Unhappening Future Drabbles

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Krazy Michelle Ranak

It had been a month since their mother had gotten them back to their own timeline. Topher had well, not fully recovered regardless of his outward appearance though it was apparent anyway. He knew it. He was more aggressive towards everyone, no one at work now wanted him as a partner so he got s**t duty. He eventually got in a fight about which landed him back on the beat over knocking his partner unconscious while on duty, yeah not good, he was lucky they didn’t flat out boot his a** out the door though his reputation and connections kind of protected him which pissed everyone else off. ”Figured you’d be here.” Tonya from Internal Affairs said well shouted with a smile. ”What can I do for you?” He would’ve took his ear protection but it was against the rules and he was already in the shitter anyway. Pulling his target back with the switch he watched as Tonya looked at it. There was little error to his grouping, mostly one giant hole, you couldn’t even tell if there was more than one shot or not besides the hole being larger than a bullet. Topher smirked as she kept staring at it. He pointed at the one hanging on the wall which was also his for longest range shot with a handgun, he’d go for a rifle, but he didn’t want to piss off swat or the sharp shooter squads, with Frederick though he was sure he could set a pace with any of them.

He handed the ear protection to the desk clerk before leaving the shooting ranged and didn’t bother to check to see if she was following, of course she was. As they exited he noticed a few people watching him with her. ”Let me guess, you’re here to babysit me.” Tonya scoffed a bit at his blunt attitude probably would’ve smacked him but she was at work so had to be proper. ”Come with me.” She walked passed him and bumped him roughly as she did heading towards her office. While she wasn’t permanently here she was here enough that she had a small but spacious enough one. Topher stopped as she bumped him and glared taking a few breaths to calm down, now was not the time, especially not towards her. ”Yes ma’am.”

As they got to her off she motioned for him to sit down. ”You remember me I’m guessing by your attitude.” ”You know I HAD to do it.” ”And I had to do my job, you could’ve done yours.” ”He was ******** innocent and you know it as well as I do. Tonya raised her hands in a calming gesture. ”Fine, fine, besides the point. You know why you’re here.” ”Probably because I punched my partner.” ”You broke his jaw, knocked him unconscious, yelled at your superiors more than once, you wont take a partner…” ”Other way around.” ”My understanding is you’ve been assigned one and you specifically ask not to. You told your supervisor that you’d likely punch another one.” Topher grimaced at that, he didn’t recall that day, he may have been drunk. ”Ah that, they let you slide because of some family issue at home but only once, which was why you were put on normal beat after your week off. You’re lucky you still have a job you privileged ********> Topher blinked at what she called him and slumped in the chair.

She pulled out a file, most likely his and looked at him. ”You have acceptance letters from so many colleges and even music schools, you could be anywhere else yet you chose to be a cop.” Topher blinked at that, how the ********? ”Nate is my cousin, works in your security. He told me about the letters that get piled up that you ignore, plus the music.” Topher gritted his teeth and wanted to punch Nate at that, ******** little loud mouth. ”Zip it. Chris is worried and told him, so he told me, your own mother confronted the god damn Chief of Police so they told IA and of course I’ve dealt with you ONCE and get told to deal with it. Plus I have, well abilities of my own, so if some of the stress is dealing with that I can understand.” Topher sighed and blinked a bit, but Nate doesn’t or at least doesn’t show so why does…”Nates’ side of the family isn’t.”

”Get the ******** out of my head.” ”I’m not, you’re locked down tighter than ******** Fort Knox. I’m just reading your expressions. I have a degree in psychology on top of what I can do, which is the other reason they sent me.” ”Oh yay, I’m leaving.” Topher started to get up but stopped as she spoke again. ”Christopher, sit the ******** down, NOW. If you want to keep your badge for longer than you can walk out that door you will.” Topher cursed, sighed then sat back down. ”Good.” She opened his file and went through it quickly finding a page. ”You were tested once, now, most known with abilities are tested at age seven and again at age sixteen as a requirement before they can get their drivers license though you and your sister were never tested again, officially.”

”Officially…” ”What does that mean?” ”They tried to again, didn’t get far, this was after mom became the politician and well you know of Uncle Frederick and his connections so that stopped things. They just flat out don’t try.” ”So unofficially their best guess is Telekinesis – B; Clairvoyance –D; Telepathy – A or higher, and with your telepathy being so high regardless of official record or not the official are quite worried about your current state of mind, which is why I’m here. So you’re stuck with me as a partner for a little bit.” ”Can you keep something off the record so you can understand something of why I’m kind of why I am right now?” Tonya had a recording device on and stopped it. Usually she didn’t but if it’d help him she would, she nodded towards him. ”The only known high rank A Telepath is my Uncle Maxwell.” ”Who mysteriously disappeared, but according to files his ability was god damn scary to a point of whoever hadn’t killed him we would have.” ”Long story short there’s some time travel ******** in my family, don’t ask, stick around long enough and I’ll explain later, not here, but I defeated a different version of him. Ever since my telepathy has been stronger my mind wants to connect with everyone so I’m trying to keep it under control but I’m not sure exactly how to.” ”That’s a ******** scary thought. Ever think of taking a vacation to figure it out?” ”NO, I need work as a distraction if I’m just sitting my mind will wonder and do whatever the hell it wants to.” Tonya stared at him, now that was a very scary thought. The government wanted Maxwell kept in lockup for that reason and here Topher was saying he defeated Maxwell in that aspect and his mind could wonder, and connect to everyone, good god.  

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Tonya paused and continued to sit quietly for a moment then glance back at Topher. ”Off the record…” Topher glanced at her with a questioning look. ”You ever questioned why I’m in Internal Affairs at such a young age, I mean how old do you think I am?” She knew he knew but wanted to see his response. The emotions on his face were worth the question. Topher himself stopped a moment and went through a few thoughts, one, he knew exactly how old she was, during the investigation which led to his first suspension she was the lead. He knew she was young even then for Internal Affairs, in fact he was one of her first cases. He had Frederick do a background check on her knowing if he did one himself it would look suspicious. She was a few years older than he was. She was mostly flat ranked in her abilities which was unusual, most people had one or a few strong ones and other weak ones, though none were rank A. Most of them were B or just barely below B ranking.

