Heart to Heart

Chapter 25: Plans and Preparations

It was late when Yang finally got back to the house from her visit at the memorial statue. She felt a bit better after it, maybe this was why Ruby always talked to mom's grave all the time. She was considering that the next time Ruby went, she would go with her sister.

Kicking off her boots she noticed that Qrow was out cold on the couch, Maria was taking a chair all her own since the old woman was small enough to sleep somewhat comfortably in it. Gently Yang made it up the stairs trying not to wake them making it to the girls' room. It was more of an office room that Terra had honestly that had a pull-out couch in it, a few sleeping bags under them.

Looking in she could see Ruby was fast asleep holding that bear to her chest. Weiss was with her taking the other spot on the pullout looking like she was keeping to her side of the bed. Blake and Nora were on the ground with the sleeping bags. Yang was quietly slipping off her clothing and putting on hers not trying to wake them. She saw the lone sleeping bag for her and stopped herself.

She really didn't feel like sleeping alone tonight.

In fact, she didn't want to sleep alone tonight, so her mind made up she quietly left the room. She saw Jaune's door not that far away and was just making her way to it.

"Bathroom is the other way," Saphron's voice started the blonde brawler.

"Holy crap, don't scare me like that!" Yang hissed out as quietly as she could.

Saphron could only smirk, "Sorry but what are you doing up so late?"

"Uh…couldn't sleep. You?"

"I just put Adrian to sleep, he was a little cranky about it so it took some time," the woman stated eyeing her up. "So, you just wanted to go walking off late at night in your sleepwear or did you have a destination in mind?"

Yang was panicking at the moment. Sure, she liked Jaune's sister but how exactly do you say 'oh I'm just going to sleep in the same bed as your baby brother' in a way that sounded way better than that did.

Saphron had a knowing smile on her face as she placed a hand on her hip looking at the younger blonde. "Going to Jaune's room?"

Yang shifted a little seeing the look the woman was giving her she could see right through any excuse she could come up with.

"Yeah."

Saphron was a bit surprised by that. "Okay I didn't know you two were that far in your relationship but I should tell you the walls aren't that thick so if you two are going to-"

Yang cut her off. "No! I mean we're not that far, we've just, well we just kind of shared a bed a couple of times."

Technically it was one bed and a couch but she didn't see the need to add that in.

Saphron got a knowing look on her face. "So you two just like being next to him when you sleep."

Yang thought about it, "It's a bit more than that. We've both been through a lot and it's just comforting. Knowing someone is there, knowing that he's there, hearing the beating of his heart, feeling the warmth. It's…just kind of hard to explain."

Saphron nodded her head. "Don't worry I get it, I know that feeling. Well as long as you two don't take things too far I'm okay with it. You two are old enough to know what you both want."

Yang gave a thankful smile. "Thanks."

"But if you do please keep it down and please use protection."

Yang's face heated up at the teasing she wasn't used to being on the receiving end of things. Yang's mind came up with a response finally as she grinned. "Oh well no promises there, he's a handsome young man after all and maybe I would like to see if he's packing a longsword or broadsword."

Saphron winced. "Please I don't need that mental image in my head about my baby brother."

Yang chuckled as she turned to walk away glad to get her back for that.

Saphron had to admit she liked the girl, Jaune really did outdid himself with her. She hoped they were happy together. Watching the blonde walk away she couldn't help but noticed Yang's backside, well-toned legs with a tight butt in those black shorts. Saphron did have to admit, if she was a little bit younger and single again…

She chuckled as she shook her head, she had a beautiful wife waiting for her in bed. Speaking of that, she wondered if Terra might be up for a little fun. They had learned how to be quiet so not to wake up their son after all.

Yang knocked on the door as she saw Jaune opened it up, he had changed into shorts and a t-shirt. She was kind of hoping he would have been sleeping without a shirt but this was good too.

"Yang? Is everything okay?" He asked concerned. He was worried she might have had a nightmare or something but she didn't look upset.

"Mind if I come in?"

"Uh, yeah sure." He moved aside as he closed the door behind them. She sat down on the small bed taking in the small room as she looked at him and padded the spot next to her. He sat down with her wondering what she was doing here.

"So, I was wondering if about something," Yang started. "I was kind of hoping you won't mind me sleeping here with you tonight."

