Hey, thanks for the reviews
It was a dig at you guys or anything, I just found it funny that only soccergurl1990 reviewed
It can't have done my ego any harm
Ha!
Well anyway, it was more than made up for by Nny11, soccergurl1990, Etienne and DElf4242 and PlaidButterfly who left two really great reviews
But then I've already thanked you for those
They were the best reviews I think I've got, so thanks again
But I'll stop now
Honest
Enjoy! Love LJ xXx
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Throw Me. Chapter Fourteen. A Team Player
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She skips lightly over the rooftops, straining her eyes and combing the streets for any sign of her husband. She feels she's looked everywhere but this is barely beginning; she began tired, it's only getting worse. The tracking device built into the super suits was not working, she's scoured the city, contacted all of her old friends in the business and still nothing.
A faint beeping draws her attention and she flips open the latest device she's been supplied with by the government so they can alert her and the other supers of the latest occurrences. Helen scrutinises this latest one. It's in the form of a compact wristwatch; they get smaller all the time, and more complicated and it only makes her feel old. She preferred the handheld ones, she thinks, at least she could work those ones.
Helen sighs, exasperated. Just a few blocks away there are flashing lights and sirens – they needn't have bothered beeping her. Silencing the watch, she heads over, across the tops of the houses and shops, leaping over wide, busy streets.
"They'll find your father," Mirage breaks the silence. It's not normally so quiet when she's round, she, Dash and Violet normally get on well and chat for hours.
Dash looks up at her with blank eyes but no-one says anything.
"What do you kids want for lunch then?" she tries again. Violet shrugs. Mirage sighs and gets to her feet. "I'll just find something then, shall I?" She doesn't expect a reply and heads into the kitchen.
Eventually, Dash grabs the TV remote and flicks through channels mindlessly.
"Stop!" Violet yells and is suddenly knelt right up by the screen. She turns to her confused brother. "Go back! Go back!"
"Huh? What's going on Vi?" He turns slowly back through the channels until Violet points triumphantly at the screen.
"There!"
On the screen, seemingly on the News Channel, is their own father.
"He's there, he's okay! He's on TV!" Dash whoops loudly and Mirage comes running in. Mirage stands for a while.
"I don't like this," she says slowly and then is proved right when they watch Bob fling one of his powerful fists into the side of shop, smashing the windows and leaving customers to flee the shop in chaos.
"Oh my god."
"The cynics among us always knew this would happen but the government had always put its trust in them," the reporter stands on the street corner, speaking with sickeningly false sincerity. "Today, that trust has been betrayed; the supers are taking over."
"What?" Helen leaps down from her vantage point on a high-rise building and lands lightly beside the reporter. The reporter jumps back with melodramatic horror stretched onto his face.
"Don't hurt me!" he gasps.
"What is going on?" Helen demands, looking between him and the camera in confusion. And then she turns and sees her husband tearing his way through the streets.
"Oh my god..." Helen murmurs to herself.
Now it is Mirage kneeling in front of the TV.
"This can't be right. This isn't right." she mutters to herself. "Vi, Dash, this can't be what it looks like – I know it looks pretty bad but..." she turns to find Vi and Dash standing in their super suits and masks, ready to go; they've even dressed and masked their baby brother.
"Oh no..." she shakes her head. "No, I promised your parents I'd take care of you and that means not letting you out. Not like this, at any rate, it's far too dangerous."
"I highly doubt you discussed what you'd do in this situation," Violet raises an eyebrow at Mirage who weakens.
"I really don't think this is a good idea..."
"Elizabeth, this is what we were born to do. We really could help out there." Violet reasons.
"Well – "
"Thanks, bye!"
She doesn't even get to finish before Violet and Dash disappear from view, the front door left hanging open.
"Come back here! I didn't say you could even – " she sighs and follows. After all, what chance has she got against an invisible girl and a speeding boy? Making a mental note never to agree to babysitting supers again, she picks up the suited Jack-Jack, locks up and heads towards the city.
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