Psychic things

Okay, quick rundown on how psychics work in this universe.

People have animal totems. They "bond" or whatever with this animal when they're young, usually before puberty. Pyschics are people that magic screwed with. They're born with some animal traits of their totem as well as mentally-controlled abilities, and never have an actually physically manifested animal totem. They basically are their own totem. In the past, these psychics were once worshiped as children of the gods. Today, they are widely mistrusted and mistreated. It's not possible for a normal, non-psychic human not to have a totem. It simply isn't. Which is why Gabe is such an oddity, because she's seventeen and still has no totem.

So there's this agency made to study psychics and "help them better integrate with the average human population" but it's become corrupted as time passed and now psychics are little more than labrats being developed for military purposes. They were once drafted when found, but psychic rights activists put a stop to this. Now families mostly "donate" any unwanted psychic children to the military in exchange for hefty tax benefits. However, outside of psychics that actually grow up in loving families, those are considered the lucky ones. Pyschics are bought and sold as pets in some third-world countries, or weapons, and often as sex fetish toys in any given country. At least in the military, they're usually fed everyday and generally don't have to worry about being raped.
I guess there was a war or something. Anyways. After whatever happened had happened, some corrupt dealing was revealed in the agency and it was dissolved. People ran, most were captured, some got away. The psychics belonging to the agency were dumped into the population.
"Nobody sat down and wrote out a step-by-step process detailing how this would go. The activists wanted the psychics free, now they're free. They wanted the psychic kids placed in homes--well, they're in homes now. Beyond that, it's not our problem. Let the public figure it out from here."
Needless to say, the vast majority of the psychics, kids and adults alike, are screwed up, as many suffered abusive childhoods and all have a long history of being experimented on. At best, they're twitchy. At worst, they're downright dangerously unstable. Nonetheless, no one can lock any of them up, or the activists start screaming bloody murder.
In this chaos, a family moves to the city and a young woman starts attending a high school with some very interesting students.

Also, ignore the wolfhound bit in there. I changed it.

Aidry, Hans, and Felix.
Aidry: Red-panda totem. Traditional mind-reader, but very powerful. His abilities include the general thought-reading thing, but he can also delve into memories, manipulate perception and memories to an extent, zombify up to two to three people at a time, and read traces of thoughts left on objects. However, like all psychics, he can not read a dead body without risking being sucked into the void himself. Graveyards are a source of intense unease for him. Aidry has no specific weapons specialty, as he was considered the strategic aspect of their team, but he can handle a wide variety of weaponry effectively and likes to keep some small weapons on hand.
Aidry never had a biological family that he remembers. He was a troubled foster kid with a knack fer boosting keypad cars and by reading the memories of the codes that their owners left on them, and cheating at poker with money stakes--he was strong enough even then to mask himself and appear as a normal human, so he got away with it. He finally got busted and left beaten almost to death in an alley. The agency came fer him when an old lady went to take her trash to the apartment complex dumpster and found him lying there, then called. Aidry is gaining more and more control over his ability, so his negation collar is on lower settings, and sometimes he doesn't even need to wear it--"need" being the key word. He can't have total mental silence without it, but he can keep other peoples' voices in his head down to a manageable volume for short periods of time on his own. He tends to dislike most people as people often say one thing when they mean something else or outright lie, and the inconsistencies frustrate and annoy him. He also sometimes mistakes peoples' thoughts for their actual voices, so he might respond to something they were going to say, or not going to say, before they even say it. Aidry actually enjoys company when their words and thoughts are reasonably consistent, and he's naturally an averagely social kind of person, so when he does this kind of thing it embarasses him. He's also the most normal of the three when it comes to relationships. He's prejudiced against a lot of pretty girls because the majority are concerned with looks, and it annoys him to hear them constantly thinking about it(he very rarely sets the collar high enough to completely block out thoughts, as total mind-silence unsettles him)so he tends to go for the plainer or more modest girls. All the same, because of his experiences with the agency, he simply hits a point where he can't relate to them, and he never wants to talk about the agency, so they can't try to relate back. And things fall apart. Nonetheless, he keeps trying. He enjoys philosophy, finds religion interesting on account of the powerful effect it has on the mind, and wears trench coats a lot. Because you can hide a lot of weaponry in a trench coat.
