Jump Line (Book 1 - Jump Line Series)

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fourteen

We were suddenly standing in a different room —one full of large glass plates that looked to be computer screens. It was the same room where I had talked to Samuel and first met Theo.

"What is this place?" I asked.

"This is my lab. It's the area where I am able to track the entire team, as well as monitor any normals we might need to remove and bring here."

"What does that mean?"

"I like to make sure we are only taking humans who are set to die. Usually, we move in just as their life is over. It may be one of the reasons you jumped to that car accident."

"You mean, I may have been trying to grab one of the passengers just as they were about to die?"

"I had thought it was a possibility for a few minutes, but now that I'm hearing there are ripples in time around the car accident, I don't think so. It was just a convenient cover-up for whoever put you in 2007."

"What year are we in now?" I asked Samuel. My hands were shaking. I had been to so many different places in time, I was beginning to lose a sense of reality for what year I should actually be in right at this moment.

Everything inside of me felt alive. The energy within my body felt strong. So much had happened. How was I supposed to process everything? I needed to calm it down. I had finally learned how to control the electricity, but in this state, I knew I was unpredictable.

I turned my hand over and stared at my palm. A thin line of electricity danced in the middle, as if waiting for some sort of release. I had never seen my power at this level. It had to be because I was around the others. It was this place, this year, that was causing the energy inside my body to rage.

"It's 2105, Esa. Our primary year. The actual year we are supposed to be in right now. In just a few minutes the others will follow," he said as he slid his hand over several of the glass panels.

The robot with pink hair—LUX—appeared on the far wall. "The team is about to land."

"Is everyone accounted for, and have you done an initial body scan, to make sure they aren't bringing anything back with them?" Samuel asked, placing his hands on his hips as he talked to LUX. "I don't want Paul to try anything by sending one of his moles on the Line."

"Yes," LUX responded in a monotone voice. "I have scanned everyone. All clear."

"What about Captain Esa James?"

"She was scanned as you both landed. Clear."

"Thank you, LUX."

Samuel stared at one of his monitors. LUX quickly disappeared from the far wall, but a new set of images of the team popped up on the screens.

As Samuel continued to look at the various monitors, Gave suddenly appeared, then Audrina, and finally Theo. He looked completely comfortable, sitting at the very end of the couch, with a slight smirk on his face, almost as if he were a kid in a candy shop who had managed to take a handful of the sugary dessert.

I shot Theo a glare. "Why are you smiling?"

"Whoa! I'm not smiling at you." Theo threw his hands into the air. "I was laughing at something Gave said just before we jumped. Chill out. Every now and then we are allowed to have fun to help relieve some of the tension."

"What is going on?" I moved toward to him.

He looked back at me. "Sorry. I'm not entirely sure what you mean?"