Jazz froze entirely for several seconds, and then suddenly began to do several things all at once. The first was that she jumped down from her bunk. The second was that she developed a worried and slightly panicked expression on her features. The third was that she began talking to herself.

"I shouldn't have listened to her. I should have told Miss Benn. Oh no, this is bad," Jazz muttered, and Cassie blanched.

"What happened? Do you know where Joshua is?" Cassie asked, going along with Jazz as the older girl tugged on her arm. It was past the lights-out hour, but Jazz still raced her younger charge through the hallway with no regard for the amount of noise they made. "We're going to get a demerit!"

"That doesn't matter, Cassie! We need to talk to Miss Benn, now!" The two girls ran through the hallway and then up the stairs. Jazz skipped the first door next to the stairs and knocked on the next one, not stopping until it opened.

A tired-looking woman stepped out and closed the door behind her, her expression completely vacant of amusement. Miss Benn looked at Jazz, gesturing a vague 'what?' and pursing her lips. Jazz looked to Cassie expectantly, but the younger girl just shied away at the older women's glances.

"Cassandra has something that she hasn't told you. Are you not going to explain, Cassie?" Jazz asked, and Cassie frowned. Then she shook her head slightly.

Jazz sighed before telling Miss Benn, "Cassandra has a twin brother. The project's system missed him when it went through the counterpart files. I have no clue why, but Cassie has been communicating with her brother, Joshua, psychically."

Miss Benn looked mildly surprised, but not too upset. "We'll send a team to go pick him up from his counterpart. This is not a big issue. He is still safe at his counterpart's house, right?"

The two girls sanding before the headmistress fell silent. Cassie was the one to finally answer. "No. He didn't want to come here and he thought that you guys were getting close to finding him... So he ran away. But I had been continuing to talk to him over the link."

"Where is he now? Cassandra, we need to be quick about this so that we can pick him up before something happens. It's too dangerous for young Specialties to be out by themselves, especially when they have some control over their powers." Miss Benn crossed her arms and waited.

Cassie gulped. "That's why we came to you, I think. The thing is, I had been keeping contact with him but the connection dropped. I can't get to him."

Now Miss Benn was beginning to look more wary. She closed her eyes for a brief moment before opening them again and gesturing for the psychics to follow after her. Jazz kept a hand on Cassie's arm as they quickly walked down the flights of stairs and to the bottom floor.

"Jasmine, I want you to go onto one of the computers and access the team files, for the special-ops teams of our Specialties. The password is 'independent' when it asks for it. Look up the members of team Omega and wake them up." Jazz hurried off as soon as Miss Benn was done speaking.

Cassie remained where she stood, staring at the floor. She continued trying to establish a link with her brother, but found that there seemed to be a void where he ought to be talking to her. It was like when whoever she was trying to talk to was sleeping, but even then she could wake them up. This silence she couldn't seem to shake from her twin.

Miss Benn turned to her. "Cassandra, where is the friend who Joshua was traveling towards located?"

"Umm..." Cassie thought about what Rachel had said about her counterpart. She had definitely told her that she was only a few cities over from their own. "A couple cities away from my home. That's in Gamma Omega Alpha... I don't know in what direction though. Plus, Joshua was only like one or two days into a four or five day trip, so..."

Cassie frowned and tried to think of the map between the two points that she was not quite sure where were. "I don't know, Miss Benn! I'm sorry!"

The headmistress nodded solemnly and murmured, "Keep thinking, Cassandra. I'm sure it will be fine."

"Do you know what's happened to Josh?" Cassie sniffed slightly, worry for her brother keeping her from calming her mind and twitching leg. "Maybe he's just asleep?"

"Do you think he's asleep?" Miss Benn answered Cassie's questions with a further query. Great. Socratic method.

Cassie shook her head and answered, "No. It's not like when he's asleep. I can't wake him up. Do you think he's dead?" The girl's breaths became quicker and Miss Benn patted her back.

"No, I do not. However, I do believe we need to find your brother soon. The most likely option, unfortunately, is that he was found by a member of the Normal Initiative. Although they do not have precisely hostile intentions, the experiments which they perform are aimed to strip the powers from our Specialties," Miss Benn told her.

Cassie shivered. "Why? I mean, the councilor told me some about the Initiative, but I don't get it."

"Just fear and perhaps a touch of jealousy, it would seem. With some children, it's preservation of themselves. Specialties can be gifts or curses. We have attempted to proceed with similar experiments, to develop more of a knowledge on training and banishing the powers. However, we stopped the proceedings when the experiments had a negative effect on the people we were testing on." Miss Benn frowned. "The Initiative, however, is more careless with their actions. They continued with their trials even after children and adult Specialties alike were harmed and even killed by the experiments."

