No Such Thing

LOCATION | Somewhere in Aston
DATE | 30th of April and 1st of May 2022
TIME | Late
TOPIC TO | @Scarlett and everyone who needs to cry a little

People often wondered what it felt like when you took your last breath, Victoria herself had wondered that plenty of times. But nothing had prepared her for when she saw how Anthony had used his powers to bring Mono to his knees, how his scream echoed like a haunting that would never stop, till it was over and the body dropped silent to the ground. Victoria hadn't screamed for long in agony over the sight till everything just had stopped for a moment, and she had felt how her entire body started to shut down. The price of having her powers with brainwaves, she could feel and sense how it just shut down. And one thing it was. It was lonely and dark. She didn't even hear as River turned to the scene and started yelling at Anthony thereafter was beating the human up with a passion that had been boiling in River's system for too long. But then, as River turned around. Victoria's body was no longer in sight. It had just vanished. Getting angrier he thought perhaps one of Anthony's guys had taken the body, so he called Kailani to send her out for tracks, whilst he did so himself as well.


She could feel the pressure on her forehead. Daisy placed both her hands against the kitchen counter and held her head down for a moment while she took a sharper breath in. She felt the cold, hearing the scream and an itchy feeling of something not being completely alright. But the voices, everything just seemed to intensify in her mind, making her head feel like a bomb waiting to explode. No, they didn't need this. They didn't need another death close by. Last month had been enough for her daughters. Daisy shook her head a little bit, no matter how advanced you got in these powers, they still did a huge number on you.  And she could feel the pressure add on, getting heavier, so tense she barely noticed the room she was in nor the people around. She just felt like she was standing on the lonely streets. Feeling how it was like she suddenly couldn't catch her breath, feeling how pain spread out her entire body, before she just screamed, closed her eyes and just let it out. It was first after that she opened her eyes, and a tear escaped the corner of her eye, that she realized she was sitting in the middle of the living room floor on her knees. Her eyes flickered around, still feeling out of breath.


"Hey, are you okay?" Jack wondered looking at Scarlett. He had just returned home from his transformation, and now he was worried. One thing about Jack was that he was not used to the whole banshee thing. So, seeing Scarlett in anything that reminded him of this, slightly freaked him out because he didn't know completely how to react.

There were times where the young banshee thought about her lot in life. What she had done to deserve the constant linger of death breathing down her neck. That whenever she touched something and the previous owner had died, she would know. How she could walk down an empty street, and she could suddenly hear what sounded like a car losing control. Her eyes following along in the nights, without seeing anything, but she heard it all. The breaks being slammed, the metal screaming at one another in the hopes of being able to stop the car before it would crash. And then nothing. Because the person had died.
She still remembered the first time she had felt the scream of death bobble from her throat, and with that overwhelmed anyone that was near her. Not that it happened often, yes, Scarlett was fortunate that she only knew people that mostly stayed alive because of their immorality. Not that it meant that they couldn’t die. It had never been a conscious choice; it had just happened to be so. So, when it hit her, she lost touch with everything around her. The water from the dirty dishwashing dripped from her fingers as she had dropped the glass she had just been in the process of cleaning. The tears that fall down her cheeks as she could feel how death slowly crept closer, how her brain started to work on who it was, and what was going to happen. Then she realized.
“Vic” she heard herself manage to choke out, not even hearing that Jack had entered the apartment. Then she buckled and her knees smashed to the floor, the shattered glass piercing the light leggings she had been wearing cutting into the skin. Her hands finding her jaw as she started screaming. Feeling like her entire heart was being ripped apart as death finally found Victoria and sent her away.

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Cassian pushed the door open and ran towards Daisy. It was like his entire body moved in slow-motion as he grabbed her falling body and kept her close. It didn’t take more than a spell to make his hearing stop. Making him able to sit with her while she screamed. His eyes closed as he pulled her a little closer, making sure that she knew that she wasn’t alone in all of this. He didn’t even dare to ask who it was, because at this point, he would rather live in the denial that it couldn’t be one he knew, it had to be someone from her family. Not that it made it any less horrible. But he wasn’t sure if he could take much more. It had to end, right? He had to be granted some kind of relief, some kind of solace that he could live his life, even for just a couple of months where he didn’t have to worry. He started praying to all the Pegan gods that he knew, begging them that it wasn’t one of his friends, family members. That it wasn’t someone very close to his heart or Daisy’s. But he was only fooling himself, because if that was how she reacted, he knew it had to be bad. But just for a moment, he dared to dream. He dared to hope, selfishly so.

He watched her fall towards the ground and watched towards her, hearing the scream feeling how his eardrums started to bleed, but still despite of it he rushed to sit with her. Knowing his head would pay for it sooner rather than later, but he was worried. Feared for what was going on. And one thing Jack hated was not knowing what was going on. "What happened?" He wondered. He didn't even know if she could tell. Jack had reached a grey area where he knew nothing and it was slowly tearing him apart. Because he could see just how this was ripping Scarlett apart, and all he could do was to take her in his arms and hope she would come out on the other end of it.

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Daisy didn't realize how long she sat there. She just felt numb for a moment after, as she realized what had happened. Who had died. Because she knew it was more than just one person. Perhaps the fact that Evelina knew Mono, Dion knew Mono - Cecilia, people that she knew who knew the person who just had been killed. Then alongside the person where she felt and knew it would hit the hardest. Victoria. Finally she exhaled, feeling how heavy it was on her shoulders, and she closed her tear filled eyes for a moment. Knowing if she just remained silent for a moment, she would crash more of Cassian's world to pieces. They were already holding on so tight, but this, this was something she felt shatter her soul slowly. "This can't be -" she tried to whisper through a half choked sob, but well she knew it was true. Daisy could feel all of the energy in her system just long to explode and she wanted to scream so badly, yet she didn't. She just kept sitting here in his embrace for a moment longer, giving them seconds, minutes before she would set off the next set of explosions, but they couldn't avoid this. Could they? "I'm sorry -" her voice broke the seconds she looked into his eyes. Because how was she supposed to be the one to tell him that one of his good friends were dead? How was she supposed to tell Evelina that her best friend had died too? The weight of the world started to feel rather heavy on her shoulders. "It's - It's Vic, and Mono -" she spoke the names rather fast feeling reality slam her right in the face.