Jaune swallowed, sure they had fallen asleep before but the first time was kind of a forced environment and the second had just kind of happened. They have never really planned for it before, he didn't mind it in fact he found he liked sharing a bed with her.

He sat down next to her. "I-I don't mind Yang."

Yang smiled, "Good I was hoping you'd say that."

"Yeah but the bed is kind of on the small side." Jaune nodded to it as it was a single bed used for only one person.

Yang only grinned as she got up and pushed him into place onto the bed as she then quickly straddled him propping herself up on her hands. Jaune couldn't help but notice that the shirt she was wearing sagged slightly giving him a great view of her cleavage. He blushed a bit as he quickly looked back up to her face out of habit.

Yang arced an eyebrow at him. "You know Jaune when you're girlfriend gives you something to look at it's only courteous to look."

"S-sorry I'm still getting used to all of this," Jaune said as he nervously placed his hands on her hips. "You are the first girlfriend I ever had."

She smiled as she liked the feel of his hands on her as she leaned down onto him pressing her impressive chest against his. "I know and it's sweat, plus you are the first real boyfriend I ever had."

"I thought you said you dated before?" He asked confused.

She rolled her eyes as she flicked his forehead lightly. "Dated, usually only a few dates at the most with the same guy. No one's ever made it to the full on boyfriend level until you."

"Oh, then I'm honored." He started to run his hands along her hips.

Yang and to surprised a slight moan that felt really nice what he was doing as her hips slightly shifted against him. "Well let's see, we've done kissing, making out, dates, you've seen me naked."

"What? When?"

"Okay practically naked with just my underwear." She corrected. "We've slept together a few times too and yes I know how that sounded you just look cute when you blush like that."

Jaune pouted at being called 'cute' in that way although what he didn't know was that Yang found him cuter when he pouted only making her grin. Jaune decided that maybe it was time to try something, they had been doing other things lately, hell he had been allowed to fondle her breasts once, something he never thought he'd get to do with someone like Yang. He shifted his hands down and grabbed her butt.

Yang jumped at the suddenness of his actions but moaned biting her lower lip. "Oh, aren't you getting adventurous."

"Well my girlfriend keeps telling me to try and be more assertive."

"Smart girl," she smiled as she pulled him into a kiss. She knew what she had just said but it had been a bit of an emotional day and the two of them just wanted to lose themselves in something pleasant.

Jaune could feel how firm her ass was as he kissed her deeply, her artificial hand gently grabbing the back of his head deepening the kiss. Then he felt her other hand snake its way up his shirt, he could feel her hand caressing his bare skin. He pulled one hand to her exposed back feeling the warmth of her skin there.

Yang couldn't help herself she was really enjoying this plus feeling his body was a bit of a turn on. He had definitely gotten more fit with all his training. She couldn't wait to see what he would look like in a year later. Then he attacked her neck with his mouth, she felt him planting kisses and then sucking on the side of her neck. She bit her lip moaning out, she was starting to breath a bit heavier now as she found his earlobe and gently licked it.

Jaune shivered at the feel of her warm breath there, he never knew he could feel sensitive in that area until he and Yang started to do things like this. He felt her grinding against him and he couldn't help but feel something in his shorts starting to get excited as well.

Yang gasped feeling something hard pressing up against her between her legs. She ground against it feeling the hardness against her folds and then Jaune groaning as his hips pressed up against hers. She mirrored his groan as a feeling of want starting to come over her. She knew both of them were getting riled up and if both of them continued on this route things would go even further.

For a split second she wondered if that would be so bad?

Then her common sense finally kicked in as she pulled away and pushed herself up to hover above him.

"Whoa, whoa we need to calm down a bit," She breathed as she could see his flushed face below her as she bet she wore the same expression.

Jaune took a moment, "Was I doing something wrong?"

"Oh no you were pushing all the right buttons," She grinned down at him. "But are you sure you want to take this all the way?"

Jaune thought about it, really thought about it. Okay sure there was the very large temptation to do it, what guy in his position wouldn't want to? But thinking about it more this might not be the time and place. This was his sister's place after all and maybe he was a bit old fashioned but he wanted this to be perfect, or as perfect as he could make it.

He wanted to have a great night with her that lead up to this moment.

"Yeah, yeah you're right," he took a few calming breaths.

