Infinity and Beyond
-Chapter 3-
Kill Jill
I'm putting together a puzzle. It's one with colorful fishes and turtles. It's pretty. I'm eating a blueberry muffin while doing it.
Lily's lying on the floor next to me. Nikita walks into the room with a mug in her hand. "Good morning." She says to me.
"Good morning." I say back.
"You brushed your teeth?" She asks like she does every morning.
"Uh-huh." I say. Most of the words I say to her in a day happen in the morning.
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Nikita and I are in an underground parking lot. I hide while Nikita takes her very big firearm and fires it at a still moving black van. I'm glad I'm not next to her, she's very scary.
The van drives into another car and stops. Nikita then opens the back doors of the van as I walk out of my hiding place, holding Lily. Nikita hits the man inside with her gun.
There's also a woman lying inside. She looks like she's asleep. 'Jill Morelli.'
"Gold star." Nikita tilts her head as she picks Jill up. Jill doesn't wake up. I gulp, I'm scared for Jill. I don't know if Nikita's going to do something bad to her.
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I pick Lily up from beside me as Jill is waking up. I wonder if she's going to be scary too. My puzzle is still not finished.
"Don't get up too fast." Nikita says as she walks in with a mug again. "DMHPD takes a while to wear off."
'DMHPD: it's what made her fall asleep.'
"It's the worst." Nikita continues. "Got you some java." She points out the mug in her hand.
Jill is scared as she begins to get up. "Jill, if I was gonna hurt you; I would've done it already." Nikita says, making herself sound scarier.
I get up from the floor and walk closer to Jill. "It's okay." I tell her. "I know she's scary. She scares me too."
Jill looks at me and her eyes widen in surprise. She crouches down to me. "What's your name, sweetie?"
"Infinity Grace." I say.
"That's a very pretty name." She says nicely.
"Thank you." I feel my oval-shaped face smile. I like Jill, she doesn't feel scary.
"Do you know this woman?" She points to Nikita.
"She's a scary woman." I nod my head.
"Why are you with her?" Jill asks me.
I look down at my feet; I don't want to say it. "Because I'm her mother." Nikita answers quietly. Jill mouths a surprised oh.
She looks around the room, scared again. "You're at my place." Nikita says to her. "They're not gonna find you here."
"They?" Jill's voice shakes. "Who are they? Who are you?"
"I'm Nikita." She tells her. "I used to be one of them, I'm not anymore."
Jill looks very scared, so I slide my hand into her's. She looks down at me, surprised again. I smile up at her with my oval-shaped face. "I like you. You're not scary."
Nikita takes a deep breath before continuing. "I read your blog, by the way. All that crap in their about illegal black ops, assassination programs, ghost agents, I mean you're on the right track. In a general sense, your specifics are way off."
"What?" Jill breathes out.
"It doesn't matter." Nikita frowns.
Jill sits back down on the bed. I climb up next to her. "Nothing on your website would make them wanna kill you." Nikita continues muttering before turning to Jill. "Were you working on a story with that editor?"
"Oh, Jeremy." She whimpers. "Oh, god, Jeremy." She's starting to cry, so I go and grab the tissue box.
"Jill…" Nikita says.
"The plane crash!" She swallows. "That's what we were talking about." I sit next to her again with a tissue box in hand.
I give it to her. "Thank you." She sniffles.
Jill takes a deep breath. "Those hit men wanted me to give up my source."
"Listen, it's gonna be okay." Nikita tries to calm her. "We're gonna expose what they're trying to hide, but you've to tell me what that is."
"I don't know!" Jill shakes her head. I want to make her feel better.
I pull on her arm. "Would you like to hold Lily?" I hold Lily up for her to see. "She always makes me feel better."
This makes Jill laugh. I don't know why she thinks it's funny, but I'm glad that she sounds a little happier. "Would you like to sit on my lap?" She pats her legs.
"Okay!" I nod eagerly before she picks me up and puts me down on her lap. I'm glad my back is facing Nikita, she's not as scary when I don't see her.
Nikita gives Jill something called coffee that the grown-ups drink. "A couple of days ago, this guy contacted me through my site." Jill tells Nikita. "Said that he had some video that would blow my mind. Air America crash, two helicopters, some paramilitary operation. He won't give me the specifics, made me drive out to Virginia just to meet him. Young guy, scared of what he saw, not faking it. Wanted $50,000 just to show me the video."
"So you went to the post for the $50,000?" Nikita asks.
