Chapter 233

Chapter 7 – Chelsea POV (November 27th) “No, do you guys have any idea what it will do to her when she finds out that her mother went off and had other children and she didn’t even bother to look for Chelsea?” I heard Gabriel through a sleepy haze. I couldn’t tell how much time went by from when I was last awake, but stretching out I listened to the discussion that was being held right outside my door. “Gabriel that may be true, but how will Chelsea feel when the Elders use her brother and sister against her? Two innocent children? One that tried to kill herself and probably won’t survive her first shift – if she has a wolf – because her self worth is in the toilet?” not sure what they were talking about, but hating that it was about me and I wasn’t involved I answered. “Chelsea feels that you should be asking her about all this instead of discussing this outside of her room… that’s how Chelsea feels,” I snapped. My mother had more children? Younger than myself by what Jack and Gabriel were stating in the hallway. Opening my eyes, I see that I’m not alone, that Remy is actually in the chair next to my bed, smirking at me, while she had stacks of books, folders and another computer around her in the makeshift hospital room Gabriel had in the hotel. “What is all this?” I said waving my hand around at the scattered documents, just as Gabriel, Casey, Mikael, Logan and Jack entered the room, grim apologetic expressions on their faces. “These are the files and documents your father left for you with Jack, Casey and Mikael, while you were out we went with Logan to get them. Gabriel – well all of us – thought it was time to get out of dodge for a while, and instead of going to Clearwater we wanted to go somewhere your father purchased…” Jack said watching my expression, expecting something – but I was unsure of what he was really expecting. “Okay…” I looked to Gabriel, “We can’t stay here Chelsea, too many people are gunning for us right now. I wanted to go to Clearwater but even then, we could be found,” he walked around grabbing documents then helped me get into a sitting position. “Right here, your dad’s documents show that he bought and island, but it’s not on the map, what we want to do is go-” I shook my head regretting that completely, “No, about my siblings?” Gabriel sighed, “Yes, you have a little sister, and brother from your mothers side, your dad did the research and confirmation,” he paused Remy handing him a few documents and he passed them to me. Looking over I wasn’t sure what I was looking at until I read the line confirming that these children were biologically related to me – maternal linkage. The words were right there, but I was still focused on something else, “You said one tried to commit suicide and wouldn’t survive the shift?” I said ignoring how I was feeling about this, generalizing it all. “She did… on November 16th,” Remy answered handing me a file folder, when I went through it all, I was maybe 14 pages in before I questioned, “How did you get these?” Remy snorted, “How do I get everything else we have?” I lifted a brow not even going there right now. “So… if she shifts, you don’t think she’ll survive the shift?” focused on Jack. “I truly don’t, you need to have the will to live, the desire has to be there, if she shifted tomorrow, based on what Remy has found, she – Chelsea she – it’s bad. We found – Remy found – video on her as well, I’m one hundred percent sure that if she were to shift tomorrow she’d die.” I nodded thinking, “Okay and the Elders… do they know…?” I drifted off unsure of their names. “Oakley and Ben,” Jack answered, “Yeah, do the Elders know about them?” Everyone nodded, “Is my mother there?” I asked coolly, holding myself together. “Not according to the documents your father left, it seems that when Oakley was 3 years old, Ben a newborn, she mysteriously disappeared,” Jack said his eyes hard, focused on mine. I nodded. Why am I not surprised that she ran though… leaving was her signature move, you don’t know that she left them too, she didn’t leave you Chelsea… you escaped from that room, Avena answered me. I didn’t have enough information, but the one thing I had to agree with Gabriel on was that we couldn’t stay here anymore, not when we weren’t really free. Since moving into the hotel I had yet to train a single day, I needed to be able to develop my gifts, learn. Then Angel had yet to even learn what she may be able to do, we couldn’t progress here, we had to be somewhere out of the way – practicing, gaining strength in a short amount of time, coming together to remove the target problem. The Elders. Glancing around the room I didn’t pick up on a pattern of the layout of documents, “Have you guys gone through all of this?” I waved at the stacks around the room. “No… there’s too much to search thoroughly, but I’m trying to pick up on things, digitalizing all the data I’m finding, right now I’m trying to figure out what the deal with is certain payments and financing your father has step up. Tracking money, people and payments around, as well as trying to decipher the code half of his data is written in,” Remy said, still skimming papers, not even looking up at me while she answered. “Why?” “I’m looking for a pattern, a reason why this island isn’t on a map, whose there? If it exists?” I nodded, not that she could see it. “Okay, why haven’t you just gone and checked?” I ask Gabriel pointblank, his cheeks burn, but his eyes are hard, throwing my heart off, the machine giving signals that no one in this room needed. “I didn’t want to leave you,” Gabriel says like it’s the most obvious reason in the world. And it is, I wouldn’t want to leave him either if he was in the state I was in. But that was then, “I’m good now. We can all-” “Uh… excuse me? We?” Gabriel’s eyes hardened impossibly more, the words growled out between his teeth. I wasn’t one hundred percent yet, but I was hardly going to sit back and send him somewhere that wasn’t even on a map. “Yes… we, as in whoever you’re taking and me,” I clarified, eyeballing him as he was with me, “I’m not at my best but if you go somewhere you’re outnumbered I’d be helpful, plus if my dad was the one who bought it, don’t you think I should be there,” I said not in any way shape or form asking him, swinging my legs over the side. It will be best if you go, I heard third wolf speaking. My third wolf says that I should go with you, I said over the link, smugly. Standing on my own, I wobbled a bit before straightening myself, my equilibrium off. “Can’t stand straight but she wants to come along,” Gabriel mumbled under his breath. Concentrating I made his legs buckle underneath him, bringing him to his knees, it wasn’t painful but still got his attention, “What were you saying?” I asked while Remy snorted, hiding behind her computer. “Nothing,” he growled out standing again, lips pursed.