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2024-10-29 19:42:56There’d been a few times in Jo’s life when she would’ve been quite happy with having no sense of time. If she could've sped up some of her classes in school, or slowed down some of her vacations, that would’ve been nice. A longer time on the beach with her parents… that roller coaster she loved so much lasting for an hour instead of a few minutes… sitting atop a mountainside looking out at the valley below next to her dad…. Those were all experiences that she would’ve liked to slow down.
Walking around in this tunnel with a crazy Guardian who was whistling some song she thought had to do with pirates on repeat was not an experience Jo wanted to hold onto for the rest of her life.
“What are you even humming?” Jo finally asked Christian, hoping the annoyance in her voice wasn’t as obvious to him
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Dozens of people were running toward him at a fast pace, and Cadon wasn’t sure if all of them could see him in the dim light of the passageway. He also wasn’t a hundred percent sure that most of them were on his side and not Vampires. As they neared his position, he did the only thing that seemed to make sense and leaped up off of the catwalk, grabbing hold of a pipe sticking out from the ceiling.There wasn’t a lot of clearance, but he managed to pull himself out of the way as the frantic forms fled. As they ran beneath him, he saw that they were all freed prisoners.At least thirty people, maybe more, passed beneath him before Cadon let go and dropped back down onto the walkway outside of the cells. He had to imagine that all of the prisoners who had been in this area when Heather popped the locks were on their way to safety, but he ha
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“It’s her,” Jo said quietly, her eyes still closed. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing. Her mom’s IAC was working. Not well--but it was detectable. She’d been waiting over ten years to see that light in her mind, so seeing it now was almost impossible to believe.But it was there nevertheless.“What did you say, Jo?” Zane asked, his voice gentle as he touched her on the arm lightly.Jo’s eyes opened and she turned to look at him. “It’s her. My mom. I can see her IAC.”Zane’s expression seemed frozen for a few moments before he asked, “You can?”She nodded. “Yeah. I can.” Even with her eyes open, it was still there in he
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Everything hurt.Cadon opened his eyes, trying to remember what had happened and where he should be, but his head felt like it had been hit with a sledgehammer, his back was killing him, and his legs were on fire.A dust cloud circled around his head. He tried to lift it to see where the dust was coming from, but his head wasn’t too cooperative. Rather than struggling to look around, he lay it back on what felt like concrete and turned his head from side to side.Then it all came back to him.He’d been in an air duct in Alcatraz that had collapsed onto a catwalk, which had also collapsed, and now, looking straight up, it appeared that he was on the bottom floor of the prison. All around him were bent pieces of metal, silver flashing, and rusty railing.
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Putting pressure on Zane’s wounds didn’t seem to be doing anything but showing Jo how easy it was to get blood to spurt through her fingers. Scott was allegedly on the way, but with every passing second, Zane was getting paler and paler as the blood that was supposed to be in his face was leaking out all over the floor of the tunnel.“Jo,” he said, through gritted teeth. “I need to tell you something.”“No, you don’t,” she said dismissively. “You need to save all of your energy until Scott gets here. He’ll be able to fix you right up as soon as he gets his ass over here.”“Jo….” He tried again, and part of her thought maybe it would be a good idea to let him say whatever it was he felt compelled to get out. But she also knew that letting him tell her some mushy stuff about how he’d always loved her or how he wished nothing but the best for her would also give him no more r
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The boat arrived in San Francisco sooner than Cadon had anticipated. The little human boat captain had certainly been driving it as quickly as possible. He hoped whoever had arranged for the man’s payment had taken into consideration the great danger he’d been in. Even if the guy had insulted him by telling him he was a baby.After they disembarked, Cadon looked around for the transport vehicles that Margie had said would be there. She said she’d get them to an airport. After that, they’d be relying on locals to help them. Elliott and Jamie knew some people who would be able to get them home. That was what his understanding had been, anyway. But as they stood on the dock of the bay, watching the boat roll away on the tide, Cadon saw no one who even slightly resembled the Australian military headed their direction.“Well, what&rsquo
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The light at the end of the tunnel looked unattainable. Jo wasn’t sure how she would get down below the ground where the light seemed to be coming from. She wasn’t quite there yet, but the closer she got, the brighter the light was. It still didn’t look like an opening, though.At the edge of the light, Jo stopped and looked down at the ground. It looked just like the rest of the tunnel. The ground was black, sharp, rock, just like everything else around her, but it was also glowing.It didn’t make any sense.Lifting her foot, Jo kicked the black rock. It didn’t budge. It felt the same as the ground she was standing on. She thought maybe there was some particular place she could step that would cause the ground to open up. She moved forward, pressing her feet around the edge and t
