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|| Fight Song|| Rachel Platten ||
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|| Fight Song|| Rachel Platten ||
"Surprise!" Alice yelled as Baron Pierce moved out from the hiding spot. "No Alice, not yet." He lifted her up, taking her to hide with him, just in case she spoiled it. They waited in the dark, Alice squirming, until the door opened and the lights lifted. "Surprise!" This time it really was Cal, but there was something wrong. Sonata screamed, quickly covering Alice's eyes. What happened? Baron Pierce handed Alice to Sonata, helping Julian bring Cal to another room. Echo seemed conflicted, Blythe was fighting with the Generals, no doubt in search of Zinnia. "Echo?" Sonata asked, looking at her. "I can't fight for either side." Echo hated them both, this was the exact reason she had fled to live a life of isolation. "Don't go," Alice whimpered, hugging Echo's arm, afraid that she was going to come back like Cal, or worse, not come back at all.
"I'm sorry, I have to." Echo's nails dug into her palms. "Hang on," Baron Pierce returned, his hands covered in blood. "Baron King Messiah is calling all of us to his aid." The Generals were overwhelming Paris, they needed backup. Echo grit her teeth, "Fine," she donned a coat and shoes, Alice watching them go. She didn't want them to, she needed them to stay here. "Don't leave," Alice whimpered, squirming in Sonata's arms until she released her. "Alice, you're to stay here with Viola. Is that clear?" Baron Pierce knelt down to look at her, Alice swallowing hard. "I'm leaving you in charge of Sonata and Ophie, they aren't feeling very well, remember?" Alice stiffened. She had forgotten! "Okay, I'll take care of them!" Her back straightened and she hugged Dog a little harder. "Good girl," Baron Pierce pat her head and winked at Sonata and Ophie, hoping they would play along.
The drive to Paris was quiet, Echo sitting across from Baron Pierce. "He's given you incentive, hasn't he?" Baron Pierce inquired, looking out the window. Echo nodded, "Yes," she said quietly, but what Baron King Messiah had proposed was against the very laws of nature. It would bring her precious friend back, but who knows under what condition? How long would Flo have? No, Echo would prefer to go around another way. She didn't want Flo's existnece to be a painful one. Her friend deserved better than that. "What about you? What's he got on you?" Echo asked, leaning her hand on her fist. This was the first time she had ever been alone with Pierce. Despite his generosity, she never held a conversation with him. "Everything," Baron Pierce replied softly. "All of Amiens is under great danger."
"Why do you do it?"
"Pardon?"
"You knew what would happen when you took me in, you knew what would happen when you took Alice and Ophie and all those other fugitives. So why?" Baron Pierce smiled longingly as he stared out the window. "Because we've forgotten our old ways. When Heaven and Hell were at peace, when humans had their own realm to muck about, and we were happy. Before magic made us all blood thirsty creatures. I wish for our world to return to what it once was." The carriage stopped short, this was as far as they could go. "May I have this dance Nova?" Baron Pierce asked, holding out a hand as the carriage door opened. "Yes, you may." She took it, allowing him to pull her out and into the smoking city.