”My mother taught me not to guess women’s ages, it’s rude.” Tonya smirked and chuckled a bit. ”Humor me.” Topher thought for a moment more and shook his head. ”I know you’re a few years older than I am, which is younger than most for IA, and I’m young for a Detective, what’s your point?” Tonya smiled at his comment and sighed. ”I used my abilities to get where I am but I use control. They know I used them to help solve cases but I used them enough to be able to use actual physical evidence that can be proven. You on the other hand tend to just KNOW things.” She clicked the recorder back on and pointed back to him. ”Why did you punch Detective Shane, which resulted in his jaw being broken, hospital bill, your suspension for a while so that he wouldn’t sue us which he did anyway for a small sum to pay his bill, your family opted to help out.”

Topher blinked at that, no one told him that, he’d have words with his mom about that but Tonya waved his thoughts away. ”Your mother did it in gesture of good will to keep thing partially quiet plus she donated a bit to the hospital on top of that to counter anyone noticing.” ”Figures…” ”Getting off topic, so what I’m doing here is trying to best explain what happened to get to that situation, and how to proceed from here. They’ve given me the option to suspend you for a month till you figure out your s**t, or put you under my wing, shadowing an IA detective which is unusual in any aspect but at least that way you cant get into too much trouble.” Topher sighed loudly and slumped a bit. ”My mind well telepathy is needing control work, I know that. I caught a thought from him about throwing my sister and I into one of those testing facilities. Apparently he also noted we hadn’t been tested in a while and was angered by it. I think he has a relative that has some abilities that has to be tested regularly so he was kind of pissed at me for not having to do it.”

”You could offer to do it yourself. I know from rumors that there are more than some on the force that actually feel the same way. They seem to think that just because your family has standings you shouldn’t be privilledged and that fact has floated around rather quick unfortunately for you.” ”Yeah then they’d know my telepathy level and I’d be out the door.” Tonya sighed and stood up to pace a bit. ”Not necessarily, if you learned to control it and used it like I do and obtain physical evidence in your cases that support what you KNOW they wont hold anything against you. Telepathy itself isn’t a good standing in court because its he said she said situation as you know. Work with me for a few months, think about doing a test, I know you’ll need to discuss that with your family for one, have one provided by someone they trust. We can seal it for our records but at least they’ll know you’ve been tested.”  

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--Topher’s test, 3-4months later--


Topher sighed as he more felt the group in two vans come into the parking lot then saw them. Tonya looked over from her desk at him with a questioning glance and he just pointed to the window. She noticed the vans after standing up and turned to him. ”I’ll go tell the chief.” ”He already knows, he’s letting them come get me.” ”This is why you’ve been on edge all morning?” Topher waved his hand in the more or less gesture and got up to stand at the window to watch Frederick’s men get out of the van, there was about ten to fifteen of them besides Frederick. Frederick was in full uniform the rest were in off duty uniforms, this wasn’t necessarily a full out detail. Though the all black uniforms on the group and Frederick along got quite a few stares and made what little people milling about in the parking lot stop.

Frederick himself stared up directly at their office window and Topher swore the man was glaring directly at him, the ******** is his problem today? A few of the men got a large rolling crate which Topher new held Frederick’s own testing equipment that only his men had access too. That was one of the contingencies they had to follow to get his mother to go along with this charade. He knew that this would happen eventually though. There were quite a few on the force that wanted to handcuff him and drag him themselves to a testing facility if he ever gave them a reason to. Which is why he knocked his partner unconscious. He stood at the window looking out and continued to as the men came into the building. It was about fifteen minutes before Frederick himself knocked on their open door and stood waiting. The whole open office outside was completely silent which was unusual.

”What was with the glare?” Frederick walked in and slammed the door which made Tonya jump a bit, she never seen the man get angry even a bit, at least in the families presence. ”You USED compulsion on Barbara?” Topher kept silent and stared at Frederick, his Uncle came up to him and grabbed him hard on the shoulder. ”Your mother has rules against that, I have told you before not to, I only allowed you on my men for training you ******** idiot.” Topher forgot how strong Frederick actually was and was nearly dragged out the door as the man pulled him through after opening it while Tonya watched the little bi-play. The outside office area was still silent, and some watched stunned as Topher was dragged by a man not much bigger than himself towards the interrogation rooms. The first bit of the test would start there.

Topher was place not so nicely in the chair in the small room across from Frederick and had to hold back a curse as he rubbed his shoulder. He could feel a few of the admin group in the observation room on the other side of the glass, now Tonya as well, since she was his partner she could be present, as well as his parents. He felt slight confusion at Fredericks roughness mostly from the admins, his parents were less confused, more curious. There was a lie detector present and Frederick hooked Topher up to it and Topher started to say something. ”Not the official police way for tests, I know. But military standards are different. When we hire anyone with abilities or do a security check you have to be hooked up.” Topher shrugged, wasn’t the first time, he had to do one when he was upgraded to be a detective, just to make sure he wasn’t going to screw them over or something like that. The questions were the normal, name, age occupation, drugs, alcohol and such. ”Have you fired weapons deemed illegal?” Topher stared at Frederick. ”Yes, under your supervision only.” The light stayed green. ”Have you had relations with a coworker of opposite sex.” Topher fidgeted a bit and glanced at the mirror and looked down. ”Answer the question.” ”Yes…” They had a rough case, gotten drunk at a pub and it ended with a bad-good judgement, he couldn’t tell, they didn’t break things off so it wasn’t all bad.

Frederick put the papers down that had the questions, Topher could feel some of the admins attention on Tonya now. Frederick was about to turn the machine off but turn to the mirror. ”Did you, knowing your own mother has rules against use telepathy compulsion against Barbara to arrange this to be in a more public view in your favor, knowing your mother would see it coming from as a better option then coming from you?” Topher glared at Frederick and wanted to punch him in the jaw to shut him up. ”Yes…” He said turning to look directly at his mother even through the mirror. The light stayed green, Frederick noted Topher turning and continued off script now but curious. ”I’m curious, you’re staring at the mirror but you can’t see through, do you know who is in there and where they are standing?”

