Pat felt like throwing a party. Some answers! Finally some straight up answers from ol Stretch instead of the babble he spouted before. It seems like they were all kidnapped because they had some kind of superpower. Normally Pat such an explanation would invoke a gentle smile and a mental note to contact the authorities, but seeing a man suddenly add a few feet to his arm span crushes most of those kinds of doubts. Stretch had also successfully predicted that Pat was on the bus crash, which added to his credibility. Pat couldn't remember if he felt sick or not the night after the crash. He had a migraine at that point, and migraines themselves can cause flu like symptoms, so he had probably wrote it off as that at the time. And besides, he did have that period where he gave headaches to people nearby. Was that his power? If so, why had is suddenly stopped working, Stretch's power certainly hadn't worn off. Pat was about to ask when Stretch abruptly leaves the back of the van.

Pat fumes a bit. [I]Of course he leaves just as he was becoming somewhat helpful. I'm sure it would kill him to stay for another two minutes to answer questions. [/I] Then again, if the past was any predictor of the future, it would just be him asking questions again. The other, older man that was in the van with him hadn't said a word yet. You'd think Stretch's display before would have provokes a question, or at least a few curses, but still nothing. [I]Maybe he's mute? Or deaf? Heck, for all I know maybe his super power is lasers come out of his mouth when it opens[/I] Pat decided to chock it up to option number three before turning his attention to the young lady who was also in the van. The fact that she was still crying was, in Pat's opinion, a superpower in itself. [I]Just my luck, we all have superpowers and I'm stuck with Silentman and Teargirl. No wonder they don't feel we need to be guarded[/I]. 

Still, it was about time someone did something about the girl, she was going to flood the van at some point. Pat walked over to where she was a knelt down so he was about at eye level.

"Listen lady, but it's about time you snap out of it. If someone here was going to hurt you they would have done it by now. So stop cryin' ya hear?"