must have been the wind [old version]

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Fitz Vacker didn't know what to think when his ex-girlfriend questioned the Neverseen guy and he willingly gave her the answers. Soon enough he had no more time to think because a pack was shoved in his hands by none other than Sophie. "Quit daydreaming, we have to go." Then she turns back to the group, "This is urgent and you all took too long, so I conjured all the things that you would need into a small bag--because I sure as hell am not going to help hold your extra bags. Sorry parents, but you need to stay and have Alden inform me if the Neverseen do anything big. We have to leave, now."

With that she turns to do something and Fitz can't help but admire her, but that soon vanishes when he hears his brother start speaking to his friend. "Damn, Ruy that girl is--," He didn't know what he was doing when he punched his brother in the face, "Never talk about Sophie like that, she's not something you can ogle at--not one of you conquests. I have no idea why she's letting you live, either of you." He went in for another punch, but his arm was caught by an invisible force that was none other than Sophie Foster.

"No fighting." She says softly and focuses on something else, Fitz reluctantly gets off his brother. He then looked at Sophie and looked longingly, "Awe, like a little puppy." Glimmer says as she passes him to get to his brother and Ruy. To keep him calm, he breathed in then out ten times and wondered how Tam liked that girl. She's like a miniature devil.

Sophie held out her arms and before I could take her hand Biana grabs it and Alvar shoves Ruy into Sophie. She looks like she wants to strangle someone, but she just grabs his hand, "Let's go people, we don't have all day. Remember we still need to find Keefe." As soon as she says that everyone links hands and she does something that I never predicted, "Uhh, Ruy? I can't snap my fingers if you clench them tightly." He lets go quickly and she smiles, offering him her elbow.

He takes it and without warning she teleports us to the Forbidden Cities. When everyone looks sick she makes a fake concerned face, "Sorry, I forgot that you guys don't do this as much as me." She gives an innocent smile that I don't think anyone would go against--but this Ruy guy. "Sure, Blondie." Right as the words leave his mouth and Sophie registers what he said she ducks her head, Fitz could see the red creeping up on her face.

Sophie recovers quickly though, she brushes her hair behind her ear and clears her throat, "According to the research I did, Keefe should be here." She points to the big blue house, the house is in the middle of the forest with no other houses around it. As we enter the perimeter she sticks her arm out, as if searching for something. She must have seen the question on my face and answered my unasked question.

"Checking for any traps, if I found him there's a great chance the Neverseen could have found him too. And knowing Keefe, there's probably pranks everywhere." She says with a light laugh and a fake smile, but everyone knows it's killing her--even the Neverseen members. Sophie shakes herself and keeps walking forward, "Let's go slow pokes! Last person to the house is rotten mallowmelt!" Another thing she has in common with Keefe, using jokes to hide the pain.

But we all indulge her and run to the house. Sophie of course got there first and knocked on the door, after several minutes with no response she pulled something out of her pocket and shoved it into the lock. "What are you doing?" Linh asks, yeah, what is she doing? Sophie doesn't answer, but when there is a click noise it is pretty obvious, "Finding Keefe one-oh-one be prepared for anything--picking locks included." When she opens the door she ducks right away and with Fitz being right behind her, he gets hit in the face with shaving cream.

Everyone breaks into laughter, but Sophie, she just strides into the house setting off booby traps as she goes. The good thing is that it misses her every time, but it hits someone else. "Will someone please stop her before she wrecks the whole house and us with it." The Ruy guy says as he tries to keep up with her and dodge all the traps. "Guys hurry up before he knows we're here and makes a run for it." She breaks into a run and we have no choice but to follow her or we get lost.

Sophie makes one final sharp turn then launches herself at a shadowy figure. The guy raises his hands in surrender, but she is already straddling him. Out of breath she holds him to the ground, "You're a real asshole." Then she abruptly gets off and throws him a bag, "Hurry up, we need to go, now."

