@lisapickle
(i'm good with a skip)
(i'm good with a skip)
(@Rocky?)
(Yep I’m good with that)
(Sweet!)
(happy dance)
(Okay, I'm skipping about 1 hour and 40 minutes ahead, since Ben said the facility is 2 hours away and they'll probably meet with Kiss, Gabe and Sil before they reach the facility.)(It's a country highway with no other cars on it really. Think like Kansas lol, but with a lot more trees. There's wooded area on either side of the road.)
The speed limit is 60, but Ben presses the car to go 75 since there's no other cars around.
Cage sinks back into his seat, staring out the window at the forest. "Do you think they train their Elementals?" He whispers to Leo (Asking about the bad guy place).
Violet rubs her eyes with her hands, then glances over to Ben, who is still tense and very determined. "How far away are we stopping? We don't want them to catch us, do we?"
"We could do an inside job. Get two people caught purposefully to help Sil out while the ones on the outside help too. I-" He hands her the notebook in his lap. "- here, write down some ideas and we'll discuss."
Kissa sits still listening to the lullaby of the cold wind rushing through the tress, making the branches bow and bend under it's wails. She closes her eyes and inhales. Gabriel is running his fingers through her long hair, gently braiding it.
"Esne bene? Kiss?" He quietly asks, his voice gentle though scratchy as always.
She smiles.
(miki jus chillin)(still)
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Silver walked behind them, her feet dragging, mind in a daze after everything that had happened. The only thing she wanted was to go to bed before her body shut down of it's own accord.
Suddenly she stopped, still staring at the ground. She shook herself back into the present, trying to figure out what was wrong.
"Gabe…" she said slowly. "Gabe, Kissa, wait. Something…" she closed her eyes and turned her head, feeling the area around them. "We're going the wrong way."
Gabe tilts his head, his attention now focused on Silver.
Kiss stares, irritated. "Sure. Where do you want us to go? Back? Hey that sounds like a great-" Gabriel puts a finger to her lips, still looking at Silver.
"What is it?"
Silver flashed her a half-hearted glare. "No. Ben's not… he's not that way anymore." she pointed the direction they had been going. "He's… we passed them." her eyes shot open and she stared at Gabe. "He was coming to find me. He's going to the facility." she stretched her wings and gave them a few test pumps. "We have to fly. I don't know exactly where he is, but he passed us." she jumped into the air and climbed above the treeline to get a view of the area.
Gabriel does exactly the same , scanning with his eyes squinted. Kissa glares at them from the forest floor, but follows, flying beside them in the air. Gabriel darts in one direction, not saying anything, and Kissa follows, calling behind her, "Over here, Silver."
Silver followed them, catching sight of the highway about a mile from where they had been walking. In a few moments she outflew Gabriel and Kissa and turned to follow the road back toward the facility. In another moment she spotted the van, racing small and fast below them.
"There he is!" she cried over her shoulder and angled herself down, picking up speed as she gained on the vehicle.
Gabriel's eyes widen.
Ack, she's going to get herself killed.
He cloaks himself (As in, is invisible) and quietly follows Kissa who is flying gracefully ahead of him, calmly following the vehicle.
Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll run her over.
By the time Silver realized she was going way too fast to land safely, it was too late. She flared her wings out but it only marginally slowed her descent before she swung her feet down first and collided with the hood of the van. She beat her wings to keep from falling off onto the road and getting run over, and gripped the top of the hood by the windshield wipers.
"BEN!" she screamed, waving at him through the front window as if he couldn't already see her. "Ben, I'm right here!"
Ben's eyes widen and he hits the brakes, though not too hard, and the rapidly start to slow.
"ЧТО ЗА- SILVER GET OFF!!"
Violet squeaks a little and grips the arms of her chair. "Goodness gracious, child!"
Cage grabs Leo's arm, startled. "DON'T RUN HER OVER!"
Gabriel watches the collision and slowly lands a few feet away from where the car actually stops.
Ben angrily unbuckles and climbs out of the car as soon as it's stopped. "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!!"
Silver tumbled off the van as it came to a stop and scrambled to her feet. "You were going back to the facility! I had to stop you! We got out! Kissa helped us–please don't kill Kissa–and we got out and were coming to find you and I felt you pass us and I had to stop you!"
Miki scrambled over Cage and Leo on her way out and ran around the van. "Silver!" she yelled. "You almost killed yourself! We could have run you over!"
