I'm a Mind Freak on my Birthday(open)

[stephenadams]

February 4

Stephen walked around Costa Verde. Today was his birthday and he had nothing to do. He had stopped by a whole bunch of places, trying to find something to do, but there was nothing to do around here for a fourteen year old.

Stephen decided he might as well use some of his abilities as magic tricks to freak people out. Be like Chris Angel, the Mind Freak. Stephen wondered if Chris Angel was a special, and not a brillaint illusionist. Stephen shrugged and began to think about what he could do to freak people out.

He didn't know all of his abilities but he knew he could teleport, seeing as he got that ability a lot at school, and that was how he got there.

Stephen walked up to a random person, "Wanna see a card trick?"

Stephen didn't have a deck of cards with him but he could fix that, he would just teleport a deck to his hand. He was already thinking of ways he could use the ability for his tricks. It was amazing how many tricks he could come up with using just teleportation.

[emilie]

Emilie had just arrived in the year 2009 with the chronokinesis ability she had picked up and she knew that her parents lived in Costa Verde, because they still lived in Costa Verde when she left to travel back in time to hopefully find Stephen and of course to warn her parents about Michelle being attacked and killed.

She was walking along the very familiar streets even if they did look slightly different in this time to her own time. Different shops for a start and the whole general look of the area seemed different, and yet familiar at the same time. It was very strange. She could only hope that her parents were fine back home in her time without her.

As she was about to turn the corner however, she heard a voice ask if she wanted to see a card trick. She turned to where she heard the voice, and found she was fascinated by the young lad who had asked the question. Why she was fascinated by him, she couldn't quite tell. However she smiled at him, "Sure, why not, maybe you'll be able to cheer me up a little" she said because for all the different years she had been, and the things she'd seen and the things which had happened to her, she still hadn't found her brother, and she was devastated.

[stephenadams]

Stephen looked at the person, and felt like he knew the person, but couldn't remember from when. Stephen shrugged off the feeling and began his magic trick.

Stephen pulled up the sleeves of his shirt then held his hands together, he then teleported a deck of cards into his hands and separated them, showing the deck of cards that seemed to come from nowhere.

Stephen then held out the cards, "Pick a card, any card."

Stephen was already plotting how he would do his trick. He would get a bag, put the cards in it, and then throw the bag at the wall. He would teleport the womans card partly into the wall where the bag hit, so that it was visible but would be stuck in the wall, it was a very interesting idea for a trick.

[emilie]

Well this was certainly different she thought. Coming to the past to try and find her baby brother who was probably years older than he was when she last saw him, and yet here she was in the middle of a street agreeing to watch some young guy's magic trick. It somehow didn't feel right, especially since if memory served her correct his was her baby brother's birthday. If he was still out there, how old would he be now, she wondered.

His voice interrupted her thoughts asking her to pick a card, any card. So the hovered her hand over the deck and picked a card, and looked at it. Since he hadn't said whether she was to show the card or not, so as not to ruin the trick, she held it close to her, "So am I show you the card, tell you what the card is?" she asked giving the young guy a friendly smile, after all it didn't do any harm to be polite, did it?

There still seemed to be something familiar about this young guy, it was annoying her, but she decided to shake it off. It was nothing, it had to be nothing.

[stephenadams]

Stephen was about to tell the woman to give him the card when he came up with a better idea, though he might not be able to do it seeeing as it involved Time manipulation, an ability Stephen wasn't sure he had.

Stephen focused on the card and focused on rewinding time to puit it back in the deck. All of the sudden the card shot from the womans hands into the deck. Stephen was surprised, he actually had time manipulation.

Stephen then produced a bag from behind his back and stuffed the cards into it, making sure that he focused on the card that the woman had picked. he then threw the bag at a wall, teleporting the card into the front of the wall.

As the bag fell it revealed the card, which was stuck in the wall.

"Is that your card?" Stephen asked, "This is an original trick, as far as I know, by Stephen Adams."

[emilie]

Emilie watched as the young guy did his magic stuff, she wondered what he would be able to do. She hadn't been one to believe in magic much, but watching it happen in front of your eyes spontaneous as it seemed to be, might prove that it exists after all she thought.

He didn't answer her question however about the card, instead after a moment the card seemed to disappear from her hand into the deck again. She watched with her eyes opened wide in total fascination.

She watched some more as he then got a bag and put the cards into the bag. Then the bag flew to a wall and as it fell a card was stuck on the wall. Then the young guy asked if that was her card. Amazingly it was and she grinned at him. "Why, yes it is, that is simply amazing" Emilie said as she shook her head in wonderment.

