Chapter 13: Crash Landing
"Outta my fucking house!" he yelled while throwing books from some shelf at me.
At that moment I couldn't really remember why he was so mad, but long scratches on his arms and chest told the story. The night before Justin was having a party and I must have gotten carried away with the drugs and the alcohol his friends had brought over. Ever since meeting Justin three weeks ago I became addicted and living with him only made things worse, but at the time I didn't realize it…in fact I was in total denial.
When Raphael was out of town I took that time to quit, so he wouldn't be there to ask questions; I thought quitting the club would help. So as I left Justin's house I could only imagine what he must have seen, his girlfriend change into a wolf, at this point I didn't care if he tipped off Genomex because once again I had failed Adam with my attack on Justin. It took me some time, but I made it back to the safe house with nothing in hand and passed out in my old bed and slept through what was left of the day and the whole night.
I woke up groggy. My feral senses picked up on the presence of someone else in my room. I opened my eyes and saw Adam staring me in a chair,
"Oh shit…" I muttered and turned around in my bed, "go away."
Adam cleared his throat, "I can't do that Valerie, but if that's how you feel you can leave my safe house."
I turned around and looked at him, "What do you want then?"
He rolled closer to me in the chair. "Well I decided to do a check on you and found out you got fired from the job I put you at, then left the safe house and today came back after a month?"
I started to sit up, "Alright Mr. know-it-all, they fired me for taking some days off. I got sick, I'm sure your tattle tale informed you of that."
I didn't want him to know about my parents; I didn't want his sympathy but also didn't want him angry and Adam started to get up, he didn't look happy.
"Okay wait wait, I met a guy at a new job I had and that's where I was."
Adam sat back down and nodded, "so why are you here?"
I rolled my eyes, "What do you think? It didn't work out, he kicked me out."
I could see Adam didn't trust my story and he called in a guy named Jake who was most likely a psionic. My eyes closed as I watched him search through my mind and show Adam everything he wanted to know.
"I hope you're fucking proud of yourself!"
I yelled at the psionic and pulled up the covers to get out of bed, but something came over me and I was no longer in the safe house. I was back in the basement, where my parents were waiting. Looking down I saw my father again, I screamed so loud that it brought me back to the safe house.
"What the hell just happened?" I looked at the two of them staring at me.
"Jake here says you just had a flashback."
I raised a brow, "Oh….right, that's normal."
The expression of disappointment was still on Adam's face, "no, it's not normal and you need to start taking care of yourself again."
I growled back, "why should I bother? I think I proved it more than enough times I can't be normal enough, have a nice job and lots of friends or meet a trusting guy. It's just not possible Adam, why don't you understand that?"
Adam nodded and asked Jake to leave the room. He held out in his hand my old comlink ring, "which is why I'm going to make you an offer. Clean up your act and you can join my new team. But if during anytime you don't keep to my expectations I will send you away."
I was amazed by his offer; I didn't think Adam would ever trust me enough to have me on his team after leaving him last time.
"Are you sure? No lie right?"
He gave a short laugh, "When have I ever lied? Or had a reason to? Lexa has rejoined as well, I was gone for a while and she came in. We've also lost Emma, you remember her right?"
I could tell he was a little shady about it, but after hearing Emma was gone I figured it wasn't the best time to ask questions, besides I didn't like that bitch anyways.
"Alright, anything to get to kick some ass again," I smiled and shook his hand and we went back to Sanctuary. My home and to my new family.