Hans: Striped hyena totem. Hans is a very powerful telekinetic, but has a lot of trouble controlling it. This is because his ability is connected to his emotions--but not in the cliche' anime sense. When he was young, he controlled the telekinesis by forcing it to the back of his mind. After being abandoned by his mom and enduring experiments at the agency for years, he did the same thing with his emotions. Now, to access his ability, he must reach into the same place as all of his fear, pain, and insecurities. Releasing one triggers a flood of the other. He prefers to avoid both. His specialty is heavy artillery, such as machine guns and rocket-launchers. He's able to manipulate the path of the missiles for extremely accurate shooting, but that's the only "delicate" operation he can perform with his telekinesis.
Hans was part of his original family until his mom took him to the subway station, said she'd dropped their tickets, went to find them, and never came back. Hans waited and waited for her until the station security called the agency and they came to pick him up. Hans fought back, believing his mom was coming back for him, and they tranqued him. They had to show him security footage of them bringing the woman in and having her sign legal release forms for him before he would believe she was gone and stop throwing crap all over the place. Hans is now a misogynist and incapable of trusting women, doesn't like being near them, and especially hates being touched by them. Because his ability has so much potential to become dangerous so fast if he gets out of control, Hans must almost constantly wear the negation collar set at its highest level. This results in mental fog, occasional disorientation, vertigo, frequent headaches, and when his ability is needed, using it can cause something like mental whiplash. It tends to release in small erratic explosions of energy when the collar is turned off, so he's very volatile and dangerous. Hans is afraid of trusting and hurting those he really cares about. This prevents him from reaching out. He is quiet, withdrawn, and often bitter against women. Generally the cliche' brooding bishounen. Except he doesn't really care much for literature. No, after his experiences at the agency, Hans just constantly needs knives on his person somewhere or he gets jittery. Being an extremely powerful telekinetic, jittery is not something we want. He also likes nice shoes and ties. However, he's indifferent concerning the rest of his attire. This occasionally results in some peculiar wardrobe combinations.
Felix: "Sidhe" cat totem. Precognitive. His ability, on the general psychic scale, is not impressive, possibly even below average--for psychics in general. However, precogs are rare, to the extent that the agency will take whatever they can get. His specialty was the sniper rifle and chemicals. After being forced into submission most of his life, Felix found his first successful homemade bomb to be a very gratifying rush of power, so to this day he remains a pyro.
Felix was sold to a brothel by his mother's pimp, who had a thing for breeding psychics for sick pervs with fetishes--among normal humans the mutation is random, but among psychics it's almost garaunteed that one offspring at least will be psychics. Felix was abused by mostly fetishists until around ten years old, when one of the clients, a drug dealer, was arrested in his home while Felix was there to be used. Felix was discovered by the case's lead detective on the scene and she turned him over to the agency. In his screwed up mind resulting from extensive childhood abuse, he desired an intimate relationship with her, seeing her as his knight in shining armour. She's about thirty-four now and he's seventeen. He still feels a lingering desire to be with her and has developed an attraction for women like her--masculine, commanding, tall, ruthless. He also tends to pick the wrong women based on that criteria and often ends up in abusive relationships. Felix enjoys gory manga, gory old movies, and tends to dress like a Hot Topic postergirl.
Yes. Postergirl. That is not a typo.

Ugh. I can't come up with a name fer the girl they befriend. Sam? That's kinda lame.
Gabe?
I like Gabe. I like Gabe very much. We'll got with Gabe
HAHA SOME PEOPLE NAME THEIR KID GADAR
THAT IS SO CRUEL
But yes. Gabe.
Anyways.
Gabe: She's supposedly yer average human, but for some reason she has no totem, when most humans have found their totems before puberty. Gabe feels that she doesn't really have any special talent and she doesn't care. She aspires to be a librarian, or give one of those horse-drawn carriage rides, because she greatly enjoys carriages. Gabe is remarkably unremarkable, but she doesn't mind it. She's very straightforward and says what's on her mind, so Aidry enjoys her. She's doesn't act feminine, like most women, at all, and has an uncle with an old sword collection she grew up fascinated with, so she and Hans actually get along pretty well. And she's masculine and knows how to take charge of a situation, though she'd rather not, and at the same time is "adorably" shy about intimate matters, so Felix has a crush on her.