Gasping after air she felt how an invisible force gripped around every muscle in her body and started squeezing. It was hard to even get out the words or even get her thoughts to think straight, if it was this terrible with just a woman, she had met a couple of times. She hadn’t felt like this since the love of her life at that point, had been shot and killed. Which of course brought up so many unresolved feelings, that she almost couldn’t breathe or think straight. There was that small voice of sensibility that tried to tell her, that she had to tell Jack what had happened. That it was Victoria, she was dead. But the words didn’t want to leave her lips, and tears started gliding down her cheeks as she turned and sought the comfort in her boyfriend’s arms, without him knowing who he was comforting her about.
Not knowing just how long it took, she finally managed to calm down to a degree, where it was possible for her to talk about what had just transpired. “It’s Victoria” she gasped, with a voice still riddled with sorrow. “I’m so sorry Jack” she closed her eyes and sobbed silently. “She’s – she died – she’s dead” her arms folded around him, hoping to ground him in this sorrow that she knew would hit. After all they had gone through to get her out, and she also knew that Jack had sought her out to tell her to stop poking around where she shouldn’t. She knew he would blame himself, which was the last thing that he needed. But what could she do? Nothing. Besides staying right where she was, and hope that it was enough.

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Cassian let out a breath off air. It was like the whole world just stopped and after that he didn’t hear anything. Even though he had lifted the spell and could once again understand perfectly what was being told, and yet he understood nothing at all. Victoria was dead. That couldn’t be, no – he remembered the many nights her; Dion and he had partied together. The many hours of fun and laughing. Almost as if nothing in the world could touch them when they were in that bobble together. So, he just sat there, because he knew that he needed to call, he needed to do nothing. But he was completely paralyzed and had no way of actually connecting what should be done and getting his body to do it.

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“Just get him as fast to Aston hospital as you can, Doctor W. Jones will be there to take over” Sophia breathed as she helped the paramedics to get the boy into the ambulance and then drove off with him. She stood there for a while before she finally pulled of the plastic gloves that had been on her hands. What a night this had been. Now she could go home, since her shift had ended over two hours ago, but just as she had left one of her patients had been called in with a priority checkup. Good thing she had the time to drive to the apartment, the boy wouldn’t have lived to tomorrow if she hadn’t.
Then a person walked just in her line of sight, as she turned the man disappeared into an alleyway. No that couldn’t be right – he was dead. But something made her walk the direction, she had to be sure. But as she turned into the alley, he saw him crunched over a girl that was lying there. Covered in blood. “Mateo?” she breathed, even though he was much older now, he looked too much like the boy that she had once known. He looked up pulling an uncomfortable face, she walked towards him quickly but as she looked down, she recognized the girl right away. “Victoria” her name left as a shaky breath “Go to my car and get my medical bag” she ordered her apparently still alive son. “My girl, what have you gotten yourself into” she whispered with a carrying voice, and started looking for wounds on the body, but they all seemed to be superficial, so it had to do something internally.

It’s Victoria he pressed his brows together confused, looking towards the door, but realized the meaning of it. Then she said those words, she’s dead. It rang in his head like a distant echo, "what?" He asked almost with a snort slowly letting go of Scarlett. "No she isn't, I just," Jack licked his lips and looked back to the door. "I just saw her earlier today," he tried to process it, "she was fine... She is fine," Jack got up on his feet, wanting to comfort Scarlett but how could he comfort her when he felt this weird wave of pain hitting him from all fronts, a ache in his heart beyond anything he had ever felt. It all started to sink in. "You are wrong. No - she can't be, she is not allowed," he shook his head taking a few steps back. He then took a few steps towards the nearest wall and hammered a closed fist against it, letting ice cover the entire surface of the wall, "fuck," he cursed lowering his head a little bit trying to take it all in. But no, he didn't want to take it in. He didn't want to believe that it was true, because what would he do without? Why hadn't he been there to protect her.

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A sound sounded in her ear only for her to be heard, like a pitchy voice giving her the worst possible headache and forcing Daisy to close her eyes for a second. One of the perks of being so early connected to her banshee powers was that she could tell that something suddenly felt odd. Even if she wasn't old, she was trained in her powers in a range no one really should be, "something is off," Daisy opened her eyes, this time snow white from her banshee shape, her voice yet so weak. But something was off. It was like when Selene died, it was still felt and then, it was like the reaper hit the return option on a delivery. But she couldn't really place it, "we should find her body," she mumbled a little bit disconnected, feeling the longer to getting closer even if most of her didn't really want to find a dead body, the banshee part never really listened.

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Dying wasn't like she had expected it, she had expected it to be all fear, terrifying and panic. But it wasn't what she felt, it was lonely, like everybody she had ever loved was a million miles away. Then she had felt it the connection to her brain starting to restart again, if anything Victoria had always had her supernatural connection to her brain and brainwaves, as well as others. So, from it starting again for her to feel it, and speed it up, waking herself up in a gasp as her eyes opened. Her breathing started to be more panicked as her eyes flickered around landing on a woman she didn't know looking at her, "what happened?" she asked confused still looking around. She remembered she died.  Or at least it had felt like that.

Scarlett pressed her lips together and she couldn’t help the painful expression that folded over her face. Because she hated to be the one to tell him, that was maybe one of the worse things about being a banshee. Because everyone knew that you blamed the person that came with the bad news. It wasn’t hard in the same way for doctors, police officers and so forth because afterwards they could go home, and they would probably never see the person again. Of course, they were family members or friends to begin with. She could see how things started to unravel for Jack and she feared the worst, feared that he would blame her for the news about his friend, his chosen sister. The woman that had been there when no one else had been. But what could she have done? Not said anything, let someone else tell him and then he could have blamed her for not telling? It was a lose, lose situation. “Jack” she whispered, and slowly got up as he kept denying the fact that it was Victoria that was dead. She understood, she really did, because she had been where he was right now. She didn’t even flinch as he took his anger out on the wall, but simply stepped towards him and placed a hand on his shoulder. “We should find her, see what happened, okay? Look at me” she asked of him, trying to turn his tense body so he would look at her.

