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“Yeah, you did,” I reply. “So, Dimitri knows about Casimir, aka the Blue Fucker.”
“It would appear so,” Evander says, watching me closely.
“I guess I need to go and talk to Dimitri then,” I say.
I need to. I may not be ready to speak about, well, everything, but we do need to know about Casimir as soon as fucking possible.
“And you want to see him,”my inner voice mutters.
Yes, I do. I want to see for myself if he’s back to normal. I want to see if I can look at him and not see the bad shit, that he may not have been in control of saying or doing. If he really is my Dimitri, or if this is some kind of big trick.
I don’t know what the end goal would be with that, but it is a possibility that’s playing on my mind.
If he’s in front of me, I’ll know for sure, even if he’s pretending.
So, yes, I do want to go and see him for my own benefit, as well as the benefit of finding out some more about Casimir. Hopefully, Dimitri knows where he is, and we can finally end this shit.
“Only if you want to,” Reed says firmly.
“You’ve got yourself a good lot here, lass,” Kar grins, his accent slipping through.
“I know. Are you okay?” I ask him, realizing that I didn’t ask him.
“You know me, I’m always good,” he smirks, his arms crossed over his chest. When I level him with a raised eyebrow look, he sighs and continues, “I really am okay. I’m just trying to figure out what to do now. I have to lay low because I have absolutely no interest in being involved with Casimir, and that whole thing is going to fall apart without Dimitri anyway. Not that I would stay if it didn’t. Casimir’s turned it into the complete opposite of what it was supposed to be.”
“Literally,” Coen agrees. “We would have taken down something like this before, not been involved with it.”
“Exactly,” Kar agrees. He smirks as he looks over everyone, “I also have to lay low because of you guys, SID isn’t exactly happy with me.”
“We could probably do something about that,” Reed surprises me when he offers.
Kar shrugs, “Maybe at some point. Right this second, I can’t promise you that I’m not going to do anything illegal. If someone I care about is in danger and the only way to save them is to pull out someone’s spine through their mouth, I’m going to do it.”
River chuckles, “I like you. You speak my language.”
Kar’s eyebrows rise, and he glances at me, “I see why you like them. They’re as blood thirsty as you are.” He pauses, “Well, maybe not quite, but they’re close, it’s impressive.”
I smirk, “I couldn’t just be with anyone, could I?”
“Definitely not,” he replies.
“What if you worked for SID?” Evander suddenly asks.
Kar’s eyebrows hit his hairline, “Work for the good guys? Now there’s a novel idea.”
River grins, “Well, you get to pull people's spines through their mouths legally.”
Well, I’ll be damned.
“Some of us needed to join SID to assuage our violent tendencies in a way that meant that we didn’t all have to go on the run, and could do some good while we’re at it,” Raiden smirks.
Kar bursts out laughing, “So you’re not really good guys at all.”
Doc shrugs, “We follow the law, we help people, and we do our jobs.”
“But you love the violence a bit more than most,” Kar summarizes, and the guys all shrug, small smiles playing around their lips. Kar continues, “They’re perfect for you. Dimitri’s going to love them.”
