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Father and son team in line for Champagne honours at Carlisle Leading father and son jumps team Nigel and Sam Twiston-Davies are on for a family Champagne double at Carlisle. Full story: https://www.cumbriacrack.com/2019/04/16/father-and-son-team-in-line-for-champagne-honours-at-carlisle/
Danny Cook banned for six months after testing positive for cocaine
Danny Cook banned for six months after testing positive for cocaine
• Jockey having his best season is ruled out until August • Gleneagles comes in for support for 2,000 Guineas
The most successful season of the jump jockey Danny Cook’s career came to an abrupt end on Thursday when the 31-year-old rider was banned for six months after returning a positive drugs test for a metabolite of cocaine. Cook admitted the offence when he attended a British Horseracing…
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Danny Cook banned six months after testing positive for cocaine
Danny Cook banned six months after testing positive for cocaine
• Jockey having his best season is ruled out until August • Gleneagles comes in for support for 2,000 Guineas
The most successful season of jump jockey Danny Cook’s career came to abrupt end on Thursday when the 31-year-old rider was banned for six months after returning a positive drugs test for a metabolite of cocaine. Cook admitted the offence when he attended a British Horseracing Authoritydis…
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Abandonned City near Tchernobyl, by Danny Cook with a drone
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In pieces
“Danny. Cook. Danny! Come on, you’ve got to wake up, Danny. Wake up!” Katie Winchester was shaking the boy beside her frantically. Her head was throbbing, and she wasn’t entirely sure where she was or how she got here - she just remembered… what did she remember? Alright, Winchester, start at the top and work your way back down.
A mission. Not really a mission. A reason to blow off steam. No. Katie was trying to find Bonnie and she had requested Danny’s help. He was the only person that she really trusted to have her back and they worked so well together, it was an easy suggestion, and a perfect plan. He was going to help her track down so she could talk. They just needed to talk. Everything went so wrong the last time she had seen her and it wasn’t supposed to be like that at all. Katie knew if she could just get Bonnie to talk to her one more time she’d be able to fix it. This wasn’t over.
Though Katie hadn’t counted on this part of the trip. She wasn’t even really sure where they were, but she was certain that her powers weren’t working. Why? If she tried to push it was as if a wall was in her way, some invisible barrier that was keeping her just out of reach of her power. “Danny.” Hissing the boy’s name again she froze beside him as she heard something. A noise pitching from the far side of the room they were in. It was a strange room… brick walls, carpeted floor, was this someone’s house? If she had to guess she would have said yes without a second thought.
“Who is there?”
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Danny could hear Katie just fine, but it sounded like she was underwater, and his eyelids felt as if they were made of concrete. He was just so tired and the back of his head was throbbing. Gingerly he pressed his fingertips to the base of his skull. Warm. Wet. When he drew his hand back and finally forced his eyes open with a groan, he was met with the sight of red in the dim room.
“Danny!” Katie gasped out in relief and moved to quickly help him sit up.
“Wha-where are we? What’s going on, Katie… what happened?”
Katie looked to him sadly and simply shook her head. “I have no idea… we just… somehow ended up here.” Frowns deeply as she looks up from him, one of her hands was resting on his shoulder, keeping him from getting all the way up, she was crouched at his side. “I haven’t seen anyone yet. I haven’t heard anything it almost feels like we’re in someone’s living room. No windows. One door, it’s locked of course. No other exits from what I can see… and my powers aren’t working.”
Danny’s head had been nodding slowly as he kept inventory of what she was saying. His brain was slowly processing the words as he pushed himself to sit up all the way, arms draped over bent knees. “What do you mean your powers aren’t working? Since when do your powers not work?”
“Since your bosses aren’t the only ones with tricks up their sleeves.” A familiar voice cut through the darkness. A voice that sent a chill up Katie’s spine and locked her heart in an icy grasp. She would know that voice anyway – even if it had been over a year. She still knew every tone, scratch of that voice.
Bonnie Crowe stepped forward, into the bare light that the two were being kept in, seemingly appearing out of the wall. With a gentle wave of her hand a platform began to rise out of the floor holding a steel table as well as a pair of chairs. Katie and Danny had risen to their feet when she had come into the room, taking their typical battle stance as the lined up as one force rather than separate.
