Chapter 0126
Chapter 100
**Luke’s POV **
My phone buzzes in my pocket and I pull it out quickly and hit answer.
“Anything?” Deacon asks.
“Nope, it’s impossible there’s no way through,” I sigh.
“There has to be a way through. I’m not giving up,” he growls.
“Can you pick up Mason and Theo and meet me in an hour? I have an idea,” I say, finally deciding it’s time to share my idea. It’s dangerous and I’d not wanted to tell the others until we’d exhausted every other option.
“Yes, send me the location,” Deacon says before ending the call. I blow out a breath. I need to see someone before I do this. I port to the academy, barging into the human studies lesson my sister is teaching.
“Mr Weston, I hope there is a very good reason you are interrupting my class,” My sister admonishes, still keeping up the act that we are not related. I stride towards her and wrap my arms around her. She startles for a second before relaxing and giving into my embrace. I ignore the chatter of the students in her class, I dont care what they think anymore. My bond is missing, trapped in a whole different realm so in the grand scheme of things their opinions mean nothing to me.
“Luke, what’s wrong?” she whispers.
“I’m going to find her, Alice, I’m not sure I’ll make it back,” I smile at her but I know she can see the sadness in my eyes. Her own fill with tears.
“You’ll bring her back, Luke,” she smiles, “I know you will,”
“I need you to do something for me,” I tell her.
“Anything,”
“Tell mum I love her, and I’m going to do everything I can to get home. If I tell her myself she will try to stop me, they all will. I have to do this Alice, I can’t live without Josie, just the thought of her there alone and scared is killing me. We have no idea what is happening to her,” I well up with tears, unable to keep my emotions in check.
“I’ll tell her but mum will understand, of course, she will, she would do the same for her bonds or any of us,” Alice reassures. “Go find your girl and bring her home, Luke,”
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I give her one last hug “I love you, Alice, I love you all, make sure they all know that,”
“They already know, but I’ll tell them. I love you too little brother,” she says and I turn to leave. I’m taken aback to see the whole class is now standing and looking at me. Their faces are a mix of pride, sadness and hope. Coner steps forward and holds out a hand to me. I study it for a moment before I take it. Josie cares for him and he cares for her, I’m not going to hold a grudge against him if she doesn’t.
“Good luck, Luke, tell Swan I said hi,” he says as he shakes my hand. I nod at him. Other students follow suit, shaking my hand or patting me on the back and wishing me luck. I leave the building and take one last look at the academy. I won’t return here again unless I have Josie with me. I port to the spot I’d found, where I could almost port through, the damage here is not complete. I send the location to Deacon and then I sit in the grass. Resting until it’s time. I’d spent four whole weeks searching this realm for any way through to the other side. I’m exhausted, but my girl needs me. My heartbeat pounds in my chest as if she knows what I’m about to do. Her heart rate does this regularly. I like to think she is purposely increasing it to let us know she’s thinking of us. It’s the only form of communication she has. The alternative that it’s happening as a pain response is too much to bear.
“What’s the idea?” Deacon says, announcing their arrival. I look at my bond group. They all look ill with stress. Mason looks gaunt, he’s not been eating. He blames himself because of his father’s involvement. The light behind Theo’s eyes has gone, and he no longer smiles. Deacon looks dishevelled, he’s no longer our composed headmaster, he’s a desperate man. I’m going to miss them.
“Any progress with Axe?” I ask.
“No, it’s like he doesn’t even recognise us, I’m starting to think he’s no longer in there. He’s a beast and is only thinking like one,” Theo sighs.
“He will come back, he just needs more time,” I nod and get to my feet, ready to explain my idea. “I’ve searched the realm for any way through to the other side. It’s completely shattered, except for this one spot, here it’s only fractured. It’s not enough for me to get through but if Mason can manipulate it enough I may be able to squeeze through,” I tell them. Deacon studies the gap, it’s not visible to the naked eye but for someone experienced in porting between realms, it’s detectable.
“We have no way of knowing this will even get us through to the other side, we could get trapped between the realms,” Deacon says.
“I know, that’s why I didn’t tell you when I first found it, but this is the best shot we have, it’s also why I’ll go through alone,” I sigh, knowing they will protest and waiting to give my
arguments.
“I’ll go,” Deacon says.
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“You are needed more here than I am, the academy needs you. If I dont make it back then it’s no great loss to the realm,” I object.
“I am more experienced in porting between realms, I dont care about anything but Josie right now, the academy is running just fine with both my fathers covering. If I dont make it back then as my bond group the academy will default to the four of you once you come of age,” he nods.
“Sorry to interrupt this heroic argument but how are you planning to bring her back through? Mason can’t hold it open permanently, and we have no way to communicate,” Theo says.
“We do have a way, she has been communicating with us this whole time, we just dont know the language,” I grin and tap my chest over my heart. “When her heart rate rises and then falls three times in a row you have one hour to get here and hold it open for us,” I say. “Time moves differently there so one hour here would be thirty minutes there,”
“This seems risky, but I’m in. We have to try,” Mason nods.
“In the meantime I think we should have every molecular manipulator here, working on a way to permanently open this crack,” Deacon nods.
“Then what are we waiting for, one of you go through there and bring our girl home,” Theo nods. I blow out a relieved breath, they’re all in agreement that this is worth a try.
N.O Darling Autor
Can’t believe we are at chapter 100 already! Thanks for making it this far with me
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