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He pressed his brows together as Daisy told him that something was off, his mind starting to piece things together, if something was wrong, they had to call Scarlett and Jack. Because if Daisy had figured this out, there might be a chance that Scarlett had as well or had just told Jack at Victoria was dead. “Could you call Scarlett or Jack, if you felt it Scarlett had to have done it as well, just to make sure that they know something is off -  then I’ll just get Victoria’s coordination’s” one of the perks of being a warlock was having the ability to use magic, and with magic came a large range of powers and very useful tricks that one could use, to find people or things faster than other people would be able to.

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“Sssh” Sophia whispered as Victoria asked what had happened “I think you have some internal bleeding” she said with a small voice, it was hard not to let her voice crack, which mother wouldn’t when seeing her child lying here in an alleyway in the southside, looking like she had just been killed. Mateo came running back and then gave his mother the bag. Now, Mateo wasn’t blind nor did his senses fail him. “She’s yours?” he asked in a low tone, and his mother quickly looked up at him with a strict look. Even though he was as old as he was now, and had lived for so long without his family, he couldn’t help but flinch because he remembered that look so well. “Not now” she quickly dismissed what he had said, and then turned to the girl by her side and started doing small checkups, checking her reflexes of her eyes by shining a light into them. “What happened, do you know?” she asked softly, as she started pressing down on spots that would tell her if there was any immediate danger and they should go to the hospital right away, or if it was even safe to move Victoria.

He wanted to know what had happened. Who had to pay for this. Jack felt the anger rise in him dangerously, forcing him to take a sharper breath in not to let the animal in him take control on this situation. He wanted war. To kill. Then he felt the hand on his shoulder, the warm touch that tried to soften the blow just a little bit, but it didn't. "We will find her," he mumbled a little bit and tensed his jaw a bit before he finally moved his head to look at her. "And I'm gonna kill the person responsible for this," Jack said not a doubt in his mind that he would. Jack wasn't afraid to get blood on his hands or to kill, it wasn't something he walked around doing for the living, but if anyone even attempted to threat or hurt his family, their would be a price to pay. "Come on," he walked towards the door not wanting to waste any seconds, after all he had one of the best noses for this sort of thing.
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Daisy blinked a little bit trying to loosen herself for the feeling from beyond the vail, so her eyes moved back to Cassian when he mentioned Scarlett and Jack and nodded. Scarlett was a banshee too, so of course she would have had a similar reaction to this. Their was just the fact that after she had felt with the whole Victoria situation she also needed to deal with the Mono one. "I will call," she replied feeling how dry her mouth was as she slowly got back up on her feet. Daisy felt a little lightheaded by nothing that she couldn't handle. Then she started looking for her phone, because they needed to find out what was going on and then they could grieve afterwards. So, she dried her eyes as she dialed Scarlett's number and waited for her to answer.
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Victoria being in too much shock to even know how her body was feeling, or understanding at first what had happened. Was she dead? No, not when the angel in front of her said she might have some internal bleedings. She's yours? Victoria pressed her brows together, not really saying anything to it, because what did it even mean? Who was these people? Victoria just took a sharper breath in and felt how her body started to signal about the pain to the brain, Victoria narrowed her eyes a little to the bright light that checked her eyes. What had happened. "He killed me," she took a sharper breath in, then forcing herself to sit up and look around, "and Mono -" Victoria made a pained expression as she looked around almost expecting to see him being alive, but then the memories flashed in to tear her apart. "No," she whispered shaking her head. "Anthony Kingsnorth happened." Well Victoria didn't know if these people even knew who Anthony was. She didn't even know what to say, everything just happened once in a way her mind couldn't just focus on one thing.

She nodded as he told her that they would find her. She didn’t doubt it.
Then he said something that made her stop in her tracks, her eyes following him as he walked towards the door not waiting a second, not thinking about the words that he had just said. Now, she was no fool. She knew where he was coming from. She made no illusions that he had killed before or had been in situations where it was him or them. To that she was grateful, grateful for the fact that he was still here, and he had found her, and she had found him. She was happy that they had created a life together and saddened that he had lost someone so close to him. But she was scared, scared what he would do to get revenge, scared to what it meant for them if he followed through with those words he had just spoken. Spoken without hesitation, and how it could put everything at risk for what she, what they, or so she had thought, had fought for. That her daughter could come home. “No” she said pulling her lips back as she felt pain rip through her heart “I’m not going if that is your plan, I can’t do that” she shook her head and took a step back and folded her fingers into fists. “Go, but I won’t be here when you get back” she put down her thoughts in words, knowing that it had to sound incredibly selfish, and maybe she was. But when you were a mother, nothing could matter more than the protection of your children.

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Sophia held her breath for a moment without thinking about it. Someone had killed her, and she had what, respawned? What kind of sick joke was this, but then again, her son was standing beside her so maybe she had a gene in her that made that possible, she wouldn’t know both her parents had died before she could figure it out.
“Okay” Sophia breathed out and then took away the flashlight and nodded towards Mateo “can you pick her up? We need to get her out of here” Mateo nodded and walked over and gently started to pick her up “Hi, my name is Mateo, the annoying woman over there is my mother Sophia” he explained with a soft smile, a sharp breath could be heard from Sophia, and Mateo understood why but it would have to wait for later. He slowly picked her up and started walking towards the car that Sophia had asked him to bring the bag from.

