Superheroes vs. Supernaturals: A Crossover Between Guardians and Shadow Falls

Chapter 3 | Time to Go

Kylie

Kylie Galen walked down the hall to her best friend's bedroom. The door stood ajar and she could see Della's back facing her through the little gap as she pulled a black top over her head.

"Get in here," said her friend without turning. "I can hear your breathing."

Kylie sighed. Of course she could hear her. What else could you expect from a vampire, who had super hearing? Kylie had experienced it herself.

She opened the door a bit wider and slipped inside. Della put on her badass-looking jeans jacket and finally turned.

"What's with the worry-face, missy?" she asked. "I'm just going for a week or so."

Kylie shrugged. She had no doubt that Della could protect herself, and she had her partner-slash-boyfriend to back her up. No matter how independent she was and tried to act all cool and obnoxious on the matter of patriarchy, Kylie knew she loved having Chase Tallman around. She could totally relate to that. She had Lucas, after all.

But why did they have to go all the way to New Hampshire?

"If you say you prefer to have me safe and out of the line of danger, I'm gonna snap at you like I do Burnett," Della warned her before returning her attention to the backpack.

"I'm sorry, I just don't know what to think about you going all the way to New Hampshire to catch bad guys," she confessed. "Don't they have some guys up there?"

Della looked over her shoulder once and continued packing. "Not enough. And according to them, even Blue Spekter wasn't able to catch them. Which is why the Fallen Research Unit is sending me and Chase over to provide assistance. According to an agent there, this gang supposedly has chameleons in it, and you know how sneaky those assholes are."

Kylie felt a light sting at that statement.

Della stopped folding the T-shirt in her hands and looked back with an alerted look, probably from remembering that her friend was a chameleon, too. "I didn't mean it like that."

She smiled gently to show she wasn't offended. Just because she couldn't lie to a vampire who could hear a lie in someone's heartbeat doesn't mean she couldn't obscure the truth. Della never intentionally offends anyone; she knew that, as did their other roommate Miranda. Della and Miranda were opposites in every way, and they argued so badly that Kylie had to mediate between them quite a lot. Yet they never proceeded to get physical, and they had been there to each other through thin and thick. Just as Kylie had been there for them, and they her.

She sat down on the edge of Della's bed. Della put the folded T-shirt in her luggage and joined her.

"I know you and Miranda are going back, and I wish I could be there with you guys, too, but this is just an opportunity I can't pass up. It'll help me earn extra credits for law enforcement."

Kylie widened her smile.

"That and you get to meet the superhero in the flesh."

Della shrugged. Her eyes practically sparkled in response to Blue Spekter's name, and they weren't even glowing. "What can I say? I've got a soft spot for the guy. And Chase has been curious about him since Blue Spekter and his team took down that organization."

Heavy footsteps thumped in the distance. Their other roommate, Miranda Kane, came in right then with Della's cat in her arms. She grunted as she dropped the overweight yellow striped cat on the floor, who immediately scrambled over to the bed.

"Why does your little cat love my wardrobe so much? I keep finding him sleeping in my clothes," she complained. "If he crawls in there again, I'm gonna put a hex on him."