Gabe has an uncanny ability to read people that has Aidry suspicious that she's more than she seems, more than she even knows. She also has strange dreams of being a wildcat of some kind, which he is privy to on one occasion when the boys spend the night at her house. Gabe also wrestles with primitively violent thoughts that she attempts to keep hidden, and does a good job of, even around Aidry. She's haunted by a strange disconnection from her own body and often spaces out. Her thoughts are very feline, so she feels most comfortable around Felix, even more so than average humans. She also likes feminine men like him, so they get pretty close.
Guh I'm still not sure about what happens and why. For whatever reason, the agency has collected and trained psychics of all ages...I guess they were planning a coup of some type. They were foiled, and psychic rights activists insisted that the psychic children be placed in foster homes. Felix's detective friend, who's stayed in touch with him, pulled some strings with friends she had in Child Services, and managed to get the three of them placed in the same area going to the same school. Gabe is a new student, and shy after a lifetime of people being weird about her lack of a totem--she can practically -feel- what they're thinking when they look at her. Her uncanny accuracy in guessing their thoughts is another thing that feeds Aidry's suspicions about her. She's also able to connect with him and the other two very easily. It's easy for him to bridge to her thoughts despite the collar, it's easy(well, easier) for her to reach Hans and calm him down during the times when he randomly blanks out and stares off into space, and she's incredibly vivid in Felix's visions of the future, something that usually only happens with other psychics. They all end up forming a deep attachment to her.
Gabe first meets them when she's walking home from school. She overhears violence behind the school and follows the sound. She finds Hans knocked out on the ground, Aidry held immobile, and Felix being beaten. She calls the cops, very loudly, so that the punks can hear, and steps in as best she can. Gabe is by no means an amazing fighter, but Aidry manages to wriggle a hand free, grab her forehead, and flash-transfer a bunch of fighting techniques. She doesn't know really what to do with them, so he manages to turn his collar to the lowest setting and zombify her. Gabe is tall for a woman and reasonably strong, so he's able to use her to keep some of the thugs busy long enough that they can't stay any longer or they risk getting caught by the cops.
When the cops do show up, they basically just look things over and tell Hans, Aidry adnd Felix to go home and don't even take up a proper report about the incident. Gabe is flabbergasted until they point out that they're psychics, duh--nobody really likes them very much right now. She's still pissed and insists they go to a hospital. They point out they probably aren't going to get much help there either, for the same reason. Aidry assures her they're fine, that they've stitched themselves up after worse, and meanwhile in the back of his head is thinking she took the whole getting zombied thing pretty well.
Gabe continues insisting, and ends up driving them home when they find their tires slashed in the parking lot. Both on Aidry's car and Hans's motorcycle. Which is pretty pissifying.
During the ride, adrenaline drains and Gabe becomes aware of some nasty bruises. However, she's not the kind of person to mention it. So when she takes things a step further and wants to help them patch Felix up once they get back to Aidry's (foster family's) home, Aidry doesn't stop her, and they later turn the tables and treat her some too. She protests avidly, until Aidry threatens to zombify her again and make her sit still, dammit, and she imagines what she'd look like as a zombie, and starts laughing, and Aidry chuckles too, seeing it in her head, and everybody loosens up some more.
Aidry apologizes for the whole zombifying thing, but Gabe's actually pretty understanding, even grateful--she's glad she was able to help, and she's glad he did what was necessary to make that possible. Which Aidry finds pretty weird, but it turns out Gabe's just that way. She secretly is uncomfortable about the whole thing, but she doesn't think about it and ends up befriending Aidry, so she trusts him and it ceases to be an issue.
Things get awkward for a bit when Felix asks her where her familiar is. Hell, they're psychic, they're gonna figure it out anyway, so she just explains, and they all let it go and politely avoid the subject afterwards.
Aidry's foster family never signed up for psychic kid care, so like a lot of foster...ers...they just kind of had him thrust on them. They're nice people, they're just, well, pretty much scared of him, so he tries to be nice to them. Having two other psychic friends hanging around looking like they were just in a fight(Aidry actually escaped most of the violence)makes them all very uneasy, so when they all get home (the mom has a book club, the dad usually picks their kid up from school, they meet and hang out in the park, and then come home for dinner) Aidry hustles his buddies(and Gabe) out the door.
So yeah I guess stuff happens. Felix is attracted to her and so sits next to her at lunch. Aidry finds her interesting, so he sits there too. Hans isn't going to sit without them, so he reluctantly joins.
