Fire From The Sky: Brotherhood of Fire by Reed N.C

Author:Reed, N.C. [Reed, N.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction | Post-Apocalyptic
Publisher: Creative Texts Publishers, LLC
Published: 2017-09-06T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

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Morning came, bright and sunny despite the chill of early December. The weather truly wasn't that bad and other than brief outbursts of ill weather December in Tennessee tended to be fairly mild.

Clay was up with the sun and Lainie followed him. They dressed and walked down to the outdoor kitchen for breakfast. The Sanders ate there while everyone else was still eating at the Troy house. Clay didn't like that kind of division but hadn't figured a way to removed it just yet.

“Maybe Bear can come up with-” he started and then abruptly stopped as the full impact of the day before came crashing down upon him.

“Clay,” Lainie said gently. “It's all right, Clay. I'm here with you.”

“I wish I had listened to you,” he told her without looking her way. “I wish I hadn't gone.”

“I know,” she stroked his face gently. “It will be all right, Clay. It will. It will take time, just like anything else like this, but it will be okay.”

“Okay,” he repeated the word as if it were foreign.

“Come on,” she pulled him gently down the drive. “Let’s go and eat. Afterward we 'll do whatever you want or need to do. I 'll stay with you, no matter what.”

Beverly Jackson, it had turned out, was a psychologist. Not a shrink but a 'cognitive behavioral therapist', which was a mouthful to say but boiled down to her assisting people with phobias and coping with issues that affected their every day life. She had warned Lainie that today would be a bad day and the next might be worse as it sank in that John was gone. The only thing Lainie or anyone else could do was be supportive, understanding and above all else, patient.

“Okay,” Clay sounded so lost that it made her want to cry. Without another word, he started again for his parent's home, Lainie alongside holding his hand. They made their way in silence the rest of the way down to breakfast.

Angela's outdoor kitchen was bustling with people already moving in to take seats as Angela, Alicia, Patricia, and Abigail finished setting breakfast on the table, the newly arrived Samantha Walters lending a hand where it was needed.

“Look who shows up just as the work is done,” Alicia was just shy of catty when she saw Lainie.

“We can go back and eat at home if it bothers you,” Lainie smiled back at her. “I had something more important to do this morning. Looks like you did fine without me.”

“More important?” Alicia looked at her, face red from Lainie's rejoinder. “Like what?”

“That's enough,” Angela cut into the conversation. “If you have to ask what's more important after yesterday then you aren't paying attention.”

Alicia abruptly closed her mouth at that and Lainie nodded a silent thank you to her defacto mother-in-law. Perhaps she and Angela would one day have a decent relationship after all.

“Morning son,” Gordon said to Clay as he took his seat. Clay just nodded, saying nothing.

“Morning boy,” Leon clapped Clay's shoulder as he walked by, Janice Hardy hovering a step away with Brick behind them.

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