I had been enrolled in school for a few months, I tested into ninth grade and I was loving it. The girls here were on another level -- rich girls, and they fucking loved me. If I dropped a little Spanish, they were losing their minds. I was getting ass in closets, under the bleachers, it was easy. I took at least three condoms with me to school a day, I couldn’t get enough and the girls, they were more than willing. The teachers kind of treated me with kid gloves, not sure how to deal with a beefed up street kid. They all expected me to be trouble, but Tilly gave me the whole “kill ‘em with kindness” lecture. I just needed to try and fly under the radar, of course I didn’t consider fucking girls at school trouble, I needed some type of release. 

I had been tracking a few douchebags who believed they were Einsteins, trying to create a bomb, nuclear level but that wouldn’t use plutonium. They believed it was possible and weren’t going to stop until they figured it out and sold their plan to the highest bidder. Scott was going to start rounding up some nerds that could attack the idea from our side, even see if it was possible. Several bad actors had already heard about the Einsteins and were already offering encouragement, to help them in any way possible, which meant rounding up the best and brightest. Unfortunately, they’re not always going to get these people to come of their own free will. “I need you to come in, I have a girl that I think can help us, at least take a look at what we have. But she’s very you

Scott had messaged me just before Rae's little update. He wanted to tell me that this guy Edger, a scientist from Canada we had tried to recruit was missing. We agreed that a hotel wasn’t safe for Rae, so we arranged for Toby to take her to my place. I noticed she had a necklace that she never took off, and I was going to try and find a tracker small enough to put in it. Toby already had one in her phone but anyone kidnapping her would certainly dump her phone first. I went back to my laptop and made some inquiries, it seemed like nobody knew anything about Dr. Edger. But I saw something disturbing, no less. It seemed that Dr. Khan had vastly oversold her abilities, and the Einsteins cut ties with her, annoyed that she wasn’t able to p

Toby had hooked Rae’s apartment up with a pretty crazy security system, and there was a camera in the kitchen that only he and I had access to. Rae didn't know it was there. I got back to my office and went right for her camera. She was dancing around the kitchen and I found myself smiling like a dork, watching her. She was actually baking something and I was mesmerised watching the ease with which she just floated around. When her food was done she jumped on the counter and ate it with milk, cookies I assumed. I never just sat and relaxed, just enjoyed my own company, I wasn't sure I was even capable of it. I always had to be moving, reading, checking on things. I was always working, and that was all I knew. I was jealous of her innocence,

I pressed my lips together, trying not to show any emotion and I thought hard about what she just said. “How the fuck do you know Sun Stroke, and how do you know it’s not just some copy cat,” I said, as a matter of fact. I stared at her, but she looked defiant. “You are way too trusting Rae, Sun Stroke is in no way just one person,” I said. “So I shouldn’t trust you, believe what you say? I know who he is, he has more than proven himself to me, and he’ll prove himself to you as well. I’ve known him for years, way longer than I’ve known you. If he wanted to hurt me, he’s had chances. He actually saved me once from getting raped, was that in your fucking file about me??”