How was he supposed to react? He didn't even think, he couldn't think. There was nothing that could change what happened, but her blood was on his hands and how could he possibly live on knowing that the person who had done this was still out there? There was no way that no one could understand the range of emotions roaming around in his system right now, because not even Jack did. Jack didn't understand anything, but he was angry and hurt. A version of him he she hadn't seen before, she had seen him scared and running to hide from all of this. And now it was knocking on his door, the price for hiding was Victoria's life. He couldn't think about anything else than Victoria, imagining what had happened to her, where she might be and everything just brought more anger. He stopped for a moment before reaching the door handle when she said she wasn't going on with his plan. His eyes turned to hers, no, he didn't see past the rage he was in, the sorrow that filled his eyes with tears threatening to blur his vision. "I have to put an end to this," he took a sharper breath in, "I'm not going to be responsible for another person I love dying," his words so clear yet so washed over with the guilt that was being wrapped tighter around his heart. Then his hand reached the door and he opened it, running down the stairs of the apartment and down the street letting his senses take over trying to see if he could pick up anything remotely close to Victoria. He had plenty of people he could call to help him, but as of right now it would take Jack at least an hour or so to even reach beyond the emotions he was struck by.
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Everything was like a puzzle where at least a few pieces were missing making it hard to find out how things had happened. Besides her mind just tried to race her, and she had to slow it down not to risk herself overloading. And she barely understood the comfort she found in the scents around her, why it felt so familiar yet so far away. It wasn't really till the werewolf walked closer to her and let him pick her up, there was really no point on fighting it. Her eyes looked towards the werewolf who presented himself as Mateo, "Victoria," she exhaled a little presenting herself, "usually more stylish -- no who am I even kidding,  I'm really not, and now I'm rabling - sorry," she shook her dizzy head. Then looking over at Sophia, "sorry about the fortunate events," she mumbled a little feeling the stings of pain pushing through.

She stood there, watching how he walked out of the door. Blinking a little she just saw how the life she had thought she was supposed to live was crumbling in front of her. She swallowed a lump in her throat and felt tears running down her cheeks. Where would she go? She looked around in the apartment that had been her home for a couple of months at this point. The apartment in Southside had been put back for renting and she no longer had anywhere to go. Of course she could call Irina, but she had just gotten a son, and the last thing they needed was her knocking on their door and bringing this type of drama back into their lives.
Her phone started to vibrate, and she pressed it towards her ear “Hello?” she said with a hoarse throat that was a clear indicator that she had screamed.

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Mateo let out a laugh and shook his head “Nah, you’re alright, don’t worry” he said with a bright smile “Dying really isn’t anything anyone can go through and look nice when coming out on the other side” he said, clearly speaking as if he knew, which he did. Sophia swallowed a lump in her throat and opened the door so Mateo could place Victoria inside. “I’ll take you guys to my place, then we’ll call the people that needs to know, and we’ll go from there” she told Victoria, wanting to be upfront with everything that was going on, so she wouldn’t get freaked out, or might think that this Anthony had send them. One could never be too careful when being raised around Southside, even Sophia knew this, and she wasn’t around these parts. But one hellhole pretty much matched the next one.

Daisy closed her eyes when the phone was picked up, almost tasting a small sensation of hope, just a small one which these days were very dangerous. And she felt sick to her stomach just by the experience she had been pulled through, but hearing the hoarse voice on the other end didn't make her felt much better. "Hey, I'ts Daisy -" she had a moment where she didn't even know how to expected to say this. "This is going to sound rather insane, but something is off, so would you please tell Jack not to do anything insane," she knew it might be calling wolf, but she also knew that she didn't have to vocalize what she meant. They both knew what she was talking about, at least Daisy put her faith in that. "We will try go do the scene figure out what went, but please - just wait till we find something," she almost begged. Because well obviously she could call Nigel and he would be able to find Jack, not because of tracking but because well Nigel was Nigel, but she didn't want to wake him up to a nightmare like this. And they could solve this, hopefully they could find a light in the end of the tunnel that wasn't more pain. "Scarlett are you listening to me?" She then wondered while massaging her own forehead, feeling the frustration kick in. But frustration was better than dealing with the actual fear coming along with Mono. Daisy could feel the energy buzz in her, making her uneasy.
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She let out a comfortable chuckle, feeling as if someone had given her a shot of painkillers, but in reality it was just her own mind trying to protect her from the damage done. Even so, it was as she got placed in the back of the car, she realized the reality of everything. ... then we’ll call the people that needs to know, thoughts started building up in her head, realizing she knew banshee's. Knowing Mono had died. A part of her wanted to scream by the thought of the pain, but she didn't. She noticed from the sighing to the car that they were in Southside which had her look out the windows clearly expecting something bad to happen, but she had learned to stay alert when posed to a threat. She could feel her tears starting to glide down over her cheeks as everything closely set in, silent cries had after all been one of the things she had done best. Keep the mask on and not let people see you fall. Even if she felt like that foolish play was done years ago. She just wanted to fucking breathe.

Scarlett just stood there and listened to what Daisy was telling her. She didn’t say anything but kept her eyes on the door. She wished she could tell her that they would wait, that everything would turn out fine. But he had left her, knowing that she wouldn’t be here when he came back. When Daisy asked if she was even listening, she gasped and choked back a sob. “Yes - but he already left” she whispered, drying off a fallen tear with the back of her hand. “I told him, that if he left, I wouldn’t be here, he would try to find and kill the person that killed Vic, I’m sorry, but - I - I can help this time, I have a daughter to think about and, please make sure he doesn’t do anything stupid” she begged.
Cassian walked inside and looked at Daisy pressing his brows together. “Something is wrong, her body is moving” he whispered, trying to push the feelings aside about the death of a friend, not wanting to let it consume him before he had made sure that things were as it should be. “Just find him, I’m sorry I wasn’t strong enough” Scarlett whispered before she hung up and started walking around the apartment and packed her things.
“What happened?” Cassian asked stepping towards Daisy and placed his hands on her shoulders, giving her the time, she needed to process whatever had been on the other side of the call.

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Mateo that had placed himself in the back of the car besides Victoria, just to make sure if something happened, he could handle it. Sophia driving the car out of Aston and to Oakheart where she had a small house, not that she had used it a whole lot. Working had been her medicine with everything that had happened with her former fiancé, seeing Willson all the time knowing that Calypso would come home to him soon and with their child she had tried to keep away from him. Not wanting to complicate things. Which had only broken her heart further. Funny how one could be the one to decide to move away but be the one that felt it was hardest to actual move on.
As he noticed that Victoria was crying, Mateo placed his hand beside her. Palm facing upwards, he didn’t want to interfere if she just wanted to be alone with her sorrow. But he also wanted to give her the opportunity to take it, if it could ease the pain, even if it was just for a little while.
What a mess. He hadn’t even decided if he wanted to reconnect with his family, but now it would seem like he had no choice. After this it would only be a matter of time before they would call his father and sister. So, he also had to mentally prepare himself for that. At least he was good to put one thing ahead, instead of letting all thoughts pile on top of each other.

