We all scrambled to check our phones and saw that we were being hailed from Alex, Natalia, Lar, and Belle. The time to leave their homes was now. Riots were starting to happen and they were not going to hold out against the possible onslaught of violence any longer.
"I'll go to Lar's and help them get here, when we're done we'll help finish with Alex's. Thietian you'll take care of Elena and your stuff at our place until we're done?" John was quick to delegate and Thietian quickly nodded.
I snapped to Alex's and saw them still loading things in bags together and boxes, doing their best to be quick but efficient. I snapped the items that were already packed and began helping them put together everything we could. Clothes, blankets, pillows, pictures, everything that was loose that needed to be together to make it easier to snap for me. After we were done with the majority, I had to snap a large blue bottle to me and start taking shots to get my power level back up.
During this time, I told them to pile stuff into the cribs and their beds and I'd snap those to the compound. I could hear loud noises from outside and stopped to check out the window to see the street below filled with people. They were angry and yelling marching together and looking to cause destruction.
"You guys about finished?" I yelled out to them and turned around to see Natalia just dumping the stuff from the cupboards into trash bags for the babies and Alex helping her do the same. We put the bags in the cribs and as I snapped them out of there we all jumped.
*CRASH*
The sound of glass breaking and yelling could be heard downstairs in the store part of the building and Natalia cried out in dread at what the rioters who would destroy her years of hard work. She grabbed her children tighter to her.
"Let's go." She cried and Alex nodded confirming it was time to go.
Within seconds we were back in the compound in Norway, the cold night nipping at our skin with all of their stuff around us on the terrace where the bridge was located. A little farther away was Belle and Luna running towards us.
"Oh my goodness! John and Lar just left to go help you guys!" Celeste yelled on her way to us.
My eyes went wide and I snapped to Alex's place upstairs and heard people yelling downstairs in the store part still.
"JOHN!" I yelled out not even caring if anyone heard me.
"MARY!" John's voice rang out from down the hall.
I immediately ran out in to the hall to see Lar and John who were relieved to see me.
"Everybody is already at the compound from here." I informed them.
"What about Natalia's shop?" Lar asked concerned, "Can we do anything to stop them?"
I shook my head, "No Thietian doesn't want anyone to attack them except in self defense or to save another person's life. We need to leave though." Sadness filled me for Natalia's hard work that was being destroyed downstairs but we all nodded and snapped back to the compound.
We moved and snapped everyone's things into the theater area until we could figure out where we would be putting things. Belle stayed with Alex and them, while Lar, John and I went to the country house.
Thietian already had Turk and others snapping everything outside to the compound while he and Elena took care of things in the house. I just started helping until I saw Elena move and wince.
"Elena, that's enough for you. I'm snapping you back to wait and relax with everyone back at the theater." I quickly said going to her side to take the box from her.
This grabbed Thietian's attention and he morphed into Cass who quickly came to her side.
"What's the matter?" He quickly scanned her for any physical clues that said where she was hurting.
"I'm fine it was just a kick in my rib cage." She told us and I shook my head.
"No, you have done enough we have got it from here okay? This is a stressful situation and that alone means you need to take it easy." I stress the facts to her and Cass agrees.
"She's right, go spend time with your sister. She's probably concerned you're not there yet. Please for our sons sake too." Cass implored taking her hand in his.
"Okay. I'll go." She sighs and gives in when she realizes that it is for the best.
I snap her back as we finish the house. We work well into the night pausing only to take shots from our blue bottles when we need to. The last thing to snap is my car. Only problem, I'm not sure where to snap it to.
"Hey Thietian, where should my car go?" I ask him as he walks past doing a final sweep of the grounds.
He snaps his fingers, "I took care of it. You'll see it later. If that's it. We should go and I'll have someone go to Grier later and help her, if she will come. We have a lot to look at and catch up on with what's going on right now."
We all sigh wearily and go back to get some rest before straightening up our places and catching up on the current events that have been unfolding.
Riots plagued almost every major capital and city all around the world. Protests were wide spread and demanding for their governments to explain what was really going on. Several of the people on our lists to take out, had been arrested. There were several that were still in their positions of power, denying everything, others were now missing.
