Carol-Anne
briefly looked at Odds & Ends just as Robert was walking into another room.
She also took note of the big man on the phone smoking outside the door shaded
by the green awning. She had never seen him before and she was all too aware of
how attractive he was. At the same time she was thankful that he wasn’t paying
her any mind.
It was time.
Her anxiety was screaming at her while her
muscles were so tense that they hurt as the moment to run over took her
thoughts but in that moment, that fraction of a second her eyes fell upon a
flash of gold and a shock trembled through her. She tried to stand but her body
was frozen and couldn’t move. She could feel the invisible bonds holding her
still crawling across her skin. Her terror was absolute as she tried to scream
and no sound came out. Sweat started to form on her brow instantly as she
panicked and mentally shattered. Trembling,
she turned her head again and the realization of that settled in quickly enough
that she picked up the pieces of her mind and tried to think it through.
She thought to herself in the quick hurried
bursts of logic that she used to get her through her nights in the pit when she
thought Robert would leave her down there so long she thought she would die
there. “Maybe if I can get his
attention…” she thought to herself as she turned her head towards him. Luck
was on her side because he was looking at her. All she could do was plead with
her eyes and hope he could see that she needed help and wasn’t just some weirdo
staring at him.
“Please,
please, please.” Carol-Anne begged in her head and the tears began to flow
down her cheeks. She watched him look up one side of the road and then the
other, tilting his head back. He smelt the air. She couldn’t take it much
longer and she knew it. Questions were swirling around her head; her heart was
pounding in fear but not only the fear of what was happening to her but also
the fear of her window closing.
The man stood stock-still, calmly speaking
words into the phone that she couldn’t hear as the door beside him opened and
he turned to a woman that she recognized as she stepped out onto the sidewalk.
Carol-Anne watched the man move to touch her only to stop and drop his hand
away. The woman staggered towards her. Each step she took towards her ramped up
her fear even more. The gold eyes were roaming over Carol-Anne’s face. Moving
back and forth, searching her eyes, looking for something.
She tried more frantically to wriggle free
with everything she had but nothing would move for her, nothing would work. She
noticed that the man was now moving also. He moved slowly but quick judgment
told her that he would be ready to act in a heartbeat.
It only gave her a moment of hope.
Carol-Anne was drawn back to the golden eyes and saw a look of longing there.
She stopped her struggle and got lost in those eyes.
Chase was on the phone with Dominic when
Georgia came out of the store. He was going to grab a hold of Skye when noticed the look on her face
and knew Georgia had taken over. The difference was in the way she was carrying
herself. She paid mind to nothing other than the woman in the park, something
else he took as strange because Georgia didn’t care about anything other than
herself. That could only mean one thing.
“Fuck… She’s out boss, I don’t know what
happened in there but she’s out.” Chase said calmly. Dominic was cursing in his
ear but all of his words fell away when he scented the air and found nothing
that he expected to be there. “Why is she alone?” he said more to himself than Dominic
but the statement set Dom on alert in a way very few things did.
“Alone?” Dominic asked but he thought he knew
the answer already. “Chase, are they with her?”
Chase felt the energy shift and it was
light compared to what he was used to with Georgia. He walked closely behind
her and knew he couldn’t interrupt her in this state. Even without her full
power she could do real damage and he would need backup to contain her if that
happened. His eyes shifted between her and the woman on the bench whose eyes
were pleading and terrified. “Good…” He
thought to himself. “She bound her?” he
put his filed thoughts away to examine later while he took in the situation
before him.
Dominic asked again. “Chase…Are. They. With
her?”
In a low voice, almost a growl Chase
responded. “No, there are no Guardians near her. She doesn’t know. She’s just the
vessel.” That relaxed them both for a moment and Dom cursed again. The problem
was that Georgia had recognized the red-head and that was not a good thing. Her
Guardians were nowhere to be seen. They shouldn’t be seen but she should have a
handler. They should always be watching but not interfere unless the Soul found
its way back. There should not be two here in this town though, never… it was
too dangerous and by watching Georgia and the way she was looking at the woman,
he knew trouble was coming.
Dom snapped him out of it for a moment. “I’ll
call Maury and send a couple of other guys. Can you contain this?”
Without hesitation Chase replied. “It’s my
duty.” He paused and added “Now.”
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