"Jake we can't stay up here forever, what are we going to do?" I said.
"They are going to be looking for you, I just hope they don't decide to move Aidan. There are beams that run over the top of that room they built, it is about a six foot drop though, do you think you could manage something like that?"
"What do you mean manage something like that? You want me to drop onto Aidan's cell?"
"Well no actually, I want you to go back to my car with me, head to the airport and get the hell out of here, but I am pretty sure that isn't going to be happening."
"Your right on that one."
"You are the only one who can create a hole in the roof of that room, I will go also, but you will have to be there to create the hole to get Aidan out."
"How am I suppose to create a hole in the roof?"
"Kenna it is sheet rock and wood, earth elements. You are really going to have to start relying on your powers a little more. It is the only advantage we have."
"How many years did I go without knowing I had these dang powers? Whatever, I will try my best, Aidan needs me."
"We are going to have to wait for the right time. It looks like they created a sleeping pallet over in the left hand corner over there. They won't all go to sleep but some of them will. That is the time to sneak over there."
"Seriously?"
"Seriously."
"Aidan?"
"Oh my God Kenna where have you been? I have no idea what is going on and you leave me here waiting?"
"We are in the warehouse with you Aidan. They don't know we are here. It is going to be a little while longer than I thought."
"I thought I wasn't going to like your plan, well to be honest I don't really like the idea of you being in the same building as these people, but I thought you were going to do something really crazy."
"Jake talked me out of it. I was gonna burn the warehouse down, but he said we needed something a little more subtle."
"You know I think I am going to like this guy."
"Whatever. Do they leave you alone at night?"
"Pretty much."
"We are going to come in through the roof of your cell."
"How?"
"Me, I am going to get us through the roof."
"Are you sure about this? Kenna you are just learning."
"I can do it Aidan, I will get you out."
"Kenna you have to promise me something, if it comes to a point between me or you, pick yourself keep yourself safe. Please."
"That isn't going to happen, we are both getting out of here. I have to go, talk to you soon."
"Kenna what are you doing?"
"Huh what do you mean, we are waiting aren't we?"
"I have been talking to you about our plan and you haven't heard a word I have said. This isn't the first time you have done this to me, what is going on?"
Should I tell him? I mean he is helping me get Aidan out, and I should be able to trust the guy helping me right? "You won't believe me if I tell you anyway."
"Try me."
I took a deep breath and , "I was talking to Aidan."
"What do you mean you were talking to Aidan?"
"We don't know how or why, but we can talk to each other telepathically."
"Really, and you choose now of all times to tell me this!" Jake whispered yelled at me.
"Jake we just met, sorry I don't dump all my secrets onto someone I just met."
"We are trying to save him, don't you think having inside communication is information I could have used?"
"Keep your voice down! Are you trying to get us caught? It's done and over, you know now ok, so drop it!"
"Fine, but do not keep things like that from me again, do you understand."
Ok I can't get in a big fight with Jake right now, focus on saving Aidan, we are here to save Aidan. "Understood General!" Ok I couldn't help a little dig.
Jake just huffed and went back to watching the floor of the warehouse. Julie just walked in, might be helpful to actually listen in on what is going on.
"Julie, what are you doing back here?"
"She never showed, I tried calling multiple times, but Kenna isn't answering my calls."
"Interesting, something must have tipped her off, I thought she trusted you Julie?"
"She does father, I have never done anything to make her think she can't trust me."
"You have done something, or she would be here now." Ha-ha on you evil guy, I am here now!
"You don't have any idea where else she would go?"
"I have already went over this dad, Aidan and I were the only people she knew until she met that guy last night. I have no idea where she is."
"Something doesn't feel right, she knows something but how."
"Dad Aidan didn't even know about us. More than once he has caught a glimpse of my tattoo and it never even fazed him. But…"
"But what?"
"Well Kenna has seen it."
"And?"
"It fazed her."
"What do you mean it fazed her?"
