Lynx Book 3: A Callie Torres Story

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Jada woke up again around four. And this time, she was pretty sure her heightened senses were picking up on something.

She could hear rustling of the leaves outside in the wind. But in between those rustles, she heard she sounds of rock pressing against each other under something heavy, like what a car sounded like on a gravel driveway.

But it wasn't a car. As Jada listened harder, she noticed she only heard the noise in succession, and the sounds weren't as heavy. They were footsteps. Jada quickly noticed that the noises happened in sets of two, meaning on thing-they were human footsteps.

Jada reached her arm back and elbowed Callie in the ribs in an attempt to wake her up quickly. "Calliope," she whispered, her voice barely audible. When Callie didn't stir, Jada elbowed her again.

"Babe," Callie began to groan but was met with another elbow to the ribs. She immediately went quiet.

Jada loved how well her and Callie understood each other without the need for verbal communication. On the third jab to the ribs, Callie noticed that something was up.

When Jada was asleep and flailing her arms around, she would sometimes accidentally hit Callie. But, when she wanted Callie to wake up, she would touch Callie in the same exact spot multiple times. Jada had elbowed her in the ribs in the exact same spot on three different occasions and Callie knew that meant Jada wanted her awake, and she needed to stay quiet.

Scooting even closer to Jada, Callie picked up her head and rested it on top of Jada's, where her lips rested right beside Jada's ear. "What's wrong Jaelynn?" Callie asked softly.

"Listen."

Jada continued to hear the noises and waited for Callie to hear as well. "I think someone is out there."

"You're right," Callie whispered back, deciding it was better to simply tell her wife. Closing her eyes, Callie focused her hearing on the direction of the sound. It had been a long time since she needed to use her Lynx powers.

"They're about 20 feet to the right of us, my side," Callie said. "Walking towards the bathroom-wait... the just turned around."

Jada had quietly turned onto her back. "Where?"

She didn't need Callie to answer that question for her. As soon as she'd asked the question, Jada heard the footsteps begin coming towards them. "I'm scared."

Callie covered Jada's mouth with her palm right before they heard the popping of the passenger door handle. It was locked and wouldn't budge, but whoever was out there had tried to open it. The footsteps then sounded softer, meaning whoever it was had begun walking in the opposite direction.

"What are you doing?" Jada asked as Callie began to completely cover her with blankets. She slipped her arm under Jada's legs and pushed them upward into the fetal position, in an attempt to make Jada look like she was just a pile of blankets.

As Callie finished covering her, Jada could no longer see the faint blue light of the battery pack in the Jeep. She was completely covered and completely hidden from view.

"Callie, what are you doing?"

"You are going to stay right here until I tell you," Callie whispered. "No fighting me on this. You have the baby and I am not letting you move until I say so."

"Where are you going?" Jada asked, "Calliope, stay right here please."

Jada felt Callie reach back into the blankets and press her necklace. She was suddenly laying on her side in Callie's Lynx suit designed for her. Before Jada could say anything else, they both heard the footsteps approaching again.

As soon as they heard another door handle get pulled, this time the drivers door, Callie blasted out of the back window and immediately slammed it closed behind her. The footsteps by the drivers door immediately thundered away from the car and Jada heard the lighter footsteps of her wife's follow.

A few seconds later there was a thud and what sounded like fighting. Jada hadn't heard any cries of pain to be her wife's, but instead heard deeper cries of pain like Callie was fighting a man. There was one more loud thud before all the commotion stopped.

Jada's heart was beating out of her chest as she waited for a sign that Callie was okay. And when she got it, she released a deep breath she had no idea that she was holding in.

"Babe, start the car," Callie said from outside.

Jada crawled out of her hiding spot and started the Jeep and turned on all of the lights. She could see Callie through the drivers window standing above a beaten man laying on the ground.

She rolled down the window just a crack. "Are you okay?"

"I am," Callie replied while still not taking her focus off the man on the ground. "Call the police."

•••

A few minutes later Jada was sitting in the back of the Jeep with the back door swung open as she listened to her wife talk to the police officers.

The subject of the conversation was still sitting on the ground, this time in handcuffs, his face still cut and bloody.

It turned out that the guy was wanted by the Seattle police department. He had been seen on various park security cameras sneaking around campgrounds in the middle of the night and stalking women. There had also been multiple reports of rape in these campgrounds on the same days he was caught on camera. He would stalk the women to the campground bathroom and rape them, or lure them out of their tents and campers just as he had tried to do with them.

Jada was happy she had a Callie Torres as she shot smug smiles in the guy's direction. Callie and the officers had no doubt that the man was up to the same thing tonight, but he happened to mess with the wrong women.

Thee Callie Torres certainly gave him what he deserved and he was now about to be hauled off to jail. Jada couldn't help but smile as they loaded him into the back of one of the police cars. He had tried to pick a verbal fight with Jada while they waited for the police to arrive.

"Who knocked you up?" the man asked, looking at Jada's baby bump.

Callie just about knocked him out on the spot. As he was struggling for consciousness, Jada replied, "My wife did. I got knocked up by a woman."

And Jada happily welcomed a hug when Callie returned to her. "We're good to stay or go, whatever you want to do. They're going to keep an officer here until the sun rises and the park rangers get here so they can look over the footage."

"Can we stay?" Jada asked quietly, making sure nobody could hear. "I would really like to experience the pleasure and recreation of how I got knocked up by a girl again."

Callie snorted and held the back door open for Jada to climb back into the Jeep. "Sure thing."