UnTamed [Book 3]

I'm Blown Away

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Chapter Quote:

"In the eye of the tornado, there's no more high and low, no floor and sky." 

~Francis Alys

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Chapter 5: I’m Blown Away

Derek 

He’d left at three in the morning.  It’d already been turning daylight.  Silena had stirred, but if she was awake, she didn’t stop him.  Derek stopped at a motel and crashed for a six hour nap after driving for twelve hours.  After that, he continued the rest of the eleven hour journey on the motorcycle he’d talked a Roman into giving him.  Apparently saying that it was a life or death matter for another demigod was pretty important to them.

He pulled into the town he dreamed that Penn was in.  He had seen the name of the bar in the dream, and somehow, miraculously, remembered it; before leaving, he’d looked up the address.  Sure enough, when he arrived at the bar and walked in, the bartender that had talked to Penn was cleaning the counter.  He looked up and smiled at Derek.

“Hey there, son.  What can I do-”

The man was interrupted by the door to the bar being flung open.  Derek whirled around and narrowly avoided a slap by a very pissed off Silena.

“What in Hades’ name were you thinking?” she hissed, going in for another slap.  Her brother grabbed her wrists.

“Whoa there tiger.  I don’t think hitting him is going to encourage him to reply to you,” Luke admonished.  He gave Derek an apologetic look.

“How did you guys find me?” Derek asked, shuffling on his feet.  He didn’t like the attention they were receiving from the customers.  There were only two or three, but still, they didn’t need all the attention.

“Cora might’ve forced Antony to track you and then she gave us two-” Luke glanced around at the other patrons.  They were talking amongst themselves but it was obvious they were still eavesdropping.  The Jackson boy lowered his voice accordingly. “-pegasi to get us here.  We caught up with you in Houck but we lost you when the dust storm rolled in.  Talked to our rides and they told us they’d wake us up when they saw you moving again.  And then we continued following you from there.  Listen, I’d tried to stop her from barging but-”

“Oh shut up,” Silena snapped.  She faced Derek again. “Now are you going to tell us what you were thinking?  What in the world possessed you to completely leave us behind?  The girl you’ve been-”

“Enough,” Derek interrupted.  Adding in a whisper, “It’ll freak these people out if they hear what I’ve been doing.  What we all have.  We can talk later.”

His girlfriend’s nostrils flared but she stayed silent, telling him she was going to hold back on yelling at him for now.  The three demigods walked to the bar.  Derek began with, “Hello, sir.”

“Everything okay between you three?” the man queried kindly.

“Just a couple’s argument,” Luke replied with a charming smile. “Uh, would you mind if we ask you a couple questions?”

“Are you part of that girl’s team?” the man answered.

Luke started to say “What girl” but Derek intervened and said, “You mean Penn, right?”

“That’s her.”

“You wouldn’t happen to know where she is would you?  Our phones were stolen.  Looked away for one minute and someone swiped them off our table.”