Topher nodded, ”Yes, Mom, dad, Chief, Internal Affairs Chief, Head of Psychology, Chief Detective, and Tonya.” He pointed at the mirror where they would be in the room and felt everyone in the room tense at that. ”Now those with training are putting up mental blocks. I’d suggest adding me in for a trainer in your next class for the office.” Frederick nodded at the idea towards the mirror, ”I use him to train my own men. How do you know where they are?” ”I didn’t dive fully before anyone gets up in a fit, I got surface thoughts and could cypher from that who was who, Mom and Dad are plain as a beacon to me, I’ve been around Tonya enough now that she’s becoming that way. Family and people that I’m around for long periods of time are clear like beacons, others are, the only way to describe it is static. If I don’t dive into the mind I cant tell who they are but I can sense them.” ”How many are in this building?” Topher closed his eyes and let his mind clear a bit Frederick actually worked with him on this a bit when he got back.

”Two hundred of our own staff, they’re more clear since I’ve been around most of them. Twelve of your men. Including mom and dad we have ten other visitors and three of those are children.” He felt the other room tense even more. One of the admins made a phone call to verify and then afterwards tapped the intercom and came in with a slight shaky voice. ”Accurate.” Frederick grinned at Topher and shook his head. ”There’s no record of a telepath being able to do that in that much detail, or at least in a area that wide. A room maybe, not the whole building.” Topher was pretty sure he could do the whole block if he wanted but it’d give him a headache trying to process that much information. ”My last test put me Rank A for Telepathy.” ”You might as well be above it but the ranking system isn’t set that way.” Frederick unhooked Topher from the lie detector and stood up. They walked towards the door and they both walked out. In the hallway only Tonya stood next to him while Frederick led the way to the other testing area. The rest of the group, well besides his parents who were with Frederick now kept their distance from him. Some were making notes on clip boards and others were making calls. ”What’s going on now?” ”Another test.” ”With them, are you going to be my partner still?” Tony whispered the last and pointed back to the admin group.

The whole office was staring still but going about usual, with the admin group they had to be productive at least and now they weren’t really in a good place to be in plain sight. ”The Chief is actually putting me in a trainer position, taking Frederick’s advice. I think they’re worried if they fire me I’d go rogue on their asses and they’d have to deal with that.” ”That’s good…” ”Your boss wasn’t too happy about our little thing but there really isn’t a rule against it, we’ll just have to talk to him about it. I think as long as we don’t let it interfere with work they’re ok with it.” ”Usually, how did Frederick even find out.” ”He just does.” Topher failed to mention the next day was one of his normal shooting sessions and he took some of the stress out a bit too much there, Frederick is way to observant.

When they got to the next area Fredericks men were waiting and Topher walked in. The admin group stopped what they were doing and looked at them. They all had funny looking fire arms and such. Frederick stopped and motioned for Topher to carry on. Topher let Tonya go and walked to the center of the twelve men and calmed himself with a breathing exercise. ”This isn’t a normal test, and I know it will freak the ******** out of some of you but I wanted to show you what someone can do with high telepathy. Also to show why Fredericks suggestion of mental block training is good.” He motioned the men and they nodded he sent out the first command as a impulse and nothing happened. ”They’ve been training with me since I was a kid, most of these men have a very strong mental block. That was a weak command.” Topher calmed himself even more and opened his. Pull out your pistol and put it to your heads. Instantly all twelve of the men did the command as he stated ”Stop.” The men looked and put the guns down.

The admin group was even now tenser than before, he could even feel his mother watching him a bit closer as well. ”You all had some block up?” The men nodded some were a bit curious, none showed fear, they worked with Topher enough to know that he nor Frederick would allow anything to happen. ”Higher than rank A, food for thought.” He walked back to Tonya and Frederick motioned for the group to move to the next test. Which tested everything else. His fighting test with a small group of the men put his clairvoyance the same. His telekinesis was about the same though a tad stronger though he could move a small truck now, even managed to move one of the SWAT trucks a bit, still rank B but on the higher side, rank a would be moving a whole semi or house.

With the test finished the admin group’s tension was a little less but still they weren’t sure about him but still kept a friendly face. He knew from some surface thoughts that a comment Frederick had made during the fighting test about him at least being on their side for now punched another deep whole into their thoughts. They didn’t want another Maxwell, and with his mother standing right there he was sure they didn’t want to start s**t right away, so at least now they were being polite and not throwing him out the door. ”Well.. that was… interesting. In our next office training can you step in for mental blocking?” ”Would be glad to. Don’t want anyone to become a puppet.”  

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--- The music ball/diner event ---

Topher sighed as the car pulled up to the building. He and Tonya were in the back, this would be their first official public appearance as a couple making things change drastically. Sure the whole office knew by now but having everyone know was a different story. [b”What?” ”Are you ready for this.” Tonya grabbed Topher’s face and pulled him in for a long kiss and glared at him afterwards. ”If you ask me that one more time I will hold you down and let Nate kick your a**.” ”Why not do it yourself.” ”You’d enjoy it too much.” They heard gagging noises from the front but also knuckle cracking. Nate happened to be their driver, usually was Topher’s anyway when he wasn’t with the family. He wanted to bring Tonya along so asked for a separate car. ”Any time love birds, I’m sure your mom wants you inside though.”

Topher glanced outside, there was plenty of press waiting to see who would come to this ball and dinner. Usually when his mother held one it was quite a gather of whose who and what celebrity was in town and could make it. Topher nodded and Nate got out and opened his door first. The instead he stood up the bulbs on the cameras started flashing. It was unusual for him to be alone the moment he opened the other door for Tonya everyone went nuts. Nate smirked a bit and waved, ”See you inside.” Topher and Tonya stood together in a simple embrace at start of the red carpet letting the press get their fill. Hell he knew if they didn’t they’d be pissed. After a bit the walked normally into the hotel lobby and made their way to the grand ball room.

