![]() I wasn't usually one to advertise the after-hour hobbies of my brother and I, and it's not like I couldn't have just ran with Audette and played the victim. I guess a part of me wanted to play hero again. It had been so long since I'd been on a hunt with my brother. He's been so wrapped up in wedding preparations and I was distracted with thoughts of the baby I helped create s between the two of us, suddenly there was too much at stake. Yet a part of me missed it. Missed the feeling of overpowering something evil and knowing that because of me, it no longer walks the streets and terrorizes. Yet with the way Audette is looking at me after the vampire is gone....I wonder if I should regret doing that, at least in front of her. At her question, I decide to be honest since it's not like she'll believe that I just acted on impulse and got off lucky. Everything was too calculated and I believed her too smart to fall for that. I wait patiently for her to shake her head and call me crazy, but instead she admits that she's surprised and impressed. I run a hand through my hair and shake my head. "Not much to be impressed with. Stupid is what it is. Instead of running from the danger like most of our kind which is probably the reason fae have survived for as long as they have, we run toward the darkness. I've seen a lot of my kind snuffed out by that same darkness. It's part of why I do it, but even then I know it's not the smartest decision." I remember when I used to give Troy that lecture about what we do in my efforts to make him give it up. Back when I was ready to turn my back on the hunter life and live a semi normal one, at least as far as fae lives go. Yet Troy was stubborn and he liked the rush too much. Plus he was the one who saw our mother get drained and it was personal to him. He wanted vengeance. I was always the reluctant tag-along, the support, but at least I knew I was good at it. I could deduce and plan traps where Troy was too impulsive. Together, we were effective. She falls into step with me and I smirk when she brings up me saving her life again. "Naw ah, remember last time you patched me up so I count that as a save in itself. I was bleeding, after all." Okay, so maybe the bullet had just grazed me, but I didn't want her to think she did nothing but need saving. |