Ok so have you ever had the unfortunate scare of typing at the computer in the dark when you see glowing yellow eyes in the darkness? No well good for you as I am typing this I had the shit scared out of me by my dog because of my stupid brain that did not register the glowing yellow eyes as my dog looking at me. *Sigh* well anyway ... man I use that word a lot never mind lost my train of thought. So something to clear up Jay, Alex, and Desmond and their language... talents, anyway Alex knows German fluently, the rest of the languages that they know well let's say they know bits and pieces enough to get themselves killed. That will be explained more in the story. Oh and in the first chapter I just realized that I called this story Patch of Faith I will not correct it I like it how it is. So this chapter will not have the action I (or GeneralWildfire) have been craving but I am getting to that don't worry. Also I have lost my story outline for this so I have to make up a new one. So without further adu here is Chapter Seven of Path of Faith called getting the Answers.


*Jay's POV*

Somehow some way we land safely. Sure the landing breaks were nonexistent, and sure the wheels looked like something you get off of a toy car, but we land safely that is all that matters. Of course we did not realize how close we were to sudden death until Alex opens the door and the door falls off its hinges onto the ground. We have now added to our Things We Will Never Do Again list, and that is never getting on a plane ever again.

We are now standing on the landing strip alone since Frank had to drop off the rest of the medical supplies in Washington State. If the plane was bad the landing stripe was worse it looked like the landing strip from Stephen King's Langoliers only older and looks like it is about to fall down. There is one thing that stands out from this place and I must say that it is nice. A white two thousand fourteen ford mustang with two red stripes down the middle. (AN: the stripes run from the front bumper to the back bumper going over the hood, roof, and trunk.) At least I think it is for us, if not I am so stealing the car.

"If that is not our car I am stealing it." Alex says causing me to look at her with a look of humor and confusion. "Somehow you have read my mind my friend." I say grabbing some bags and heading to the car. Desmond grabs some bags as well and says, "Oh yea let's add grand theft auto to our list of charges. To hell with it lets steal the damn car." Alex bursts out laughing as we get to the car and see a note on the windshield wipers.

The note reads: Jayda, Alex, and Desmond, Please follow the map inside the car to get into town. We have made this car bullet proof and impossible to track. We congratulate you all for making it this far, but your journey has only begun. ~ Signed Molly.

"Who is Molly?" Alex says as she popped up behind my elbow to read the note. Glaring at my best friend in the whole wide world I say, "She is Frank's alter ego, how the fuck should I know who Molly is?" Alex slaps the back of my head and replies, "Fucker." Desmond just laughs and opens the driver's side door before Alex magically jumps in to the seat and puts her seat belt on.

I jump into the passenger seat as I hear Desmond cusses and rides in the back with the bags. Alex takes off going way faster than what is necessary I might add, and when she gets behind a muscle car she is like Luke and Bo Duke from Dukes of Hazard. I take out the map from the glove compartment (AN: Why did she look in the glove compartment because a map goes in the glove compartment) and see a beautiful red line that goes from wear we are to the small town where we need to be. "Well looks like we stay on this road till we come to a twisted tree then turn right," I say as I fold the map back up. "Wait there is a picture of a twisted tree on the map?" Desmond asks giving me a most ridiculous look. "Well no but with how fast Alex is going we are about to miss our turn." I say as I brace myself with the 'oh' shit handle and wait for us to crash.

Alex lets out a, "Shit now you tell me." As she makes a sharp turn to the right sending Desmond who did not have his seat belt on I might add crashing into the door and the bags to crash into him. One bag found its mark though and crashes into his family jewels. "Fuck you Alex." Desmond squeaks out as he holds his jewels. "Well if Jay would have read the map faster you would not be hurting now Dezzy." Alex says as we continue back on the road. It is a strait shot to town after the turn so hopefully there are no little old ladies for Alex to run over.

"How the fuck is this my fault it is Desmond's for not following rule number 2 when we ride with you, always wear a cup." I shoot back as a city sign that reads Maysaf population of 1,925. (AN: if you go and play Assassin's Creed One and go to the map at the bottom of the screen will show you the population of the location that you are in that is where I got this number.)

"Well we are in the town limits so SLOW DOWN!" I tell Alex as she gets her lead foot off the gas and puts her feather foot on the break to slow down. "Party pooper," Alex says to me as she slows down to the speed limit of twenty five as we get more into a town that should have been in the 1800's old west by the look of it. Hell I would not be surprised if they were in period clothes.

