Chapter 0715

I open my mouth to say more, to explain everything, but Jackson wraps a gentle hand around my arm.

"They already know about what Blythe said about Juniper," Jackson whispers to me. I turn my face up to him in surprise. "I told them when you were in the shower."

"We have a call out to mom," Rafe says quietly, looking at me curiously. "But you don't have...like any idea about how he knew her? Just that she said something to him about...you?"

I shrug, shaking my head. "I don't know anything else," I say. "I was trying to get out of there as fast as I could. God, I should have -"

"Don't, Ari," Jesse says, looking at me sadly with his kind brown eyes. "There's no way you could have known."

I let my eyes drop to the floor. "Two," I whisper, exhausted. "Two boys dead in one day."

"It's horrible," Rafe agrees, nodding. "But if it helps...you saved a great deal more."

I look up at him, not understanding.

We had one, maybe two full days of training on them. If you hadn't used your magic and taken down those helicopters, they'd have continued firing. They'd have taken many, many more of us out and

does nothing to dull how much I miss Tony, how

him, grateful for

and stands. "We have to

me on my feet, clearly hating

to me. "Let's go bother

smile turns the corners of my mouth as I slip my hand into my cousin's and give it a

lips as she opens the door and sees us standing there. I frown in confusion at the little grey cat sitting on her shoulder, but there's no time to think about it as she falls forward, wrapping me in a hug the moment I

holding me tight. "I

help it, hating myself for it

we just got her dry," Jesse murmurs, his voice

at her own wet face, the little

Jesse's," Daphne says,

Ineq

pulling her tight against him. I can't help but smile a little to see them

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