2 days later.
They had spent the last few days at home. Bereavement time, as his Captain had put it. It suited Cain just as well, since after his last conversation with his partner, Cain had been debating wither he was going to stay on the force or not. But he knew with the couple of days off he might calm down enough to go back. There was a knock on the door that pulled him out of his thoughts. Cain got up, from the couch he was sitting and went to answer the door to find a familiar blond standing in his door way.
"Hello, Mrs. Stevens." Cain said motioning her in, noticing her hands where filled. She put the casserole dish and a bunch of letters, including a few news papers on the table before turning and smiling at Cain.
"How many times do I have to say, call me Kelly."
"Ok, Kelly, what brings you here today?"
"Just thought I would make you guys some food, since I wanted to make sure you three where eating well. I know its times like this that you might forget to eat, and so I decided to make sure that didn't happen. I also took the liberty of bringing up your mail. Hope you're not too upset." Cain just smiled, he couldn't remember the last time he checked the mail, and from the stack she brought up it had been a while.
"Not at all Mrs. ... Kelly."
"Well I hope you enjoy the food." She said before she walked towards the door. "And if you need me to look after Jeb, don't hesitate to ask." She said before letting herself out. Cain looked at the casserole, it smelled good, and even made his stomach growl slightly, first time it had done that since Lilly's death. He went through the mail, sorting out the junk, from the bills from the letters, which he knew where going to be sympathy cards. He started to look at the envelopes of the cards, and one caught his attention, for he recognized the handwriting. He opened the envelope, pulling the letter from it.
Wyatt,
I know you're still angry at me for what has happen. But I truly am sorry that Lilly was killed. It was never my attention to hurt anyone besides the enemy. We are fighting for our lively hood here."
Cain reed no further, he just ripped up the letter before throwing it in the trash. He was angry now. Pissed that Morgan was even trying to seek forgiveness for what he had done. Cain grabbed the newspapers, before heading back into the bedroom. Zero was still sleeping, with Jeb in the middle. Since the funeral, Jeb had been sleeping with them, a comfort for them at the moment, but Cain knew it needed to stop soon enough. He didn't want it to become a habit for the boy.
Cain sat in the bed, reading the past few days worth of news. When he opened up the newspaper for today, he let out a loud:
"Son of a Bitch!" This brought Zero out of his sleep.
"Wyatt! What the hell?" Zero said, sleepily.
"There was another bombing." Cain said, throwing the newspaper at Zero. Zero looked at the paper for a moment, and then looked at the visibly upset Cain. "Damn it, something has to be done about this."
"Wyatt, we need to stay out of this, we promised ourselves." Zero said.
"And look where that got us, Lilly's dead, more innocent people are dying. We cannot ignore this anymore, Adrian." Cain said as he got up from the bed.
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm calling Jordan. I want to make sure he is Ok." Cain said before moving into the living room, and dialing a number.
"Hello," came a familiar voice at the other end.
"Thank God, I was just reading about the newest bombing. I wanted to make sure you where OK."
"Yeah I was fine. I was nowhere near the blast, this time."
"The resistance is going too far with this."
"I know Wyatt, but until we are able to get some people from the resistance in custody. They are just average people, we don't want to arrest everyone to find the few, but if these bombing don't stop, that is what it's going to drive Azkadellia to do."
"Is there anything I can do to help?"
"Do you know anyone in the resistance?" Cain was silent at that. "Wyatt?"
"There is one person I'm sure of, and a few I think might be."
"Why didn't you tell me?" Jordan asked.
"They...are Tin men. I... They are good people."
"Ok, I can understand that, but do you want to help or not. I have a plan, I'm not sure how it would fly, but if you're willing, it might get us closer to Morgan, or maybe even get him in custody, since you said he was involved in the first bombing."
"I do want to help." Cain said.
"Then I will be there later tonight, OK?"
"Sure, just, be safe OK, I can't stand loosing anyone else at the moment."
"I can understand that. I will see you. Bye."
"See ya." Cain said. He sighed, hoping he did not regret what he was planning on doing. He turned back to the bedroom just to find Zero standing there, staring at him.
"What are you doing Wyatt?" Zero asked, worried.
"I'm going to help Jordan find Lilly's killers. He will be here later tonight."
"Wyatt..." Zero said softly. "Please, just don't do anything stupid. I, we can't lose you too." Cain just smiled at Zero, pulling him into a hug.
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Jordan showed up at the door about six hours later, dressed in civilian clothes. Cain ushered Jordan in and they both sat on the couch, while Zero sat with Jeb at the table, helping him with his schoolwork that Jeb had missed while being out. Cain could tell it was just a guise to make Zero look uninterested but still listen in, but Cain didn't care at the moment.
"So what is going on?" Cain asked, not caring enough for pleasantries.
"I talked with some of my CO's. We'd like to ask for your help to get Morgan, to flush him out." Jordan said a little nervously.
"What do you need me to do?" Cain said. Jordan paused for a moment before speaking.
