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The girl stared at the sky where the helicopter had disappeared from sight until Thierry and Lupe came racing in with ripped clothes and fresh wounds.
"What happened?" he demanded "Did you find the boys?"
The look on their faces gave it away because more gently he repeated, "What happened?"
The girls stayed silent to shocked and depressed to talk until the whole group had arrived. Everyone gathered around them and the girls turned to face the group. "We found them," Mare said, "but they are lost to us."
"What do you mean?" James asked.
"Hunter did something to their brains to make the soulmate principle disappear."
Everyone gasped in horrific shock.
"No," said Thierry. "That is not possible. Tell us exactly what happened."
The girls explained what happened from when Jez sensed Morgead to when Thierry found them. "I'm sorry Thierry but that does sound like he broke the soulmate principle." Keller said.
"We can't be sure yet so let's go in the building and search for clues."
They all agreed and walked into the building. When they walked in there were a few werewolf guards and vampire workers that were taken care of easily enough.
They split back up into their groups with Lupe and Thierry joining the girls. The five of them walked into a room with lots of computers. They each logged onto one but there was a password required. Thierry called Thea and Blaise in to try and hack them.
After a few try's the girls got into the system and all of them started looking up for information. "G-guys I think I found something." Mare said voice trembling. Everyone came over to her computer and she open up three different files. One called Ash. R, one called J. Quinn, and the last called Morgead. B.
She showed everyone the files. They were identical except for the names
Ash R.
Day 1: Thrashing, fighting, cursing, and trying to escape.
Day 2: First time we tamper with his thoughts. He is confused and very quiet.
Day 3: Second time we tamper with his thoughts. Starts the act more like me. (Hunter)
Day 4: Wipes all thoughts of Mary-Lynnette from his brain. Acts a little lost and confused.
Day 5: Ask who Mary-Lynnette is and he hasn't a clue who I'm talking about. Wants to party and serve me just like the old Ash.
They go through the other boy's files which are the same except it takes Morgead an extra day to forget about Jez which makes sense because they have known each other their whole lives. The girls are in shock so Thierry prints out all the important papers and looks for clues as to where he might be going.
He comes across a guard so him and James torcher him into telling them where Hunter went. He tells them Hunter has a few secret houses. They are in Sonoma; California, Miami; Florida, Buffalo; New York, and Toronto; Ontario but he never uses the one in Buffalo.
They group leaves the building and heads back to the safe house.
"Ok group we are at the Sonoma house so Hunter may be in Miami, Buffalo, or Toronto. Should we split up or all search together for more support?" Thierry asks.
"Toronto is the farthest so that's the most likely one but Hunter might expect us to go there so we should check Miami out as well." Galen strategizes. They decide to send a few people to Buffalo as a precaution and the rest go to Miami then Toronto.
They leave the cars and everyone gets into the helicopters. Blaise, Thea, Phil, Eric and Lupe head to Buffalo while the rest go to Miami.
Everyone gets settled in a seat and drift off to sleep but Mare, Rashel and Jez have no luck. All they can picture are the faces of their soulmates when they tried to kill each other.
Eventually one of the witches on board come up to them and offers to make a sleeping medicine. They except and fall into a light sleep filled with nightmares of their soulmates and Hunter.
In what seems like minutes they are being shaken awake ready to search the first house.
When they arrive in Miami everyone is on guard expecting Hunter and the boys to jump out at any moment but nothing happens. They survey the whole house and find nothing. After hours of searching with still no sign of live activity Thierry decides that they should head to Toronto but leave a camera here to watch for anything unusual.
The group piles back into the helicopter and heads for Toronto hoping that this will be a quick final stop before heading home.
The flight is unusually short because it is Thierry driving so no one gets any sleep; just mentally prepare themselves for what lies ahead.
They arrive and repeat what they did in Miami with the same effect the places is unoccupied of Hunter and the boys but does have some guards. Thierry and James take a guard and again demand to know where Hunter and the boys were. The guard instantly gives in and reports that Hunter is giving his boys a tour of the city.
All three girls cringe at the way he said his boys.
"When will he be back?" James asked. "I-in a few hours." The guard replied. Thierry told the guard to make everyone evacuate the building.
Once that was done the team went inside to look for ways to reverse whatever Hunter had done to the soulmates. They searched the place for hours and came up with nothing except for documents that had the boy's names on them.
They didn't have time to read them because at that moment Jez heard a car pull up from outside. The all went upstairs and split up half went to hide and half went to greet them.
When Hunter saw the first half he said. "Well Thierry I hope you weren't going for the element of surprise because then you are really losing your touch." Ash laugh, Morgead snickered, and Quinn smiled.
Before Thierry could reply the girls stepped up and Rashel said, "No we are here to take back what is rightfully ours." Now it was Hunters turn to laugh while the boys looked confused. "Then I am afraid you are leaving empty handed because you own nothing here."
Behind Hunter and the guys they could see Delos, Keller, Galen, and James sneak up behind them. Hunter turned around ready to fight but Keller just threw something at him and all four of them fell to the ground.
Everyone looked at Keller shock written all over their faces accept for Galen who laughed at the reaction. All she said was Blaise and they all understood.
They tied them all up with wood, got back on the helicopter and headed home.
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