Chasing Water

Chapter 14 - Chasing Water

When I woke it was not what I had expected? I figured I was headed back to some medieval castle and being locked in a dungeon. What I actually woke to was bright sunlight shining down on me through a big bay window with bars. My head felt fuzzy, but as I got my baring’s back, I found that I was in what looked to be a very nice upscale penthouse or something. I was also laying on one of the most comfortable beds I had ever been on, I really couldn’t figure out what in the heck was going on. I slowly sat up and found if I took it really slowly my head didn’t hurt as bad. There was a table over by the window and I slowly made my way over to it. On the table was a big glass of what looked to be water and a bottle of unopened Tylenol. I figured if they went to the trouble of getting me an unopened bottle of Tylenol the water was more than likely fine too and I really needed something to help with the pounding in my head, so I took two and headed to relieve myself.

When I came out of the bathroom, I tried the bedroom door and it opened with ease. I walked out into a sitting area where Dane and Corrie appeared to have just walked into also. I ran over to Corrie, “Oh thank God you’re ok!” and threw my arms around her. I looked over at Dane, “Dane what is going on?”

Dane looked at the girls with a sad smile. “It’s them. The Restorers have us again.”

I fell into the couch, I was afraid that is what was going on, but was still holding out a shred of hope. Why didn’t I put up a barrier around Corrie and I as soon as I felt something was off! “Why?” I pleaded, and laid my head in my hands.

Corrie sat with me, “Dane I think you should explain what you know, the only door out of here is locked so we have some time.” she said.

Dane sat across from the us and took a deep breath. “It was Rick.”

Corrie just shook her head, “we kinda figured that. He is the one that drew us into a setup to get tranqued.”

Dane shook his head, “Figures. When we split up earlier Rick was acting really weird, and it wasn’t even a day and he had me caught by the Restorers.”

I finally lifted my head from my hands and said again, “Why?”

Dane gave me look of pity, “it’s his sister. They have his sister.”

I gave Dane a look of understanding, “oh, I see.” Then a look of complete horror crossed my face, “Oh s**t! What about everyone back at the cabin. They could all be in danger if they haven’t been caught already.”

Corrie’s hands flew to her mouth in a look of shock, but Dane shook his head no.

“They don’t know where it is. Doesn’t mean they won’t soon, but right now they don’t know where it is.” Dane took another deep breath, “also I am pretty sure this room is probably bugged, so if they didn’t know there was a cabin, they kinda do now.”

I got a look of utter disbelief, on my face. I need to pull my s**t together. I am better than this! “Oh crap, what have I done.?!”

I got up and told Corrie and Dane, “I think I am going to go lie back down. My head is still fuzzy and I need a clear head for this.”

Dane just said OK, but Corrie gave me a knowing look and shook her head yes.

I walked back to the bedroom I had come out of and immediately tried to contact Aidan. “Aidan, oh God, please Aidan.”

It seemed like forever, but Aidan finally answered me. “Kenna it sounds like you are whispering, must be the distance. What’s going on?”

“Aidan you guys need to move. Talk to Jake and see if he has another place you can all go.”

“Kenna what is going on?” Aidan said and I could hear the worry in his voice.

“Rick turned on us. As far as I know he hasn’t told where you guys are at, but you need to get out of there before he does.”

“Kenna, are you ok?”

“I am for now. Corrie, Dane and I have been captured. Rick turned us over to the Restorers because they have his sister.”

“God Dammit Kenna, where are you? I am on my way.”

“Aidan NO! You need to get everyone at the cabin to safety. Right now, we are all fine, I am not sure what is going on, but I need to know you all are safe.”

“Kenna, you can’t do this again. You can’t sacrifice yourself for everyone else.”

“Aidan, I am not doing that. I was captured and we need to make sure everyone else is safe. Your job is to keep everyone else safe. They already have me; do you want them to have the rest of you too?”

There was a long pause, “ok, your right. I will make sure everyone is safe, but once they are I am coming to get you.”

I almost started crying, I was having an extreme case of déjà vu here. “Aidan I can’t stop you from coming, but if we are lucky, I will be out of here before you are settled with everyone else.”

“Kenna be careful, I love you.”

“I love you too Aidan.”

I don’t know how long I laid on the bed, but I was devastated and needed time to myself. I trusted the wrong person, and it felt like just yesterday the Restorers had me and amazingly everyone had gotten away from them, and now I have been captured by them again.

Finally, I resolved that lying there would help no one, so I got back up. Corrie and Dane were still in the sitting area, but someone had brought food.

Dane looked at me with a tight smile, “are you ok?”