Yang was thankful he was so understanding a few guys wouldn't have been, it was why she was with him. He wasn't like those types of guys, she felt safe around him, she trusted him. Although a part of her really wanted to try and take things further, even if she was a bit nervous about it. She had never had a guy she thought about going further, maybe even all the way with.

But if they did go that far what would they do? The sounds might carry and also they had no protection. It wasn't like she had any birth control pills or condoms and did she want to risk it without it? Sure, she could tell him to pull out but there was no way of knowing if that would work and he could do it in time.

"Sorry to blue ball you like that," Yang apologized to him because if he was as turned on as she was he could use some release as well.

"Eh, it happens," He tried to shrug it off although his erection wanted to finish, he tried to calm down more.

"Oh?" Yang grinned against as she gently leaned onto him. "Got all hot and horny at times?"

She loved the way he blushed when she teased him like this.

"Yang."

"Oh I better be one of those reasons," She told him.

"Yes you are," He honestly told her.

She smiled happy to hear that. "So, you ever touch yourself thinking of me?"

"Yang!"

"Hey I've touched myself thinking of you," she whispered into his ear. She remembered that time in the shower after his little magic touch of a massage.

"This is not helping." Jaune told her.

In the morning Yang slowly started to wake up feeling the warm body she was sleeping on. She also felt a hand gently brushing through her long golden hair. She sighed in contentment at it, Jaune was the only one she allowed to touch her hair like this and at the moment she was glad he did.

"Did I wake you?" He asked.

"Doesn't matter, feels nice," She muttered snuggling up against him.

Jaune smiled as he continued to run his hands through her hair. Looking at the clock he could see it was still a bit early but pretty soon everyone would start to wake up. Still he wanted to enjoy the moment with her. Just them lying here like this he felt calm and content, the feel of her warm body pressing up against him felt nice. He did try and avoid thinking of how nice a few parts of her body were against his.

After a few more minutes he had to get up, his body needed to empty his bladder and given all the people in the house and the limited bathrooms they needed to get up. Growing up with seven sisters he knew exactly how long they could take.

"Come on, time to get up." He nudged her.

Yang groaned. "Do we have to?"

"Sorry but we can't spend the day in bed."

"Why not?"

"Because we have to eat and I need to go to the bathroom."

Yang muttered something as she contemplated her options. She did feel like eating and now that he mentioned it, she could also use the bathroom. Grumbling she pushed herself up and stretched out. She felt her hair and grimaced as she knew she had to have some pretty nasty bed hair. It was the downside to having so much hair, it got easy to get messy.

She cast a look at Jaune who was just staring at her. "What?"

"N-nothing," He blushed realizing he had been staring at her. "It's just that, well, you look amazing."

Yang was surprised by that, she looked a like mess but it was nice to him to think so. Getting up both of them went to leave the room but stopped suddenly as right in front of them was Nora. The girl had stopped heading down the hall. When she saw Jaune's door open she was about to say good morning but seeing Yang walk out with him made the girl stop dead.

Seeing their messy clothing and hair it was obvious that Yang had spent the night.

Nora gasped as she had a huge smile on her face about to say something when Yang quickly rushed forward and put her hand on the smaller girl's mouth. Knowing Nora, she was about to yell something and Yang didn't need to have this broadcasted.

"Jaune I'm going to borrow your room for a moment," Yang told him as she pulled in Nora. "We need to have a girl talk."

Jaune watched as the door closed and he would leave it to Yang. In the mean time he was going to get to the bathroom.

Yang still had her hand on Nora's mouth as she gave the girl a hard look. "Now I'm going to release my hand, don't yell whatever it is you're going to yell okay?"

Nora nodded as Yang pulled her hand away. "I can't believe you guys slept together!"

"Nora!" Yang hushed her.

"Sorry-sorry but I didn't know you guys were that a far ahead." Nora beamed.

"We're not," Yang corrected her. "I just wanted to share his bed."

Nora tilted her head. "Uh, okay but why?"

Yang smirked at her. "Come on, you never wanted to share Ren's bed?"

The sudden blush on Nora's face told the blonde brawler everything she needed to know. Nora fidgeted in place a bit from that comment. "Well, not really. I mean we've only just started to really date the same time as you and Jaune really."

"Trust me you should try it out, it's really nice." Yang told her.

Nora thought about it, she really thought about it.

