"A refund from the storm."

"Illuminati, Department of Energy, lonely mad scientist, whatever."

"I'm tentatively a fan of whoever or whatever did this, and am unlikely to wave any reciepts in their face saying that I definitely didn't use this sweater, ignore the cat hair, pretty please take it back wink wink- I've been having a delightful time so far with it and expect to keep doing so, leaving aside the inauspicious start."

"Everything's sunny in Philadelphia until the Illuminati harvest your internal organs."

"No, I'm pretty sure my Caden would enjoy that," Sanders says, having resumed his possessive arm-on-shoulder arrangement. Vodka-caffeine-steroids are the best.

"Ha. Ha. Ha," Marcus deadpans. "You've brought up your sex life yet again. Glory in the highest."

"Sorry, Marcus. And I'd almost certainly just faint, really, I do that easily enough whenever I'm sufficiently shocked and injured."

"You guys do bring it up a lot. Is it that hard to avoid innuendo or do you kink on it?"

"Danny, watching Caden and Sanders act out softcpre porn gave me an idea- can you use your power on people? So far you've only tried small things, but it's worth testing."

"Telekinetically throwing people isn't good for the people."

"People were being a bit, um, unpleasant about it when we first started being coupley in public, and I think that we've gotten into the habit of rubbing their noses in it in response, and in doing so cultivated bad habits, it's just instinct at this point... also, this is super awkward in the context of 'trying to do less innuendo' but I probably wouldn't mind being telekinetically thrown and it seems worth testing."

"I don't think I'd call it telekinesis, I don't really have fine control. As long as Sanders doesn't mind, we can test things. Does it help if he watches and we clear everyone else out, or is the problem still that I'm doing it?"

"I don't really give a fuck how many people watch, and yes, I really fucking hate other people touching Caden."

Caden gives him a look.

"... but for the purpose of 'can whatever-the-fuck-it-is-if-it-isn't-telekinesis testing occur' I don't mind, honey."

Danny does something.

Caden doesn't feel anything.

"How anticlimactic. 

"That's three and half useful superpowers. What are we doing with them?"

"I think you're too big. Maybe I could do something if you were already moving...it might not work like the rest of physics, who knows."

"If we're being watched then we lay low, if not we- steal shit? fight crime? and if we want to know if the Illuminati are looking through our windows then we have to find out what the fuck is going on-"

"So our first step is gathering information."

"Jackson's dad is a lawyer; assuming he's not involved, we can get him to go to bat for us. My parents are rich, but useless. Cora's can't help. Other than that, we don't have a lot of leverage."

"Someone should go to the hospital, find out if anyone is showing any superpowered symptoms. We'll need to watch the regular news channels for anything suspiciously vague. Cora, your dad is a professor, right?" 

"History. If there's a government lab with a failed science project, he can't help us with that."

"My parents run a bookstore together, that seems unlikely to be of assistance- I could maybe ask my uncle for help if we want to do something illegal but I don't think we want to involve him otherwise- Sandy's grandparents are wealthy but kind of demented, and Caden's parents work at the same Walmart I do," Marcus summarizes.