Alwyn brought the coffee machine upstairs with Anni watching his back, the sat around the girls room, Dixi was made comfortable along with Charli, Magnus sat against the wall with Melody next to him, Greg perched on the computer chair, looking through his notes.
Alwyn and Anni were leaning against the door, Mark was pacing the floor, he was never good at waiting.
Charli was falling asleep again, "you rest baby," Anni said, jumping over beside her, she was trying to get used to this new power.
"God I'm glad you didn't have that when you were wee," Alwyn said, laughing.
He couldn't imagine raising a superhuman kid with that kinda power, the ones she had were bad enough at times.
"Aye, can you imagine, trying to catch her doing shady shit if she could do that when she was younger?" Magnus said, laughing more.
Melody was giggling along with them, Mark was trying to imagine trying to fight her at age 13 if she could literally teleport.
Charli was smiling at her, "I wonder what the distance is on that one?"
"Not sure, the astral projection is like a couple hundred meters I think, to be honest I've never really used that one over a huge distance, so I'm not really sure," Anni said, shrugging.
As they all started chatting again, Anni got the tingles on the back of her neck. She slowly raised herself up off the floor, "he's here."
Everyone moved to protect Charli and Dixi, Magnus covered most of Melody, Greg kicked the paperwork away and got his gun ready, he had no idea who he was about to come face to face with.
The door knocked about 30 seconds later.
Anni slowly moved towards it, everyone readied their weapons, Dixi clutched her stomach, which put Anni on even higher alert, no one was going to harm her niece.
"Are you going to let me in?" The man said, sounding slightly angry.
Anni scanned his mind, she could peer in to his memories, it was jumbled, he was nervous, but she couldn't get a read on him.
"Who are you?" She asked.
"Let me in you little witch," he sounded eastern European, but there was an English twang to it.
"Who the fuck are you," she asked again, trying to keep her cool.
"Let me in Marbella Izina Irena Dyatlov, right now. If you don't, so help me бог." He yelled.
Anni froze, he used her full name? She looked at Magnus, who was standing gobsmacked that someone had just used her full government name.
No one knew that, the only person alive apart from him who'd ever called her that was Greg and currently he looked more shocked than him.
"What the fuck?" Anni whispered to herself. How the fuck did this guy know her full name. She'd changed it years ago, how was this weirdo outside calling her a name that had been dead for 20 years.
"Did you just use a curse word young lady?" He screamed from outside the door, kicking it as he did.
Anni looked at Magnus, he was standing with both eyebrows raised, "who the fuck are you," Anni asked again.
"Don't you dare use curse words, let me in right now Marbella," he screeched, making Anni wince.
He kicked the door some more, "do you have no respect you little witch, let me in right now or I'm going to come in," he yelled.
Something about that sentence triggered Anni's trauma response, she backed away from the door, her face went pale and she felt sick.
She backed up against the wall, Magnus turned towards her, "squidge, what's wrong?"
