• ~Tory~

    I opened my mouth but Seth stepped in front of me, “leave it Theo, I ordered this.”
    His gaze turned to Seth in surprise, “You? You let her in there, good God, why?”
    “She’s my daughter-,” Seth started.
    “She isn’t your daughter Seth, you have no rights over this traitorous B-.”
    “She is standing right here,” I pointed out lazily.
    “I have questions Seth,” Theo said while crossing his arms.
    “So do I,” someone else chimed.
    “Me too.”
    A chorus of people wanting to have answers to question I really didn’t want to answer went up.
    “Whoa, whoa back up people,” Seth tried to tell them, putting his hands out to warn them.
    I started to back up as they came forward; the one thing I had a fear of was crowds. The anger I had felt towards Seth died suddenly and was replaced with the most fear I had. I absolutely hated crowds.
    I kept backing up, I finally bumped into something that was hard yet warm and soft. An arm, a male arm, came around my waist and locked me in place against him. I knew it was male because the arm was very muscled and thick.
    Another shadow came up in front of me as I tried to turn my head to look up at the man; the shadow took all my attention as I caught sight of him out the corner of my eye.
    “Okay people, back up,” Noah’s voice came from the shadow in front of me. Everyone stopped but didn’t move away.
    When they didn’t move, he growled, “Now”.
    They all backed up, some still had those murderous looks on their faces and the others just neutral un-emotional faces. The old guy glared at Noah in away that if looks could kill, he would be dead. But he backed up and went on his way, not without a glare towards me of course.
    “Damn Drake, you just have total control,” the man holding me snickered.
    “Yeah, people just don’t want to get on the wrong side of me,” he murmured.
    Not wanting to stay this close in fear that I couldn’t control my anger and therefore the fire, I ripped myself away from the man and turned quickly to where I last saw Charlotte.
    ~Noah~

    Tory didn’t seem to want to stay around Shaun and myself, she practically threw herself off and out of Shaun’s grip into the other direction. I couldn’t really blame her for wanting to get away; we didn’t have the best track record in history.
    “You think Theo will tell your dad?” Shaun asked, taking a look over my shoulder.
    “Most probably, he is his right hand,” I answered then thought more about it, “And he was there when Tory went missing.”
    I watched as Tory she helped Charlotte off the ground and onto her feet, brushing of the ash and soot as they both went up. Funny, I never saw Tory as a motherly take before but just watching her now changed my mind.
    Seth came up to us after giving his strict orders to everyone else, his eyes instantly went to Tory where she was standing with worry and concern. Jealous roared through me. I knew it was only a father-daughter bond but my emotions went haywire.
    I rose my eyebrow at him in question as his eyes came back to me. He knew what it meant: And how long did you know about this? Or something along those lines.
    “So, now you know,” he murmured half to himself, half to us.
    “You think you could have kept it from me for long?” I snapped at him, letting my jealously turn to rage instead.
    “I wasn’t the one who didn’t want to tell you,” he snapped back without the rage I showed but with the calm Seth tone.
    That, I wasn’t surprised at. Of course she would have asked him to be quiet about her being there, or even her being alive. I expected Seth to say yes to anything she asked him to do. Just like I would.
    “Guys, back up for a second. Who is she?” Shaun asked almost stupidly.
    We both turned and stared at him like he was a total idiot. He had had seriously missed something her, yet he had come to the base years after Tory had ‘died’. There wasn’t much talk going on about it.
    We both looked at each other for an answer when we realised that he wouldn’t know what we were talking about.
    “She’s…” I started and stopped.
    “She is, well…” Seth started and stopped like me.
    “She happened to have lived here once before, long after you came here,” Tory pitched in, sliding up to Shaun with Charlotte by her side.
    Shaun looked at her and she stared back at him, his eyes glazed over and a flare of psychic energy twirled around us. I knew that Shaun was scoping out Tory’s past and that he couldn’t help it but my eyes burned and teeth were clenched so tight that they may have broken.
    Shaun had the power psychometry, it was the ability to see details of the past and/or future of an object, place or person. At level nine, Shaun could see peoples past and future without touching them, just being near them would trigger it.
    His eyes went back to normal before I had to intervene, luckily, and he pursed his lips with a slightly narrowed look at her.
    “You have a powerful power there Tory,” he murmured.
    “I had powerful parents,” she said back, her head held high in pride.
    He inclined his head to her, “that you did.”
    She smiled a true smile at him and put her hand out infront of her, “Tory Jordan, notorious b***h and traitor, ex-girlfriend to d**k and adoptive daughter to bossy here.”