The Naturals

Chapter 56

My entire body freezes, the impact of her words slicing through me to my core. My hands start to shake, and the phone falls from my grasp, crashing against the floorboards. My legs, my arms, my mind, everything is numb. I can barely feel the cushion beneath me, or the cold of the wood on my bare feet.

"Kathy?" Multiple people are saying, the sounds coming to me all at once. Dean had stepped forward to grab my phone and I silently hold my hand out for it. Hesitantly he hands it back and as I put it to my ear I glance out the window.

"You're not kidding," I whisper.

"No I'm not, why? Is there an Agent named Lacey?" She asks, concern lacing her words.

I open my mouth, a guttural sound leaving my mouth before I shut it again. I can't say it aloud, not yet.

"Abigail Florence," I whisper instead, nodding my head. "Yeah..."

"Is she there now?"

"No."

"Good, so leave. You have to leave Kathy-"

"No," I say again. "No..."

"Kathleen Jennifer Lane Qwynn," she says, her voice rocky, "Don't you you do dare do something reckless."

I crack a half smile, the shake still a hold on me. "It's what I do," I whisper before slowly lifting my finger above the end call button. Before she has a chance to say anything else I push it, the beep signifying the end like a knife to my chest.

"Kathy," Lia says. "You look white as a ghost. What's going on? Who's Abigail Florence?"

I gaze at my phone unknowingly as I bite my lip. "Our UNSUB," I murmur.

"So," Maddox blurts. "We have a name?"

"Yeah, but that's not all," Michael mutters. "In all the time I've known you you have never once been scared of anything. Except now. You're terrified, and... furious." I meet his gaze. "Because you didn't catch on sooner? Kathy, who's Abigail Florence."

Lacey Locke. Lacey Locke. Lacey Locke.

"I have to call Briggs," I say. "But I don't have his number."

"Use my phone," Dean replies, passing it to me. "I only have four contacts, Briggs is one of them."

No passcode. I shake my head internally at just how Dean that is.

Low and behold, the other three are Judd, Locke, and Lia. In a burst of fear, or almost... preservation, I quickly type my number into his contacts before hitting Briggs' name.

No answer.

What if Lockes attacked him? I mean, that would be completely out of character and against the legacy's morals completely, but it could be possible? Right? Briggs as the very first male victim- yeah no.

I pull the phone away and stare at the screen. Then, with one last glance out the window I decide a plan. A plan that didn't take much thinking- mainly because the plan is to wing the plan in the first place.

I tap Lockes name and put it to my ear.

"Dean?" She says as she answers. Just like Briggs, she feels no need for introductions. To think, she has no idea why I've called. She has no idea I've figured it out- figured her out.

"No, it's me," I say.

"Kathy? Is everything alright?"

"Uh..." I sigh. "No."

"Are you alone?"

I look up, at the five people around me, and then at the Agent that swiftly popped his head through the door, glaring at Lia. Obviously her little kitchen fire was put out, and the Agents realized the set up.