"She started asking me questions about it but she didn't ask anything directly, Aidan has never cared about my tattoo though and Kenna seemed really interested in it."
Shit, I knew I should have left well enough alone about her damn tattoo, now what have I done.
"How would she know about us?"
"Aidan said he was adopted, Kenna was raised by her Granny."
"What was this Granny's name?"
"I don't know dad, stop it you are hurting my arm, I don't know she only ever called her Granny."
"The only family that knows about us Julie is the original family, the direct decedents. If Kenna knows who we are then she is one of them."
"I don't know that for sure dad, she just took a great interest in my tattoo."
"She is one of them, I can feel it. I have argued with the counsel for years that the family was not eliminated, but no one believed me. Your grandfather destroyed the last over fifty years ago. We have not seen or heard of them since."
Over fifty years ago? That was grandpa, Granny's husband. That means they have no idea about mom, it really was a car accident, fate can be pretty damn cruel. Then they don't know where the rest of us are either.
"They have become very good at hiding, something must have happened though for Aidan to have been adopted. We have found them again, this time we are going to end this family line for good."
Great, just great.
"What are we going to do dad?"
"We must notify the counsel, we are going to have to put all of our efforts into finding the rest of this family."
"Are you sure? Aidan never said anything about other family out there dad. Aren't there always five of them?"
"It would seem you and Aidan aren't as close as you thought you were. I am sure of it Julie, they are the only family that knows anything about us, and Kenna knows who we are. She will come for him, no one gives up their brother that easily. It would seem you are right Julie, Aidan can be used as bate after all."
"Take Brad with you and go check out Aidan's house again, then bring us some dinner back. Right now we just need to sit and wait she will be here soon."
Dang, I guess it is a good thing I am already here then. "Kenna how good is your balance?" It would seem our time table has sped up a bit.
"Not bad really."
"When Julie leaves we are going to have to start over to Aidan. They haven't looked up the entire time we have been here, so hopefully that is on our side. Come on we are going to have to crawl across the beam on the far wall, then follow the beam that is over Aidan's cell. Can you do this?"
"I have to, I don't have a choice, let's go."
This is a whole lot harder than they make it look it the movies. We shimmied along the back wall, on an 8" beam I might add, and now we are just waiting for Julie to walk her happy ass out the door. The less people in here the better.
From what we have seen there are four others besides Julie and Brad. Her father who seems to be running the whole show, and then three other goons. Ok there goes Julie, well here goes nothing.
It took me a good ten minutes to get above Aidan's cell. Of course to me it feels like it took a good hour. I am sweating so badly I don't know how I managed to stay on this damn beam. But we are above his cell now,
Jake tied off the rope and shimmied right on down to the roof like it was nothing, but we can't leave a rope dangling here, if they see it we are done. Ok Kenna you cannot screw this up.
Untie the rope, deep breath, just close your eyes. And float down to Jake, he is there, he won't let you fall, gently sink into the air. Oh shit I am there. Sweet, I did it again. I am getting pretty good at this shit if I do say so myself, which I do.
"Jake I need a break. Let me sit for a minute and then I will create the hole."
"It's ok Kenna, Julie's dad is in with Aidan now anyway, we don't want to create the hole yet."
"Oh good, I have a minute at least." In with Aidan like that is a good thing, that man is crazy.
"Aidan, don't answer, I want to try something. Try and open yourself up to allow me to hear your conversation. I won't talk or try to distract you, but if we can make it work I just might be able to hear what you hear. Oh, and we are on the roof of your cell."
It took a little bit, but I can hear what is going on in there now. I am definitely getting used to this telepathy thing.
"Why don't you tell us Aidan, it will save you a lot of pain."
"I don't know what you are talking about. I didn't even know I had a sister until Kenna showed up."
"I wish I could believe you Aidan, you always seemed like such a good man."
"In all the times you and I have talked have I ever mentioned family out there? No, because I didn't know I had one. And you and I were close once, hell I thought I was going to marry your damn daughter!"
