by Anne
Disclaimer: The characters of Adam Newman, Megabyte Damon, Kevin Wilson, Ami Jackson, Jade Weston, General William Damon, Colonel Masters, Millie Damon and Caroline Damon belong to Roger Damon Price, Thames Television and Nickelodeon. So do any other names or events linked to the Tomorrow People TV series.
Max Evans, Liz Parker, Maria DeLuca, Michael Guerin, Isabel Evans, Alex Whitman, Kyle Valenti, Sheriff Jim Valenti and Milton belong to Melinda Metz, Jason Katims and WB. All other concepts and events linked to Roswell also belong to them.
The characters of Joe Dawson and James Horton (who appear in name only) belong to Panzer/David, Rysher/Gaumont Television. So do the concepts of immortality, the Watchers and the Hunters.
The characters of Geoff Anderson, Gil Hawkins, Jim Beckett and Simon Trent belong to me and should not be used without permission.
Ami entered the busy London hospital and looked around for directions to the casualty department. Frank, General Damon's aide, had told her that this was the hospital that Millie had been taken to. Hopefully it would be fairly straightforward to track her down, though Ami still wasn't sure how she was going to tell the General what had happened to Megabyte and Adam.
The receptionist glanced up at her, and Ami noticed the name tag she was wearing on her floral blouse. Teresa Cording was probably used to seeing worried people she decided. She must have seen enough of them during her time as receptionist in the casualty department.
"Can I help you, miss?"
"I'm looking for a friend who was brought in earlier by the paramedics. Her name is Damon, Millicent Damon."
Teresa keyed the name into her computer and waited for the details to come up. "Yes, here it is. Take a seat and I'll see what I can find out for you. Do you want me to tell the family you're here?"
"Yes, please. My name is Ami. I need to get a message to Millie's father. It's rather urgent."
As she sat down, Ami looked around the waiting area. The hospital seemed very busy. There was a group of kids with various degrees of scrapes and bruises sitting in the chairs behind her. They were dressed in soccer uniforms and it looked as though they'd had a very enthusiastic game judging by the state of them. Behind them sat a young girl, holding her arm in pain, leaning against an older woman. Probably her mother, Ami surmised.
"Ami?"
Ami turned to see a young blond man dressed in blue nurses' uniform. She'd been so deep in thought she hadn't even noticed him approach. She nodded.
"Hi, I'm Steve. I've been looking after Millicent Damon." He continued hastily, noticing Ami's reaction. "Don't worry, she's going to be fine. Her father asked if you could wait in the relatives' room for him. He seems really pleased that you've come. Follow me and I'll show you the way."
As Steve showed her into the room, Ami recognised the gangly teenager waiting inside immediately. She nodded her thanks to the nurse and turned to the boy seated on the chair in front of her.
"Geoff, what are you doing here?"
Geoff Anderson looked up at her, relief flooding his features. "At last, someone to talk to. All this waiting is driving me insane" He looked behind her, almost as though he was waiting for someone else to walk through the door. His face dropped slightly as he realised she was alone. "Ami, I thought you must have come with Megabyte. Isn't he here with you? Don't you know what's happened?"
Ami shook her head, in answer to both questions. "I went to WorldEx to find General Damon, and Frank told me that Millie had been in an accident." As she looked closer at Millie's boyfriend, Ami noticed he had a bandage around his hand, and dried blood through his sandy brown hair.
"Yeah. Some idiot tried to run her down. Luckily I noticed the car in time and managed to get her out of the way just before it hit. We hit the ground pretty hard though, as you can see." Ami could hear the anger in Geoff's voice as he continued. " Now that I think of it, the car had been following us for a couple of blocks. When Millie went to cross the road, the driver deliberately accelerated. It wasn't an accident!"
"Are you sure about that Geoff?" Both young people turned at the sound of a male voice with a strong American accent. General William Damon, Megabyte and Millie's father stood framed in the doorway.
Geoff nodded, "Yeah, I'm sure. It's not every day that you see someone try to run down your girlfriend. If I ever get hold of the…" His voice tailed off, as he tried to control his feelings.
Bill Damon decided to change the subject quickly. He didn't really need another teenager looking for trouble. He'd had enough of that with his son and his friends to last him a lifetime. "Ami, am I glad to see you. I've been trying to contact Megabyte on his cell phone for hours. Finally got an answer about an hour ago, and it turns out to be Penny Weston. Apparently Megabyte left the phone there when he picked up Jade this morning."
Bill noticed the look on Ami's face as he spoke and his heart sank. Surely Marmaduke wasn't in trouble again. He was beginning to think the Tomorrow People should just paint bullseyes on their backs and hang a sign saying 'I'm a TP, come and get me.' Obviously the talk he'd had with his son and Adam after the episode at Cheyenne Mountain had been totally ignored, as usual.
"How's Millie?" Ami's question shook him out of his reverie.
"The doctor thinks she may have a broken arm, but apart from that she's fine. Just a bit shook up. We're waiting for the x-rays to come back before the doctors do anything further treatment wise. Millie's a very lucky young lady. It sounds as though you might have saved her life, Geoff. Thanks, I owe you one."
