Marcellus and Nicholas!

The two detectives watched Ryan as he played the video. Ryan couldn't believe what he was seeing. In fact, he was so sure that it was fake and that someone was trying to frame him or something because he was so sure he couldn't and wouldn't do what 'he' had just done in the video. The level of skills "he" was exhibiting in the file can only be done by an expert and Ryan hadn't had any kind of training in any kind of martial arts.

He would have stopped the video in a fit of anger but it was as if his muscles had suddenly become concrete and wouldn't budge so all he could do was watch the damn fake video.

"That's not me", he finally managed to say after a minute. There was no way that that person in the video was him.

Detective Carlos rolled her eyes. It was clear that she didn't believe Ryan. "Then who is it? Don't tell me you suddenly have a twin. Or is it someone who just happens to look exactly like you?".

"I don't know", Ryan grumbled. He didn't even look at the blonde detective as his eyes were glue on the tablet.

Detective Carlos sighed. She had had enough. "Stop it with the act and just admit you killed them already", she said, trying to suppress her anger.

"I said I didn't do it", Ryan almost roared out.

Detective Carlos sighed again. It looked she'd be sighing a lot today. "We've all had a rough day so why don't you admit to your wrong doings and we could all go our separate ways. Why did you kill them anyway? Wasn't because of a grudge? Or a deal gone wrong?".

"What are you saying? Did you even watch that damn thing? They pulled their knives on me. It was clearly self defense", Ryan said angrily only to realize what he had just done.

"So you admit that you did kill them?", Detective Carlos

"I admit nothing", Ryan hissed at her.

Detective Carlos let out another sigh. It seemed she'll be sighing a lot today. "Look, we've all had a rough day, so why don't you just admit to your wrong doings and we could all enjoy the rest of the day in peace", she said.

Ryan looked at her as if she was insane. You're having a rough day so what? I'm the one getting charged with homicide here, you fucking bitch. Ryan cursed in his mind.

"I want a lawyer", he said.

Detective Carlos let out one more sigh and nodded her head. She got up from her chair and walked towards the door. "Come on, Montgomery", she said as she walked out.

Detective Montgomery instead of following his partner out, he took a seat and opened the file that he had been holding all this time. He cleared his throat and started, "Ryan Jackman, son of Noah and Eliza Jackman. Older brother of Hayden Jackman. Born on October 5th, 1995. Graduated NYU in 2018..."

"That's not creepy at all", Ryan said sarcastically, interrupting the detective. Detective Montgomery was sure he would have laughed had it been in a different circumstance.

He stopped reading the file and closed it. "I believe you", he said, surprising Ryan.

"The level of skills shown in that file can only be done by a person with a lot of training. The knife work is almost winter soldier level and I'm not sure someone like you can pull that off. And your profile says you've never even had any training in any kind of martial arts", Detective Montgomery said.

"Thank. God", Ryan groaned. "Nice to see you're the smart one", he said.

"The one in the file could have been, let's say a skrull, or an enhanced with some kind of transformation ability. Now even if you are innocent, we can't prove it since there is no evidence", Detective Montgomery said.

Ryan was listening very intently and was about to interject when his mind suddenly went hazy. It was as if someone else's thoughts were blocking him from thinking properly. He tried to shake his head to clear his mind but it did nothing. Slowly, he could feel himself drifting from his own mind and the last thing that he saw before everything went dark, was some kind of white and black sparkles around the cuffs on his wrists.

*****

Boston, March 1693.

"Do it again", the high pitched voice Marcellus sounded.

Marcellus Richardson, an eight years old boy with sunshine, shoulder length blond hair, tied behind his head. He had bright blue eyes and even though he was just a boy, he was quite the looker. He was 4"8 tall; quite tall for a boy his age.

"No", his older brother, Nicholas blatantly refused whatever Marcellus wanted him to do.

Nicholas Richardson, the fourteen years old brother of Marcellus. He had shoulder length, dirty blond hair that was tied behind his head just like Marcellus. He had bright blue eyes and was also quite the looker, just like his little brother. He was 5"7 tall and had muscles that no ordinary fourteen years old had.

"Please", Marcellus begged Nicholas.

"No", Nicholas once again refused.

"Oh come on, Nicholas. I beg of you. Just once. I promise I won't tell anybody", Marcellus said.

"I said no", Nicholas was now getting a little bit annoyed.

"Please, Nicholas. One time. One time and I promise you I will never ask you to do this again. Unless, well you know, unless you want to do it", Marcellus said.