"Believe me Aidan I thought you were going to too, you seemed so perfect for Julie. Like father like daughter I suppose."
"What the hell does that mean?"
"Nothing, you hid it well though. If you hadn't told Julie we would never have found out."
"Yeah, not one of my higher moments right now thanks."
"I know you are the original family, regardless of what you say. We have found you again and we will destroy you all for good this time."
"Yeah this has been a really fun talk, but kinda need some shut eye, can you get out now please."
"Doesn't matter, once we get you back to headquarters they have ways of making you talk."
I heard the door open then close, Julie's dad left Aidan's cell.
"Seriously, that was gonna be your father-in-law? I think you dodged a bullet there."
"You may be right, so are you gonna get me outta here or what?"
"Give me a minute, this isn't an exact science you know."
"Kenna if you are done talking to Aidan you could start working on the roof now."
"I don't like you Jake, I have decided you are entirely to bossy and condescending to like. Ok ok I am getting to it." Geez I already have Aidan trying to tell me what to do now Jake is to.
Ok so the roof is sheet rock and wood, to earth elements. I can't grow anything though, so is wood an earth element? I mean it becomes soil when it dies, so once it's dead can I do stuff with it? Sheet rock I can, I do stuff with rocks all the time anymore.
Stop procrastinating, we don't have time for this. Drill a hole in the wall. Envision the hole going down. You know it is a dang good thing I have a good imagination, I can see the drill in my mind's eye, maybe that is why this works for me.
"You got this Kenna, I can see the hole starting."
"Not helping Jake, just sit over there and be quiet."
"Fine!"
Whispered arguments are actually pretty funny when you think about it, Kenna you don't have time. You really are kinda spacey you know. Ok, "Aidan can you see anything?"
"Yeah, you have a small hole on this side, there is stuff falling down in here too, be careful."
"Ok, I will try and hurry."
Ok Kenna, this is to save Aidan's life, I can actually see the particles, this is what things look like under a microscope. But Aidan said they are falling into his cell, if I can create with the elements can I eliminate with them? I put my hand down over the hole and willed it all away, no more, it no longer exists.
"Hi Kenna."
Aha, I can, I can make things within my element no longer exist. So I can create and destroy. That is awesome, I need to be careful or I am gonna get high on all this power I have. "Hi Aidan!"
"Kenna get out of the way so I can get him out of there."
"Really Jake not liking the bossiness, you need to work on that."
"Just get out of the way."
Jake lowered the rope down and we both held it while Aidan climbed up. It took a bit, but between him climbing and us pulling we managed to get him to the roof of his cell. As soon as he had his feet on the roof I threw my arms around him and it took everything in me not to burst out crying.
"Guys we aren't outta the woods yet, we still have to get out of here."
"Your right Jake, sorry. Oh Aidan this is Jake, Jake this is Aidan." Some pretty none committal grunts to each other, but hey it is better than nothing.
"Ok Kenna you are up again. You need to get back to that beam and tie off this rope so we can climb up."
"Ok I have done well so far, I can do this too." I did get myself back up to that beam, and when I looked down Aidan had a priceless look of surprise on his face, but just as I tied off the rope is when I heard.
"Boss, hey boss. She is here!"
"What, where?"
"Up there." The goon pointed up to me and just like that an all consuming fear enveloped me. We didn't make it.
"Get in the cell, no matter what keep Aidan here!"
"Sir he is gone, there is no one in the cell. There is a hole in the roof."
"Clever girl. You didn't do this all on your own though, who is helping you."
"Aidan don't let them see Jake, the more they don't know the better off we are."
"No one is, it doesn't take much to have a hand saw and cut a hole in sheetrock."
"So it is safe to assume you know who we are?"
"Yeah some nut jobs that kidnapped my brother!"
"Come now Kenna, let's be truthful."
"Seriously that is what you are as far as I am concerned." He is trying to distract me, "Aidan we are gonna have to do this a little differently. Can you start a fire?"
"I can't! Something is wrong."