"When can I see her?" asked Geoff.
"She's with her mother now, in one of the cubicles. I'm sure if you ask one of the nurses, they'll let you see her while they wait for the results."
Bill breathed a sigh of relief as the teenager left the room. He had a feeling that whatever Ami had to say it wasn't something that Geoff should know about. The fewer people who knew about the kids' special powers the better, especially with the fact that the list of people who were aware of the Tomorrow People seemed to grow longer each day.
"So," he demanded. "Where's Megabyte? I know he's out with Jade, but Penny hasn't seen either of them since this morning. She sounded very worried when I spoke to her, and frankly so am I."
Ami hesitated before replying and Bill felt himself groan inwardly. He'd known her long enough to know that bad news was coming. Why did he have this nasty suspicion it was to do with his son…again. He ran his hand through his dark hair. He was amazed he had any hair left after some of the more recent exploits of his son and his friends. "Go on Ami, I've already thought the worst."
"Megabyte's been kidnapped. We're not sure who has him, but they took someone else as well. A boy called Max, he works at the UFO centre in Roswell."
"Roswell, as in Roswell, New Mexico?" Bill didn't even want to know what his son was doing visiting a UFO centre, especially in that town. Why did it have to be that town, of all places. He noticed that Ami wasn't finished. "Okay," he groaned. "What else? No, don't tell me. Adam went looking for him and has disappeared as well."
Ami stared at him with wide eyes. "How did you know?" she asked.
"Let's just say I've know Adam long enough to know his habits by now." And long enough to know he isn't going to change those habits either, Bill thought.
Bill sighed, trying to stay focused and keep all the thoughts on who might have Adam and Megabyte out of his mind. "Okay, Ami. I need you to sit down and tell me everything you know about what happened, everything." Another thought occurred to him. "Is Jade okay? Penny said she was spending the day with Megabyte. How come whoever has Megabyte, Adam and this Max didn't manage to grab her?"
"She teleported."
"In front of the kidnappers? So, in other words, they probably now know they're dealing with kids who can teleport."
"Megabyte told her to teleport. Besides she didn't really have a choice. They had fired at her with some sort of weapon." She thought for a moment before continuing. "Jade said it was like those taser weapons she and Megabyte saw in an episode of Buffy last month."
"Buffy?"
"The Vampire Slayer. Anyway, the weapons fired some sort of electrical current. That's what the one that hit Megabyte felt like anyway."
This story was getting more worrying by the minute, thought Bill. "Megabyte's been hit by a taser weapon? But how would you know, no forget that question, I wasn't thinking." He stopped, and suddenly paled. "Oh, hell."
"General Damon, what's wrong?" asked Ami, concern showing in her voice as she spoke.
"Don't you see, Ami? Why would anyone use a taser weapon against ordinary teenagers in the first place? It sounds to me as though they must have known about you kids being able to teleport. In fact I'm starting to wonder if whoever has Megabyte and Adam knows about the Tomorrow People." He thought for a moment and then added, " This Max who works at the UFO centre, what does he look like?"
"Tall, dark hair, dark eyes…" Ami's voice tailed off as she realised who else she knew who fit that description. "You mean, they thought Max was Adam? But why?"
"I received a file on my desk, a couple of months back. It was to do with a WorldEx investigation, one that I was trying to look into, discretely, of course. I hadn't mentioned it to Adam yet, as I didn't have anything concrete. A while back in Roswell, there were reports of a boy healing a waitress, a boy with dark hair. The boy's name was Evans. I knew it wasn't Adam, even though the description of the boy was similar, but anyone else who knew about the Tomorrow People might have put two and two together and come up with six."
"Max's last name is Evans," added Ami, confirming what Bill had already worked out for himself. "You mean these people deliberately went after Max because they thought he was Adam? Do you think that when they saw Megabyte they must have recognised him? Then when Adam…" Ami realised something. "General, Kevin and Jade are in Roswell now. I'd better warn them"
As Bill watched her eyes glaze over, he knew she was initiating telepathic contact with Kevin and Jade. To his surprise she opened them again, brown eyes meeting his own as she asked another question, concern showing both in her voice and the worried look she gave him. "Do you have any idea who might have Adam and Megabyte? Who would know enough about the Tomorrow People to deliberately go after us like that?"
Bill knew the expression on his face was as grim as the thoughts going through his mind as he replied. "I'm afraid I've got a very fair idea of who it might be, Ami. I'm just hoping I'm wrong." He remembered a very worrying report he had received a couple of days ago, a report he now wished he'd shared with the Tomorrow People, and then to what Geoff had said as well. Surely the fact that Millie had been involved in a deliberate accident at the same time her brother had disappeared was a coincidence wasn't it? Wasn't it? Bill sat down on the spare chair in the relatives' room, and tried not to think about what could be happening to Megabyte and Adam. He felt sorry for this Max kid, whatever was going down, it sounded as though Max Evans was now well and truly part of it as well.
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