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2024-10-29 19:42:56“Ryker,” she said, holding her breath. He looked angry. But then… he always looked angry. “How are you?”
“Fucking fantastic,” he said. “I love carrying shards of glass around in my face and chest. It saves space in the cabinets for all of the other dishes.”
She couldn’t blame him for being upset, but then, it hadn’t been her fault that the runway was so short. “I’m really sorry about that,” she said, meaning it, even if she had nothing to do with it.
Ryker looked at Zane like he had no business being there, so he said, “I’ll go on ahead,” and left her. Jo thanked him through the IAC, not because she particularly wanted to have the conversation Ryker was demanding of her but because she knew it would be better to ge
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Social gatherings had never been Jo’s thing. There was so much fake-ness to it. Being around a bunch of people, pretending to be happy, pretending to be interested in what they had to say, all of that was physically draining on her. It wasn’t that she was an introvert as much as she just hated other people in general, for the most part.When Jo left Ryker, she’d walked away with a growing pain in the pit of her stomach. She needed to talk to Margie about getting a plane and a pilot. It wasn’t the sort of conversation she liked to have. She didn’t like to ask for help. But she didn’t have a whole lot of choices at the moment. If she wanted to get her group back to Russia to continue to hunt down Holland, she had to have transportation. The fact that Margie had been the one to recommend the runway that wasn’t long enough wouldn’t be brought up as a reason
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Margie’s office was in a smaller tent not too far from the one where the rest of Jo’s team had gathered. Her desk was fairly tidy considering the change in plans that had happened only a couple of hours ago at the beginning of the attack. A few chairs sat around the desk, one of them askew, as if someone had jumped up quickly. Two cots were set up on either side of the bed in the corners. Jo had to wonder if Margie and Grant slept in separate beds, but that wasn't her business. And it wasn’t as if Guardians slept much anyway.“All right, Jo,” Margie said, offering Jo a chair. She didn’t really want to sit, and since Margie was leaning against her desk, she didn’t see the point. “How can I help you?”“Well, first of all, before I forget, do you happen to have any clothes that Cale can borrow that don&rs
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Jo could hardly believe her eyes. Confusion washed over her as she tried to figure out how she was actually seeing the man in front of her. The tent hadn’t even opened, yet here he was, standing there, right when she needed him.“Hi, Jo.”“Dad?” Jo had to clarify, even though she was certain it was Aaron in front of her. “How did you... ? Where did you…? How are you here?” Words weren’t flowing from her mouth but tears were starting to brim her eyes. She did her best to fight them. Crying was for wusses, and she didn’t need her dad to think that she was a wuss.“Brandon sent me a text a few hours ago,” he said. “He told me that you guys were getting ready to launch an attack on the Capitol Building to try and free Jamie and the others. I
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Army cots were not as comfortable as the bed Jo had been sleeping in back at Adrian’s house, but it was a lot more comfortable than trying to sleep on the plane. She’d had to excuse herself a few hours into the storytelling. Unlike Guardians and some Hunters, she just couldn’t stay up all night. A few of the other Hunters were sleeping in the tent she was in, including Ashley, but the Guardians would likely stay up all night. Knowing Cadon, he’d stay out there with their dad and make himself the good twin, the one who was interested in what their father had to say, the one who would take advantage of every second he had to spend with the Guardian leader, whole Jo was the weakling.With the scratchy blanket up over her shoulder, Jo closed her eyes and forced the world away. She’d always been pretty good at falling asleep without much effort. Even though she knew the next
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“Jo….”Damn it! She’d fallen asleep. And once again, it was someone she did not care to see hovering over her when she opened her eyes. Cadon.“Dad wants to talk to you. If you’re done slobbering all over Martin, maybe you could go up front and sit with him while he flies the plane? Try not to break anything.”She wasn’t sure whether she should be offended or horrified. Turning to look at Martin, her eyes were wide. She hardly knew the man, but Cadon was right. She was sleeping on his shoulder.At least she wasn’t actually drooling.“So sorry,” she said, hoping her horrified face was enough to convince him that she meant it.
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Figuring out what her dad had meant by there was a chance he might be the one who kept him from coming back from the Blood Moon Portal wasn’t going well. No matter how much thought she put to it, she couldn’t come up with a logical explanation for what he could mean. It was driving her crazy. But then, she wasn’t about to ask him to explain himself further, either.After a couple of hours of essentially sitting in the copilot’s seat and doing nothing, barely even speaking, she decided it would be better for her dad to have the opportunity to talk with one of his friends.“Do you want me to see if Jamie or Elliott want to come up here?” she asked, hoping she sounded nonchalant and not frustrated.“Sure,” Aaron said. “But… do you think we can trust Ell
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The flight back to Russia was quicker than the flight to the States had been. Jo’s understanding was that that had something to do with the wind, but she didn’t care. She was just glad to be landing, despite the fact that they weren’t exactly touching down in friendly territory.As they got out of the cargo hold of the plane, a group of Russians came over. Jo didn’t have to speak Russian to know that they were angry.A large man in a fur hat barged his way through them, irritation showing on his grizzled face as he looked for the man he wanted to address.Ryker must have recognized him. He held his hands up and said something in Russian. Jo didn’t bother trying to follow along with her IAC translator because she could tell the man was pissed, and she thought she knew why. The plan
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Jo had somehow managed to stay awake for the entire ride from the airport to Adrian’s house. It was a sort of a miracle; she was so used to falling asleep every time she got into a vehicle any more. Of course, all that meant was that as soon as she got out of the SUV, she was tired and wanted to go to sleep.There was no time for that, though. Lucas was waiting for them, apparently with his hand on the door. The second the vehicles stopped, Adrian’s front door was flung open, and the Souled Vampire came out. His expression was something between relieved and agitated.Everyone got out and headed inside, Lucas greeting everyone but paying particular attention to the people he hadn’t seen in a really long time--Aaron, Jamie, and Ashley. It was clear that he knew all of them to some extent, though. Jo understood the history between her dad and Luc
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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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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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