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Emily turned to Jeff, a cold fire burning in her eyes. "Well, I have evidence. Care to see it?". She held out the shades, making sure they worked. They turned on, apparently not as damaged as she thought. She explained what they were. "These, my fine officer, are called thermal shades. They are prototypes being tested by the Seattle police department. You track a criminal using thermal vision. However, they can also see different typess of energy. When I had them on, Eric over here, was enveloped by some sort of strange blue arura. Since they only energy I had never seen with the shades was radioacticity, I assumed that he was a walking reactor. Besides, I would hate to speculate about it being a new energy. Who knows about what that could cause". Emily continued to hold the shades for Jeff to take.

Emily sighed when Jeff asked about the color of Eric and his body temperature. "Like I said, these are a prototype: they're made to scan for thermal and other energy signatures, and they're not set for thermal scans at the moment. If you use this dial here, you'll see his body temperature normal". When he said he had an expert on his end, she smirked. Then she smiled. She began laughing hysterically, turning to Eric she said, "Expert?!? I'm an Expert?!? I'm not even sure what the levels of radiation are. I don't even know how to protect oneself!". When Jeff asked her how dangerous he was, she stopped laughing. Catching her breath and composure, she replied, "Like I said, I'm only guessing at this point that it's radiation. Better not to take chances though considering that it can be catching when on the loose". She twiddled her thumbs not looking worried at all. She turned around to Eric again. "Sorry about the laughter, it's spontaneous, mostly in the most awfull of times". She had the urge to look in the direction of Amy's body. "You're so lucky you don't need to deal with all this crap", she mumbled softly.

((Thanks Silence. I'd thought at first he wouldn't really be needed then it got complicated...>.<))

'She'd prefer expert to psycho.' Jeff thought to himself, as he wished Alfred was the type to run to his aid. "Other energy signals?" he murmured aloud, trying to figure out if that just meant Eric was tired. He resisted the urge to ask if he'd taken a large amount of caffeine.

Eric just ignored the girl. He was more focused on trying to keep them from sending him to a hospital and putting on those crazy suits. Muttering to himself at her outburst, he added, "You protect yourself by staying away from it." His attention flicked back to Emily and he couldn't help raising an eyebrow. "Who?" Then Amy left him, too quickly for him to convince her otherwise. Looking around bewildered, he tried to see if he could see her, or at least hear her screams of pain. Damn girl, why couldn't she have just ignored us?

Jeff paused for a moment, thinking that he might need to make Sam stay for this 'epidemic' his son seemed to have. But he shook his head, "No, you can go on home, sir. We'll contact you when we need more information." Or serve the warrant for your arrest with child abuse, one or the other. "Have you reached your wife again?" This was the kind of police work he understood. He could deal with this until Alfred came with that ticking thingy and proved whether Eric was slowly poisoning everyone or not.

Emily was looking through the shades when Alfred came. She had been watching Eric when suddenly the blue aura vanished. As calmly as possible, she looked around." Maybe this isn't a radioactive energy", she thought. She didn't tell the others about it, but walked up to Eric. She'd let the policemen do all the talking. Eric was looking around, a little confused, but that wasn't going to stop her. "What's wrong Eric? Loose something?". She sounded as sincere as possible, but she knew that he knew something; and she was going to find out what that was.

"Emily, Emily Perkins", she replied. "Sorry for not introducing myself earlier, that cop over there wouldn't let me go". She quickly switched gears back to him. "So, what are you here for?". She figured that once she knew why he was here, things would unravel quickly and she'd know why he had a strange energy signature.

Emily steped back, the realization hit her like ton brick. "You're...you're Amy's older brother!". She looked down and shook her head. "I'm so sorry, I'm pretty insensitive." Her started to water up, but she willed herself not to cry. She would not cry! An odd feeling went through her, like something was watching them, yet wasn't. It disturbed her greatly.

Emily looked at him blankly. "Well, you're sharp", she said. "Yes, I've never met Amy, never got the chance. I just came from Seattle to come visit you guys. My Dad says we're realitives of a distant sort". She shrugged. At this point she didn't know if that was even true, but it was what her Dad had said.

Eric blinked at her. "We're related?" he shook his head in bewilderment. "I have no idea why you'd want to visit us, but uh..hi." He tried hard not to be his father's son, which meant he had to at least try to be polite. He flinched minutely, somewhere deep inside of him feeling a slicing pain down his chest. It was too deep to feel real, but the instinctive part of him considered it might have been from Amy. He tried to listen for her, but he couldn't hear her. He would have heard her if she was hurting right?

Jeff was slowly relaxing now that he didn't have to be in control. As he watched Alfred reach for the glasses, he continued to fill him in, "From what I get, the glasses have two settings: a thermal and an energy reading. The switch on the side controls which is in use. When you look through them with the energy, Eric here is bright blue. One of those nice colors, like your wife wants to paint the house."