“Sit.”
It wasn’t a request, it wasn’t a question, it was a demand, and one she intended to make them follow through with. When they didn’t move fast enough for her liking, her fingers twitched again and with a sudden burst, the pair was slammed down into the chairs. The force was so great that both chairs wobbled back onto two legs, threatening to tip over while the pair had to fight to right themselves.
“Well… it looks like you’ve gotten stronger.” Katie spoke quietly as she lifted her eyes to look warily over the woman that was standing so sternly over the pair. Danny’s eyes continued to dart between the two women, the tension was radiating off of the pair in waves and he was rather certain that it had little to do with the current situation.
“A lot of things have changed clearly.” Bonnie’s eyes slowly trailed over the pair. “Including, evidently, you becoming SHIELD’s newest lap dog. Though I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. They offer you immunity, you go crying to them with your hands up and offering to do whatever they want you to do.” Bonnie was scoffing smartly at the pair as she moved slowly to walk around the table.
Katie’s eyes continued following the woman as she wound her way around the table, for a brief moment, her eyes shifted to her partner before looking back to Bonnie. “I don’t really think it’s any of your business what I’m doing with my life or who I’m working for. Are you even in your right mind right now? I mean, are you sure it’s you and not him?”
Bonnie smirked wickedly and shrugged a shoulder simply. “Maybe I’m me, maybe I’m him, though he really doesn’t need to be here. Some of us can control our powers.” With the snapping comment at her former… girlfriend? Friend? Love? - she wasn’t even sure what to label it right now, Bonnie stopped walking and kept her eyes on Katie, gauging her reaction.
Of course it wasn’t a pleasant one.
Danny knocked his chair over in the quick movement it took to grab Katie as she had jumped to her seat and immediately began screaming.
“You have NO idea what he put me through! You don’t know what he did to me! HE played in my mind, he toyed with my head. HE USED ME FOR MY POWER.HE forced me to do terrible things. HE hurt so many people but through my body and now he has me being hunted down and captured to be used for some other stupid little GAME of his!”
Katie was whipping around violently, struggling in earnest to get her partner off of her, but Danny’s arms were locked tightly around her and he was attempting to calm her down – of course it wasn’t working.
Bonnie leaned forward, her fingertips bracing herself against the tabletop as she stared at Katie. “He didn’t force you to do terrible things. He just opened the door and you couldn’t help yourself – you couldn’t keep from going back and taking just a bit more over and over again and trying to become the strongest and most powerful thing that you know – crushing anything and everything that gets in your way and not caring about who you hurt in the process.” The dark-haired woman managed to keep her voice level through her entire rant, though she did speak rather quickly.
“So that’s why you’re helping him? Because you’re angry at me? You’re upset with me over what happened when I told you I had no choice so now you’re going to help him hold me hostage?!” Katie’s blue eyes were locked on Bonnie and staring at her with a mix of horror and pure anger. She was ready to snap, to get her hands on her – right now she didn’t care about their history, she didn’t worry about what had happened, how she had felt. All she cared about was how the woman that she had loved, the one person she had ever been able to fully open up to willingly after everything that had happened – she was here to turn her over to the man that was the reason she had left her to begin with.
“I trust him, I work with him, not for him, he’s a friend, a mentor, but most importantly he’s consistent. He’s loyal and he really cares for me, for all of us, even if it’s a little hard for him to show it – at least he doesn’t run from it.”
Danny’s arms were still around Katie, but so far he had remained quiet throughout the entire exchange. “Alright, ladies, let’s all just calm down here. Bonnie, we went to school together, I know you, and I understand heartache, I really do, but what she did to you is no excuse to hand her back over to the man you work with. She doesn’t want to be near him ever again and she has every right… so how about we just go and call it a day?”
Bonnie’s chest was nearly heaving and her fingers were shaking from attempting to contain her anger and her hurt. Drawing in a long breath, Bonnie finally looked from Katie to Danny, her brow creasing in confusion just for a second, but she quickly masked it. “The two of you aren’t going anywhere. And I’m not here for Cole, and neither are you.”
