Christine Feehan -Ghostwalker series fanfic

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Cote De (pronounced Cody)

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'COTE DE?' Jack Norton asked as he and the others made their way back to the house and her. The silence was getting to him. She should have answered. They came up to Cote De she was laying on the ground, covered with blood. "Cote De!" He said as he knelt down beside her. "Wake up kid." He told her. He looked her over and the blood didn't appear to be hers, except the line running from her nose down her cheeks. He gently slapped her cheeks to get her awake. As Ken,
and the four oldest kids panned out to make sure no one was still a threat. Gator and R.J. went aswell. Briony and Mari were standing with their back to him, making sure no one was going to sneak up on them. He could tell Briony was struggling not to kneel down with him to check on her daughter.

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Someone was slapping her and she wasn't appreciating it. 'STOP IT' She tried to push the command at whoever it was, in case it was one of the soldiers.

"Hey! Your mind control won't work on me." Her dad told her, saying it out loud. She sensed her dad talking with Uncle Ken. She got the impression he was sarcastically thanking Uncle Ken for teaching her to use mind control. Her uncle laughed in reply.

She opened her eyes to look up at her dad. Concern was written on his face. "I'm fine." She reassured him as she sat up. She looked down at her sweater. She cringed and pulled the sweater off carefully. She thought she covered the wince from her dad but he noticed. Her arm burned.

"What's wrong?" He asked angrily. He helped to take the sweater off and noticed the ragged edge cut. "You hit anywhere else?" He asked as he seen Briony motion Jayce to take her place.

"You okay?" Briony asked worriedly.

"I'm fine and no. One of them clipped me that's it." She told both her parents, as her dad threw her sweater off to the side.

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'KID OKAY?' Ken asked his brother.

'SHE'S BEEN CLIPPED' Jack answered as he reached into his pack for the medical kit.

'WELL SHE SURE THE HELL DID A LOT OF DAMAGE OUT HERE' Ken warned his brother.

'ALL DEAD' He asked, as he tied off the wound. "You need stitches." He told his daughter.
'I'M ON MY WAY TO YOU NOW' Jack told his brother. "You all stay here." He told the group. 'THE HOUSE INTACT' Jack asked his brother.

"Yes the house is intact." Cote De told her dad grinning. Jayce and Briony was helping Cote De to stand, they lead her to a fallen log where Flame and her youngest were sitting.

"Stay out of my head." Jack told her.

"Gladly." She replied. "Though it was an impression not a thought." She explained. "Can I come with you?" She asked quietly.

"Can you walk?" He asked.

She stood up by herself and walked over to him. "All right?" She asked.

"Yeah, take this." He told her, as he handed her a hand gun. "Stay behind me." He warned her, the tone in his voice told her he wasn't going to be disobeyed.

They silently made their way threw the forest, they didn't bother with changing their skin colour, they could sense that the only breathing humans were on their side. They came to where Uncle Ken was standing a few feet from the house.

"Remind me not to piss you off." Jake told her as he and Cameron came up behind her.

She looked at him a moment before blinking a few times at the scene in front of her. "You okay?" Cameron asked her. Placing a hand on her arm that was bandaged.

She nodded. She walked to the middle of the circle of dead bodies and looked around. She found the man who had been supposedly incharge. She grinned down at him. "Not so tough anymore."
She told his dead body.

"He hurt you or something?" Marcus asked her, looking at the man on the ground.

"No he wasn't man enough." She told him. She searched the surrounding area, she came across a body hidden in the brush. What caught her attention was the video camera in his left hand. She swore, as she walked back to where her father and uncle stood. "I think we have a problem." She told them, holding up the video camera. She rewound the tape and pressed play. She watched herself take out the two men who tackled her then the group of them surrounded her. It ended with him screaming as he died in extreme pain. She took the tape out before dropping the camcorder and stepping on it. She tried to get the screams out of her head but she couldn't. She hoped she kept her expression blank. "We have a problem." She told them. She fingered through the pieces of the camera until she found the wireless bug. "This is a wireless satelite feed. Whoever planted it, was watching it live." She explained. She took a deep breath. "Which means whoever it was had first row seats to the damage I did and they are living to tell about it." She said,
trying to keep from being scared, but she didn't accomplish it.

Her dad walked over to her and hugged her. "I'm not letting anyone take you." He whispered in her ear.

"I know." She said quietly.

"We need Lily and the team, for clean up." Her dad asked told Uncle Ken

"Already called and they are on their way. Should be here in twenty." Gator told him as he and R.J. joined them.

"Can this be traced?" Uncle Ken asked, pointing at the wireless bug in her hand.

She thought about it. "I might not be able to trace it but I might be able to tell which satelite was and/or still is. I'll need my computers though." She explianed.

"Fine. Take someone with you." Her dad told her.

