Thorns (Sequel to A Dozen Roses)

Chapter 20 Full Team

Chapter 20
Ty POV

I stood in the doorway between the kitchen and hallway staring down at the tile flooring. Every nerve in my body stood on end.

I can feel Adam's eyes watching me from within the kitchen. He was there. He saw what I did. He saw the monster in action.

Don't think about him. I remind myself. You are in control, you don't have to be him. Just breathe.

Carefully I step into the kitchen raising my head to meet Adam's eyes. They're brown and full of concern. He's curious, he's wondering.

"How....how is Isaac?" I breathe feeling the pang of guilt build in my chest at the question. Adam sighed.

"Well he told me he would have to try harder to beat you next time." The laughter falls from my lips before I can stop it. Like father like son am I right?

Seto told me the same thing after this happened. He was laying in a hospital gurney barely holding onto life and all he could do was trash talk how he was going to kick my ass when he was better.

"But he's also doing just fine. He's been stitched and he's resting right now." Adam added. He crossed the kitchen to me stopping right in front of me.

I felt his fingers under my chin lifting my head up to meet his eyes again. His other arm wrapped around my back pulling me closer so I was against him.

"Hey. Nobody blames you for what happened okay? Brice understands what's going on and Isaac even wants to spar with you again." Adams voice was soft and reassuring. I needed it. I needed this.

"I didn't mean to stab him. I didn't want too, but..."

"I know. It was Deadlox. It wasn't you." I sighed. Deadlox and I were in the same body but we were two different persons. Heads and Tails. Two sides of the same coin.

I took a breathe and wrapped my arms around Adam's torso tightly. I just needed this right now, I needed him.

We spent around 10minutes just standing there in an embrace. It was comforting and he smelled of cinnamon.

Adam POV

"Ahem." We broke apart to see Seto and Lachlan in the doorway. Seto was still wrapped in his bandages and leaning against Lachlan for support.

"If you two are done with your little cutesie moment in the middle of the kitchen, we have something important to talk about." Lachlan helped Seto over to a chair across the kitchen and he carefully sat down. He looked like shit to be honest, all bandaged up and bruised, like he had spent the last year in a kick boxing ring.

I guess that's what a long time under Ghost's rule can do to you, drive you mad and destroy everything about you. If he can't tear you apart mentally, it seems he will physically. Until the pain is so unbearable that it drives you insane. You just have to do as your told and maintain control of your own will power, don't let it control you. That's what Ty always told me.

"We need to get everyone here and plan our base of attack. We need to eliminate that bastard." Seto spoke firmly.

"I've already called Vikk and he's bringing Preston and Rob along. We already have us four, Brice, Kyle, Dart, the kids. We don't have enough people to do a full scale invasion." Lachlan explained.

He was right. We would need numbers for a full scale invasion and assassination of Ghost. We would need more people that we already had now.

"Do we have any other people we can call?" I asked Lachlan and Seto, "Anyone at all?"

Lachlan seemed to ponder it for a bit. Thinking. He ran his fingers through his hair and his eyes stared away at nothing while he lingered in deep in thought.

"We have our North American Unit. Matthew(Nooch), Pete(Petezahutt), Sidearms, Ben(FrizzlenPop), and Kenny(TBNRKensworth) It's four more members who would have no problem causing an uproar. Matthew specifically likes causing an uproar."

Some of those names sounded so familiar. I don't know if I actually knew them of if they had come across my desk while working as an agent. I mean I'd seen hundreds of thousands of names in my time. But these ones stood out for some reason.

"Matthew also known as Nooch, is our extreme pyrotechnic, you probably know him from an increased Arson that burned down a small town in Canada. Sidearms is a spy, he's stealthy and sneaky and can get in and out of anywhere in record time...

...Pete is a tactical weapons expert and a perfect shot with every gun imaginable. Ben is a bit of a daredevil stunt man if you will, he'll do anything....for the right price.

Last but not least we have Kenny. Prestons older brother. Mans a genius when it comes to weapons and explosives. Arson is his speciality."

"So we're putting together an 'Americas Most Wanted' list worth of teammates." I asked raising my eyebrows. Seto laughed quietly to himself at my joke.

"Basically yeah. You know our entire team is basically Americas most wanted. But hey we're a good bunch, we're not just convicts. We're real people."

That was true. These people were convicts and murderers but they were real people too. They were husbands and fathers and brothers. They were family people.

"I'm gonna start giving people calls. See who I can get ahold of." Lachlan exited the room and headed for the computer room pulling his cellphone from his pocket.

"Have you met these people Ty?" Ty looked down at his hands and kind of shrugged.

"I mean I've met them...or well Deadlox has met them. I don't really remember all about them, but I remember they're pretty deadly." I frowned, but then again everyone here is deadly. "Look I don't know. You'll just have to form your own opinions of them when they get here okay?"

I guess he was right. I'd just have to meet the men for myself. Soon enough, they would be here.