"Um where should we go we don't know the way to the house so yeaaaa..." Desmond says from the back seat of the car getting his voice back. Spotting a mom and pop general store I say, "Let's stop in there so we can ask directions and look it says Molly and George's General Store maybe it is the same Molly."

Alex pulls into a parking spot that still has a horse hitch with real bullet holes in it, oh joy. Stepping out of the car, we take a good look around the town that is support to have a population of one thousand, nine hundred and twenty five people and this place looks like it could only have twenty five at most. The General store looks to be in the middle of town with the town paper, and the courthouse on either side of it. There is a garage, a brothel, a pharmacy, low and behold a blacksmith, and a bank. All of this is situated on two sides of the one road that is in town.

I look at Alex and Desmond with a questioning look before turning my attention to the General store where I lead us to the doors before opening them and forcing Desmond to walk in first.

The store looked just like it should from the eighteen hundreds like this is strait from an old west town. Then again we are out in the middle of nowhere so what did I really expect I don't know maybe some more covert top secret high tech guns hidden in the walls type thing. I guess this works to.

"You must be Desmond, Oh and Alexandria, Oh dear lord little Jayda oh how much you all have grown! I have not seen you all since y'all were in diapers come in come in. George should be back here soon oh it is so nice to see you. Your grandfather was so proud of you all and told us everything. It is a shame it must be this way but life is never easy for an Assassin. Oh I should not have said that out loud." This plump woman with graying red hair, who we will assume is Molly, says, as she is rushing about the store hugging Alex and I and pinching Desmond's cheeks.

"You must be Molly right? Thank you so much for the note and your store is very lovely." Alex says as she is trying to hold in her laughter. "Oh thank you dear and yes I am Molly." Molly says as she hugs Alex again. This would be awkward if she had not seen us since we were in diapers, ok so it is still awkward but we try to hide it.

"Molly what is going on you say this life is never easy for an Assassin? Grandpa Jack told us to come here for answers but so far we have been getting curiouser and curiouser. Please tell me you have some answers." I say trying to the answers as to what the hell is going on, but when has my luck ever been good.

"I am sorry dear but I have no clue the people in this town has always helped the Assassin's threw one way or another but as to the answers you seek we have no clue." Molly says with a look that screams she is very sorry that she can't help in our search for answers anymore. "Wait you say you help out the Assassin's but you have no clue what the Assassin's fight for what if we are the bad guys?" Alex says looking slightly worried as she looks between Molly, Desmond and, I.

"Oh dear the families here have been helping the Assassin's since Master Conner Kenway during the revolutionary war. We know who the good guys are and sometimes the lines are blurred but we hold on to our faith in the Assassins and their cause. And now that is your cause as well." Replies Molly as she starts to get teary eyed while she is looking at us.

"Well we were not planning on being Assassins but how about this point us in the direction of the house and we will see what we can do." I say as a wide grin spreads across Molly's face. "Oh that would be perfect I know you all will choose the right path. Now follow the road that leads out of town, not the way you came in but strait up the mountain. You will come to two twisted together trees and there is the road that will lead you to the house. Oh and if you pass the school you have gone too far." Molly says as she runs around the store grabbing things off the shelf and putting them in two football duffel bags. (AN: You know the duffel bags you get when you play American football? Well it is a big bag that holds every piece of your uniform pads and all.)

Desmond speaks up then, "Ma'am you said the car was untraceable and bullet proof. Why would we need to be off the grid?" (AN: Off the grid means you live like a hobbit. No internet, no T.V, no phone. No electronics at all zip zero zilch. Again you live like a hobbit.)

"Well the Templars are keeping track of everybody with electronics, it may be harder for you to work but I think your grandfather was working on something to help. Anyway it was in your grandfather's letter to us before he died. My husband picked out the car I hope you like it." Molly says as she packs the last into the bags and hands it to Desmond and me then she surprises us with. "There now you guys will have more food, my gosh you are all so thin you need to eat more."

"I love the car it is so cool and thank you ma'am but we can pay for all of this." Alex tries but gets shushed by Molly, "Think nothing of the sort now you all best be going before it gets dark and you will never find the road. Oh and make sure you put the branches back so the road stays hidden. Drive safe and come back soon George would love to see you and so would the others."