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Keefe Sencen knew that he couldn't keep running forever and knew that his past would eventually catch up to him, but he didn't think that today was the day. Over the past year he buried his past as an elf and wanted to live out the rest of his lifetime around humans. He enrolled in college, started playing basketball, made new friends, had a girlfriend--though it wasn't really his choice, was still popular, and got his own house. He had everything planned out, until he saw on his tv that there was a certain blonde girl with a bunch of good looking kids on his porch.

He was having a pretty shitty day so far, and this made it by far the worst this year. They lost the championship game yesterday, he got drunk off his ass, made out with a girl he didn't even like, and now his friends were on his ass about needing the details. They were here right now and were downright curious to why he yelled, "Bro, you okay in there." Asked Mikael, his tall, dark haired and eyed, really good looking friend, "Woah, who is that girl knocking--you keeping secrets from us?"

"Ah, she's no one, never seen her in my life." The lie just rolled off his tongue before he could stop himself. His friend smirks, "Sure. Well then, if you don't mind, I'm going to try and charm her." Before he can leave Sophie started talking, "Finding Keefe one-oh-one be prepared for anything--picking locks included." His friend raised a brow with a smirk on his mouth, "Never seen her before aye?"

Keefe was visibly sweating now, "Hey, Josh get in here. Keefe has been lying to us and we are going to get to the bottom of it." Joshua, another friend and Ronnie--his girlfriend's brother. He thought the day couldn't get any worse, but it did because in came Josh, Ronnie, and Bekkah--Ronnie's best friend. A guy he doesn't remember is talking to Sophie but she didn't hear him and just kept pacing his way, "Guys hurry up before he knows we're here and makes a run for it."

"Who is that?" Ronnie snarks and Mikael answers, "Said it was nobody, how much do y'all wanna bet--," He doesn't get to continue before something knocks Keefe off his feet, "You're a real asshole." Everyone looks twice at the small blonde girl who knocked him off his feet, "Hurry up, we need to leave, now." She hasn't registered everyone in the room yet and that was okay with him, the less she knew about his new life the better.

He reached up and grabbed her retreating arm, she made a face at him--a face his friends snickered at making them known. Her face goes red which makes her cuter than he remembered, "I'm sorry, Sophie," She flinches like he'd hit her, and he realized that he called her by her first name, "But when I left I left all of that behind as well." Her blush vanishes and is replaced by a coldness that he thought only villains could accomplish, "Well then trust me when I say that you'll want to know what we found out."

She says this in a smaller voice, a voice that doesn't show fear, but what commands respect--she wants them to have to strain to listen. Sophie shakes his grip off, "You know, your obligations aren't the only things you left behind." Fitz reaches out to her, but she brushes him off and keeps striding out of the room then stops. "Make your choice quickly, Keefe, because in five minutes we have to leave. With or without you, and believe me when I say we need your help and as you remember I'm not the best at keeping promises--except for that one." That she'd never hate me--no matter what.

"Remember," She says lightly with a smile that he'd die for, "Team Foster-Keefe for the win." Then she walks out of the room, wagging her hips in his face and Fitz's too he guessed. Every guy in the room, but Tam, Dex, Wylie, and who he thought was Alvar looked at her lustfully. Bangs Boy made a gagging sound that made Glimmer laugh, "Please say yes Keefe, this is the happiest I've seen her in so long. Don't--don't leave her again, she needs you as much as we all do." Tam surprisingly says, then he and Glimmer exit.

Keefe turned to everyone in the room, "Did Bangs Boy just say that he needed me?" Biana laughs, she looks tired, older, wary, "Of course that's what you notice." She leaves next, then Linh and Wylie, then the Neverseen members who he'd need to question Sophie about later, and then Marella. "She needs you Keefe, she's a wreck." Then Dex leaves, that means only Fitz and his new friends were left in the room. Fitz looks longingly to the door that Sophie exited from, "They all speak the truth." He walks away, but not before whispering, "It's been hard without you, my friend."

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