Julianna had spent the hours before Owen had come to find her, tending to her usual duties and discussing the details of the situation with Darcy. It was a conversation that Owen, perhaps, should have been a part of as the second member of the two-man team, but Julianna found that she currently trusted Darcy more and that she had not minded the absence of the rude and drunk blonde.
She knew he would come to find her eventually, which is why it was unsurprising when he appeared in her garage long after the sun had set. His entrance had been quiet and she could appreciate his stealth, but Julianna was difficult to sneak up on. She continued her work on the old engine that had seized from a crankshaft bearing failure.
She tracked Owen’s movements through her space with her eye as she worked. He didn’t say anything, just moseyed around and touched her things, which bothered her, but not enough to say something about. She figured if she had something to say he would, if not he’d shortly be on his way.
“Stop,” she insisted, firmly, but quietly, pushing his hand away from the mechanics. She huffed in irritation at the tone of his questions and wiped the back of one grease covered hand across her forehead. The gesture left a smudge of black across her dark skin, but she didn’t seem to care. She was already covered in dirt and oil anyway.
“I didn’t just lose her,” she explained, picking up a nearby scrap of cloth to wipe her hands. She gazed at him sadly, some of that hardness was lost in the space of her own workshop. Julianna loved her daughter, and the fact that she was missing was all but killing her. “I was betrayed. Someone in the city that I thought I could trust, turned around and double crossed me. They took Anita. I don’t know where too, or what they could have been offered to turn traitor. They were caught and they’re still being...questioned.” Tortured, is what she didn’t say.
“I have more enemies than I could bother to count, but no one has stepped forward. No demands. Nothing.”
She knew he would come to find her eventually, which is why it was unsurprising when he appeared in her garage long after the sun had set. His entrance had been quiet and she could appreciate his stealth, but Julianna was difficult to sneak up on. She continued her work on the old engine that had seized from a crankshaft bearing failure.
She tracked Owen’s movements through her space with her eye as she worked. He didn’t say anything, just moseyed around and touched her things, which bothered her, but not enough to say something about. She figured if she had something to say he would, if not he’d shortly be on his way.
“Stop,” she insisted, firmly, but quietly, pushing his hand away from the mechanics. She huffed in irritation at the tone of his questions and wiped the back of one grease covered hand across her forehead. The gesture left a smudge of black across her dark skin, but she didn’t seem to care. She was already covered in dirt and oil anyway.
“I didn’t just lose her,” she explained, picking up a nearby scrap of cloth to wipe her hands. She gazed at him sadly, some of that hardness was lost in the space of her own workshop. Julianna loved her daughter, and the fact that she was missing was all but killing her. “I was betrayed. Someone in the city that I thought I could trust, turned around and double crossed me. They took Anita. I don’t know where too, or what they could have been offered to turn traitor. They were caught and they’re still being...questioned.” Tortured, is what she didn’t say.
“I have more enemies than I could bother to count, but no one has stepped forward. No demands. Nothing.”
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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