And now there's this big empty space where the plot should be, and all I know for sure is at the end, these things happen:
the agency pulls some crap and someone has to
no, how about one of the agency's scientists. Yeah, some of the agency's people escaped the raid and set up shop illegally somewhere and started kidnapping psychics off the streets. Let's go with Aidry getting kidnapped. (During this time Hans is even more unstable, and Felix shows his genuine insecurities for the first time, and maybe seeks comfort from Gabe. Like..."comfort.") Gabe's dreams are getting more and more vivid and she's beginning to understand them. The detective working the psychic disappearances is the same detective that took down the drug guy Felix was found with. She transferred to psychic investigations after that. She also ended up adopting a little psychic girl, a lemur-totem, who she met when she visited Felix at the agency. She got to adopt her for real after the agency was taken down. The girl's name is Maxi. She's unstable like a lot of the psychic kids, but she's trying.
OH YEAH I WAS GONNA THE WOLFHOUND AND HANS AND yeah. Gotta REMEMBER that.
Anyways.
This woman figures out where the agency-rats are holing up is and plans a raid. Felix sees it happening in the future. He and Hans start preparing to pop in on the detective's party, and Gabe walks in while they're setting up weaponry to take with them. She insists on going with, being involved somehow, and gets assigned the glorious duty of getaway driver. (Hans and Felix aren't sure they're actually need one, but it's the only way to pacify Gabe.)
However, when they get there things go awry involving Gabe. Felix blows up a wall to get him and Hans in, and Gabe is suddenly overtaken by the source of her dreams. She gets zombified and walks in like in a sleepwalker.
While Felix and Hans are shooting it up to get to Aidry, Gabe is pulled down to deeper levels in the building and finds a lab set up to take care of a very peculiar specimen.
It's a saber-toothed tiger, and it's her fraternal twin sister she never knew she had.
This animal is the source of the dreams Gabe has had for most of her life, along with her primal instincts and intensely feline personality. Somehow while they were developing in the womb, the mutation was unevenly distributed. While most psychics only have a few animal traits of their totems, most of Gabe's sister's body was affected, and she's almost completely animal. However, her mind is still human and she also received most of the psychic ability. Gabe got just enough of the psychic mutation that she has no physical familiar and is able to uncannily read people as well as predict outcomes, lingering traces of the precog and mindreading abilities she would have had otherwise.
Gabe's sister is dying. She was injected a few minutes ago with a fatal dose of morphine, as the agency finally decided they'd gotten all they could and wanted to move on to the final stages of experimentatino--dissection and direct cerebral analysis. Before she dies, though, she wants to transfer everything--her power--to Gabe. Gabe's brain is formed like a pyschic's, she has the tank to hold the fuel, she just never had anything in it before. Torn up by grief for a sibling she never even had the chance to know, but was still connected to, Gabe accepts.
Due to some well-placed explosions, the whole place starts crumbling. The boys and the douchebag in charge of everything, who they managed to corner, end up falling into the basement right as Gabe's sister starts the transfer.
When it's finished, Gabe possesses the traditional animal traits--ears, tail, fur in some places, claws, fangs, some differences in bone structure, increased muscle mass, little things like that--of the sabretoothed tiger. And she has some badass power.
She wants to kill the agency director, but instead uses the incredible psychic ability she just got to link him to all the minds of every psychic in the city and floods him with their memories. When it's over, he's consumed with madness, and Gabe is on the brink of it--all this power and none of the lifelong skills developed to control it. The only way Aidry can think to save her is to get her as far from the city full of minds as possible. So the boys throw Gabe in the car and drive, drive, drive.
When Gabe wakes up she's in a safehouse in the nearby mountains, a few hundred miles from the city. The safehouse was set up by the boys when they first got out of the agency, in case the activists' demands were overturned and psychics started getting shipped back to the agency. They're badass so they can do things like that.
I guess stuff happens after that, like Aidry starts teaching Gabe how to control stuff and she and Felix would have to hook up.
I'm also figuring that back when Felix and Hans were searching for Aidry in the building, they split up briefly. Hans ran into this albino Great Dane psychic who was capable of shapeshifting between both a fully human and fully totem form, because she'd hyper-developed her telekinesis to the point she was able to manipulate her actual molecular structure. She gives him some kind of predictably vague, mysterious message. He can't stop thinking about her and resolves to find her. SO yeah. Stuff.
Now I just have to find that plot. Maybe I'll check under the bed.