Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Gifted (The Hayven #1) by J.A. George The Gifted Season 1 Episode 11. A flashback from two years ago shows Clarice out on a date with a couple of purifiers trashing their car. Clarice runs off. In the present, Esme and her sisters are collaborating with a man who seems to be part of rebuilding the Hellfire Club. Elsewhere, Jace is at a funeral for the fallen agent while the mutants are holding a funeral for Dreamer at the same time. Jace makes it clear that he is done tolerating evil. Back at the underground station, Clarice comforts Thunderbird as he grieves over Dreamer's death. Clarice offers her full support for the underground network. The Struckers try to deal with their emotions after everything that happened. Reed thinks they should go back to their original plan of escaping to Mexico. Esme and her sisters arrive at the underground station as they need help. They explain that they need help to stop the Hound program. Thunderbird tells them that they need time to think it over and they take off. Jace goes to visit his daughters grave before Roderick confronts him about what he did with the Strucker kids. Lauren talks to Andy as she admits that maybe their dad is right. Thunderbird learns more about the three sisters as they are referred to as the Cockoos sisters. Polaris starts to feel a little weird which Eclipse notices. He tries to follow her but sees that the Struckers are leaving. Caitlin and Reed explain that they had no other option. Lauren is still inside though as she doesn't really want to leave. Clarice begs her to stay, but Lauren says that she doesn't have any choice. Clarice says that Dreamer's death wasn't their fault. Despite of this, Lauren takes off and joins the other Strucker family members. Roderick takes Jace to the Hound program and explains that he has a lot of faith in this program. He shows off a couple of mutants that they have taken over as he wants to demonstrate the program out on the field. The Struckers meet up with Wes and some other mutants. Andy gets visited by one of the Cockoos sisters who is curious about why the Strucker family left Atlanta. She tells Andy that he needs to stand up to his family and do what is right. Andy, not sure what to say to her, leaves. Back at the station, Polaris wakes up and is also greeted by one of the sisters. Polaris admits to her that they aren't quite sure if they want to help them as they have heard rumors about the Hellfire Club. The sister begins to ramble about Polaris' real father who was a "king" of the club. Polaris begins to see that her powers are changing due to the pregnancy. Lauren helps Wes out as she wants to help rather than sleep. Wes says that he heard about what happened with Dreamer and assures her that she will pull through it. The next morning, Polaris plays around with her powers that are causing her to change. She admits this to Eclipse. Thunderbird and the others try to decide whether they will work with the sisters or not. Sage arrives to tell them that something is about to go down, based on what she heard on the police radio. The Struckers and the other mutants get attacked by the Hound program. Andy tries to fight back but gets knocked out. Thunderbird and the others are on their way to help them. The Hounds are continuing to bring the building down bit by bit as the mutants try to escape. The underground mutants arrive just in time to get everyone to safety. Clarice opens up a portal and gets everyone into the woods. Andy has an idea of how to get away and leads the others further into the woods. They are greeted by the Cockoos sisters who have taken care of the soldiers. They get into the vans and take off. Back at the Sentinel Services, Jace is putting in a word for the Hound program to the director. The director isn't quite sure but allows them to put together a presentation. Back at the underground station, Andy and Wes are resting up while Clarice gives Lauren some praise for her work. The mutants, despite being hesitant, agree to work with the sisters. Later on, the sisters return back to the Hellfire Club and inform their boss that they convinced the mutants to help them. DJ Khaled Shows Off Extravagant Flower Display He Gifted Nicole Tuck for Mother's Day. DJ Khaled only has one thought when it comes to buying Mother's Day gifts: Anotha one! On Sunday, the musician, 45, showered Nicole Tuck with a lavish display of balloons and flowers in honor of the special occasion. Khaled, who shares sons Aalam, 14 months, and Asahd, 4, with Tuck, posted a video to Instagram to reveal the gifts, writing "HAPPY MOTHERS DAY ! LETS GO . " In the clip, the DJ shows off the extravagant arrangement full of roses and peonies while standing on his outdoor patio with Tuck, 45. "Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there. Mommy, I love you and I love Mama Asahd, Mama Aalam," he says in the clip. "One thing I can promise you is Imma be by your side forever and Imma love you forever and my boys are gonna love you forever and we got you forever." © DJ Khaled/Instagram DJ Khaled shares sons Aalam, 14 months, and Asahd, 4, with Nicole Tuck. Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Gallery: Elle King Debuts Her Baby Bump In Fringed Jacket at ACMs (US Weekly) "God love you, we love God," he adds, before telling Tuck to give him a kiss. "We goin big baby!" Khaled paid tribute to Tuck with a sweet social media message earlier in the day, writing "Happy Mother's Day to my best friend my love of my life !" "Nicole you are the best mother ! Me and @asahdkhaled @aalamkhaled we love you so much ! One thing I can promise you THAT I LOVE YOU FOREVER AND ILL BE BY YOUR SIDE FOREVER ," the artist wrote alongside photos of his family. Khaled also honored his own mother with an additional post on Instagram featuring his mom standing with son Asahd. RELATED VIDEO: DJ Khaled Welcomes His Second Son: 'Another One!' "Happy Mother's Day, MOMMY I LOVE YOU !" Khaled wrote. Last month, the "I'm the One" artist opened up to PEOPLE about his growing relationship with son Asahd. "God blessed me with two beautiful boys, an amazing queen and mother [wife Nicole Tuck] and blessed me to be a great father," Khaled told PEOPLE. "This is the best feeling I ever felt in my life because it's pure. There's really no words you can describe the feeling unless you're a mother or father. It's just the truth. It's a feeling that they haven't even made a word for yet, and it's unbelievable." "Watching my kids like Asahd — he's 4 years old now — I'm having real big, grown [and] intelligent conversations [with him]," he continued. "I remember him being a newborn, and I'm watching my son [now], how smart he is and how he's being such a great brother to his little brother [Aalam], [who is] one." Gifted (The Hayven #1) by J.A. George. Avery Gray was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and happened to make a decision that altered her future forever. It happens to all of us every day. Avery is a size twelve university student with a penchant for dry humour, and she’s as normal as they come. Up until now, the biggest choice she’s had to make was glasses or contacts? At the moment, it’s stay and save, or leave and be saved. Allow me to explain. One rainy afternoon, Avery had to make a choice: go through the alleyway or around it. Two possible options. One would have had her future continue on as planned, the other would ensure that her future never remained the same again. She unknowingly went with the latter. But change is not always bad. Avery meets Theodore-James Connors, an enigmatic young man who takes her to Hayven, a city separated from the rest of the world, where only gifters – ordinary people with extra-ordinary gifts – can go. She soon finds herself in a close-knit group of friends she’d never have imagined herself in. Friends who are diverse in every possible way, from their ethnic backgrounds, to their personalities, from their gifts, to their life stories. Friends who make her laugh, who make her cry, who make her think and who make her…her. However, change is not always good. The beautiful, golden city of Hayven has its dark side – Cliders. Gifters turned rogue, aka, Cliders are determined to aid fallen Clider, Madrina, return to rule Hayven. They will stop at nothing to make that happen, including harming those Ava has grown to love. Again, Ava is faced with a choice: spend her days finding a way to inhibit Madrina’s return, or walk away. After all, she isn’t the chosen one. Yet, there exists a third option – rig the future itself and make it work for her. 4 Star Review. Overall this book was a lovely blend of YA contemporary and fantasy, where an unlikely incident leads a student on a path she never imagined possible. A web of relationship issues that I look forward to being unravelled and doom and gloom prophesy that much be prevented from becoming reality. This book has a great range of characters and so many interesting gifts which I can't wait to see in action. 