He had already left. Fuck. Daisy cursed a little bit, but then Scarlett explained. And if anyone could understand why Scarlett made the choice she did, it was Daisy. Because when it came down to it, she had always put Katelyn first. Always. "I will do my best," she promised, a dangerous promise indeed. But Daisy tend to do her best to keep it. Then she looked to the side seeing Cassian walking back inside, saying Victoria's body was moving, so something was wrong. In one or the other way. "I will call for back up," she assured, then hanging up. "Jack left - for vengeance, I'm gonna call Selene. See if she can calm him a little down, if she can find him," she hoped. But even if Jack was untraceable, if you just knew the person it wasn't hard to find out where they would walk there they would go if angered. Daisy could understand the want to get revenge on someone who had taken something from you - she had killed Maggie after all.

She took a sharper breath in and held it for a moment before exhaling, finally managing to dial Selene's number. Filling her in so she knew something had happened to Victoria, but till they knew what was going on - she didn't want too many people going around saying Victoria was dead. Not till she had it confirmed. Daisy wanted to believe there still was some hope. Then afterwards hanging up looking towards Cassian, "so how do we do this?"

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A huge part of her just wanted to shut her brain off again, just fall back asleep into the nothingness for a while. Just a moment where she didn't feel the emotions on what was to rise kick in. Because she didn't want to believe it that Mono was dead. That Anthony had just chosen to kill them, if she had been standing in Southside while he had killed them - sure she would have understood, but she hadn't. Victoria had followed the rules she had felt so tied down by, and look where that had gotten her. Her eyes noticed the hand beside her, making her sob a little bit more before she took it. Not that she was one for asking or taking help, but right now she did.

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It felt like an endless hunt, getting to the town center down the streets. Smelling the blood from the human, he remembered Mono from when Victoria had tried to hide him in the house back then. As if Jack wouldn't be able to snif the boy out. Even if he hadn't seen Mono since he hadn't minded him, nor wished for him to be dead. But with the amount of blood on the street it didn't look good. Yet, his hunt kept on looking for Victoria, it was the only thing in his mind. Not thinking about anything else, mindlessly going around trying to figure out why he couldn't find her tracks anymore, like she had just vanished. It didn't stop him from sitting down looking ahead where the police still searched. He pushed a few tears away with the back of his hand and got up on the next exhale. It was first as he took a deeper breath in he shook his head. "I'm surprised to see you here," he turned around looking at Selene.

He nodded when she explained what was going on. “Damn it, yes, call her, if anyone can find her, she will be the one” it was funny how you could meet someone and feel like you have known the person all their life. That had been what he had felt like when Selene had brought Sebastian into his house, how she had been around him and Ash, given Sebastian room and just stepped away. She was one of those that had that hard shell, but as you peeled it away you would find that woman that was just the most beautiful and heartwarming person in the world. Which was funny, because he hadn’t really spent that much time with her, and maybe it was because she had served his son. But he really liked her, and now that Victoria might be dead, he would remember to cherish the people in his life more. Even those that didn’t know that they might be important to him. Maybe him and Nigel could sit down, drink a beer and talk about the fact that they had become family, even though it was still hard to figure out where the boundaries was. He should remember to call his father - maybe even call Michelle, even though he knew it wouldn’t be any success - but death really had a way of making you reflect. Good or bad.

“I’m just going to wait for the blood to stop and then we teleport to the location” he said with a small smile letting out a small breath. Keeping on to the hope that because it moved it meant that she was actually still alive and there was something else playing.

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Mateo gave the hand a small squeeze, mostly to tell her that he was there even though they didn’t know each other well. “We aren’t that faraway now” Sophia announced and finally drove into a small driveway to a Victorian stone house cottage. Even though she hadn’t been home much everything around the house looked like it was neatly put together. Very strict with what was in the garden, shining painted doors in a white colour. It was clear that it was a woman with some sort of liking for control that lived here. “Alright, do you have her?” Sophia asked and Mateo nodded, helped Victoria out of the car, as Sophia walked towards the door and opened it so they could get her inside.

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Selene had given Walter a soft kiss against his temple and told him that she needed to go out, after she had talked with Daisy. It didn’t take long for her to track him down; animals were after all a creature of habit. “Oh?” she said as he turned around looking at her while telling her that he was surprised to see her. She nodded walking towards her and letting out a small sigh. “So, Jack, tell me this” she started pressing her brows together as she placed her hands into her leather jacket. “You decided to storm off into the middle of the night, no back up, no one knew where you were and had no way of tracking you down, to help a woman that you had just been told were dead - blaming yourself because you weren’t there, but if we look at the scene know, one could say that you would have had a nice spot beside Mono over there” now this wasn’t a sign that it didn’t effect Selene, it did, very much so. But she had seen it before, sadly this wasn’t her first death not her own nor people she loved. With the Russian pack roaming around back in the start of the year, they had lost a couple of members of the pack. “Now, I’m here to tell you that they don’t think Victoria is still dead, and that something has happened, so maybe you could just take a moment, breathe and we’ll be able to figure something out, without you running a chance with someone from the land of the living” she said, all in a very controlled and calm manner.

She nodded a little and took a sharper breath in. How she hated this, the pain that grabbed onto your chest like a sharp pain feeling as if knives were just stabbed into the flesh. Not knowing what was going to happen next or what they would find. What they would figure out. "Okay," she exhaled a little bit then stepping closer to him, placing the phone on the counter, letting her hands  rest against his cheeks, and looking into his eyes with a sad smile. Daisy hated they always ended up in these emotonal hurricanes but they could battle through them together, as long as they stood together they could overcome anything. She believed that. Daisy thereafter placed a soft kiss against his lips, selfishly thankful for the fact that they still had each other, "I love you so much," she mumbled a little against his lips, taking a sharper breath in. Well her emotions were still on her sleeves, so taking a second to appreciate what she had didn't hurt anyone.
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Victoria didn't know these parts that well, truth to be told whenever she had been out of Southside she had only just been in Aston - it was very rare she had been outside, unless it was for Cassian, Dion or even Sol trying to drag her to something. Her eyes looked towards the cottage as the car stopped, she could almost feel the connection to the material without stepping out of the car. The whole place itself just spoke to her, it was odd. Then letting Mateo help her out of the car, Victoria felt better getting her feet connected to the ground, almost longing to just let her bare feet get in touch with the ground - but maybe it was just her powers longing to play out. "It's a lovely home," she complimented taking a sharper pained breath in, but she meant it.

