The night prior’s interaction with Reggie had been the peak of an otherwise uneventful Friday night for Aiden. The next morning his phone had been overwhelmed with texts and calls from the various members of Reggie’s little crew about the ins and outs of their latest scam, which they were arguing about what to actually do. Aiden had finally convinced Reggie to let him be a silent partner for the same cut of the profit and that was no easy feat to accomplish. The crew got together over breakfast, much to Aiden’s disapproval, and hashed out some of the finer details including the who, where, and why. Finally done with business Aiden felt just as exhausted as he did the night before and it wasn’t even noon yet. 

Aiden shoved earbuds into his ears and played the first thing that came through as he started walking through downtown Toronto trying to sift through the series of events that brought him back to the life he had sworn to leave. After his tenure in New York and all the trouble that he managed to get himself into he couldn’t believe that he was back where he started, although everywhere he looked he could see another sucker willing to give away their money with little or no effort on his part. He let an audible sigh escape him, if only life was that easy. 

As he looked over to Nathan Phillips Square, surprised that he had actually walked that far, the sight of people floating involuntarily towards the heavens caused Aiden to stop in his tracks. The sight of a Hype with such a powerful ability flaunting it in such a public place was enough to send a chill down Aiden’s spine which only intensified the closer he got. Gravity, of course it was something so ground breaking. Aiden was ready to turn tail and run fully convincing himself that this wasn’t his fight the sound of screaming, a child screaming, caused him to stop in his tracks another shiver traveling down the length of his spine. 

A little girl had been caught in one of the gravity wells and was steadily rising higher and higher to the point that if she fell it would seriously hurt if not kill her. [i]’Aww damnit, I guess this is the second promise I get to break to myself.’[/i]

Rolling up his earphones and shoving them back into his pocket and taking off towards the sounds of the screaming girl, making it to about thirty-five miles an hour when he hit the first gravity well. The loss of traction caught him off guard as he was quickly in and out of the space with a slight tumble before he was back up and running. Aiden stopped to take stock of where everything was taking a moment to plot a path to the steadily rising toddler. With his route in mind Aiden charged in running on everything that was in the particular gravity well. With a running leap off the hood of a car Aiden reached out to wrap the little girl in his arms just as the gravity cut out from under him. 

The solid thud could be heard among the crowd that had gathered as Aiden took a moment to catch his breath after it was knocked out of him. Remembering why he took such a fall Aiden looked up to see the little girl having a death grip on his t-shirt and loudly sobbing into his chest. He weakly patted her head and reassured her that everything was alright as the girl’s mother came hysterical and praising him and his heroism, all Aiden wanted was something to drink and an aspirin.