Not Yours Anymore

Chapter 8 - Seeing Her

*Italics = Russian*

North POV

Hearing Sang baby on the phone with the Toma team is one of the hardest yet most erotic things to listen to in fucking life. I can't be mad that she moved on. She deserved it. She deserves all of the love that she can find. I just hope that one day we're apart of that love. I want nothing more than to be apart of her life however I can get in. I'll wait however long I need to, to gain her trust back. 

We're all waiting in tense silence for Sang baby to return to Sargent Jasper. We went through their high tech security system and I have to admit, I'm pretty fucking impressed with the layout. None of us have really done exploring, all afraid to move about. But from where I can see this place is plenty big for the family. I mean, jesus, it's a whole apartment floor. 

We all hear the elevator ding and my 9 brothers go rigid, while I notice the 6 of them instantly relax. Sang baby can do that to you. If you know you aren't on the receiving end of her anger or sadness, she makes everything better by just being in the room. Hell, even if she is upset with you, being around her is still the best place on earth to be. 

The Toma team moves to where she can see them first after she steps off the elevator, and I hear the most beautiful sound that I've missed for 5 years.

"Hi my big teddy bear."  She gets wrapped up in Crows arms first. I can't see her but I can hear the sound of their kissing and I find myself blinking back tears. I want to be the one to fucking greet her like that. I want to be the one to have the affection running through her voice for. 

While I'm regaining my composure, I see her finish greeting the last of the Toma team. With Kevin to her left and Axel to her right and the other 4 spread out around her while she walks to stand in front of us. We're all staring at her with equal parts regret and longing. But she just is looking at us with the same mask, Owen, used to give us. He dropped it. It was too much work and too exhausting for him to hold it all of the time. But I see Sang baby must have picked it up along the way.

"So I assume you are here because something or someone pushed you out of hiding. Let's cut to that first. That's all I want to hear about it. Got it?" She looks us all in the eye. We nod. Nothing else to do but take her cues. 

"We've been on the run from Volto for 5 years now." She scoffs and rolls her eyes but allows Owen to continue. "Anytime we got comfortable her would remind us he was still out there watching you, watching our families. He would send us photos of you or them to remind us that we needed to stay away. We never got any pictures of you with the Toma team or with the children or you at work." He chokes up a bit at the mention of our children but continues. "We continued moving about until about a month ago when we received a photo of a woman who looked too similar to you to be a coincidence." He pulls out the photo of the first dead woman. "And then every week since this first one, we've received a photo of a deceased woman who looks eerily similar to you. Totaling 4 women." He pulls out the other 3 photos. "The last photo says 'I'll have her no matter what.' We knew instantly he meant you. We don't know what triggered him. Our patterns have been the same. So we knew that something here triggered him to lash out." He stops when he sees the 7 of them silently communicate with each other. Seeing that stirs another wave of regret. I want to be able to do that with her. I wanted to be that team for her. 

"Are we correct in assuming that something has happened here that could have triggered him to want to lash out to get our attention?" Owen asks. 

"You are correct. We're moving away. For a mission. For an indefinite amount of time." Sang baby tells us coolly. She eyes Axel and he gives a slight nod of his head. She sighs.

"5 years ago, our first mission together, we were tracking the sale and distribution of a new drug that was killing teens at a pretty cyclic rate. We were close to closing down a the facility where it was manufactured and capturing the main benefactor. But.." She takes a deep breath and the Toma team chuckles at her reaction while she glares at them. "But my lovely husbands, ex-girlfriend escaped custody and warned our target and they went underground together." She ends on another growl. God she's hot when she's pissed. Wait! North, shut the fuck up and just be pleased you're in her presence and she hasn't ripped your balls off.

"She was never my girlfriend doll face." Kevin chuckles and drops a kiss on her head. 

"Oh don't even get me started on your ex girlfriend dream boat. We'd be here all night." They all laugh and I just want to be apart of that. I want to be apart of the inside joke. I want to be on the receiving end of her teasing. 

"Lover-girl, we're standing in our home with your 9 exes. You lose this one." She playfully glares at him before he kisses her. I see my brothers and myself all wince at the term 'exes', we never accepted that fact, I guess. But then she turns her real glare on us.

"Anyway, last month we found that J-14 was being sold in Orlando, Florida. We also got a tip that the benefactor that got away 5 years ago, Blake Coaltar, is back above ground. He's been seen to work alone and rumor has it that about 2 years ago Kayli fled from him as well. We're moving to Orlando to finish this. That must be what it is. Us moving has triggered him." She gets a thinking face on and it's so damn cute that I can't take my eyes off of her. 

"I have a theory but I need to know exactly what happened 5 years ago. What did Volto say to get you all to leave in the middle of the night?" She asks, so detached it breaks my fucking heart. 

"2 days before we left, we received a flurry of photos of you that seemed impossible for Volto to have gotten but we verified that they were authentic. Some were you by yourself, some you were with us but the ones that scared us the most were the ones with you sleeping and Volto holding weapons directed toward your sleeping frame. We don't know how he did it. We have our suspicions but nothing concrete. We were young and dumb and thought we knew best. So 2 nights later we left. We are so.." She cuts Kota off with a raised hand.

"We aren't going into that right now Kota. I don't want to get into that until we figure out what to do with everything else in our lives." She glares at him and he nods. Man she's really improved with her glare.

"In the photo's you've received of me over the years, have any been like the ones he sent you 5 years ago? Where he's so close like that?" We shake our heads and she gets another thoughtful look on her face. While she's thinking I take another minute to appreciate her frame. She's really filled out. Not that 18 year old girl we left. She's all woman now. Supple breasts. At least 2 sizes larger than 5 years ago. She's got wider set hips that give her a more womanly figure. She's toned all over, not skinny like 5 years ago, more athletic. She truly is a goddess. 

"I think that they're may be multiple Volto's" She drops the bomb. We all stay silent going over this information in our heads. I don't know how she came to the conclusion but I'm intrigued to know.

"What makes you say that?" I grunt and she shoots me a look I can't decipher. Somehow though, I think, Owen and I hurt her the worst. I made so many promises to that girl and I broke every single one of them. 

"I think.." She trails when we all hear the elevator ding again. The 7 of them mutter curse words. 

"The 9 of you don't say a word unless one of us directly speaks to you, do you understand?" I'm confused but we all nod at her direct order. 

Before I can think on her order to long, I see why she wants us quiet. 

A/N: UH OH! WHO DO YOU THINK IS COMING OUT OF THAT ELEVATOR? 

HOPE YOU ALL LOVED THIS CHAPTER. I FIND IT SO MUCH EASIER TO WRITE IN THE BOYS POV THAN SANGS. SHE GIVES ME A HARD TIME SO I'M SORRY IF YOU DON'T ENJOY THE BOYS POV BUT I'LL PROBABLY TEND TO STICK TO IT WITH SHORT UPDATES SHOWING SANGS FEELINGS.