Breakfast was pretty normal, although what most people missed was the little awkward moments between Ruby and Oscar. Both of them had trouble looking at the other without blushing and so they usually avoided eye contact at times. Maria however did notice it and couldn't help but be thankful for the entertainment. At her age she found it when she could get it.

After that a map was found and placed on the table as they gathered around trying to come up with a plan for 'borrowing' one of the Atlas airships. The map had a salt shaker placed in the Atlas base to mark what they needed to take.

"So even if we get in there does anyone know how to fly it?" Blake asked around.

"Uncle Qrow?" Ruby asked him.

"Sorry I never learned how to fly airships," He shrugged.

"What?!" Ruby was taken aback by that. "But you…you know." She didn't want to let it slip that he could turn into a bird and fly himself in front of Saphron and Terra.

"That's why I never learned," He answered her as the others in the know, saw the logic in that. Why learn to fly when you could do it yourself?

"Well I know." Maria spoke up making everyone look at her.

"What? I may be old but that just means I've lived long enough to do more than most of what you kids have collectively done in your lives." She defended herself.

"So you know how to fly one of these?" Weiss asked.

"Well not that model," Maria shrugged. "But it shouldn't be all that hard. Atlas likes to keep things simple for their controls."

"Huh, I wonder if that's why Torchwhich was able to use that Atlas mech so well that one time," Ruby thought about it and seeing the blank looks on a few people. "Long story from our time at Beacon."

"Well even if you do get in there, there's a tower around here," Terra told them placing a pepper shaker on the map near the boarder of the town in the one of the mountains. "This is a communications tower that is used as part of the early warning system. If this is on, they'll be able to track you and intercept you before you get too far away."

"Can you shut it down?" Jaune asked.

Terra shook her head. "No way, I may be the one keeping their system working but you need military code of a high ranking officer to shut it down. I know because when we have to take it offline for maintenance last month that's what had to happen."

"Well what if we take out the tower?" Blake asked as she had been looking at their options. "I don't mean destroy it but hack into it and just shut it down?"

"There would be a window before the system notices something is wrong," Terra thought it out. "It would give you enough time to get out of range before the system alerted anyone to the issue and attempted to reboot it remotely before a team would be sent out if that didn't work. If a team went out it would still take them time to get there and find the problem."

"I should be able to do that," Blake found it ironic that her time in the White Fang infiltrating SDC and Atlas facilities was actually going to pay off. "I'd like to recon the area a bit before we start to know what I'm heading into."

"Cool, Yang you think you can drive her out there?" Ruby asked.

"Sure," Yang said neutrally with a shrug. There was an odd air of tension but no one was sure if they should comment on it or not. They ended up moving on for the moment.

"But how will Maria get inside?" Ren asked. "The base commander doesn't like her much."

"Feeling is mutual," Maria muttered.

"It's not like we can just stuff her into a bag and bring her inside," Nora shrugged.

Jaune looked at her and then remembered that large case Weiss had from the train. "Uh…actually we might."

Everyone looked at him as he elaborated. "Weiss that large baggage case is large enough to fit her, I think."

Weiss looked at the old woman. "She might fit."

"Well let's see then," Maria told them.

It took a few minutes, Weiss had to empty it out entirely as they found that Maria did fit although it would weight a lot, it had wheels and Maria couldn't move at all or else the case would wobble. It was doable however so they had their way to sneak Maria in.

"But if I'm going in there to 'go home'," Weiss nearly bit out the last part of that. How she hated the thought of having to go back, mainly she wanted to stay as far away from her father and brother as was possible. She just knew that after this hurdle her family would be the next one, they would have to deal with at Atlas among other things.

"Then how are we supposed to get the vehicle?" Weiss looked around. "She can't just come out with Atlas personal watching me."

"Well how about us as a distraction?" Saphron said with her son in her arms. "Nothing distracts like a child throwing a tantrum. Isn't that right sweetie?" She switched to baby talk to her son.

He giggled happily at her.

"Will that work?" Blake asked.

"Trust me it will work," Terra smiled.

"But how will you get in?" Ruby asked her.

"I have a visitor's pass," Saphron explained. "Civilian family members can get them and I used it to visit Terra when working late sometimes. Although I'm very limited in where I can go it's close enough to the landing pads for Adrian to get plenty of attention."

