Training was rigorous, with majority of the major mage agents back at Meridian, we were in full swing and training for what seemed to be the end of the world. Reid was one of the instructors for the newly recruited members of the agency, and since he still had to learn how channel me properly, the board had set up one on one training sessions for me and him, some combat focused but more were simulation based where he had to channel my abilities and learn how to use them in a real life situation.
It had been a week since that little confrontation I had with Warden, and since then he and I have been working to uncover something. There had been something off with Reid's story, starting off with the fact that at TCS you could never eavesdrop, rooms were automatically sound proof with magic. It didn't matter if the doors were left open, rooms were designed in a way such that the walls were embedded with runes, runes that ensured the conversations in those rooms stayed private, and yet he was somehow able to eavesdrop on me and Jenn's conversation. There was more to it that I was not getting, It was not easy to undo the wards, and if he had gotten inside the room I would have known because the wards also allow the people inside to know if they have been joined by picking up the magical signature of the person.
"What are you thinking about," A voice drawls behind me followed my a muscular arm curling around my waist and I tense a little before relaxing into his touch and he places a light kiss on my temple that immediately has me feeling all sorts of insects in my stomach. I turn to face him as I relax my forearms on his broad shoulders while I take in the musky scent of him. He claims my lips with his with a kiss that has my head dizzying with wanton. I part my lips for him, an invitation that he willingly takes as he deepens the kiss with the passion of a dying warrior. Fuck Reika. He growls inside my head and I moan an answer in return. How he's already managed to teleport us to his room in that moment I don't know but I was definitely not objecting.
He has the both of us moving backwards till the back of my legs hit the bed and my knees buckle and I collapse onto his bed with a chuckle. He's still above me, staring down at me like I was the most exquisite thing he'd ever seen. It still baffles me how I had never noticed how he'd looked at me. He'd given me that look uncountable times way before we made love on new years eve.
"God was I really that blind?" I ask and his brows furrow in question. I proceed to telepathically show him the many many memories I can conjure up of him looking at me the way he was now.
A chuckle escapes his lips and he settles himself gently above me as if he was afraid I'd break. Fuck that. I push him towards me telekinetically and kiss him roughly just to remind him who he's dealing with and he laughs. We break the kiss and our eyes meet. "I've always looked at you like this, I mean sure we were just friend back then, then eventually best-friends but I guess even then I always felt some type of way about you." he confesses and my heart palpitates. God knows I feel the same damn way even if I was late to realize it. And now for whatever reason it feels somewhat difficult to tell him I feel the same way and more.
Talk about fucking imposter syndrome. I feel like I'm trapped in a body with two personalities now. One of them is insanely spontaneous and processes her feelings so openly its terrifying and then there's the old me, so null and void of emotions but still intense, but more in a...I'll cut your head off and reattach it to your body with a spike. Both of them love this insanely gorgeous man in my arms, but the overlap between the two constantly makes me feel like I can't function in the emotions sector, and I don't know how to tell him. "What's wrong?" he asks his brows furrowed in concern.
"Will you not channel me for one second." I say with a cheeky smile playing on my lips. Talk about a lazy deflection. But it was true, he was using my own empathy against me. Lucky for me I had many cards to play still. "So did you know about the runes at TCS?" the question rolls off so naturally and he takes it. "What runes?"
"So the walls there are all embedded with runes, for privacy, protection and so on, no one knows this except for the people who stay there and a few people here." I start explaining as I get off under him and start pacing the room. He leans forward, suddenly fully engaged, as if the information has sharpened his focus. "And with that being said.."
"I was not supposed to have been able to eavesdrop on you guys that day." he deduces.
"Bingo."
It's not like I trusted him blindly because I loved him. It takes years to master the art of rune embedding, let alone removing the wards placed on one. Not to mention the fact that it was only taught to the most powerful mages and sages, and Reid was to start his classes on those in the summer. Plus I had gone through his memories on the events of that day multiple times so everything checked out.
"What have you found out so far then?" he asks as he strips off his sweaty clothes off and takes a towel at the foot of his bed. "We have a few suspects but I can't say yet..."
"Yeah yeah, because of telepathic raid risk I know," he gets closer and places his hands on my shoulders and I feel a little tingly movement on my skin before all my clothes disappear and I'm stark naked. "Hey!" I shout and he chuckles as he wraps his towel around me and we head into the bathroom as he showers me with kisses.
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"You ready?" He asks me as we make our way through the padded hallways to the common room. "Of course," I say straightening my posture and walking through one of the entrances of the hexagonal shaped room, immediately spotting our friends at a round shaped couch. We briskly make our way there, Garth, Ameira, Cal and Caden who is also one of Reid's closest friends here and is a terra-mancer. "Hey guys." I say as I approach them. They all answer back their heys as Reid and I join them on the couch and I cast an illusion over us to divert anyone who might come here. Caden adds a sound-proofing bubble around us for extra-measure.
"So?" Cal asks expectedly as she waits for me to spill the beans. they all seem on the edge of the couch with apprehension. "Okay, just relax.....So, Warden did remind me what my mother said at the beginning of our confrontation, which is,....She told me she had six months left to live." I start and they all exchange looks between one another, clearly worried about that. "Warden had looked into my mom's memories and well, it's not good chaps."
"Well say it already then." Garth snaps tapping his foot restlessly.
I swallow and let the words leave my mouth. "he believes that there are three sages who are have been corrupted and are looking to work with CHAOS." I droned and that statement is followed with a spine-chilling sensation, even for me!