Chapter 44 - Control Part 2 (1/2)
(1 Day later)
Jean stood in Peter's bedroom with her eyes shut tight. In her hand she clutched the ear piece she had taken out 1 hour ago. Off to the side Peter was typing on his computer and thinking to himself. They had tried a few things after she arrived, but nothing had worked.
Just a few minutes ago May and Ben left the house to go shopping. Both of them wouldn't have noticed if May hadn't barged into the room, looked at them funnily for a few seconds, before informing them. Jean's face had gone bright red for a few seconds after that incident, but had gotten back to trying to control her powers soon after.
Peter racked his brain as his thoughts were all over the place, ever now and then he would type into the computer asking Crystal for ideas, she was crunching numbers and coming up with ideas just as fast as he was, but Crystal also discounted 90% of them if they weren't plausible.
For the time being the both of them had only come up with a dozen methods they could try. This had included them looking into psychic techniques online and some research done by governments, that Crystal had hacked into.
Rubbing his eyes in a tired manner, Peter couldn't help but think how hopeless the situation was looking. 'Is it really impossible? Will she have to have the ear piece all the time' As soon as the thought passed through his head, he grimaced and looked at Jean.
She had frowned and was looking in his direction, it was trying for him to keep his thoughts too himself and he didn't want to scare her. Peter reckoned with enough time he might be able to block telepathic intrusion if he trained his mind right. But it would take years. It was much simpler to create a device to keep people out. Plus he was sure if they were powerful enough it wouldn't matter how much he tried.
Stretching his body and telling Jean to take a break for a second, which she happily took, he looked over at the old radio that sat on one of the shelves in his room. It belonged to Uncle Ben, but had been broken for years. When he was younger he had fixed it for fun.
Starring at it as if in a trance, a thought suddenly popped into his mind. Thinking for a few seconds he finally shook his head. 'It couldn't be that simple right?' Typing a small set of words into the computer, Crystal only took a few seconds before she replied. 'It is feasible.' Looking at the words for a few seconds, Peter shrugged, it was worth a try.
Jean was sipping on a cold drink that had been placed on the desk when Peter turned to her. Raising an eye brow at his expression, she finally had to ask. ”What?” Peter gave her a small smile. ”I have an Idea.” Jean groaned for a second at the look on his face, but in the end decided to get it over with.
Though she really didn't want to take the ear piece off for a while. Seeing the painful look in her eyes Peter guessed her thoughts. He spoke up, his smile turning gentler. ”This will be the last one ok. After this we'll leave the ear piece on for the week and try next weekend. We can do something fun after this.” Jean perked up with his words and without further prompting took out the ear piece.