Rings of Honor

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“Hey, kiddo,” he said, still smiling. Taking up a lean against the frame of the door, he crossed his arms over his chest and feet at the ankles as he looked down at her bruised, dangling legs, her position and then back up at her. “Feeling better?” “Mhm!” Julie answered, nodding quickly with the sou...

Julie didn’t move much for most of the rest of the day. Still laid on her side and still staring at nothing, her contemplative thoughts all but consumed her until she eventually fell asleep. A little while after Stephen left, Nora did come to check on her. Seeing that she was asleep, she checked the...

The night’s slumber had been plagued with restless, fitful sleep and Julie tossed and turned as visions of that night in the alley flashed through her dreamscape. At the bite to her neck and shoulder, her face twisted in agony and a feeble whimper escaped her lips. Upon the impact of her face agains...

((Warning: Contains descriptions of depression and self harm/attempted suicide.)) The hand at her chest rose to cover her mouth just as her lips formed the silent word ‘no’ and her eye instantly welled with tears. The look of shock slowly twisted into one of grief and pain and a single saline drop f...

After a moment or two, Julie turned away from the door and looked down again to her useless hands in her lap. With another sigh, she turned her attention to Stephen and smiled weakly. Stephen was standing where he had been and crossed his arms over his chest again as he looked over at Julie, smiling...

“Well look who’s awake,” Bear said softly, ducking through the doorway and coming to stand at Julie’s bedside. She hadn’t been expecting such a sudden and nonchalant greeting and Julie turned, a little too quickly, to face the only person in the world she trusted right now. With a hard wince and a j...

The single word spoken in her broken voice was enigmatic at first and Stephen didn’t catch her meaning. Simply nodding and smiling, he reiterated what he’d already told her. “Yes. He helped me get you here,” he explained again. Julie looked at him for a long moment, trying to figure out how she coul...

Slowly and softly Stephen continued to play, and when that song came to the drawn out final five notes, there was a moment of silence. Fingers still on the ivory keys, his eyes slipped closed as he transitioned into the next song he’d decided to play. The next one a little faster than the first, he ...

Looking over his shoulder as Nora took her leave, he finally turned his attention back to the room. Pushing off the doorframe, he took the few steps that would bring him to her bedside and looked down at her when she came fully into view. In the end, there wasn’t much Ailuros and the two nurses coul...

“Figures,” she said softly, turning her attention back to the hills. Bringing her glass up, she took another contemplative drink and then her hand drifted down to her side. The nail of her index finger tapping against the glass lightly, she went back to those grim inner thoughts. “It’s been a couple...

The day waned on for both Stephen and Bear and the women in charge of putting Julie back together again. The men questioned Henri, Victor and Stephan to see what they knew, followed scents and even revisited the bar Seth had led the small group of girls to to see if anyone had seen anything. Nobody ...

A long silence followed but her gaze never wavered from the defiant man standing in front of her. Eyes still narrowed, she pursed her lips to one side, contemplating whether his words were true and what that would mean if they were. “So is he…?” she started the question. Stephen sighed. “We don’t kn...

Soon, a black Mercedes-Benz S-Class with blackout tint on the windows pulled up and stopped at the mouth of the alley. Seeing the car, Stephen looked back to Bear and nodded in that direction before tossing the burner phone in the dumpster. Together, both men worked diligently and carefully to get t...

Nodding, Bear pocketed the gold piece and leaned over the dumpster, maneuvering his hands to get under the girl’s broken little body. Julie, feeling the sensation of those large hands moving under her, froze in renewed terror and shock as her eye flicked back and forth erratically. “Jesus,” Bear win...

After a long moment of silence and a fleeting glance back at the alley where their charge had been taken, or worse, murdered, Bear looked back at Stephen and let out a heavy sigh. “Come on,” he said with a weak wave of his hand and a cant of his head. “Henri wasn’t the only one watching him. Maybe o...