Mages or not
"Mom?" Alice regained her focus and jumped up. Jace stayed still.
"Are you OK?" she asked then looked at Jace, "Who the hell are you?"
He didn't respond. Jace straightened his back and stared at her. He walked over to her, Melissa didn't resist, she looked in his eyes and he tapped her left Temple and she instantly fainted on the ground.
"Mom!" she ran to her, she was still breathing. Alice dug out her phone and called Valkyrie, or someone, over. She looked over her shoulder and noticed Jace missing. Alice ran down the stairs and found her dad face-down in the hallway. "Did you kill them?"
"If their mages they'll be fine."
"What the hell! They're mortal!"
"Than I can't help you, but I can kill you." Jace smirked.
Alice stepped back a little and made a run for the door, to her surprise Vendetta opened it before Alice does. "Are you OK?"
"I'm fine but aren't you sick?"
"Not anymore, c'mon we should go." she pushed Jace back and they ran up the street. "We're meeting Val at the café."
"Across from the green inn?"
"That one."
Alice nodded, "OK. I going to call the ambulance." she stopped running and dug out her phone and called them. "They'll be there in, like, five minutes." she panted some more and picked up her pace
They got at the café and waited. "Do you think my parents will be OK?"
"I don't know." Vendetta responded and passed her some de-caff.
"Thanks." she sipped it carefully and put it down.
Valkyrie joined them as the table. "Sorry I was late. I called the ambulance."
"I did too." Alice sipped some more.
"What did Jace say?"
"OK, it started with 'surprise' than he told me that if they're mages they'd be fine."
"Just great, Dad isn't-"
"How do you know?"
"I've seen Fergus conjure a spark." Alice cringed her nose.
"Ew, Fergus? What about Carol and Crystal?"
"Trial and error every time."
She smiled and sipped some more, "Mom?"
"Doubt it." Valkyrie sighed, "We should go back."
"Is Skulduggery here?"
She shook her head, "I'll call Fletcher to pick us up." Valkyrie called him and he teleported them back to the Sanctuary.
"Now, if you don't mind I'm going back." He grinned and popped out.
"So, what about Jace?" Alice asked, "What do you think happened to him?"
"Probably got bored, or mad, and walked away."
"Do you think who ever hired him is extremely pissed?"
"Hell yes." she smiled and frowned, "Vendetta, I thought you were sick."
"I was but now I'm not. Cheers."
Valkyrie's smile dropped and sat at a nearby bench, nesting her chin in her hands. "I'm sure they'll be fine, Val."
"And if they're not?"
"I'm almost fifteen, I can practically drive." Alice raised her hands in exasperation, "Look, we'll be fine with or without, I mean I practically live with you guys now."
"What would Gordon think?"
"I doubt he's had a conversation with them in over two decades. We just got to hope." Valkyrie looked up at her sister and the smile returned. "Besides, don't we have Ancients' blood coursing through this family's veins?"
"Yes, but only on out dads side."
"Oh." not thinking of anything else to say, Alice sits beside her sister.
"OK, while you guys sulk over nothing, I'm going to find Rife."
"Over nothing? Vendetta, our parents lives are at stake."
"You've put them in worst danger before what with the vampires, werewolves, Darquesse and zombie hordes-"
"Point being?" She asked, irritably.
"Fainting from a touch to the temple is nothing compared to Darquesse; they'll make it through, mages or not. Bye now." Vendetta waved and walked off.
"Zombie hordes?" Alice mocked, "Where was I?"
"With the toxic twins."
"And the award goes to…"
"Hey, either that or Beryl."
"Never mind."
Will they be OK? Meh, I don't know - actually, I do, but you guys don't. last night I finished Playing with Fire, and out of all the 6 books it's on the bottom. I wish it wasn't but it's lacking bits and pieces of each genre (besides romance, which doesn't occur at all). Even though it's Sanguines' debut novel, it doesn't rock my only. For me, Sanguine is the only thing that makes it rock! I'm sorry Derek Landy but this book is not your best work.