Erasure and Affirmation (Hypernaturals 11)

Deny Any of Those Points

Denise made me wait until everyone came home. Then she made me wait again while Lori and Danny went to their place to have a quick talk. Then Luciana, Carol, DeWayne, and Anne arrived at the house, so we are going to have a really full living room.

Then there was another delay while I explained I felt fine, am 100%. The virus was bad, but in the end, I am fully recovered. I thanked each of the blood donors.

"I have a little blood voices symphony going on inside me now, with all of you in it." I said.

Nakoma defended my evaluation of my health. "I am sure we need to run more tests and look at the viral load, but he fell off the temperature cliff the same way he went up it. The cooling suit shut itself off, and dad was stone normal everything when he woke up. As if he was never ill."

"And as much a pain in the butt as a patient as ever." Denise added.

"Dad defines obstreperous in the dictionary." Nakoma agreed.

Denise sighed. "You really were raised by Morgan." Denise told Nakoma. "Obstreperous? Really?"

"It's a word." Nakoma said.

"My daughter used it correctly. Adrian is the living definition of it." Morgan said.

"I know it's a word. I am still getting used to the teenager that wants to do surgery and both cusses and uses words like that." Denise said.

"Our daughter. I am trying to get her to use British slang next." Helen said.

"I have to learn to have that accent first." Nakoma said. "It does not do any good to run about the house shouting about falling down and now my bloody bum hurts if I say it like an American." Nakoma said.

"Very sensible." Helen agreed.

We got down to hearing about what has gone on while I was off getting the choir installed in my veins. Grandparents are all here now, taking turns holding grandkids in the kitchen.

I asked my first question. "You all find Ginger and Wyatt yet?"

Morgan answered. "Evaporated from planet Earth, so far. I hope that is not literal."

"We looked around their house, We have traffic cams of them driving away in their car. We tracked their cells from tower to tower. They went to the airport. We see them on airport security, we see them getting off the plane, we see them getting into a limo. Then they are gone. The limo has fake plates, and their cell phone signals disappear." Anne laid out the depth of the hunt. That is a lot of Crew resources looking into this.

"Where?" I asked.

"Newark." Morgan said.

I pivoted to Denise, who acknowledged the connection with a single nod. She went next.

"Here is what we have on the New Jersey address Ginger gave us. We tracked down all the various things from all the various shipping companies that have serviced that address. We went back years. It started about the time they took Melissa captive. Five years before you even showed up on the scene, Adrian." Denise said.

"They targeted me this time, but it is not about me, then. They started this before I existed as a Vampire."

"And started all the trouble." Carol said.

"Like making it possible to meet DeWayne and have children with him trouble." Morgan said.

"Fine. Good trouble." Carol said.

"Done?" I asked.

"For now." Carol said.

"What all is it at the place then What kinds of shipments?" I asked.