Tag: The Evolution of Power
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Waking Up
I heard a voice in the darkness, a voice I’d never heard. “I was the first.” A familiar voice sounded next, “I was the second.” Together they spoke, “You are the final.” The voices echoed in the darkness and I heard things outside of me, my surroundings coming back into focus. I blinked my eyes…
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Disturbances
The CCB followers were all on their knees. Not that my power hadn’t cowed them before, but now I wasn’t holding the power over them, they bent to acknowledge my authority. I sighed. I had taken a life and now there was more people looking to me for it. Elena Saunders was the first to…
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Challenges
Outside of the Night Life building Ant waiting in a patch of shade. He had bought a new pair of sunglasses and was tapping mine in the palm of his hand. He didn’t smile when he saw me. He handed me the pair of glasses and fell in step next to me, “So what’s the…
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Plans
Hector and Elena had gone off and I hadn’t followed them. I found Darwynn sitting in the same chair Ieft him and I wanted to flop down next to him and just ignore everything, but that wasn’t me was it? I sighed as I tapped my friend on the shoulder. He stood up with the…
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Right Behind You
Before I was out of the Night Life building Darwynn was by my side. “Hey boss.” “Stop calling me that.” Darwynn chuckled. “Not on your life boss. “ I sighed. “What did you find out about the Architects?” Darwynn shrugged, “Not much. It takes finesse to find out about secret organization.” I nodded. “Just asking.”…
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Explosions
Twenty minutes later the boys were in separate rooms being checkout and the little girl was taken from me and whisked off to infant care. Rob was in a room with his girlfriend. They were talking in hushed whispers while I waited outside with Ant. He kept stealing glances at me, “What?” I asked. “Dad,…
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Dumpster Diving
We hadn’t walked more than a few steps before I heard crying. It was muffled and I could have almost missed it. But it was there. I stopped and Ant looked at me then looked around. The others did too. The smallest boy pointed in the direction of a dumpster. “There.” Rob frowned as I…
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Shelter
I had a few hours to kill and I really didn’t feel like dealing with family matters. I was on the edge of my sanity now. I had no more appointments for the now. And my appointment with Margo was tomorrow, but I needed to be out. I needed to do something productive. I sent…
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Busy Little Bee
Cavenough was lying in bed sipping a straw from a cup filled with water and ice. His smile grew wide when he saw me. “Thank you for not putting me back on those aweful meds.” “You aren’t crazy, you’re werewolf.” He laughed. “You would think the Venatori would know that.” “You’d think a lot of…
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Eyes Inside
After Mrs. Ven left I called Darwynn, asked him to meet me in the Infirmary here to talk to Cavanough. He was doing better according to Jin and I wanted to know what he had found out. Ant was by the elevator when I went to go down. He smiled at me. “I saw Sage…
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What I Saw
We eventually moved to the couch in the living room. My butt was sore from sitting with Dee’s weight on the hard surface for so long. We didn’t accomplish anything other than some calming of emotions. I was fairly certain Dee was emoting at us the whole time, but one thing at a time. Sage…
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Broken
I hadn’t expected Sage in my office. I hadn’t expected him to go down to his knees in apology or to publicly display his desires. Or to fulfill my wants so openly. It’s not like my office wasn’t completely see through. Everything was a surprise. I went back with Sage to the house after pulling…
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Empath to Empath
Dee was fuming. She could believe the asuda city of that man. He didn’t even love her. Nox was so hung up on dev he didn’t see anything else. Dee don’t make out it to her room or their room either. She hadn’t made it pay the kitchen. There was a plate of mostly eaten…
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We Should Talk
Sage had watched Nox walk away from them. Dee stormed off in the other direction and he was torn between them. He’d brought Dev and Dee into their life. He’d pulled away from Nox. Jealousy was only a minor point on the reason and Sage knew it deep down. Dee needed him, Nox didn’t. It…
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Nick’s Gift
I started looking through the data Sage had found on the card. Most of it I hadn’t been surprised with. My birth certificate as it were. The record of me having a sister. My Ad Aetatem was in there too along with my school records. Everything looked to be in order, but there was a…
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The Venatori
I walked into my office. I felt like shit. I walked away from Sage and he hadn’t tried to follow me. Dee was probably manipulating him to his side. I flopped down into my office chair and watched as the screen filled with file after file that I didn’t want to deal with. Ant stood…
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Confrontation
Ant and I weren’t in the apartment for more than a minute before Sage came out of the bedroom. “Dee went to stay with her dad a few days. Kai took the boys except for Matt, he went to stay with Chris. I called to make sure that’s what he was doing. And Vin has…
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Breakfast
Ant actually was hungry when we sat down. Dev and I ordered our usual. Ant ordered a rare steak with a three side orders of bacon and four or five eggs. The table was full and we just about needed bigger table when my steak and eggs and Dev’s pancakes with ice-cream arrived with Ant’s…
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Sunlight
Dev and I managed to get dressed and showered without too much more making out. We were alone minus Ant which meant it was difficult at best. We waited outside the hotel doors while Ant stared at the threshold. Then sun through the pane glass windows were not burning his skin, he felt drawn to…
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Control
Dev and I got ready quickly and Ant stood staring out at the sun. It called to him. I hoped it wouldn’t burn but I wasn’t about to stop him. I trusted these two men. I trusted them with my life. Now they were trusting in me, that what I had done without trying didn’t…
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Bound to the Son
I don’t know how long I was out of it. Dev was laying next me. Ant was standing in front of the window. He didn’t turn around as he spoke, “That probably wasn’t a good idea since you wanted to find Rob.” I looked out the window and saw the first rays of light peaking…
The Mind of Nox 