‘thoughts’

Telepathic speech

'Animal speech'

Looking up as she heard a knock on her door, Evie stood and opened the door to find her brother there. She smiled weakly and accepted the hug that he wrapped around her. He rubbed her back as she rested her cheek on his chest and just held onto him. After a minute, she led him inside and he whistled as he looked around. “Nice, sis! And look at that fireplace! Put a fur rug in front of it and you’ll get all sorts of romance!” he commented and she snorted as she rolled her eyes at him before sitting on one of the stools next to the kitchen counter. He sat down across from her and watched her worriedly as she picked at an invisible spot on the counter. “How’re you doing, sis?” he asked gently as he reached a large hand out to cover her own.

“Well, let’s see. I find out I’m some freak that is a prophesized Chosen One for a secret society, I am the result of a few deaths when a bunch of wackos attack an innocent meeting, I meet Jensen, Jared, and Jeff and find out they’re like the J-cubed X-men or something, and I end up going through a sewer to a secret colony in, what I’m guessing is the Smoky Mountains, and I can’t even take a shower cuz I don’t have any clothes with me. My cats are at home, no one knows where I am, mom is going to be freakin’ pissed that I’m not working and…I can talk to Jared’s dogs. Yeup, doing great,” she replied mockingly before sighing and covering her face with her shaking hands.

“Jared stopped by earlier with Sadie and Harley?” Phil asked gently and smirked. “Should have known.”

“Why does he care anyways? Is it just because I’m this supposed Chosen One?” Evie asked irritably as she wiped at her eyes before standing and going towards her fireplace.

Standing and following her, Phil frowned lightly. “He didn’t tell you?” he replied in confusion.

“Tell me *what*?” Evie demanded in exasperation as she sat down next to the raised dais.

Running a hand through his hair, Phil sighed. “Great…thanks a lot there, Jared…” he growled before lying out next to his sister.  “He, Jensen, and Jeff are your Guardians. Like, specifically destined to be your Guardians. You’re like…linked or something, I think. Not sure. Only they would know. But it’s their obligation to protect you no matter what,” he explained then flinched as he realized what he’d just said when he saw his sister’s face shut down and close off faster than he’d ever seen. “Shit, Evie no…that’s um…that’s not what I meant…” he stuttered as he sat up and reached for her.

She didn’t resist as he placed a hand on her arm, but she didn’t look at him. “So, they’re just concerned because they’re basically forced to be. Nothing special there, huh?” Evie whispered and Phil felt a lump in her throat as he sensed her feelings before she closed off to him. She shouldn’t have been able to do that so quickly yet, but he’d always known that she hid her feelings more often than showed them. She pulled away from his hold and leaned against the dais. “Bad things come in threes,” she muttered and sighed.

“That’s not true, sis. I mean, you’ve got this great house and ya know you’re special,” Phil replied desperately as he tried to think of a way to make it better. With how she kept herself turned away, he knew he was failing hard. “Um, so…did you want me to get anything for you? Did Jared tell you that we have a communal breakfast?” He scratched the back of his head and sighed as she shrugged. “Evie…”

“I can’t go out in public in sewer smelling clothes, Phil. And I’m not hungry…I don’t think I’ll be hungry for a long time,” she retorted before looking at him. “Just…just go away and go be with your new girlfriend. Don’t let me interrupt,” she told him before looking away.

Flummoxed, Phil stared at her. “You…you know I’m dating again?” he asked in shock.

“Saw you making out earlier. Kinda hard to miss,” she whispered and curled up harder.

“Oh…um…”

“Do mom and dad know? I mean, they seem to know everything else involving our family being part of this cult thing, so I’m sure everyone but me knew, huh?” Evie spat out as she leaned her cheek on her knees.

Phil was silent for a bit as he stared at her in a mixture of hurt and anger. “Yea, the others know about Fei Ling. We’ve been dating for almost a year now since I met her at my induction,” he answered stiffly and swallowed as she stiffened.

“Good for you. She’s better than that bitch you married. At least this time you’re listening to mom and dad and waiting before hopping into marriage with her,” she muttered bitterly and he sighed angrily.

“Look, get over it, Evie! I didn’t tell you because you haven’t exactly been talking to me for a while now have you?” he snapped at her and she looked over at him, eyes blazing.

“Yea? And who exactly basically told his entire family to go fuck themselves because he was getting some pussy finally?!” she shot back and Phil had to put a hand up as she blazed briefly with her anger. But what worried him then and there was the darkness that seemed to writhe in the midst of the light she exuded. Something wasn’t right…

But before he could say anything, she was curled up and scooting back towards the left window next to the fireplace before she started to rock herself, whimpering. He moved closer, and then stopped as he encountered a wall. She shouldn’t have been able to *do* that yet! “Evie, I need you to calm down,” he murmured cajolingly as he used his own power to try and pull down the wall, but she resisted him. “Evie, let me in.”

“No! Just…I can’t control this, Phil! I don’t know what’s going on and everything is my fault!” Evie shouted back frantically and started sobbing into her knees. The fire burst into a larger blaze in reaction and the rugs and the stools started to float around them.