"We want you to join up with the resistance?"
"WHAT!?" Cain said loudly.
"We think they will accept you in. You may have been angry after Lilly died, but we still think they would want you to join. I know Lilly was worried for a while that you two were going to join up with the resistance, scared that we be enemies. Tell them you want to join up, so that things like Lilly will never happen again. I don't care what you tell them, but we think you can make it into the resistance, and seeing that Morgan was your partner, we think he would seek you out," Jordan said.
"I'm not sure if they would go for it, after all I turned Morgan in." Cain said.
"Tell them it was a bad lapse in judgment, grief over Lilly's death." Jordan said.
"You want him to use Lilly's death as an excuse to get into the resistance." Zero said angrily from the table.
"Yes, because we are going to do this to get to Morgan, he already admitted he was involved in that bombing. He may have been involved in more."
"I'll do it." Cain said.
"What!?" Zero said from the table. "Wyatt you can't be serious, you're going to get yourself killed."
"No I'm not." Cain said, getting up, moving back to the trash, pulling out the ripped up letter from earlier and handed it to Zero.
"What is this?" Zero asked.
"Morgan, trying to apologize for Lilly's death. He wants my forgiveness. It will make him blind." Cain said before turning to look at Jordan. "You're right, he will seek me out as soon as I join."
"What if you're found out. What if they kill you? Wyatt, think of Jeb, how is his life going to be if his father is dead." Jeb picked his head up at that.
"Is daddy going to die? Like Lilly?" Jeb said, tears within his eyes.
"It's okay, Jeb." Cain said moving to the table, picking up his son.
"I don't want daddy to die, don't go!" Jeb said, crying. Cain just held his son while he glared at Zero.
"You didn't have to scare him like that." Cain said, through gritted teeth.
"He's going to have to get prepared, since his father is stupid. You're going to end up dead." Jeb balled more in Cain's arms. "And I will be all alone; Jeb and I would be alone." Zero said, tears within his own eyes but Cain did not care at the moment.
"Jordan, can you excuse me for a moment, I need to calm my son down." Jordan just nodded as Cain took Jeb to his room. He sat on the bed rocking the crying child gently.
"Jeb, shh, it's alright. Nothing is going to happen." Cain said.
Jeb sniffled, "But Papa said you were going to die like Aunt Lilly."
"Papa was just angry. Daddy has a job to do. He has to go find the man that hurt Lilly. Do you understand that?"
Jeb nodded. "I just don't want you to get hurt daddy."
"I'll be careful, Buddy. I promise." Jeb just nodded again as Cain laid the boy down on his bed.
"You promise to come back?" Jeb said, trying to hold back his sniffles.
"I promise to do my best." Cain could hear the voices in the living room and he sighed.
"Looks like papa is getting in a fight with Jordan, you okay by yourself?" Jeb just nodded. Cain moved down to kiss Jeb on the forehead before moving to the doorway.
-Meanwhile in the living room-
Jordan noticed the glare he was getting from Zero.
"You really didn't need to scare the kid like that." Jordan said.
"How I talk to my son is none of your fucking business." Zero snapped back.
"What's your problem?"
"The fact your trying to send Wyatt on a suicide mission." Zero snapped at Jordan.
"It's not a suicide mission. Wyatt will be fine. You're overreacting." Jordan snapped back.
"Am I?"
"You're just scared of losing someone else, I get that. But you're only pushing him faster into the decision by the way your acting." Zero was silent at that. "I'm surprised you're not all for this, I thought you wanted to get Lilly's killer."
"I do, but not at the cost of Wyatt's safety." Zero said.
"You can't stop me, Adrian; I've made up my mind." Cain said from behind them. Zero turned to Cain.
"Love, please reconsider this, for me, for Jeb." Zero pleaded.
"I'm doing this for you and Jeb. For the safety of everyone. If we can get them to stop, think of how many lives we can save, Adrian."
"But..." Zero said, but he could tell by the look in Cain's eyes, there was no talking him out of this. Zero just let out a frustrated growl before moving to the bedroom, closing the door as he went.
"He will come around." Cain said with a sigh.
"I hope so." Jordan said, eyeing the door.
"So what do I need to do?"
"You said you knew some people in the resistance. Approach them; tell them you want to help, so that tragedies like Lilly's never happen again."
"What if they don't believe me?" Cain asked.
"Then just walk away. All I ask of you is to try."
They talked for a bit, about strategies, things that might help Cain when talking with the resistance. And the more and more they talked, the more nervous Cain got, for he knew this was going to be the first time he had to lie out right, but right now, he do just about anything to catch Lilly's killer.
After Jordan left, Cain went to go checkup on Jeb. He found that Jeb was sound asleep. He sat on the bed for a moment, watching his boy sleep. He was a little worried about what would happen if something did go wrong but Cain knew that he had to do something to stop this madness. He got up from the bed and softly walked out of Jeb's bedroom, closing the door.