Jack smiled as they entered, ”Your mother sent me to look for you. Lovely dress Tonya, you didn’t get blinded by the press now did you?” Tonya hugged Jack and shook her head. ”I’m used to some, being Internal Affairs and a psychic.” ”Well, now you’ll have a bit more.” ”It’s fine.” ”Glad you’re in good spirits about it all.” Jack directed them into the family table. Topher could see his mother delegating to a few of her fellow senators and some of the celebrities that supported her for office. Of course there was a band playing and a dance floor set up, but unlike most of her usual balls there was more music instruments than prior events. Topher found Chris in the audience and glared in her direction. There was something going on for sure.

”What are you mad about already?” ”I have a feeling there’s something going on and I’m not in the loop.” ”Is that unusual” ”Nope.” Topher glared as Jack walked off to be with his mother and motioned that Topher and Tonya were now there. The Chief was actually here and Topher and Tonya said hello and made a bit of small talk when he came over. ”Odd he’s here.” Topher laughed a bit. ”Surprisingly he’s actually supported her since she’s started. He’s just leery of high abilities, if he knew half of what she could do he’d probably not be in the same room with my family.” Topher watched as his mother went up to the podium and welcomed everyone to the event. She made a small announcement that yes the rumors were true that Chris and Topher had been tested privately. Then she looked directly at him. ”There has been some talk my children don’t really do much, but actually they do, you just have to dig deeper. For tonight, I’ll solve one mystery. Christine, Christopher will join the band and play some songs. Those of you in the audience will probably note are that most are familiar. The twins wrote them. The music used in my campaign which you’ve all asked about was written by those two.” The press in the ball room now that they were allowed in started to take pictures of Topher and Chris now where they were in the room.

Tonya looked over at Topher and poked him. ”I think she wants you on the stage.” Topher gritted his teeth and wanted to glare at his mother but kept a somewhat poker face on. They hadn’t done the random music challenge game at home for nothing all these years. ”You owe me a dance later.” Topher kept still but noted the glare now from his mother if he didn’t move she’d make him move one way or another, Chris was already getting on the stage. Finally he made his way up to the stage. ”I said I was sorry.” He said under his breath as he walked past his mother and to the piano first. All the other instruments were taken so he figured that was his cue. Chris was next to him and handed him a paper with the songs on it. At least that way he’d know which ones to do.

They played for nearly an hour, which was the first half of the ball. Hell he was actually having fun regardless that his mother probably thought this was a punishment. He could see Tonya looking at him in the audience with a smile. The Chief was standing next to her with his mouth open. Hell half the audience probably was. Not only were they playing with the band but they also switched instruments depending on the song. He mostly did piano and guitar but on occasion hopped on the drums or even played the trumpet. The last wasn’t his favorite but he learned something else out of boredom. When the last song was coming up he motioned to Frederick. Things were coming into play now. He’d pull one over on his mother as well. The song ended and the whole audience clapped after those stopped dancing that were. He grabbed an acoustic guitar and stool and walked up to the microphone on the stage noting the stare from Chris. No this was not part of THEIR plan, though he knew she knew what was coming.

The audience notice him there and his mother also stared at him with a questioning look. ”So there you go.” He started to tune the guitar to the song he was going to play now. ”To answer your obvious question, mom had us play a music game, she’d play only bits of a song and make us finish it. She’d have us change instrument too. We learned at young age. I think I was five or six when I started the piano, Chris started with me. Moved to violin and woodwind instruments mostly. I like more aggressive music, if that wasn’t apparent.” The audience chuckled a little bit. ”This song I’m going to play though is for a close family friend that has stuck with us even through our weirdness. I did something I’m not proud of, nothing serious happened even though it could’ve and I’m very sorry I did it. I found out through old mundane ways that this was her song chosen for her wedding, though sadly her husband past away. A fellow officer who died in the line of duty.” At that he noted that Barbara had stopped what she was doing and stared intently at him.

He then not only played an acoustic version of the song that he wrote himself but sung it. During it there were a few camera flashes but he didn’t care, let them. When he finished he stopped and let the camera’s keep going.

”I’d just like to point out, that mundane way, is now behind you.” With that he stood up and put the guitar back to stand he grabbed it from. Those who caught on noted Barbara was furiously hugging a younger woman standing next to Frederick. Topher walked off the stage where Chris looked at him she knew this was going on their mother on the other was slightly stunned he pulled this off on her. ”You got the extra room though right?” She nodded and looked to where Barbara was hugging what looked to be a lost step-daughter before Topher could get away she hugged him gently. ”I’m still mad, but thank you for doing that.” ”Frederick helped.” He walked off and he and Tonya both got something to eat finally. ”That was, entertaining.” ”The office is going to love that.” ”Musical prodigy is a humble cop.” Tonya smirked and made hand gestures talking about what types of headlines to expect. ”Shut it.”

They ate for a while and visited with people who stopped by the table and answered a few questions about the music. The press wasn’t allowed near the tables thankfully part of his mother’s rules. The people needed some time to eat in peace. Jack sat down and looked at him. ”Is that Barbara’s step-daughter?” Topher nodded. ”You took the time to track her down and the song…” ”Yes, a way of an apology for what I did even though we agreed not to say I did it. Frederick helped though I think Chris pointed him in the right direction. There was something that happened that made them, the father and daughter not talk to each other in the end. Barbara was barely able to get word that her father had passed away.” ”There’s a story there.” ”Barbara had given her a bit for college but she took it and went drug way. The father wanted nothing to do with her being a cop.” ”What happened then?” ”Actually, she put herself in rehab but was working two jobs to pay it off in the end. When Frederick found her I paid it off through one of our outreach charities and contacted her, told her who I was, that her step-mom worked with us, we could get her a stable SINGLE job here if she wanted.”

Tonya patted Topher’s hand, she didn’t know Topher to work with charity this much himself but knew the family did. ”Yes we will. With our family if she so choses or one of the companies or help find one somewhere close by.” ”Family is family, even if its step family.” Nate came over and tapped Topher’s shoulder and nodded up to the band. ”Oh, dad, excuse me, this lady owes me a dance.” Topher pulled Tonya up without asking and started to pull her to the dance floor, the people with the cameras noticed and started going off. ”Topher…” ”You found things out about me, I for one know took swing lessons, so guess what I learned.” ”You didn’t…” ”Oh but I did.” A that the band started to play a fast swing song and Topher and Tonya moved like liquid together which made the rest trying to let them have the whole floor. When it was finished they were both a bit out of breath and bowed to the clapping and walked back to the table. ”I’m so letting Nate kick your a** anyway.” ”Was worth it.  

