Auras

Chapter 9: Plans

My friends stared at me with blank faces, they were obviously shocked. So was I when I found it out, but it made sense. The Chief was a traitor.

"Artemis I think you're a little tired, there is no way the Chief is a Watcher," Josh said being, of course, the fastest to snap out of shock.

"I didn't believe it either until I saw all of this," I said as I pulled up the hologram computer my parents created for me, the proof already loaded up. "These are all of our friends who have been killed by Watchers."

"Impossible," Michael said.

"That's what I thought, there's over a hundred people on this list and these are just our friends, not everyone," I replied.

"What if this is just normal?" Bailey asked.

"I looked into that and ever since the Chief took control there has been more and more deaths every single year. Come on guys think about it, ever since she took control we've been downgraded from Abilitors to SAs, out families don't matter, we don't matter we're just abilities not people. It makes sense that she's a Watcher, I just can't believe I never saw it coming," I said.

"None of us saw it coming," Michael said. "How could we have not known? I can't believe she did this we all trusted her and she betrayed us."

"I guess it makes since why you didn't want to bring our Protectors. If the Watchers can infiltrate at the head of the program, then who knows how many Watchers are disguised as Protectors?" Josh said.

"Exactly why I brought none of them with us," I replied.

"So what's our plan?" Mason asked. I hadn't gotten that far yet.

"We have to expose her there's no other choice, if we don't more people will die," Ashley said.

"But how are we going to do it? There's thousands of Abilitors not in the Training Camp. How will they know? If we expose her their Protectors can turn on them and they could die," Michael asked.

"Winry," Josh and I commented at the same time. And Michael just nodded, he knew she was our only hope for this.

"Winry?" Mason, Ashley, Bailey, and Brandon asked.

"She's a telepath," I explained, "I've known her for about three years now."

"So she's only 16?" Brandon asked.

"That's right, she's also one of the best telepaths in the program," Josh added, "I'll give her a call."

"Josh has had a crush on her for forever," I explained.

"Ahhhh," Ashley and Bailey said.

"Have not!" Josh yelled before walking away from us, dialing her number.

"Dude everyone knows that," Michael said. Josh just grunted before putting his phone up to his ear.

"I have a question that's totally off subject and probably kinda stupid. Do SAs date?" Brandon asked.

"That is a stupid question. We do date, but we always date other Abilitors. Dating normals just creates a lot of problems," I replied.

"You would know?" Mason asked raising his eyebrows and I just rolled my eyes.

"No, just stories from older Abilitors. I've moved around too much to really think about it," I explained.

"Plus she has an attitude problem," Michael added and I pushed his shoulder.

"Why were you asking?" I asked Brandon. "Got your eye on someone already?"

"Uh... no reason," he replied, I was going to question him more but Josh came back over to us slipping his phone in his pocket.