"Well, that was interesting." said Jae as she and Jula arrived back home from their meeting with Aidan.
"Yeah..."
"Jula, is something wrong?" Jae asked, noticing her sister's slightly disturbed looking expression.
"Jae... I don't know.. Aidan, he looked kind of funny..."
"What do you mean he looked funny?"
"Well he sounded sincere enough, and I don't believe he was lying about any of the information he was saying; the look in his eyes was an honest look. But there was something else there..."
Jae paused mulling over her sister's words.
Hmmm...
"I don't know, Jula, maybe there was; but in any case, we have to trust him, at least when it comes to this, or the past and present will be ruined.." she replied. "We don't have a lot of options here. Besides, you just said yourself that the infomation he gave seemed valid enough."
"True, I did." Jula replied slowly. "I guess we'll just have to see. But he's right, you do have to go back..."
"Yeah, I do. And in all honesty, I really want to see the colonel again. It just felt really abrupt to me when we left. I mean, he and I got close; he was like a dad to me, and to have to leave like that..."
"I know. It will be good to see him again." Jula replied.
I'm just not so sure I want to see Aidan again...
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"Aidan, are you in?" Brant asked, knocking on his brother's office door.
"Yes, come in, Brant." Aidan's voice came muffled from behind the door.
Brant opened the door, briefly surveying his brother's obsessively clean office before his eyes came to rest on his brother himself, who sat at his desk, his eyes glued to the monitor of his iBook G5 as his hands flew nimbly over the white keyboard, typing out sentences with astonishing speed and accuracy.
Freak...
"What are you doing?"
"Reserving a tour spot for the Barrington sisters in a couple of weeks." Aidan replied absently, not taking his eyes off his monitor.
"Do you even know if they're going to be coming?"
"They said that they would probably be able to work something out."
"Well don't get ahead of yourself, Aidan. Their parents don't even know us. "
Aidan rolled his eyes.
"Why do you care, Brant? This is all my doing anyway. If I fuck it up, then I fuck it up; I can always go back and change things."
Brant shook his head, sighing to himself.
God Aidan, you are so damn difficult sometimes... two minutes difference isn't enough to act like my older brother..
"Just be careful, alright? I know you've traveled before, but this could be different. After all, if you do go, it won't just be you this time..."
"I know, and that's the point." Aidan replied, still not looking up from his monitor.
"Whatever, I'm going back to the armory; I'll see you later."
"Sure..." Aidan replied absently before his brother left his office, leaving him alone once more.
Obviously, things are going to be different, Brant. And that right there is the problem. I need to make the 'differences' work in my favor, lest I want to be second best to another name.. I know I've got Jae right where I want her, but Jula...
A dark smirk curled the corners of Aidan's mouth as he let out a quiet, confident chuckle.
Of course I can get her where I want her. I'm a Tavington, and have no reason to lie to get what I want. And besides, I'm sure Jae will rope her sister into agreeing with everything since she's older and this is really about her, not Jula, because she's the reason we have to go back. No, this won't be a problem in the least...
With that final thought, Aidan finished typing in reservations for Jae and Jula and clicked on an icon marked 'reserve', smiling to himself all the while.
"Step one is complete.."
A/N: Again, really short, sorry, but that's all for now.