Fourth Chapter already? What am I Scout? Maybe. Here's where shit will start to get dark and it will get darker from here.
Madison hung up the phone after leaving a message. Either he wasn't by his phone or didn't answer because he didn't recognize the number.
"No luck?" Scout asked as the team was heading into the base.
"Nope. Hopefully he gets the message I left though," She told him. Scout sighed, He noticed something in the distance.
"You have any rivals in New Mexico?" Scout asked looking out into the dessert.
"Unless one moved out here, I shouldn't." She looked where he was. "Maybe they picked up my scent? Most don't like it when others are in their territory." Scout looked directly at them and they scampered off.
"Whether they are or not, they ain't getting past the gates unless they want to be blown up or set on fire." Scout's tone was cold and dark. Madison hadn't been expecting it from him. She wouldn't have thought it was him for a minute.
"Mmmph." Pyro placed an arm on Scout's shoulder.
"Sorry, I just didn't trust the look of it. A croc all the way out here, next to coyote nonetheless. It doesn't fit, and is honestly sketchy as hell." Scout solomley stated as they made their way down to the rest of the team. "Comin' with Madi?"
"Yeah, I'm coming," She told him. She tucked a few of her shorter strands of hair behind her ear. A man with a helmet on which Scout described while heading up to the roof was Soldier was already yelling at people.
"MEN! WE COULD HAVE DONE MUCH BETTER THAN WE DID! WHERE IS SCOUT!" He yelled.
"Why is he yelling? There's no reason to," Madison asked raising an eyebrow.
"I think he's either deaf from the rockets, or he just likes to." Scout replied to her.
"SCOUT! Where were you today!" Soldier snapped to him.
"Roof, getting sleep." He was void of any emotion but annoyance.
"I did not give you permission to sleep during battle!" Soldier continued to yell.
"You ain't the boss of me."
"For the love of God, please don't start an argument," Madison interjected.
"Ja, I agree with new girl." The biggest guy there interjected. Heavy was what he was called according to Scout. Soldier pulled something from behind him and without any further interjections hit Scout with it, causing his cheek to cut open.
"Oi! What the fuck!" She snapped once she realized what had happened.
"Never disobey your superiors, Maggot." Soldier then walked off after the statement to Scout.
"You ok son?" Engineer walked over to Scout.
"I'm fine Engi. Nothing serious…" He held his cheek.
"You sure?" Madison asked.
"Yeah, I'm tough." He smirked which only hurt it worse. She gave him a look that said she didn't really believe him. Most people weren't fine after getting an unexpected cut to the cheek. Medic simply used the Medigun on Scout and his cheek healed up.
"See? Fine." He could finally smile. Madison simply huffed. At least it had been taken care of. That's what mattered to her. She realized that this guy had gotten into her list of people she gives a fuck about in the matter of a night. Well fuck, that list went from about six people to seven now.
"So, who's the mistress?" Engineer asked.
"Her name's Madison. I found her in the trench where the wolf fell yesterday. The wolf left to somewhere nearby, it might show back up now and then." He stated simply. Everyone else seemed to understand it, but Spy was a little off guard with it. He didn't believe Scout for a moment.
"Nice to meet y'all," Madison stated with a smile.
"Is nice to meet new woman. I am Heavy Weapons guy." Heavy put his oversized hand on his chest with a light bow.
"I am ze Docktor, Everyone calls me Medic." The Medic bowed. The rest introduced each other in a respective manner.
Madison sat down on a chair. Her legs were pulled up so they were tucked up by her. Scout looked up from his spot.
"Yo, is your buddy's number 866-740-4531?" He asked looking at Madison.
"Yeah, that's his," Madison stated as she shifted her weight so she was sitting correctly in the chair. Scout tossed his phone to her using an underhand toss. She caught it before answering it.
"Ion, sweetheart, I see you got my message!" She said with a cheerful tone.
"Yes, I did, and I'm happy your fine.I would have called back sooner but I had class. Where are you?" Ion asked.
"New Mexico."
"How the absolute fuck did you end up in New Mexico?"
"HI MADI!" She could hear the young one which was most likely across the hall screaming at the top of her lungs.
"Tell Blaire I said hi." Madison was chuckling.
"She said hi back," His voice was a bit muffled. "Do you have a way back to Indiana?" He asked her.
"Nope, hence why I'm calling you. Can you see if Blaire can figure out how I got here and see if there's another option but a two-day drive so you fucks don't have to miss class?"
"Yeah, I'm about to head into my next lecture, so I'll talk to you later. Bye baby."
"Alright, later sweetheart." With that, Madison hung up.
"Should have known you call your boyfriend. Who was the yeller? I could hear them all the way over here." Scout asked.
"The yeller was our friend Blaire," Madison explained.
"She da pagan?" Scout questioned coming over to collect his phone.
"That'd be her. I'm honestly surprised she didn't just snatch the phone." She smiled at a memory of the younger woman doing that to her.
"How old was she when you met her anyways she sounded like she just became 21." Scout wondered what kind of crowd she ran in.
"Let's see, I was sixteen when I met Ion, twenty-two now...She was fifteen," Madison answered.
"Huh. funny, She's as old as my old girlfriend's sister more that I think about it. Damn that makes me feel old." Scout groaned. "She was about ten or eleven when I met her sister. She was fourteen when I left." Madison tilted her head a little bit as she thought.
"By any chance, was your ex's name Morgan?" She asked.
"Yeah, Morgan Everwood." He responded.
"Holy shit, you met members of my pack before I met my pack."
"I did? Who?"
"Morgan and her sister, Blaire. I'm not sure who else they might've introduced you to," She told him.
"Morgan was part of your little pack? I find that hard to believe. All her friends were emo as fuck. It's why I have a tattoo of a blue rose on the back of my shoulder. Kinda like an acceptance letter from her friends. One got me a tattoo and told me I was an unofficial part of the pack?... Actually now that makes sense." It all came to Scout.
"Yeah. That would be my pack. That tattoo would be something most of us have. Mine is on my arm. Wow, just, wow." Madison couldn't believe she met someone who knew the others.
"Same thing as me and all?" He took off his shirt to reveal the tribal looking blue rose.
"Exact same. Been in Ion's family for years," Madison told him as she pushed up her sleeve to reveal the same thing. His has a slightly different mark in it, the mark for human instead of for pagan or shifter.
"Only difference is a mark in the stem." Scout cocked his head.
"What's the difference?"
"There's three markings used. One looks like a hammer, one looks like a canine ear, and the last looks like a star. Hammer means human, canine ear means shifter, and star means pagan. Ours are mostly canine ears at the present," Madison explained.
"Huh. Dats kinda weird but cool." Scout put his shirt back on. "Probably should not keep my shirt off for too long, people will either think I'm flirting with the new girl or see the blue rose and flip their shit." Madison pulled the sleeve of the shirt back down.
"Yeah, let's not have anyone doing that," She stated.
"Well Pyro didn't seem to mind over there." He looked over to Pyro who was shoving tissue up their mask. "You good mumbles?" They nodded. Madison hadn't even noticed them.
"Pyro is also one out of nine other people here," Madison pointed out.
"But as you've seen. Pyro is the only one of us 3 in this room who know your secret which so far it's only us three in this room." Scout smirked. Little did Scout, Pyro, and Madison know that they weren't the only people in that room.