Ben grabs her shoulders. "There are more ways to stop a moving vehicle than PLASTERING YOURSELF TO THE FRONT OF IT!"
Violet climbs out of the car. "Are you alright, Love? Did we hurt you??" She jogs over to Sil, looking her over.
Ben turns around, rubbing the bridge of his nose in irritation. "Augh. Did we hurt her?? If she's hurt it's her own fault."
Cage tumbles out of the car. "SILVER!!!"
"I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry" Silver panted. "I was going too fast and I couldn't stop. No, I'm okay but I might be sore tomorrow. OH WAIT Gabe is hurt! There was glass and he got cut and–" she spun around, pushing past everyone crowding around her to look for Gabriel. "Gabe??" she ran a few feet away, toward the trees, and looked around. "Gabe!" her voice rose into a panic. "Gabriel, where are you??" she darted away from the trees and scanned the sky above them.
Kissa stares at her, unimpressed and irritated, and Gabriel watches, not wanting to be visible but not wanting to be mean and just watch her look stupid. He gulps and slowly materializes beside Kissa.
Ben's eyes widen, partially in irritation but mostly in anger, as he stares at them. "Silver! Explain!"
Silver spun once more and saw them and ran to stand between them and Ben. "No, no, no, Kissa helped us! She's still bad but she's on our side now! They were using Gabriel and Kissa against each other but now that they're both out it's okay! Please you won't like her but please don't kill her, for Gabriel's sake. But Gabe got hurt really bad when we tried to get out and there was glass and it exploded and we tried to get it out but we didn't have any medical supplies."
Miki leaned against the van, arms crossed, gaze flicking between her sister and Kissa. "Silver, Kissa wrecked Ben's motorcycle and made Violet crash the van. You think she's on our side just because she helped you escape?"
Ben puts his hands up, closing his eyes for a minute. “Hey, Hey. Let me stop you at “shes still bad, but she’s on our side now.” HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE???” He turns around, looking for confirmation from Violet, then turns back to her. “Ah, that’s right! IT. DOESNT.”
Gabriel swallows, slowly turning invisible again and taking one step back. Kissa glares, an eyebrow raised.
Silver opened her mouth but stopped and took a deep breath, trying to slow herself down. "I'm–Ben–" she stopped and took another breath. "Okay but we're safe. Okay. From them. We got out. And Kissa and Gabriel were the ones they were sending after us, okay? And they only sent them one at a time, and kept the other one locked up, so they would have to come back. Right? But they're both free now. Kissa isn't like bad bad because she's not having to work for them anymore. She's just… she's mean. That's what I meant. I'm sorry. She's actually mean. Just herself. But she's not bad.
Miki watched Gabriel slowly disappear again and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Oh my goodness, Silver." she whispered under her breath.
Violet bites her lip, trying not laugh.
Ben closes his eyes. “What.” He sighs, reopening his eyes. “Just because someone helps you doesn’t mean they’re good, right?” He turns to Violet again.
She squints. “Well-“
He turns back around, realizing she’s not on board. “Silver. Why.” He looks around for Gabriel. “Aigh, where’s that skinny kid?!”
Cage wraps Silver in a hug. “I’m just happy you’re back!”
Silver hugged Cage with all her strength, but her eyes never left Ben's face. "He does that when he's scared or anxious. Can we… can we just go home and fix Gabe and then you can keep yelling at me? He's really hurt."
A hint of a smile ghosted over Miki's face, hidden by her hand.
Ben rubs his temples. "I don't- I just-" He closes his eyes and Violet walks up beside him, rubbing his arm.
"You guys get in the car. Make yourselves fit. We'll sort everything out once we're at the house. "
Cage nods, squishing Sil one last time before running to the car and returning to his seat.
"Someones going to have to sit in the trunk, probably." Vi adds.
Gabriel stares at Silver, waiting for her to go first, and Kissa stands still, an eyebrow still raised as she watches everyone interact.
"I'll get in the trunk." Silver said quietly. "That way Gabe and Kissa can fit in the middle." she turned to look for them, knowing they were somewhere behind her. "Go ahead." she waved toward the van and then walked around the back, opened the hatchback, and climbed in.
Miki waited until the boys were settled in the backseat and then sat down on the floor between the middle chairs, since there still weren't enough seats.
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