The younger girl just listened with wide eyes, trying desperately to recall a specific city that either Joshua or Rachel had talked about. When she came up blank, Cassie let out a frustrated yell. "We need to find him!"

Jazz came running in with a list and a few young adults behind her. They were all dressed, clearly having thrown on their all-black clothing when the psychic came to get them. Jazz, too, had on the entirely-black outfit with a red and silver flamed patch. It was the same getup that Kimberly had worn when Cassie first met her.

However, they were not the only people out of bed. Apparently, the commotion was more than it had seemed to Cassie, for heads were beginning to peek out from around doors upstairs. Then a collection of girls were running down to the bottom floor, even as Miss Benn called up for them to stay in their rooms.

"Cassie, what's going on?" Skye asked as she skidded to a halt in front of her friend. Rose and Eve were just a few steps behind her. They nodded, seconding the question.

Miss Benn sighed at the group of girls' disregard of her order, but nudged Cassie towards them anyway. "I'm going to get everything set out for the team to head out. Maybe talking to them will help you remember more."

Cassie forced a smile as the other woman walked away, but it did not reach her eyes.

"They're sending a team out? What happened? Did one of the untrained Specialties not here go haywire or something?" Skye furrowed her brow and glanced around.

Rose led the group over to one of the tables to sit at. Cassie hummed slightly before starting to explain. "I actually... The thing is that I have— had a secret. Everyone here doesn't have any relatives outside of the facility, you know?" The others nodded. "Yeah, that's not true. I have a twin brother. His name is Joshua."

Total silence. Then Rose smiled and Skye rolled her eyes. "Oh my god, Cassie. I thought you were gonna say that you actually killed a man or something!" Skye exclaimed, scoffing. "So, you've got a little brother. What of it? Why do they need a specialties-ops team to go bring him here? Is he a lunatic?"

Cassie shook her head and frowned. "No, they're actually going to rescue him. And he's my twin. Plus technically he was born like a few minutes before me."

Rose stopped smiling and furrowed her brow. She asked, "Wait, why do they need to rescue him?"

"He's psychic, too, like me. I've been talking to him for the past... three weeks, maybe? However many weeks we've been in here, pretty much. But now I can't reach him," Cassie advised her friends. "Miss Benn thinks that the Initiative got him."

Silence again. Then Eve slipped off of her seat and walked over to Cassie to hug her. "I'm sorry, Cassie. I'm sure they'll get to him before anything happens. When did you talk to him last?"

"Like two? Ish? But it must have been right then pretty much that he got taken, 'cause he said that he was switching cabs when I talked to him. Someone must have gotten him then." Cassie gasped. "I know what happened!"

"What?" all three of the others spoke at once, and inched closer to Cassie. Just because none of them were precisely sure what their friend was talking about didn't mean that they didn't want her to tell them.

"Well, Joshua said that he was nabbing cabs by distracting people psychically. And then he said that one lady had just looked really interested by the noises in her mind instead of being freaked like most of the people were. So what if she was part of the Initiative and tracked him?" Rose and Eve were nodding and Skye murmured 'uh-huh'.

Rose cocked her head after a minute and looked at Cassie. "Hey, Cassie?"

"Yeah?"

"Have you read the psychic file yet like I said you might want to?"

"No... why?" Cassie asked, not sure why her friend was interested in that at the moment. It seemed like a larger priority to find a twin.

Rose grabbed Cassie's elbow and tugged her towards one of the classrooms. "Because I have read a bunch of the files and you have a power."

"Wow, really, thanks Rose. Cassie, the girl training in psychics, has a power. Crazy," Skye muttered as she trailed after her friends. Eve batted her on the shoulder and glared at the sarcastic girl, mouthing 'really?'.

They all were brought into the 9th grade history room. Rose ran and grabbed the laptop computer from the front desk. Normally the room would be locked, but as this was the room that Jazz had unlocked to look up the members of the special-ops team, the kids could get in.

The blonde powered on the computer and began madly clicking around the screen. "Because, that's what Miss Benn wanted you to figure out, right? You have no clue where your brother is?"

Cassie shrugged, nodding. "Yeah..."

"So! All you have to do is use this!" Rose whirled the screen around, showing an article to Cassie that she instantly recognized. Plus, it was the only article that she had actually seen at all (though she hadn't really read it).

"Psycholocation! You're right! I have no clue how to use that but you're right!" Cassie gasped and jumped up, suddenly excited once again.