This time, Nicholas didn't answer. He was annoyed so he decided to just ignore Marcellus. Seeing this, Marcellus knew he had to toughen up to get what he wanted. He knew he had to bring out the big gun.

"Brother, do it and I will decide to tell or not tell mother about your resent activities", Marcellus said in the most innocent voice he could muster.

"What activities?", Nicholas grumped.

"Your activities with the Duke's son of course", Marcellus said as if he was saying something

Nicholas immediately rushed to cover Marcellus' mouth to prevent him from accidentally revealing his secret to the semi crowded street of the their town. He looked around to see if anyone had overheard what Marcellus said and thankfully, nobody seemed to have heard.

"How the fuck did you know that?", Nicholas said, suddenly sounding serious and he even cussed.

Marcellus yanked Nicholas' hand off his mouth and said, "I have my sources".

"What sources? You're eight years old" Nicholas stated.

"Age is just a number, brother", Marcellus said, trying to sound like a wise old man.

Nicholas was somehow stunned by this. All he could do was stared at Marcellus. Is this person really my brother? Nicholas asked himself in his mind. Marcellus had always been an intelligent child, but now he didn't even sound like a child anymore.

Nicholas sighed and gave in to his little brother. "Come on", he said.

Marcellus shouted and jumped in excitement. Nicholas had to cover his mouth again to quieten him. Seeing his little brother so excited, Nicholas couldn't help but smile.

The two snuck out of town and slipped into the forest. They went deep into the forest to where they were sure nobody would accidentally chance upon them and discover their secret.

"Ready?", Nicholas asked, to which Marcellus nodded vigorously.

Nicholas closed his eyes. He raised his arms and brought them up to his sides making his arms parallel to the ground. He took a deep breath to control his breathing and improve his concentration. He breath out and opened his eyes. Under the light of the setting sun, the dead leaves on the forest ground around them started to slowly levitate off of the ground.

Marcellus's eyes went wide in astonishment. He had seen Nicholas make think float before but he was still amazed. It was like magic.

Nicholas brought his hand close to each other in front of him and all the levitating leaves started to move towards him. The leaves formed a ball in between Nicholas's palms. The ball of leaves began to give off a fiery orange glow as it started to compress.

The ball glowed brighter and became the size of a melon. Nicholas suddenly took a fighting stance and threw the glowing ball at a tree. The tree was immediately disintegrated and turned to ashes on impact, surprising Nicholas himself. This wasn't as strong the last time he tried it.

"Heavens", Marcellus said as his eyes widened in shock. "How did you do that anyway?", he asked.

"I learnt it from a book I found at the Duke's house", Nicholas said.

"You learnt that from a book?", Marcellus asked skeptically. "And you've been inside the Duke's mansion. What exactly have you been doing with his son?", he asked.

"I thought you already knew. Weren't trying to blackmail me with it?", Nicholas said as he raised an eyebrow at his younger brother

"...Of course I know. I just wanted you to say it", Marcellus folded his arms and looked to the side.

"Sure you did", Nicholas said with a knowing smirk on his face, seeing through his brother's obvious lie.

"You don't have to worry. Bruce is just teaching me how to read and write", Nicholas said as he started walking towards a river a few meters away from them.

"Huh? And with what money do you pay him with", Marcellus chuckled as he followed Nicholas.

"He doesn't charge me anything", Nicholas said as he reached the river and squatted down next to it.

"So he's just teaching you out of his good will?", Marcellus snorted and asked, skeptically. He could tell that Nicholas wasn't telling him the entire truth.

"Believe whatever you want", Nicholas shrugged and didn't bother to convince him anymore.

He raised his hand above the river and took a deep breath. Seeing that Nicholas was about to do something else, Marcellus rushed to stand beside him. Nicholas slowly brought both of his hand to the surface of the river and touched it. He closed his eyes and released his breath.

A chill ran down Marcellus's back as the temperature around them suddenly went down. He started shivering as he started to see his own breath. He squatted down next to Nicholas and wrapped his arms around himself to warm himself up.

Nicholas opened his eyes and the surface of the calmly flowing river started to freeze as if it was still winter. The ice continued to spread across the river's surface, freezing it everything.

Marcellus's eyes went wide as he witnessed the supernatural phenomenon occuring in front of him, a surprised and bewildered smile appearing on his face. He had seen Nicholas disintegrate a tree before but this was his first time seeing him freeze a whole river. He couldn't help but be amazed at the site.