Category: Diode

Ivan was the more difficult of the two to manage; they were prepared for Clay’s strength and they knew that the size of his body would increase by nearly half its normal mass and his power would increase at a twenty to one ratio. Ivan’s powers were always tricky to quantify from surveillance video, even…

Ivan Santana loves Clay Franklin. That fact is indisputable. But Clay killed a man recently and Ivan is worried that the power they share will corrupt Clay beyond recognition. And if it is corrupting Clay, what effect is it having on Ivan? Maybe Clay isn’t being corrupted, maybe he is doing what the powers dictate…

Ivan likes to be up when the sun is rising. He loves walking out into the backyard in the darkness of the early morning, birds chirping, and watching the day slowly creep over everything. In the early morning, Ivan likes to meditate. He starts in the grass with his legs crossed, and over the course…

When it was gone, Clay felt relief. It was like being at aunt Bernadette’s house again with the faint smell of the ocean always lingering. He held Ivan’s hand in the lack of their combined powers, and he felt what he remembered to be a normal touch. The experience of touching Ivan with their powers…

As Ivan and Clay fly through the air, the two converse via their mental connection. I have no idea where we’re going, Ivan says. Me either, I was following you, Clay says. We gotta go somewhere. We can’t go home. What about Tennessee? Maybe Detective Young can help us.  Should we do that to him?,…

The local lockup is just as Clay imagines it. There are big cells with two sparse bunk beds on either wall and there are toilets at the end of each of the beds. He and Ivan wear orange jumpsuits, all their possessions had been confiscated, and they are separated in the line of new arrivals…

Jamar’s influence over local law enforcement had been limited. The money that he paid them to look the other way only turned their heads so far and they have never been his lackeys. The police who have cooperated with Jamar to allow his drug dealers to operate with impunity when they sell around town, do…

Ivan likes working at the hospital and he is grateful that he can work while he studies for his certification in nursing. It makes sense for him to become a nurse and he is eager to learn as much as he can so that he can handle the needs of the patients he encounters everyday.…

The months have flown by, or it seems that they had now that Ivan and Clay have survived them and are arriving home. In the moment, things were difficult, and Clay felt that he was lost in a labyrinth of his own anxieties, and Ivan was afraid that he would never again have the Clay…

It was well into the next day before Clay and Bernadette could travel to Charleston. Clay was eager to see Ivan alive and well, especially considering that no form of communication worked while the repulsive force was still wedged between them. They could not hear or see one another on phones and Clay could not…