His footsteps couldn’t get any faster, pacing down the stairs “Hey no run…” Finn’s words smothered by Luke’s heavy breathing “you okay, kiddo?” Kane asks “It’s How…Howard is having a seizer” He struggles to get the words out but turns and runs back up the stairs. Following by the crashing of dishes into the sink and heavy footsteps behind him as Luke burst into the room he sees no sign of Colt but dismisses any other thought as he sees Howards laying there on the floor with white thick foam coming out of his mouth. Split seconds pass as he feels the pressure of wind brush past him, “How long has he been like this?” Agent Kane ask, “A few seconds before I came and got you two” his voice cracking, “where is Colt?”, “I don’t know”, “what do you…” Finn shakes his head as Kane picks up Howards and power walks down the stairs “Luke you stay and deal with Colt, we will be right back”, “where are you…” the slamming of the door disrupts his sentence as he stares on out the front door, hearing various doors slam complimented by the engine turning over and tires digging into the dirt before pilling out of the driveway.
The debris flung into the air, a fog density, heavy yet transparent. He stayed at the front door as it felt like a void, timeless.
Colt his eyes closed as he feels a deep calling, it’s cold. The hair on his skin crawling with frost, he tries to open his eyes, and only then did he see it a great nothing, empty -vessel. As he floated towards it in ever so steady measure; he felt the touch, his or its touch was imaginary. “C…lt, O..lt, Cola….t” He finally hears his brother’s words. The light pressure clap against his cheeks, “Hey, Hey ….you with me”, Yeah, yeah” Colt shouts back before flinging his arms abought to move Luke away from himself.
As he sits on the roof, Colts with a dazed look; his blank stare causes Luke to get frustrated. “Colt!” he shouts again but again no response to his words. Luke throws his arms up, furious as he paces the rooftop with Colt still hurled up off in the corner. Luke’s anger spirals out of control while the clouds above him move as a union a collective of raindrops, almost as if targeting him and him alone using him as a pinpoint. The crackle of lightning with the bang of thunder combine to shake the foundation of the house but Luke doesn’t budge, his body heats up on the inside as his feelings go blank. He just wants to destroy something, anything if even a tree would it be frowned upon if that were the case?
***
The next morning Luke comes too and notices the house is quieter than normal, he was in the bed sure but still clothed. He jumps up and stumbles around the house, as he walks through the hallway he decides to take a peek into Luke’s room…nothing, he next decides to look into Colt’s room again, nothing. He stammers his way downstairs and the calling of silence had him puzzled, “I wonder where everyone is?” he pondered but then gazed at the front door noticing two black figures standing on either side of the front door, he darts toward the nob, but when he opens it he his greeted to a single barrel pointed at him “ back inside!” one of the men, Luke stares on flustered, he looked at the man’s suit which looked like futuristic police riot gear, no eyes shown only a helmet with glowing blue lights and heavily plated armor on his shoulders and legs. “Hey, I said back inside you…you” the soldier’s words cut short when his partner taps gun barrels “ Luke is it? We are under the authority of the guardianship to watch the house until your guardians get back from the hospital”.
Luke switches his mouth, before beginning to close the door which the first soldier stops from closing with his foot. “Anyone else here in the house with you kid?”, “got a warrant to know?” his sassy remark causes the guard to grunt and before he can reply Luke slowly closes the door. The second guard turns back around to his original post, “fucking kids” the first guard says below his breath, “Hey, kiddo knows his right. Huh, gotta love it”, “That thing has no rights”, “last I checked on his paperwork said he was born right here in the Us of A”, “ yeah well doesn’t make him American in my eyes” The second guard proceeds to say something but ultimately just grunts and uncovers his mouth section of the helmet to light a cigarette.
Luke, however, rushes back to the roof he finds Colt with his back to him, one leg being clinched tight as he sits over the ledge looking out at the purified tree, its bark burnt with an unorganized zig-zag pattern. The ground around it ashed and smearing; Luke moves closer to see what Colt was looking at, only to be surprised by the number of men in hazmat suits at the scene with more armed guards around the area. “ You really shouldn’t be up here at a time like this”, Colt stares on “two hours and fifteen minutes”, “come again?”, “That’s how long it’s been since the energy field dropped and the helicopters flew off westbound”, “huh, just been watching the watch-men, ya?”, “ No, just having nightmares so I just come up here and stare at the moon until the sun rises then I just stare at the field, that is until the bags under my eyes weigh too heavy for me to keep them open any longer”. Luke looks at Colt’s face unsure what to make of it but he decides to not press the issue about the previous night, “I’m guessing school will be closed for the next week or so”, “what makes you say that?” Colt replies, “armed guards, weird energy fields and agency heliocopters….seems like a reasonable thing to close a school for a little bet rather than force everyone back in”. Colt chuckles as he drops his head and climbs back onto the roof “just sounds like another one of your gets out of school schemes, to be honest,” Luke puffs but doesn’t reject the notion “Well, I would hope that you know me best but, I would be more curious if they did just jam us back into class like nothing has happened especially with us still missing our guardians”.
“you sound like they’ve grown on you”, “ no, I much prefer agents Finn and Kane to armed soldiers at the front door “, Luke sighs, “ I’ve never seen this many deployed before,” Colt says, “gotta be something to do with that energy field” he continues.
Luke just looks over at Colt, wanting to ask if he is fine but Colt’s face was stone. He was still staring off into the distance as if he was looking past reality, looking to somewhere distant; Luke was curious had Colt’s powers matured?
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