Sometimes Amazing Comes in Little Packages
Skylar Grey knew she was badly fatigued and in desperate need to rest. She fell into the very same shop she had spent much of her time as little girl in with the three men she considered her fathers. The only men in her life she could trust with her life with no questions asked. Hopefully they were there…. Oh God let them still be there. But before she could call out any of their name she had collapsed into the doorway.
Please let them be here.
All the men from the expendable team were exchange ding playful banter when a loud thud came from the front door of the tattoo shop that was their headquarters. They all turned toward to source of the sound their had ready at their guns. But the sight that greeted them was not an intruder but a small heap of a girl. Before any of then could move to check the body Yin's voice rang out.
"SKY!" was all Gunnar heard Yin say before He, Barney, and Tool rushed to the girls' side with a quickness I didn't think capable. Barney checks her pulse and tell Yin that she's still breathing but barely. I saw relief wash over his small features and as he cradles her in his arms. who the heck was this broad? I stood there watching Yin and Barney handle the girl with more care than I'd ever seen and thought capable for them. They had both carried the girl into the spare bed room in the back that no one was allowed to use. Tool stayed back and check outside the shop. Probably to see if she was being followed.
After a few moments they came back out of the back room to explain to us what's going on. Apparently she was Yin's niece and she lived in this city. It surprised me a little because Yin looked a bit too young to have a niece, although none of new exactly what the others did outside of our group, not even our real names and if the other had families or not. He explained that she was orphaned because both her parents died in a car crash and that he was the only person listed as her immediate family although he was only a family friend. Barney explained that he adopted her after meeting her for the first time. Tool explained that he helped Barney raise her when she was younger. The way they talked and cared for her gave me the feeling that she was special to all three of them.
Once they had explained everything we all dispersed. The fatherly trio left to check on "something important" as Barney had put it. Not one to really question them he just stayed but as a favor from them. They asked to borrow one of his spare shirts to change her into and of course he couldn't refuse. There was just something about helping out a woman that he couldn't turn down. Barney had walked back into the room Changed her and walked back out with the other two out the door.
Gunnar was sitting in a chair pondering just how he had gotten to be in this predicament. I was given the task of watching over sleeping beauty over there and was ordered not to let anyone disturb her and no one suspicious near the back room.
Apparently Everyone had plans and they had left me because as Yin put it "Your bigger." smart ass…
Well might as well make myself comfortable I though and sat back into a chair