"I was hoping for $5,000, maybe. I guess the post will call me at 1:00 PM tomorrow." Jill frowns. "Wait, what day is this?"
Nikita walks to her computer. "It's tomorrow. What's your source's name?"
"I don't know." Jill shakes her head. "He wouldn't tell me."
'Benjamin Prantis'
I tilt my head. "Today's tomorrow?" I ask, I don't get it.
"No, honey." Jill says with a smile. "Today is yesterday's tomorrow." I frown as I try to understand.
"His name is Benjamin Prantis." I tell Jill.
Jill looks surprised. "How do you know that?"
"Computer mama told me." I smile at her.
"Computer mama?" Jill frowns and looks to Nikita.
"It's a long story." Nikita says. "What's his number?"
"He has my number." Jill tells her. Nikita pushes her hair back and sighs.
"Wait, what happened to my phone?" Jill frowns as she stands up, picking me up with her.
"I took the battery and the sim card out so they couldn't trace you." Nikita says. "You have a boyfriend? Roommate?"
"No." Jill shakes her head. "Why?"
"Well, because those men are definitely at your house by now." Nikita says as she grabs a jacket from her clothing rack and puts it into a black bag.
"Then, let's call the police." Jill says as Nikita is packing some things.
"Oh, no." She says. "They control the police." She opens up her case full of guns. "Right now, they are doing everything they can to hunt you down." She grabs a handgun and puts it somewhere behind her.
"Wait, I… I thought you said that they won't be able to find me here." Jill stutters.
"You're not staying here." Nikita tells her. "You've a very important phone call in 42 minutes."
Nikita then turns to me. "Alright, Infinity. Let's get off of Jill." She reaches her hands toward me.
I panic and hug Jill tightly. "I don't want to!"
"Infinity…"
"No, it's okay." Jill smiles at Nikita. "I don't mind."
Nikita's silent for a few seconds. I can't see her as my back is still to her. "Then, let's go." Her voice sounds a little shaky.
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"So, he calls me and I let it go to voice mail, of course." Nikita says to Jill, who is holding my hand as we are walking through a building. "I can't even check it. His voice reminds me of his face. It's disgusting. What part of I don't like you does he not understand? We've got to check out that new wine bar this weekend."
"Oh, I love wine bars." Jill smiles quietly. I don't know what's going on.
"I know you do." Nikita mutters as she leads us into an office.
"Whose office is this?" Jill asks.
"Don't know." Nikita says. "It'll work."
"Well, what if they come back while we're in here?" Jill says worriedly as she shuts the door.
"Nobody's coming back, it's lunchtime." Nikita says. "Your boy's gonna call in two minutes. We've got fifteen before we –"
She stops when she sees Jill taking out some salad. I giggle; Nikita's not as scary when Jill is around.
"I always eat when I'm nervous." Jill says.
"Jill, the second I turn on this phone, they're gonna know where we are." Nikita tells her. "I'm gonna need you to get your source to agree to a trade for the video, fast."
"What if he asks for the money?" Jill asks.
"You have it." Nikita says.
Jill plays tic-tac-toe with me while we wait. There are only two chairs in the room, so I sit on Jill's lap. I'm facing Nikita this time, so I don't look up.
"It's 1:05, where the hell is he?" Nikita is impatient, another thing that makes her scary.
"I don't know." Jill shrugs seconds before her cell phone vibrates. Then, the office phone rings. Nikita picks it up and gives it to Jill.
"Hello?" Jill answers.
"Hey, it's me. How did it go with your editor?" A man's voice says.
Nikita waves a hand at me, telling me to go over to her. I feel nervous, but I get off of Jill's lap with Lily in my arms and walk a few steps closer to Nikita.
I don't go close enough for her to touch me. Nikita sighs silently and turns back to Jill.
"Um… good." Jill lies. "I've the money."
"Well, what is it? Is it cash? Cheque?"
"It's cheque." Nikita nods at Jill's answer. "I just need to know who to write it out to."
"Okay. I want you to take a picture of the cheque, alright? And upload it to my Flicker account."
Nikita grabs the phone from Jill. "This is Molly Watson. Jill's editor. What in the world is on this video and why in the world would I pay you $50,000 dollars for something that's probably been mocked up on your desk top?"
I happily hop back on Jill's lap.
"You know, you'll just have to see for yourself."
"Honey, I don't have time for games. Better luck with the inquirer, be well."