“Evie, you need to calm down and just…relax your mind. Your emotions are using your powers to do things and you can’t control it yet. You have to calm down, c’mon…” Phil whispered soothingly as he tried to get closer to her and began to worry. He blinked then as Sadie was suddenly next to him, whining as she tried to get closer.

'Evie calm down? Sadie and Harley and Bisou come play with you! Put floating things down and come play with us?' she said and whined again. Harley came over as well with his tail wagging as he barked and Bisou stood near Jensen, Jared, and Jeff from where they were standing near the door.

Looking up, Evie sniffled and wiped her eyes. “S-Sadie? H-How do I…I don’t know how…” she whispered and trembled.

“You need to calm your mind and imagine everything floating back to the ground. Just think that you have them all on strings and that you’re lowering them back down,” Jensen instructed gently as he came over slowly, dodging the various floating pieces. He knelt down next to Philip and smiled at her. “Come on…I know you can do it,” he said encouragingly.

Biting her lip, Evie nodded and seemed to become unfocused and gradually the rugs and stools floated back to their original spots without even a tremble of unbalance. Impressed, Jensen winked at Phil as Jeff and Jared came over. “Now I need you to imagine the wall you put up dissolving, Evie. You can do it,” he coached her and she nodded again. They felt the wall go down slowly and Sadie, Harley, and Bisou surged towards her, barking and licking her excitedly as she smiled in relief and relaxed, petting them.

“She’s good. Usually it would take one of us days to learn that stuff and she did it in a couple of minutes,” Jeff murmured as they watched her.

You guys, I accidentally might have made her very wary about you three. She thinks you only want to be around her because of your duties as Guardians, Phil admitted as he looked up at them. He grunted as Jensen thwapped him lightly upside the head.

Wonderful. She has enough problems and she’s not going to like the news that she can’t go home, Jeff grumbled and sighed.

“I can’t go home?”

The question shocked them all and they looked over to see Evie staring at them with wide eyes as she paled and her hands fell to her sides. She closed them tightly then and sniffled. “I can’t ever go home? You’re keeping me prisoner or something?” she asked in a choked voice, alarming them.

“No Evie! Nothing like that! It’s for your safety! And it’s just until things cool down and we fall off of the radar for the Faithful! You’ll go home soon, just…just not now,” Jared explained quickly as he moved closer towards her, but met with a slight buffer. He deflated as she turned her face away and sniffled, but the dogs all leaned in and licked at her face and hands, trying to cheer her up.

“Here now…this has to stop, Evie,” Jeff stated gruffly and she looked up at him in bewilderment. He stepped closer and squatted down next to her, unhindered, and wiped her face. “We all know that all of this is new, frightening, and very upsetting. But we’re trying to help. And I think you’ll agree that crying constantly over things won’t help. It’ll just make you sick and everyone else wary to even suggest helping you,” he said quietly and then hugged her. She sniffled and hugged him back tightly and the other three men relaxed as they felt her calming down.

“I’m sorry for being such a pain…” she whispered into his shoulder.

“It’s to be expected, I suppose. Kathy would always mention how much of a drama queen you could be,” Jeff teased her and she giggled before sniffling and leaning back to smile at him. He wiped her face again and smiled at her.

“You know my mom? That’s so cool…but I’m going to kick her cuz she knows how much I like you three and she didn’t get your autographs!” Evie declared and they all laughed. She looked over at her brother and cocked an eyebrow. “You too! You *knew* I fangirl over them constantly! How could you deny your sister such things as autographs?” she demanded and Phil put up his hands defensively.

“Outside of the Elam, we’re to act as if we don’t know each other in reality unless we become friends out there! So, if I’d gone with you to the convention and seen them, I’d have had to act like a fan instead of a good friend!” Phil protested and the other three nodded.

“Really? That sucks…” Evie replied and made a face before wiping her face again and sighing. “And here I wanted to gloat to all my friends,” she stated longingly and they all snorted with laughter.

“So, we brought those catalogs, so look through them and we can put in the order with Vali later when we go to breakfast,” Jared said as he handed her the catalogs, which were various high fashion and high tech catalogs.

She opened the first one warily and her eyes widened as she closed it quickly. “I can’t order anything in here! It’s freakin’ expensive!” she hissed out as she stared at them.

“Er…remember when I mentioned some of our members are rich? Yea, so there’s no such thing as too expensive,” Jared retorted and grinned at her.

“You sure?” Evie asked uncertainly as she fingered the cover.

“Ok dude…stop questioning every damn thing, sis! I swear to Gaia you are so untrusting! Not everyone is going to fuck you over like that bitch that was your room mate and that girl in Florida!” Phil burst out in exasperation and she looked at him hesitantly. “And to top it off…we don’t need to pay it back! It’s a community fund! We live safe happy lives! Deal with it and start getting stuff you’ve always dreamed of!” he added as he scooted closer around the dogs, who had draped themselves over Evie’s legs and lap.

Looking down at the catalog, Evie thought over what he’d said then looked up at him with a wondering smile. “Really? I can…really? I mean…this house and I can get things for it and…really? No paybacks or strings?” she asked with growing excitement and the other three men had to blink at how radiant she was.

