House Factions (Part 2)

JP with Trustno1, Jaxx and Cindy

Alyssa was quiet during the drive back to the house. As was her father. It took about twenty minutes, stopping once to get some food and drinks. Alyssa picked up some for the still sleeping Max as well.

They arrived at the home of the sisters, Alyssa left Peter to wake up the now younger version of Max, and went to the house with her father. Once let in. Alyssa explained that Matt was her father.

They brought the food and drinks to the living room, putting them down on the coffee table then it was to wait for the rest of their team.

Sartre made his way in the manor, The rising summer heat caused sweat to drip from his forehead. He picked up and drank slowly from a glass of lemonade. "Mr Wilson, may I ask how you wound up in that church basement? Alyssa said you had disappeared for years?”

Alyssa took a water drank it first, then grabbed a Coke and a cheeseburger and fries. She pulled out her laptop, put her headphones on and started typing away. Clearly the hacker was in need of decompression time.

Matt watched his daughter for a moment, he took a water as well and sipped it, before responding to Peter. "Is there any place else in this house we can go to talk about that? I sense my daughter has reached her limit for the day, and what I have to say would only upset her.”

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Max was still sleeping in the van dreaming about being a disco club dancer. He was enjoying the dream since it was more enjoyable than his real life. Eventually he woke up and saw he was alone in the van. After rubbing his eyes he stretched a bit before transforming back into Agent Powers and leaving the van. After looking around he saw he was in front of the Halliwell house. He gave a smolder as he looked at the house and then made his way into the house to greet his team.

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"Yes Mr. Wilson, let's take our drinks and discussion up into the attic here." Sartre made his way up as he looked for Matt Wilson to follow.

Matt followed him, thinking it was such a big house that the only place to talk was the attic seemed odd but he didn't think about it for long.

The attic was fortunately air conditioned, it did have a few seats and a few small tables, Matt took a seat.

"I was investigating an opened portal in an abandoned mental institution in Seattle. Apparently, some kids had gone missing after they had gone into the building. Alyssa was with me. I had told her to stay in the van, but things didn't work out that way.

The portal was on the second floor. It was rather large. As I was investigating it, an entity jumped out of the portal. Demonic in nature, but unlike anything I had encountered before. It was black but the outside if this thing glowed red. It instantly made me feel terrified, deeply depressed and a kind of internal deadness.

It wasn't particularly big, but the power behind it was unmistakable. It kept changing forms.

This thing got very close to me, and seemed like it was investigating me. "You are not the one. The one with the holes." It said.

At first I didn't know what it meant, but then this evil paralyzed me and mimicked my voice. It contacted Alyssa, pretending to me. Told her I needed her.

My daughter, of course, came to help me. It attacked her, and in doing so some how released me. I jumped into the fight. We were both fighting this thing, but I can say we were losing. I don't know how it happened exactly. Alyssa was able to back away. I told her to run, at which point I felt myself being pulled back into the portal. I think I heard Alyssa scream. I do not know what why but this thing took me, though it clearly wanted Alyssa.

I was put into a dark hole with no bottom or top, or sides that I could see but I knewI couldn't escape. It played on my fears. On any regrets I had. I was tortured a great deal of the time. The torture was especially bad when it would ask me how to get to my daughter and I wouldn't tell it.

Then this thing got the idea to break Alyssa down little by little. It made me watch as it did things to her. Usually, in her sleep when defenses were down."

Agent Matt Wilson looked directly at Agent Sartre and said, "It is still coming for her. Still trying to break her down."

At some point it gave me to the Countess. I think it knew that Alyssa would wind up finding her, with all of you. I don't know how it knew, but I don't think you rescuing me was in the plan.”

"So you're saying you believe in destiny Mr Wilson? What kind of plan did that portal or whatever was behind it have? Your daughter is an excellent agent by the way." Sartre looked over at the book of shadows positioned in the middle of the room on the table. He thought about how much had been done with it over the years.

"Destiny, I am not too sure about. It is more like it can track my daughter and knows what she's doing. Maybe more like it's good at anticipating next moves. I do not know much about the plan, it didn't really tell me. Just it wants Alyssa. I believe it is because her powers haven't fully come in. I think it believes her powers can be manipulated to its will. With how powerful bees are, try to imagine one whose powers have been manipulated by a demon." Matt explained. "Thank you for the compliment. I know my daughter is strong and resilient, it is part of why I brought her into the Illuminati. It's that strength that has made it harder for the entity to get its claws into her.”

"She is very strong and resilient despite her stature” Sartre paused, then asked. "What got her into computers?”

"Alyssa has been drawn to computers, practically,since she could walk. I am not even exaggerating, by the time she was four she was writing code. It was just always a part of her. I mean she's also good with math, science and languages but computers have always been her first love.
It also got her away from her mother. Her mother is a difficult woman to please and she's always been critical of how quiet and introverted Alyssa is. Plus, being so advanced and going to college so young didn't allow Alyssa the opportunity to make many friends or really any. Computers, I think, offered her am escape." Matt responded. "I though wasn't there for most of Alyssa's growing up. So, it really my guess.”

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After greeting Alyssa, Agent Powers thanked her for the food and he made his way to the kitchen to enjoy his meal. He was all to happy to enjoy his meal as he looked at his messages on his phone. Some of them were from his father, some from his game/media updates and the rest were junk mail which he quickly blocked. He then answered his texts and then began playing some simple puzzle games as he enjoyed his grub.

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"Mr Wilson, what do you think this creature is? And why exactly do you think it has an interest in Alyssa?" asked Sartre.

In the headset; Are you feeling alright Alyssa? Sartre heard footsteps coming up the stairs. Piper and Phoebe were on the back porch down below. They seemed to be yelling something but it could not be heard.

"I think it's a demon or something demon-like. It is so evil that I could feel the darkness flowing from it. As I said, I am pretty sure it wants Alyssa because she has untapped power. She's a bee, with only one power accessible to her. It means all that other power is lying dominant. I fear that if it activates in the wrong way, it'll be like a volcano erupting" Matt stopped for a minute. He didn't say anything, then. "Alyssa, to tell you she's fine. They are on their way up here.”

"It's a whole new secret world, Mr. Wilson." said Sartre.