Chapter Five
Explaining Time...
(part 4)


    The agents were gathered in a large airport, seeing each other off on their various missions. Landon and Con did their best to check their bags before they passed them in but there seemed to be a small dispute over whether peanut butter would actually make it through the checkpoints or not…..
Damian put an arm over Elliea’s shoulders and steered her through the crowd as the chatter of their team surrounded them on all sides. “Are you sure you should go on your own mission?” He touched her bandaged shoulder.
She shrugged and moved away a tiny bit. “I’m fine. I’ve had much worse in the past. You know I handled myself just fine in Lancaster with that really bad gunshot wound.”
Damian shrugged and rubbed the back of his head. “I mean...I know….but, well, I guess I’m just a little overprotective after the last team mission we had.”
Elliea’s shoulders drooped as grief washed over her. “Hey, I thought we talked about this.”
Damian grimaced, “We decided to come back to it.”
Elliea sighed, “We really do need to come back to it....”
He waved a hand, “Can we not right now though? I don’t want to get that deep while we’re trying to say goodbye.”
She shrugged, “Fine, I won’t forget it though.”
He gave a short laugh, “Ha, I know you don’t. I’m going to miss you. Call me okay?” He grabbed her in a big hug farewell hug and she winced a little but hugged him back before looking into his face with concern. “Hey, don’t let yourself get down while I’m not around to talk you out of it okay?”
He smiled sadly and opened his mouth as if to say something then just sighed. She tilted her head, “What?”
Damian laughed awkwardly and rubbed her head, “Nothing, forget it. Have a safe trip.”
A small disruption nearby got louder as a three security guards started to get heated over several jars of peanut butter and Landon and Conner debated that they should get to keep them.
King was trying his best to calm both sides down but they were beyond listening. Finally after a 20 minute delay Con and Landon were forced to give up the peanut butter and final goodbye hugs began.


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