Running For Love

Untitled Part 2

We ran on for several more hours before the acidic smell of fuel hit my senses and we came into a clearing where we saw the large hangers for the small planes. I looked to my brother who had stopped running and dropped the backpack in front of me.

"Go get changed," was all he said to me.

I picked up the bag in my teeth and stepped back into the treeline where I shifted back into my human form and put on a pair of sweats and a loose shirt before stepping back out. Talon took the bag from me and did the same.

"Okay, Alpha Darren knows we're coming and the plan; he doesn't agree for a second about what Mom and Dad were planning," my brother explained leading me to one of the hangers with the bay door open, "He told me he wouldn't be able to meet us, but he has one of his most trusted pilots here to take you into Night Fang territory, understand?"

I looked at my brother like he was crazy, "How did you even get all of this together," my breathing was becoming heavy, my heart started to race under my skin, "You are coming with me, right, I want to get away from them so badly, but I can't leave you behind to deal with them!"

My hands were shaking, I couldn't get comfortable on my own feet, if our parents ever found out they'd kill my brother, they may hate me, but they hated being lied to and cheated more. I couldn't lift my head to meet my brother's eyes, I could only shift around and nervously wring my hands, worse yet; if they ever found me... death would be the least of my worries. I've seen my parents mad, I've almost always been on the receiving end of their anger, even from things I didn't do, but that would be nothing like if they found me now. I could practically see the fury and rage in my father's eyes, I could feel the sting of the barbed whip on my back-

I was pulled from my own brain when I felt Talon's warm hands fall on my shoulders, slowly I lifted my head to meet his gaze. When did I start crying? The tears were pouring from eyes like rivers. His golden gaze was determined, "I don't have time to tell you about all of this, the less you know the better, I can ride in the plane with you there, but I can't stay, someone has to be here to keep them off your trail."

Someone to our left coughed, our heads whipped to see who was there, "Well if we wanna get to Texas at a decent hour we better get going." An older man in blue coveralls was standing in the doorway leading to an office, he had dark charcoal skin and darker eyes, his hair was short and had a salt and pepper situation, I could see a smile on his thick lips as he stepped into the light that was on in the hanger.

"Sorry to ruin your moment, everything is going to be fine," His smile stretched a little wider and he stretched a hand out to us, "Nice to meet y'all, I'm John, Darren told me what was going on and I'll be flying the plane tonight."

"Talon, thank you so much John," Talon grabbed John's hand and gave him a firm handshake, "This is Ava, my sister," He nodded to me behind him as he let go of his hand and John held his hand out to me.

"Nice to meet you ma'am," I took his rough hand lightly in my shaking one and nodded in response, "Well we got a long way to go, I suggest going to the bathroom now, there isn't one on the plane we're taking."

Again, I nodded and went into the room John pointed out to me - Talon going to the other one clearly labeled men's. It wasn't long before we were in the small plane made to seat maybe 8 people and were in the air going to Texas. We all had headsets on to help drown out the sound of the plane and so we could talk to one another. My brother sat next to John, I behind them by request, I needed a 'quiet' moment to myself to let the events of today soak in.

'We're free?' I heard from the back of my mind, my wolf was normally so quiet. She didn't talk to me much after I got her, she did everything she could to get my parents off us as well, going as far as forcibly taking control and trying to attack my father.