A Circuit of Time: Book Two of Spark (A MPHFPC Fanfiction)

Chapter Two

"Then why am I here?" Olive asked.

"No greeting for your ymbryne? I thought Miss Peregrine took your manners very seriously." Said Francesca.

Olive rolled her eyes. "I am polite to my ymbryne, which you are not. Please get to the point."

Francesca's expression turned serious, "You lead this mission. You know how difficult it is. Are you sure you want to take Emma on that one? It's not about her loyalty. We simply can't afford to fail this time. I can assign you an easier mission to test her. We just need to put off some things."

"We don't have time." Olive said, "We are risking exposure every time we go out. Sooner or later the wights will found us. If we are going to stand a chance against Caul, we need to act as fast as fas can be."

"Yes, but this is too risky, even for you." The Ymbryne said.

"Emma can help us. I'm sure of that." Olive insisted.

"Fine, if you insist bringing Emma along, you will have to make sure you succeed. If you can't bring that thing back here safely, or if Emma turned out to be our enemy and sabotage our plan, this fight is done for us."

"I know the risk as well as anyone else." Olive assured the ymbryne, "Don't worry about me or my team. We will get you what you need. Just get everything else done before we come back."

Miss Bittern nodded, "Olive, I know we don't always see eye to eye, but I'm really glad you are the one leading this mission."

"I won't disappoint you." Olive replied, "And I'm glad we have an ymbryne like you in our loop, too."

*

After breakfast, John and Blanche left their apartment to give themselves a little tour around the loop.

Having no interest in sightseeing, Emma leaned on the rails of their balcony, scaning the horizon, looking for nothing in particular. From their department, she could see the three tallest buildings in the loop. The office building where the council held meetings rested across a street from the the graveyard she met Patrick Sceawigend yesterday. On the other side of the cemetery was Greewood Medical Center, where the loop entrance was located. A few blocks away, the third tall building stood surrounded by what seemed like a military camp.

Emma wondered what's in that building that they tried so hard to protect.

Then a knock on the door brought her out of her thought.

Emma glanced at the table. Only one set of keys remained. That meant John and Blanche brought theirs with them.

Someone else was at the door.

Emma pulled out the pistol hidden under the table, loaded it and approached the door.

She opened the door and pointed her gun at the visitor.

"Wow! Don't kill me just yet!" Someone in a dark hood said.

"Sharon?"

"Really glad to see you still remember me, Miss Emma." Sharon said cheerfully.

"Uh... okay?"

Sharon closed the door behind him and sat down on the sofa.

Emma put away her gun and sat on an armchair in front of him. Somehow giving Sharon a feeling that she was fully prepared to grab the gun and blast his skull open. "I see we really shouldn't give those weapons back."

"They belonged to Abraham Portman. You have not right to take them anywhere." Emma said coldly.

"We don't have strict rules against the possession of firearms, but I seriously suggest you not to take them out too often."