on his counter when she walked in and I finally got a chance to see what it was. It was a toothbrush.
Like how she drew it in her picture.
"And that's my toothbrush. You're a Watcher." Nick said, more as a statement than a question.
"Is there somewhere we can get something to eat besides chicken?" Cassie asked. Nick just looked at her before she pulled out a wad of money and said, "I'm buying."
And then she walked out, leaving me and Nick to just follow after her. Nick locked his apartment door and I watched as Cassie had already made her way down the hall, not waiting for us. I had turned around just to see Nick looking at me and not the lock on his door. "What?"
"Nothing." He said, stuffing his hands into his sweatshirt pockets. We started walking the way Cassie had and that led for me to hear what he was thinking, Who the hell is this chick?
"Mercy." I introduced, making him stop. He looked at me with a raised eyebrow and that made me continue on, "That's my name, Mercy Lynn."
"And what are you?"
I looked over to him and continued walking without him, "Thinker." I heard the rush of footsteps and looked over to see Nick by my side with squinted eyes.
"Thinker? Like The Thinker?" He asked. We finally reached Cassie at the elevators who looked very impatient to eat something. "I don't buy it."
"Believe what you want. I don't care either way." I mumbled. The elevator dinged as it reached the floor we were on and we all piled in, Nick still looking at me like he was trying to figure out a puzzle.
"Okay, then what number am I thinking of right now?" I looked at him and give him a 'are you serious' look but rolled my eyes and went along with it anyways.
"Four. Now fifty-six. Negative twenty-seven. Two hundred and seventy-four. Okay, that's not even a number and you know that."
Nick was gaping at me now, his mouth open in shock. "How did you do that?" He asked.
"I can hear you switching numbers in your head. It's also how I heard you asking yourself who I was earlier; it's why I told you my name."
Cassie watched the two of us and started laughing again. After that, we waited for the elevator to stop on the ground floor and then got out and back to the streets of Hong Kong. Me and Cassie followed Nick deeper into the city then where we were before, walking into a market I had visited a couple times. Native patrons bustled in the streets and around stands to see what venders were selling for the day. There was so many smells from fish, cooking noodles and other things my mouth started to water. Damn, I forgot to eat this morning. Soon we found a stand and the three sat at the table right near the stand. Cassie didn't waste any time going into what we needed to talk about.
"First things first; I know your a second generation mover." She said, putting her hair in an up do.
"Is that what their calling it these days?" Nick asked, looking around the market.
"I'll let you know when I see one. You don't really use your powers because you need practice and you kinda suck at it. How am I doing so far?"
"Go on."
"I'm a watcher. Second generation like you." Cassie finally finished her hair and looked at Nick. I just sat and watched the two talk, sometimes getting sidetracked by the smell of food.
"Wow, that's-"
"Complicated. Because the future could change just by talking about it. So I see glimpses and I draw them in my book, but I'm not very good at it. I'm kinda a crappy artist but I'm sure you already knew that." I smiled at Cassie and then looked over to Nick as he was taking all of this in. "But I got the Sniffers right; that's why I brought you a new toothbrush."
Nick looked over at the cook at the stand and ordered something with shrimp, which he asked for in Cantonese. I speak Chinese so my Cantonese isn't as good, but some words I recognized. "Fan of shrimp?" I asked. Nick turned and shrugged, before turning back to Cassie who looked rather impressed.
"You speak Chinese?" She asked as she played with her chopsticks. Before Nick could answer, I butted in.
"It was actually Cantonese."
"Do you speak it too?"
"I know bits and pieces, I mostly speak Chinese."
"I'm surprised you didn't know that, you know, being a watcher." Nick said.
"I get things wrong sometimes." Cassie looked down at the table a little flustered, but Nick didn't seem to notice.
"I know that feeling." His eyes then turned to me and seem to be analyzing my every feature. "And what about you?" Before I could even open my mouth, Cassie stepped in.