“Totally! You *have* to come to my house to see all the neat things I got! Now come on!” Phil replied with a laugh before opening the first catalog for her.

“Ok!” she responded and giggled and Jensen, Jared, and Jeff looked at each other with smiles and the same adoring look. She flipped through the catalogs slowly, talking over with them what would work for which room in furniture and decided on a deep green leather couch set that would take up one entire wall and would go half way through the second and a lazy boy recliner as well as several book shelves for the living room. She picked out a large entertainment center before deciding on a large cherry cabinet for dishes for the dining room. She then chose a double bed for the guest bedroom that was a four poster and a four post California king sized bed with a canopy for the master bedroom at the subtle suggestion of Jensen. A large dresser with a mirror over most of it went into the master bedroom and she picked a smaller version for the guest bedroom and two smaller entertainment centers were picked for both rooms.

In the office room as she deemed it, she put in a large glass and oak desk that would go in the corner and a large office chair went with it. She then put a futon in there and another entertainment center and several more bookshelves, explaining that she expected to at least be able to get her stuff from the outside world sometime, which they assured her she would. When she finished with that catalog, she opened the second and began deciding on bath towels, kitchen towels, tools, decorations, sheets, pillows, and other various necessities for the rooms. The third catalog held all of the electronics and she squealed as she looked at them each earnestly to make sure it was still ok. They laughed and nodded and she began searching eagerly.

She chose a brand new computer with all the bells and whistles. She then chose a sound system that would hook up to her computer and be able to go throughout her home. She picked out four plasma screen TVs, one that was a 62” that would go in the living room, then three 42” that would go in the bedrooms and computer room. She then decided on a DVD player sound system for the living room and three simple DVD players for the bedrooms and computer room. Finished with that, she moved to the final catalog and wavered.

It was the food and clothing catalog and she sighed as she paged through it. When nudged by her brother, she murmured to him, “I don’t want to give away my size. It’s embarrassing enough.”

He laughed at that and shook his head before touching her face. Sis, didn’t anyone tell you yet that you can control your body weight with your mind? All you have to do is focus your mind on what your ideal weight would be and it will get there within a week and you won’t even have flabby skin or stretch marks. You just have to focus every morning and night for a few minutes on what you would like to look like ideally and your body will do it, he explained and her eyes widened.

“You’re shittin’ me!” she whispered in shock, surprising the others and Phil laughed again.

“Nope, not shittin’ ya, sis,” he replied with a grin. “How do you think I lost that weight after I divorced Jennifer?”

“I thought…er…never mind, I never thought anything,” Evie replied sheepishly and he snickered at her as the other three grinned. “Can I decide on the food later? Or…wait how long will it take for everything to come in?”

“We’ll give this to Vali at breakfast and it’ll prolly all be here by the evening,” Jared responded as he ran his fingers over Sadie’s ears and body.

“Oh…well er…um…ok…I guess I could get a few outfits for now and then get other stuff later…” Evie mumbled as she looked over everything. She then rattled off all of the clothes she wanted, which were just some jeans and t-shirts and a pair of sneakers as well as some underwear, which she blushingly told them. She then picked out various foods, focusing a lot on the vegetables, fruits, and other healthier choices. She winked at them as she ordered several cheese fries from Portesi’s, which cracked her brother up and confused the other three. She made them promise to come over sometime and she’d make them some cheese fries, which got them all chuckling.

Once she was done ordering everything, she had five pages of items and an appetite. She went to the bathroom when her brother promised to bring her some cleaning supplies, which he just floated over and into the shower for her. They all smiled as they felt her happiness and gratitude, but there was still an underlying tension and sorrow in her that had them worried. When she came out with Jared’s robe wrapped around her, they were surprised to note that she was already losing weight. They led her to the communal gathering hall for breakfast and got in line. Evie kept herself hidden between them, not wanting any special treatment and smiled at them gratefully when they honored her silent wish.

As they were walking up in the line, Jared leaned down to her. “Hey, I do have something I wanted to ask you,” he said quietly and she looked up at him over her shoulder. He grinned at her and brushed a strand of her wet hair from her cheek. “I was wondering if you could take care of the dogs while we’re gone this week. We all have to do some filming and then we’ll be coming back to take our dogs to Christmas with our families. But I’d feel a lot better if they could be here cuz they like it here and they really like you so…”

“Sure…um…I guess. I mean…why me?” Evie asked in bemusement as she smiled hesitantly at him.

“Cuz you’re my friend?” Jared retorted with a look and she giggled. “At least…I hope we’re friends?” he added softly, hopefully and she smiled brilliantly at him.

“I’d like that a lot, Mr. Padalecki. I’ll take care of your dogs and I’m assuming Mr. Morgan’s as well?” she responded and he grinned at her.

“Yeup. Thanks so much, Evie. I really appreciate it,” Jared answered before kissing her on the cheek and straightening. As he watched her blush and look ahead, he nodded firmly. ‘And you *will* start calling me Jared soon…I plan on it,’ he thought decisively.

TBC