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Jack raised a brow at Selene, "you done yet," he clicked his tongue a little and then exhaled. "Because the person who killed Mono and might then - might have killed Victoria is Anthony. And what am I supposed to do? Sit and wait for him to kill someone else, who is the next going to be Selene? How many people is he going to hurt before this whole thing is over, no - I'm not having it," he shook his head. One thing was how Anthony had almost killed him, another thing was going after the people he loved. "But wait a minute - what do you mean they don't think she is still dead, who are they?" Jack wondered. It was like Jack heard everything being said to him, but his brain just chose to let him react to bits of it once in a while and putting a question mark to it. Like right now. Jack knew deep down that going after Anthony right now wouldn't solve anything, but it didn't mean he didn't want to.

“I love you too” he whispered and pulled her in and placed a soft kiss against her temple “things will turn out alright” he mumbled, believing in this, mostly because he had to for his own sanity. He looked down at the map and saw that the blood stopped. At least know they knew where she was. But there was something in him that told him that they needed to wait, just for a moment at least. “Just a moment longer, I just need to make sure that she doesn’t move anymore” not wanting to wait energy to teleport to a place where she would suddenly be gone from in a moment or two.
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Sophia gave her a small smile and nodded “Thank you” she whispered letting both her children in, still processing the fact that she had found Victoria after she had been killed and then revived, and then there was Mateo that had died all those many years ago. Knowing that she needed to call her eldest daughter and then needing to call Diego, but not tonight, not when she knew that he had a very young little boy that shouldn’t be disturbed.
“Do you want a bath first? I’m sure I’ll be able to find you some close” she said with a small smile on her lips, know that they were standing there in her hallway, she could see how horrible the young girl looked. “I think you should have a bath, come with me” she reached out her hand for her to take so she could guide her towards the bathroom.

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She raised a brow as he spoke about Anthony killing again, letting out a small sigh a she let her eyes glide over the scene, she should probably call Ethan about this, it was not a pretty sight. As he finally figured out to listen to some of the words that she had said, she turned her eyes back towards him. “Daisy called, remember, you’re not the only one that lost today, and by the looks of it - one of the two that died tonight, will not be coming back - so, Daisy called Scarlett and then called me because you decided to go out to get revenge, so are you done now with your solo mission, and hero complex? So we might actually figure out where Victoria is, and stop this stupid plan with killing someone that will just end up being your death” she clicked her tongue and walked closer to him. “come here you idiot” she grabbed his shoulders and pulled him into a hug.

She exhaled a little bit staying within his embrace looking at the map, how the blood stopped somewhere in Oakheart. So, she just took a deeper breath in and nodded a bit, giving him a small squeeze as her arms held around him. Took a sharper breath in, things would turn out alright. It had to. Daisy usually never put doubt into her banshee powers, especially when she knew something had been odd - just glad they had followed the lead and not dismissed it. "Just a moment longer then," she exhaled once again with a lower voice. She didn't have to deal with the thing with Mono, who even said she had to be the one bringing the tale further, by now the police would have found the body of Mono - wouldn't they? Have it identified by hours or so, and tomorrow the people who needed to know would no. But was it just her being selfish not wanting to put more responsibility on her own shoulders?
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Victoria was easy to dismiss when she felt like crap and just push through with it, because there was more important things - like her friends not thinking she was dead. She wanted to call Jack, but she knew Jack of all people wouldn't have his phone on him and if he thought she was dead - he would be half way towards the scene of crime now. But pushed out of her thoughts when Sophia insisted that she should take a shower. Victoria looked down at herself for a hot second, and took a sharper breath in. "But I need to call Cassian," she mumbled a little bit, well he out of all people would be able to keep his head the most cool, and she wanted people to know she was alright. Well she was here. But either way she followed with slow movements her
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Jack kept his eyes locked with Selene, every single inch of him wanted to keep on arguing his case. Even if he knew she was right, he wanted to disagree, and he wanted to be angry. And he wanted to find Victoria. But no he wasn't giving up on killing Anthony, one day he would find a way to get rid of that guy - he just had to be smarter than this about it. Just about to say something, Selene pulled him into a hug, Jack rolled his eyes a little, giving her a small pat - not because he didn't liked the embrace, actually he appreciated it a lot but he didn't allow himself to feel like he deserved it. Not till he knew whether or not Victoria was completely alright. Then he pulled himself out of the hug and mumbled a few words that was even to unclear for him to know. "Let's find Vic," he took a sharper breath in.

“Just a moment longer -“

Sophia gave Victoria a small smile and titled her head as she told her that she needed to call Cassian. “If there is something I’ve learned by now, is the fact that things will turn out for the better if you take a moment for yourself, and right now we need to get you sorted and then when everything has calmed down in that head of yours, we’ll call the people that needs to know, and I have a feeling that there might not be a lot of calling around, now, come with me” she said with a soft voice and placed her arm around Victoria and walked with her upstairs so she could lead her into a beautiful Victorian bathroom with small white tiles that was only broken by some black ones every known and then. A bathtub with lion feet in the middle of the room and a shower standing in one of the corners furthest from the door they had entered. “Sit here” she guided her to sit on the toilet and then started filling the tub. “You’ll manage to get undressed yourself?” she asked looking towards Victoria after she had made sure that the water was nice and warm without being too hot. She nodded and then walked towards the door “I’ll place some clothes for you in a moment - take your time, like I said, in my experience in situations like this, everything will work out” she said with a smile.

