A New Tomorrow 1/5

This is my first attempt at fan fiction. So please be nice. Any comments would be appreciated, flames will be used to start a campfire on the beach at the island. This story is set about a year after The Living Stones. Megabyte and Ami are about 18, Adam is about 22, Jade is 16 and Gabrielle is 17. Thank you to Jade and Ami (Those are their names, I swear), for beta-reading and putting up with midnight rants about Megabyte.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Tomorrow People or related characters. I?m not making any money off of this. I wrote it only because I love and miss the Tomorrow People. Gabrielle Carison, Michael Carison and Unit Red are mine. Feel free to archive this.

Note: telepathic communication is indicated by //.

She was used to the darkness now. Her eyes had adjusted from being without light for, how long had it been? A week, maybe two, probably more. No one knew she was gone except her school. They thought she was at her uncle's house. That's where she was supposed to be. It was a surprise visit, for his birthday. Her uncle thought she was at school. No one knew where she was. She could hear soft voices coming down the hall and she braced herself for the light. The door to her cell swung open and the brightness blinded her. Her arm was yanked away from her body and a needle was pushed into it. They were taking her blood again. They took it every other day. She was going to be fed. They always took her blood before they gave her a meal.

Today was different, though. The voices in the hall had been much more agitated and upset sounding. One tray was thrown at her feet and then another. Two? She thought. Why am I getting two trays?

Her question was answered as a shadowy figure was thrown into her cell. The door slammed shut and she was once again in darkness.

"Hello?" her voice sounded odd to her after not using it for so long. "Anyone there?"

"Who's there?" An American male voice came out of the darkness.

"My name is Gabrielle." She called out to him as she reached out with her hands.

"I'm Megabyte."

"Family name?"

"Something like that." His hand found hers and she crawled over to him. Her hands explored his face and shoulders. "How long have you been here?"

"I'm not sure. A week, maybe more. I stopped counting the days. Why did they take you?"

"I can do things. The problem is I can't seem to do them here." Hesitantly, he placed his hand on her face, trying to feel what she looked like.

"There's some kind of field around the building that prevents any form of psychic activity from getting out. I couldn't teleport home or anything." She sighed. "Otherwise I would have been out of here long ago."

"You can teleport? Can you do anything else?" Megabyte's excitement was evident in his voice.

"Sometimes when I'm almost asleep in bed I can hear people talking in my head. I'm not crazy, though. My uncle thinks I am but I'm not." Her soft voice was quiet in the dark room.

//Can you hear me now?// Megabyte telepathed to her.

"How did you do that?" Gabrielle turned her head toward his voice. She wished she could see him.

//You can do this, too. Just think whatever you want me to hear.//

Cautiously she 'pathed //Hi Megabyte.// Her voice was whisper quiet and felt comforting in Megabyte's head. //How come we can do this but we can't teleport?//

//The field must only contain the energy and not suppress it.//

She reached out again and found him. He pulled her to him and held her. //Are you scared?//

//I thought I was going to go crazy. I didn't have anyone around me. The men, they don't talk to me. Just do whatever tests and experiments their doing and leave.//

He could hear in her voice that she was starting to break down. //I won't leave you.//

She nodded against his chest and began to cry. Megabyte, despite all his powers, found he couldn't do anything but hold her and let her cry.

//We have to get out of here.// She said sometime later. // I wasn't willing to try when I was by myself but now there are two of us.//

//What can we do? They keep us in the dark so we can't see our surroundings. We can't teleport out of here. The only thing we can do is talk to each other.//

Gabrielle stood up and began to pace carefully around the dark room. "If the field only keeps us from escaping or contacting anyone, we could still try and use our powers to escape on our own."

"Maybe." He thought for a moment. "I have an idea." He stood and they cautiously found each other.

Megabyte took up Gabrielle's hands and held them in front of her. //Hold your hands here.// He held his hands out and Gabrielle could feel them near but not touching her. //Now think of me. Of being in my mind.//

Gabrielle did as she was told. A purplish coloured sphere of light appeared pulsing between them. The sphere grew larger and larger, lighting the small cell. //Megabyte. Someone's coming.// She could hear the voices growing louder as they neared the cell.

//Focus all of your energy on the sphere. This may be our only chance.//

The door to the cell opened and their captors stepped into the cell. The tallest one looked at them and pointed. Two smaller figures came at them.

//Now. Throw it at them. All the energy.// Megabyte ordered her.

They pushed with all their might and the sphere flew at their captors. The men screamed and fell to the floor. Megabyte grabbed Gabrielle's hand and pulled her out the door.

"Are they. . ."

"No, just stunned."

