Even two years later, Stella Hawkins was still bothered by the removal of her memories after she failed in the Hero Certification Program. It wasn’t as if the two years were wiped from her mind entirely; she kept the experiences, but the names, faces, and places attached to those experiences […]
After even more hallways and offices Stella and Miriam finally reached their destination. A large room filled with cubicles, printers, computers, copiers, and all the other bric-a-brac of the modern office. Two walls were covered with dry erase boards and monitors, one of the monitors showed a map of North […]
Stella found her old high school friends at a mid-scale hipster bar in Richmond by looking for the tall and dark haired Michelle, and the tall and blonde Mitch. Finding them by looking for Andrea would have been a lost cause even in a small crowd, as she was barely […]
The next day, Stella met the leads for the other two Variant Child Services teams. Linda Anderson was tall, thin, and in late middle age. In contrast to Miriam Foster’s kindly and approachable, Agent Anderson looked stern and forbidding. She was a person who commanded respect, but was also someone […]
FIVE Stella awoke in a hospital bed in a small windowless room with clearly reinforced walls, and much sturdier than normal fixtures and fittings. Something about the room was maddeningly familiar. She heard Miriam’s voice in what was, for her, an angry rant. “…. send me someone with a damaged […]
It took Professor Stone relatively little time to restore Stella’s memories. More of that evening was taken up by tests in the Lander medical clinic, where they attempted to determine how those memories had come back in the first place. The DVA staff and doctors had theories about how Stella […]
The next few weeks of Stella’s life were occupied with paperwork, seminars, training, more paperwork, and a stint shadowing each of the other Intervention teams on several cases. Specifically, she was assigned to follow the cowboy Bruce Ramirez most of the time, as her powers were similar to his. With […]
Yeager showed up early at the public library branch he’d set up as the meeting place for one of his regular clients. Years of work in his rather rarified trade had led him to believe that libraries were the best places to meet privately, as their conference rooms were less […]
Yeager was able to find the rundown farm in a depressingly poor part of rural Michigan with relatively little trouble. Monitoring the place was more complex, but he’d made a custom surveillance drone specifically for this kind of work. It was nearly silent, had incredible range, and was almost impossible […]
Stella’s first call after she was considered fully trained was in New Jersey. Miriam was out of the office; so it was just Stella, Tiffany, and Gerald to deal with a case of a child’s powers erupting in a fifth grade class, and injuring several other students. There were no […]