this is my first fic so please be nice, i don't own anything, hope you enjoy
chapter 1
It had been several days sense I've had seen Barrons. I'm starting to get really nervous. He usually leaves for a day or two, but now it was really getting out of hand. He's been gone for more than a week. Mac thought to herself as she opened the bookstore. It's been almost a year sense the walls came down and everything is going really well. Dad and Mom officially moved and everything is going well. Dad is helping with the new government set up and Mom still working with most of the women with restoring the ecological aspects of Dublin. Mac,of course was now an ambassador for the sidhe-seers. She was now on both the sidhe-seer council and the council for Dublin. Barrons was also on the Dublin council. It was probably because he helped with the Cruce issue so much. He really didn't realise how popular he was, and people were starting to notice his absence.
"Ms. Lane. How are you today. I think I will be buying one of your atlases of the city today," Corbin said as he came in the door. He was on the council with she and Barrons and he, like several others were always coming into the store looking similar books about Dublin."I'm doing well today, thank you. I'd be happy to help, Corbin. Right this way," she said, smiling to him as she walked out from behind the counter and starting walking toward the stairs that would lead to the atlas department. "Ms. Lane, may I ask you something?""Of course, Corbin. What would you like to know?" I asked him. "I've noticed that you and Mr. Barrons are quite close and I feel the need to ask...well, he has missed several of the last meetings and I was wondering if he was well, and where he has been." "Well, Corbin. Barrons left for a business trip several days ago. He was supposed to be back by now." "Oh my, this is not good. I need to inform the others immediately." Crap. Why can't I keep my mouth shut. "Corbin, I'm sure he's fine. He can take care of himself," I tell him as quickly as I can, trying to clear this mess up."Are you sure he's okay?" He asks as I nod to him."Okay. You will tell me when he returns, yes?" "Of course. Everything is going to be alright," I tell him as we get to the atlases. I hope everything is fine. Barrons, where are you?
Mac rings up Corbin's book and he leaves. Nothing else happens that day other than the fact that the store was increasingly busy. People were starting to return to Dublin. The Unseelie were dieing left and right and the government setup was working fairly well. People had hope. But people also wanted to see Barrons. I hadn't told him but everyday women would flock to the store by the hour hoping to catch a glimpse of him. Some had and were disappointed when he always went straight to me, kissing me openly and without remorse, ending their hopes of catching his eye and hopefully softening his supposed emotionless heart. Yea, I had heard the rumors. They had resulted to asking if he was in now and it was getting on my nerves. Having to tell them that he was away on business. I didn't like it. They were getting bolder, meaner, not realizing who I was until I would discreetly text Dani to come and help me. And she would wiz into the store and start talking to me, starting with a discreet jib about me shacking up with the thought-to-be-believed god. Those women would shamefully walk out the door with their heads hung low.
As Mac closed up shop, she was thinking about the day, dreading going downstairs. She would sleep in her and Barrons' now shared bed. The bed with the black silk sheets fit for a king. But tonight, just like every night for the past week and a half, she would sleep there alone. This is bull shit. She thought to herself. She needed to find him and she knew exactly who to go to in order to do so.
She grabbed the spear and her coat out the closet, made sure she had a few flashlights and headed toward Chester's. She didn't know what he would decide to tell her but Mac had a feeling that Ryodan knew what was going on and she was determined to find out what that was.
Mac went to the garage out back and got in the maroon 69' chevy nova ss with black interior. The keys were thankfully in it. Barrons is missing. He won't mind. She pulls out of the garage and is making her way over to the club, which is surprisingly getting the same if not more customers than BB&B, when she gets a phone call from someone very unexpected. "Mac, I need you to come to Chester's. We have a problem and we think only you can do something about it." "Funny, you should say that, Ryodan. I was just on my way over there. I'll be there in fifteen minutes."