Hey everyone I just finished this chapter. I've been working through a bit of writer's block but I managed to finish this on. Let me know what you think. Thank you and Enjoy :)
June 2013-
"Thor Jump!" I yelled.
Thor did as I asked and I released a blast of energy pushing all the ogres away and knocking them down.
"I had that." He said when he landed.
"I know you did but I needed more practice." I said.
"Your abilities have improved greatly." He said.
"Training and practice is paying off." I said. The rest of the Asgardian soldiers had started apprehending some of the ogres.
Wren was out on a date with Kate and I was in the lab when the stone embedded in my pocket watch necklace had started glowing. At least the timing was better. I walked outside and Heimdall transported me back to Asgard. Apparently ogres were attacking Muspelheim.
Sif and the Warriors three had been sent somewhere else and Odin thought that it would be best for Thor to have back up. That back up being me.
We got to Asgard and we told Odin that Muspelheim was safe and we were free to go.
"Have you talked to Jane?" I asked Thor.
"Nay, I have not been on Midgard since New York." Thor said.
"You know my offer still stands. You write her a letter and I'll mail it to her." I said.
"I have written many letters but none can describe my true feelings for Jane." Thor said.
"Just keep it simple Thor. You should definitely apologize for not visiting her or at least calling her last time you were on Earth. I'm sure she saw you on the news." I said.
"Aye, I'll write a new letter." Thor said with a smile.
"If you need me I'll be in the library." I said before walking away.
When I got to the library I went to grab the book of Asgardian legends and myths. There were a few on King Bor and I figured there might be some hints about Aya's history.
When I got back to the sitting area I saw Frigga standing there with an illusion of Loki. As soon as she noticed me the illusion disappeared.
"Nora, that was…" She said trying to play it off.
"It's okay, he's your son. How is he?" I asked.
"He's stubborn, angry, resentful but I have hope he'll reconsider." Frigga explained. "Legends and Myths of Asgard."
"Yeah trying to find out as much about the stone as I can." I said.
"There isn't much on any of the stones." Frigga said.
"I know but can't blame me for trying. I feel like I've made a ton of progress controlling my powers but as far as the time jumps go I'm still grasping straws." I said.
"Maybe you should focus on developing your powers. You have improved greatly but you are still merely scratching the surface." She said.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Energy projection allows you to do more than just move objects." Frigga said.
"You mean there's more?" I said.
"The possibilities are endless. Have you ever tried to concentrate all the energy you project into one mass?" She said.
"No I haven't," I said. I closed my eyes and put my hands in front of me. I focused the energy emanating from my hands and focused on the space between my hands. When I opened my eyes there was a glowing green orb.
"Whoa" I said. I moved my hands up and the orb flew into one of the bookshelves destroying it. Books and pages were flying everywhere.
"I am so, so sorry." I told Frigga.
"Do not worry child it is not the first time nor will it be the last time someone's powers destroy this place. Thor and Loki have had many mishaps in this library." She said smiling a bit.
I saw a glow out of the corner of my eye.
"Why do I always end up cleaning your messes?" Aya said. She was still taking on my form.
"This one was totally an accident." I said.
"And you are?" Frigga said.
"Aya, the time stone." Aya answered.
"Forgive me but did you just say the time stone?" Frigga said surprised.
"Yes, the time stone is actually a sentient being that occasionally shows up looking like me or my deceased Nana." I explained. "By the way why are you here?"
"Like I said before cleaning up your messes." Aya retorted before her eyes started glowing green and there were glowing green bands around her arm. She put up a force field around where the bookcase once was and everything started flying back together until the bookcase was back together. "That's better. If you're going to make an energy orb you should do it outside."
"Okay," I said.
Aya sat on the couch and picked up the book I was reading. "That idiot" she muttered.
"I'll leave you two to talk." Frigga said before leaving.
"For someone who said they don't like interfering you do tend to show up a lot." I said.
"I get tired of being cooped up in you. That and like I've said before you've proved to me that I made the right choice choosing you as my host. So I'm going to give you a hint on the powers. The energy orb is the next thing you have to master. It's a mix of all of the abilities you already have and its offensive capabilities will come in handy." Aya said.
"Thanks."
