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Chap. 20
We still had the better part of the evening ahead of us, and I was not looking forward to it. Yeah some Halloween this turned out to be…but at least I got out for a bit before things got psyched. My thought wandered back to Tam. So she could shape shift, so what? I sighed. We had handled that like she was danger and we couldn't believe that we could be so blind. I was assuming her brothers had that same kind of ability, and since they were staying with Matt, they should be fine. She was either at the shop, or with Elisa, but judging from the way she started to distance herself from all of us, I was betting the shop. So I went to fined Lex. "Hey Lex…" I found him at the library starting at some obscure computer handbook of sorts. He looked up "yeah? What's up?" I sighed and ran a hand through my hair. "I want you to go to Tam and explain why we behaved as we did…" he nodded understanding. "Sure thing, do you wanna come?" I thought for a moment. If I did go I got to put up with things be thrown around, and since I was bigger I presented a bigger target. But then again, if she needed someone there to help her understand, I supposed I would have to be there for that. I sighed. This went against my better nature to do this but… "Sure. Let's go tell Goliath and get going."
Finding Goliath was easy. "Um Goliath?" Lex asked hesitantly. He turned around and looked at us. He didn't need to speak, he was that good. "We wanted to go apologies to Tam for the whole thing and the way we treated her…" Lex shifted uncomfortably. As did I for that matter. He nodded his go ahead, and we took off. The winds were strong so we made it there in record time. The shop was closed now, but she and the crew were still there. They crew knew us by sight and they left us alone, but they were on our side. We went in through the front door. Her top manager, Tim, was standing there looking thunderous. "You gonna go talk to her?" he was angry; we could tell he was very quiet when he spoke. We looked at each other and nodded. Tim sighed and motioned us to her back shop. We nodded in acknowledgment and went to find her.
We knocked on the door. "Go away. I'm busy." Came the unhappy reply. Lex winced. We knew that tone. Oh well. "Tam? It's us. Can we talk to you?" There was silence then footsteps. The door opened and she stood there in front of us. She was not happy to see us there but she stood aside and let us in. her shop was most defiantly hers. She had parts scattered all over the place and she had blueprints everywhere on the walls. There were a couple covered shapes in one of the corners, but we let them lie. She snagged a chair and let found a stool, I vote just to lean against the wall nonchalantly. "So what do you want?" she broke the silence first. I nodded to Lex. "We came to apologize. We treated you badly and we feel horrible about it…" he looked extremely unhappy at that and he hung his head. She looked at us and sighed. "You realize I had not wanted to tell you at all?" she seemed resigned and…ashamed? "Why?" Lex demanded. She sighed and looked at the floor. "Because I thought you would treat me as a monster and that you would turn me in to my Aunt…and that I felt that it would endanger you knowing what I and my brothers were…are…" she trailed off. I went over to her and knelt in front of her. I put one hand on her shoulder and said softly: "If anything, we're the monsters, because of how we treated you and how this all happened in the first place. You couldn't help that Dracon was going to do that tonight, and you can't help being what you are. We should have realized that above all else." Lex was nodding to that so I knew I had said the right thing. She looked up and I saw a glimmer of the hidden pain, and the desirer to run and stay hidden. I sighed. "If you run, you'll always be running, if you hide you'll always be hiding, but if you keep closing off you feelings, the pain will just keep building." I feel an echo of that in the pits of my stomach. I think I should start taking my own advice. She nodded silently, and then she sighed. I released my hold on her and stepped away. I was pushing myself away so she could go on and do what she wanted. "You're lucky you've got the clan to help you with your problems, and stuff." She said quietly. I didn't quite agree with that, since everyone knew everything that went on now…it got blasted annoying. But it was better if she did not know that part. I and Lex looked at each other and back to her. "We like you honestly, and beside it's a gargoyles nature to protect, if anything." Lex said. Tam graced us with a small smile that was a mockery of the smile she given me before. Her shoulders seemed less slumped and she seemed a little more buoyant, but that was not what I should have been concerned with. "I'll head back now guys." I sighed and I nodded to tam who gave a small bow. I think she did that out of mockery, but I wouldn't press the issue. And I left. The way back to the tower was quiet and it was a good quiet. Not the calm before the storm, the after storm quiet where everything is resting and carefree. Carefree, huh I wish. Ah well. Nothing much to be done but enjoy it.