"I fucking know, ok?" Hawke snapped at the bird.
But he'd just left me there. I was still trying to catch my breath, and now the guy was pissed all over again? What the actual fuck?
"Hawke?" I asked.
Lifting both hands, he took a step back. "I didn't think. Rain, I'm sorry, I - "
"Dad!" Jack cawed this time.
"I stopped, ok?" Hawke bellowed at the bird.
And then a fist rapped at my door. Jack nodded his head, bouncing most of his body in the process. "Dad! Court-Rain-Dad!"
"One of my dads is here," I explained, turning for the door.
"Fuck," Hawke grumbled. "Shit!"
"What?" I begged.
But outside, Liam's voice called, "Rain? You ok?"
"I gotta go," Hawke announced suddenly. And in two steps, he crossed the room, snatched open the door, and pushed past Liam. "Tell your daughter to stay away from trouble from now on," he snarled before turning away from the elevators.
"Uh..." Liam looked after him, then turned back to me. "Does that have anything to do with the lightning in the cafeteria? Ivy told me to check on you."
"Court, Morrigan, shadows, Court, Rain!" Jack explained. "Court! Court, court, court. Rain-Court. Jack!"
Liam just looked at me. "Does that mean anything to you?"
"Usually doesn't," I admitted, stepping back so Dad could come in. "And Hawke's a fucking dick."
Liam tensed mid-step. "You ok?"
"Oh, I'm fine. But him? He's a - " I stopped and pushed out a sigh. "Come in, Dad. Sit down. Tell me what happened while I was up here, because you said lightning?"
Liam nodded his head and came the rest of the way in. After I closed the door, he pulled out the chair Hawke had shoved earlier, turned it towards the bed, then sat. A gesture of his arm indicated I should do the same.
So I used the chair Wilder had made for me. "Lightning?" I pressed.
"Hawke," he countered. "Rain, what did he do?"
"He was going to fry the jesters, so my shadows stopped him."
"Rain-Morrigan," Jack bragged.
I rolled my eyes at him and kept going. "Keir helped me hold him back, and then I convinced him to leave the cafeteria. I got Hawke to come up here, thinking I was going to talk him down, but things just got weird. He thought I was after his power..." I lifted a brow, aware my dad would know more about that than I did.
"What exactly did he say about it?" he pressed.
"He thought I just liked him because of it, but - Aspen has more, doesn't she?"
"Complicated," Liam said. "Then what happened?"
"Um, he kissed me." I lifted a hand. "Aspen's cool with it."
"Is Keir?"
I grimaced. "Maybe? I mean, he says he's cool with me and Aspen, and he makes it sound like it's normal to have a few partners, you know?"