'The Gifted' Season 1 Spoilers: Family History, Character Backgrounds to Be Explored. "The Gifted" recently premiered on FOX, and the show put forth a lot of things by the end of the pilot episode. But there are still several questions to be answered. Showrunner Matt Nix spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the premiere episode and teased a few things in store for the rest of the season. First of all, Nix assured that Reed Strucker (Stephen Moyer) is still alive, though he is in danger. He also revealed that the family's last name is not a coincidence. "Family history is very important to this show," he said. "The Struckers are not named the Struckers by accident." For those who are unaware, Strucker is also the surname of a very famous villain in the Marvel universe. Baron von Strucker was a Hydra leader and one of Nick Fury's biggest enemies. It remains to be seen, though, how he is related to the Strucker family in "The Gifted." Nix also revealed that "The Gifted" will explore character relationships and backgrounds. Each character has their own personal experiences and troubles from the past, and these will come into light as the episodes go by. "We're going to explore the family histories and interpersonal relationships of all of these characters, and all of them are feeling the pressure of history and the pressure of the past," he said. Fans also became worried for Thunderbird (Blair Redford) because of the character's story in the comic books. It is known that Thunderbird died after "Giant-Size X-Men" in 1975, though Nix assured that his fate will not be the same in the FOX series. However, he also pointed out that the Thunderbird on the show is quite different from the one in the comics. "The Gifted" has been generally well-received by critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the show currently holds a 76 percent fresh rating. The teaser trailer for the next episode, titled "rX," features the mutants in action as they try to escape and evade the authorities. "The Gifted" season 1 airs Mondays at 9 p.m. on FOX. Free CP Newsletters. Join over 250,000 others to get the top stories curated daily, plus special offers! The Gifted finale recap: 'eXtraction'/'X-roads' A lot of things came full circle in The Gifted ’s season 1 finale. One of them, apparently, is Dr. Roderick Campbell’s lifelong mission. Ever since he had to watch his brother die slowly of cystic fibrosis, Campbell has dedicated himself to protecting humankind from dangerous genetic mutations. Anyone familiar with the rhetoric of Adolf Hitler will know that metaphors about “unclean” genes and diseases are staples of fascist rhetoric, and Campbell completes the image by giving a rousing speech about how regular humans once banded together to wipe out their Neanderthal rivals, and they can do it again. As if that weren’t already going “full fascist,” Campbell is now on his way to a conference called Humanity Today, to speak to politicians and other well-connected attendees of the anti-mutant hate-fest. Campbell should know, however, that he has a big target on his back. As he’s the main mind behind the Hound Program, the Cuckoos are determined not to let him get to D.C. So, they’re working together with the Mutant Underground to infiltrate the event’s security detail and grab Campbell when they get the chance. Esme and her sisters try again to sow division among the mutants by pointing out Blink used to have connections to the Brotherhood, but once Blink stops them from telepathically torturing a kidnapped anti-mutant official, that officially makes her “one of us” in Thunderbird’s eyes. As a bonus, that connection allows Blink and Thunderbird to cap off their season-long tension with a kiss. Unfortunately, the plan to grab Campbell doesn’t go great. Thunderbird, Blink, and Eclipse all jump him when he comes out of an elevator at the convention’s hotel, but his Hound bodyguard gives them some trouble (you may remember him as the guy who induced a stroke in the nosy Department of Justice official a few weeks back). By the time Thunderbird finally takes him down along with the other guards, the mutants are hit with the unpleasant arrival of an elevator full of children. Campbell grabs one of the kids as his hostage and makes his escape, forcing the mutants to retreat with their tails between their legs. The mutants may scream themselves red arguing about not using violence against innocent people, but it’s clear that their enemies have no such compunctions, making for a rather uneven life-or-death struggle. The Struckers aren’t part of the kidnapping team because they’re too busy protecting Reed’s mother. Determined to get all possible information on Otto Strucker’s X-gene research, Campbell is sending the Sentinels to round up everyone with any connection to Trask. Luckily the Struckers are able to smuggle their grandmother to safety in time, but not before revealing some big tensions between Andy and Lauren about how aggressively they should use their powers against