John was wrapping gauze around his head and over his purple eye, making sure to get the bandage under his hair so as to not make it so obvious. He had already put some dried meat from a hamburger under the gauze and over his eye, so as to make it look swollen. Once finished, he looked himself over in the mirror and decided he'd done a decent enough job trying to blend in. Might not fool a doctor, but it should certainly trick somebody who doesn't know a thing about medical practices.

John then opened the door to the men's restroom inside a burger joint, looking around the place with his one, uncovered eye. It was weird, this whole one-eyed concept, but it was necessary. John walked the door to leave, and a woman was approaching the door to enter. John opened the door and stood to the side to let the lady in, to which he noticed she gasped slightly at the sight of his eye. But the woman didn't speak, she just hurried through the door. John took that as a sign of success, and left the burger joint to take in his surroundings as best as he could. Now, with his disguise complete, it was on to the true matter; the Gifted he could sense nearby. So John walked up and down the sidewalk on one side of the road until he pin-pointed the location of the nearby Gifted and crossed the street to intercept.

Maxwell was born into a family who were dysfunctional, it was amazing that his father and mother lived together in the save roof without killing each other. Their constant arguing with each other soon caught onto Maxwell to seek attention either somewhere else or occupy himself with something to do during many of his early years. He never ventured outside because his parents always were inside, only leaving for work or to get groceries but besides that they never took Maxwell out much. With little to do inside the house, Maxwell soon got into puzzles where he worked piecing pieces together. Finding scattered dusty boxes underneath furniture and hidden away, he was an avid child who solved those basic puzzles easily.

Applying these skills in real life, he learned how to open the door and leave the house for the first time, blinding his eyes which were unused to bright light and his pale skin glowing in the sun. He of course explored around his parent's house, looking around the neighborhood watching other people walking and driving following their everyday lives. After watching for a while, Maxwell went back inside the house before he got in trouble by his parents and locked the doors before keeping to himself with his puzzles.

The next several years, it continued with Maxwell always traveling outside the house and solving puzzles in the real world for people who had trouble solving simple problems. He soon discovered the newspaper and soon got into crosswords and anagrams, increasing his vocabulary far beyond his age and when school started he was already smart enough to skip a grade or two if his parents wanted, which they took eagerly. Therefore, Maxwell jumped two years and was in upperclassman classes as a young student who stuck to himself in the back with a book and always reading. This didn't go unnoticed as older classmates often tormented Maxwell, but he ignored them and often brushed off their many insults against him. However, his ability to hold it all together fell apart one day his gave them a deathly stare in which they screamed and ran to the teacher. Soon the teacher came over and gently took his book away before looking at him strangely before asking him a question. "Honey, do you know that your one of the Gifted?" In which he responded with a shake of a head and was escorted to the nurse's office where Hunters cuffed him and escorted him to be evaluated before deciding what was going to happen to Maxwell.

In these test, he scored the tests with flying colors for his age group and the next group easily without any problem. He also was shown to demonstrate impressive ability to solving puzzles, and when taken to a group of people and asked to see which one was a gifted. Maxwell was able to group the two from each other with no mistakes and repeated the test twice. Deciding it would be interesting to train a Gifted which his particular ability, the Hunters honed and refined Maxwell's ability by simply giving him interesting things to solve his boredom.

Ever since then, Maxwell has been with the Hunters and hunting Gifted while on the side going to a special school to learn what he was missing in regular school. Reaching Highschool a year earlier anyways, he finished his high-school diploma in Sophomore year after complete the necessary credits that was needed. He's going to college now as he has free time on the side when he can.

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