She was just about to walk into the bathroom to place the clothes when someone knocked on the door downstairs. She walked in, placed the clothes on the toilet and a big towel for Victoria as well. “I’ll just go see who it is, remember to take your time” she reminded her, and then walked downstairs, only to see two figures on the other side. She opened it and saw a tall man with wild curls and piercing blue eyes and a beautiful woman with straight thick hair.  “Can I help you?” she asked, and Cassian nodded “I’m sorry, but is Victoria here by any change?” Sophia blinked a little and then a smile formed over her lips “Cassian?” she asked and for a moment he just stood there looking stunned and then he nodded “Yeah, she’s here, come in” she stepped aside and let the couple in. “My name is Sophia -“ Mateo walked into the hallway and folded his arms in front of his chest. “This is my son Mateo, we found Victoria and brought her here, she’s taking a bath but will be down soon” she said and closed the door behind them “I was just about to make some tea, would you like some?” she asked and Cassian nodded after he managed to pull his eyes away from the stairs leading upstairs.

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She shook her head a little about how he decided to take the hug. But she didn’t push it and let him get out of the embrace. She could slap in the back of his head later, after they had found Vic. “yes, I’ll just call the police so someone will find Mono” she said and pressed the in the numbers and nodded to him so they could walk and talk at the same time. She quickly told them what to expect and then hung up just as she asked Selene to stay at the scene and what her name was. “Let’s go” she said and started picking up pace as she caught unto the scent of Victoria once again, it was weird however, how it was drops of scent - it reminded her of her own ability the teleportation when you died. But she didn’t think further about it as she just followed the lead where it took them.

To be fair Victoria didn't hear much, everything felt like a distant echo in her head, but she followed along. Then followed the more simple instruktions, like sitting down. So Victoria sat down on the toilet seat, and looked at the tub. It took a moment before her eyes looked around noticing the beauty of the space she was in. Then moving her big brown eyes back to Sophia and nodded a little when asked if she could undress herself. Victoria took a sharper breath in and closed her eyes for the time she was alone and opened them by the sound of Sophia returning and placing the clothing and a towel. Victoria then after Sophia had left again started to undress and let herself sink into the water. Letting it consume her, taking a deeper breath in and just let her head dive under and stayed there for a moment. Everything was so quiet under the water, like she could just for a moment have a clear mind, but then her body screamed for her to get out and breath. But she pushed for a second, but only a second before letting her head back up, and took a few good breaths. Letting her arms fold around her legs as she hugged them. Just resting her chin against the top of them, starring out into the air while her thoughts processed.

Getting to the house, Daisy took a sharper breath in. Because one thing was it could be Victoria was alive, it could also be something worse. Who knew at this point really. The door opened and if it wasn't because of how Daisy's mind was everywhere at once, she would have recognized Sophia a bit faster than she did. Because she had seen her around the hospital a few times, but now it wasn't like Daisy mingled with the doctors that much - but she was good at remembering faces. And of course everyone did remember the people who Ash argued with, because Ash always made a bit deal out of everything. Daisy exhaled a little bit feeling like the stone dropped from her heart when Sophia said Victoria was in the house, and let them in. Then turning her head towards Mateo as he was presented to them. "Daisy," she gave them a small warm smile, "yes thank you," she nodded when offered tea, giving Cassian's hand a little squeeze in it was good news. "Do you have any idea what happened?" Daisy asked her voice still a little hoarse, but it wasn't like she always got the full idea on what had went on before someone died. And especially not in a case like this. Then she picked up her phone to text Selene the location of where they had found Victoria, or awaited Victoria.

It took a good minute or several before Victoria got out of the bath, dried herself and got dressed. Looking in the mirror and took a sharper breath in. But it was as she took that breath in, she noticed Cassian and Daisy's scent being close, and hurried to hang the towel up, and fold her old clothing. Then reaching for the door and moved towards the stairs. Her movements a bit rocky, but it didn't stop her from almost running or falling - a mix - down the stairs. Just stopping for a moment watching them all sitting with their tea, holding her breath for a second not really knowing actually what to do with herself.
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Jack started walking letting Selene call it in. His mind more or less set on the goal of finding a trace of Victoria's scent. But it took some time before they finally caught the scent again and started to run, but had to stop around the border of Southside, looking at it. Even smelling the blood of Anthony not far away. It would be so easy. And he could feel how his eyes iced up and his jaw tensed for a moment. But he could see the fresh tracks from the car. Jack heard  Selene's phone buzzing and turned his head towards her, looking shortly at the border again, then looking back at Selene.

It was only when she said her name that Sophia remembered her, or at least she had heard about the woman that was working with Ash, some type of studies in the supernatural brainwaves if she remembered correctly. Cassian squeezed Daisy’s hand back and then followed Sophia and Mateo into a small sitting area where the fallen angel gestured them to sit down. “Not really, no - but she’s alive and doesn’t seem to have any damages, but she did die” she whispered giving them both a sad smile, then walking into the kitchen where she quickly made the tea and then got back out to the small group of people. “Are we expecting more?” she asked and Cassian nodded “Selene a good friend of ours were out looking for Jack” he said with a small smile and Sophia nodded and was happy that it would seem that most people would come here, instead of Victoria having to call around to let them know what had happened.

Cassian quickly turned in his seat and saw Victoria standing there. Looking like nothing had happened, and yet like everything had changed all the same. He was quick to get up from his seat and walked over and pulled her into his embrace. “It’s okay Vic, we are here, everything will turn out fine” he whispered softly and pulled her closer by placing a hand on the back of her head.  

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Selene took her phone out again and saw the text, she walked over and took Jack by his shoulder. “I know where she is, she is alive and at this address - come, and leave it” she said the last part in a low hiss as she looked into his icy eyes, the last thing they needed was this even if Jack couldn’t understand it right now. and then turned him and walked towards her motorcycle, no way she was running or walking all the way to Oakheart from here. Getting on she waited for Jack before she reeved the engine and drove over the speed limit to where they needed to go. Luckily things hadn’t changed much and she knew how they could get there without the help from navigation.

It wasn't like she needed the confirmation to know Victoria had died, Daisy knew she wouldn't have reacted so strongly if she hadn't. But in some way it did make a small difference knowing that she hadn't lost her touch. Taking the tea gladly when it was served, her nerves was thankful. Nodding a bit when Cassian replied to the question, hopefully Selene and Jack, along with Scarlett was the only people who yet knew anything about this, so they had a chance of getting the story out before word spread. Daisy looked to the side the second Cassian got up from his seat and they sat Victoria standing there. Looking like all this hell hadn't been.