"You know I can take care of myself." She retorted as she walked to the house.

"I'll go with her." R.J. volunteer, as he followed her. He walked into the house. "Hey where'd you go?" He called quietly so that the others didn't hear.

Cote De came back into the foyer. "This way." She told him, she lead him down a flight of stairs. "Pull up a chair." She told him as she quickly booted up her computers. She started off with one in the corner of her dads' office, but by the time she was fouteen she had five more. Her dad and uncle finished the basement and moved all her computers and equipment down here. She sat on the computer chair in front of her laptop. She started madly typing away. A few minutes later she pulled out the keyboard drawer and typed away on another computer.

R.J. sat on another chair and rolled it towards her. "Is this what you would call hacking?" He asked her.

She looked over her shoulder at him. "Well that would depend on if I get caught." She replied.

Raoul Junior Fontenot had grown up since the last time she seen him. She was ten and he was fourteen. He had been scrawny and tall back then. Now he had filled out. He had broad shoulders, with most of his weight in his chest and arms. His hair was long for the average boys style. A dark brown, and his eyes were brown and caught every detail of his surroundings. "What can I do to help?" He asked.

"You computer savy?" She asked, raising one eyebrow.

He grinned. "Cute trick." He told her, trying to copy her. She laughed. Cote De handed him another keyboard. "What do I need to do?" He asked, typing away.

"I'm hacking into NASA. Could you start bouncing signals off in different directions and countries?" She asked, handing him another keyboard.

"Sure thing CHER" He told her as he propped his feet on her desk and set a keyboard on his lap and another one on his knees. He began madly typing. "So CHER you always hack into government secured databases?" He asked her.

"Yeah just don't tell my mommy." She told him, leaning back in her chair and copying him with the keyboards setup.

She hacked into NASA satelite images. Watching it on the plasma TV, as she used her second computer to switch from satelite to satelite to find which one was over top her house. She clicked on another satelite and seen her house. "Bingo." She stated. As she hacked into the satelite itself to get information on where it got it's command to move over her house. 'SATELITE STILL OVER HEAD' She told her father.

'WHO SENT IT?'

'STILL LOOKING' She replied. "Dammit." She cursed. "Whoever moved the Satelite is locking everyone out so they can't move it or get images off it." She explained it to R.J.

"But we can see it." He answered.

"Because I hacked. NASA thinks they are missing a Satelite." She replied as she started typing rapidly.

"And what are you doing?" He asked watching the computer screens.

"Well I figured if I could hack into the images, then I can hack into the satelite itself and tell it to move." She explained. As she started typing, keeping an eye on the plasma TV.

"Hey what's that?" R.J. asked sitting up, and looking at the TV, on the far left side, an object was moving across the screen towards her house.

"Huh." She zoomed in on the object.

"What is an F-37 doing around here? It can't be Lilys' team."

"No she uses Helios and private jets." Just then something shot out of the plan.

"Oh" 'SHIT' She replied half out loud half to the others. She jumped up. "We need to leave now!" 'DAD THEY ARE SENDING A MISSILE TOWARDS THE HOUSE. GET AWAY FROM THE HOUSE!' She said to the others. Including Raoul, Flame and R.J. "No this way." She said, grabbing R.J. by the arm and pulling him towards the back wall.

'GET OUT OF THERE!' Briony told them.

'RUNNING DOWN THE TUNNEL AS WE COMMUNICATE' She replied, as she and R.J. ran at breakneck speed. The hit shook the tunnels making them fall. What surprised them both was a few moments later was the second and third hit. The second hit collapsed the tunnel walls and the third brought down the tunnel infront of them. They skidded to a halt to avoid from being under the rock slide. Large rocks came raining down on Cote De bring her to the ground and burying her. Not before seeing R.J. get hit over the head with one, rendering him unconscience.

'DAD? THE HOUSE ISN'T INTACT ANYMORE' She told him, trying to move the rocks off her.
'TUNNEL NOT EITHER.'

'WHERE ARE YOU?' Her dad asked.

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'WHERE ARE YOU?' Jack asked his daughter.

'UNDER WHAT'S LEFT OF THE TUNNEL.' She told him. "R.J. IS UNCONSCIENCE' She reported.

'YOU HURT?'

'CAN'T SAY EXACTLY' She answered.

'HOLD ON A SECOND GOT TO THE TUNNEL RIGHT NOW.' Jack told her, breaking off as he and Ken pulled open the tunnel trap door.

"Here." Briony said handing them flashlights while pointing hers down the tunnel.
"Oh no!" Briony stated, as she got closer to the edge. 'Are you sure she is alive?" She asked,
looking up at Jack with tears in her eyes.

