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Chapter 52

"So, how has everything been at the new place?" Rune asked sitting on the porch at Naomi and Rael's house.

She shrugged and sat down next to him after putting down the two glasses of lemonade, "Its definantly not what I'm use to. They like to hug a lot."

Rune raised an eyebrow, "Really, I wouldn't of got that from the way Rael is at school." He took a long drink, and ran one hand through his hair, "Ah, pretty good stuff." He put his feet up on the table and pulled Naomi in a little closer to him, "Still, you're sorely missed at the school. When are you coming back?"

"I think we're coming back on Monday," Naomi replied, "I'll have to check with Rael and Mr. and Mrs. Ta... mom and dad, to be sure though. They wanted to take us to this amusement park."

"And it should be lots of fun." Mr. Tanners came up the porch steps, "Naomi, who's your friend?"

"Oh, um, dad this is Rune, he's from school he's my boyfriend." She said as Rune got to his feet and held out his hand.

Her father gave him a quick look over and raised an eyebrow, he took the offered hand, "Rael's told me about you a few time Rune, you're a troublemaker I understand."

"Only on occasion sir." He replied, "You were told that Naomi's nickname is Reckless, right? Your daughter's a troublemaker too."

"Yes, I've been informed," Mr. Tanners' eyes lingered on the multiple earrings for a moment, "So, what is it exactly that you can do?"

Rune put his hands in his pockets, "I can manipulate gravity and the pressure that's brought with it." He made himself levitate a few feet off the porch nearly hitting his head on the eaves. "So, I can do a lot of things really." He dropped himself down again.

"I see," there was a silence that had an unidentifiable strain lingering in the air, "Well, the Missus is cooking up something fun tonight, care to join us for dinner?" And the feeling vanished.

"No, actually I was just dropping by to bring Naomi her school work she's missed, and a few other things I thought she'd like to keep here." He pulled out what looked to be a glass rose from his pocket, he was scowling slightly at the prospect of giving it over to her, "Midas said this was yours."

Naomi sighed and took it from Rune's hand while shaking her head, "He's an odd one," she perked up, "I'm sure mom will love it." She spun on her heels and walked into the house to give the rose-shaped diamond to her new mother.

Rune moved to follow but Mr. Tanners put a hand on his shoulder and got him to sit down again, "So tell me, what are you intentions with my daughter?" Rune did his best to suppress a groan.

On the drive back from the amusement park Naomi was staring out the window starting to fall asleep, she wondered if this was what a normal life was like. The seats between Rael and Naomi was packed with overly large stuffed animals, and the trunk contained more of them. Her new family was talking avidly about the adventure they had had. But the one that had stood out most to her was watching Mrs. Tanners tell off a group of people who had recognized her from one of the news stations that had covered a bit of her trial, they were trying to make her leave the park and her new mom had told them that if they had something against Naomi then they should take it up with God. She smiled again at the shocked looks that that had gotten her. Naomi leaned her head back and kept looking out the window.

Rael prodded her in the side, she jumped and looked over at him, "You okay?" he asked, making sure it was under the voices of his parents, "I told you not to ride that last roller coaster with dad."

She couldn't help but laugh, "Just tired is all, I've never done so much in my life." She poked him in the side back, "Your one to talk, you look sick to your stomach."

"Too much cotton candy," Mrs. Tanners commented, turning to look at them "Its his overall weakness, don't let anyone else know it though." Mr. Tanners looked back in his rear-view mirror as they all kept laughing at Rael's expense.

The ground gave a tremor and Naomi's eyes went wide as rocks began to crawl down side of the mountain around them. A massive bolder rolled down in front of them and their dad slammed on the breaks just avoiding hitting it. Reiley yelled for her husband to put it in reverse and to move the car, from her window Naomi saw another large rock rolling toward them. Rael shouted for Naomi to put up her shadow.

The view from that side of the car turned black, Naomi had her hands pressed up against the car window, her heart was pounding in her chest. The parents in the car had gone suddenly silent. She looked over at them slowly to see their reaction, they looked from the shadow covering the car to Naomi several times, finally they seemed to remember how to breathe. "Good job sweetie." Mr. Tanners finally managed to say.

Rael climbed out of the car, and looked up the hillside. "We've got company."

Naomi dropped the shadow and looked up, she swallowed, of course it couldn't of just been a freak accident.

"Hello princess, did you miss me?" Pyro said from the top of the hill, beside him were Recharge and two others that she didn't recognize.