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"What do you , aware that Derek shifted with hi an eye on hiether, expression strained and worried "Raina doesn’t tap into half of the power potential she has, Mikhael She doesn’t want to attract unwelcoht Guardians, because she knohat she does here already has her flagged"
Mikhael bit back a vile oath "Daht Raina onto the de double bonus points if she got theht?"
"They’re too far gone I’ve got nothing on him now" Goddamn it
Derek’s steady blue eyes held his "We have nowhere to start to find her I can go to o to yours, see e can pick up Then--"
"I knohere to start Give ain"
Derek didn’t question, just leaned on his white ash staff and nodded
Mikhaelfro into the ground Rebar was sticking out of one of the broken pieces, so he struck the concrete repeatedly with his fist to make it crunored the reaction from the porch as he decimated it in two blows Then he positioned the rebar over his heart, closed his eyes
I’m here, baby Reach out to me
He shoved it in, aware of several cries, even a soasp from Ruby he was sure would chap Derek’s ass Then he was on one knee He held on to consciousness with everything he had, casting that lure, casting it wide, in all dimensions…Coe Someone had taken her, would hurt her She’d been there before, which ht like a bitch straight from the bowels of Hell, because she didn’t knohen to shut up, back down, and they would hurt her even worse He was going tothey did to her
Just before consciousness left hi in a universe of darkness His lips stretched in a griain
HE OPENED HIS EYES TO SEE DEREK KNEELING OVER HIM, gripping his shoulder, bracing hiainst the carved wood flashed in the early-ht Guardian reot her?"
"Got her"
"Then let’s go get her back" Derek offered his hand and Mikhael clasped it, getting back to his feet Gods above Running his hand over the back of his head, he found his hair caked with blood and unmentionables
"I believe it was your brain round your spine and a lot of other bones to dust, crushed internal organs Good thing your dick was under you, even though I assu’s probably still intact"
"Feels like it" Mikhael cracked his neck, his knuckles, shrugged his shoulders He’d donned his shirt when he’d chased after Raina, so now he tore off the tattered fabric and let the wings spring forth, stretching the
"Done with your Hulk ilance "Underworld The old chambers Deep Close to the Well"
Derek sobered "What the hell would be holing up there?"
"I can’t feel it I can only feel her"
"You staked yourself to pick up her reaction to a typically mortal injury So she is your chosen"
"I never denied it Just what it shouldthat, Derek nodded "Not real stable area through there"
"No She should not co" Ruby, proving her hearing was as sharp as ever, came down the steps with a fierce look on her face "She’s my best friend"