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[[ooc: this happens just after they get back]]

Topher was so physically and mentally exhausted when they got back that when his mother kept asking them questions about everything that happened they got into a good yelling match. Hell Chris was staying quiet about the WHOLE god damn thing and he couldn’t blame her, he had to fight Maxwell in her mind while he fought the p***k physically in his multiple renditions from other timelines. She knew he had done something knew. He knew that Maxwell had tried to use her to kill him but didn’t hold it against her, Maxwell was a strong telepath but she fought it anyway and with his help she was able to keep it under control. She was going through a lot and processing it all. It pissed of their mom since she was quiet and wouldn’t talk and Topher himself didn’t want to even answer any questions, he just wanted to sleep for a god damn week.

He had split his mind into two which some would say was impossible but fighting on a physical front and mentally made things happen the way he did. Not only that but he managed to throw in a new ability mixing his telekinetic powers with his fighting skills which made things a bit more interesting and threw Maxwell for a loop physically. After that his mental attacks started getting more frequent so Topher had to up his game and go full out. He wasn’t sure exactly how he did it but once his mother and let alone their father showed up things got quite interesting in that aspect. Maxwell seemed a bit distracted so he was able to boot his has out of Chris’ mind forcibly and managed to get him into a choke hold before he could do anything else. Then he felt the pressure of more than one Maxwell trying to invade him. However he could see the surprise when Maxwell figured out that he had managed to split his mind. His father tossed him a spare pistol and Topher caught it gracefully and pulled it twice shooting the main Maxwell, the b*****d that was in Chris’ head in the head then once in the chest. After that the pressure on his mind stopped.

Things after that went quick and their mom and dad got them back to their own timeline. He wasn’t sure what exactly happened with Chris but she sent him something mentally about dad not being dad so he questioned mom and that’s when the yelling started. At least for ten minutes before Frederick and Barbara showed up. Topher finally gave up much to the annoyance of his mother and walked into the house slamming the door, he heard the glass in the frame of it shatter and the wood creaked loudly like the door wanted to splinter into a bunch of pieces. It is dad, don’t worry so much about it…I’m going the ******** to sleep… With that he slammed his door, nearly breaking that as well but used less force than he had with the front door.

He slept like the dead for almost twelve hours straight until he kept hearing a quiet thud, thud, thud. ”Ughhh…” ”The dead have risen.” A young female voice spoke as he turned his head to see what the noise was. At that he sat up and turned to see a young female sitting in his desk chair holding one of those blue rubber wall balls that you’d see a inmate use out of boredom. For some reason she looked vaguely familiar too him and he had to think a bit and decided he couldn’t process information at the moment. ”Get out.” He opened the door mentally and went to go back to sleep but hear the door shut before he could close his eyes. He turned to face the door but the girl was still sitting in his chair. ”Mr. Badass learns to split his mind so he thinks he’s all high and mighty now?” She smirks and then throws the ball right at him. He doesn’t even hesitate to stop the ball with telekinesis and glares at her. ”Who the ******** are you?” ”Toni. I’m here to fix some things.” Before Topher could think the ball moves back to her. Ok so her powers in telekinesis are stronger than his. ”Fix what?’ ”You… and your sister.”

Topher blinked at that and sat back up. ”Well more precisely the technology in you. That allows for time travel, that’s why your powers were and kind of still are out of whack at the moment. If I don’t calibrate it correctly it can lead to dangerous things and possibly kill you.” ”Stay the ******** away from me.” ”I already fixed yours, while you were asleep. I don’t have to do anything physically to it. Wireless tech is amazing isn’t it?” She smirked at his apprehension and stood up. ”Why the ******** do you look familiar to me?” ”Cause I’m your daughter, silly.”

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Topher made it into work a bit early regardless of Chris’ attempts at trying to stop him from coming today. She saw something bad happening today but he couldn’t avoid his first day back let alone his first day being a detective. They had given him some leeway knowing his family had certain things regarding his mother being a senator so they came up with a family emergency regarding that. He sat through the usual boring morning discussion where they wrapped up and congradulated him on the promotion and welcomed him back. Someone showed him to his new office where he and his partner Detective Munds would be housed in. They hadn’t gotten any assignment that day so Munds was essentially giving him the run down of how things would normally go and where things were in the Detective wing of the complex.

Topher was essentially bored at this point and that’s when his mind wondered and he picked up the thought it Munds head. Should lock you and your sister both up and have you tested, they forced my cousin to be tested twice and you two ******** rich ******** don’t have to just because your mom is a psychic senator. Hell they should test her and your fat… At that point Topher wasn’t thinking and had used telekinetic punch to hit Detective Munds in the jaw which threw him across the office section they were in making Munds knock down a door, also knocking him out. At that point Topher noticed that the office was completely quiet and there were soldiers he recognized standing around him. Not only that they were aiming their high powered rifles directly at him. He knew they had tranquilizer darts in them though others probably didn’t. ”CHRISTOPHER!” He heard the voice shout his name as he tried to calm down and turned to focus on Frederick.

Of course Chris would call him, this is probably what she saw. These men were trained, Topher knew to take him down. Frederick had a contingency plan as he knew because before they were being trained to take Maxwell down. Well now that that ******** was dead Topher was the only known rank A Telepath to them and that’s what this particular team specialized in dealing with. Frederick walked up to him and stared him directly in the eyes. ”Calm yourself.” ”Yes… sir.” His breath was still ragged and at this point he noticed his boss coming down the hallway. He wasn’t yelling, yet but there was soon to be some. ”My office, NOW.” One of Fredericks’ team was seeing to Detective Munds as he was a trained medic. It seemed that Munds would live, Chief made sure of that first before saddling over to Topher and Fredericks stare down.

