Running, running, running

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

"Jackson hunny can you show them?" I ask him and before I'm even finish asking him a book flies of the shelf and lands on Ryan's lap, making all four of them jump a foot in the air. "This doesn't prove anythi. . .," James starts to say but before he can finish 10 more books fly of the shelves and before they even land somewhere Jackson has them going in a circle in from of James then he moves then to Cecile's face and finally puts them back on the shelf as if they had never been moved.

The entire time this is happening Jackson's holding my hand and looking at me in the eyes, while the other pups look at the book go round and round.

"How is he doing that?" Ryan asks as they can no longer deny that he is special. "We don't know how it is that we can do the things we do." I say and before I can get any further I am interrupted by James, "what do you mean the things you guys do? Can all of you do what he just did?" "No, Jackson is the only one that can do what you just saw," as I say this they visibly relax a bit until my next words make them tense up again. "The rest of us can do different things." "What!" They all shout at almost the same time. "If I can continue the story you will learn more," once I say I wait until they all nod their heads at me. "Okay now where was I," I think for a second before I remember.

"Oh yeah, so I found out he could move things with out touching them. To this day I'm still not sure why I made Jackson keep it a secret, our parents were never around him long enough to even notice something was different but still I didn't want anyone to know and use him. At first he could only move things in anger and that usually resulted in things being damaged or broken. After the first few mishaps I decided to try and teach him how to control what he can do. It took me almost a year before I could put a name to what he can do, I learned that we had telekinesis but I also learned that he was empathic as well. That would explain why he felt my emotions at a much deeper level than I did. Once I learned that he could do things it made me curious to see if I, Manuel and Michael had any special gifts as well."

"When Michael turned 2, mom and dad found out they were expecting again only this time the baby wouldn't cooperate and let them see what it was. I think even from the womb Sissy's gift was protecting her. Mom said after Sissy was born that had she know she was a girl she would have had an abortion. And just like with the other three children Sissy was handed to me to raise and love with the help of Jack who at the time was 6 and getting very good at controlling his gift."

"When Sissy was born we started to learn that Manuel was also gifted, his gift tended to cause people pain. At first he had to physically be touching a person he wanted to cause pain too but as the beatings to me continued, his gift started to grow until he no longer had to be touching the person he wanted to cause pain to. Ironically that is also how I trained him to control his gift.

"When Sissy was 5 months old our parent were expecting again, from the start they said if they couldn't see the sex of the baby they where getting rid of it. They weren't taking the chance that it might be another girl. Luckily the baby was a boy, when Brandon was born something went wrong with the birth because mom ended up not being able to have any more children after that. During the birth mom was neutered." I say letting my happiness show.

"When Brandon was born we also learned that Michael was gifted as well, ironically we also learned to control his gift thru the beatings I received. One day when Michael was 3 I was getting a particularly bad beating from the alpha, I forgot what I had done but it was bad. In a moment of confusion I ran away, how I don't know considering my leg was broken so were 3 ribs and my elbow as well. Michael was near me that day so I grabbed him and hobbled it out of the room and hid in the forest. When I tripped on a log I thought that was the end. I could hear them coming after us and they were getting close. When they stopped right next to the log we were hiding behind, looked around and kept walking. Never once catching a whiff of our scent no matter how much they tried, at first I was confused, why weren't they able to find us considering they were right on top of us. The more I thought about it the more confused I got until it happened again. Then I started to realize that Michael can hide us, our scents and bodies."

"Around the same time that I was teaching them how to control and hone their gifts I started to develop mine. At first it started because I was supposed to cook dinner for the entire pack but the flame wouldn't turn on. I was wishing really hard for flame when out of no where flame comes out of my hand nearly scorching the curtains. My next encounter was in my shower, I was again wishing that I had more water to wash myself with when again out of my hand water started spraying everywhere. That got me thinking I could control 2 of the 4 elements I wondered if I could control the other two as well."

"So I took the pups with me to our special training ground and started thinking that I was hot and wanted a nice cold breeze to blow but nada happen. Then I started to wish that it was cooler and the wind picked up, this brought a smile to our entire faces even baby Sissy and Brandon. Who had no idea why we were smiling but they smiled as well."

"After that I wished that the ground would move and it shock a little bit but enough to let me now that I could control all 4 elements and with practice I would get better and better. Everyday for a year we would go to the clearing and practice our gifts, Michael practice on the way to the clearing by hiding our scent and by hiding us as best he could from prying eyes. Jackson would throw whatever he could find at me and I would try and stop it. Manuel was the only one that practiced at the house, he would practice against members that where far away fro us. He got so good that he doesn't even have to look at the person anymore to be able to cause them pain. Around this time we also found out that Sissy was a seer of sorts, when trouble came looking for us she would show us a different way."

"Brandon is the one that at a younger age than the rest of us manifested his gift, we found out acted like a telephone I guys u can call it. He enabled us to be able to talk to each other through our mind." "Big deal we can do that too." James interrupts me to say. "Yes, yes you can, but can you do it while still in human form?