"Wait, wait, wait! You've to understand, I never meant to see this. I was just hiking up the trail when I heard the crash and I ran over to it and when I got there, it was just wreckage… everywhere. And…I heard these helicopters, so I thought it was search and rescue."
"Are these the so-called black helicopters?"
"Yeah and the guys who hopped out of them were like commandos, you know. But instead of looking for survivors, they just… they start hauling these huge bags out of the wreck, bags packed with cocaine. It was like the whole plane is packed with coke and these guys were just grabbing it up."
'Cocaine: an addictive drug.'
"How do you know it was cocaine?"
"It was either that, or someone was about to bake a really big cake."
"Okay, kid. We've the money. You've the video. Where do you want to meet and trade?"
"The quad at North Virginia State, okay? Tomorrow. 10:00 AM." He hangs up.
Nikita puts the phone back and grabs Jill's cell phone. She drops it on the floor and stomps on it, breaking it.
I hug Jill tighter and look away. I feel as if Nikita's going to get scarier. "Was that really necessary?" Jill glares at her as she walks out of the room with Jill and me following a few steps behind her.
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I sit beside Jill in a restaurant as I'm eating a chicken wing from her plate. "Fifteen minutes, okay?" Nikita tells us. "Then we're back in the car. Got ninety miles to go and we got to take back roads."
Jill just stares at her plate and don't say anything. She looks sad, so I make a napkin doll for her. "Jill! Jill!" I shake her arm. "Look!" I say when she looks at me. I wave the doll in front of her.
Jill makes herself smile for me. "That's cute."
"Are you okay?" I frown and bite my bottom lip. "You look sad."
Jill pulls me into a hug. "Is she always like this?" She asks Nikita about me.
Nikita's silent for a few seconds. I peek up to see that Nikita is looking at a bottle of ketchup. She looks… hurt? I look back down quickly. I don't know why she would look at ketchup that way; I don't think she ate any.
"Not with me." Her voice comes out as a loud whisper. Of course not, I'm too scared of Nikita to be this way with her.
"Nikita, I'm sure that's not true." Jill shakes her head. I frown, but it is true.
"It's true." Nikita's voice sounds weaker. It makes my stomach have a sour feeling. I sneak another look toward Nikita. She looks as if her insides have just been kicked out.
That look makes me sad; it makes me feel as if I need to go to the doctor's. I don't like it, so I look away again.
"She's your daughter, Nikita." Jill says to her. "I'm sure she loves you."
I frown; I don't know how I feel about her. Wendy was my first mother, I know I loved her, but Nikita isn't the same.
"But I don't know how I feel about her." I tilt my head at Jill. Wendy had told me that I shouldn't lie.
"No, no, sweetie, you shouldn't…" Jill starts.
"It's fine, Jill." Nikita interrupts her a little too quickly, her voice sounds as if it might break. I wish I haven't said anything.
We are silent for a while before Nikita turns back to Jill, who has stopped eating. "No more nervous appetite?"
"I keep seeing Jeremy's face." Jill looks like she might cry soon. "He was staring right at me when…" I slide my hand into her's. She squeezes my hand gently.
"You didn't kill him Jill." Nikita tries to comfort her. "They did."
"And why?" Jill asks. "For what? For money?"
"Yeah." Nikita nods. "For a lot of money. Think about it, okay? Henry Samson is using passenger planes to smug drugs, probably to keep from going under like all the other airplane companies."
"Real life story of the year." Jill mutters unhappily. "Jeremy would love this."
"Well, when we get this video, you're gonna make sure your article gets published." Nikita says.
"Yeah." Jill nods. "If we get the video. Those guys coming after us aren't airline security. They're the commando guys from the crash site. Who are they?"
Nikita just tilts her head. "Oh, come on, you said before I was on the right track!" Jill complains. "Some kind of government black ops unit? Maybe even mercenaries?"
"You need to stick with what you can prove." Nikita tells her. "If this video turns out to be all it's cracked up to be, you get to prove that a fortune 500 CEO is smuggling drugs. You'll never be able to prove who the guys in the helicopters are."
"Why?" Jill says.
"Because they don't have decals on their vehicles or their clothing." Nikita says. "Because there's no record that they exist, no documentation, no evidence."
"What about you?" Jill says. "You were a part of them. You're evidence."
"I don't exist either." Nikita mutters sadly.
"Yes, you do." I say before I can stop myself.
Nikita looks at me in surprise, but then, she smiles. She slowly reaches a hand toward my hand that's on lying on the table.
