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solaciummeae · 6 years

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This is merely my interpretation of things post series. I own nothing but my protrayals and original content added, but please please please be respectful. Know that this is a plot I worked on for quite some time and this is the plot I’m going with in the Post Series for my muses. I write John, Cara, Stephen, Jedikiah, Astrid, Marla, && Luca, as well as a host of OCs. I will be turning this into a drabble series so please don’t come at me telling me I’m wrong or should change anything about it. I’m finding what works best for the story I’m attempting to tell. I welcome anyone who wants to take part in it.

PART THREE

With more and more homosuperiors flooding into New York all the time, there’s been a great influx in the population of the state overall. Not all of those seeking the source of the beacon choose to reside in the city, but they remain in contact with the leaders of the underground. The increase is so felt even amongst the human world that reports of this migration briefly reach the televised news.

With greater numbers the responsibilities of those in leadership is greater. The original council becomes the high council to smaller groups delegated authority for each certain region of people. At the advisement of Stephen, Cara decides to take on certain new partners as the head of their people. She gives authority to both Emma and Zoey, creating a unit of four ranked as leader. The intent behind this being, that should one of them fall there is still someone else to lead their people.

As the community grows, the alliance with the west coast underground only grows. In fact, the connection is secured and trips are taken to and from in order to fortify that alliance. With new players in the game, they’ve got to be ready for whatever comes next. There are even efforts to push further out along the east coast to other states in search of their people. The hope is that they as a species in this country are acting more offensively at this point rather than just defensively.

With more of Zoey’s people arriving, they take it upon themselves to provide support to the former lair dwellers and anyone else who like them is new to this home. They spend time helping people find their feet, getting accustomed to living less in the shadows and having real lives.

New systems are put into place as they as a people become more organized. They settle into a semi-regular life of work and balancing their duties to the underground, all the while ready to move at a given notice. There’s a sort of emergency alarm in place, a psychic currant given off by Stephen who remains one of the most powerful of them all. It’s designed to reach a certain distance among their people, therefore by proxy setting off the alarm in the minds of those which then reach a greater distance and continues spreading.

During this time, Stephen struggles to find some semblance of normalcy with his family. His mother is often around but determined to keep her youngest son safe, she’s never far from him. Luca continues growing up, now faced with a completely different lifestyle than the one from before that now seems so much simpler. They remain in their family home, as Marla is hell bent on fighting Jedikiah should he try anything.

Cara has her own demons to battle when Jordan finally convinces her to confront her father after all this time. It’s an awkward and uncomfortable situation but necessary. On this trip she gets to spend a fair amount of alone time with Jordan who– quite frankly, has become one of the closest to her. After her sister died, the rift between herself and Stephen crippled the once seemingly romantic fate ahead of them. She now finds herself feeling a familiar kind of attachment to Jordan– seeing much in him that she used to see in John. Likewise, he’s become that similar kind of family to her. She trusts him with her life, but with the knowledge that John is out there and the complexity of her relationship with Stephen– it causes her to feel conflicted.

On Jedikiah’s end, he continues to manipulate John against his people while John lies to him about seeing Emma and certain others. In this time, he’s come to meet and briefly get to know both of his half brothers, Caelan and Cameron who have been in the city for some time now.

However, it would seem that he has yet another brother. A man by the name of Marshall Quade, who like so very few– is someone that John remembers from before his “accident.” Marshall too, grew up in Ultra being to Roger what John was to Jedikiah. After John left Ultra and with Roger seemingly dead, Marsh was left to take his place with Jedikiah. He too had been Anaxed but with a longer kill list than John under his belt.

When John returned to Jedikiah after the fall of Ultra, he found Marshall still working for the older man, having only gotten worse than his memory served. They found that they had a great many things in common, not the least of which being that they were both hiding things from Jedikiah. John– his obvious connection to Emma and the underground, and Marshall– his strange connection to a somewhat mysterious woman named Genevieve who seems to know an awful lot and is well connected.

The two younger men bond over years of brutal experience growing up in Ultra, the ability to kill, and wanting desperately to be out of Jedikiah’s influence. Really no one knows John like Marsh does. It’s because of this long history and their aligned interests that Marshall is the only other person that John trusts aside from Emma. He knows that they both have much to lose and is quite protective of the younger man, seeing him as a little brother.

In this time, another potential major player emerges from the shadows. The woman mentioned earlier, Genevieve Knight. Having spent months keeping to herself and observing what she could from both sides of the supposed war, she’d made her decisions carefully. She comes from a wealthy and influential family in a similar realm as Bathory but with far different pursuits. Whereas Bathory focused on this country and manipulation of their kind, Genevieve’s family are members of a couple international organizations for homosuperiors and are in the opinion that he only sought to exploit their people.

She was raised to be not only a warrior, but a diplomat. For this reason, she has many assets at her disposal and took her time to decide where it was best to dedicate those resources. She of course, supports her people but having grown up out of state she’s seen a different side of their world. Ultra never held a threat to her and even now, she’s all but untouchable to Jedikiah. With her abilities and resources, given hard evidence that she is who she says– she’s made a member of the high council. But she isn’t without her own secrets.