So magic truly does work she thought. Then he followed the question about the card saying it was an original trick by Stephen Adams. Emilie just froze. He had said her brother's name. So was this her brother? She felt her knees going weak, and she sort of faltered as if she was going to fall to the ground, and her face must have blanched, as she felt a little sick suddenly.

Steadying herself and looking at him again, she realised that must have been why she thought he looked familiar. "Oh my god, it is you" she exclaimed in an excited voice as she threw her arms around the younger boy. "I've missed you so much Stephen, look at you, you were only five when you disappeared" she said, and then realised that he probably wouldn't have a clue who she was, which saddened her but she found she couldn't take her arms away from being wrapped around him.

It was so good to have her brother in her life again.

[stephenadams]

Stephen smiled when the woman thought his trick was amazing. Especially seeing as he had thought it up on the spot. It made him happy that he could be a great magician.

Stephen's happiness quickly turned into confusion as the woman hugged him. He was about to call her a crazy loon but then she mentioned his disappearance when he was five.

"How do you know about that? How do you know me?" Stephen asked, wondering if this was a relative from the future, maybe his sister or a cousin, or a young aunt. Maybe it was a family friend. Stephen didn't know. All he knew was that the sense of familiarity was getting stronger, he felt a few blurry visions from before the assassination attempt, but that was it right then.

[emilie]

Emilie couldn't believe she'd hugged the younger boy, he may have been her younger brother, but he wouldn't have known her. She shouldn't have done something so silly, not the way she had done it, however it was too late. Of course he was confused and began asking why she knew he had disappeared when he was five.

She had been searching for her brother for a long time, but she hadn't expected to find him on a street doing card tricks as if nothing was wrong. Obviously he had somewhere to stay and had been well looked after. She could tell that much.

"I know, because I've been searching for you for a few months now. I'm you're older sister, well one of them, I'm Emilie. Well actually I'm your only one now, Michelle was killed" Emilie went on to explain, stopping for a breath before continuing. "I've been going back in time trying to find you for the past few months and I came to this time to tell mom and dad not to be at home on the date Michelle was killed" Emilie finished, looking down at her feet. She hated that her twin had died. She had wanted to do something about it, but she couldn't.

[stephenadams]

Stephen listened as Emilie told her story, so he had two sisters in the future, but one of them was dead. So the twins his mother was carrying were his older sisters. Stephen was about to respond to this when he felt a little light headed.

"Not again." Stephen said as he fell to the ground.

Stephen was in a room with two girls who his mind told him were his two older sisters. They were showing him how to use his abilities. They would use either moms or dads ability in one way and have him try and do it as well.

Stephen had been doing pretty well when all of the sudden a man teleported into the room and tried to make a grab for Michelle. Stephen shot a ball of fire at the man but he just teleported to the side.

The man then grabbed Michele and was about to leave when Stephen telekineticly threw him against the wall.

"What the hell?" the man said.

Michelle grabbed the mans arm and Stephen could see a strange glow in her hands. All of the sudden she teleported out of the mans arms and appeared next to Stephen.

"Great, so the kid can teleport, I didn't want to have to use this, but I'll guess I'm gonna have to." the man said pulling out a taser.

The man shot it at Michelle and she tried to move it away from herself but it ended up hitting her dead in the chest. Stephen ran over to Michelle as she fell.

"Michelle? Are you okay?" Stephen asked in his young childish voice, which didn't say the words perfectly. especially Michelle, it came out a little something like Misheal.

But Michelle was dead, and there was nothing he could do about it.

Stephen woke up on the street, still thinking about what happened.

[emilie]

Emilie didn't appear to get any reaction from Stephen as she told him the reason why she knew him. Maybe he didn't believe her, or maybe he was just trying to remember who she was. Either way Emilie hated that he seemed to have gone silent on her. Maybe she should have brought out her photograph from her purse, which carried about with her. Of course he was only five in it, because that was the last time she had seen her brother.

Then he said 'not again' and fell to the ground. Emilie's instincts kicked in and she immediately bent down and lifted him into her arms, almost cradling him, just like she used to do when she sat on the sofa and held him on her lap, she would lay him down across her lap just like he was a baby doll. When she saw him waking him, she hugged him again like before. Not caring that they were in the street.