their enemies. Lauren respects the values of the X-Men and wants to use her powers to protect people, but Andy has a more aggressive attitude. For now, the Mutant Underground remains an uneasy alliance. (Recap continues on page 2) Hour two of this season finale finally brings in Jace Turner, and he’s determined to finish off the Mutant Underground once and for all. To that end, he’s got a new pair of fused Hounds whose combined powers make them impeccable trackers. After picking up the Struckers’ trail at their grandmother’s office, Jace and his Sentinels head straight for the mutant headquarters. The usual guard tactics don’t work — one of the mutants tries using his fear-inducing powers to keep the Sentinels away, but Jace has already faced his greatest fear two different times. He’s not giving up now, and he tells his men to push through. That means it’s finally time for the full-scale evacuation of the headquarters. Andy, Lauren, and a shotgun-armed Reed take up defensive positions at the windows to hold off the Sentinels’ SWAT team while Caitlin leads a crew to excavate the base’s gigantic vault and make an escape route to the outside. That works for a while, but it’s a different story once the Hounds get sent in. Luckily, Andy and Lauren are finally ready to unleash their full power. After the mutants escape through the tunnel, the Fenris kids use their combined glow power to destroy the headquarters completely — preventing the Sentinels from following their trail, and wiping out all their Hounds in the process. Then comes the coup de grâce. The Gifted began with Polaris getting captured by the Sentinels. Since then we’ve seen her learn of her pregnancy, suffer through jail time, and return to struggle alongside her mutant comrades. But Polaris is done struggling; she’s done waiting for the better, more peaceful world once promised by Professor X and the X-Men. The X-Men are gone now, but Polaris is ready to change the world and make it safer for her coming child — and the X-Men’s gospel of peace and understanding is far from the only school of thought by mutants. All the Cuckoos’ talk about Polaris’ father has gotten to her, and in a flashback we even see her playing with a purple medallion. In case you had any lingering doubts about her magnetic heritage, this medallion is shaped just like Magneto’s iconic helmet. The Master of Magnetism himself would doubtless be proud of Polaris for using her powers to bring down the plane carrying Dr. Campbell and the anti-mutant Senator Mendez (just in time, too, since these villains were ready to cement their alliance alongside both the Hound program and Mendez’s planned presidential run), but her teammates are less pleased. The humans are now on the back foot, with Campbell dead and Jace Turner resigned from Sentinel Services. At the same time, the mutants are splintering as well. Polaris isn’t the only one persuaded by the Cuckoos’ aggressive philosophy. When they crash the Underground’s regroup meeting in Tennessee (shout out to the sign in front that says “J. Kirby,” a reference to X-Men co-creator Jack Kirby), Polaris and the Cuckoos bring several mutants to their banner of a renewed Hellfire Club. Even Andy decides to leave his family and join up with them, which means we’ll be seeing a very different dynamic in season 2 of The Gifted . The remaining Underground will probably make for an X-Men/Brotherhood-type dynamic against this hip new Hellfire Club, and we’ll have to wait and see what new tricks Jace and the Sentinels can bust out. (Recap continues on page 3) Thanks for reading along with me this season! I enjoyed The Gifted way more than I expected. Here’s our last round of superlatives! Coolest power use: The Strucker kids finally unleashing their powers at full glow has to take the cake, though it’s always cool seeing Polaris’ green energy in action, whether wiping out cell phone service or bringing down a full-sized plane. Now there’s an adaptable power. Dumbest Reed move: N/A this time. Reed actually had a lot of great moments, including his rousing speech to the besieged mutants. Look how far we’ve come. Most impossible choice: To kill Campbell, or not to kill him? Polaris went the former, and it’s honestly hard to blame her. Serving justice and not harming innocents are fine goals, but in a life-and-death struggle for the shape of the world, they require sacrifices of their own. Polaris wasn’t willing to make them anymore, and in doing so she stopped both a true-believer ideologue from taking aim at the presidency and a brilliant mad scientist from figuring out the mutant cure. But it was certainly a major choice, and I can’t wait to feel more of its impact next year.