It's weird, for the first time, I don't want to draw my hands back from her. Right now, Nikita isn't scary. She feels… warm? I find myself smiling back at her as she takes my much smaller hands gently in her's.
"Why won't you tell me what you know?" Jill frowns. "Why are you protecting them?"
"I'm protecting you, Jill." Nikita says. "You don't think that if I could've gone to the press to take them down, I would've done it. You won't be the first reporter I see them kill."
Just then, two officers walk into the restaurant. 'They're looking for Jill.' My hand twitches in Nikita's, making her think I want her to let go as she starts to draw her hand back, but I hold on to it.
I bite my bottom lip and my eyes move toward the two officers. Something bad is going to happen to Jill if Nikita doesn't do something.
"Yeah, well. I won't let Jeremy die for nothing." Jill says. "I've to tell the whole story, Nikita. I own him at least that much."
"We've gotta go, now." Nikita says quietly. "Get up, pick Infinity up with you, put your head down, and follow me."
We walk toward the door when an officer stopped us. "Excuse me, miss." He reaches a hand toward Jill, but Nikita attacks him.
Jill runs out of the door, carrying me. We wait outside for Nikita. It only takes her a little while to run outside to meet us. Jill follows her with me still in her arms.
"We gotta lose the car, they're gonna know where we are." Nikita says.
"But didn't you knock them out?" Jill asks.
"I'm not talking about the cops." Nikita tells her as she drops me in the backseat of the car before climbing into the front seat herself.
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"Describe him again." Nikita says as we're in a place called "North Virginia State University".
"Um… early twenties, African-American, kind of hipster-cute." Jill says. I'm bored, so I start picking grass out of the dirt.
"Hipster-cute?" Nikita frowns.
"Yeah, you know, an ironic t-shirt kind of guy." Jill says. "You know, with the big jeans that hangs out in the coffee shop."
"Yeah, I get it." Nikita nods.
"You know, maybe we got the location wrong." Jill says. "Maybe he's waiting for us somewhere else and can't call us because you stomped on my phone."
"We're at the right place." Nikita says. "He's just not gonna show up, probably saw the news."
"What news?" Jill frowns.
"That you're wanted for murder?" Nikita says. "He's paranoid."
"Okay, what do we do now?" Jill says. "I mean, we're screwed."
"We're gonna track him down ourselves." Nikita tells her.
Jill picks me up as Nikita leads us to a big map. "Where's the movie theater you first met him at?"
"Right here." Jill points it out to her.
"He asked you to meet him at two different locations near the university." Nikita says. "He was hiking the day of the crash, which was a Wednesday. He's not a nine-to-fiver, he's a college student, one without a set of wheels, most locations are on this bus route. I found three sporting goods stores along that line."
"Right." Jill nods. "Wait, why do we care about sporting goods all of a sudden?"
"Our student's a hiker." Nikita says. "An ambitious one if he got up to where the crash happened. It's way off trail, he'd need some serious gear to get up there. Come on, let's go shopping."
"You want to go get something fun?" Jill smiles at me as we follow Nikita.
"Okay!" I grin happily.
Nikita stops mid-step and turns toward me. I find myself shrinking back toward Jill a little more. It's true that Nikita feels a little less scary, but she still scares me.
"Come here." She slowly reaches her arms out toward me. "Please."
I gulp as I wrap my arms around Jill, who's still carrying me. "I don't want to."
"Don't say that, honey." Jill tells me softly as she loosens my arms around her. "She's your mother."
Nikita still has her arms out. "Please."
I bite my bottom lip and look to Jill again. "Go on, it's okay." Jill says quietly.
"But I'm scared." I whimper.
"She's not going to –" Jill begins to say to me.
"Let's keep going." Nikita gives up and puts her arms down, interrupting Jill. She seems to be blinking faster as she turns her back to us and continues on walking.
"Nikita…" Jill starts as she follows Nikita with me still in her arms.
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We are at Benjamin Prantis' house. Nikita rings the doorbell while Jill is holding my hand. Benjamin opens the door a few seconds later, he gets scared when he sees us and runs back inside with the door still open.
Nikita chases after him. "Ben! Prantis!" Jill and I walk in to see Ben on the floor. To my surprise, he's still awake.
"Okay! Please! Please! Just don't hurt me!" Ben says loudly.
"Okay, Prantis. Don't be a wuss." Nikita pants.
"Nobody gets hurt, we just want to see the video." Jill says.
"It… it's gone. I trashed it right after I… I saw you kill that guy." He stutters.
"I didn't kill anybody!" Jill says loudly.