Danny’s arms slowly loosened around Katie as the pair stared at her with identical looks of confusion. Now they were thrown, and that did not happen often to this pair. It was no secret that Bonnie had been taken under Cole’s wing when Katie had fled, and if the pair of them were working for SHIELD… well then who in the hell else was she there for? Understanding dawned upon Danny’s face as he turned to look at Katie, his hands on her arms. “She’s not here for Cole, she’s here for herself, and she’s here for you.” His voice was quiet as he leaned toward the woman, his fingers giving her a gentle squeeze.
Bonnie opened her mouth to speak but instead she was cut off by a new voice filtering through the shadow once again.
“Not really your finest deduction work, Buddha, now is it?” The blonde moved into the room, her voice held none of the unsteady wavering that Bonnie’s had. It was certain, cold, and her expression was paired to match. Arms tightly folded across her chest, Lillian’s looked between Katie and Danny a few times with slow glances before she spoke again. “You two are not here because she’s handing Katie over to Cole. You’re here because she’s handing you over to me.”
With the words, Bonnie lifted her hand again and with a gentle turn of her wrist the pair flew apart, Katie into her chair and Danny into his. The shackles seemed to appear out of nowhere as the wound tightly around Katie who had yelped out and began trying to get to Danny immediately. Danny remained unchained, but his chair was against the wall and Lillian had taken in pon herself to walk over to him. Her arms still folded, her face expressionless and stone.
“The last time I saw you – you told me not to expect anything but a fight – it doesn’t look like you’re putting up much of a fight Raphael.” Her tone was cold, so much colder than the last time she had seen him. That had been nearly two years ago, and the two had gone on very different paths. Her arms crossed, her expression unreadable, se only stared at him. “Bon, you’ll be okay?” Finally she lifted her gaze from Danny with a slow blink, receiving a nod from Bonnie she looked back to Danny. “Then you’re free to come with me, Cook.” Her back turned to him now and she started to walk away, getting to the door before she turned to look at him and speak, “And before you ask, no, you don’t have a choice.”
Danny was still in shock that this was even happening , that she was really here and standing barely five feet from him. There was a huge rush of emotion that he couldn’t even begin to sort out. Part of him wanted to reach out and subdue her, he had heard things – terrible things – about what she had been up to. Another part wanted to pull her into his arms and just hold her there, breathe her in and thank his God that she was still alive and okay. And another part wanted to stand there, go nowhere until he started getting some answers. But he did none of that, instead he just glanced back at Katie with a dazed expression on his face and turned to follow Lillian.
“Danny… Danny… AGENT COOK!” Katie was screaming after him and straining forward in her chair trying to get him to listen to her and turn around. Going off with Lillian wasn’t just a bad or terrible idea, it was one stupid fucking decision.
A brief struggle with her bonds ensued before she suddenly stopped. It had just occurred to her that not only had he gone off with the devil, but she was left alone. No. Not alone… with Bonnie. Without turning her head from the door, she spoke in a voice that she was fighting hard to keep level. “Where is she taking him?”
“Wherever she wants, everywhere, like I know, it’s Lillian, if one thing about her hasn’t changed it’s the fact that we have no idea what’s going on in her head.” Bonnie’s voice was colder than Lillian’s had been, but it was also laced with something… hurt, pain even. Oh yes. There was pain, plenty and plenty of pain. Pain that was all caused by the woman that was strapped down to the chair before her.
“Get up. Get up right now.” Bonnie hissed out violently and snapped her fingers, the chains releasing from the other woman instantly. “Get up.” She flipped her dark hair back and straightened her shoulders. Facing with her past head on, the woman’s eyes began to slowly darken. It wasn’t the typical darkening of an angry and jilted woman. Instead it was the symbol of her power coming to fruition.
Cold, hazel eyes bored into the man. The eyes were so family but so different at the time. Danny couldn’t help but finding himself slipping into the past. An entirely different time when that gaze was meant for him and him only. Early mornings spent tangled in sheets, no sound but the gentle breaths coming from the pair that were locked as one. But that was different, a far different time. His bare fingers twitched at the thought of the reason why he didn’t wear those gloves anymore. It was that woman, the one that was staring at him so intently he knew she was reading his soul. Tucking his fingers into his palms, Danny straightened and stared Lillian in the eye. “Let’s get on with it shall we… no witnesses, no distractions – just the end of one of us finally.”