"I will", I started a fire around the cell, the goon is still inside, but I covered the underside of the roof in flames too, no way is he going to try and come through that.
"Sir! The serum has worn off!" Serum, what serum? No time Kenna, no time. I made the flames go from the ground clear up to the roof, then closed my eyes and imagined a hole in the roof and the three of us floating out of it.
"Kenna you have to stop! Were you going to float us to tin buck two?"
I opened my eyes and we are out, all three of us are out of that warehouse, of course we are floating in the air, but we are out!!!
"Kenna put us down, the car is right there!"
"Ok sorry."
I put us on the ground and we all three ran for the car.
"Why aren't they following us?" Aidan asked.
"The fire is still going and I am blocking the door, they can't get it open, but you can bet they called Julie already so Jake we really need to get the heck out of dodge."."
"On it, we can't take anything with us, we are headed to the airport right now."
"What, I have things at my house guys I really need."
"We know Aidan, I have a bag of things for you in the back, and I shut off everything at the house. We can't go back, right now we can just go forward."
"Ok, Kenna what are we going to do?"
"We will figure it out."
"I am sure you have a ton of questions Aidan, but that will be covered on the flight." Jake said.
"Kenna, you need to stop the fire, you don't want to burn them alive. It would haunt you , you aren't that person."
"Your right." So I sought out the fire and extinguished it.
Jake has chartered a small six seater plane, it is going to be an interesting ride, but we are away from Julie and her dad, and actually we got it done a lot easier than I thought we would, but what about everyone else?
"Kenna how did you do that?"
"I don't know Aidan. I just knew I had to get us out of there, and the power was there."
"Maybe protection is a trigger for you, makes it easier to tap into your power."
"Maybe, but it worked that is all I care about right now." What about family and friends? Are they in danger now too, have we put them there, what are we going to do now? They know who we are.
"Ok, so what now Jake?"
"What are your thoughts, this pilot will take us anywhere we need to go."
"I need to go home Jake, what if they use Lexi to get to me?"
"Lexi is fine Kenna, as a matter of fact as we speak she is headed to an undisclosed location with everything we will need for a while."
"What? But how? She doesn't know about me."
"Yes she does Kenna, she has known for a while, Granny was afraid that your abilities would surface and didn't want to scare away your best friend if they did, so she told her about five years ago."
"Why didn't she ever say anything to me? I am her best friend!"
"Granny told her if she said a word of it to you she would take you and move far away, she was just trying to protect you."
"I am sick of people trying to protect me! Can't people just be honest with me? Great this is just great, is there anyone who doesn't know about me besides me?"
"Kenna I know you are upset, but this isn't the time for this."
"Isn't the time, isn't the time for this!" I felt something on my arm and reared back to smack it, and stopped myself just before I hit Aidan.
"Kenna, I know this is hard and you are upset, but is there anyone else in your home you are worried about?" If it wasn't for the blind fear in Aidan's eyes I would have stayed upset, but he is scared, and it is the first time I even thought about his parents. Julie knows who they are and where they live, it would be nothing for her to go and get them.
"Oh my God, Aidan I am so sorry, Jake we need to go to Newhaven Connecticut, that is where Aidan's parents are and Julie knows that too."
"Shit, ok, Aidan we will head that way, but bear in mind if Julie knew where they lived they could already be gone. Chances are they grabbed them the same day they grabbed you."
"No, I refuse to believe that. Julie would never hurt my parents. She loves them."
"Uh Aidan, she supposedly loved you too." Aidan's face just fell, there is no other way to describe it.
"Just get me home, no matter what I am going to find my parents!"
The rest of the flight Aidan was completely silent, we tried to discuss what we would do if his parents where already gone, but he just wasn't listening to us, so it is up to Jake and I to get everything squared away.
Somehow Jake contacted Lexi and she is set to meet us in Newhaven, she will bring all the supplies we need.
I am worried, we were lucky it was as easy as it was to rescue Aidan, but if they already have his parents we have no idea where they could be, or if we can get them back.