Large amounts of the Fae communities came out and helped protect communities from the destructive rioters right along side their human neighbors. Some places had buildings that firefighters were still trying to stop the blaze tearing through buildings. Reports of Fae helping to get the injured or trapped out of the higher floor levels of apartment buildings on fire filled news pages as well.
Thietian had indeed planned well when he instructed certain groups to go out and enlist the help of Fae communities to help the humans to prove, not all wanted what the Erl-king wanted. That the Fae were willing to help in anyway necessary. There were Fae and human refugee camps set up for the people who had lost their homes.
Since John and I had woke up, Thietian had already been up and was working hard with several groups of our messengers and getting more information out to the governments that were asking for it. We had a team of humans, half-Fae, and Fae all working together on how to deliver and what to deliver to certain countries, that way they would not be overwhelmed with information that didn't pertain to them, they'd just get a quick overview of the rest.
While Thietian handled the politics, John and I helped with training more recruits that had started coming in with our men who had been placed out in the general population for several purposes.
We had them going to a different compound though and not to ours in Norway. We had mostly humans under us at the moment and the ones that were willing to fight already had some form of military training, the ones who didn't had the nerve and willingness to learn. The ones who acted like punk kids were sent to a different compound where they were just given the option to be put to work in helping take care of making things or if they still couldn't change attitudes were told they could go back.
Thankfully today being the first day, I only had a handful of ignorant and arrogant people that were sent to the other compound. I hope things were going better for John. Seeing as today was the first day I mainly briefed them on the current situation and of what was to come. What we expected from them and what they got in return. That if they had family they would be welcome to come and live but that certain expectations were to be met by them as well.
Then I explained the blood oath that was required of them. That was when I received the growls and shouts of disapproval.
"What?!"
"Are you kidding me?"
"Wait. That would make us slaves to you guys then?"
Their were a few in the crowd who were intent on listening before jumping to conclusions.
"No, it would not make you slaves. In fact, the only thing it does is make it to where you can not tell, write, mime, sing, sign, or somehow slip up any information on any of our locations, plans, and others involved with us except for those who have already signed a blood oath contract. It is merely for the protection of the people located in these places and the safety of the families as well."
I inform them all and get some questions thrown out at me.
"Have you signed one?" A bearded middle aged man asked, his shrewd eyes taking my appearance in and looking a little unimpressed with it.
"I have."
"Then why are you able to tell us the location and information when we haven't signed one yet?" He asked me.
"Because the one I signed omits that part for necessary reasons and because my loyalty has been proven in situations past." I state matter of fact.
The bearded man asked looking a little skeptical, "What situations would that be young lady?"
'Young lady? .... Oh boy...'
"What's your name?" I ask him.
"Suites."He said.
"That's it?" I ask him letting my head go forward questioning.
"David, David Suites. Former Ranger of the United States Army, Ma'am." He gave me an old boy kind of nod.
I chuckled, "Alright then David Suites... My name is Mary Douglas, former CIA, FBI, and a whole other list of titles and ranks that are way above your clearance level. So I'll give you a name that you may know. ..." I trail off as he gives me a puzzled look but I know I have his and a few others attention in the crowd.
"SIN." John came in at the moment calling me and I saw some jaws drop of the middle aged and older ex-military men and woman who were there.
"Yes?" I asked him with a devilish grin on my face.
Puzzlement fills his face for a second before catching on and acting nonchalant.He walks up to me closely to whisper something in my ear.
"Have they signed yet?"
"No." I respond out loud not letting anything be read on my face.
"Well my U.S military guys in my group want to meet you. When you're done with these." He backs away and gives me a lazy salute as he walks away.
"There's no way you are THE SIN. She would be an old woman by now." Another guy called out.
I snapped my hand behind my back and had my badge and ID show up in my hand. I walked up and showed the bearded man. He stopped and looked at me now that I was closer.
He called to the back row, "Hey Futere! You said you met Sin once. This her man?"
'Futere?'