Something Told Me to Run
It was a strange combination to begin with, the four that had set out on this mission. Katie Winchester and Danny Cook together, well that much was to be expected. Bonnie Crowe accompanying Katie also wasn’t much of a surprise. Since the school disbanded the two had become nearly inseparable. It was their fourth that didn’t make much sense. Lillian Graham. The blonde had insisted upon coming with and now here she was, or there they all were. There was no reason for what they had faced. They hadn’t even made it to where they needed to be… it was supposed to be a simple task, all reconnaissance. Not this. Not what happened.
But since when did anything go right for any of them?
Asking the two afterward what happened wouldn’t do anyone any good. It was well known that no temper was more dangerous than either one, but when together, the world was in downright danger. No one asked, even if they were dying to know the answers. Even if those who already knew the answers it was a secret that was going to the graves, graves that would soon be full. No one would know what happened, just the two. No one would know what was said, what took place. Nothing would hold onto it but the memories, the bitter, terrorizing memories that haunted the pair – the last connection the two shared.
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It was supposed to be easy. Just information, that’s all they had to do was gather information – all the powers that were there, boiling under the surface, it was all unnecessary. The tension was there – but that had always been there. Katie and Lillian weren’t two that could get along very well. It made it awkward for Danny, but worse for Bonnie. Luckily she didn’t attempt to goad the two into a conversation, though Danny seemed to need to fill the silence.
“This is all definitely limestone, you can tell because it looks wet thanks to the calcium carbonite. It’s gorgeous though, isn’t it?” The boys fingers ran over the rocks completely oblivious to the tension that was building behind him.
“Make your move, Winchester.”
“Don’t tell me what to do Graham. I’m sick of hearing you even speak – let alone telling me what to do.”
The words were being hissed between the two and despite the low volume, Bonnie was very much aware of what was happening.
When they finally passed through the narrow passage of the cave and were once again in free air, Lillian found herself gasping for breath. She hated the dark, hated the tiny restricted space that had been the cave. The fears were irrational, she knew that well, but it wasn’t something she had figured out how to shake yet. With her nerves already on edge, her fingers were nearly shaking from her anxiety, her fingers twitching.
Bonnie had reached behind her to gently link her fingers around some of Katie’s. The brunette tossed a quick, reassuring smile behind her though she knew it wasn’t going to be enough. Things were coming to a head, finally, what everyone knew was coming for years was finally here and she had no idea how to stop it.
Danny had paused a few moments after Lillian had stopped to lean against the wall beside the cave opening. His eyes rested on her for a long moment until he finally started toward her. His bare fingers – Lillian would never let him touch her with those damned gloves, not even still – wrapped around her upper arm while his left hand caressed against her chin and lifted her head up. “Hey you. We’re out.”
Lillian’s green tinted hazel eyes lifted to meet Danny’s blue tinted ones and she felt herself calming down almost immediately. There was plenty reasons she called him her Buddha, and right now he was fulfilling the name, coming to the rescue and keeping her grounded once again.
Katie happened to look up at the very moment Danny’s fingers brushed Lillian’s cheekbone and their foreheads had come to meet. For no reason at all she felt a surge of anger. This was wrong. She got fucking everything. Her friends. Her partner. Her girl. The anger was rising, it was practically lifting her off of the ground and even Bonnie wasn’t going to hold her back this time. This time it was done, and there wasn’t going to be anymore.
Flinging Bonnie’s hand from her own, Katie’s eyes flickered to black as she stared at the two. This was enough. She wasn’t taking this anymore. Not again. She had played second best plenty, even lower than that more in her life and she wasn’t going to do it with Lillian anymore. Her thoughts were irrational, she was beyond logic and far from being reasoned with despite Bonnie’s pleas behind her.
That was when it all happened so fast.
Even if the two spoke about it, they wouldn’t be able to tell you what happened next. It had been a blur. There was a surge in the atmosphere, Bonnie’s attempt to divert the attack. Katie lost control, just for a second and that’s when it all went wrong.
The smile slowly faded from Lillian’s face as she watched the light leave Danny’s eyes. He looked stunned when he went slack and fell against her.
“Cook? Buddha? DANNY!”