"And next time you want to know something about me just ask." Aya said before disappearing.
"Nora, I have finished my letter to Jane!" Thor boomed.
"That's great!" I said.
"Please give it to the service of post as soon as possible." He said.
"Don't worry buddy she'll have it in under a fortnight," I said hoping I used that term right. "I should get going, I have work tomorrow and I need a good night's sleep. I'm doing my first Quadruple bypass."
"You are going to by pass something four times?" Thor said confused.
"No, I'm going to operate on a heart." I said.
"Then I wish you the best of luck." Thor said.
"Thanks I'm going to need it. The procedure has a fifty percent chance of survival." I said.
One quick ride to the Aesir later I was back home. I walked in at the same time Wren did.
"Hey didn't know you were out." Wren said.
"I wasn't planning on it, necklace started glowing and I left to Asgard." I said. "How was your date?"
"It was going good. We went to this new place had some dinner then we went into her room…" Wren said.
"I thought you went out for dinner?" I asked.
"I went out of the house for dinner at her place." Wren clarified. "Then things got heated and we moved it to her room but then she got paged and had to go to work."
"Oh that sucks." I said. "I'm sorry date night got ruined.
"It is what it is. There'll be other nights." He said.
"Things are getting pretty serious with you two." I noted.
"Kate's great. She's funny, smart, gorgeous. I really like her." He said with a giant smile.
"I can tell. I'm happy you're happy Wren."
"Thanks Nora how was Asgard."he asked.
"It was good. Fought Ogres on Muspelheim. It was over pretty quick. Did some reading in the library. Has a chat with Aya." I said.
"Really? About?" Wren asked.
Instead of answering him I showed him. I closed my eyes and projected the energy into a small orb before letting it dissipate slowly.
"It's called an energy orb. Next step in of training." I said.
"Whoa."
"She appeared after I accidentally blew up a giant bookcase with it."
"That thing blew up a bookcase?"
"It somehow ended up flying into it." I explained.
"Guess this means we're making progress." Wren said.
"Looks that way." I said yawning. "Remind me to mail Thor's letter to Jane tomorrow."
"Do you have her address?" Wren asked.
"Yeah its in the address book in the kitchen."
"I take it over to London." Wren said reaching for it.
"You sure?"
"Yeah I'm not tired. Want anything while I'm there?"
"English tea and some scones." I said.
"Consider it done."
"Thanks." I said yawning again. "I'm calling it night."
"Good night." He said as I started walking toward the stairs.
"Night."
August 2013-
"Got any plans for this weekend?" Dad asked.
"I'm flying over to Boston for a meeting." I said.
"Meeting with who?"
"Dean of Harvard Med, I finished the app I was working on and I want to beta it. Figured a Medical school was the best place to start." I said.
"You know I have an entire department that deals with." He said.
"I know but it's just to work out the bugs get some feedback from the people that would be using it." I answered.
"When's your meeting?"
"Friday at Noon." I said.
"Pepper's flying out to Germany this weekend and I was thinking maybe we go out and do something." Dad offered.
"That'd be great but I can't I only got enough time off for the meeting. I have to work Saturday." I said
"Oh… When are you free?" Dad asked.
"Christmas." I said sadly.
"Seriously?"
"I'm an attending and I'm also doing a fellowship in cardio thoracic surgery. I was lucky they even gave me the day." I said.
"Crap listen kid I have to go, I'll text you later." He said.
"Okay bye Dad." I said before hanging up.
That's how our conversations went now. Apparently Pepper was spending more time in New York and Dad had kept his promise to keep me a secret. Work was busy I was advancing pretty quick and even did a couple of solo surgeries.
Wren and Kate were doing really well. Some weeks it was like Wren didn't live here. Connor was growing like a weed and Sam and Jess were the proudest parents I had ever seen.
Everything was going great. I should've known it wasn't going to last.
As long as I could remember I've always hated Wednesdays and it just so happened that it was a Wednesday when everything started going downhill.
In the Fifteen months I had known Wren we had grown extremely close. There were times where we could just communicate through looks. Jess and Sam joked that the two of us were practically married. Wren and I would just laugh at that.
Lunchtime in the hospital had changed. It used to be just Wren and I but it had slowly grown to include Kate and a few other colleagues.