"Ben, we know you have it." Nikita says scarily. "And if we've to waste time looking for it, the real killers, the ones in the video, they're gonna show up."
"How… how are they gonna find me?" Ben says.
"The manager at A Sporting Goods, your buddy, he was really helpful, he thought that you'd enjoy a visit from two hot babes." Nikita's tone is scaring me. I turn to Jill and put my arms up in front of her.
Jill bents down and picks me up in her arms. "It's okay." She whispers in my ear.
"It's gonna be a lot easier for the black helicopter guys unless we get that video out in the open." She continues. "What's it gonna be?"
A few minutes later, Ben has turned on his laptop to show us the video. I cover my ears as Jill puts a hand over my eyes. "Don't look."
"It's gotta be four metro-tones of product there." Nikita murmurs.
"That must have over-weighted the plane." Jill says.
"Let's get this uploaded." Nikita says as she types on the keyboard. "What's the paper's address?"
" ." Jill answers.
A beeping sound comes from the laptop. "Wifi's jammed." Nikita stands up and walks to the window.
"What's going on?" Jill asks.
"I'm calling the cops." Nikita grabs the phone.
"You're gonna bring the cops here?" Jill says.
"Get your cell phone, now!" Nikita yells the last word. She sound… nervous?
"I thought you said that they control the police." Jill says.
"They control information flow." Nikita nods. "Not trigger fingers. Locals will come, they will rescue you, they will take you in, and you'll be safe in a couple of hours. Come on!"
"A couple of hours?" Jill says.
"Just trust me, okay?" Nikita says to her quietly.
"There's no bars!" Ben tells Nikita.
Nikita grabs Ben's cell phone from his hands. "Jamming everything." Nikita grabs her handgun and walks to the window again. 'Division's here.'
Ben gets up and tries to look out the window. "Are those the FED's?" He asks sacredly.
"Get away from there!" Nikita pushes him back. Ben panics and runs out of the room. "Don't go out there!" She shouts after him.
Ben still runs out of the house. "Get down!" Nikita pushes Jill down to the ground. I don't know how I got there, but I find myself in Nikita's arms. It's weird, but I feel… safer.
I stay very still as Nikita carries me with her to underneath a window. I sit on the floor next to her while Jill's in the same position on the other side of a sofa chair.
Loud sirens sound from the outside. "Copy the video onto your flash drive now." Nikita tells her. Jill does what she says.
"Tell the cops you're coming out." Nikita says to her after she's done. "Arms and hands in the air."
"Well, what about Infinity?" Jill sounds worried. "And you?" She's worried about Nikita?
"The commando boys would be forced to split their teams to send a unit to follow the cops." Nikita says. "They'll have less guys to attack me with, and they won't be able to touch Infinity as long as I'm here. Don't worry."
"Oh, god." Jill sounds scared.
"Jill, tell them your story." Nikita says. "I'm counting on you."
Jill nods tearfully as I crawl over to her and hug her. I'm starting to cry. "Shh." Jill shushed me. "It's okay. You're gonna be safe with your mother."
I feel my bottom lip shake. "I'm scared." I don't know what to think. Division's scary, but so is Nikita.
"Your mother's gonna protect you, okay?" She brushes a little bit of my curly dark brown hair out of my face. "Trust her."
"But… am I going to see you again?" I sniffle.
"Yeah." Jill smiles tearily. "Yeah, you will. I promise."
"Okay." I nod as Jill gives me one last hug before leaving.
"Come here." Nikita waves at me quietly. I sit on the floor nervously. I don't know if I want to go over to her. I don't know who I'm more scared of.
But Jill has told me to trust her, so I gulp and crawl over to her slowly.
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I'm hiding as Nikita knocks a man out in a narrow hallway. A few seconds later, I hear Michael's voice. "Nikita! We found your wireless bug. Pretty clever. Birkoff had no idea."
I feel myself smiling. "Not such a smart guy, after all." Nikita says. "Does Birkoff have a toothache or did Percy just cancel him?"
"No, he's alive. But it could've gone either way. You put him in danger, Nikita. That's not like you." It isn't?
"You don't know me anymore, Michael."
"Yeah, I suppose not. The Nikita I know wouldn't bring her daughter into any of this."
I cover my ears as I hear a series of gunshots. Nikita jumps out from behind Michael and grabs him, pointing a gun to his head. "No!" I gasp tearfully, walking out of my hiding place. I don't want anything bad to happen to Michael.
"Drop it." She tells another man, whose pointing a firearm at her.
