"Franklin Richards?" The only other person that Brooke could even think of it being was Doug Ramsey, but Brooke wasn't about to suggest that he was inept at protecting Pete, given her present company.

Besides, the thought of it being all-powerful Franklin Richards who was knocked out...well, that amused Brooke.

"So he's being hyper-vigilant," she said. "I get it. I just wish...you know, it's not like I'm about to kidnap him or something." She paused. "He also believes that only reason I'm talking to them was because you asked me to. And maybe that was true, at first." Because it was. Brooke could own up to that. "But that's not the case anymore, and I don't know how to make him believe it without...forcing him to."