It was meat loaf day in the cafeteria and it was pretty good. It was served with a side of mashed potatoes and sautéed asparagus and onions. I decided to stick with the grilled chicken with mashed potatoes and mixed veggies. The five of us were eating in the cafeteria. I ate my chicken and mashed potatoes and Wren ate the meatloaf and potatoes. When we finished which was at the same time we exchanged plates without a word and continued eating. Everyone else just stared at us.
"Everything Okay?" I asked.
"Yeah, just, why'd you two switch plates?" Kate asked.
"Wren hates onions," I said.
"Nora hates peas." Wren said and we just ate.
"Then why'd you get the vegetables?" Kate asked.
"Nora likes the onions and asparagus." Wren said.
"Wren doesn't mind the peas." I said with a shrug and kept eating. I didn't know it yet but that struck a nerve with Kate.
I reached for the salt but wren moved it away.
"No salt, the potatoes had enough seasoning." He said.
"Fine. Lay off the coffee, you're not going to be able to sleep." I said noticing Wren was on his fourth cup.
"So you two don't see anything weird about this?" Kate asked looking at us closely.
"No." Wren said.
"What is there something on my face?" I asked making Alex, a pediatric oncologist crack a smile.
"You're fine Nora." Alex said. And just like that my pager went off.
"Got to go, Are we still on for Dinner?" I asked. Wren had decided to take the next step with Kate. He was going to introduce her to Sam and Jess.
"Yeah, seven at that place on sixth and main." Wren answered.
"Kay, See you then." I said.
Later that day I got to the restaurant and I got there before Sam and Jess.
"Hey, sorry I'm late. Surgery went a little longer than expected." I said.
"No you're on time," Kate said suddenly feeling the need to hug Wren's arm.
"Jess and Sam said they'd meet us inside. They had some trouble with the babysitter and are going to be a bit late." Wren said.
"Okay then, we can just wait at the bar." I suggested.
"Great idea." Kate said.
Ten minutes later Jess and Sam walked in. Jess greeted Wren and I with the usual hug. She hugged Kate and Kate just awkwardly pat her back.
We were sitting down when the chatting started.
"How's Connor?" I asked.
"He's good. He's going through a robot phase. He actually quoted the Terminator yesterday. It was hilarious." Sam said.
Wren and I just turned to look at each other and just laughed a bit.
"So how'd you all meet?" Kate asked.
"Sam and I met at freshman orientation. I got lost and so did he. Ended up ditching orientation and just walked around campus talking about everything. Been together ever since." Jess said.
"I met Nora through a friend." Sam said.
"I did a study abroad program my last year at MIT and I wanted to take this class but I had already covered the requirement. So on my first day I showed up at his office and there was Dean. He was the professor's lab assistant so we spent a lot of time together. One day after we got out he was asked me if I wanted to come with him and his friends to grab dinner and I still didn't know anyone in Dublin so I was a bit nervous."
"Nervous? Dude you were a wall flower I practically had to force you to talk." Jess said.
"But it did work out." I said with a shrug
"How'd you meet Wren?" Kate asked.
"We met him through Nora." Jess said.
"Really?" Kate said looking a bit uncomfortable.
"So you and Wren have known each other for years." Kate said.
"Not really we met last year in May, when I got to Afghanistan." I said. "I actually worked under Wren."
"You've known each other for a year?" Kate said incredulously.
"Fifteen months to be exact." Wren said.
"And you met Jess and Sam?" Kate said not liking what she was hearing.
"December?" Wren said looking to me to confirm.
"Actually there was my birthday." I said.
"Right." Wren said. "Seems like forever ago, time does fly."
"Wow you two got close pretty fast." Kate said.
"Not really." I said. "First few months Wren was a jerk."
"I was not, I was trying to toughen you up a bit. When I first met you looked like a kid in way over her head."
"I was nineteen, what did you expect?"
"By your resume someone at least ten years older."
"Should've read the first page." I retorted.
"When have I ever read the first page?" Wren answered.
"We never read the first page of a patient file not a personnel file." I said making everyone laugh except Kate.
Dinner seemed to go pretty well. I drove home even though Jess wanted me to crash at their place I couldn't leave Axl alone. I promised her I would stop by for breakfast.
