What if both the sisters are without power, Steven thought while sitting in Ace's car and looking at Rain and Sophie helping their mother in gardening. Ace's car was parked on the back of their house right now, as there was a road on the backside, in front of their backyard too, and some cars were parked there so Mrs.Finn didn't take any notice of it, although Sophie waved at him from her window as soon as she woke up and Rain keeps on looking at the car time to time while doing her chores.
He was eating french fries one after another, after dipping it in sauce, Ace was out somewhere, possibly ordering food at some restaurant, for him and Steven. The problematic thing about this mission, Steven thought, was not the mission itself but the food and their sleep cycle, he and Ace were continuously eating fried food or fruits which was making his digestion bad, while these 1 am meetings were fun but were making him sleepy and tired.
He had now another job that is to get to know the sisters while giving them information and also knowing about their power and with an ultimatum that this all should be done in the next 5 days. They have been in the human world for more than a month now, which means 3-4 days in their world and that was bad, they are aging like normal humans here and will have to go back someday and their age would not match the non-human world if they stay for too long, so they got an order to come back while the second duo would take the case from here.
Steven knew while looking at the smiling mother and daughters that he will get a little sad while going back, once he is back in his world, he will have to start with his job, he will have to clear testing levels, this was the first level and Ace told him that he cleared it very well.
Once he is back he will not come back till at least 1 year, which will mean 2 years in this world, which means Rain would be 17 and he would be 20 when he comes back, although the problem was not this, the problem was, would Rain remember him? Would she recognize him? Would they be safe?
Then he thought, why is he bothering about the sisters, they are not his problem, but in a way, Rain was his problem right now, he can't shake off the butterflies he keeps on getting when her hazel eyes looked into his green once.
He can't shake off the feeling he gets every time he is in front of her that wants to impress her somehow. He was going crazy about it.
The sisters and mother started going inside and Rain looked back at the car for the last time and then went inside, they were having a blast with Finns, Rain loved them, Kat was super encouraging and loving, and Oliver was super protective and loving. Sophie was happy with them and so was Rain, but the fact that Rain could be part of a world full of powers was making her excited.
She started looking into the mirror for any kind of change in her that would tell her about her powers, she started to try and concentrate on a thing to make them fly or move, she started to copy the twist, Steven did for teleportation.
She was happy indeed but she wanted to be special, all her life she wanted something special, and now someone is here telling her that maybe she is special, and she wanted him to be right, if her mother had the power she would definitely have them, after all, she was the first child, first child would get the power.
While on the other hand, Sophie was scared, scared for her sister, for Kat, for Oliver, Steven and Ace as well, she wanted no one dead, she wanted no power, she wanted to live with Kat and Oliver and be happy. But in her mind, she still keeps remembering the paper birds flying, the dead body of her mom and dad, and she can't help but keep imagining what if now it would be Kat and Oliver or Rain or someone else.
The idea of a different world and different life was fascinating but she was happy in her own life, after 2 years she was happy, and she wanted nothing more or less, she could see her sister getting all excited about powers, continuously trying to do something special, to invoke the powers, but she, on the other hand, was trying to not think of it, praying that they would not come back, asking God to let her live happily with her parents.
While Steven and Rain waited for the night to come all day, Sophie, tried to enjoy the day and not wanted the night to come at all.
And the night came, Sophie stayed in her room and didn't try to go with Rain for the meeting. But to her irritation, Steven leaped directly inside her room and she jumped in horror. He laughed.
"You could have first told me." she angrily huffed.
"I tried. But thought you wouldn't mind this" He said while going near her and ruffling her hair kindly.
She pushed his hands aside while he chuckled and she ran towards the door to call for Rain.
Rain was not surprised to see Steven directly in Sophie's room, she came inside smiled at him, and sat on the chair near the window while Steven sat on the bed.
Sophie looking at them sat on the bean bag, and Steven said. "I might be snet back in 5 days."
All the happiness from Rain's face died down and she blurted out, "Why?"
"Remember I told you, time runs differently in our world, thats the only reason." He calmly stated while looking at Rain's sad face.
"Who will save us then?" Sophie asked.
"Some new team will come and they will get different orders, don't worry, we haven't seen the shadow from 2 days and it could be a good sign"
"Will you come back?" Rain asked
This was the question Steven dreaded the most, "Not until I am done with my training." He replied looking at the tree out of the window.
Sophie looked at him unfazed by the information he was giving but Rain was sad, " When will that be?" She asked
"At least one year in my world."
"And in our world?"
Steven didn't want her to be sad but she was asking him difficult questions, he looked into her hazel eyes for the first time this night and said, "2 years in the human world."
The room went silent for a moment, tears started filing in Rain's eyes, Steven looked downward at the floor not wanting to look at her while she cried, and Sophie was dumbfounded.
"You mean you will come back after 2 years?" Sophie asked.
He nodded.
"Okay then." Rain replied and got up, "Why having meetings with you if you are going and someone else will come to protect us." And left
Sophie was shocked at her sister's behavior and so was Steven.
both of them sat there for a minute before Sophie started, "Um, I am sorry, it may not be the time to ask this, but do you think we would be taken in that world if we are like our mom?"
"Huh?" Steven looked at her confused then said, "Yes but it would be your choice."
He too got up as he saw no point in staying if Rain was not there, when Sophie said, "What if we say no??" He looked at her.
"You would stay here only, you will have to go through a power destructive procedure." And he jumped down her window without even turning, started to run back towards his car.
As soon as he was in the car and Ace asked him, "You are early?" Thats when the actual meaning of Sophie's word hit him and he finally looked at the house. He couldn't see Sophie's bedroom window as the tree was cover it.
"What is the possibility that the little one has powers?" He asked distractedly.
"10%, why?" Ace replied sleepily.
"Nothing.. just a hunch," He replied.
"Don't worry much, man. We will be out of this mission in 5 days. Don't worry about it now."
As Steven see, Ace turning and sleeping in his seat that was pushed back and made into bed he thought, Rain could have powers too, I can take her with me, once she is 18 I can ask her to come with me, but... she doesn't show any sign of power, what if she doesn't have any.
No no, she was manipulating my emotions, she could be Em.M, she will have to tell Rain this tomorrow, she can come with him once she is 18. He thought and with a smile started to dosed off himself.