Topher still stood there staring at Frederick wondering exactly when Chris called him and figured he knew the answer without even going through Fredericks’ mind, it was the second he left. ”DETECTIVE MIZUKI, NOW, WHILE YOU STILL HAVE A JOB!” At that Topher glanced to his boss and nodded following the man to his office. Frederick right behind him and then the men surrounded them. His boss stopped at this but then kept going, figuring it was probably better to have the escort at the moment. When they got to the office he slammed the door after Frederick walked through, the men were already waiting outside knowing better not to come in. ”Mind telling me exactly WHY you felt the need to punch Detective Munds?” Topher was sitting, Frederick was behind him and both just stayed silent. ”No? Ok, why for that matter was there a GOD DAMN MILITARY UNIT HERE the MOMENT after it happened?” ”Christine is a very powerful seer as you call them. She saw this going very differently so called me to warn me that Christopher was going to do something stupid, possibly something deadly.” Topher gritted his teeth, having had his full name used twice now in context, on top of that Chris saw him actually killing someone here in the office which isn’t likely. ”And you’re staying silent on the explanation why Detective, you should be without a job, I could have you thrown in jail but seeing that your family is who they are the negative side of that would make my office look very bad, considering no one died, I should still hold you overnight at least but seeing that your sister was kind enough to send your Uncle here to stop you from doing anymore ha…” ”He isn’t actuall…” ”Excuse me? With his accommodations and past you’re lucky he considers otherwise. I should’ve just let him shoot you and dealt with you himself. But again, that’d look bad on my office and the Commissioner, Mayor and who knows who else would be breathing down my throat for letting it escalate to that.”

”Gun and badge.” The Chief looked directly at Topher and held out his hand waiting. ”Sir?” ”You haven’t read my mind? Good. You’re on leave, WIHTOUT pay, for that stunt, for two weeks. I want you to speak with Tonya Aquino of Internal Affairs either during that time or when you get back.” Topher stiffened at the name, knowing it to be Tobi and Toni’s mother, which would mean it to be his future wife. The Chief noticed and took it a different way. ”I know she dealt with your case before. That’s why I picked her prior knowledge to you personally. Also, this is not a option. She will determine whether or not you will continue to have a job or not is that understood?” ”Yes sir.” Topher took his gun-holster out and badge and handed it to the Chief. ”I happened to be on the phone with your mother when that happened, seems she knew it was happening. Asked if she could make a donation to the police retirement fund to make it quiet and also made sure that Detective Munds medical and recovery bills will be paid in full.” Topher gritted his teeth at that, god damn it. ”Keep that in mind, your family has standings that situations like this, may look bad, now get out.”


Topher did as he was told Frederick was behind him and stayed quiet the whole time. The men were still escorting them outside. When they did get to the parking lot Topher stopped and turned on Frederick. ”Can’t orders.” ”Christopher…” Frederick spoke quietly but calmly as Topher turned. He heard the snick of Fredericks own gun coming out. The ********? His anger rose and he spun on the man again. However at that moment he noticed someone behind the group staring directly at him. Tonya, ”Your mother gave me orders to have my men escort you home, no where else, now get in the god damn truck or I’ll shoot you myself.” Tonya had her phone out to call for help but he shook his head at her and turned towards Fredericks truck, tossing the keys of his charger to one of the men. ******** today. Tonya being there, and then Frederick, that man had NEVER threatened him like that, ever.  

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[[Toby Age: 13, just passed the tests required to time travel alone]]
Toby was excited, annoyed, agitated and well everything at once. He wasn’t sure how his body was handling all the emotions at once without throwing him through some kind of loop or emotional outburst at someone. He had finally passed through all the tests before Grandma would allow them to time travel solo. Not only that but just minutes ago their computers detected a time rift of the sorts and Aunt Chris decided to let him go. She already marked him solo, knowing he’d be able to go by himself today. Of course she’d know, though she’d never tell him that. ”God damn it.” He hated clairvoyance in that way. Some were always wanting to tell your future in this time, though his family just kept their mouths shut about it.

He walked into the time travel room, sure they could travel wherever they were in a emergency but in mission status they had to report in so that the operator could verify that you left and when you got back. Of course Toni was there, most of the time her research besides the tech stuff was along the side of Genny’s, doing history stuff. She pulled up the diagram of the location and timeframe. ”Looks like its just in the frame of after that Maxwell incident.” She shot him a look and he nodded, knowing he’d need to be careful if any Maxwell’s did pop up. There hadn’t been reports since dad killed them all off, rather violently too from the rumors. ”The coordinates aren’t the house but they are close, which I find just too odd. The building is listed under ownership of some weird military foundation.”

Toby nodded, ”What caused the scanners to go nuts?” ”Oddly, residual time tech to what we use, we’re not sure which yet since the signature is in literally everything we use.” Toby frowned at that, that couldn’t be right. ”I know, but that’s all the info we could get.” She gave him their usual travel setup. Though this time traveling alone he got the weapon, since he’d be a “senior officer.” He had practiced enough with it since it was one of his father and aunts designs. It was a weapon that could short out time tech as well as some psychic abilities. Normally they’d get a regular hand gun as well but this mission was deemed low priority and Aunt Chris didn’t see any physical harm so didn’t see the need for it.

”Nervous?” ”Duh…” ”You’ll be fine, this is what you’re training for.” Toni gave him a hug and headed back to the command desk. ”Ready when you are.” ”Ready, inputing time and coordinates.” Toby used their, well it was pretty much a smartphone device they developed that allowed them to control the time travel a lot easier than before. When they first got it you had to think about it, with their tech it could be very precise. With that he was gone. Toni jumped as the door to the room burst open after it unlocked. ”God damn it I’m too, late.” ”Gramps? What the hell… wait what are you talking about?” ”Uncle Frederick rented that building for me as a lab so I wouldn’t blow up the house. I was going to tell Toby to not shoot me, that gun gave me a god damn migraine for a week.” ”GRAMPS!”
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[[shortly after the Maxwell incident, normal timeline]]

Jack had been rather moody after Topher had roughly read his mind. He had tried meditating in the Dojo on their little complex of land but nothing seemed to help. He did talk with Chris almost every day since to try to help her and get her out of her little bubble as well. He figured since he as well had to deal with Maxwell being in his head he probably had better understanding to what she was going through. At first though she seemed to avoid him so he let her. Though after a while he stopped letting her, knowing what it was about since the blunt force reading and told her flat out that he was who he had always been. His moodiness also got on Jenny’s nerves so after a while he started going to the little lab that Frederick had set up for him. He used to tinker at home but after a few incidences of nearly blowing up the basement Jenny TOLD him to stop.

