Page 34 of Whispered Warnings: Part One

“I spoke to Sully, so I know that you are aware that I knew Neith’s parents,” Ty starts.

Surprise flashes through me. I had completely forgotten that piece of information in everything that has happened, and I am reasonably sure that Neith has as well since she hasn’t mentioned it.

“Yes, we are aware,” Reed replies with a frown. None of us are really sure where he is going with this conversation, it’s not immediately obvious.

“Her parents were really good friends of mine, we were best friends, all of us,” he gets this wistful tone to his voice, before he clears his throat and continues, “it’s because of that, I need you know something.”

“Know what?” Doc asks as we all share a look.

Ty is usually fairly laidback and easygoing, at least as far as bosses go, but he’s currently talking in a way that is a lot more serious than he usually does unless it has something to do with a case. I have a feeling that he is about to confirm all of the things that we have just been talking about, or at least some of them.

“She is going to need you. Her life has been dangerous and hard, more so than you guys are probably aware of yet, but it’s going to get a thousand times harder.”

Fuck.

There was no messing around with that sentence, no sugarcoating it. Ty has said it how it is, and I can feel a sense of foreboding come over us all. He is the second person to tellus that she is going to need us, Sully being the first, and Neith doesn’t seem like the kind of person who needs help often.

“Is there anything that you can tell us to help us help her?” Raiden asks. He easily articulates what the rest of us want to say.

I always find it amusing that people overlook or don’t notice that he is a freaking genius and easily as intelligent as Doc simply because he is a reaper, and therefore, he can’t be anything else but deadly and at the risk of becoming insane. The mistreatment of reapers makes me mad as hell, but nothing will make me as angry as the way that reapers have treated Raiden. Now is not the time to allow that anger to arise, so I tune back into the conversation.

Ty sighs heavily, and I know that there are things that he wants to say, but I am assuming that, like Sully, he can’t say what he wants to.

“When it comes to Neith, throw away the rule book and everything that you think you know. She is unlike anything that you will have ever come across and anything that you will ever come across,” Ty replies, somewhat cryptically, sounding like he’s talking through clenched teeth. He doesn’t give us a chance to reply or ask any questions as he adds, “It is extremely important that HID do not find out that Neith is actually a supernatural.”

We all straighten, tensing, and Evander asks, “Is she in danger?”

“She will be as soon as her supe side makes a full appearance,” Ty replies, and I am actually surprised that he was able to answer that one.

“Why?” Reed demands.

A choking noise comes from the other end of the phone, and we once again share a concerned look.

“I can’t say. I am really sorry guys; you know I would tell you if I could. We promised her parents that we would look after her,and I feel like we have failed her so far. I know that the fates have a plan, and I fear that . . .” Ty trails off.

“Ty?” Van questions.

His voice is different when he answers, lilting, it sounds like his voice but not at the same time.

What the hell?

“The darkness brews, the light pushed back, the voices whisper don’t fall off track, pain and sadness the pressure mounts, don’t lose sight of what counts. Death, death, death.” When he speaks again, his voice is normal, and he continues his previous sentence like he hadn’t stopped to freak us all the fuck out in the middle of it, “no one will survive what’s to come.”

Evander shakes his head warning us not to say anything, we can discuss it after the phone call has ended, but the fact that he carried on the conversation as he did makes me think that he wasn’t aware that he stopped the way he did.

“We’ve got her,” Evander says instead.

Ty’s voice holds a smile as he says, “I thought that you might. I saw that Doc is there with you, have you finally made a decision?”

Doc smiles as if to say to us, ‘see I was thinking about it before Neith came into our lives and turned everything upside down’. I shake my head with a smile, we believed him because he told us that was the truth, that's all we needed.

Doc clears his throat, “Yeah, I am officially on their team and living in the house. I will still be available for autopsy and lab work and all of that, but I will be participating more in jobs as well.”

“Understood,” Ty replies, “I’m happy for you guys.”

“Thanks,” Van replies with a smile now that the conversation seems to have switched.

“Before you go, I need you guys at the training academy on Monday, bring Neith,” Ty says, throwing us another curve ball, “it will be good for everyone to see you all officially as a team.”

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