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I embraced him. “Hey, buddy!”
“You’re better!” he cried happily.
I nodded with a smile. “I am!”
“Good,” he wiggled against me. “We can help Harry!”
I bit my lip in guilt. In all my excitement, I had forgotten entirely about Harry. I didn’t know if Alex’s belief would be correct, but I had to try.
“How does tonight sound?” I asked him. “I’ll find Greg, and we’ll see if he can bring Harry on by, then you, me, and Jace can see what we can do.”
“Okay,” he said excitedly before he ran back to the table.
I looked over at Jace, and he just smiled and nodded. “I’m in.”
“Do you think we can help him?” I asked grabbing some oatmeal.
Jace hesitated before nodding. “I think we can.”
“Harry?” Lincoln asked. “The Autistic boy?” It was the first time he’d spoken to me today, even if it was indirectly.
“My gifts manifested when I was really young,” I explained to him. “Up until about a year ago, Harry was a perfectly normal child. When his gift started to appear, he started to lose his speech. Sleeping became difficult for him. Then other troubling signs became evident. We don’t think he’s Autistic at all. We think his gift has caused most of the symptoms.”
We finished getting our food, and I allowed the cashier to scan my ID. We made our way over to the table where Alex was excitedly telling Pops and Megan that we were going to ‘fix’ Harry tonight.
“Are you guys ready for that?” Will asked hesitantly.
“Is that your way of asking if our gifts are back?” I teased Will dryly.
“Well,” Will said hiding his smile behind his coffee cup. “I know we had a manhunt out last night looking for you two.” He looked at me and Lincoln. “It wasn’t too hard to figure out where you guys were.”
Jaxson, Noah, and Troy chuckled, and I had to hide my ire. I guess I should have thought that one through better. I thought Will would have been slightly more diplomatic, but apparently I was wrong.
“If I were to remain here for a little while…” Lincoln cleared his throat avoiding making eye contact with me. “What will my training entail?”
“The first half of the day is mainly fulfilling your specialized training or working in your assigned area,” Will explained. “For instance; Noah will go to the clinic, Drake will go back to the kitchens, Jaxson and Blake go to school, Troy and Remy generally go with Henderson to enhance our security and physical training plans, and Jace typically accompanies me in the administrative side of things. Do you have any areas of interest?”
“He can do PR with Megan,” Jaxson said before stuffing a large mouthful of pancake in his mouth. He had gotten a triple serving of food because he had already utilized his gifts a lot this morning. “If Lincoln Hudgens were to be in some of those video conference calls with the other communities, I’m sure a lot of them would be jumping on board.”
“So, you want to pimp him out?” Remy asked dryly before taking a sip of his coffee.
“Why not?” Troy asked slowly. “We know we’re outnumbered. Horatio is playing dirty. He’s stooped to too many levels to bring a war that should have never been started. He’s going to be the reason why many gifted people will lose their rights as citizens.”
“I can’t ask him to do that,” Megan stated. “He came here to…well, make his connection. He has a life outside of here. He has a commitment elsewhere. Besides, he has just been made aware of what is going on.”
“Yeah maybe he wants to be part of the superior race,” Remy said sardonically.
“If he were to see the evidence we gathered, I’m sure he would want to be on our side,” Drake spoke up.
“Yeah, like when I was in a cage,” Ella stated as she reached for her carton of milk.
I looked at her in surprise. She never spoke about that time in her life. I had tried to cajole her several times, but she adamantly refused. I understood her reluctance to talk. I hated talking, so I hadn’t pushed her.
I hadn’t had a chance to talk to her about her meeting with Dr. Wong yet. I imagined it was his idea for her to talk about it.
“Or when I was sold to those bad men,” Alex added before he took a bite of his toast.
Alex spoke quite openly about his life before coming here. When he talked about it, he could have been talking about the weather. I think he learned how to compartmentalize and process his feelings and thoughts, making it easier to deal with.
