Team SMKK

Chapter 6: Recovery

Chapter 6: Recovery

Present: City of Vale

Back at The Loft, Kole was able to rest and focus his aura enough to begin healing part of his shoulder. Most of the muscle had to heal on its own, so he was forced to have his arm bandaged and in a sling. By that time Marcus and Shade had just returned from Vacuo. Katherine had to run-off and do some errands, which left Kole home alone to practice his second favorite pastime: sleep.

"Anyone here?" said a voice as the door opened.

"Yo!" replied Kole, reclining on the couch "So how'd it go?"

"Real uneventful. We got paid so that's pretty much the only highlight of the trip. Marcus is at the bank now depositing our reward into the team's credit card. If you didn't fuck things up, we'll be having steaks tonight." said Shade as she walked into the loft and leaned her shotgun against the door. When she turned around and saw her brother's arm in a sling, she just stood there in shock "What the hell happened!" She screamed

"Ah shit," Kole said under his breath, "It's a long story."

Shade just stood there glaring at him with her green eyes in a mixture of anger and disappointment, but mostly anger. Before she could say anything Kole, got up from the couch and looked at his sister. "Listen sis, if you are going to start lecturing me, can you at least do it on the way to the bar? Cause I don't know about you, but I could use a drink." He said picking up his scroll from the couch made sure his beanie is secured to his head.

Once outside Kole headed towards his usual bar and Shade followed unleashed a barrage of questions and insults aimed at the slacker.

"Start talking, dumbass!" she demanded "What the hell happened to you?"

"We were having lunch, we got ambushed, and I got shot. End of story." He said lighting a cigarette.

"Really? You of all people got ambushed. If you weren't such a lazy idiot, maybe this wouldn't have happened." She said poking his bandages and ripping the cigarette from his lips, to throw it on the ground.

"Hey! I got shot trying to do my job" and protect Kate. "But what do I get in return? A fucking hole in my arm and possibly some brain damage after getting knocked out. So don't be bitching to me, okay?"

Shade took a step back, closed her eyes, and tried to calm herself by her breathing exercises. When she opened her large green eyes again, she tried to speak in a calm voice.

"Listen Kole. I'm sorry that you got hurt, honestly! I'm just trying to piece together how a trained Huntsman could take out a target, with one arm, after being knocked the fuck out"

"I didn't, but Kate sure unleashed the beast on him. God damn! I actually felt bad for them." He said with a sadistic laugh

"You expect me to believe that Kate, our Kate, took out your target? While you taking a nap?" she said in disbelief

"There were actually four of them assholes and she kicked all their ass's singlehandedly. And not that you would care, but it was our Anniversary then, so she had to get payback for them ruining our date."

"Damn it, I totally forgot. She's gonna be pissed at me." She said shaking her head "Wait! Don't change the subject on me. Did you at least get paid for those extra pricks"

"Fuck yeah!" Kole said pulling out his wallet and showing Shade all the extra money. "And that's what's left after our dinner date"

"Damn!" she replied seeing all the money "This doesn't change anything though, you still need to be more careful."