Rose passed the computer to her friend once again. "If you don't know how, then why don't you read the paper? The report has directions on like the third page on how to use the power. It just recommends a lot of practice and you'll have to skip that part."

Cassie skipped to the third page immediately, in spite of Rose's complaints. Skye sided with the younger girl, saying "Come on, Rose! We're on a bit of a time crunch!" Eve just stared at the couple like they were complete idiots.

"How about you go get Miss Benn?" Eve suggested, gesturing for the girls to retrieve their headmistress. "As soon as Cassie has a place for the team to go to, she'll want to send them out."

The girls slunk off reluctantly, Rose obviously keen to see Cassie use the ability and Skye just not liking being ordered about, by someone a grade lower than her, no less! Eve fell into silence, and Cassie skimmed the instructions. They weren't very proficient instructions, she decided. It was all too vague. And the little parts were super specific and... it was a mess.

Still, there was nothing else to do but try and hope for the best. Since Cassie knew a vague area (west-central america), she tried for what the article said was the best to start with: a link. But that hadn't worked at all that night, and Cassie knew that it wouldn't until they found Joshua.

Cassie glared at the computer screen and frowned, having a sudden urge to be punching something. Hard. She took few deep breaths, blowing her bangs from in front of her face angrily. Now that Cassie had found a way to locate her brother, she still couldn't get to him!

Skye arrived back before Rose and the headmistress did. Cassie was upset at being interrupted until she wasn't anymore. Instead, she was curious what Skye was waving around so excitedly.

"You're twin doesn't look like you that much," Skye said, squinting at the paper she was holding. "Miss Benn told me this might help you with the psycho-finding doodad."

"Thanks!" Cassie said, snatching the photo from her friend. "And he's not going to look exactly like me. We're fraternal, for one thing. And, you know, he's a boy!"

Skye just laughed and stood off to one side as Cassie stared at the photo for a few seconds. Then she was interrupted again. Rose and Miss Benn came into the classroom, the younger looking slightly impatient with the older's slow pace.

"The team is ready to go as soon as you are, Cassie," The headmistress announced before leaving the room. Rose stayed and slid into one of the desks a row over from Cassie. Skye pranced over and sat on top of the desk that Rose was sitting in.

Skye smirked. "Miss Benn ordered a helicopter. Guess she's really worried about your bro."

Cassie ignored them and they were courteous enough to stay silent. Well, Skye wasn't but Rose was and she kept the other girl from disturbing Cassie's concentration. Cassie wasn't actually sure what happened that she found out the information that she was looking for. Once second she was lost entirely, and then it felt like a light going off in her brain. It was better than understanding subjugating functions or whatever. She had what she wanted, and more.

A fuzzy number, a picture, and a direction. Cassie wasn't sure where the number came from, and the direction was not in words but in a gesture to the rear of the classroom, just off center. Eve jumped up to go get Miss Benn again, telling Cassie to sit still so she didn't lose the direction that she had found.

"Where do we go, Cassandra?" Miss Benn asked, waiting near the door as she waited for Cassie's answer.

The girl pointed where she had been before. "He's that way. I think. A pretty good ways. Like thirty miles maybe? I can't tell exactly. But he's that way."

The headmistress nodded and started to leave the room. "Wait! Also, the place he's at! It's small. Way smaller than the buildings from the cities. It's weird. All by itself like we are here, but... small," Cassie told her.

Miss Benn nodded again and left the room this time. Cassie slammed shut the laptop in front of her, breathing out a sigh of relief. Not that everything was done, not nearly. The team still had to find the small house and get Joshua from it, but now Cassie had done her part. The next step could happen because she had finished hers. Now the girl could only hope that she had been quick enough.

"Jazz left with the team, because she wanted a psychic with them and you're too little, even if it's Joshua. She's over eighteen so she's allowed to go," Rose told Cassie.

Skye said, "So, everyone is busy with that and we aren't going to get any demerits for being out of our rooms... and I don't really feel like sleeping, I don't know about you guys."

The others shook their heads. Cassie couldn't fall asleep even if she wanted to, and it wasn't incredibly late. About ten, she would guess. The clock on the classroom showed that it was 10:05 so she was about right.

"So, wanna go wake anyone up?" Skye suggested, shrugging. "You could go get Brie, Cassie. I know she would be up for an all-nighter. Well, probably. Well, maybe. At least it's worth a shot."

"Sure..." Cassie yawned slightly, but agreed anyway. Sleep wasn't a viable option. For now, she could only wait.