This guy really did seem young. Not as young as Alan was when he started though so complaining would be pretty hypocritical. "I suppose for starters you can call me Carter. I'm looking for a very experienced driver to hire for the next few weeks who knows the area and is willing to drive me around to several... meetings. For more information" he said as he  began motioning to Madison to pay attention "I will have an aid email you an address." Catching the hint the short hacker got on the menial task of emailing the location of Raven's Haul, a small bookstore on the edge of town to Luke. "Consider that the location of an interview. Be there in" Alan stopped to consider how long it might take him to prepare for this new meeting "two hours."

"Carter" Luke almost chuckled but didn't, the name reminded him of one of his favorite rappers, Lil Wayne, although he wondered if this guy even knew who that was. "An experienced driver, I'm hoping or rather expecting the pay will be something I'm interested in." Luke stopped not wanting to say too much just in case this was some sort of sting operation. Even with powers he  strongly doubted he could take on FBI alone, he still had to be smart. "Two hours I can do that?" Luke said looking down at his watch. "It's a date." He said smugly as he hung up the phone. He didn't quite know what to expect, but he did want other opportunities than just being a drug dealer. It was good money, but he wanted great money. He wanted a mansion with marble floors, and golden statues built in his image in his front lawn. That's not the type of money he'd make selling weed and xanax to frat guys.

He hung up the phone and examined the email. He's got my location. Either he's been watching me or he's got a damn good hacker, I wish I knew more about that shit myself. Luke was a bit unnerved but even if it was the cops only thing incriminating in here was his scale, and weed; still those two things together were a felony. He decided to grab his scale, and leave tossing it in the trash as he left the apartment. Call it paranoia but it had kept him out of trouble before. He decided to go work on his paper in the library, and a grab a bite to eat. After about an hour and thirty minutes passed he went to his car and made his way over to the book store. He looked at his watch as he was pulling in the parking lot listening in for thoughts of people walking around to see if he heard anything about undercover cops or a set up. Hearing neither did little to ease his suspicion as he waltzed into the bookstore and took a seat. And now I wait..

While Luke waited Alan watched him on one of a number of small monitors stacked on his desk. He glanced over the short sheet of info that had been scouted on Mr. Braxton, probably weeks ago. Its a good thing Madison was keeping up on the record keeping and scouting for new talent. He walked over to the closet across the room and opened the door. Inside was Garfield, bound and gagged in a fetal position starring in wide eyed horror at Alan. "I can't have you making any noise while I do some business." He reached out a finger to the man's head and jolted him into unconsciousness. Back at his desk moments later he pressed a button on his phone. "Hey Tyler can you go let in our guest. Yes the black one in the back. His name is Luke, but refer to him as Ford. Yes its because he's the driver. We had a different Ford When we picked up Garfield, that's why he got a random one." He returned his gaze to the monitors as the tall, lanky Tyler walked slowly over to Luke with his Coat dragging slightly against the ground.

"The manager will see you now" Tyler said hitching a thumb to a door on behind the register.

Luke was defiantly paranoid but he couldn't hear thoughts of anyone who screamed law enforcement to him. Plus he doubted the police knew about his powers, then again there's no telling what the Government knew. Can't start thinking that way, I'm fucking special, no feds know about the shit I can do. 

No no! I gotta get out of here fuck!!! Luke turned his head to the side as he heard thoughts of panic coming from someone then they stopped. He raised his eye. Did someone just die in here or did they go to sleep? He had no way of telling. He was sure he couldn't read a dead man's mind because...obviously, but he'd been unable to get thoughts from people sleeping. "The Manager" Luke was confused maybe the bookstore was a front, he wanted a front himself but he didn't have a need with his level of product he was moving. He peered into this man's briefly to get some surface thoughts. These people worked on some type of team, heists they were about big money but he still wondered what driving had to do with that. He wished he could read more and more into people, he wondered how far he could take this power as he stepped into the office to see the man he presumed called him. "Hmm..so you're the manager, I'm Luke but I'm sure you already know that. So what's this opportunity you wanted to talk about, I'm all ears." Luke sat down and smiled attempting to read the man's mind which caused him to intentionally frown all he heard was static. What the fuck...

Oblivious to Luke's attempt to read his mind Alan returned the smile from his office chair. "Mr. Braxton, its nice to see you. I'm going to be very frank with you." He stepped out of his chair and made the short walk back over to his closet. "I need a driver for an important upcoming heist. I hear through the grapevine that you are both a good driver and on the wrong side of the law. So since my last getaway driver" Alan paused while opening the door revealing a very unconscious Garfield "is indisposed right now. I decided to reach out to some new blood."

