"MOM I HAVE FUCKING MISSED YOU! GAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" I finally put her down and walked over to dad with veronica in tow. "Deddy. Im so glad I did what I d...d. I missed you so much." I stuck my hand out. "No youre a man now but that don’t mean you get out of this." he wrapped me up in a bear hug and ruffled my hair. "Boy im proud of you. I knew I would be. Just keep the grandkids away for a bit!" we laughed and as the night wound down me and veronica made our way to the limo. I turned around and. " Kat opened the suite's door and left closing it firmly.Charles stood by the table as he watched the door close behind his chosen. In frustration, he slammed his hand against the table. He barely felt the pain in his knuckles as he broke the skin. It had definitely not gone as he had hoped. In fact, he was in a worse position than he had been earlier.Turning, he hit a button on the communications console. Immediately Councilor Dean's voice filled the room."I need to talk to you, Dean." I'll be. Shit!"H-hello?" I answered my hands were so shaky I could barely hold the phone."Hey, hey my princess," Gary said."Hi," I replied in a small voice."You ok?"I wasn't sure how to answer that. "Y-yeah I'm fine. How are you?" You don't sound very excited to hear from me," Gary said curtly.I winced. "Um no don't say that. I'm so happy to hear from you my love. I have missed you but I'm kind of mad at you that you haven't called me! I've left you like a thousand messages."I heard Gary scoff. "I'm. Jim had driven it twice before. Just north of Orrovile near the Canadian border was an old abandoned mine, closed for almost one hundred years. The mine was little known to others, except a few kids who explored it before one got lost and died. Since then, a steel door had been installed to keep them away. It was a mine that had various kinds of semi-precious gems. Around 1881 it shutdown because financially it wasn't feasible to keep operating. Most of the miners turned to farming and forgot.