"Stephen, what happened? Are you okay?" she asked in a worried voice and then she decided now was the right time, she took out her purse from her pocket and opened it, taking out a rather dog eared and slightly faded photograph of her and Stephen together. She handed it to him, "This is us, I always carry it around with me" she explained.

[stephenadams]

Stephen saw that Emilie was kinda cradling him as he got back to his senses, "I'm sorry but could you not do that in public? It probably looks kinda weird."

"Why do I always fall unconsious when I meet someone I knew before I lost my memory." Stephen said in an annoyed voice. He looked annoyed as well but it changed to happiness as the memory clicked in and he realised he was with his sister that he hadn't seen in about nine years.

"Hey Emilie long time no see, I would say I've missed you but when I went back in time my memory was erased. I don't really have that much of it back, all I remember is how Michelle died and how I ended up in the past." Stephen said, his voice starting out happy but getting sadder as he talked about the stuff he remembered.

"So that's what I looked like when I was five? The people I lived with never took pictures of me until I was nine." Stephen said as he looked at the picture of his five year old self with Emilie.

Stephen decided that the middle of the street wasn't the best place to talk about this kinda stuff, "Hey, you think we should go somewhere else? Some people might find us a little strange if we continue this conversation out in the open."

[emilie]

When Stephen asked if she could stop cradling him, she didn't even realise what she was doing. She was thinking her baby brother was still only five years old. "Oh God I'm sorry" she said, as she stopped cradling him. "I just thought you were still five" she added so he wouldn't think she was completely crazy.

Emilie shrugged a little, "I don't know why you fall unconscious when you meet someone you know from your past, there must be some reason for it, the fact that meeting them, brings back memories maybe?" she said softly. It was weird looking at her younger brother in his current age, seeing as he was five the last time she saw him.

Then he was saying it was nice to see her, although she understood why he couldn't say he had missed her, because he had lost his memory, so that was understandable. "Well I missed you and I think we should try and make up for lost time" she said with a grin. She knew what she had in mind for some fun, but whether Stephen would deem himself too old for it, she had no idea.

"Yeah that's what you looked like when you were five, just got older looking, you haven't changed much to be honest, that's why I thought there was something familiar about you when I first saw you" Emilie explained some more.

When Stephen asked if they should go somewhere, Emilie began to laugh, he was right, it was rather strange in the middle of the street talking to each other about what they were talking about. "I agree, yes, do you anywhere in particular in mind?" she asked him with a smile.

[stephenadams]

"I understand, I was just a little surprised when I woke up to you cradling me." Stephen said to Emilie.

"So I tried to use my abilities as magic tricks when I was five? I was doing this stuff just because I was bored and thought I could use a few abilities to freak people out." Stephen said.

Stephen wondered what Emilie wanted to do to make up for lost time, he didn't know her that well, seeing as he only had one memory of her and all. Stephen wished he could get all of his memories back, even though he was very young in them.

"I don't really have any place in particular I would like to go to." Stephen said.

[emilie]

Emilie blushed a little at realising how it must have looked to Stephen waking up and finding this older girl who was a stranger to him now really cradling him. It was just good to know that he was fine with it and understood. She smiled at him, "Thanks for understanding, I guess I would be surprised too if somebody was cradling me when I was fourteen" Emilie agreed.

"Well I was referring to your looks, but thinking back on it, I'm sure you used to use your abilities to do tricks, I think it was when we were helping you to practice with abilities" Emilie said thinking back to then they were younger. What she did remember, was taking Stephen almost everywhere with her. Where as Michelle as much as she adored her brother, always liked to be around her friends. Emilie would often take Stephen down to the park with her, play ball with him, or feed the ducks at the pond. Sometimes she would even take him to the little zoo at the park if he asked.

"What about going to the local park?" she asked him, she wasn't sure why she said this, but thinking back to what she used to do when he was younger, made her think that it would be a good place to go, and hopefully at this time of year it would be a little more quiet.

[stephenadams]

"Oh, I guess I do look a bit the same in the picture." Stephen said, taking a second look at the picture.

Stephen hadn't been to the park around here, so when Emilie asked to go there Stephen wasn't sure. He guessed it wasn't very popular, seeing as Emilie suggested it as a place to talk in private.

"Alright, where's that? I can teleport us there." Stephen saidm "Unless you can do it?"

Stephen wondered what his sisters ability was, it had to either be like his or be some time traveling ability. Stephen decided to wait until they were at the park, he didn't want to talk about that until they were alone, he didn't know who might be listening and didn't want to let anyone who might mean him harm to know exactly what he could do.