Always With You- SOKEEFE(unlocked)

Chapter Eighteen

A/N: Update, I'm still being hacked. Please pray for my Wattpad account 😭🤣. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy!!

(Keefe's POV)

"So... how do we do this?" Keefe asked Grady who was sitting across from him in the Havenfield living room.

"You were the one with the 'master plan' to capture Jolie and get Sophie back, not me." Grady told him.

"It wasn't as much a plan as it was a test. All I was trying to do, at that point, was see if Silveny could teleport like Sophie could."

"And how was that?"

"Sophie had this theory, about teleportation. That... if she teleported by picturing a place in her head, she could also teleport to a certain person by picturing them. So, she tested it out when we went to find Jolie, and it worked. Silveny was able to do the same. Silveny wasn't trying to teleport to Foxfire, she was trying to teleport to Sophie." Keefe explained to him.

"So, what you're saying is, all we need to do is convince Silveny to teleport to Jolie?"

"Not quite. I, uh, think there might be another way."

"And, what way is that?" Grady asked.

Keefe laid his elbows on his knees, "By mesmerizing her."

"Keefe, I... that's illegal, let alone insane!"

"But, not impossible, right?"

Grady sighed, "No one's been able to mesmer animals, not in my lifetime at least."

Keefe smirked and took a sip of his lushberry juice.

"You?" Grady asked, "How— How were you able to do it?"

"I may have taken some inspiration from Foster. It was just so incredible how she could communicate with animals as if it were a second nature, but then she taught Fitz to do the same. That made me realize that the determining factor wasn't Sophie, it was the mind. Both telepathy and mesmerizing are abilities of the mind, so I just thought, 'why not?'."

"Where do you come up with this stuff?" Grady laughed softly.

"I have a lot of time to think." Keefe said.

"You mean every night when you don't sleep?" he paused and watched Keefe look down at his hands, "Yeah, you didn't think I'd find out about that, did you?"

"It's hard to sleep when your mind can't stop racing."

"You sound just like her, you know." Grady said.

"I guess Foster's insomnia just rubbed off on me." Keefe smiled.

Grady ran a hand through his hair, "You miss her, don't you?"

"How could I not?"

"You know, what?" Grady said standing from his chair, "I think it'd be a good idea for you to see if Sophie has anything in her room that might be of use. Maybe there's a clue as to why her mind broke."

"I— I couldn't do that. I wouldn't want to invade her privacy." Keefe told him.

In reality, Keefe hadn't visited Sophie's room since her mind broke, and if he was really being honest, he didn't want to. He didn't need to be reminded of what he lost.

"I think it'd be good for you, Keefe." said Grady.

"I'm not worried about me, I'm worried about Sophie."

"Exactly. You're so focused on Sophie that you'd probably get yourself killed if you tried going after Jolie now. Now go do what I say."

"Yes sir." Keefe said walking up the stairs.