> Julia chuckled at that, knowing that that was the way the friends spoke to
> each other and shaking her head ruefully before standing to shake Reese's
> hand and then sit back down "Julia Walker. I take it your first visit is
> going well?"
>
> Reese regarded the other woman, her lips twitching humorously at the
> underlying feeling she could see coming from her friend towards her and
> betting her last dollar it had to do with the man now sitting back down in
> the chair.
>
> But the woman had a friendly smile and gaze, even if she wasn't aware of
> Sam's well-hidden reaction to her. Dark brown black hair, clear
intelligent
> blue eyes and an open manner. Marissa bet this one was someone followed
the
> beat of her own drum and would argue with the maestro if he thought it the
> beat was off or wasn't what he wanted.
>
> Reese nodded at Julia Walker's question and looked at the one that had
> caught Sam's attention and deciding he was definitely a maestro and
probably
> did have a time or two in telling the other the beat was off.
>
> She smiled to include Derek "And I was just told about a stay in prison
you
> were a part of. You don't strike me as the overly adventurous type
though.
> More like..... like someone that has a hidden streak in them but is all
> business until someone finds it."
>
> Julia deserved an award for not laughing at that one, really she did and
> shifted to try and get her mind off of Derek's threat about tossing her
over
> his arm. Marissa Morgan had nailed it on the head for the most part.
>
> "Seems adventure runs in all of us." she turned the topic to the couple
> sitting on a small sofa regarding them "Admittedly, it's been a while
since
> I've had access to the computers to put up blocks and they are up now but
> why exactly did you hack the system?"
>
> Claire looked at Brady and then raised her chin, answering honestly "Reese
> has been through enough already, what with her aunt and mother dying at
the
> same time and.. other things."
>
> The 'other things was her abilities and Claire wasn't going to talk about
> those until Reese brought it up.
>
> "The last thing she needed was, no insult intended," she assured Milo now
> that they knew he was the real thing "was someone to add on to it and
claim
> something they weren't."
>
Derek:
Derek smiled gravely at Reese, "it was not one of my proudest moments," he
admitted, though without any elaboration. He was speaking more of the
prison time than the work with Green Peace, at the time the work seemed like
the right thing to do. Though as he thought about the ashes he and Alex had
recently dumped into the bay, it seemed rather odd that he had been involved
in such things. As for out of character, that was what his mother had said
when she found out. He had wanted to do something his father never would
have done. At the time he was terrible worried that he would turn into
Winston Rayne and was doing everything he could to avoid it, including
joining Green Peace and studying things his father would never have approved
of. His experiences had led him to a few very good friends and in the end
he realized, eventually that he wasn't his father, there were some
similarities, but they were two different men.
Derek was silent while Claire explained why they had gone into the computer
system. But he could only hold his tongue for so long. "If that was your
main goal, why not check public or government records. Anything of any
major significance could have been found there. There was no need to tap
into a private system."
Derek
