Hide Your Bodies

11. Trust Me

|Frank's POV|

Everyone in the room goes silent when someone knocks on the door. Terror is written all over their faces, well I'm pretty sure my face doesn't look any different, but Gee? He has a glimpse of something else in his eyes.
I'm pretty sure it's panic. He's afraid of what Melcom is going to do to him after the incident earlier.
"Guys open the door," the person on the other side of the door says and we all breathe in relief when we recognize that the voice belongs to Blane.
When Andy stands up to open the door, I stop him by his arm, making him stumble a bit "What?" he half-whispers "It might not be Blane," I half-whisper back and he looks at me confused. "Melcom probably already absorbed our powers, and if he did, he has Kellin's power and Kellin is a Shape-shifter, which means that Melcom could turn into anyone, even Blane Anderson," I explain.
"Guys come on," Blane call while knocking on the door again "Andy, I know you're in there...I need your help with planning, remember?" he adds and Andy shoots me a look so I let go of his arm.
He makes his way to the door and unlocks it to reveal a foot-tapping Blane "Finally!" he exclaims, "What were you guys doing?" he questions, looking around the room to see if he finds anything out of the ordinary "Nothing...Can we go now? The planning won't do itself," Andy says pushing Blane slightly out of the way.
"I'll see you guys around," Blane says before disappearing after Andy.

"What now?" Jaime questions, "How will we be able to tell the difference between the person Melcom turns into, and the real Melcom?" he adds "We'll figure something out," Pete informs before giving me a sign to follow him.
"Where are you going?" Gee questions as I follow Pete to the door and I shrug "We just need to check something out...in the meantime, could you guys keep an eye on Andy? Just to make sure that he's with the real Blane," Pete responds, earning a nod from Gee, even though he isn't really fond of letting me do this – whatever it is.
"Okay, then let's meet here in an hour or so," Pete adds before walking out of the room with me tagging along.

"So what are we doing here?" I question as we enter Melcom's office "Looking for anything suspicious...we need to find clues for his big plan," he answers as he looks through the shelves. I roll my eyes before going through the desk; the top drawer is locked, so I use my telekinesis to unlock it.
When I pull it open, the cup with pencils drops to the ground, scattering the pencils all over the floor "Seriously?" Pete questions as he looks at the mess I've made "Sorry," is all I say in response before picking them up.
"Pete, I think I found something," I inform "In a pencil?" he questions "Who would hide –" he starts, but goes silent when I show him a rolled up note I retrieved from one of the pencils and he crouches down beside me while I unroll it.
"220756 Kamillulla Initts," I read aloud "The numbers are supposed to be a date, right?" he questions and I shrug "If it is, then it would be two days from now, but...what do the words mean?" I respond.
"We have to tell the others," Pete informs as he stands back up "We have to look inside the drawer first...it was locked, maybe there's something important?" I say motioning to the desk and Pete goes to said desk.
"Did you find anything?" I question as I put the cup of pencils back in it's spot, "Yup," he says before taking a picture of whatever it is and pocketing his phone before telling me to follow him out.

"Is Andy okay?" Pete questions as soon as Gee enters the room – about half an hour after us – "Yea, the Blane he's with is the real one...Melcom went to his office like a minute ago," Gee responds before plumping down on the bed.
"What did you find?" he adds as Jaime and Kellin enter the room, "I found instructions to the machine *motions to a picture on his phone* and Frankie here, *casually points at me* found a secret note hidden inside a pencil," Pete informs. "I had to put the note back inside the pencil to not raise suspicion," I say, "But we still remember it's contents," I add and Pete grabs a small chalk board from his desk to write it down.
"220756 Kamillulla Initts" Jaime reads aloud, "The numbers are supposed to be a date, right?" he questions earning a nod from the two of us "But what do the words mean?" he adds and before any of us can say anything, Kellin chimes in "Kill all Mutants," he blurts out "Excuse me?" Pete questions "It means, 'Kill all Mutants'," Kellin repeats and all our eyes turn to the board. Kellin walks over to it, and grabs a piece of chalk, before putting the letters of the two words in a different order, and what comes out? You guessed it 'Kill all Mutants'.
"Does that mean he's going to eliminate all of us on the 22nd?" Gee questions "And what better time than the party Andy and Blane are throwing on the 22nd, where every single mutant is going to be," I point out and Pete gasps "Shit!"