Having been checked over by Doctor Cole and given the ok to get up, Kit stood and brushed himself down. He was deeply shaken by the events that he and his friends had helplessly watched unfolding, unable to do anything to stop them.
They'd heard the shouting, Robyn's cries as she'd tried to plead with one of the men she'd loved most in the world and the hate spat back at her like liquid fire in return. None of the people that had known Robbie most of their life had ever expected him to speak to or act like that towards her and it had left them intensely shocked. Never had they thought him capable of anger of that magnitude and they hoped to be party to anything like it again.
As far as Kit was concerned, he had two choices. Confront Robbie and make him face up to what he'd done or slope off and like his wounds while he waited for Langford to come back with Robyn.
'If he comes back with her,' Kit thought, temporarily worried that he had no idea whether Langford was just another Elias.
Shaking this unlikely and all too unwelcome doubt from his mind he started to walk towards the house. He had more important things to worry about.
Rather than just let himself into the home he shared with Robbie and Robyn, Kit knocked on the door. After a moment he heard a voice on the other side of the door that he guessed belonged to the Network officer that had helped separate Sportacus and Robbie. After explaining who he was and asking to be let in, the door opened.
After entering the house, Kit closed the door behind him. The Network officer had moved away from the door slightly and was stood nearer the door to the downstairs bathroom. Kit couldn't say he recognised this man as one of the ones Robyn had had as a guardian but then everyone in town was finding it hard to get used to all of the new faces they'd seen recently.
Kit smiled a greeting to the man and was surprised to receive one back. It struck him that Langford's men couldn't have been further removed from Elias' but then he put that down more to the difference of personality to their leader. Everyone he'd met so far that had guarded Robyn had been polite, friendly and interacted with her. For the most part they'd tried to make her feel as at ease as they could with their presence and given her a reasonable degree of space when she needed it but all the while maintaining their watch on her.
Without a word the Network officer eased himself past Robbie's chair and the grief stricken Robbie sat within it and entered the kitchen. He would leave the house when he'd been notified that Sportacus had left town but for now he'd give the older and younger man some privacy.
A team of Langford's men had notified him that they were on their way to his position, they'd be fifteen minutes and he decided he'd take this time to talk more with Robyn.
"I freely admit," He began, making sure he had Robyn's attention. "That I misunderstood you to a certain degree on our first meeting and allowed it to cloud my judgment of you. I called you a liability and though I won't deny I still think you are a liability, I believe I should really have taken more of an opportunity to get to know you better. I also admit that I've been harsh towards you even despite everything I've come to understand you've been through recently."
"You came into this job or mission, whatever you want to call it, at a rough time. You hadn't fully known what to expect and Elias had made a pretty big mess of things." Robyn replied.
Shaking his head, Langford continued. "That doesn't excuse the way I acted towards you and in all fairness how I've proceeded to act towards you. This probably the first time we've spoken properly in the time we've known each other. Though I know it doesn't change how we've both been towards one another, or will make us friends, I'd like to suggest that we attempt to start off on a clean slate."
Robyn smiled, it seemed as good an idea as any and she shook the hand that Langford had held out for her as he suggested starting afresh.
Thinking of something, Robyn smiled again, "Does this mean we can negotiate on the supervision arrangements you've made for me?"
Langford shot Robyn a look that said, 'don't push it.'