Psychic Schoolkids - Part 14

"Would you stop treating this like a game!" Were the first words I heard when I started to come to.

"Would you stop pretending you are above all of this!" Came after, from Emily I think.

"Would you two stop fighting!" Came from Kara.

"Would you stop interfering!" Chloe added into the fight.

"Would you all stop yelling so loud. I'm trying to sleep." I groaned from the floor.

"This is real now." Emily said. "Someone is dead and we can't do anything about it. The police will find the body, and who knows what they're going to come up with, but I don't think the police are going to be able to convict a guy who can slit people's wrists for them."

"I still don't believe Chris could do that." Kara said. "Like I know he's changed, but he would never hurt a fly back when I was dating him."

"Yes but Dane changed him." Lisa added. "He messed with his head and look what kind of monster he's turned into."

"Hey! I didn't mess with Nathan's head, and he was throwing people around the room like they were ragdolls" Dane said back, with a much more indoor voice than the shouting going on.

"Okay definitely awake now, can we stop trying to break my head though?" I said from the couch I was lying on. Everyone was still too busy pointedly yelling at each other to notice.

"Yes but let's face it, Nathan was an asshole since he broke up with me." Chloe said. "But our powers didn't do this, clearly Chris and Nathan got powers somehow and decided they're going to hurt people with them. It's not our fault."

"It's not, and we are probably the only people who can stop them." Emily agreed.

"And how many people will get hurt in the mean time? That kid in the locker bay is dead, and if you want to get into a fistfight with powers I'd imagine I'm going to have to try and heal more than a few cuts and bruises." Lisa said.

"Plus what can you do? Kill them? If you want to be just as bad as they are you can go for it." Kara added.

"I can take out all the walls in their minds...put them in a mental institution for the rest of ever." Dane tried to add helpfully.

"Yes because that worked so well with Chris! You've probably made him worse after what you did." Lisa yelled.

"Plus, people with no control over their minds and the kind of abilities they have? Not such a good option." Emily said.

"So what do we do about it then?" Chloe asked.

"We find another way." I said from the couch. This time loud enough so that people could hear me.

"Jacob! You're alive." Chloe rushed over to hug me.

"I'm guessing you're the one I have to thank for the lack of bloody cuts on my arms?" I asked Lisa.

"You might be an idiot. But I'm not going to let you die." Lisa said. "I think you've bitten off more than you can chew with these guys though."

"We'll just have to get some bigger teeth then." I said.

"How? I mean...we can only fight them in certain ways and most of them are pretty bloody." Kara asked. "From what you guys have said Chris isn't exactly going to respond to being asked nicely to stop hurting people."

"This might be an odd question. But wouldn't people have noticed Nathan and Chris by now?" Dane said. "I mean, with Emily and myself, when we first got our powers we did some pretty big things, and it was only because of you guys we didn't get noticed. They're powers are a lot more...well...obvious. I mean how can you practice cutting people open with your mind or throwing people around without someone noticing, especially if you don't have control over it?"

"Could they have had their powers since birth, like you guys?" Emily pointed to Chloe and I. "I mean, you guys have never had any issues because you like...grew up with your powers."

"I'd have known if Chris could do something like that." Kara said.

"And I'd have known about Nathan. This is new." Chloe agreed.

"So we're still kinda back at...what do we do?" I said.

"What can we do?" Lisa said. "I mean no offence Jacob, but you just got your ass handed to you. You have a neat little power and all, but in a fight they're just going to walk all over you. Chloe and I wouldn't fare much better."

"I can take them." Emily said. "Well...once I can get freeze them from a distance...I think."

"Not the most encouraging of options." Lisa said, rolling her eyes.

"What about Matt?" Kara said. We all just looked at her. We'd been too busy worrying about Chris and Nathan to care about him. "I mean...you guys said he was there. What was he doing?"

Emily, Chloe and I looked at each other.

"No idea." I said
"Standing around?" Chloe suggested.
"Watching?" Emily added.

"So you don't think he could be hiding some kind of power too?" Kara suggested. "I mean, our group appears to be pretty lousy with the superpowers, why wouldn't he have something too?"

"Would make sense." I said, sitting up properly as opposed to leaning on Chloe's shoulder. "I think they said something about him holding people off. Like someone was coming."

"Harding and Ellis." Dane said. We all just looked at him. "I was watching...I hung around for a little bit after you guys left."

"So the police will be involved by the morning." Lisa said grimly. "That could get messy fast."

We all just sat back and thought about the idea.

"Okay so here's my thoughts." I said. "We sit tight. If Harding and Ellis saw anything we'll know...since we'll have cops onto us. That can be okay though, since Chris and Nathan will be dealing with the same thing, and even if they get past the police, Harding and Ellis will be watching them so they can't get up to too much chaos. We need options though."

"Like what?" Lisa questioned.

"I don't know." I looked at her. "Look, if you say God gave us these powers, or the Devil or whoever. It's for a reason. They're not going to put us in a fight we can't win. We need to know more though." Everyone nodded.

"I'll talk to Sarah." Dane said. "She's into that whole magic thing, she might know something about our powers."

"Okay good starting point. But be subtle. She pisses me off enough without her knowing I can read emotions. I don't want her to start thinking she can talk to me."

"Or me." Chloe added.

"Speaking of you Chloe. I need dreams. I know it's not always easy but we need to know what's happening next, who Nathan and Chris will be talking to, anyone who might be helping them. Everyone else, we just need info. Anyone else who might have a power we need to know about. They went after Neil because he had a power, no idea what he could do but that's beside the point, I don't want there to be any other targets for Chris and Nathan we can't at least try to protect. Who knows, there might even be someone who can stop them."

"So that's the plan? We do nothing?" Dane said.

"We can't do much else." I said. "I want you to work on your power though. No hurting people, but something that might stop them if push comes to shove. Same for you Emily. We want to be able to stop them before they cut us to ribbons or throw us against lockers."

"Jacob, what if we come up with nothing?" Chloe asked.

"We deal with that if we have to." I said. "Until then, we do what we can and most importantly, stay out of their way as best we can."

"Just hope they stay out of yours Jaocb." Lisa said. "One day I'm going to be around to save you."

"Well if you pray that that day doesn't come anytime soon it would be appreciated." I said to her.