The next morning I woke up to Wren making coffee.
"Morning, I thought you spent the night at Kate's?" I said.
"I did just had to stop by for some clothes and to talk." Wren said.
"Everything okay?" I asked.
"Uh yeah, just um, Kate asked me to move in." Wren said.
"Wow that's a big step." I said. "What'd you tell her?"
"That I had to talk to you." Wren said.
"What's there to talk about?" I said.
"I'd be moving out." Wren said.
"Wren I'm not your mom if you want to move out go ahead. It's not like you're paying rent or anything. You're not obligated to be here if you don't want to be." I said.
"So you don't care?" Wren said gauging my reaction.
"Dude you haven't been here in two weeks. You practically already moved out." I said.
"Do you want me to leave?" He said.
"That's not up to me," I said.
"Nora I'm serious do you want me to leave?"
"Wren I want you to do whatever you want to do." I said.
"I've been dating her for almost three months. Don't you think it's a bit fast?" He said.
"I moved in with Steve and Bucky after knowing them for three days I'm not the best person to ask about timing." I said.
"Can you not bring Bucky and Steve into a conversation for once?" Wren said.
"What?" I said.
"They're not here they have nothing to do with this so don't mention them."
"What the hell is wrong with you?" I asked.
"I need you to focus and not get distracted. Do you want me to leave yes or no?"
"Wren I really don't care. If you left the only thing that would change would be the fact that I'd go back to carboloaded breakfasts and my morning commute would be longer."
"Are you bloody serious?"
"What do you think?" I said. It was probably the heat of the moment that was making me angry. What was up with him? I didn't mention Steve and Bucky often. I was just stating a fact. Most of the time I avoid talking about them. Wren practically had to force me to talk about them sometimes.
"Fine I'll come back for my things tomorrow." He said. "I'll leave my key on the counter." He said before teleporting out.
What the hell just happened?
The next day I had to work the graveyard shift in the ER so I didn't see Wren or Kate and I couldn't ask what was going on. I was a bit worried. Wren still hadn't told Kate about his powers and he was moving in with her. Chances are he was pretty stressed and when he was he tended to get nightmares and not sleep much.
I talked to Jess and Sam about it and they said they'd keep an eye on him when he stopped by.
I didn't see him until three days after he had said he was moving out. I didn't see him but I did see Kate.
"Hey Kate, wait up." Said walking down the hall.
I heard her sigh but she stopped anyway. "Nora," She greeted.
"Hey just wanted to check on how Wren's doing. I know you two are moving in together but I haven't talked to him in days and I wanted to make sure he's okay" I said.
"Why wouldn't he be okay? We're in love and we're taking the next step in our relationship." She said acting strange.
"I know that, I just meant…"
"Nora I think he just wants space. You two spend way to much time together maybe he's just tired of your clinginess." She said before her pager started. "I got to go."
I got my phone out and texted Jess:
Am I too clingy?
Jess replied almost immediately:
What? No! Dude you're so not clingy. I gave you a key to the house so you can stop in and raid the fridge for leftovers or if you don't want to drive all the way back to the ranch and you haven't done it once. I have to ask you to come over most of the time. Where's this coming from?
I replied:
Kate and Wren are moving in together so Wren asked me what I thought. He acted like a jerk when I said I couldn't tell if it was moving too fast since I moved in with Steve and Bucky after three days. He told me he's tired of hearing me talk about them even though he was the one that pushed me to talk about them. We fought and he left. I haven't seen him in days. SO I asked Kate how Wren was doing and she said to give him space since he's probably tired of my clinginess :/
Jess took a while to reply but her response was classic Jess.
What a bitch… It actually explains a lot.
I was confused.
It does?
The three dots appeared and I got anxious. Did I do something wrong?
Sam and I kind of notice the looks she was throwing you two.
Looks? I thought back to dinner and I didn't remember any goals.
What looks? I drawing blanks over here
Jess sent an emoji gif of a frustrated face slapping its forehead.
Sweetie come over for dinner and we can talk about it in person. It'll be easier to explain.
I sighed.
Need me to bring anything?
She replied right away.
Nothing but yourself and use the key this time.
I couldn't help but laugh at that.