He couldn’t help it. His mother was an engineer before she passed so she was always designing stuff. His father as well, helped design stuff for the military if he recalled though his skills weren’t as vast as his mother’s. In fact she was from time to time called in to help them. Jack was going for a engineering degree in college when he met Jenny and then everything went literally to s**t when Lexa popped him back into time when his parent’s were killed. He couldn’t really blame her though, that was Maxwell’s doing. She wanted to try to stop it, for some reason, though it seemed that some force kept her at bay or no matter what they did it still happened. ”Rules.” Jack had been in his lab, a little office building that wasn’t too far from their house and heard the annoying pop in the distance of a time travel. He turned to see who it was but in this area it was so vast that he couldn’t.

”You’re not invited, get out.” He went back to doing what he was doing and heard rustling noised and something behind him fell over. ”God damn I said to get the ******** out.” He got up and walked to the area where the machinery had fallen. This tech was somewhat hard to deal with so he didn’t want anything broken. A boy was there, no, someone familiar.

Toby had been hit in the head as he knocked something over and could barely see. ”Augh…” Whatever it had been was heavy enough to knock his equilibrium out. He heard someone coming towards him and then saw a blur. ”What are you…” Toby shot the man, his first instinct but then the recognition of the voice hit him and he just stood there as his vision cleared and he saw their younger Gramps. ”s**t…” Toby put the gun back in its holster and rushed over to where Jack was starting to get back up. ”Jesus Christ. Toby? What did you shoot me with?” ”Phase gun of sorts, knocks out time tech and some psychic powers.” ”That’s why I feel nauseous.” ”Probably, I’m sorry, Auntie Chris is going to kill me.” ”No, she saw this already most likely and wanted to have a good laugh.” ”Why though? This gun will make you feel like utter crap for a while.” ”Hence the migraine suddenly?” ”Yeah sorry.” ”Stop saying that, at least it wasn’t an actual gun with a bullet. So why are you here?”

Jack managed to get up and steady himself. ”We have computers that detect time tech and ours picked up one being invented at this location and time.” ”I’m working on it right now.” Toby blinked and nearly laughed but then looked around, his grandfather was indeed alone. ”To… Your father dived into my memories rather roughly recently. So I recalled seeing a watch gizmo on Lexa, and then you. Yeah that one.” Toby had lifted his arm up to stare at said watch. ”This tells us the timeline, how many copies of us are possibly here and or origination timeline. We did some fact searching and found that, well. In the Maxwell incident you just had, the Main one was a little off balance because he had pulled so many copies of himself over HIMSELF into one location. That’s bad. We’ve done other research too, we go through tests ourselves I had five copies of myself from within a few seconds in one room. Had a migraine for a few days after from the feedback loop of dealing with that.”

Jack nodded, ”Makes sense. I didn’t deal with that Maxwell myself, and from what I can get Topher to tell me, he was a little off balance more so than any other.” ”He still doesn’t talk about it much but yeah. Genny observed it from afar researching Great-Grandma Ciara and she said that that Maxwell WAS quite literally beyond insane, even she didn’t want to talk about what she saw dad do when she got back.” Jack blinked at the name, he hadn’t met Genny but then there was much in the future that he still didn’t know. Then he noted about hearing what Topher did and sighed. Well great, Topher was going to have some kind of PTSD from that most likely and they’d have to deal with. He was sure Chris would tell them if she saw anything.

Jack came to his work bench and motioned Toby over. ”This is just a prototype I’m guessing since the one you have seems a bit more fancier but I figured that having something of the likes would help out with time travel.” Toby looked at it in awe and then looked around at some of the other stuff noting some of the stuff in current process. ”THAT’S YOURS AS WELL?!” Toby nearly shouted as he went over to one of the machines that was a bigger version of their scanner. ”When you go back, look at the patents on the tech you use, I’m guessing that probably more than half them are from me, your father and aunt Chris, or your Grandmother. Our family has IQs that’d make Ivy League professors cry. Sadly your father doesn’t use his mentally, he’s more hands on. Chris though will.” ”Oh she becomes a Judge, very well liked and sought out for advice, most likely to become a what you call it…” ”Supreme Court Justice?” ”Yeah that.” ”Seems likely, with Jenny’s political background and Chris’ patience with school she’ll be able to do it if she wants to.”

”Well sorry for shooting you, there isn’t much to give you, just take whatever you would for headaches, you’ll probably have it for a while.” ”Its fine, shoot your aunt for me when you get back.” Toby visibly blanched at the idea. ”I’m kidding, she’d see it coming and you’d be tackled by security or whoever from a mile away before you even get a chance to.” ”And then Toni will put me in the box…” He frowned and sighed at the thought. ”Box?” ”More of a small room, but we call it the box, it stops time tech, so we can’t get out. Pretty much punishment for when we’re in deep s**t.” ”Ah. Well tell them all is fine nothing being made that will screw up time since its being made in the family that will control the tech anyway.” ”Will do. Later.” Toby gave Jack a hug and pulled something out and with that he was gone.  

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Salem cursed and groaned as he popped back into normal time. ”Damn it…SEND ME BACK!” He looked up and glared. Of course it was Uncle Toby, Lexa wouldn’t force him back like that, well she would but not that violently. ”No. One, you weren’t on a scheduled jump, two, you’re helping when you shouldn’t. AND THREE… we don’t need TWO high level telepaths in ONE ******** CITY SALEM.” Toby came around the control panel and glared down at him. Salem still hadn’t stood up fully yet, the jump back had took a bit out of him and well the suit had stunned him so bad that he couldn’t stand anyway. ”We have rules for a reason.” It would’ve hurt more but through the suit Salem barely felt it though the force of it sent back down.

