Chapter 10

Finally Jess looked up at him.

"Ike, I… you remember when I told you after we triggered James and my Healing got really enhanced?"

"So that you could, umm, feel death?"

"Yeah. Well, it's not so much death as it is the body aging, and well, therefore if nothing else kills you, old age will kinda thing."

"Yeah, what about it?"

"Ok, when James enhanced my powers yesterday I could feel aging again, but then, y'know, you put up the force field so I couldn't really feel anyone else except for you."

"Ok…"

Isaac had no idea where this was leading.

"Ike… you… I get a very strange reading from you. It, I…"

Jess turned away.

"What?" Isaac asked. "What?"

There was a tense silence.

"What?" he asked again.

"You're, you're, you're aging slower."

"Is that all?"

"No! No! You don't understand! When I say slower I don't mean slower like, by a few seconds or minutes or hours or something. From what little I've learned, I know that such differences in speed are normal."

Isaac stared at her not knowing what to say.

"You're aging slower by years."

"Years?"

"No, not just years." She corrected herself. "Decades."

"Decades?" he repeated.

"Decades." she affirmed. "And that's not all. When I was regenerating your arm I felt like you were helping me."

"I was." Isaac pointed out.

"Umm, no, not like that. Your, your body was helping me. It's sounds stupid, I know."

Isaac let out a sigh.

"Jess, ever since we got these powers, very little concerning them is as stupid as it may seem."

There was another silence.

"I, I think you do have some weird fifth power." Jess admitted. "But I think I'll feel better when we figure out what the heck it is."

"I'm with you on that one. And hey, you never know. James was enhancing my powers at the time. Maybe part of what readings and stuff you got was result of that."

"Yeah. Maybe."

Chapter 11