Just a Little Pixie Dust

Sarabelle (Chapter 14.)

My arm had been slung over my eyes and I was getting in a few minutes of sleep while I waited, it wasn’t the smartest thing to do on my part but I couldn’t keep working if I didn’t at some point and with what was going on I had no choice. Things just sounded beyond screwed up around here as it was, and we had no leads… We had absolutely nothing to go on.

“So, do you have any idea of what’s going on?”

I groaned and sat up at the sound of Jacob’s voice looking over towards him. I opened my mouth to speak but nothing came out, I just turned red and looked away. “Is that even necessary Jacob?”

“What? I’m not naked, and it’s my house.”

“If that towel falls you’re naked.”

He laughed and I heard the fridge open before he spoke again. “Seriously though, can you think of anything?”

Swallowing I looked down at my hands and shook my head. “No. I thought Aurora but she’s in a coma still… I can’t think of anyone else but there has to be something we’re missing, right?”

“There always is even if it takes a while to find.” He sighed “I just don’t know that we have a while for this one.”

“What are we going to do Jacob? If another murder shows up…” I shook my head.

“Let me see that video, and I’ll go get dressed while I watch it.”

Nodding my head I fished out my phone, pulling up the video I got up and walked over to him holding out my phone. My eyes had took a moment to look over his body and appreciate it before glancing away, this was more than even slightly difficult to do. The man had a nice body, I wasn’t going to deny that, but I couldn’t let anything happen… I just couldn’t.

“I hope you don’t let anyone know that you had me at your house practically naked.”

He laughed again and shook his head looking at me for a moment before walking off towards his room. I leaned against the wall and shut my eyes. This was going to be a hellishly long day even for my standards. Izzy would have my head if she knew about the half of the stuff that went on between me and Jacob, but I was trying to stop it. Hopefully I could stop it now before it got too out of hand at least.

Walking over towards the counter I stared at the thermos that was under a coffee maker, flipping the switch up to see what he’d put in after it was done I couldn’t help but smile a little. Spend a night here and suddenly the man knows your most favorite flavor of coffee? I could smell the vanilla and I was practically drooling to drink some of it.

Opening his fridge door I dug through it and found caramel flavored creamer, shaking my head I poured some of it in the thermos and started mixing it together before popping the cap back on it. Snatching one of his rice krispies he’d left on the counter I bit into it and waited for him to show up again.

“Taking advantage of my kitchen?”

I arched a brow and looked at him for a moment. “Taking advantage of my tastes?” I held up the coffee and finished off the food I was eating.

He’d shaved while he was back there and I had to admit shaven or not the man just looked good. Probably why I was attracted to him, half the town was. He had a head of dark hair that was usually messy no matter what he did, he was solid muscle and his eyes were always a blue color with green right around his pupil.

Taking my phone from him I set it in my pocket and headed back out with him behind me, we got to the car but it felt like something was wrong, very wrong. As soon as he went to open the car door I knew what it was too, my eyes widened and I flung myself at him knocking him off his feet as the door opened and rolling us a few feet away from the car.

“Tink, what in the f**k”?

My heart beat sped up and I stayed where I was; I could hear the ticking and then a slight ding all of a sudden. Holding him down I used myself as a shield and almost screamed when the car exploded behind us, flames licked my skin and left me feeling like I was being cooked alive. I dropped myself onto my side when the flames died down and glanced back at the wreckage.

His car was gone, and a good portion of his house was too and I could hear sirens coming towards us. Someone just tried to kill Jacob…I swallowed and felt the pain racking my body, I didn’t want to think about it too much right now. I heard Jacob moving quickly and hovering over me for a moment.

“f**k, Sara? You ok?”

I laughed humorlessly and stared at him. “I feel like s**t, of course I’m not ok.”

He shook his head and helped me up slowly, glancing over my shoulder at my back, when he grimaced I really didn’t want to know what it looked like back there. He helped me so that I could keep myself sitting upright and unbuttoned his shirt draping it over my back.

“Don’t argue and keep it there.” He said and looked at me pointedly. Pulling his phone from his pocket he dialed the office quickly. “Guys? Send out a group of officers to my place now, I need paramedics, and for the love of god find Izzy and Eryx and send them here. They can question people later because this is a little more serious now.”

My eyes stared around the house slowly staring at the remains of it and frowned. He didn’t have anything left really… Sighing when he was off the phone I reached a hand out and set it on his arm. “Don’t get any ideas but you can stay at my place for now, ok?”

He nodded his head and looked over at the remains, I could see flashing lights coming closer to us and I didn’t know what to do. Jacob didn’t let me move and even when they did pull in he was pretty much up my ass asking to help. Shaking my head I ignored him as they tended to the burns on my back.

“f**k!” I snarled “Can you be a little more gentle maybe?”

“Sorry, Tink.”

“Sorry my ass!” I growled and almost punched him when he did it again. “For f***s sake, stop that!”

“Philip? Let me.”

I glanced at Jacob as he came over and Philip nodded his head once walking towards the others. He probably wanted to be keeping an eye on Aurora and not here, and I couldn’t blame him; he loved the woman more than I’d ever seen a man love someone before.

Flinching when Jacob touched my back I held still and stared down. He should’ve been a doctor for a living instead of a police officer, he did a better job treating people than most did half the time.

“Izzy should be here with Eryx in a few minutes.”

“Alright.”

There was a pause for a moment before he spoke again. “Tink?”

“Yeah?”

“Thanks.”

I glanced at him from the side for a moment, smiling to myself before I nodded once and went back to holding still so that I wouldn’t go pulling anything and making the pain worse on myself again. Staring towards his house I took in the scene one last time though, someone really wanted us dead and was going to stop at nothing to do it.