"Are you two sure you want to get involved in this?" Jaune asked his family. "You've both have done a lot for us already and I don't want to put you all in any kind of danger. If they find out you helped us they could arrest you both."

"Saph and I talked about it last night," Terra stated adjusting her glasses. "Jaune you are family and we want to help out. We don't know what exactly is going on but we can tell it's really important. We both are prepared to face the consequences."

"But we're being smart about this," Saphron continued on. "We're not doing anything that can be linked to helping you. They might ask about you but we're just going to say you showed up and we gave you a place to stay. You were all very secretive, which you are."

"So it's not lying and all Terra did is tell you some information." Then she switched to a fake dumfounded voice as if she was telling something to the authorities. "I was just visiting my wife when our son threw a temper tantrum. How was I supposed to know someone was stealing an air vehicle?"

Jaune was thankful but he still was worried about his family, he was glad that they were doing the least amount in the plan. There might not be anything to link them to what the rest of them planned on doing at least nothing concrete.

"So what about communications?" Terra asked them.

"We're just going to use our scrolls," Ruby shrugged as it had worked in the past.

"That's going to be hard if you have to hold them in your hand the entire time," Terra said thinking about it. "Maybe you should get some Redclaw ear pieces. They can link to your scrolls and you can use them to talk to each other without having to take out your scrolls."

"That might work," Weiss nodded her head. "I think I saw a store selling them earlier."

With that the plan was starting to unfold, they worked on some of the finer points trying to make sure everything was covered. When they all agreed that this was the best shot, they had then it was time to get everything ready. A few of them would go get the supplies like the ear pieces, others would check the area where they wanted the ship to pick up the rest of them. The last was Blake and Yang as Blake had to check out the tower to see what she was dealing with.

The ride there was in silence as Yang hadn't said one word to her. In fact, ever since the farm Yang had been acting a bit distant and she had no idea why her partner was like this. She tried to get a moment alone with Yang but Blake could never find the right time. Yang had either gone out, with someone or never seemed to stay in a room for too long.

For the entire ride they had been silent as Blake felt more uneasy as more time went on. Yang seemed to be focused on the road that went near the facility. It was a dirt road but from Yang always bragging about her bike while at Beacon, Blake knew it could handle the rougher roads. It had done well in the snow on the way here after all.

Still, Blake really wanted to know what was wrong between them. When they were getting close to the facility Blake tapped Yang on the shoulder and pointed to a section of trees. Yang pulled over and as it stopped, she looked back at Blake.

"Why the stop?" Yang asked.

"This is close enough," Blake said getting off the bike. "I'll have to go the rest of the way on foot so we aren't seen by anyone."

Yang shrugged looking at her back turning it off. "Guess I'll wait here then."

Blake paused as Yang was avoiding looking at her and she was torn on what to do. So she finally asked the question that had been bothering her for some time now.

"Yang, are we okay?" She asked.

Yang was about to just say that 'they were fine' because she didn't feel like going into it but then she remembered Weiss' words from last night. She quickly thought it over and decided she might as well get this over with.

Looking at Blake with a slightly angry look she asked her. "Do you remember what you said to me in the barn?"

Blake blinked not sure what Yang was getting at. "Well we talked about a few things."

"Yes but do you remember when you said that you would 'protect me' right?"

"Yes, of course I would." Blake took a step forward. Was that was this was about? Did Yang not believe that she could protect her?

"I don't want to be protected Blake." Yang angrily told her as her fists balling up. "I want a partner not a protector."

"Yang I don't understand." Blake's ears fell flat confused.

"I want someone that will stand next to me, not someone that will stand in front of me." Yang told her as her hands unclenched. "I spent so long trying to get out of a dark place Blake. I was terrified of everything, I had nightmares every night for months. I couldn't even leave my own home and stayed in the quest room for so long just sitting there in my misery."

"It took so much to get out of that dark place I was in, I'm still not over it all. I still feel terrified at times but I don't want to be treated like some broken thing Blake. I want to get better and treating me like I'm made of glass isn't helping."

Yang stared at her partner in the eye. "If you want to help me and you really want to be my partner again you have to be ready for me to get hurt because I will get hurt again Blake. What we're doing, what we're facing, there's no way anyone is coming out without taking a few hits."

