Calico paced Kade's living room for what seemed like hours, even though it was hardly an hour, before Jamaica burst through the door, scaring the shit out of him.
She was speaking but it was too fast and to garbled of a mess for Calico to coherently understand what she was saying.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and blew breath on her face to get her attention and breathe for a second.
Jamaica's lip started trembling when she fell silent, though Calico guessed she had already been crying with the red tint to the rim of her eyes.
"It's Kade. He- he messaged me er- called and he he-" at that Jamaica was bawling.
Calico shook his head, releasing Jamaica and stepping back. "No, you're lying."
Calico fled the room, going to Kade's bedroom while he pulled out his phone to dial Kade's number.
Surely he would pick up. Surely this was some sort of prank.
Kade couldn't be. . . Dead.
After everything that he had been through, Kade couldn't have died on a mission so simple.
The phone rang a couple of times before it was answered. Calico breathed for a second before he started to speak, but a voice cut him off.
"Calico."
Rage was Calico's first emotion. "What have you done with him Aaron."
"I didn't do anything, he intruded on my mission and got caught in the crossfire on accident. I'd watch the news if I were you."
The he hung up.
Fuming, Calico threw his phone onto Kade's bed before going back to the living room where Jamaica was typing on her phone, still sniffling, on the couch.
Without a word, Calico turned on the TV and switched to the closest news station.
"Breaking news. Another Choi industries facility was destroyed by the character known as the wendigo, a known terrorist to the company."
At the word terrorist, Calico scoffed, sitting next to Jamaica, running his hand over his forehead.
"There is some good news coming from this though let's talk to Mr. Choi himself to hear it."
The camera switched to Mr. Choi outside of the main Choi mansion, looking a bit ruffled but otherwise somewhat pleased.
"Yes I did. I had a suspicion that he would head there after his last target and already had all of my own employees moved from my underground facility to save their lives overnight. It's a good thing I didn't waste any time because the wendigo, who was one of my former employees I let go due to his unstable character, went there early this morning and destroyed the place. My cameras did manage to catch this though."
The first clip was Kade walking into the facility, and destroying the camera with a toss of a knife.
Not before Calico caught a glimpse leaning against the wall behind and out of Kade's sight, was Aaron.
Jamaica's hand clenched Calico's, letting him know without speaking that she saw him there too.
The second was on the beach, Kade's body being pulled out of the water by none other than Aaron himself.
The clips cut out to Aaron with a different reporter, still wet from the water.
"I was just walking by and saw a bit of a disturbance in the water from the beach and swam out to see what looked like a body. Low and behold, it was. But it was too late for him. It looked like he hit his head on something and lost too much blood after loosing consciousness or even maybe drowned in the process. Regardless, he was beyond saving when I pulled him out of the water."