We say our goodbyes and head back to the car, since we are looking for something like a land mark Alex permits me to drive. And yes I say permits me to drive the thing that she has dubbed her "baby". We make our way out of town waving to some of the shop keepers and the judge that all waived with a big smile on their faces, of course we could not help but smile as well.

As soon as we get out of town, Desmond speaks up from the back seat where he was placed with the bags as well as the bags of food that were given to us, "Well I guess that we are in this for the long haul. Jay you do realize that the entire town thinks we are Assassins. That we are gonna fight the Templars that we will somehow do all this when we can't even figure things out."

Looking in my rear view mirror, I look at Desmond and say, "What do you want me to say! I get the feeling that we are not getting out of this. Looks like we are Assassins guys our path has been chosen for us, but let's try and make the most of it." Alex flashes one of her famous grins and says, "Well I always wanted to be a ninja, but an Assassin works just as well."

Desmond sighs and adds in, "Sure what the hell let's do this. Hey look the two twisted trees!" Slamming on the brakes I hear a, "My baby" coming from Alex and an, "Oh shit," from Desmond. Backing up a bit I park the car so that the front bumper is going in the direction of the so called road. I say so called because in front of us is well bushes, and trees, bushes and trees, oh my. The trees I understand because we are in the mountains and the town and surrounding area is covered with trees it is one big forest, but the bushes have me stumped, pun intended.

"Dumb dumb Mrs. Molly said that we have to put the branches back when we go through. Sure I think she meant bushes but it is all the same." Alex said as she glares at me for the quick brake job. "Desmond you go out and when we are past put them back." I order to my cousin since I am not giving up the driver's seat, and have Alex steal it from me.

With a sigh on Desmond's part he steps out of the car and walks over and moves the branches that look like bushes. You know what they are fucking sticks with leaves call them what you want. Anyway happy thoughts, I pull the car forward and stop so Desmond can cover the road again and get in the car. The road is an old dirt road that looks like it has not been used for a hundred years. Alex say good bye to the paint job on Baby.

"Fuck this road will ruin the paint job! Desmond go and trim the road up will ya?" Alex says as she uses her puppy eyes on Desmond who glares back at her. "Hell no you can have a new paint job later, so long as you do it yourself shorty." Desmond argues back with a sly grin knowing that the word shorty would ruffle her feathers.

"WHO YOU CALLING SO SHORT YOU CAN ONLY SEE HER WITH A MICROSCOPE!" Alex yells as she tries to get at Desmond who is hiding behind my seat causing me to slow the car down to a stop. "WILL YOU BOTH KNOCK IT OFF TILL WE GET THERE? ALEX STOP TRYING TO HIT DESMOND AND DESMOND STOP PESTERING ALEX! SO HELP ME IF I HAVE TO STOP THIS CAR ONE MORE TIME I WILL MAKE YOU WALK TO THE HOUSE" I scream at the two feeling like a mother with a van load of yelling children.

The rest of the way was filled with beautiful silence as Alex and Desmond kept on making faces at each other because the two knew that if I stopped one more time they were walking to the place.

We pull up to the house and let me say this right now it is not a house, nor is it a cabin, no it is not even a shack, it is a fucking huge mansion and I mean huge. (AN: This is what it looks like but it is surrounded by woods. And when I mean surrounded I mean the woods come right up to the sides of the building. {}). Ok so not really a mansion but it is the biggest house we have ever seen so there for a mansion.

"HOLY FUCK!" We all say in union I park the car in the garage and notice that there was a motorcycle and a black jeep sitting in there; of course Desmond and Alex already knew that I called the motorcycle. Not only that but three twenty some year olds with the mental age of a toddler that own a mansion. Dear lord we are gonna trash the place within the first night. "Guys I think we may need to calm down, because the feeling that we will trash the place is strong in me." I say not taking my eyes off the building. I think they agreed with me because all I hear is an, "Yea."

We got out of the car and get the luggage out of the car. Alex got the food bags and her bag, Desmond got his and mine, and I got the keys to the car. Yea I am opening the door to this puppy!

I found the key under the door mat, and how I knew that was hell were else does the key go I ask you? I open the door and the first thing out of Alex's mouth was, "Where the fuck is the bathroom." My first thought? Was of course, 'Fuck that I might have a bladder of steal but it is full at the moment?' Dashing inside Alex and I run around the house looking for the bathroom at first I had the upper hand but Alex got smart and dropped her bags and with her small size dashed in front of me. Needless to say after chanting both in my head and out loud, "Where the Fuck is this bathroom." Desmond finds it the first time he opens a door thinking it was a kitchen.

