Heartache • Tk Twin Sister (A Fox 911 Lone Star/ Fox 911 Fanfic)

Chapter 30

"When I'm losing my control,
the city spins around.
You're the only one who knows
to slow it down."

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"Hey, how'd it go?" Carlos asked as Marjan and Mateo walked into Carlos and Tk's shared townhome. Marjan had a short satisfied smile turned up on her lips, while Mateo had an angry, and frustrated look.

Mateo plopped down on the couch and leaned back but instantly pulled himself forward out of soreness. "Terrible."

"Aw, man, don't tell me they botched it." Paul laughed out and then looked to Marjan who sat down next to Mateo.

"They did not botch it. Probie is just being a baby."

"It stings." Mateo winces.

"It's a tattoo Mateo, that's what it does," I told him with humor lacing my voice as I stood in front of the coffee table with Tk and Paul standing on either side of me, and Carlos a few feet behind us. "Here. Come on, let's see it."

Mateo looks at me with an offended look causing me to raise my eyebrows in question.

He stares at me for a few more seconds before shrugging his shoulders, standing up, turning around, and throwing up his arms like a baby.

"Are you serious?" I ask him causing him to look back at me.

"Yeah."

Marjan rolls her eyes as Mateo continues to stare at me until finally she reaches over and pulls the bottom of his shirt up.

"Careful! All right" Once the shirt is fully up the whole team leans in to see the tattoo, which is now red and swollen.

"Oh, nice, man. I love the flame." Tk jokes causing everyone to lightly smile.

"It's not flame, it's blood," Mateo says with full seriousness.

"Oh, shut up. Probie's gonna go back once it heals and get the letters redone, and the best part is, the shop agreed to do it all for free." Marj says with a pleased look filling her face.

"Marjan had a conversation with them."

"Must've been some conversation. That's a lot of ink." Carlos sits down on the couch and points his beer at Mateo.

"Amazing what a little direct talk can do, huh?" Marj looks at the three of us who are standing in a puddle full of guilt.

"Alright, look, I'm sorry that we didn't give you a heads up," Tk says as he sits down in the tall black chair.

Paul walks up to Mateo and shakes his head. "Yeah, man, it's just really hard to hurt someone with the face of an angle." Paul caresses Mateo's face causing Mateo to pull back and roll his eyes at his joke while the others laugh.

"Too soon. Oh, and hey, while you're back there, can you hook me up with some ointment? Your boy's feeling scaly." He looks over his shoulder to me but I look to Paul and Paul looks to Mateo.

"Yeah, no, I'm not doing it." I take a small step back and reach for my phone which vibrates in my pocket. "Saved by the bell," I say and show the phone screen to him as I walk out of the room and down the hall.

"Hey, Myles," I say as I press the phone up my ear.

"Hey, babe. I was just checking on you, to see if you made it home." He says over the phone and I can hear the sound of a hospital alarm going off in the back. I slide open the patio door and step outside to the short deck that has two steps down to lead to the grass.