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Finding himself in the back of a cargo plane again wasn’t so bad this time. Cadon had absolutely no urge to go to the front of the plane and sit in the cockpit as he had both when Ryker had been flying them over to Washington from Russia or when his dad had been flying them back to Russia.Flying them to his death….This flight was relatively short compared to both of those, and the plane was bigger. It was also fuller. With all of the prisoners and the team he’d taken, there were plenty of bodies in the back, but there was also enough room for everyone to spread out and get comfortable--as comfortable as it was possible to be in the back of a cargo plane.His eyes kept wandering to Mallory. She was sitting by the woman he assumed was her mother, her legs tucked against her chest, he
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The light in front of Jo was much brighter now that she was nearly right on top of it than it had been when she’d first started running in this direction. Her heart was beating against her ribcage as she finally reached the location. It was at the end of a hall, so she had no other place to go; it was either find a way to get beyond the light or turn around and go back. But just like the light in the floor had appeared to be inaccessible, so too, did whatever was behind the black wall in front of her that was leaking the bright light into her eyes.In order to get through the black tunnel floor into the light, Jo had simply needed to step in the right place on the floor, and the tunnel had fallen away, and she’d ended up here. Was it possible that she could just stick her hand through the wall at some point and lean her way through?There was really
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How Christian went about opening the portal, Jo wasn’t sure. It was like he cast a magic spell of some sort, though, when Scott asked him how he had done it, all Christian said was, “Science.” The next thing she knew, there was a wavering light in the wall of the black tunnel. An orange boundary grew brighter around the edges, and then inside of that, there was a moving orange light that seemed like a flickering fire in the distance. It was slightly different than the portal they’d come through, but it was close enough, and she was in a hurry to get her mother home where she belonged.Christian went through first, followed by Cadence, Cassidy, and Scott. Ryker followed him, and Zane insisted that Jo go ahead of her. But she grabbed hold of his hand to make sure that he didn’t get left behind. If he couldn’t come through the opening for some reason, she was staying, too,
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“Do you want to hold your mom’s hand?” Jamie asked Mallory as she lay on the operating table in his office. Cadon couldn’t believe how quickly everything was beginning to look like it used to. Even with the American government under collapse and citizens taking it upon themselves to hunt down Vampires and dispatch them, despite the laws that were still on the records, furniture, and other supplies were not that hard to find if one knew where to look–apparently.“Yeah, I’d like to hold her hand,” Mallory replied. She was so nervous, Cadon could see her shaking from his spot behind Jamie and slightly to the Healer’s left. Annastasia was standing on her daughter’s other side and had no problem taking her hand.“It’ll be fine,” Jamie assured her. Cadon had lost count of how many times he&
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The angry monsters were coming at them, and Jo, Zane, Scott, and Cassidy were outnumbered at least ten to one. The chances of them being able to shoot all of the monsters dead before any of them died were slim to none.Thankfully, Cassidy didn’t have to shoot the monsters in order for her to get them out of their way. As Jo and Zane worked on shooting them, Cassidy used her powers to create a bubble around the monsters, one they couldn’t break through. Jo held her fire, afraid she might do something to mess Cassidy’s plan up. The men followed suit. The monsters were contained, but it wasn't clear how long they would stay that way, and they were still blocking the group from reaching the door, the only means of escape.For now.Cassidy directed Jo, Scott, and Zane to move behind her. “Get out
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The penthouse was far quieter than Cadon had ever experienced before. At least, he couldn’t remember a time when his previous home wasn’t buzzing with noise of some kind. Whether it was his parents talking and laughing or loud music coming from his sister’s room, noise always filled the space. Now, he was sitting on a foreign sofa in a room that was painted the wrong color and had no decorations on the wall, and all he could think about was whether or not any of his family members would ever be in this home with him again.He’d decided to stop sitting in Christian’s office after a couple of hours of waiting for Jo to come back through the portal with his mom. It wasn’t that he didn’t have faith in either his sister or his mother. It was just… Ashley had told him the room was finished, and he’d needed to see it.
