Sun and Shadow

Chapter 11 - Sand & Moonlight

Jude sighs as Callie leaves his room and wonders how he is going to deal with all of this. How long will it take his brothers and sisters to freak out around him knowing he can just look at them and know their secrets? It's not like he wants to know them...it just happens. He decides to ask Professor Sampson about it the next time they are together to see if he can tell him how to turn it off.

Jude thinks about his mom and wonders if she had that power too? Layla and Will didn't have a lot of information about her and what they did have was very sketchy because she didn't really hang out with the heroes and she had never been caught. Not even close to it he thought with a trace of pride in her even though she was at somewhat a villain. Jude preferred to think of her more like Robin Hood and using 'questionable' methods to balance the scales.

It was getting late but Jude was still wide awake. He looked up as Jesus walked in the room. "You still up?" Jesus asked him.

"Yeah...not really tired" Jude replied as Jesus changed into to his PJs and got into bed.

"Well I am" Jesus said flopping down. "Mind if I turn off the lights?"

Jude chuckles. "You are actually asking a guy with shadow powers if he is okay with the dark?" he teases his brother.

Jesus laughs and then looks up curiously "Can you see in the dark?" he suddenly asks.

Jude thinks for a second and realizes he doesn't know. "Don't know" he replies.

Jesus turns out the lights in the room and Jude feels no different than before. He is just sitting in the darkness when he looks over in Jesus's direction and strains his eyes trying to distinguish the blobs of darkness when all of a sudden the who room changes into sharp clarity. It's not like when he shadow travels and it glows and it's not like when the room is lit up, but it is totally clear. He can see everything is shades of gray...he can even read the writing on the posters on the walls.

"Wow" Jude says, excitement clear in his voice, "this is so cool!"

"What?!?" Jesus says sitting up and looking at Jude. Jude can see him struggling to look through the darkness.

"I can see everything" Jude tells him. "It's like the lights are on but there's no color" Jude tries to explain. "I can see your face and the posters and everything...it's just so different. Not like when I shadow walk" he says and gets up and starts walking around the room. "It is so freaky!"

Jesus laughs at him. "You can teleport and have super strength and seeing in the dark is freaky?" he snorts. "You are such a dork!" he teases.

"Hush" Jude says pretending to be upset. "Don't upset Shadow Jude!"

Jesus snorts "Bro!"

Jude drops back into his bed with a laugh as they try to quiet down and Jude watches as Jesus quickly fades out and falls asleep but he still isn't tired. Rather than disturb him again, Jude stands up quietly and focuses on the shadows and takes a step and he finds himself in his backyard.

Jude looks back up at the house and smiles. He realizes that he now can sneak out of the house without having to sneak down the stairs, out a window, or anything. Of course, not sure why he really would want to but it's fun to know that he can. He looks into the Shadows and takes another step and lands on the sand in front of Anchor Beach. He stands on the shore for a few minutes looking out over the water and just enjoys the peace and serenity of the sand and waves.

Pulling his phone out he types a text to Connor.

Jude: Missing you!

He starts to put his phone down when he gets a reply.