The Little Scout
Chapter Sixteen
Tessa's POV
"You mean they haven't even been searching for her?" Tessa shouted at Captain Weaver.
"Calm down Tessa, we've had more..."
"DON'T YOU DARE SAY IMPORTANT!" She shouted.
"Fine, Tessa, there's no need to be this..."
"THERE IS EVERY NEED, HOW DARE YOU! Would this happen if I went missing?"
"If you did I wouldn't have you shouting at Me."
"Would you be searching for me?" Tessa challenged.
"Yes, we would because Ben wouldn't rest."
"Well I'm not resting until we've found Soph."
"That's very well but Sophie hasn't been found yet."
"Have you even tried?"
"Yes." Weaver shouted back.
"You told me you hadn't!"
"I thought you'd go away if I did!"
"You're not searching hard enough!"
"Mason, sit down and talk to me when you've cooled down." Tessa sunk onto the chair and caught the stress ball Weaver threw at her. She squeezed it until she felt better. "Are you ready to talk yet?"
"Yes."
"Now, we have found roughly where she is but we haven't found her yet."
"Do the Skitter's have her?"
"No, we think she's being held hostage by three idiots. One looks bulky, one looks like your Melisa and the other one is just plain stupid."
"Have you talked to them?"
"No but we have been watching them, Jimmy and Hal have been on it all morning. We want you and Ben to join them later on, maybes even go in there. See if she's actually there." Tessa nodded.
"Anything." She told him. Weaver nodded and she was excused.
It was raining outside when she left Weaver's office. She saw Tom sat down in the big tent. She wandered in and sat opposite him. "How's the search for Sophie?" She turned her head to see Logan stood behind her.
"I'm going tonight." Normally Tessa would have been taking in account how cute Logan was but today she really wasn't in the mood. He sat beside her and smiled.
"You truly are amazing, Tessa, I could never do what you do."
"Of course you could. You choose to the most important thing, Logan, you look after the kids."
"I've met Melisa, she seems sweet."
"She is." Tessa tilted her head to the side and smiled. "She's..."
"Not like the other kids. She's distant."
"Is this like a parent's evening because I'm not the girl for that."
"Tessa she seems so have made a strong attachment to you and Ben, she treats you like you are her parents. For that little girl, you are. You might not want that but it's a little late."
"I know." She sighed. She has made a certain attachment but she wasn't ready. She wanted to just get grinded into Skitter bait and just...die. That's it. Tessa "I know Logan." Logan stood up, nodded and walked out of the tent.
"Hey Tessa!" Ben shouted. "Wait up." Tessa stopped where she was and waited for Ben to catch up with her.
"Where's Melisa?" She asked him.
"Matt's playing with her." Tessa nodded and he took her hand in his. "Did Weaver tell you?"
"We're going to get Sophie."
"Yeah, tonight."
"Do you think she's there?"
"Probably, we'll have to see."
"I hope she's there, I can't bear to think of her all alone. She's tough but no one can stay out there long."
"I know, Tessa, I hope she's there too."
"We'll find out won't we. Just...promise me..." She hesitated. "Do they still have contact with you?"
"No. They don't have any contact with me." Ben promised. He hugged her and then stared at her. "How many days until your birthday now?"
"I'm not keeping track." She admitted.
"It's on the fifth, right?" She nodded. "Thirty more days."
"Ben, can we just get through tonight? Please?"
"Fine, but...what kind of books do you like?"
"Harry Potter, you know things like that. Why?"
"No reason. I love Harry Potter by the way."
"I was a massive Potterhead before all of this. I used to tell myself I was going to marry Oliver Wood."
"I had a thing for Hermione."
"I wonder what happened to all of the celebrities...I wonder if they're dead. Or hiding somewhere."
"Maybes their beauty stunned the skitters away?"
"Maybes." Tessa laughed.