Chapter 14

Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.

Eric Blakemore stood in front of everyone during the final meeting of the House of Representatives. Today he was going to talk about the men who had come out as super humans. There was no way they could allow these people to come and go as they please.

He thought back to his stepfather. He remembered the day those people came to their house and took him from his family. Eric had been in college when his mother called him to tell him that his father was going to jail. That was when he decided he needed to go into law. He wanted to help the man who had been a father to him.

It had been painstaking work but he had finally gotten to where he wanted to be. He was only thirty-six and yet he was the Speaker of the House. No one knew he had made a pact with the vice president that should they get elected he would nominate Eric for the Speaker position. Eric had gotten it after being a representative for a year and had gotten it in such an underhanded way he didn't care what the others thought. He never told the VP that he was hunting a certain group of people.

People were listening intently to him as he spoke with conviction. He had to persuade everyone to be on his side. These people could easily kill any one of them. They had to be rounded up and placed somewhere where they couldn't get to normal people.

As he was beginning to wrap up his speech, the doors to the chambers flew open. The two men who had told the world of their existence led the procession down to him. One was dressed in his army dress. Two of the men that followed them were in Navy and Marine dress clothes. There was a set of twins in the mix and they looked angry enough to spit bullets.

The last two were a man and woman. They held hands as they stopped behind the others. Eric recognized the woman as Clausen Alexander's younger sister.

"Hear me, my fellow representatives; these people have come to make us pay for what we have done to them. They are not on our side. They only say that for us to think they are human," he said.

There was a murmur through the four hundred plus people assembled. The intruders crossed their arms and waited for an onslaught they knew would never come.

Eric became worried when no one stood up to help him. Again this was not going along with his plan. He had carefully chosen his words in hopes these people would be concerned with their families' well-beings as much as he was. His eyes snapped up when he heard one of the twins snort.

"We are not here to hurt you, Speaker Blakemore," Cole said.

"Quite the contrary," Grant added in his German accent. "We are here to tell you that your conniving little plan has backfired. You might as well step down from that position before we have you forcibly removed."

"You're not even an American citizen. You have no jurisdiction here," Eric spat at his passive aggressive attacker.

Grant smiled a little. "I'm a naturalized citizen. I have been in this country for six years."

"Speaker, what's going on?" one of the representatives asked. She must not have been one of the ones who were like Grant and Cole.

"These people are trying to take me down. You must help me pass a law that will stop them," he requested urgently.

One of the twins in the background snorted. "That's not going to happen. You need to have the majority and as it stands you don't."

Eric looked at him then laughed. "You can't possibly know that. No one can read minds." To his utter shock, all of them smiled at the same time. "You can read minds?"

Grant nodded. "And we're connected to the mind over everyone like us. We can feel others of our kind when they're in our vicinity. And we can read the minds of others around us."

"And besides that even if you did get a majority vote here, there's no way you'd get one in the Senate," Cole said. He inclined his head to the double doors up the inclined walkway. They opened and the senators poured in. There were fifty in all, half of the Senate.

Eric stared in shock as the senators stopped and glared at him. In the two years he worked in the house he had never known any of these people were the very people he was hunting. There was really nothing he could have done about that. There was no way he could kill these people without something coming back to bite him for it later.

Every face that stared at him was an angry one. There was no doubt in his mind that they had been told what he had been doing since he had been a lawyer fresh out of law school. They were going to demand his death.

He wondered what they had done to Clausen. The man was supposed to contact him as soon as he found his sister but he hadn't. There had been no word of his whereabouts or where she was. Now as he looked out over all the people, he realized they had done something to him and his sister was now mixed up with these people.

He looked back out over the representatives gathered. "Ladies and gentlemen of the House, look at the young woman assembled with the intruders. They have kidnapped her and made her one of their lackeys."

Emily scoffed and shoved her way to the front. "No, they haven't. He's lying to you, as he has been since he graduated from law school. Speaker Blakemore's father was arrested for trying to kill two young people, members of this species of people. Ever since then he has been trying to exact revenge for the supposed unlawful imprisonment of his father."

Eric had to step back a little because the looks on the people's faces was murderous. Evidently the members of the super human race knew exactly who she was talking about. They were not happy that it was his father who had been one of the ones on a killing spree.

He looked to Emily. "You don't know what you're talking about."

She turned an evil glare on him. "Yes, I do. You're the one who told my brother he would be safe if he killed these people. You were the one who sent him to kill three people in cold blood and then blame it on Klark."

Eric looked up at the man she pointed at. Rage took over. "You!"

He launched himself over the desktop and at the other man, but he never made it. With a blur of movement, the twins came from the back of the crowd and grabbed him out of thin air. They pinned him to the ground before the wooden structure. He looked up into their eyes and blanched when he noticed they were silver. The air around him crackled and he could fell the wood by his feet straining to break loose.

Emily stood over him. "Speaker, you're sadly outnumbered if you think you can get away from these people." The twins hauled him to his feet so he could look out over the people assembled. "If you are a fellow member of the people Cole and Grant have brought out to the public, please stand."

Eric made a little noise in the back of his throat when over half of the people sitting in the chamber stood and looked at him. He had been Speaker of the House and had no idea that he was talking about containing the people. The people were in this very room and yet they hadn't spoken out against him.

He realized they had all been in cahoots together. They had been told what was going to happen before arriving today. This had been planned. He was going to know who he was up against before anything happened to him. His plans to contain the epidemic had gone down the drain.

"You're not getting it, Blakemore," Cole said. "We're not science projects. We were born this way. You can't create us and no science can figure out how to contain our powers. We are who we are and that's all we're ever going to be."

The double doors opened once again and three police officers came down the inclined plane. The man dress in navy dress clothes handed them a blue piece of paper. Eric realized it was an arrest warrant.

"Eric Blakemore, you are under arrest for the murder of eight people," said the officer as he slipped the handcuffs around his wrists. "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney…" The words died as the officers escorted him back up the incline and out the door.

Grant turned to the others gathered. "Another Speaker of the House will be appointed in a couple of weeks, when all of this dies down as much as possible. Thank you for your cooperation."

"We would never have known if you hadn't brought it up to us," one of the senators said. "We want to thank you for taking out a madman trying to contain us. There is no doubt in our minds he would have tried to kill us later."

Everyone started saying their goodbyes. Congress dispersed, as did the others who had other things to attend. Austin and Keldin walked out with Grant, Cole, Klark and Emily. When they were on the steps to the Capitol Building, Emily turned to Klark.

"What now?" she asked.

He looked down at her. "Now we go to New Orleans for you to meet the rest of my family."

"Why do I have to meet the rest of your family?"

Cole laughed. "Because if you don't, Aiden will hunt you down. Most of the time it's not very nice, either."

"She can be very… annoying when she needs to be," Austin said.

"Will you be going with us?" she asked.

Austin shook his head. "No. This is Sector belongs to a friend of mine and I'm going to stay and help the clean up. Tell Aiden I'll be sending the report in tomorrow."

"We will," Klark said. He watched the twins walk away from them. Then he turned to Grant. "You might as well take us with you. It's easier than finding a shadow."

Grant smiled. "I'm going straight home. My wife is mad at me."

"I'll take you with me," Wyatt said.

Klark nodded then held out his hand to Emily. Without a word, she placed her hand in his. Wyatt nodded then they were flying through space once again. Emily was going to have to get used to that.