"Mercy," I looked away from Nick to watch the small girl look authoritative, "First generation Thinker, extremely rare."
"So I've been told."I mumbled, picking up a set of chopsticks and breaking them apart.
"What are you doing in Hong Kong?" Nick asked.
"Most likely what you're doing; hiding out for a couple of months before I have to pack up and leave again." I explained. Nick nodded his head and looked at something behind me. He seemed to have noticed something and before I could turn around, Cassie started talking again and our food had come.
"Are you worried about the friends you owe money to? Don't. Thank you. We'll be able to take care of it in a couple of days."
"With your six million dollars?" Nick asked. I started to dig into the dish we got, still trying to pay attention to the made a noise of approval as she stuffed her face with noodles. "Where's the money?"
"It's on it's way here; with a girl?"
"Do you know who the girl is?" I asked after swallowing my food. Cassie shook her head and chewed the rest of her food before continuing.
"I know what she looks like though." She explained.
Nick barely looked at his food as he tried to wrap his head around everything, "Don't tell me. It's the same girl the Division Sniffs are looking for." Again, Cassie nodded. That seemed to tell Nick something as he put down his chopsticks and made a move to get up. "It was Cassie, right? Enjoy your food." Nick got up from the table and started to walk away. I quickly got up and followed after him, leaving Cassie at the table.
"Hey, hey now. You can't leave me with her, that wasn't the plan." I said, grabbing his arm and turning him to face me.
"What plan?"
"The plan I had to leave her with you and then skedaddle."
"Wait so, you don't know her either?"
"No. After you tackled me and I sent your 'friends' in the 'wrong direction', she found me and said we had to find you." I explained. Nick though, went from serious and confused to amused, "What?"
"Skedaddled? Where are you from, 1930?" He asked with a smirk. I glared at him as Cassie had finally gotten to us.
"That's it?" She asked. Saying that brought us back to Nick walking away and me and Cassie following.
"That's it. Sorry, some twelve year old who knew I needed a new toothbrush and her friend isn't enough for me to get involved with Division. Even if it's not a con and your friend is cute."
I blushed and saw that Nick was looking at me from the corner of his eye, a smirk on his face as Cassie continued to talk to him about it. "I'm thirteen and I've been told I can look at least fourteen." Nick laughed and continued to ignore her.
"Right."
"And this is not a con. This is a way to get something that they want."
"I've actually used that line before."
"Fine, don't believe me." Cassie said, and even though Nick had disagreed to help, she looked rather confident. "But you will help us."
"Really? Cause I'm getting a message, and it's telling me.. to go find somebody else." Nick put his hands to his temples to pretend he was getting some message. I rolled my eyes and kept walking until a couple of thoughts rang through my head. The were in Cantonese, and were thinking really fast, but some words I got were "blonde watcher", "red jacket", "brothers" and "kill". I stopped and looked around but couldn't see anyone that looked like Division, but noticed that Cassie stopped a little ahead of me; grabbing her head.
"What's wrong?" Nick asked Cassie, but she didn't reply. I rushed over to them and grabbed Cassie's elbow and Nick's arm.
"We have to go. We have to go right now." I said in a loud whisper. Cassie seemed to have snapped out of what happened and looked just as rushed as I did. She pulled her elbow from my hold and started running deeper into the market place.
"Their in the market." She said. Me and Nick followed her, the hold i had on Nick's arm loosening and falling till I felt him grab my hand and tug me along.
"Who?" Nick asked, looking around. "Who?!"
"Come on!"
"Is it Division?" I asked. But sadly I was wrong.
"Bleeders! Come on we got to go." Cassie yelled ahead of us. That made me go faster, I've only run into a couple of Bleeders and they weren't very friendly. We rushed though the Market place until an older man wearing Ray Bans stopped in front of us. Cassie stopped and stared and him, and I knew that he was one of the Bleeders.
Great.