Dreydence

Chapter 17. Family

"Why didn't we ever tell Hunter about this?" Luke asked, looking at Dom. Luke and Dom were in the mayors building, looking at a map that was centuries old. It had showed the locations of other towns like Dreydence, but legend said those towns were buried and gone. Until a suspicious man wearing the crest of Kalanton showed up.

"Because. He said he didn't want to be mayor, so I didn't say anything." Dom replied.

"But do you know how many potential enemies that could be?" Luke asked in response.

"Yes I do, but it doesn't mean that they are enemies." Dom said, looking at Luke. Luke scoffed quietly and shook his head.

"But if anything were to happen we don't have the people to stand a chan- Unless I were here." Luke started to say but was interrupted by a familiar voice. Luke looked over at the door and saw Hunter and Jack standing there.

"Hunter? Jack?" Dom asked, his eyes a bit wide. Hunter smiled and nodded.

"It's us. Alive. And well," he replied. "We would've been back a week ago, but we had complications," he added and lifted his shirt to show his stitches that Jack gave him from the gunshot wound.

"Ouch. I'm glad you're back." Dom said and Hunter smiled again, and looked at the map.

"Yeah. Anyway, what's that about?" he asked and Dom sighed.

"This is a map of old towns that are just like ours. I thought the towns were gone, but they aren't. Before, we get into this, I want you to go see Jinx," he said and Hunter nodded and looked at Jack.

"Be safe." Jack said and Hunter nodded again, and headed to his house.

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"You need help around here though, Jinx. I know you can't always keep it up by yourself," a blonde haired man with blue eyes said to her, and she sighed quietly.

"I've done it already, haven't I Kian? I'm still waiting for him to come back." Jinx replied, looking at Kian. 

"But what if he doesn't come back? It's already been two years, and you had no calls, no letters," he said.

"That doesn't mean anything. Plus I have Sophie, Eli, Dominic and Luke to help me," she said.

"What about Chase and Jasper?" Hunter asked, standing by the now open front door. Jinx and Kian looked over at him, and Kian's eyes widened as Jinx's eyes filled with tears. She ran over and hugged him tightly, crying with tears of joy.

"Y-you're okay..." she said and Hunter smiled and hugged back.

"I said I was gonna come back, no matter what it took," he said and Kian closed his eyes, and left. Hunter watched him and by the way Kian was acting, he could tell Kian was angry, but he didn't care. He had finished his objective. Reach Jinx safely.

"I-I knew you weren't dead. Y-you're to strong to be taken out," she said, looking up at him as she squeezed tighter, and he groaned quietly.

"Be careful, please. I did get shot," he said and Jinx lifted his shirt to see the stitches.

"What is it with you and getting shot?" she asked and giggled quietly, and he chuckled quietly.

"D-daddy?" a little girls voice asked and Hunter's eyes widened as he looked past Jinx's shoulder to see a little girl that looked to be about five years old. She had shoulder length blue hair with black tips, and eyes that were half purple half blue. She was also wearing a light blue dress with Elsa from Frozen on it.

"O-oh yeah. Hunter, meet our daughter, Sapphire." Jinx said, and stood aside while Sapphire walked up to Hunter and looked at him.

"D-daughter?" he asked and Sapphire nodded, smiling. Hunter knelt down and looked at her, a smile appearing on his face.