chapter 67

It took a whole one week to make the people able to talk with him. They still don't believe him but once they got to know Joshua they started to believe him. 

Slowly they started to show some emotions to him. Joshua talked with every one of them and heard their stories. The children told him how happy they were with their parents and how they wanted to meet them. Joshua didn't promise anything because he knew once their parents knew that their children were mutants they would have been happier than being sad after they were kidnapped. But Joshua kept it to himself. He never believed in any god not especially since he was reborn here where every god is an alien being. But Joshua still has a sliver of hope inside him that everyone is not the same, the majority of them are but maybe one or two parents miss their children. 

He was waiting for the report to come. Now many might think that if you have a strong spy network you will get everything within a snap. That's not how the world works for your kind information. First, you will have to dig into the information, have to talk with various people to cross-check the information, have to know every habit of your prey and being in 1986 September and having no wireless phone and internet at your tips makes it a lot harder.

JOSHUA got the report that he asked for any suffice to say the report didn't please him. He expected that. None of the family members of the mutants missed them; instead, they were happy that they were gone. And what he found out with his contacts in the military was too not that shocking. Some of their family members contact the authorities to take the 'Demons' away from them. 

But what truly came as a surprise was that there were still. some people who haven't lost their hopes and were trying to find them. Julia that Girl has a big brother who was doing everything in his capabilities to find her. He left his parents when they said that they will not waste any more money on finding the 'Demon'. He dropped out of high school, started working day and night shifts, and even started to sell drugs to earn money, and for what? To find his little sister. 

But what warms his heart was a man who was 30 years old. His name was James and he was a human. He is searching for his girlfriend who disappeared 14 years ago. He loved her so much that he never loved any other girl. He completed his studies but never stopped looking for her. He bribed people to just get only a little of the information about her whereabouts and was conned various times. So he learned Martial Arts and opened a dojo too. People told him that she died but he never believed them and always kept searching for her. 

The Girls name was Bessie Barker. Her skin is very durable. She was resistant to a high voltage of electricity and even Acids. 

Her stepfather was the one who informed the authorities about her. Joshua sees himself in that man. His love was so great that he was practically fighting against the world and he still has to fall.

There were some more people like them who loved their loved ones and were fighting against the world with everything they got and they still have to fall. Some were grandparents, some were just friends and some were family members. This warms Joshua's heart that humanity can still be salvaged and humanity just needs a firm hand. 

Joshua with a happy mood talked with the children and again the children asked for their parents' like When will they meet their parents or things like that? Joshua didn't say anything this time he just left the children. He doesn't want to give them hope and then take it away. 

When he was coming from the children's rooms he was stopped by some of the older people of the group and he spotted Bessie with them too. 

The oldest man among them was a 60-year-old man whose powers manifested when he was 45 years old. He was able to vibrate any surface he touched. ' no wonder his wife died searching for him. ' these were Joshua's first thoughts when he first heard about his powers. 

" What's Your Game? What are you trying to achieve by doing all this? You are healing everyone, telling children stories, you are providing us food and everything that once we dreamed of in that hell. I want to know why? " Edward asked him. 

The old man after 15 years of hell was completely broken and someone was trying to heal him. The boy in front of him was oozing an air of sincerity and it felt to him that whenever he was near him, he felt that he was near an angel. The old man could feel the boy's love for all of them but he was scared that it was all a play. That it was a twisted game of him and he will give them hope just to take it away.

" Why, because you all deserved to live. You are shunned by society and humanity just because of their jealousy of not being able to do what you guys could do. I have felt the pain that you guys have gone through but not anymore. Why, because it is my responsibility to save you even from yourselves. Does that satisfy you? " 

Joshua said in a soothing and aggressive tone. 

" Then why are not letting us free? I saw that your man brings our documents. You know where our family members live. So why are you not letting us go to them? Admit it you just want the same thing as them. Our powers that is. "  Bessie speaks up. 

The moment these words came out of Bessie's mouth everyone felt a pressure crushing them. They all looked at Joshua and he retrieved his pressure and smiled coldly. 

" Family?? Why don't you guys come with me? Let's see how much your families love you guys.  " 

Joshua takes them to his office and then throws a file at them which Edward catches. When he read the file he started to cry " It was him. " The one who told the authorities about Edward was his childhood friend. 

Every single one of them read what was written in them and one by one they fell on the floor in tears. Tears of sadness and betrayal. The people that they loved so much were the ones who betrayed them.

" Now do you understand why I am not letting you guys go outside? You guys have no one that you can trust. You guys can't go from your homes to your 'Families'. They were the same people who threw a party when you guys disappeared. Sadly, You guys have no one except me. I am sorry if it hurts but it is the truth. " Joshua said and leave them to themselves.

A/n: I have to make a College summer report before 15 Jan. And the college just notified us on 6th Jan. Plus father lost his shop and now my future almost destroyed I was not able to post 2 chapters a day. Sorry. 

Now on the novel part. Why am I writing these filler chapters. I wanted to ask you just tell me how does this sentence sound to you 

" He freed them. And slowly during the course of the week people opens to him and after one month they were completely loyal to him.' I feel this hollow and it leaves thousands of questions like how were people who were tortured for their lives trust someone so much in one week. What did he do to make them like this. Various times when I read this sentence it left a lot of questions in my mind and the story seems too hollow. I read those fics with just going in the flow.

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next chapter on Wednesday.