BROKEN

CH.41-the countdown

*ACE'S POV*

I woke up to the sound rustling in the kitchen. The past few days of training were all clumping together in my mind and becoming one entity. That entity was sitting on my lungs having the time of its life suffocating me. Counting today, there were only three remaining days until this whole thing happened. We had a plan and we were going to do everything in our power to ensure that it worked. Kara was a huge help with that. She knew, somehow, that we were going to battle when we were, and she knew that somehow the VA was going to get involved, even if we were going to the VHA. Three different armies all destined to go head to head on the same day. Destiny is horrifying.

I made my way down the stairs after getting ready to train when I was met by the sight of Mrs. and Mr. Harrison. Kara probably wasn't awake yet.

"Hey, is everything okay?" I asked. They were both sitting at the kitchen posing as the perfect picture of parental supervision with their coffee mugs in their hands and stares with unreadable emotion being sent my way.

"We were going to ask you the same question, Ace," Mrs Harrison said, her cup of coffee being pushed about by her fingers. Mrs. Harrison truly was Kara's identical twin. Her father has the matching eyes, but wasn't a look a like regardless of that.

"I mean, all due respect Mrs. Sullivan, this is war we are talking about here," I said, zipping up my jacket, "nothing is ever truly okay."

She nodded in understanding.

"Are you doing okay? You know, with your, uh, situation?" Mr. Harrison asked and I nodded. I supposed that I was okay as I could get. I wasn't fantastic, but I never was, and I wasn't terrible, but with Kara around I was finding that seemingly impossible too.

"Yeah, I'm fine. No worries," I said and suddenly felt a little awkward. I shouldn't tell them that I had drank their daughter's blood before, right? I mean that has to be under some section in the vampire book of common courtesy. I don't even know what they'd think. Knowing Mrs. Harrison she probably already knew.

"Ace, I know," Mrs. Harrison stated.

"Can you read minds or something?" I asked.

"That's Cora's job. I just know that you were pretty close when you came to visit us some months back and for you to suddenly be completely fine? Something had to have happened, and going off of your reaction I can already confirm my hypothesis of whose it was that you drank," she said with an unreadable expression on her face. It was sort of embarrassing having this conversation.

"Uh, I'm not sure what to say," I mumbled hiding my face in my hands.

"S.O.S your parents are interrogating me."

One minute later, Kara was down stairs.

"Don't hound him mom. It's weird," she stated wrapping her arms around my waist and pulling me into a hug.

"You're warm."

A grin split across my face as I ran my hands up and down her arms. She had this tendency of being cold all the time. I wasn't sure why, but it probably had something to do with the weather.

"How'd you sleep?" I asked and she cuddled her face into my chest.

"Good. Aragon pestered me until one a.m., but after that, I slept better than I have in a long while."

"Good."

"I was just asking him about drinking your blood," Mrs. Harrison stated and Kara whipped around pulling me behind her. Like she was protecting me.

"Cute, aggressive angel."

A quick grin split across her face before she leaned back into me; my arms rested on the shoulders of my short girlfriend.