Later that Day-
I showed up at Sam and Jess' place and I used the key this time. I walked in and saw them both in the kitchen.
"So the key works." I said making them chuckle.
"Sit down the roast is almost ready." Jess said.
"Wine for you." Sam said handing me a glass.
"Thank you."
"Auni" Connor said running over.
"Hi sweetheart." I said picking him up. "I like your pjs." Connor was wearing Captain America Pajamas. They looked like Steve's uniform.
"It's Cap." He said.
"That's right. Who's you're favorite avenger?" I asked.
"Tony!" Connor said making my eye's widen in shock.
"Do you mean Iron Man sweetie?" I said.
"Yeah" he said playing with my arc reactor necklace. Oh boy, kid's smart.
"Food's ready." Jess said. I brought Connor over and put him in his chair and sat down.
We talk about everything except the one thing I really wanted to talk about. After Dinner Sam went to go get Connor ready for bed and I helped Jess wash the dishes. By the time we were done Sam was back at the table refilling our glasses.
"So start from the beginning." Jess said. I gave them a play by play of our conversation. I admitted that I may have overreacted a bit but at the same time Wren was being a jerk. I told them about Kate saying my clinginess was why he was avoiding me and that was it.
"She's jealous." Sam said.
"Of what?" I said confused.
"Your relationship with Wren." Jess said.
"What relationship? We're just friends Strictly platonic." I said. That made Jess and Sam laugh uncontrollably. I just sat there looking at them like they were insane.
"Sweetie you and Wren are hilariously socially and emotionally oblivious to what's really going on. That's why you two get along so well." Jess said. "You and Wren bonded extremely fast."
"Not really." I said.
"You asked him to move in after knowing him for six months." Sam deadpanned.
"Guys, I have no romantic feelings towards Wren. We are as platonic as it gets."
"We know that but to everyone else it doesn't seem that way. To them you and Sam are as platonic as it gets, you and Wren are low key couple goals." Jess said now that made me laugh.
I looked over at Sam and tried to see if I felt even the slightest bit attractive instead I got the chills. "Sorry Sammy I know you're hot but if I try to check you I see a manatee." I said making Jess laugh.
"Same, I love you sis but us together will never happen." Sam said.
"I'm okay with that."
"Again you and Sam, as platonic as it gets, you and Wren, tin man that's on his way to get a heart." Jess said.
"But I don't love him like that and neither does he. I love Steve and Bucky. And he's in a relationship with Kate."
"Ah, Kate." Jess said rolling her eyes. "Kate's insecure especially after seeing you two together last night."
"What'd we do last night? We just had dinner, in a group." I said.
"Well…" Sam started.
"You two acted like a couple…" Jess said.
"How?"
"The restaurant you two chose, what'd you think of the ambiance?" Sam said.
"I like the cute flowers at the table and the candle was out of place. Hated the weird dim lighting." I said.
"You didn't find it at all strange?" Jess asked.
"Not really the food's good that's all that matters."
"Okay what about when you were picking out what you were going to order?" Jess asked.
I thought back to last night.
Flashback-
"Everything looks good." Kate said.
"I love the spicy chicken and penne with tomato sauce." I said.
"Oh yum." Jess said.
"I don't think it's a good idea, it really upset your stomach last time." Wren said.
"True I'll take the Fettuccini Alfredo. I'll do extra laps to make up for it." I said.
"Nora just take a cheat day, you haven't had one since we started." Wren said.
"True, I'll get dessert while I'm at it." I said already eying the cheesecake.
"I'm going with the steak." Wren said.
"Remember to order it medium rare this time, you didn't eat it last time because it was too well done." I reminded him.
"Right, thanks for reminding me." Wren said.
End Flashback
"Wren's kind of my personal trainer," I said with a shrug.
"Okay how about after the food was brought over?" Jess said.
"And During Dessert." Sam added.
Flashback-
Our food was brought over and we were eating. I was enjoying my pasta and Wren was enjoying his steak.
"This is way better." Wren said.
"That's good." I said. "And you were so right. The Alfredo is way better that the spicy chicken. Want to try?" I offered.
"Sure want some potatoes?" Wren offered.