Victoria exhaled first when Cassian embraced her, and she just broke into tears again. Not knowing how to deal with everything that roamed around in her right now. But she just kept her arms around Cassian, holding him close. Like the fear of it being a dream for a moment, that within a few seconds death would come back and drag her into the darkness once again. There was so many things and at the same time no things she wanted to say, so she just cried for now.
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"Fucking hell," he mumbled a bit when Selene said she knew where Victoria was. It was so close to maybe just end this once for all, attacking Anthony when he was weak and not the other way around. But he also knew he needed to find Victoria. Perhaps this was the influence finding his brothers, meeting Scarlett had had on Jack, not letting him rage war even if he had went all the way here. There was still a difference in getting to this point and turn around than going all the way. He then turned to jump on with Selene so they could get there faster. After all, he wasn't Eric who could just speed everywhere he wanted in no time. Which reminded him Eric needed to know at some point. But that could wait.

He just stood there with her for however long that she needed it. Not really minding that there were other people in the room, this was what Victoria needed so that was what she got.

Selene put the bike up in the next gear and pressed the engine as far as she could. The scenery passed them by as they almost flew through the streets of Athena, it didn’t take long before Southsides dungy streets became Oakhearts clean and fresh neighbourhoods where you knew that there was invested money to make it stay that way, where everyone had seemed to forget Southside and the people living there. Not long after she could kill the machine and park by a beautiful house where it was clear that someone lived here that took great care of how it presented itself.  “Does Victoria even know people that lives in this area?” she wondered and shook her head, getting off and looked around.
Sophia had gotten up from the couch she had been sitting in and walked over so she could open the door. But as she saw the woman with the man she had to pause for a moment. The two women looked at each other, it was clear that gears were turning as to where they should know each other and then a low curse left Selene. But she tried to hide it as she walked up and handed her hand to the stranger “Selene” she presented herself and nodded towards Jack “we are here because of Victoria?” she said in a low voice and Sophia nodded “Sophia, come in” she whispered with a small smile and then waited for both of them to get inside before she closed the door again.

She just took everything in, the embrace, the warmth and most importantly his heartbeat. Listening to Cassian's heartbeat reminded her that she was alive. That she wasn't dead, that this wasn't some dreamscape. But then the nightmare kicked in, "he killed him," she sobbed, once again as she closed her eyes it was like she could hear the echo of Mono's scream in her head. Victoria took a sharper breath in when remembered to breathe, it was awful what had happened tonight. No one deserved anything like what had just happened, and right now, right now she was just so consumed in the sea of raging emotions wanting to pull her down under.

Jack jumped off when Selene did, looking at the house and exhaled a little. Cassian and Daisy were already there. He didn't know the others. "No, she doesn't," he wondered then pressing his brows together again. It was like he finally was able to connect Victoria's scent to her surroundings. Like what had happened had made him able to pick and trace something he had never smelled around her before. She was around family, her actual family. The thought scared him a bit. But followed Selene to the door where the fallen angel opened up.

Victoria noticed the change of scent when Selene and Jack came in, and slowly let go of him, taking a deeper breath in as Jack almost just ran through the space to let his eyes scan her to see if she was alright - knowing she was if Cassian was here, he trusted the warlock that much. He didn't know what more to say than just wrap his arms around Victoria holding her close. "It's okay," she whispered assuring him she was alright, at least she was here - right? Daisy gave Selene an appreciated nod with a small smile as a thank you for getting to Jack in time.

“I know sweetheart, but it will be okay” he whispered, he felt like he could say something like that, mostly because he had been where she was right now. It wasn’t because he promised that the pain would go away right away, or that it would go away at all. But in the end, it would heal the wound and you would be able to live with the pain. Luckily, she had a strong support system and a lot of people there would be there for her, to help her lift the heavy load that there was to outlive a friend.
As he heard the voices, he slowly let go of Victoria so Jack could look at her and take her into her arms. There was a lot of emotions flying around in the room now, and he looked towards Selene that couldn’t take her eyes off Sophia, then she looked towards Victoria, and then back towards Sophia clearly figuring something out that no one else were thinking at this point. But then it slowly started to make sense.
“You’re her mother, aren’t you” he whispered and Sophia looked towards him and then towards Victoria. “I don’t know if this is the place or time” Sophia said and pulled back a painful expression. “She’s been through a lot already, maybe we should just -“ Selene felt sick for a moment, almost as if her whole stomach turned, not that anyone could see it on her. Mateo got up “maybe we should just sit down, and like my mother said, just breathe and take one step at a time, people have died tonight, maybe it isn’t a good time” he said with a warm voice, Selene being Selene turned around and had to step out for a moment. She remembered where she had seen her now. There had been a picture of her in her father’s office, her and a lot of other women looking just like Sophia. At first, she had thought that his father had just had affairs, mostly because he had never loved her mother so it wouldn’t surprise her. But later she had realised that it was trophies.
Breathing in the air she stood there for a moment with closed eyes and faced her face to the skies. Not a moment of peace, never just a small moment of peace.

Her sharp ears caught Cassian's whisper to Sophia, but she stayed in Jack's arms. It didn't mean she didn't listen, but Victoria also knew when to speak and when to listen. And then she realized she was the 'her' they were speaking about. But no, her mother was dead. Victoria knew the tale of her mother. "What do you mean -" Victoria then let go of Jack, looking towards Cassian shortly - he was the one who had said it first. Sophia being her mother. "Wh- What is going on?" Not that it perhaps was a good time, but it didn't mean she was about to just push down a bomb like and wait for the moment it would explode. Her head ran through her damp hair as she took a sharper breath in, letting her hand use the wall to keep herself stable. Jack took a sharper breath in. Then he realized the last pieces of the puzzle. It was around Selene too, but not with Selene and the others. It had to be a link. So, he looked towards Selene, clearly had figured things out. Victoria looked towards Jack, and just that look on Jack's face was enough to feel just a bit more lost in what was going on. Enough for the ground to shake a little bit, not extremely much but just her powers responding to how completely cast adrift she felt this moment. "I need to sit down," she said and simply just sat down on the ground where she had been standing, and took a sharper breath in. What was going on? Why was everything just twisting and turning around. She felt like she was slowly losing her mind.