”TOBY! Salem gritted his teeth and was about to get up but was stopped when the suit froze him again. ”Augh…” ”TOBY STOP!” Toby turned as Toni and Kaleb walked in followed closely by their father, oh joy. ”He needs to learn, AND YOU, NEED TO STOP PUTTING HIM UP TO THIS!” Toby threw something at Topher who simply caught in mid air with telekinesis and just stared at Toby. ”Calm your s**t Toby.” Toni walked right up to Toby and slapped him so hard that everything went quiet instantly. At least the pain from the suit stopped, apparently mom had gotten the control from him when she did that. ”Salem, get out of that thing, are you ok.” ”I will be…” Being blood related and her son she probably felt everything he did with her empathy even though it wasn’t as high as Aunt Chris’ which is probably why she knew something was wrong.

Toby gritted his teeth and was about to throw curses at Topher but stopped. ”Toby, go meditate, run, do something, no harm was done.” ”YOU, were supposed to test that pill here, in a controlled environment, not in the past.” ”Had I not gotten that pill I probably would’ve been captured and tortured or killed, you really want that?” Topher pointed at the door and just stood there glaring at Toby. ”You ruined any chances of the family traveling you ********> ”Mizuki, OUR name is known its hard to travel being in this family without causing any problems to begin with, now go.” Salem was out of the suit by now as Saline rushed in through the door past a cursing Uncle Toby and hugged him. She had the Empath ability too so knew something was up as well. ”I’m fine, I’m fine…”  

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((Possibly))

”Topher…CHRISTOPHER!” Tonya snapped her fingers and sent a small kinetic snap at his face to get his attention. They had been sitting in his car at Chris’ school for a while now. Topher flinched as the snap hit him and looked over. ”You’re doing that spacing out thing again, that’s like the fourth time today, what the hell is wrong?” Topher just stared for a moment then just flung his right hand out in a what the ******** motion. ”You can’t just expect me to act normal after dropping “Oh by the way I’m pregnant” on me this morning.” Tonya just shrugged, ”I figured you’d freak out but this… this is something else, what else is going on?” Topher just stared out the window and phased out again until Tonya snapped at him with a kinetic snap. ”Stop that.” Tonya pulled his face to hers and stared him directly in the eyes, she could see his emotions going out of control at the moment, his eyes had a dull glow to them. ”Calm down and talk to me. What has you all in a mess, and why are we at Chris’ school?”

Topher thought about it for a minute and took a deep breath trying to relax himself. ”Just… that news reminded me I haven’t talked to Chris in a while. And no I don’t want to call her, it isn’t the same we have this connection and I’m just, was fine until this morning now I need to see her and talk to her.” Tonya smiled and then smirked, ”Are you admitting that you miss your sister?’ Topher glared then sighed after Tonya kept glaring right back at him. She was in ways his work psychiatrist, so he had to give in to her ways. ”Yes… though if you tell her that I’ll deny every bit of it.” ”Good. Though I still don’t understand why you’re in such a twist about it.” Topher squirmed a bit and went to hit the steering wheel but Tonya grabbed his arm and glared at him. ”From a medical view this meltdown isn’t looking good, so what the actual f*ck Topher?” Topher squirmed a bit and looked out the window until Tonya grabbed his face and pulled his attention back to her glaring at him. ”Twins…” ”Excuse me?” ”You… we… whatever, twins, that’s why I was thrown about and needed to come to Chris.” ”She told you?”

Topher laughed and began to actually cry about the memory of it. Tonya just glared and jabbed him, ”OW! No… I wish. It’s complicated…” ”Explain or I’m calling your mother and telling her I’m pregnant.” ”Oh do please, I’m sure she’ll be happy about it and not phased at all.” ”Then I’ll call my mother…” Topher winced and put up his hands in a surrender motion and stared out the window again. Tonya pulled out her phone and unlocked It so it made a noise which Topher turned at and scowled. ”Ugh fine. Just give me a second to get my head in order.” ”That would be a miracle.” Topher flipped her off then thought for a bit then shrugged and sighed. ”I’ve met both of them already, that’s how I know they’re twins.” ’Pardon?” ”So none of this can be official you cant put this in any report. I’m telling you so you know so when I do propose and we get married it wont smack you out of the blue.” ”Keep going.” ”My dad, yes Jack, invented a device that can time travel. Yes he plays dumb for the press and you know that he can actually do things that are not the norm for his usual Mask so to say. So yeah I’ve met our kids already. Yes its as f*cked up as it sounds I had a hard time dealing with it but they haven’t popped back in lately so I’ve been ok with it.”

”Time travel…” Topher nodded. ”Your dad invented it, and you’ve met our kids, who are twins, already.” He nodded again. ”So why are you freaking out about it?” Topher stared at her confused, was she really going to accept it that easily? Tonya smirked, ”Nate sent me this bizarre text about losing a toy and getting it back suddenly that you were an a*shole and time travel sucked. I had no idea what he was talking about until now. Your family is weird, so it’s expected.” ”MY FAMILY IS WEIRD?”! Tonya laughed and kissed him on the cheek. ”Topher you think my family is weird just because you’re used to a SMALL family. I’m sure if we brought Chris to one of the gatherings she’d love it. You just pout.” ”No booze, no telepathy, you try it, it’s hard to control when I get bored.” Tonya scowled at him, ”Now your being mean, calling my family boring.”

Both of them jumped as someone tapped on the window on Topher’s side and Topher looked up to see a glaring Nate. ”Speaking of your family.” He rolled down the window and Nate still glared but waved at Tonya but went back to glaring at Topher. ”What the hell exactly are you doing here?” ”I…” Topher started but Tonya reached over and smacked him and leaned over him to talk to Nate. ”Topher missed his sister, isn’t that nice?” ”I’m so goi…” Topher started under his breath but Tonya kissed him. Nate just gagged, he was still getting used to them dating, Topher wondered what Nate’s reaction would be to finding out Tonya was pregnant he got a sharp “Don’t you dare” look from Tonya. ”You’re making a scene, but I think that was your point, your Unmarked car is completely obvious.” Topher looked around, there was a little gathering but not as large as he had hoped for. That was part of the reason for coming, he wanted people to know that messing with Chris would result in him coming there. Tonya glanced up and smiled but then frowned, ”Hey, here comes Chris, and she doesn’t look happy.”