Dropping to her knees, her arms around Danny as she tried to help, hold him up, keep him awake. She had no idea what she was doing, she had no idea what had even happened. He was slack, cold, pale. His eyes were listless and unfocused, staring off at nothing and he was still.
“DANNY!”
The boy’s name echoed through the hills, coming from all three of them simultaneously.
“WHAT DID YOU DO?!”
The accusation flew from the destroyer as she glared up at the other girl. Her eyes were wide in shock and horror but brimming with tears that she absolutely wouldn’t let fall. Her arms still held the body close to her chest but her fingers clenched into his shirt. This was getting dangerous – Katie wasn’t the only one that could lose control. With an agonized scream, Lillian threw back her head and in a moment things around them began bursting, showering the four of them in various forms of powder.
Katie felt her rage surging again when she realized he was gone. He was her partner. Her friend. She hadn’t done this… Lillian had made her do this. It was her fault. Graham had killed Danny because of her selfishness. She began advancing forward to the pair on the ground when Bonnie stepped in front of her.
“STOP. Katie! PLEASE. Look at me, focus on me. You have to come back to me, I need you here right now. It was an accident. There is nothing you can do now, anything you do now will only make this worse. I love you, Katie, I need you right now. Please, come back to me…”
Bonnie trailed off as Katie focused her black gaze on her. Her fingers had been on the other girl’s cheeks as she stared up at her, begging and pleading for her to come back, for her to be here right now. Right now she needed her. She needed her Katie more than anything else in this world.
“Please, come back to me, this isn’t you. You’re better than this.”
Silent tears were coursing down her cheeks as she held tight to Katie’s cheeks, her words soothing whispers attempting hard to bring the girl back to earth – back to her where she belonged. Her cheeks weren’t the only ones that were wet. The face that she held close to her own, the cheeks she was stroking with delicate but pleading fingers was soaked. But those eyes - they didnt flicker… Right now she could imagine the pain behind her. She understood and felt Lillian’s ache without being an empath. She wasn’t a seer either, but she could picture herself on the ground beside a lifeless Katie. A dead and spiritless girl – a shell of what her love had been. The image was too much for her, she couldn’t take it and through gasping sobs she opened her mouth to beg again for the girl to return.
She never got the words out.
Katie had lashed out. She had lost it. In a brief moment of anger, she had released her hold on her power and had to face the terrible consequences. Blood seeped from between Bonnie’s cupped hands, pouring beneath the cracks, sliding down her caramel skin. What had happened? Who knew? What had she done? No… this wasn’t happening. Rushing forward Katie’s arms went around Bonnie and she just into tears.
“No, no, no, no! I am sorry! I am so sorry Bon! I didn’t mean to! I’m sorry!”
Her words were nothing but a hushed ramble as she tried to fix what had happen, tried to undo what she did but she had no concentration, no focus. She was scrambling, panicking and hyperventilating all at the same time. This wasn’t happening. This couldn’t be happening. She had become the very thing she hated and she had let herself go into her powers. Because of that, Bonnie was dying.
Bonnie was dying and it was her fault. This was the girl that was her love, whether she wanted to admit it out loud or not, she knew it was true. No one saw her like Bonnie did, while everyone else was painting her a monster Bonnie remained steadfast at her side. The same Bonnie that she had just accidentally murdered.
Gasping for breath and trying to find some kind of control, Katie’s fingers pressed hard against the large wound in Bonnie’s stomach, her fingers attempting to hold in internal organs while she tried to ignore the feeling of the warm liquid draining out. “Oh God, oh my God. Bonnie. I am sorry – I didn’t mean – I love you so much I would never hurt you – I don’t kn- I am sorry! Please hang on! I love you! Hang on!”
Katie was rambling, screaming, panicking and rambling all at once. Her shaking fingers struggled hard against the flow but failed terrible. The weak women in her arms lifted her head up to look at her and she breathed out. Her face disturbingly pale and the shine gone from her eyes. Bonnie lifted her left hand and pressed it to Katie’s cheek.
“Sh. It’s okay, darling, it’s all going to be okay.”
Her hand fell to the ground. Her head lolled back. One more rise of her chest and Bonnie Crowe was gone from this world forever, leaving behind a wrecked murderer screaming and sobbing against her body.
