Page 21 of Starting Over
Wyatt looked at Jude and Casper, but neither man corrected Pit, nor did they enlighten them as to what the hell Pit was talking about.
“I’ll make sure that I keep Wyatt up to date on any new information that might come in,” River said.
“Okay, Wiz, I want you to do some more digging on Danny Houdon. If he was willing to go into a house filled with people and kill them all, it tells me he had to have been behind more deaths,” Pit stated.
Wiz cleared his throat, saying, “Why weren’t we notified about this guy?”
“I don’t know. We should have been. However, it could be because he was already caught,” Pit replied.
“Yeah, but the moment he escaped wouldn’t we have been summonsed? It makes no sense,” Wiz said.
The tentative reply of, “Maybe because Wyatt and his men were called in to help.”
Everyone looked at Rain, who looked as if he wished he hadn’t spoken a word. Wanting to take away the man’s discomfort, Wyatt asked, “What do you mean?”
Rain looked at him, answering, “I don’t know about you, but the tales I’ve heard about DOA are that they were brought here by the right hand man to the creator. It was said that the entire reason for their existence was so they could help take down the worst of the worst.”
“Right, we were taught the same thing,” Wyatt said.
“That is exactly why we were created,” Pit affirmed.
Rain looked towards Jude, who held the phone, saying, “Wyatt and his men were called in. From what Jude said that Wiz found out about them, they were kind of doing the same thing, just not backed by Heck. Maybe this Heck guy or something knew they could handle Danny.”
“Actually, I would think it would be more like Glaurung being involved,” Wyatt replied.
Jude looked at Wyatt asking, “Glaurung? Who’s he?”
“He’s the father of all dragons, and the first to ever breathe fire on land. The stories told to us as children say that Heck went to Glaurung and asked for his help in the creation of DOA. He didn’t exactly trust humans because of the harm they had caused to his children in the past, but also recognized that this was the best way to keep what children he had left still alive. So, he agreed, but only if the man and dragon were soul bound.”
“Holy shit. It makes sense,” Jude said in awe, then turned to his mate, asking, “Why the fuck didn’t Tanner ever mention this?”
“I don’t know,” Casper answered.
Wyatt looked at Jude, saying, “Only dragons would know of this. It is, as I said, a tale told to dragon shifter children at bedtime. It’s honestly the reason my thunder and I became the hunters wedid.” Feeling something Wyatt could never remember feeling… embarrassment, he said, “We stopped believing the tale of DOA, and thought it would be cool if we could actually make the stories real. So, we left and formed our own thunder and started bounty hunting.”
“That is so cool.” Jude said, then smiled wide, “You wanted to be superheroes.”
Wyatt quickly said, “We are no superheroes. We just thought the concept of taking down the worst of the worst worthy of our reason for life. However, we’ve grown very tired over the years and have decided to move on.”
“Move on? What do you mean?” Rain asked.
Asod sat forward, saying, “In order to do what we do, we have to get into the minds of the person we’re hunting. We have to think ten steps ahead if we’re going to be successful. Many if not most of those minds are sick as fuck.”
Ryan nodded. “Gods, yes. The things they think about in order to kill or rape or do what they did to get arrested to begin with, will either make a person want to curl up in a ball and suck their thumb, throw up, or go insane.”
“We know what we do is important, but we’re… burnt out, for lack of a better term. We just want to rest our brains,” Wyatt said, then shrugged. “Who knows, maybe in time we’ll want to return to it, but for now, we just need to take a break from it all.”
“Trust me, we understand,” Pit said, then asked, “What are your plans after this case?”
Wyatt could hear something else in the question, but wasn’t quite sure what it was he was asking, so he answered, “We weregoing to talk about it after our last case, but then River agreed to take on this one, so that conversation hasn’t happened yet.”
“Ah come on, Wy. You can’t still be pissed at me. I already apologized to all of you. It was muscle memory damn it. You know… just doing what I’d done for years,” River whined.
Thinking about the fact that had he not been on this case, he wouldn’t be sitting next to his mate, so instead of the standard, “I’ll be kicking your ass when I get home. Just accept it.” No, he said, “It’s all good, River. Remind me to thank you when I see you.”
“But Wy, I… wait. What? What’s going on? What happened?” River asked to anyone that would answer.
Instead Wyatt nodded to Ryan, calling out, “Get me the answers we need, River.”