'COTE DE TALK TO YOUR MOM. IT MIGHT TAKE AWHILE TO GET TO YOU, IT'S A MESS.' Jack told her. He knew the moment his daughter talked to Briony, seen the relief on her face.

'GOT IT DAD' Cote De answered.

"Lily's here." Raoul stated, as they all heard the helicopters approach.

"Matthew and Marcus go meet with Lily. Explain whats going on." Ken told his sons.

"Got it dad." Matthew said. as he and Marc walked off.

Jack jumped down into the half collapsed tunnel. Ken followed along with Gator. 'OKAY KID, WE ARE ON OUR WAY' He reassured her.

'HURRY' She stated.

"Well so much for this tunnel not collapsing someday." Ken stated as he followed his twin through a small narrow space. "Hold up Gator." He told Gator who was behind him. As he seen Jack slide down as the narrow space got bigger fast. He laughed. "You okay Jack?" He asked, looking down at his brother. He slide down more slowly and rolled to his feet. He looked in front of him at the wall of rubble. 'SO KID WHERE ARE YOU?' Ken asked his niece.

'YOU ARE STEPPING ON MY HAND' She answered.

Ken jumped and Jack and Gator looked at him confused. 'OH SORRY' He told her.

"Gator. Found R.J." Jack replied.

"Found Cote De." Ken replied, moving rocks out of the way. He lifted a few larger rocks and was surprised when Cote Des' right hand started moving and helping out. "You okay?" He asked,
as she sat up slightly. "My arm is stuck and it hurts." She replied, laying back against the rocks, pushing at rocks with her right hand. "How's R.J.?" She asked trying to look over at her dad and Gator.

"He's coming around." Jack answered as he walked over and helped Ken move a large rock of her. "You okay?" He asked, as they got the rest cleared off.

"I think the arm's broken." She answered.

"Hey you two need help with her?" Gator asked as he was helping R.J. out of here.

"No we're good. Cameron and Jake are at the end of the tunnel. I'll tell them you are on your way." Ken told him, as they vanished out of site.

"All right you're next." Jack told her. He pulled off his over shirt and ripped it. He tied the ends together to make a sling, before placing Cote Des' injured hand through it and slipped it over her neck. She winced and said a string of curses in her head. "I heard those." Jack told his daughter.

'AND SO DID YOUR MOTHER' Briony stated.

'GIVE HER A BREAK' Ken said defended.

'YEAH I AGREE WITH UNCLE KEN' Cote De stated.

Jack followed Ken and Cote De as they slowly crawled to the end of the tunnel. "Watch it Cote it's a nice fall." Ken warned as he shone his flashlight up at where Cote De was looking down at him. She turned so her feet were in front of her and slowly stepped down, using her good arm to hold on to where ever possible. It took them thirty minutes to get to the opening.

"Jake pull your sister out." Jack told him as he lifted her up, careful of her arm. She gripped Jakes' hand and he pulled her up, letting her go when Briony wrapped her arms around her.

"Mom." Cote De protested, guarding her arm.

"Oh I'm sorry." Briony gushed worriedly.

"Jack and Ken care to explain what the hell happened here?" Ryland and his wife Lily interupted, as they walked over.

"Briony come on we'll take Cote De over to the medic." Lily said, wrapping an arm around Cote De. Briony did the same.

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Cote De was sitting in one of the many helicopters, waiting for the clean up to be done.
So they could get the hell out of here. R.J. sat beside her nearest the door with a handgun in his hand another two beside him. He had stitches just above his left eye. Her left arm was in an air splint until they got back to Aunt Lily's place. She had a gun in her right hand aswell. "Ow." She winced, as she out of habit went to nibble on her lip ring, but it wasn't there.

"Geesh kid, you split open your lip again." R.J. pointed out grinning, as he handed her a towel.

"I can't believe he made me take my ring out." She growled.

"Kid your ring help split your lip, it had to come out now, or your lip will heal and the ring will never come out."

"Well SOORRRRRY I didn't know you were an expert." She hissed at him. "By the way our dads' are coming back." She answered, looking at the gun in his hand.

"Don't worry I won't shoot your dad. Though my dad is fair game." R.J. reassured her.

"You know something SON you are lucky you have a concussion right now." Mr. Fontenot told R.J.

"Speaking of which we are getting out of here." Nico Trevane stated, as he got into the helicopter and into the pilots' seat, just as Cameron and Jayce helped there moms, Lily, and R.J.s' younger brothers into the Helicopter before getting in themselves. Cameron closed the sliding door and slapped Nico on the back.

"Hows' the arm?" Jayce asked, as he sat beside her.

"How about I break your arm and bury you and you let me know." She remarked.

"Cote De!" Her mom scowled.

"Sorry morphine is kicking in." She replied, looking at Jayce then bursted out laughing.

It was a thirty minute air trip, landing on the roof of Lily's house.

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