Touch and Go
Why? Why did he save her? She’s made it abundantly clear that she wasn’t ever going to join him, he was a blood relative but he was no family. Not to her anyway.
His words had hung over her, ‘Why do you let them treat you like a minion Kayo, you have the skills and spirits to lead, like me…. You and I are the same, we see an opportunity and we take it’. It wasn’t so much his words that disturbed her, but the fact he knew he was right. She was similar to him in multiple ways, more than she'd like to admit, and it scared her, really really scared her. She feared that she would become him one day if she wasn’t careful, if she didn’t keep herself in control.
She wasn’t keen to admit to how scared she had been when that goon had fired on her ship, she lost all control of it, even her emergency systems wouldn’t work. The eject button failed, that backup should never have failed, it could have saved her life if her uncle hadn't done what he did. She wasn’t able to hide the sheer panic from her voice though, she was essentially blasting that panic across the entire comms system, contradicting the persona she attempts to give off, extinguishing the confidence she always tries to display, even if she doesn’t feel it.
And Scott, how was she supposed to explain this to him when she didn’t even know why he did save her. Why would he? She despised him, chased him, did everything she could to stop him, but he still saved her life after going through all this trouble to steal the fuel. He was asking her questions she couldn’t find the answers for, not without revealing the truth anyways, and she wasn’t ready to do that, not yet.
The motor had been fried on her bird, she had some engineering knowledge from spending time with brains and knew that it would take a good week or so to repair the motor on its own and another few days to repair the rest of her bird. That gave her plenty of time to settle the argument that they had in the morning. She wasn’t going to back down, she believed in what she was doing, she fully believed that criminals should be stopped before they get a chance to act, the GDF was useless in her opinion, and always acted after the threat was long gone.
The roar of thunderbird 2’s engine filled the air and Kayo was glad, it meant that she could get home quicker, and escape to her room or the gym, whatever she felt like doing. Virgil was a welcome sight from Scott’s questioning, he was the brother she felt she could confess most things to him, he would understand, he normally did. She just hoped they all would when they find out the truth.