"But I have to move forward Blake, I can't stand back and let others go out there and fight for me. I should have left with Ruby but I couldn't and I still hate that my little sister left to do something about what happened while I was too scared and too hurt to go with her. I will never forgive myself for that Blake and I refuse to let this fear control me."

Yang took a calming breath as she felt herself getting worked up as those old feelings from being stuck in that room was building up inside of her. She pushed it down and away, she never wanted to feel like that again. Helpless and alone in the world, those first few months were like a waking hell for her that she never wanted to return to.

"Yang, I'm sorry…I…" Blake wasn't sure what to say after all that. "You got hurt because of me."

"No, I got hurt because I just jumped in without thinking," Yang rubbed where her mechanical arm and flesh met. "But I don't want you to make the same mistake as me Blake. I don't want you to just jump out in front of me and get killed trying to protect me like that."

"I don't want to see you die like that, do you have any idea what that would do to me? Because I do, I've seen in Jaune."

Blake looked up sharply at that as she looked at Yang and could see how the other girl had a sad look on her face.

"I've seen what Jaune has gone through losing a partner that died trying to protect him Blake. Please don't make me go through that as well."

Yang looked at Blake. "Please Blake, I need you to stand beside me from now on as my partner."

Blake wanted to say something but her it died in her throat. She wanted to tell her that she would do that, that she wanted to do that but she wasn't sure if that would be a lie or the truth. She still felt guilty about everything. About getting Yang hurt, about leaving her alone at the worst moment in her life. She wanted to protect Yang but she wasn't sure she could just sit back and let her get hurt again.

In the end she just nodded her head and quickly went off to her mission, she needed time to really think about all of this. She needed time to accept that this is what Yang wanted and maybe what she needed. She hadn't thought about what Pyrrha and what she had done to Jaune or that she was doing the same to Yang.

She too had seen how hard things have been for Jaune, she had seen how losing his partner had affected him. Blake suddenly thought about if she had died to save Yang what it would do to her. Yang had been through enough and the thought of putting her through more was a horrible feeling in Blake's stomach.

But first she had a mission to do, she had to focus on what was coming up. She was actually looking forward to it as it would allow her to push things aside and focus on something else at least for a moment.

Blake snuck through the woods as she saw the trees give way to an open area she stopped. She got onto her belly and crawled the rest of the way. This would help avoid anyone seeing her as she reached the edge she took a look. There was the tower, it had a security fence around it but it wasn't too high at least for her. With her aura enhanced strength with a few clones she could easily get up and over it.

She saw the guards posted around the facility, there didn't seem to be that many. Staying in the grass she waited as she tried to put everything to memory. How high the fence was, how far it was from the tower, how many guards, their patrol routes, how they patrolled the area. As she did, she went over the plan forming in her head on how she would do this. She would have to take out the outer patrol first, then hop the fence, take out the lower guards and then quickly get up to the top where the last of them where.

She would have to do this as quickly and as quietly as possible because if just one of them got an alarm off that would make everything so much more difficult.

So as she planned in her head focused on what she would have to do, she didn't notice a shadow behind her.

The shadow had been following her for awhile now just watching and waiting. Waiting for the moment she would be alone and then strike but that wasn't now. He could tell that Blake was up to something and she was casing the tower. Obviously it was for a reason and that would be it.

The train had been too public and her team had been all there. He had slipped off the train when he saw them cut it. So he jumped off, it hadn't been hard to follow them in the snow and the blizzard masked his presence. He had stayed in the barn while he waited for the right time. The house they had been in was too defended, with the storm he would have to break in and he had seen a figure by the doorway almost on guard.

He was patient, he had waiting this long. He had stayed mostly out of sight the time they had been around the farm. The blonde one had seen him but he quickly vanished and from what he guessed she most likely had thought he was an illusion.

When the farm had caught on fire that had taken him by surprise, the Grimm there hadn't noticed him but he had taken off to the forest. It had been a long walk to the city but he had gotten in and had been searching for Blake and the others. Taking to the rooftops he spent the better part of a day looking for her. It was by pure luck he had seen her and that blonde on a bike heading outside the city.

Keeping up hadn't been easy but the track from the bike left behind made it easy enough to track.

Now his goal was nearly in sight, the case had left him tired and a fight now wouldn't be to his advantage. But now he knew she was coming back here, all he had to do was camp at the site and wait.

"Soon Blake," Adam whispered to himself slipping away.

TBC..

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