I halfheartedly laughed, “no, but we will figure out what is going on. Can either of you access your powers?”

Both Corrie and Dane shook their head no. I tried, and I couldn’t either. Not a single one of my powers, this is not good.

“I can’t either.” I said, I didn’t mentioned I couldn’t access all my powers because if they room was bugged I didn’t need to let them know so easily I was the one with all four powers.

Dane and Corrie both looked at me in shock. Corrie was the first to find her voice, “you can’t access your POWERS either.” Corrie put major emphasis on the word powers.

I shook her head, “no Corrie I can’t.”

I saw the oh s**t look pass over both Corrie and Dane’s faces at the same time. Looks like they were counting on me to have some of my powers. Things just got more complicated.

All three of us stopped talking and just ate. We don’t have out powers anyway and we need to keep our strength up.

In the middle of eating the only locked door was finally unlocked and in stepped a man in what I could only assume was an Armani suit or at least some fancy tailor-made suit. He scanned the room and addressed Dane. “Good morning, Dane, I trust your accommodations are to your liking.”

“My accommodations would be more to my liking if I was allowed to leave.” Dane said with a vicious smile.

“As such,” the man said as he walked the rest of the way into the room, making sure the door was secured behind him. He looked to me and Corrie, “Good morning, ladies. My name is Trevor McMillan,” he said with a charming smile. Making me want to gag.

“I am the head of the Mid-western region of the Restorers, and I have a few questions for you.” Trevor said as he sat down in a chair across from us.

I looked at Trevor quizzically, “why would we answer your questions?”

Trevor just smiled, “if you do or do not is irrelevant. I will get the answers I want regardless. I will start with telling you a bit of a story. Not that long ago Michael Phillips...”

I looked up sharply.

Trevor laughed, “I see you know who Michael is, anyway back to my story. Michael’s daughter, Julie, was dating a young man who was studying in Hawaii. When this young man decided he was in love with Julie, he told her a very big secret about himself. He told her he could control fire.”

After my last reaction I was not about to give anything else away so I kept my face a uncaring mask, but Trevor is wrong Aidan can’t just control fire. He can create it.

Trevor continued, “what this young man didn’t realize was Julie is part of a very special faction of people whose goal is to cleanse the world of evil such as this young mans.”

Corrie and Dane both shot up from their seats, “HE IS NOT EVIL!” They both shouted at the same time.

Trevor smiled again, “Thank you, I wasn’t sure you knew this man, but that does confirm you do.”

Corrie and Dane looked stricken at each other, but I spoke up. “Don’t worry guys. He wouldn’t be telling us this story if he wasn’t relatively sure we knew what he was talking about.”

Corrie and Dane both sat back down.

“As I was saying,” Trevor continued. “This young man didn’t know who Julie truly was and when she found out about it, she did the right thing and reported him to her superiors and her father was able to capture him. But Julie also told her father that this young man’s long-lost sister had shown up, so Michael knew there was another he needed to capture. But as fate would have it this young man was able to escape before Michael could catch his sister. However, Michael also had leverage. He had this young man’s parents”

I signed exasperatedly, “Trevor, since you already know that we are aware of this young man, can we skip to you point?”

“Oh, dear girl, we will.” Trevor said with a smile. “I will oblige and skip ahead for you. This young man’s sister traded herself for his parents and the girl was sent to our main headquarters in Scotland. Now to pause my story. I know who Corrie and Dane are, they had been with us long enough that we have extensive files on them. But you, young lady I am unsure of. You see, there is a file of this young girl that was captured, but they never uploaded a picture of her. So, are you the Kenna that was captured by Michael?” Trevor looked at me expectantly.

I laughingly replied, “why on earth would I ever tell you my name if you don’t already know what it is?”

Trevor smiled again, “you are all right this room is bugged, but unfortunately, none of you ever used your name. But if you are this young girl, there are questions that need to be decided. You see according to the record on Kenna. She is the one we have been searching for. But she also has something that the Restorers would very much like back. A journal she made sure went with her when she left.”

I kept my face blank, but thanked God I left the journal back at the cabin. She contacted Aidan. “Aidan?”

“Kenna is everything ok?”

“Yes Aidan, but I left Halaina’s journal at the cabin. It is under my mattress. Please make sure you take that with you. We cannot let the Restorers have it.”

“I will.”

“Sorry I have to be short, just needed to make sure it was protected. Oh, and maybe this will be helpful. The man I met introduced himself as Trevor McMillan.”

While I was talking to Aidan I kept her eyes on Trevor. He had continued talking as I spoke to Aidan.

“This journal is from the original start of this abomination. If not for her, our world would not be tainted as it is.”

