Authors Notes: Thats number 3. Also the first view of Echo in a good long while.
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White Bird
Chapter 10
With a scarred heart…
The sky was bright, and absolutely mocking her. Her head rested in her hands as she waited. Her son had just turned...too young...he was much too young to understand what was going on. Borg wheeled out of his office and sighed looking up at Danny. She had been fighting long and heard that Cryptor was allowed to be buried alongside his family. There family.
An ache within Danny's heart when Borg said they said no. Yet the reason why made her smile.
"You're telling me that Cryptors body has been...stolen?" Danny asked. Borg smiled and nodded.
"Yes...it would seem some people in black clothing have retrieved his body...and stashed it somewhere." He was so much older then she had remembered, yet he was just as energetic as normal. Danny looked up at her sister who had been wheeling him around. Energetic yes, but strong...not so much.
"So I suppose you'll be running an investigation?" Danny asked.
"Oh what for? I'm sure they're long gone by now." Borg thought of it before looking at Danny sideways. His face broke into a smile. "Caught me…?" He smiled.
"You have the best security droids in all of ninjago city. What makes me think that they could have dropped whatever they were doing just to stop a few vigilantes from escaping with one of their brothers?" Danny asked. That annoyingly knowing face that she made caused Borg to roar with laughter
"Ah...it would be because they aided in their escape. Insured that no one got in their way, but just enough to make things interesting for them. That Ryan fellow...he's just as good as you said he is. Tall man too. Some of our camera's couldn't even catch him. You could tell he was shielding his wife from the camera's too. I couldn't even once catch Inky's face." Borg patted Danny's hand and motioned for Midnight to sit down at the cafe with them. Midnight did as she was asked.
"But do you know where they went?" Midnight asked. Danny shook her head.
"Not yet. I'll wait for them to tell me. Until then...I suppose well just have to be patient with them." Danny said smiling down at the tea that was set on the table. One good piece of news...in a throng of bad news. She really needed it. She sat back and took a deep breath of the tea. It reminded her of the beginning...a beginning she thought she would have forgotten by now.
It happened one night...two weeks later...Something far more terrible than anything else.
The phone rang.
Danny climbed down the steps two at a time. She had let the phone ring the first two times, but whoever this person was they were persistent. If they kept calling they'd wake up Otto. Aloe had once again disappeared. Probably to chase Donny again or do whatever. Her eyes roamed over the room as she picked up the phone.
"This had better be good. It's 3am." She listened to the other person talking feverishly, and then slowed down to almost a crawl. Her pump box stopped a few times. Almost as if she had to convince herself that she still needed to exist even though she had very few reasons to do so now. So many things...She slowly put the phone down on the receiver and sat on the step. Her fingers ran over her face and she grabbed her hair rather forcefully.
The scream that broke from her lips woke up everyone within the house. She felt someones arms around her some hours later. She opened her eyes to see bronze ones looking down at her. Echo...now that was strange. He never comes here…
A roar of laughter as Donny slammed the button down on the computer.
"Inky's dead! That damned bitch finally died! Three more to go Danny! Just three more, and I didn't even have anything to do with the third one. Can't blame me!" He laughed again beating the side of the console.
"You're happy." The voice was tender. Donny jumped and turned around to see a woman with purple hair and bright teal eyes. "Couldn't be because of Danny could it?" She walked toward Donny who crossed his arms and shook his head.
"No...her daughter was just killed by a family friend. We should do a bit of that too. What do you think Midnight? Want to throw off those chains that Borg put on you and...go after that Aloe guy?" Donny looked hopeful crossing his arms.
"Sounds fun to me." Midnight turned and walked off toward the back door.
"You need a new lock by the way."
"Stop breaking my shit!"