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Over her twenty-five-year-long lifetime, Jo had had to go to lots of places she would’ve rather never visited. She could think of several. The opera. A friend’s piano recital. The principal’s office. A cave full of bat poop. The gates of hell.Yep, through the doorway that led to hell had to be the least favorite place she’d ever gone that she had no choice but to travel to.Once they crossed through the doors, everything changed drastically, which was a shock to Jo because she thought the portal already seemed so much like hell itself. These tunnels that led down to the depths of despair were even more terrifying and lonely than anything she’d ever experienced before.“Are you getting a signal from Cass on your IAC?” Scott asked as Jo tried to keep her focus. All arou
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Sitting in Annastasia and Mallory’s living room--again--Cadon tried to stay quiet and let Jamie and Ashley answer all of the questions the girl had. Plenty of questions popped out of her mouth as they were talking about the pluses and minuses of becoming a Hunter. Mallory’s biggest concerns seemed to be actually having to fight Vampires and the pain that she would have to undergo in order to turn herself into a Hunter.“I have a medicine I will give to you after I give you the first shot, the Transformation serum,” Jamie was explaining. “I can’t give it to you until two minutes after the first shot, but most people don’t have a reaction until after those two minutes have passed anyway. For most people, the first Transformation shots aren’t painful at all. When some LIGHTS team members have chosen to have a second Transformation shot, later in their career, so
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Standing alone in the tunnel with no way of reaching the hole her mother had just disappeared through was more terrifying to Jo than she was willing to admit. Just a split second after her mother’s feet were gone through the opening, her heart started hammering in her chest, and she felt like she was going to throw up. But she took a second to assess the situation and reminded herself that she was okay. Lots of people knew where she was.That didn’t mean they’d be able to get her out.She knew her aunt could float her out, though. At least she hoped she would be able to. The thought that her powers might not work through the floor made Jo nervous. She took some deep breaths and waited.Only a few seconds had passed, but the panic was already there. “I trust you, Mom,” Jo whispered. &ldq
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Cadon wandered back over to the building where he thought he’d find Jamie and Ashley. He just hoped he didn’t run into them making out again. Even though they didn’t look old, they were still his friend’s parents, and that was kinda gross, sort of like walking in on his own parents making out.Not that that would ever happen again.He pushed the thought aside. Sometimes it was hard to remember that his dad was gone. He just hoped that his sister was having some luck locating their mom.Cadon entered the building and heard voices coming from the office on the left right inside the door. Jamie’s office. The door was open, so he stuck his head in. Ashley and Jamie were sitting across from a couple he didn’t recognize. The male looked familiar for some reason
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Jo could hardly believe that she was walking alongside her mother. She kept wanting to quiz the being beside her to see if she really was Cadence Findley McReynolds, or if this was some sick joke played on her by the Vampires. Maybe this was a demon that happened to look like her mom. Maybe it was a Vampire that someone as powerful as Holland was able to make look like her mom. It was just… surreal.“Do you know where we’re going, honey?” Cadence asked. “I’ve been up and down this corridor lots of times.”“You have?” Jo was surprised to hear that. “Yes, I think I know how to get out.”“Yeah, for the first… I don’t know how long… I kept trying to figure out how to get out, but after a while, I just sort of gave up, I guess. H
