Paradise Lost

“Having the numbers isn’t always enough.” Lydia replied, remembering times in the past where they had lost even with the numbers. “I think we can do it as well. Everything has weaknesses, it is just a matter of using them.”

“Well, when in doubt; scream.” he said, nodding to Lydia’s powerful banshee scream. “As for the Nogitsune; it’s inside Bridget. If we can get it to turn on it’s friends, and then lure it out of her. Ethan can kill it.” he said after a moment. 

“If my uncle and brother don’t try to force me out of it that is… they don’t want me near her.”

“Yeah, Derek told me and I do; agree with his reasoning. Kate’s dangerous, and she’s taken enough of your family....” he said, looking at Theo. “But I doubt I need to say they’re trying to protect you.” 

My pack has done a lot over the years, and now we are all just stronger in numbers. We just have to keep moving forward and stop the evil before it can stop us.

“Well, we’ve got the numbers. We just need to out play the villains.” he said, looking at Lydia. “Which, will be hard but I’m sure we can do it. I think the Nogitsune might be a weak point.”

“Thanks for that.” He said flatly, turning to look at Theo, rolling his eyes though there was no hostility behind it. “Are you kidding? Of course I’m talking about that.” He pointed out. 

He frowned, not wanting to hear about how Peter wasn’t at fault for everything that had fallen apart between them. “I don’t want to talk to him. There’s a lot more than just what happened with Liam. And of course I’m pissed off about having to move. I bought a house with multiple bedrooms and now I spend almost all of my time alone. Liam sleeps over once, maybe twice a week, if I’m lucky. And you don’t know if he would have agreed or not.” He sulked, still angry about the whole thing. He had been so excited about the teen moving in but then Liam wanted a step back and he wanted to move in with the deputy and Colin was just angry about the whole thing.

Thank god for that honestly. I didn’t think we ever would.

“You and me both; this is gonna end; one way or the other.” he said after a moment. “I’m fairly confident we can beat them; I mean, you all did before. Now there’s more of you.”

“I don’t mind the busy as long as the bitch is dealt with.” 

“I’m with you there. Her and her little friends have messed with my beta; and my brother. I’m not too cool with that.” he said after a moment. “Least you guys will be the one to take her out.” 

Yeah, the easier it is to take her down the better in my opinion. We just need to take things one day at a time. If we try to get too far ahead of ourselves than we will start to make mistakes. Tricking it won’t be easy but it’s going to be the best bet.

“Agreed, so any ideas on how to trick a fox?” he asked, tilting his head a bit as he looked at Camden. “I mean, I’m good at tricking people but this think has remained in hiding way longer than I have before so...not feeling too confident.” 

Kate is extremely focused on taking us down, and might be a little bit cocky. I think she might be one of the harder ones to take down. The best way to deal with the nogitsune is to separate it from the others.

“Lets hope she’s cocky.” he said after a moment. “But, I’ve got faith that cocky or not the Hales will finish her off.” he said before nodding. “It likely wants to be freed from whatever spell that they’ve got on it so maybe if we trick it, with something....I don’t know what.” he sighed. 

“Seems like it. It’s about time to.”

“Agreed, seems like that you guys will be pretty busy really; with Kate and all.” he said, looking at Cora. 

Exactly, leave it with nowhere to go and it will be weak. The only reason why any of them have any real power is because they are working together. The sooner we start getting rid of them, the easier things are going to be.

“Yeah, which we’re going to take away that power by separating them and getting rid of them for good. You hear anything about them that we could use; even if it’s something small any little bit helps.”

Colin nodded, satisfied with the answer. “Alright.”he sighed, wishing that he had the right words to say in that moment. “That makes two of us.” He admitted. “I regret a lot about that evening. I blamed you for all of it for a long time, but the truth is that I’m just as much at fault as you were. I let you manipulate me because I hated Scott for something it turns out he was justified in doing.”  he said, looking back at the road for a moment until he heard Theo ask what the deal was with Jordan. Confusion settled over his face and he glanced at Theo again. 

“Because Jordan adopted Liam?” He pointed out, shocked that Liam’s brother wouldn’t know that. “You didn’t know? He lives with Jordan full time. I was trying to get him to move in with me and then fucking Peter screwed that all to hell and now he lives with Jordan.” He was still bitter about that, that he had moved out of his apartment and into a large house only to end up in a large space by himself, with only Frank as company more nights than not. “That went well.” He sighed, shaking his head. “I don’t know what exactly Jordan does or doesn’t know about Liam and I, but I’m not eager to question him and find out.” 

“Yeah, I sorta knew your hate at Scott was, dumb in so many words so....I honestly thought you knew after; what happened.” he said looking at him before pausing. “Yeah, no I know that. I’ve talked to Jordan about it. I thought you meant was there something else I needed to talk to him about. Honestly I’m really glad he did. I have, no idea about parenting stuff and Liam needs one, I can be his brother no problem but; parent; nope.” 

I do agree, since there isn’t a point on trying to focus too much on the nogitsune because we don’t know who it was. If we take the others down in the meantime we will have the upper hand.

“Good point, if we leave the Nogitsune for last then it’s got nowhere to go.” he nodded a bit, looking at him. “Alright, then it looks like each member of the league is relatively taken care of.” he said, nodding a bit.