Kittie entered her room and crawled into bed in a daze. She had never seen Reighn cry like that before, never. It was strange, it meant that Reighn wasn't invincible... Which Kittie found as a strange concept. She felt Jesse wrap his arms around her and pull her to him, so she buried her head in his chest and lay there staring into the darkness of the room while Jesse ran his fingers through her short mane of hair.
~ * ~
"Reighn?!"
Kittie was stunned to see Reighn out of bed, much less out in the world. She knew that Reighn was hurting, and she also knew that Reign expected them to have not known she'd gotten home last night. Out of the corner of her eye Kittie saw Allana look up to Reighn, who sttod in the doorway nearly dressed for the day, though her face was drawn and pale and the light that lit the inner fire in her eyes was missing. Allana stood and walked over to Reighn, wrapping her in a hug. Kittie stood and joined them, making it one big family grou hug. When they pulled away Leon walked over and wrapped Reighn in his arms. Kittie went back to her seat and allowed Jesse to wrap an arm around her in comfort.
Dom cleared his throat. "So... What's everyone doing today?"
"Working." Letty and Mia replied at the same time.
"Finishing the new car we got in," Brian replied.
Jesse shrugged and wrapped an arm around Kittie, "I'm gonna spend today with Kittie."
"Same with me." Vince replied, half-hugging Allana.
Leon remained silent before pursing his lips in thought, "I think that Reighn and I will spend some alone time and then go up and see my parents..."
"Dom?"
Everyone looked over at Reighn, seeing as it was the first time she'd spoken all morning, and that her voice was extreemly soft and timid. "Yeah?"
"My - my Skyline needs a little bit of body work... Could you?"
Dom smiled softly as she trailed off, "Sure."
"I'll help him chica." Letty said, "You go spend the day with your man and try and forget all of this - even if it's just for a little while."
Kittie watched them leave the room before Allana and Vince followed. Jesse rose and held out his hand to her, she took it and he led her from the room, out the door and to his Jetta.
~ * ~
The radio blared an old love song and the wind whipped around them as Jesse drove. Kittie clutched his hand in hers, neither of them speaking. After what seemed like eternity, Jesse pulled over and they got out of the car. Kittie rose and looked around herself. Pine trees rose tall around them, the clear blue sky was scattered with fluffy white cluds, and a chill breeze surrounded them. Kittie followed Jesse to a picnic table and sat down facing away from him. He wrapped his arms around her and she leaned into his embrace, looking up at the sky. Jesse sensed that she didn't really want to talk about recent events, so, he smoothly changed the subject by pointing at a cloud in the sky and saying:
"Energizer bunny."
Kittie smiled before joining in on cloud gazing, content to just be.