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Prompt: I’ll argue the point no longer, only cry for you a bit (December 6 for 31_days)
prompt: but if I try to find you there are only the shadows (December 17 for 31_days)
After Kev had skipped town, Janna had tried to track him down much to her parents’ dismay and so she had been sent to Ireland with her brother to clear her head.
And when she came back for senior year, she still kept quiet and didn’t talk about it but that didn’t mean she had forgotten about the English teacher but her investigations reached dead ends every single time, partially because she didn’t have the contacts he had had and his friends were nice but not willing to help her.
“It’s the best for both of you,” Hobbie had told her. “If he ever wants to talk to you again he’ll get in touch with you. It would be the best to just move on. You’re not the first girl whose heart Kev has broken, darling.”
She had slowly moved on, sometimes even forgetting that she missed him but that didn’t mean she had ever forgotten him – she never would. Sometimes when she couldn’t avoid it, she drove or walked by his house and her heart tightened in her chest and she hated herself for what she had done to him; for having made him leave.
And Janna knew that Hobbie was right. She had to get over him. Not for him but for herself. She had to stop thinking about him because no matter how much time she spent looking for him, even if she found him, she would never find what she was looking for.
31_days for December 27.31_days )31_days because I've decided that it fits today's prompt "bend over, here it comes again". There, I'm warning people about some stuff in the header but I don't feel like doing it here because I think I should just be allowed to post stuff without warning anyone if it's under the lj-cut.“What’s up?” Hobbie asks as he joins Dennis and Stella in the meeting room.
“You might want to sit,” Dennis starts and Stella elbows him in the ribs.
“Please, Dennis, that’s so cliché,” she complains. “That being said, you should probably sit.”
“What happened?” Hobbie asks after having taken a seat. “Did my parents die in some accident? Because I haven’t talked to them in quite some time and I wouldn’t really care.”
Stella and Dennis exchange questioning looks, surprised by Hobbie’s comment and silently trying to decide who should tell him the bad news. Finally, Dennis decides to do it.
“Your old team is dead,” he says almost casually as he thinks it’s better not to put too much emotion into it. Stella immediately regrets having allowed Dennis to talk.
“Everyone?” Hobbie’s voice is cool and very much business-like.
“Everyone but the team’s sniper Hank McDonald,” Stella informs him.
Hobbie is quiet for half a minute; then he announces, “I want him on the team.”
Dennis looks at Stella who knows McDonald’s file better than Dennis does. “Is he our kind of man?”
“We could use a sniper,” Hobbie says looking at his hands. “Wes is not up to it. That guy would be good for the job.”
Stella watches both men. She can see that Dennis is contemplating offering McDonald a job much to her astonishment. She knows that Dennis usually listens to what Hobbie has to say.
“We’ll look into it,” Dennis promises Hobbie. “Now, tell me, what’s your connection with McDonald?”
Hobbie shrugs. “I never even met him.”
“Then why …?”
“Marie put him on the team after I left. I trust her to make the right decision; I owe the guy for filling my spot.” He gets up, ready to leave, then adds, “I’ll take the responsibility for the man if you don’t want to do it yourself.”
“Don’t you even want to meet him first?” Dennis asks.
Hobbie shakes his head. “No need to. I’ve got a good feeling about this.”
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