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Log 11

While Fade and Kristin stood watching the city wake up from the long night, he felt his heart begin to race as she looked up at him. Her brown chocolate eye and her copper eye looking to him like she wanted to say something but was too scared to ask. The wind blew and with it a gust of cold dew filled the air. "It looked like it's going to rain, we should get inside so you don't freeze." he reached his arm so he could feel her shoulders when something nailed him upside the head.

    Looking around, Fade found a silver dollar sized rock was laying on the ground next to his feet. Bending to grab the strange projectile, Fade saw it had a small message written on the back;

    "Keep your distance from her. Unless you want me to say the truth about who you are... Finnigan Lockwood"

    Fade turned around and couldn't see who threw it, and grabbed Kristin's hand, "I need to go... please don't follow me. I don't want you to get hurt." he said and ran off through the halls. The door slammed behind him as he took off to Spade. He stopped by his room and saw his nameplate was gone. Now in a slight panic, he sprinted down the hall, slid down the banister, and sprinted to the training room where he knew Spade would be.

    "SPADE! Spade, where in God's name are you?" He called looking for the silver-haired woman. She peeked from her punching bag and walked to him, putting a tan hand on his arm. She looked up at him and asked him what was wrong. He showed her the rock and took a breath. "I don't know what to do. When I went by my room the tag was gone. You changed it right?"

"Yes, I did. We knew to keep your room because we thought you may come back, Horus especially. He might have changed it, you know you were like a son to him? Right?" She pointed to a man who was racking his plates from lifting. His eyepatch tied tightly around his short military haircut. The black of his hair buzzed tightly to the back of his neck and his black stubble shaved carefully to his cheeks.

"He still hates me. I did run off and leave you guys." Fade looked at the ground then to the tattoo on his wrist. The tattoo that he and Horus shared. They had each got the tattoo when Fade has passed his training. Horus said that he only got matching tattoos with those he was close to, and with Fade leaving the  Guardian Angels he knew he'd be mad.

     Even still, he sighed and walked over to Horus and tried to get his attention. "Um, Horus? I-i need to speak to you. I-it's me, Fa-de." He stuttered like a kid who just came back from somewhere he shouldn't have been. Horus turned around and loomed over Fade. His darker complexion and gold eyes pierced into Fade's confidence and he shrunk where he stood.

"I don't know a Fade, but you do look like a kid I knew a few years ago. His name was..."

"Finnigan. I know you are mad at me about changing my name, but I couldn't live with people calling me the name my brother called me. It's not like I wanted to leave this place!? It's the best thing I've had in awhile, and...and I knew that with people knowing who I was and calling me Finnigan I couldn't, Sir. Not af-after he died I... I couldn't. Not knowing the last thing he said was my name. I didn't think that by me leaving I was hurting anyone and I apologize that I hurt you and whoever else I was close with," he took a breath then realized he had raised his voice higher than before and quickly added, "Sir." to the end. He looked back up at the man he once knew as a father.

The man tilted his head and patted his shoulder, "Come with me. We can talk in my office." He nodded and started walking from the training hall. Fade turned back to Spade who gave a thumbs up as he hurried up to follow him.

They walked to the dark room across the hall, it's white and grey walls plastered with pictures of the students and members that have either been shot down or had grown out to start their own families. Next to Horus' computer there was a small frame with Fade and Horus standing with their backs turned to the camera, Horus was pointing to something off focus. Fade had to have been 16 because he still had shorter hair that his father had cut the day before he died.

"So, what was it you needed to speak to me about, Finn?"

"That's just it, Sir, I someone stole the name off my room, then a rock was thrown at my head with a note threatening Kristin."

"Kristin? Who's this? A new girl? You always did like the ones you couldn't get."

"What?! No. No no no no no, Kris isn't my girl. She's a girl I saved from a Ravener, her dad is Dr. Fletcher, she can help us kill him and Morrison."

"So you are telling me that you brought in the daughter of the psychopathic doctor that has been ruining people's lives for over five years now?"

"Yes, sir."

"And who else did you bring in, for I saw more of our rooms were taken up."

"Ryan Delgait, he's a kid that wants to help. Lux something, he ran off from Axewood and was with Ryan. Kristin, who I told you about and Able Morrison. He wants to end his father just as bad as we do. Not to mention we look to be short on manpower and these people are just who we need." Fade explained as Horus put his finger to his chin.

"If they stay here then I want you to be the person to watch them." Horus nodded as he agreed with Fade and that they needed more people to help out. "Alright, Finn. I'll help you, and I want to know more about you and that Kris girl." He smirked as Fade glared and laughed nervously.