Vita et Mors - Danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil Fanfiction

Chapter 43

A/N: this is the start of the final stage of the story. It is set a few hours after the massacre of the ending of the contract, if you were wondering.

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(Sophie's POV)

"I'm starving, can we get something to eat?" Luke complained. He was always known for his tremendous appetite.

"How about there?" I suggested, pointing to a small café on the corner of a road. We went in and got seated at a table for six. Convenient.

"I have no idea what any of this is," I said, looking at the menu. It was all in Italian.

"Here," Jason said, passing me his phone. He had a really useful app called Word Lens. It translated any text you pointed the lens at into English.

"Cheers," I said, reading through the menu. I decided on spaghetti in tomato sauce with a variety of vegetables.

We had great fun trying to get the waitress to understand us until a English-speaking local took pity on us and helped out. We thanked him for his efforts and tipped him, as little as he wanted our money. We had plenty.

We got our food in the next ten minutes, which was surprisingly quick. I suppose the restaurant was quite empty at this time. "How are we getting home?" I asked Ethan, who was sitting next to me.

"I'm flying you lot," he said.

"You bought your helicopter across here?" I asked, shocked.

"How else was I supposed to illegally get into the country?" Ethan asked sarcastically. "We just shut down air control borders by sneaking in underneath a few other planes, and did a mad dash across the countryside, and we disappeared before they caught us."

I shook my head at their stupidity, laughing, and carried on eating.

Ethan and Luke knew how to pilot a plane. David did boats as well as advanced first aid and Jason, Gemma and I... Drove. Badly.

"Can I have driving lessons?" I asked Ethan.

"Sure," he said, looking a bit surprised. "Whatever for?"

"Because I'm cr*p at doing anything vehicle-related, and I got kidnapped a few months ago, and Gemma had to do a mad drive out-"

"You got KIDNAPPED?!" Ethan cried out.

"Sshhh!" I hushed him as several people looked over. "Yes, Gemma and I did, by Oliver."

"That b*stard," Ethan hissed. I lent my head against his shoulder and just smiled at how protective he was. Cute really.

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(Gemma's POV)

"We landed in that wood over there," Ethan said, climbing out of the taxi after paying and thanking the driver.

I frowned. It looked awfully familiar. "Sophie, is that..."

Sophie inspected it. "My God! It is!"

"What?" Luke asked.

"You know how we got kidnapped?" I asked them. They frowned slightly at the reminder but nodded. "That's the wood Sophie hid in. If I'm right... Oliver might be around."

"I'll go check," Ethan said immediately. "David, come with me. Jason, Luke, take Gemma and Sophie to the 'copter and fly away if there's any trouble. We'll be fine."

"Yes, Sir!" Jason said, saluting Ethan, who swatted at him.

We headed about three meters into the wood before turning around and following David and Ethan to the house that had come into sight. It gave me the shivers, but we wouldn't just abandon our brothers like that.