"Don't." Michael says to him.
I walk a few steps toward that man. I feel very scared, but I don't want Michael to get hurt. "Please drop it." I whimper to him. "Michael might get hurt."
He looks at me curiously. "Who -?"
"Shh, Infinity. It's okay. I'll be okay." Michael tries to comfort me, interrupting him before looking to him. "She won't hurt me."
"Shut up!" Nikita yells just before Michael breaks free, making me smile. I hide again.
I cover my ears as I hear a few gun fires. 'Nikita's gun shots. Michael's fine.'
I peek from behind my hiding place to see Michael pull the rug from under Nikita's feet, making her fall.
Nikita quickly gets back up and the fight starts. I really wish that Michael wouldn't get hurt.
"This isn't gonna work." Michael mutters quietly to her as he presses her against a table. Nikita fights back and send him flying to a wall.
I'm glad that Michael looks like he's okay as the fight continues. After a few seconds, Michael grabs Nikita's arm and twists it around. They both looked tired and are panting from the fight.
"Look, the more you try to do this, the more your hurt yourself." Michael tells her.
"Michael, you've no idea how much pain I can take." Nikita says loudly.
"Well, what about Infinity?" Michael says to her. "She's four, Nikita. She has enough to deal with as it is. How long do you think that she can really hold on? She's never gonna be able to get over her fear of you if this is the way you are."
Nikita groans loudly as Michael breaks her arm with a loud crack. I feel goosebumps pop up, that sounds like it hurts.
But Nikita fights Michael off and knocks him to the floor. "Great, Michael." Nikita pants quietly. "Way to pour salt to the wound."
She growls at the pain of her broken arm before grabbing my hand and leading me out of the house.
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Nikita is typing on the computer while I'm coloring a picture of Cinderella. I find myself sneaking peeks at her. I want to know if her arm still hurts, I hope it doesn't.
She walks over to me after she's done with the computer. "You want some juice?"
I look up at her and nod a little. "Yes, please."
She goes to grab a bottle of water for herself and a juice box for me. She puts the straw in the hole and puts it on the table for me. "Here you go." She says.
"Does your arm hurt?" I ask before I can stop myself.
She looks surprised, but then she smiles. "I'm okay." She reaches a hand toward me and her fingers touch my cheek softly. I feel myself getting stiff, but I don't shrink away from her.
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Nikita and I go to see Jill again, I'm glad. Jill turns around, looking scared for a second before I run up to her and hug her.
"Hey, sweetie." She laughs before looking up at Nikita. "You startled me for a second, there. Pepper spray." She shows us a small silver bottle that's in her pocket.
"You can never be too careful." Nikita walks up to her, smiling. "How's the new gig?"
"Pretty great, actually." Jill smiles happily. "Breaking the national story of a drug dealing airline made me kind of popular."
Then, Jill turns to me again. "I've a present for you." She says as she digs through her purse.
"Yay!" I clap my hands happily.
Jill pulls out a sparkly, silvery necklace and puts it around my neck. "Ohh, pretty!" My eyes widen happily.
Jill smiles and crouches down to look at me. "Now, I want you to promise me something, okay?"
"What?" I tilt my head.
"I know your mother does things that scare you." Jill says softly. "But your mother is trying her best, okay? And she's giving you all the love she can."
My eyes are growing teary and my bottom lip is shaking. I'm going to cry soon. "But I'm still scared."
"I know you're scared." Jill says. "But no matter how scared you are, or how many times you run away from her, she's still your mother, Infinity. She'll never hurt you, okay? She'll always try her best to protect you."
"Why?" I sniffle and tilt my head.
"Because you're her daughter, Infinity." Jill tells me. "And that's what I want you to remember, okay?"
"Okay." I say quietly.
"Promise?" Jill holds up her pinky.
"Promise." I hook my pinky with her's.
"Am I going to see you again?" I ask.
"Not for a while." Jill shakes her head before I start to cry. "Shh." Jill pulls me into another hug.
"I don't want to stay alone with Nikita." I cry harder now. "It makes her more scary!"
"No! Don't say that, honey." Jill says.
Nikita walks over to us and crouches down beside me. "Infinity…" Her voice is shaking. "One day… when you're really safe, I'm going to bring you back to Jill, and… and you won't have to see me again. I promise."
My cries get quieter after this. "Nikita…" Jill says as if she's not sure about something as I hug her again.
"Be a good girl, Infinity." Jill says quietly as she hugs me back.
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