Gone Boy | Hayden & Millie
You can do it, the fire-haired witch informed her brain, hoping the stress wouldnāt crack fault-lines into the foundation of her skull. With the way Millieās eardrums pounded the same symphony her heart was racing, she was certain that it wasnāt entirely improbable. āCareful,ā she whispered to Hayden under her breath, before she hopped over the fence that led to the backyard of the Jugson home. All of the work she had been spending nearly every morning at FitWiz had made more of a difference to her stamina than Millie would initially have guessed, and now, all she had to drag up was some of that Gryffindor courage she was supposed to have, no matter her own doubts on the matter.
They had planned this.
They had a plan of action.
This would go okay.
This had to go okay.
Millie tried to keep in mind that there was no guarantee at all that they would find Pierce thereānone at all. All this was, was going off of the only potential lead she had, and checking out the scene with the best, most-conspicuous plan she and Hayden could have come up with. She had back-up, and she had skills and knowledge, and she could do this, whether she had complete faith in herself or not. Maybe heās in there, and maybe heās okay, she tried to tell herself, but stopped after the first stab at optimism. She then tried, instead, to remember to treat this like any other case. There was room for hope, but only to a professional extent. She could bring heart into her work, but her decisions had to come from her head. She couldnāt botch this up. She had worked too hard for this. For this moment, she had to think of Pierce as a victim, and just that, instead of praying to every god, ones she didnāt even believe in, for her best friend to not be dead. Nothing could cloud her judgement, or he really might die.
There was such uncertainty fogging up the path that every step the witch took was one on a minefield. She didnāt have a damn clue whether her next movement would blow her and Hayden up, or would be another step closer in the direction of whatever the destination was to Pierce Jugson.
You will do this, Millie ground her teeth together as she and Hayden crept to the back entrance to the Jugson house, and you wonāt fuck it up.