The hallway was bright to Gabrielle's eyes. She stumbled along behind Megabyte as he pulled her down the corridors of the building. "Megabyte. Please, I can't keep up."

He turned down another hallway. This one had a door at the opposite end and he flew through it.

The moment they stepped outside, it was like suddenly surfacing after being underwater a long time. Megabyte looked at Gabrielle and pulled her into a hug.

"Stop!" A shout came from the building and was followed by gunfire. Megabyte, his arms still around Gabrielle, teleported them away.

A moment later, Megabyte and Gabrielle appeared in the Damon living room.

"Marmaduke! What's going on? Where the hell have you been? Who's she?" General Damon jumped up from his chair.

"Dad, this is Gabrielle. It's a long story and I think we need to get the other Tomorrow People before we explain. And some warmer clothes." He added noticing that they were both dressed in the same white tank top and hospital pyjamas.

"Sure. Is this something serious? Should I call Frank?"

"Maybe. Yeah. Um, I'll find her something of mine to wear." Megabyte led Gabrielle up the stairs and into his room.

//Nice place.// Gabrielle realised that she was shouting when Megabyte winced. "Sorry. It must be because of the field around the building. We were shouting at each other to be heard."

"Yeah." Megabyte turned from his dresser holding a T-shirt and a pair of jeans for her. He stopped and looked at her for the first time.

Gabrielle was about medium height, a few inches shorter than he was, slender, with wavy blond hair and bright green eyes. Her face lit up when she smiled.

"You can get dressed in the bathroom. Do you want to take a shower?" He stepped toward her.

"That would be nice. I haven't had one since, um, well, a while."

"Okay. It's in here." He led her through a door into his bathroom. "Towels are here. If you need anything just give a yell. A soft one, though." He added with a smile, remembering the last time she yelled. He set down the clothes on the floor.

"Thanks." She called as he closed the door behind him and pulled out some clothes for himself.

Getting out jeans and a pullover for himself, he sat on his bed and called the others. //Adam, Ami, Jade. You guys need to come over to my house. I have to tell you something.//

//Megabyte! We've been trying to reach you all day. Where've you been?// Adam's soft Australian accent came into his head.

//Long story. Can you, Ami, and Jade come over in about a half hour? I'll explain then.//

//We'll be over after we get Jade, Megabyte. She's not speaking to us today.// Ami 'pathed to him.

//Why?//

//I don't know. She said she felt unwanted and went home. She hasn't been answering calls all day. I think it's hard on her, being so young. We're going over there. Then we'll 'port to your house.//

//All right. See you later.//

He jumped when Gabrielle put her hand on his shoulder. "Don't do that!" He said as he spun around.

Gabrielle stepped back and tripped over the rug. She landed on her backside and Megabyte started laughing. "Serves you right. Shouldn't try to scare me like that."

"I wasn't trying to scare you." She shook her head and a spray of water hit Megabyte in the face. He reached down to help her up.

"You okay?" He asked. She nodded and smiled her wonderful smile at him. "How does it feel to be free again?"

"Good. Very good. I really missed showers." She sat on the bed next to him and curled her arms around her legs. "I missed people, too." She whispered and leaned closer to him. Megabyte leaned into her and kissed her.

When they broke, he stood up. "I need a shower, too. If you want, you can go downstairs and get something to eat." He picked up his clothes and went into the steamy bathroom.

"That's okay. I'll wait here for you." She rolled onto her side and curled up on his bed. A minute later she was asleep.

Megabyte combed his hair in the foggy mirror. He didn't hear any noise coming from his room and thought that Gabrielle might have gone downstairs. He opened the door and tossed his towel in the hamper. Gabrielle was sleeping on his bed, curled up in a ball. He sat next to her and ran his fingers through her hair. //Gabrielle.// He thought softly to her.

She made a soft noise, turned over and stretched. //Megabyte, hi.// She looked up at him and yawned. //I was tired.//

"I know." He smiled at her. "My friends will be here soon. We should go downstairs and get something to eat."

Gabrielle nodded and got up from the bed. "I am kind of hungry."

Megabyte stopped her. "Did you mind before?"

"When you kissed me? No, it was nice." She looked seriously into his blue eyes, messing up his neatly combed red hair.

"Good." He smiled devilishly and pulled her close to him. He leaned down to her and kissed her again.

"Megabyte! Your friends are here!" They jumped apart when his father called up the stairs.

"Coming!" He laughed as he put his arm around Gabrielle and led her out of his room. "Everyone that's going to be here is like us, except for my dad and Frank, his assistant, but you can tell them what happened to you. Okay?"

Gabrielle nodded her head. "Yeah." He took her hand and led her down the stairs.

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