"Of course" Gano gave a weak chuckled "Knew that already...just um...testing you guys.." Brook butted in with laughter slapping his green-haired companion on the back "Nah fam, nothing wrong with showing emotion Makes you a man!" he cheesed "Ouch" Gano cracked, looking at him deadpan.
Anessa and Tess giggled sharing a look "Sorry for not telling you about all this Ness. Would've been way more fun..." Tess apologized "Nah" Anessa waved Tess off "Knew something was up-girlfirend you was acting strange!" Out of nowhere Anessa disappeared making Tess gawk.
"Not ready for that one, huh Princess?" Mayuri teased, a knock at the door drew everyone's attention "Hey guys, sorry to interrupt" Jamie's head poked through a slip in the door "Dr. Lance says it's time to head up" Mouths forming a thin line-Gano, Brook, Douglas, and Tess headed back downstairs.
"Glad to see you guys join us, good news for you guys-fifteen out of fifteen chose to sign up..." waiting there to greet them were all fifteen Gano picked up "Name's Evan Rodger" a man in a maroon suite introduced himself "Lena Ray" an elder woman in a yellow sunflower dress introduced herself "Zack Smith" an atheletic youth in shorts and sleeveless-tee shouted, going around until everyone's name was known, they all set sights on Gano.
"Young man" Lena stepped forth curtsying "We all counseled and came together-then we say something interesting online and the news..." Dr. Lance shrugged as Gano spared him a glance "People are scare, people are confused, we don't know how to blame but-"Then Lena pulled out her phone.
Footage from that day played of Gano preventing a head on crash and instances of his other good deeds-even saving a couple cats from tree "Not always a great judge of character and I frown upon kidnapping-" wagging a finger to show she disapproved "but from doing our own look into things..you seem like a nice young man to me"
Offering a wave and smile, Gano could feel ice starting to melt "Thanks..though I'm not sure I agree" he looked down in shame "Heads up young man" Lena lectured "Our lives our in your hands, if you can't continue to look up how can we trust you to take care" Lena scolded in a mother's tone.
"M'am. Thanks Miss Lena. Thank you all..." A security leaned over, whispering something in Dr. Lance's ear "Alright. Everything's prepared. Gano right? We'll run decoy and interference to throw them off your trail, but we can only buy so much time" Gano smirked "Don't worry, as soon as we can pinpoint the cause of this chaos' location he's going down" he gave a thumbs up.
Dr. Lance rolled his eyes "A cocky one aren't we? Everyone scrub up and get ready! No mistakes can be made, we're putting every patient under and we need them all back awake! Surgery goes as well as prepared!!" Dr. Lance continued barking orders, making calls, and poking his head in rooms to make sure no one was cutting corners, as he, Jamie, and his staff got ready for their biggest test yet..
"Guess all we can do now is sit and wait" Gano exhaled "No resting yet" Brook reminded "Only when all this ends will you have made amends, Douglas going with Gano, or you want me to stay here?" Douglas' head was on a swivel "Gano go upstairs and watch over Mayuri and Anessa, been awhile since it's just been us three. Need some alone time with my boys" Tess winked "Right" Gano smirked "Not long before action picks back up again.." yawing, Gano spun and headed back up.
"Can't tell if I'm getting used to it or what, seems we should be more scared than we are right now" Brook scratched his nose "Nasty babe. Wash your hands" Tess smacked his hand away "Douglas, give us a real update on outside" a shadow casted over as soon as she finished asking the question "From murmurings, tapping into police comms, and scouring online-big guns could get involved soon. In other words-" Brook gulped "We've run out of time."
He finished "Yeah, it's a race at this point, no matter what occurs from here on, even being optimistic-" Tess bit a nail "'Cutting it close."A pen drop was heard "So that's where the expression comes from" Brook broke silence, Douglas' stomach growling soon followed "Really Douglas?" Tess eye-rolled "Yes! Now!! A crisis isn't going to stop me from getting hungry!"
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