"Yeah it looks really good." I said. Wren moved his plate over and I picked a bit of mashed potatoes and Wren got a bit of pasta with some chicken. We both moaned at the same time. "I'm getting the steak next time."
"I'm trying the pasta." Wren said.
"Don't you want to try some shrimp?" Kate asked.
"Ah no, I'd rather not." Wren answered cutting another piece of steak.
"Wren's allergic to shellfish." Jess interjected.
"Oh, god I didn't know." Kate said.
The rest of the meal was silent until dessert was brought over. I ordered the cheesecake. Only problem was that it had strawberries and glaze over it.
"That is really sweet." Wren said wrinkling his nose in distaste.
"It's red velvet with cream cheese icing it's supposed to be sweet." I said.
"You want some of my lemon cake?" Kate asked
"I'll give it a try." Wren said taking a tiny bit Kate fed him. "Uh, still too sweet."
"You want to swap? You know I hate strawberry glaze." I offered.
"I'll give it a try." He said taking a piece. "Oh that's better"
"Here I'll take the red velvet." I said. We swapped and ate happily.
End Flashback
"We're both picky eaters." I said.
"Nora! Seriously." Jess said.
"What?! We're just really good friends. I'm not lying about it." I said. Then Sam's phone started ringing.
"I'm gonna take this outside." He said going outside.
"Jeeeeeeessssss, Why is he mad at me?" I whined.
"He's not mad at you he's just confused." She said.
"Confused at what?" I asked.
"I'm going to tell you what I think happened, Just don't interrupt me until I'm done. Okay?" She said.
"Okay…" I said a bit confused.
"I think that Kate's jealous of the way you and Wren act around each other. Around the people he trusts Wren is pretty open but with everyone else he's on guard. So with Kate he's somewhere in between. So she's felt that he's holding back and saw how close you two are, and it struck a nerve." Jess said. "So she asked Wren to move in to get you two apart and mark her territory and she confronted Wren about it which probably made him defensive which was why he was mad when you guys talked."
"Jess that doesn't make any sense. Why would he be pissed of at me?" I said.
"Jesus fucking Christ Nora, He's not pissed he's frustrated."
"Well now I'm frustrated and pissed at him for being a moron!" I cried out.
"Nora just calm down. You're going to work it out." Jess said.
"How? I can't talk to Wren about this because he's avoiding me. Kate's apparently jealous and doesn't want us to see each other even though I was the one that pushed Wren to ask her out in the first place." I said. "I'm tired. Can't we just go back to two days ago when everything was going well"
"You're the time traveler, you tell me?" Jess said joking.
'Don't even think about' Aya's voice echoed.
"That's not up to me. No time jumps unless Aya decides I need to remember?" I said.
"Right. Look it's getting late and you have work tomorrow. You both work in the ER chances are you're going to see him. Just corner him and talk it out." Jess said
"And say what? At the end of the day I can't force Wren to do anything." I said.
"Nora you said it yourself you love Wren not romantically but as a best friend or brother. At the end of the day he's still family and family means no one get's left behind or forgotten." Jess said.
"Did you just quote Lilo and Stitch?" I asked.
"Connor's been watching it nonstop." She said.
"Good movie." I said.
"Let's call it a night. I left some pjs in the guest room for you." Jess said.
"Thanks for everything Jess." I said hugging her.
"Anytime. Goodnight."
"Night." I said walking to the guest room.
The Next Day-
I got up and put on the spare clothes I left in the guestroom last time I was here. I ate a quick breakfast and I was on my way. I got to the locker room and changed into my scrubs before going to do my rounds. After I was done I went to check the OR board and check to see if Wren was in surgery. He wasn't but Kate was. This was my chance to talk to him without interference.
I went down to the ER and it was pretty empty since it was still early in the morning. I saw him at the reception desk.
"Hey, can we talk?" I said.
"There's nothing to talk about." Wren said.
"Yes there is, let's go." I said.
"Nora" He said giving me a glare.
"Wren." I said staring him down.
He put a hand on my arm and led me out of the ER. We walked by a storage room and he pulled me in.
"What do you want?" He said.
"What's going on with you?" I said. "Why are you acting this way?"
"I thought you didn't care?" Wren said angrily.
"What of course I care!" I said.
