"Tommy don't be ridiculous, I can't take that, it's yours" she was staring in amazement at the two thousand five hundred pounds I'd just put in her ha...d."Don't let's argue mum" I said and pressed her hands around the money, "I didn't expect a penny for bringing Jill her this morning, but she insisted, so now, we're both a lot better off than we were yesterday" Bloody hell" she said and kissed me, "You don't half rabbit on when you get on your high horse don't you?"Joe and Jill came back and the. Our email campaign was reaching more people than we ever expected. It was almost like having a chain letter going around. And someone posted it on Facebook as a fund raiser. By Thursday we had 150 subscribers on Patreon. They ranged from a dollar to twenty-five dollars, but we were averaging about five dollars a member. And people were hitting our website. The first thing Joan had accomplished after Beca and I left was to connect our store. We were actually selling T-shirts for the Marvel &. Destine's offer. He decided against it, because if it turned out to be nothing special then he would be blamed... but if it turned out to be something useful, and succeeded in killing a Gargoyle then he would get the credit!Outside the Quarrymen's Headquarters:Her driver opened the door to her limo, and Demona got in. Once settled in she instructed the driver where to go, and at a certain spot she had him stop and wait. The door opposite her opened for a moment as if by magic, then closed. I made a huge show of looking in there. I lifted Tanya out and slowly checked again. Finding nothing I looked back at Alex. "There's no ball in here."Alex giggled again and pointed at my hands, causing some of the children nearby to titter nervously. I turned slowly to look at Tanya in my arms and gave an expression of shock."Alex!" I cried. "When I said you were to play soccer with your sister, I didn't say you could use her as the ball!"There was a burst of laughter around me as I carefully.