Early on in her arrival in the city she’d been followed by the very same soldier of Jedikiah’s mentioned earlier, Marshall. When he’d caught up to her, upon their eyes connecting, there seemed to be a psychic bomb that had gone off. Suddenly, neither of them– while both normally more than adept at mental blocking– could keep the other out. She’d, of course, tried to sever the connection and keep her distance from him, but even when they were apart she could feel him and hear his thoughts.

Still, he persisted in seeking her out at times when he knew she was alone, claiming curiosity over their bond. It wasn’t until some such occasion where he told her they needed to stay together because it was safer that it occurred to them both that it was more than they’d thought. That they were in fact, in love after the months of spending every waking moment with the other in the back of their minds.

Genevieve keeps this relationship concealed to everyone she knows for fear of what would happen to him. Even with her high rank among their people, she can’t risk the others finding out that she’s involved with someone who is the left hand to John’s right when it comes to Jedikiah.

As time goes on she becomes more and more desperate to free Marshall from Jedikiah’s hold and so strikes a deal with him. The price being that she comes to work for Jed, full with Anax so as to properly replace one of his best and most efficient killers. Thinking it was the only way to save him, she’s ready to take his place. She tells only Trey and Emma that she’s doing it– making the latter swear to keep him safe in her absence.

It seems as though it will go as planned until John comes to the newly freed Marshall to explain that Gen is in danger and that they need to move quickly. As it turns out, Jedikiah had no intention of using Genevieve as a soldier but more for experimentation and the harvesting of her powers before rendering her human. The scientist being up to old tricks, thinks that if he cuts off her abilities, without their unique connection, she will be nothing to Marshall. This he hopes, will bring him back.

The two fight their way through any and all guards set between themselves and Genevieve in one of the many large warehouses Jedikiah now operated out of. It becomes more and more evident that they’re running out of time by the way Marshall depletes as they move through the building. You see, Marshall is so connected to Genevieve that he feels whatever pain she experiences– mental, emotional, and physical.

By the time they get to her, she’s already heavily drugged up, but conscious enough to feel the cuts that have been made and the shots that have been given. She’s sure she’s hallucinating when they come in, doing her best not to pass out on the table where she’s strapped down.

John simply wants to freeze time to get her out of there, but Marshall has other ideas. While the blonde is charged with freeing and helping Genevieve, Marshall takes his aggression out on the man he’s sure now that he hates more than anyone else he’s ever known. The only reason that Jed’s story doesn’t end here is because Gen begs him to stop so they can leave.

And so the three of them leave together, the two men now completely resolved to leaving their former superior behind. John and Marshall are placed in a safe house with Genevieve, Trey, Emma, and Marshall’s long lost brother Bellamy. Essentially all of those fiercely in favor of protecting the two men who might have once been considered enemies.

While Gen and Marsh recover from the incident, Emma tries to help John begin to adapt to being back among their people. It’s difficult for him to be back amidst so many people, some that he’d supposedly been close to and others still who he wouldn’t know anyway. He’s more than a little overwhelmed by his surroundings and still keeps to himself, trying to work through what he’s been through and where he’s going.

Emma and the others try to advocate for John and Marshall, both those on the high council and those in lower positions. However, it would seem that the majority of their people aren’t willing to so easily trust the two men who once conspired against them.

The frustration goes on for weeks, the two of them remaining mistrusted and not utilized for their skills. Until finally they speak up at a high council meeting specifically called to decide what to do with them. John all but lays it out in an ultimatum which Marshall then agrees with and reiterates. Use them or get rid of them.

Upon this ultimatum, Bell is the first to stand up for both of them, likewise Gen and Trey follow suit, and finally Emma with a clear message to all of them. That if they’d so quickly turn on their own for only doing that which they themselves would do to survive if put in their position, they’re doomed to fail. Three more rise after she speaks, both leaders from California, Will and Zoey, and Emma’s partner from Omega, Anthony.

With the majority of the high council willing to walk away for the sake of these two men, it’s decided that they stay and are treated as equals. They too are inducted into the high council for their knowledge of Jedikiah and his plans.

From this moment, changes are made. The community begins evolving again. A core group of their most skilled soldiers take over training larger groups of their people. Each are tasked with training those under them in a certain base set of skills, while each is also assigned a specialty that they train on. For example, Marshall specializes in hand to hand combat and the use of weapons. How to take hits that are less than fatal and won’t render them unconscious.

With there already being talk of taking out Jedikiah, with the knowledge of Omega’s existence, as well as people like Gen’s family– they need to be ready now more than ever for what comes next.

With clear alliances forming across the country, Cara and Stephen look to not only just unite their people, but to strengthen them. There are even hopes that if handled properly, they could be entering a golden age for homosuperiors in the states. This is only amplified when it is learned that in his last will and testament– Hugh Bathory left Omega and all of it’s resources to one Emma Harper.

{ mentioned: Jordan Reynolds @bloodbulletsandbytes Marshall Quade && Bellamy Reed @deadbeatcentral. All other muses mentioned are mine. }

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