"Nora, I'm just a means to an end to you. You don't care about me. The only reason you even gave me a chance was because you saw it in your future. I don't care what plan the stone has for you, leave me out of it." Wren said.
"Wren we talked about this. Me seeing you in the future wasn't what made me ask you to move in."
"You needed a babysitter or someone to train you. Well guess what you can kick off the training wheels I'm done." He said.
"Wren what did Kate tell you?"
"This isn't about Kate. Just because you don't get to be with Steve doesn't mean the rest of us don't get to be with the people we care about."
"I never said that."
"You didn't have to Nora. I've been through hell. I never got to meet my soul mate because she's dead and now that I actually have a chance to be happy you're getting in the way. I'm sorry Nora but I have to take a chance. I need space. I already got my things from the house."
"Wren we work together, how the hell are we supposed to avoid each other?" I asked with my voice cracking.
"We take on different cases and if we end up working together we keep it strictly professional nothing personal."
"Just like that?" I said tearing up.
"Yes." He said before walking out.
What the Fuck…. I just got dumped by my best friend. I stood there in shock tears streaming down my face.
And as if things couldn't get any worse I got the chills and started glowing.
I closed my eyes and waited for it to stop. When I finally opened my eyes I was standing in the kitchen.
"Nora," I heard Wren cheerfully greet.
"You're such a jerk." I said crying.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"Screw you." I said walking upstairs.
"What did I do?"
"You just said you never wanted to speak to me because I'm stopping you from being happy because the bitch you're dating is insecure." I said stomping down the hall and slamming the door to my room.
I grabbed a pillow and hugged it to me as I cried. I don't know how long I was like that but when I finally managed to calm down I heard a knock at the door.
"Nora can we talk." I heard Wren.
"Go away Wren." I said hiccupping a bit. Next thing a knew he teleported in front of me. "Ahh, What did I say about teleporting in my room." I said throwing a pillow.
"Not your time so your rules don't apply." He retorted. "Can you calm down?"
"Screw you, you left me crying in a random supply closet in the hospital after ending our friendship." I said tearing up again.
"Damn it Nora, can you stop for one damn minute." He said getting annoyed.
"Why should I, you didn't care."
"That isn't me, at least not the me from right now anyways. Look I didn't know what you felt after I left but I know what I'm going through right now. I can tell you I'm just as miserable if not more than you are right now, I just don't know it yet."
"Then why'd you do it?"
"Because I'm a bloody idiot!"
"Then can you at least tell me how to fix this?"
"You know I can't and it's not up to you to fix. You just have to let things play themselves out."
"This fucking sucks. We're family Wren. I freaking love you and you were the last person I ever expected to backstab me." I said crying.
I heard him sigh then I felt the bed dip a bit. I felt him put an arm around my shoulder. "I can't tell you I love you because I was raised to believe love is for children. To me loyalty is more important. There are two types of loyalty, one is the type that you are on some one's side unconditionally, the other is the type of loyalty where you would take a bullet for someone or kill for them. There's only a handful of people on the list that meet that second requirement but trust me when I say you are at the top of both lists."
"How long is this going to last?" I ask.
"I can't tell you that but I can tell you it won't be forever." Wren said cracking a grin.
"This is the last time I'm ever setting you up" I said that made him chuckle.
"I think I'll manage. Come on, you look a bloody wreck and I know there's only one thing that can pull you back together." Wren said standing up.
I got up and he teleported us back downstairs.
"You know I could've walked," I said.
"Trying to get you used to teleporting," He said.
"I think I have a bit of time before I'll be doing that again." I answered.
He opened the fridge and pulled out a pie and then ice cream.
"Pie a la mode." He said putting a plate in front of me.
"I thought you were all for eating healthy?" I said.
"I've learned to loosen the reigns a bit. Besides after a long day sometimes something sweet goes a long way in making you feel better." He answered.
"It's for bribing Connor isn't it?"
"That too." He said.
After I finished my pie I started glowing and it was time to go. I got back to the hospital and saw that Wren was in surgery. I got to work. Let the ignoring start.
It wouldn't be too bad. I was a loner before I met Wren and I still had Sam and Jess. I could totally handle this.
Who was I kidding? I'm miserable.