Voltage

Two

[Reese's POV]

      "Reese, stop that, you've already gotten hit in the head too many times in the last twenty-four hours," Dale's voice was calm as she tried to convince Reese to stop banging his head on the desk. A lit computer had a page open in front of the pair. He did stop but kept his forehead touching the cool wood. Dale, referred to as Wisteria when on duty, pat his back, exasperated.

Tessa Brennan, Charlie Bowman, Mark Akagi, Flynn Hale, and Amelie Winters were all spread out throughout the couches in the SPQR building's living space. The SPQR didn't believe in secret identities, since metahumans were becoming more and more common in the city. Of course, you were only recruited if you were deemed worthy by the head of SPQR. So the young adults that worked for the legion of superheroes almost always worked full time. The city treated them like celebrities. But the lack of privacy was a price they must all pay, one they signed up for when they had shook Mr. Chiron's hand and agreed to work for the city. Most of them crashed in the spare beds in the SPQR building more than half the week. Flynn had fallen asleep on the couch, even though they were all supposed to be up all night on patrol. The group let Flynn sleep, though, he was definitely the who got a full nights sleep maybe once a month.

The living space they hung out in during the nights they had night patrol like this was rather nice. It was modern and well decorated, with bulletproof glass windows covering two whole walls. At night like this, the only light came from the busy city below and the weak lighting of the room. There was a large cluster of couches to fit all the superheroes and a glass fish tank behind the largest of the couches. Each person in the room was currently in their costume so that the white and gray room was dotted with bright splotches of people all clad in golds, blues, pinks, greens, silver, black and orange.

     "She said her name was Juliet but nothing is coming up. Nothing for Juliet or Julie or Julia or Juliette or even Judas," Reese repeated in a defeated voice. Flynn had suggested Judas to his twin brother earlier. "And nothing is coming up about her powers in the metahuman database except for the fact that no one has been reported to have those powers except for, well, Kaden." He sounded like he was reciting the information as if memorized. When he reached his best friend's name, though, the whole room got quiet.

     Kaden Gray had gone missing six months prior. The SPQR had tried everything to track his location down but they had gotten absolutely nothing. Tessa shifted in her seat at the mention of her missing boyfriend.

       "Have you tried calling Kaya?" Amelie, sometimes known as Misty, asked Reese from her seat on the couch. Flynn's head was in her lap and her hand was gingerly running through his golden strands. She didn't seem too far from falling asleep herself, but being the sweetheart of the group, she felt compassion for Reese's frustration. Reese, who was the textbook definition of a Golden Boy, had finally been stumped.

       "Oh my god, you're a genius, Amelie," Reese reached over Dale and typed something into the computer.

     Seconds later, a familiar brunette appeared in front of him through the Skype call. Her hair was curled and framed her face in gentle waves. She was wearing a light amount of makeup and her outfit didn't look very practical for fighting. She looked, well, really pretty.

     "Hey Kaya, we have a q-" Reese was clearly oblivious to their friend's getup just like he was to anything regarding females.

     "Woah, what's with the dress and hair, Kaya?" Dale leaned her chin on her hand and her golden eyes were glimmering.

      "I, um, was actually on a date," Kaya said with confidence.

     "Really? Wait, and then you came back to work?" Dale questioned and nobody in the room seem surprised.