Accidents make perfection

Chapter 40

Mare POV

Today is the day I'm leaving for the Lakelands, I'm kind of terrified but Cal and Eve tell me its going to be fine, I just don't want to leave my children and not know what's happening, which is why Cal made me a small mic and earpiece so that I can talk to him when I need to. It's a closed station so no one will be able to tap in and listen. My team and I are in our final briefing, I said goodbye this morning so my eyes are a little puffy, and its hard to concentrate but I manage all the while biting my nails. My team consists of me Eve, an illusionist named Spencer, a teleporter named Jack, a red named Suzy and a silver nymph named Peter. I'm pulled out of my trance when I hear my name "hmm?" I say and I see that everyone is staring at me "have you been paying any attention?" Eve asks me and I blush "as I was saying Mare will you be able to control your power to just storms?" Farley asks and I nod "wait why?" I ask "because you will be at one point silvers, you will be a storm, Spencer will be a mimic, Jack will be a swift, Peter will be himself, Eve and Suzy will be your prisoners." Farley says.

The rest of the meeting was going over drills, places, and people we need to know and then we made our way to transport truck that would take us to piedmont where we would get on a plane to the Lakeland's. The truck is dark and cramped and non of us can talk to one another so we resort to sign language. After the 4 hours in the truck we get out and go to a motel and change into some fancy clothes and put all our stuff into luggage, I'm in the bathroom doing my makeup then all of a sudden I hear Cal in an intercom he made so we could talk, it's so small you can't see it, the mic is in my mouth and all I have to do to turn it on with a click of my tung "hey did you arrive ok?" He asks and I laugh "you make this sound like it's a business trip." I say in such a hushed voice no one can hear "Mare" he says and I can hear the worry in his voice "yes we're here safe but I can't talk long I'll let you know when we get to our location ok? Gotta go, love you." I say and he sighs "love you too" I step out of the bathroom and everyone is ready we head to the air port, now since we took down the Lakeland's we don't have to hide the fact that we're red but in order to get on the plane we need to looks somewhat nice. We get through security while Spencer hides our identities and we board the plane to got to the Lakeland's.

Cal POV

I hang up the device after talking to Mare and sigh, I'm so worried about her and what could happen if he gets to her first. That thought sends a chill down my spine and gives me some stress so I go to the top shelf and get some whisky and pour myself a drink, I go and grab a book of pictures that mare made me for my birthday full of pictures of us and the kids. I'm flipping through that book and then I hear tiny footsteps coming down stairs. I look over and see Matt coming down in his pyjamas rubbing his eyes "what are you doing up?" I ask and he comes and sits at the kitchen island with me "I can't sleep" he says and takes the book and starts to look at it he points at a picture of Mare "that's mommy when she was pregnant with you" I say and he nods, I can tell he's tired but he misses Mare so I go and get some cookies and warm up some milk to try and get him a little sleepier. For a while he points at pictures of mare and I and asks questions then when he finishes the book he looks at me and asks "where are your wedding pictures?" And I choke on my drink, how the hell does he know what a wedding is, the last one he was at he was 1. I laugh and he looks at me confused "your mom and I aren't married" I say and now he looks even more confused but he yawned and now it looks like he's going to fall asleep right then so I pick him up and take him to his room and tuck him in, I leave his room and head to mine. I lay in bed forever trying to sleep but without her it's almost impossible, when I do end up sleeping I wake up 30 minutes later from a bad dream finally at 5am I give up and head down stairs and start making the kids lunches for school. Mare usually makes them the same thing for lunch every week. Today is Monday so I grab the box with the meal plans Mare left for me and take out the one for the kids lunches. She knows the kids hate going to school on Mondays so she gives them a mini chocolate bar in each of their lunches along with grapes, carrots and a sandwich. Each kid likes it different; Cori likes turkey lettuce and mustard, Matt loves spicy food so he gets this spicy salami that Mare buys for me and him, he also gets cheese and jalapeño mayo, then Tori and Tyler both like just ham and cheese. As I'm making their lunches I realize I need to go grocery shopping, that thought makes me think of her. When she needed to go shopping she would take one of the kids with her and they would be able to choose the dessert for that week. But now that she's gone I'll be going by myself while the kids are at school, the thought of her not being there to make the kids smile with her jokes hits me but before I can feel bad my phone goes off for the alarm to get the kids up. I go wake them up and get them ready while also packing my bag for work, once we're all ready I take the kids to school and head to the base. When I get there I go straight to the training simulator and start a session, Mare and I have been competing on who can get the higher score but now its who can finish it, there are 50 levels and last time Mare came she got to 48 so now that she's gone I can try and beat her to the end, but I don't want to. For one she'd get pissed but I think she deserves to win this little battle, she's come so far and this would make her see how much she's improved.