Yellow Hearts

2.12

"Finally!"

"How did Alex get a high-access card?"

"He said his friend had been the one to find the owner of the card in a coma." Ashlyn said as Taylor fixed her hair. "Alex's note said he had asked them to sneak it for him."

"Nice."

"And done!" Aiden grinned as he finished braiding her hair.

Bonita pulled out her mirror-dagger and checked it. A long side braid that reached just past her waist.

It had been a bit too hectic to cut her hair recently and she would rather live than slice it choppy like Ashlyn's.

She kissed him. "Thank you amor."

"Of course."

"You two disgust me."

"Hop off my dick."

Taylor, pointedly ignoring them, smiled. "Maybe I'll make him a bracelet too, as thanks."

Ben dragged Aiden away from Bonita to rebandage his back. Unlike Bonita his wounds didn't heal almost immediately.

We should probably do something about that too...

"So where all does it have access to?" Logan asked as they gathered around the laptop.

"Well, he seems to be pretty high up so there aren't many places it doesn't have access actually... ow." he winced as Ben sanitized the wound again. "Anyways, most importantly, we can get to the generators and to where our parents are. Now that we can move more freely, we can start memorizing the layout and all routes of escape."

"We should have races!" Taylor cheered. "You know, to help memorize the routes and find which ones are faster?"

"Oh- I like that idea!"

"Of course you do."

"Lights first."

"Actually the armory is closer than the generator, so maybe we can stop by there first."

"They have an armory?"

"Why do you even know that?"

Logan started sweating slightly with Tyler and Bonita both staring at him. Regardless of how long they'd been friends he was still scared of them sometimes.

"Uhh–"

"Alright... armory, lights, and then memorizing layouts." Ashlyn cut in counting their adjectives off on her fingers. "Let's get started."

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"I can walk you know."

"You stood up too fast a night ago and passed out, we aren't taking any chances."

Aiden groaned.

"Bonnie you're not even hurt, get off and lighten Taylor's load."

"I have a migraine and somebody won't give me any pain meds so I'll do what I want." Bonita laid back against the armrest sitting on Aiden's lap as Taylor pushed them. "Oh and, once again, hop off my dick!"

"Fuck you."

"Fuck you!"

"Shut up!"

"...did anyone feel randomly refreshed yesterday after we woke up?"

"I did!"

"Me too."

"...yeah, I guess."

Ben nodded and Taylor continued, "It was weird, my eyebags seemed less dark."

"Yeah Maverick commented on it. Said that I didn't look like some homeless chick he met in DR anymore."

"Why does he visit you so often?"

Maybe cause he feels guilty, maybe cause he's family, or maybe just cause he wants to annoy me.

"I dunno, he's weird."

"Maybe we should try to eat and sleep in this place and see if there's any correlation." Ashlyn proposed.

A shiver went through Bonita's body and they shot up rushing behind Taylor and jumping on the phantom about to attack her. She plunged one of her claws into its chest and pulled out her knife decapitating it. Another came up behind her and she flipped it over her shoulder tearing off one of its arms before using it to kill it.

"Damn." Aiden whistled, face slightly red. "When did you become so..."

"So what?" she smirked before stabbing another in the eye making it fall to the floor.

"Flirt later." Tyler grunted. "It's getting a bit crowded, we should probably be a bit faster."

"You're the one who needed to be saved." Logan quipped having had to shoot a phantom about to rip his head off.

Tyler stared at him in disbelief and Aiden laughed.

"Stop laughing, you're literally in a wheelchair, stupid. Sit back down."

"Make me."

"Querido sit down."

He sat back down.

"You–"

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"Yeah, this is much better than what we had."

"Maybe because what we had, Aiden bought off of Amazen."

They stood around the armory changing out the suits they had and grabbing more weapons. Bonita picked up a silver handgun, turning it over in her hand and aiming it at the wall before shooting.

"Bonnie! What the fuck was that for?!"

"Had to check something."

"I think it was obvious it would work."

"Not that- I needed to check how it felt firing it. If it was heavy and what the pushback was, why do you think I had you try all the guns first back at the graveyard?"

"Oh."

"I just thought you were insane."

"Screw you."

"Screw–"

Before he could finish they heard someone scream.

"Was that a person??"

Bonita rushed out the door closely followed by Ashlyn. They turned the corner and the person grabbed Ashlyn, slamming her to the ground while another grabbed Bonita and put her in a headlock, clearly ready to snap her diaphragm if need be.

She closed her eyes, preparing to go to hell, when she heard Ashlyn whisper, "Dad?"

Bonita opened their eyes and looked up to see Leo Cabrera. He let go of them and started tearing up. "Daddy...?"

"Bonita... you're okay."

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a triple update in one day? whoops mb

(they're short tho so it doesn't count)

psa: do NOT drink 5 hour energy drinks they taste like heartburn

learn from my mistakes