"FOUND THE BATHROOM!" Desmond yells only to his mistake of course, cause as soon as he finished both Alex and I come running from two directions and he was in the way. After Desmond barely dodges out of the way, Alex and I both get stuck in the door. With both of us cussing at each other Alex finds a way to wiggle free and slam the door in my face with an evol laugh. (AN: I spell evil E-V-O-L because love is evol so ha!)

"BITCH!" I yell as Desmond yells over to me that he found another bathroom. Well I quoted Speedy González when I said, "¡Andale! ¡Andale! ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba! ¡Yii-hah!" Then I dashed off to the other bathroom to get some relief.

~FF 10 Minutes later~

"Oh MY GOD I thought you guys died in there!" Desmond says as Alex and I make our way into the kitchen to see if Desmond made food yet. Yes we just used the bathroom and we now have to refill blame my Grandma Jack on that. (AN: True story bout my Grandma!)

Alex puts her hands on her hips and states to Desmond, "You're the bitch you cook the damn food. Now get to cooking." Desmond playfully hits Alex's shoulder as he turns around and shows us the pot of spaghetti on the stove top. "Oh never mind then. Carry on My Wayward Son, There will be peace when you are done, Lay your wiry head to rest." Alex says in a preacher voice, causing Desmond and I to say in a choir like voice, "Don't you cry no more." (AN: This part is from the Cleveland show when they did something like this, it was so funny!)

"God we sound like a bunch of dorks." I say laughing my fullest, Alex looks like she got slapped in the face when she responds, "Nitwits, Jay, We are nitwits." I laugh louder and end up nearly on the floor when Desmond says, "Supper will be done in a little bit so let's set our phones in case we get lost in the house."

We all reach for our phones in union when a surprise awaits us, we don't have our phones at all. We had them all the way over trust me I might have a cheap phone but it is not leaving my sight. "How the fuck where is our phone? We just had them when we got into the car from the plane." Alex says looking for her phone, which is the same one as mine I might add. Desmond gets a knowing look before he says, "Wait what if Molly took them? She hugged you two then pinched my cheeks, and I usually keep my phone in my top coat pocket."

"Molly is a little old lady I don't think she would... Molly took our phones. Remember what she said about the Templars keeping track of people with electronics? That has to be the answer she took our phones since it would mean we are off the grid and harder to track." Alex replies sounding smart for once in her life. (Author's friend: Excuse me? Author: Well you know umm... potato that is all I have to say potato.) I let out a sigh shrug my shoulders before I say, "Dezzy since you are already working on dinner, Alex and I will look around for a bit and see what all is here, and maybe snag us a room while we are at it." Alex and I share a knowing look before taking off and leaving Desmond to cuss at us.

I claimed the master bedroom after a few rounds of rock, paper, and scissors. I got lucky and won so I get the bedroom; Alex got the next biggest leaving Desmond with his choice of the small bedroom or the smallest bedroom. Oh well he was not here to fight for it, anyway we notice that the house had no attic so we decide to look at the basement first then work our way up.

We get to the top of the basement stairs and hear Desmond yell from across the house that supper was ready. So forgetting our plans of exploring we decide to follow our stomachs and eat some grub. Yea we would rather eat then explore sue us, we live by our stomachs is that so wrong.

Desmond serves us like the good cousin that he is, and we sit down at the dining room table to discuss our brilliant plan of action. "I will search the basement, Alex will search the Top floor and, Jay will search down here. That way if any of us find something we can yell and the others will come running." Desmond's says as he cleans his bowl in four bites, how he does it I will never know and never want to know. Alex looks at Desmond with a look that says what the hell look before saying, "I am game with the plan of divide and concur, but seriously we are still eating where the hell you put it all?" "You don't want to know I swear he is a living vacuum cleaner!" I say as I choke on what is left of the food that I am eating.

"Well hurry it up, I got done in four bites you all are girls." Desmond replies with a smirk as he makes his way out of the room and to the basement stairs. While Alex and I finish eating our meal before we set out to explore, and by damn we are gonna enjoy our meal to. Well until we hear Desmond yell up to us, "You guys might want to see this!"


I am stopping here for the chapter I know it was supposed to be more than this since I am merging four chapters into one. I have decided to merge two at a time so this is chapter seven and eight, merged into just seven and chapters nine and ten merged into eight. Anyway next week is chapter eight .