Back with a Vengance (mini-GIF post)

***It's a mini-GIF post***

 

Get ready for something about me feeling bad about not posting

You when you came to my blog today

When I realized I was 8 chapters ahead of posting in V2

When I remembered I have mostly no idea where any of this was going

When I think about some of the stuff I will / wanted to put in V2

My response to if I've been thinking about a UL3

 

Because seriously UL3

(I blame that new Ed Sheerhan song..it gives me ideas)

Okay, back to the trenches

So, I'm on chapter 17 or 18 (I got really confused with my numbering since originally each POV was it's own section so like I had Alan1, Alan2 or Harlow1,Harlow2, and Maxwell1, ) so I am going to start posting with a vengeance...I hope. This is strange because I know where I am, but I have no idea where this is going.

Let's Recap:

We have two storyline going on, but let's stick to A storyline:

It's been a year since Alan Gray joined the Cartel, sure he owes Rayne more money than he can ever payback, but he's adjusting. He hasn't had to kill anyone yet,  he's training to be a bodyhacker by the reclusive Blackbird so he can understand his android body  and he's in an on again / off again relationship with Minnow Dory....while also sleeping with Perespohone, a bartender at Luxor who wants to join the Cartel.

But things have also gotten dangerous  being involved with the Cartel. Alan narrowly avoids a machine gun raid at the Luxor and there is a new drug being sold by the Mjollner that is causing people to throw themselves at trains.

Sara Grace had a baby with the Cartel leader Rayne Washington and now that he has an heir he's ended his arranged marriage to Ivy, Sara's former best friend.

But then during the night of the christening, they all get too drunk and the baby is stolen by a group of men in red face masks.

Chapter 10
So, we've had the christening and a wild afterparty where we learn the Cartel was started by Rayne's great-great-great grandfather when he fled Japan. It's nearly 3 am and they are all walking back to Rayne's house where he has promised to make breakfast....

"Suddenly, a pair of red hooded figures rush past me and one of them knocks into Sara’s back, the other takes the second of confusion to yank Zacarias violently from her arms.  Like the trained sharp shooter he is, Griffin pulls the glock off his back in a second and the men pause. 

The hooded men are wearing leather balaclavas to cover their faces. The one  holding the baby stares back at Griffin unmoving.  The bastard  should be dead, but Grif isn’t shooting.

He can’t.

The hooded man has the barrel of a small pistol pressed to the infant’s head.

Griffin hesitates, we all hesitate. I think about how babys are supposed to have soft spots.

.....

“The train, they’re going to go to the train!,” Minnow screams hoarsely  

....

I pry open the train doors in one try and we enter the cool stillness of the train car.

It’s empty.

I bolt to the next car and it’s the same eerie quiet.

We run ahead to the next car and find the same eeire quiet.

“Come out!,” I shout.  I take out my pistol and start shooting just for effect. 

“Stop,” Luce hisses. “They’ll kill him.”

We run through all 21 cars and don’t come in contact with another soul on the train.

...

“Alan, they have to be on that train,” Sara barks.  “ The whole town is being searched and they’re not here.”

“We tore the train apart, Ma.” Luce says. “He’s not on the train.”

“No,” she says. “You keep looking.”

Chapter 10

Playlist

-1- Take Me To Church by Hozier ( I promise I had this song before it was being played on the radio every 10 seconds.
-2- In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins ( I know this is a weird choice)