I was getting tired of this, they weren’t really getting anywhere. “Trevor what is it you want?”

“Dear girl, the head of the Restorers wants this girl, but he also wants that journal. It would seem he wants both equally as badly, and whomever is able to bring him one or both will be greatly rewarded.” Trevor said with a malicious smile. “So I have a dilemma. You see I believe you are this girl, but have no proof and Rick is being very stubborn in supplying that information.”

“What?! He finally figured out that no matter what you say you aren’t going to release him and his sister?” I asked sweetly.

“Yes,” Trevor said sadly. “Someone, who is no longer part of my team, tipped our hand before he should have.”

Corrie and I shuddered. There was no doubt in either of our minds of what happened to someone no longer on Trevor’s team.

Trevor continued uninterrupted, “you would think I could continue to use his sister against him. But I am not a monster. That girl is one of us and I will not t*****e her to get information from her brother.”

That actually surprised me, Michael would have done whatever he needed to find out.

“Also,” Trevor said, “there was no journal on your person when we captured you. So, are you Kenna or are you someone else?”

I looked at Trevor as if he was crazy, “why would I tell you that? What would I possibly have to gain by telling you that?”

Trevor just looked over at Corrie and Dane. “I will not t*****e Rick’s sister, but I have no problem hurting those dear to you whom are also abominations to this world.”

I looked strickenly at Corrie and Dane, but Corrie shook her head. “Don’t tell him anything. Dane and I have both been tortured by these monsters before, we will take it, even if it kills us.”

“You see,” Trevor addressed Corrie, “there is no doubt in my mind that what you say is true. But can this young lady take it upon herself to let us when she knows she can do something to stop it?”

I was worried, but I still had one card I might be able to play. “I don’t want you to hurt them, please.”

Trevor looked back at me satisfied. “Tell me dear girl, are you the girl I seek?”

I put a look on my face I prayed looked innocent and honest. “I am not, but that is not a reason they should be hurt!” I looked over at Dane and Corrie and just prayed they wouldn’t give my secret away accidently.

“And why would I believe you aren’t Kenna? There is no other record of anyone else.” Trevor said.

“There is no other record because you have never captured me. I know of what happened to that young man because of who I am.” I said quietly.

“Oh, lets end with the mystery. We know his name is Aidan, you might as well use his name. Pray tell, if you are not Kenna, then why do you know who Aidan is and his story?” Trevor said gleefully. Almost as if he was a cat playing with a mouse.

I took a deep breath, “because I am also Aidan’s sister, but not Kenna. My name is Raine.”

Trevor looked taken back, “I don’t believe you!” He bellowed. “You are the girl I seek!”

“I am afraid I am not. If you could please calm down I also have a story I can tell you.” I said meekly.

I knew Trevor had no reason to believe me, but he also had no proof I was lying if Rick wasn’t talking anymore.

Trevor took a minute, but finally got himself under control and sat back down. He nodded for me to continue.

I decided that sticking as closely to the truth as possibly would be the best, “as I said my name is Raine. Up until a few days ago I had no idea that I was Aidan’s sister or Kenna’s for that matter. Kenna found me doing a performance on Freemont St. I do a water dance there daily for money. It is how I scrape by. When she first approached me, I honestly didn’t believe her. I know what I can do is crazy, but what she was telling me was ever more so. I did not have a good childhood and was bounced from place to place, so not big on trusting strangers.”

“I see,” Trevor said skeptically. “And what made you believe what she was telling you?”

I looked over at Corrie and pointed to her, “she helped. She showed me her waterpower’s also. I had figured I couldn’t be the only one, but to have siblings out there is crazy to me.” I paused for a minute and continued, “But Kenna had a great upbringing and so did Aidan.” I put as much venom in her words as I could. “Why them? Why were those two so damn special that they had loving homes. What is so wrong with me that no one could LOVE ME!” By the end I was shouting.

Corrie and Dane were looking at me in shock, which I hope meant I was doing a good acting job. Hopefully Trevor was buying it too.

For the first time Trevor’s mask fell and pure hate and loathing was all I saw. “You are not meant to be loved, none of you are. You are a taint on this world that we will eradicate! But we shall see if your story holds true, I am not entirely convinced.” Trevor took out his phone and took a picture of me. “It shouldn’t take my superiors long to let me know,” and he walked out of the room, locking the door behind him.

Corrie leaned in and gave me a hug and whispered in her ear, “we don’t have much time. They will know within the hour.”

“I know,” I said. But I had no idea what they were going to do and with the room being bugged we can’t really brainstorm. I was feeling helpless, I had spent most of my life without any powers, but that part of my life was pretty mellow compared to now.