This is the second part of my story 'Blood bounds'. I hope you'll enjoy it and please leave a review.
Athina had just finished school. After the incident with Stella's former boyfriend, she had told Athina to come to the lab after school and not go home immediately. In the lab she looked for her aunt, but couldn't find her. However, she could see Adam working on something. On her way there, she dropped off her bag in Stella's office and secured her visitor's bade at her skirt.
"Hello Adam", she said and tapped on the glass of his lab. "Can I enter or are you working on something secret?" He looked up and smiled when he recognized her.
"Come in, you can help me. I try to figure out how this must be folded. There are some marks where the paper must only be folded." She put her hands on the table and looked at the various papers lying around all showing the same print.
"Sure, if you have enough copies from that?" Adam divided the pile into two halves and gave her the half. The lines obviously showed some kind of paper plane.
Just ten minutes later there was a pile of differently shaped paper planes instead of the flat papers before.
"Finally, I got it", Adam said holding up a small plane, "This one fits to the lines on the paper."
"That's awesome." She picked up one plane and let it fly through the room. It bounced against a cupboard and fell on the ground.
"You know what? I have an idea. Mac and Stella are in the city somewhere. At least I've seen Mac rushing out of here and Stella is out with Danny interviewing someone."
"There she is. I forgot to ask, but what idea do you have?"
"You know this little gallery above the elevators? There is enough space." Athina smiled and nodded.
"That's great. I hope you won't get into trouble." Now Adam smiled at her and shook his head. She put a pile of the Paper planes in an edge of her shirt and followed him to the elevators and up the stairs.
"Alright, you start, Adam", she said and placed her planes on the handrail. He took one and threw it onto the corridor downstairs.
"That one was awesome. Let me try this one." She took another plane and also threw it into the corridor. The two of them quickly decided to make a little contest who could throw the plane farther. After a very good throw of Adam the plane landed in front of the black leather shoe of Mac. Only a split second later Stella appeared at his side. He looked up and saw Adam.
"Adam?" Stella asked and picked up another paper plane.
"What are you doing here? I thought you are still at school." Before any of them could answer Mac waved them down. Adam went back to the lab where he and Athina had made the planes and the smile was vanished from his face. Athina herself wasn't very sure what to think of the situation. Mac and Stella curiously looked at the piles failed planes.
"I was able to recreate this one by the folding lines on the sheet of paper you found at the crime scene." Adam said before Mac could ask him. "When you put the wings of this plane together you can see something like a map, a half of two blocks. No street names, it could be anywhere in Manhattan." Mac nodded.
"And why are you entertaining half of the lab by throwing paper planes?"
"That is a really good question and I will go and work and hopefully save my job. Bye Athina." Adam quickly touched Athina's shoulder and left the room. Stella turned around and faced her niece.
"So, what are you doing here, Athi?"
"Mrs. Watts is sick. We didn't have PE", she said in Greek. Mac looked a bit puzzled, but he said nothing.
"I told you to speak English, especially when there are other people around."
"I'm sorry Mac." Stella clapped her hands together a couple of times to help her thinking.
"Athina, could you wait in my office? I have to finish something and then I take you home." She nodded and left the room. In her aunt's office she killed the time by browsing Facebook and doing some parts of her homework.
Half an hour later Stella poked her head in to look after her.
"Athi, shut down the computer, we're going." Athina picked up her bag and followed her aunt. "We have to walk. My car's at maintenance check." She just shrugged her shoulders. When they left the building darkness had already hit.
"Stella, what was Adam working on?" Athina asked again in Greek. Stella suddenly stopped walking and put her hands in her hips.
"Young lady, did you hear what I said less than an hour ago?"
"Yes, I know, but there is no one around who should listen to us." She went back the couple of steps to her aunt and waited for her answer.
"Athina, I want you to speak and learn English. If this will happen more often, I have to think of consequences and secondly I can't tell you anything about an ongoing investigation." Athina furrowed her brows, but didn't say anything. Stella went on and she followed her, but suddenly she turned around driven by a strange feeling. A dark figure appeared from nowhere next to Stella. Athina wanted to scream, but she was too shocked.
The stranger had pushed Stella down the staircase of the subway. Athina also lost her balance and fell down the first couple of stairs. Stella was now lying at the bottom of the staircase. She had hardly moved when the figure was over her. He picked her up before she could reach her gun and smashed her against the wall. She screamed loudly, but Athina was still too shocked to move a single muscle. Standing in the middle between the bottom and the top of the stairs, she had to watch Stella desperately fighting the man. At the end the man was stronger and he squeezed her again at the wall. Athina could hear whisper, but she couldn't understand it. The brief moment of silence was enough for Athina to regain control of her body. She pulled herself up using the handrail.
"Stella", she screamed. The man looked up alarmed by the noise. He backed away from Stella and ran up the stairs. When he passed Athina he looked in her face for almost two seconds and she saw a glace of the man's face.
The picture burned itself into her brain and she hardly realized that the man was gone. A hand grabbed her upper arm and her vision cleared. Stella's face looked as shocked as hers.
"Athi, Athina, are you alright?" She gently shook Athina's arm and again said, "Athi? Is something wrong with you?" Athina suddenly realized that she had been silent for almost ten seconds and she slowly shook her head. Stella left her arm and ran up the last stairs. She pulled out her gun and looked around. Athina could hear some people on the street. Stella didn't move; she just stood there. Athina grabbed the handrail and pulled herself up the stairs. When she reached the top her aunt had already got her cell phone and dialed a number.
After she called mac and told him what happened she scanned her niece in the light of the street lamp from top to the bottom. Athina looked mesmerized at Stella and saw a dark spot on her forehead.
"Stella, you're bleeding. Did you call for an ambulance?"
"Mac sent one. You fell on your arm. Does it hurt?" Athina moved the joints in her arm and when she moved her wrist she felt a violent stitch.
The next chapter is coming up soon. Like it, hate it? Please let me know. =)