It's
Impossible,
But The Impossible
Has Happened.
I've been brought into my own Legacy Universe
and my characters are not happy with me at all.
Follow along as I try to evade Ethan and Michela
as well as the evil Julian Black
and attempt to find my way home again...
before one of the aforementioned catches me.
Part
2 - The Unlikely Ally
"You
can't be serious about leaving her out there," Kevin Fairchild
said to his brother.
"I'm
as serious as a heart attack. I can't even count how many times I've
nearly died because the Black Council found intel on her site and
used it to track us." Ethan was still pissed, and pissed was
not a good emotion on him. When he was pissed, awful things were bound
to happen.
Ethan's
hands molded to the wheel, his knuckles turning white.
"Okay.
Yeah, we've nearly bought it a dozen or more times, but you can't
blame her. She didn't know she had a direct psychic link to an alternate
universe. She had no way of knowing we were flesh and blood real people."
"Kevin,
that is a lame ass excuse. If she were so psychic' as you say,
she should have known."
"You're
just ticked because the stories focused mainly on you, putting you
into more jeopardy than the rest of us," Kevin mocked. "Well,
boo damn hoo. Poor pitiful you. You knew the dangers of taking this
job, you should god-damn well take the consequences."
"I'm
just doing what I was trained to do... seek and destroy the enemy
before they destroy me."
***
It
was still dark and it was still creepy, but at least the screaming
had stopped. Friend or foe, I didn't know. I ventured forward a bit
cautiously. Okay, a lot cautiously. There was no telling who could
be out there in the blackness.
The
scream came again, but this time I recognized it as a bird's call
echoing out into the night. My body visibly relaxed. It was raining
harder, but at that moment I ceased to care. I was about as wet as
I was going to get. My clothes were soaked and I was cold and angry.
"Damn
you, Ethan Fairchild," I screamed.
I
could barely make out a tree to my left, but I could tell there was
shelter there. Flimsy shelter offered by leaves on the tree, but it
was better than the pounding rain atop my pounding head.
As
I ventured forward, I found a large dip between myself and the tree.
Probably a ditch. I took a gamble and reached my leg across the expanse.
When my foot hit solid ground, I expelled the breath I had been holding.
There was no way I wanted to fall into that ditch. I was wet enough.
When
I put my entire weight onto the opposite side of the ditch, the ground
crumbled beneath me, throwing me off balance. I was too shocked to
curse. My only thought was prayer and the hope that this ditch wasn't
too deep. I fell straight into the muck at the bottom, but I learned
too late that the ditch was angled steeply downhill. My body slipped
forward like the motion on a slide at a water park, except this water
was dirty and smelled like filth. I careened downward, moving at a
breakneck speed, faster and faster until the bottom came up and slammed
me in the face.
It
was in that moment that the light of the moon went completely out.
***
"I'm
not leaving her back there, Ethan," Kevin said. He'd never been
one to usurp his brother's authority, but this was uncalled for. The
woman had done nothing wrong. Nothing she could foresee anyway.
"The
hell you aren't. The longer she keeps from writing her story, the
safer we all are," Ethan reasoned.
"Then
why not take her to Smith Island or Legacy Headquarters where we can
keep an eye on her?" Kevin asked, pausing suddenly. His eyes
grew suddenly wide. "You bastard! You're having her cancelled."
"We
all have to make sacrifices now and then." Ethan's words were
filled with foreboding.
"Sacrifices?
Death is not a sacrifice. Death is death," Kevin said. "She's
still a human being. So, that makes it murder."
Kevin
grabbed the steering wheel of the SUV nearly causing it to careen
off the side of the road. They spun in a circle before coming to a
complete hault facing the opposite direction.
"We've
known about her for a long time, and I longer than anyone," Kevin
said. "She isn't a threat to us. She could be an asset if we
gained her trust. Let her abilities work for us."
"Even
if I agreed with this insane notion - - it's already too late. If
she hasn't broken her neck by now, the agent I assigned to the black
op will surely have killed her by now."
Kevin
was livid. "Call it off! This wasn't how it was supposed to play
out!"
"You
don't think I'm onto your game, Kevin?" Ethan shouted. "Before
we discovered her existence, you were in and out of the sack with
every woman I ever cared about, but once you established contact with
her, your days as a Lothario suddenly stopped."
"You
don't know what you're talking about," Kevin said defensively.
"Don't
I?"
"Shut
your bloody mouth. It's not like that."
"The
hell it isn't," Ethan said. "The only reason she's even
here is because of you. If you hadn't told us what you'd found, she
would still be in her dimension typing on her computer reporting our
every move."
He
was such an idiot. He should have never told Ethan about her. What
he should have done was brought her in under everyone's radar and
explained the situation to her. But it was too late for that now.
To fix this, he had to take drastic action.
Kevin
raised his gun on his brother. "I hate to do this to you, buddy,
but get out!"
Ethan
raised his hands as Kevin threw his brother's Glock out into the elements.
Ethan followed the gun getting out of the SUV.
"This
is a mistake, Kevin."
"Well,
it's my mistake to make then. I can't let anything happen to her.
We might all regret it."
Next
on Familiar Adversary...
Michela
gets into the game as she teams up with Ethan... but she has problems
of her own to work out that may be to my advantage...
and I discover that having Kevin as an ally can be frustrating, and
I don't mean mentally.
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2003 all rights reserved. Toni Walker