Luke was definitely weirded out by the fact that his mind was unreadable. while the power was a burden at first, now he'd come to rely on it to get into people's heads. "Please Calm me Luke." He spoke calmly while in his head he was obsessed with why he couldn't get into this mans head who was he? He watched with complete focus as Alan got up and showed Garfield tied up. This must of been the man's thoughts he heard, he didn't look dead so maybe he stopped picking up his thoughts because Alan had shut him up. He thought back to the thoughts he picked up from Tyler about them being some sort of group experienced in robbery. 

"So I guess my reputation proceeds me." Well he didn't want this information in the hands of the police, among other criminals he relished with joy when others knew about him. "I gotta admit I ain't done no professional driving in a while, I mean besides my day job. If you know me you know right now I'm in the drug market... a-lot less mobility required but more potential to get jammed up with the cops. But listen man..."Luke was feeling very impulsive, and was about to make a risky choice. If everything goes wrong I'll just have to kill him..but I can't just not bring this up, it doesn't sit right with me. "First off... forget the heist for a moment tell me... what do you think about this." Luke held out his hand and suddenly the unconscious traitor Garfield floated from his position over to in-front of Luke, followed by causing the door Alan opened to close. While using his power he looked the man in his eyes to gauge his reaction to what happened feeling very tense and uncertain about his choice.

Alan's forehead furrowed. Interesting. Another person with... powers. It was probably going to be easier to think about this in comic book terms. Not that he was terribly versed in comics, but he too had been a child once. Telekinesis was certainly an interesting power nonetheless. Probably something to monitor the danger of frequently for the foreseeable future. Still Luke didn't seem to be demonstrating his powers as a threat or show of force so for now Alan relaxed. "That's an interesting ability you've got there. I can assure you, that you are not the only person to have some sort of super power. I haven't gotten around to telling my people about my own yet, but then I was hoping to make an announcement when they were all assembled. Still though, you just made yourself more valuable Ford." Alan stopped for a moment forgetting that he had not actually informed Luke of his assigned handle. "For the record from here on out you will be referred to as Ford as a code name. Anyway if you're in with being my getaway driver I can we can get this moving."

Luke was taken aback by the man's expression. He seemed interested, but not scared. If someone just saw super powers for the first time they would be scared shitless, or amazed, but not just perplexed. Luke figured he must have some of his own. "An interesting ability" Luke let his voice trail off he didn't want to interrupt he wanted to hear what "The Manager" had to say about this whole situation. "Ford... huh... I'm guessing it's because of the car, I'm happy to work with you, but what do you mean abilities? You're too fucking calm man... until two weeks ago I thought this shit wasn't possible outside of an X-Men movie, you claim you got a power then what is it man... I ain't saying you're a liar... but we're talking about super powers, not the ability to whistle or something it's not common." Luke spoke with curiosity he wanted to man to know he didn't seek to threaten him, if anything this partnership seemed even more lucrative if they supposedly both had powers. He decided to leave out the reason he revealed his own power was because he couldn't read his mind. Still he wanted to see what this man could do; if he really had a power he'd be far more comfortable otherwise he was convinced the Government knew about him, and were on to him... but if this man had a power how many more people had abilities, and what where they?

What was this some sort of dick measuring contest? Alan had intended to do this later in front of everyone, but if this kid was so special as to have his own powers it probably wouldn't hurt to give him a showing in advance. Alan sighed before raising his hands with his fingers grasping an imaginary ball about the width of his chest and started to concentrate. A current began flowing through his body to his finger tips and then arced from one side to another for a few moments before Alan killed the flow and moved his hands back down to his sides. "So there's that" Alan stated "and much more besides." The older thief went back to his chair and took a seat. "So, are you in or not?"

Luke wondered what exactly he'd be shown by this man. His mind raced with possibilities, he was paranoid, on edge, but also excited like he was when a new episode of his favorite cartoon was shown on Saturday mornings growing up. He tensed up as Alan raised his fingers after all even though they were striking up a partnership there was no telling what this guy was capable of especially since Luke couldn't read his mind. His eyes widened in amazement as he watched the electricity flow from his fingers." Holy shit...." This dude is like Electro in real life, oh shit! "Man I'm fucking in." Luke was always down to make alliance's that served him and another super powered person who also was in the business of making money was A okay. He wanted to bombard him with other questions but he decided they'd hold off for now he was just glad he was like him and not a government spy." Yeah... I'm in, definitely."

"Alrighty then!" Alan exclaimed clasping his hands together with a loud clap. "I suggest you go get some rest. Tomorrow we're stealing a getaway car." And maybe testing out just what exactly you can do. It would be interesting regardless.