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Cassidy's Point Of View
As we sat there waiting for May to return, I snuggled against Butch and wondered what had come over him all of a sudden. Sure we were going out together but we'd never been really close, I never would have believed he'd risk his life for me. I guess you really don't know someone till you're in real danger.
The door May had disappeared through opened and she entered the room, but what really surprised me was who followed her in, Jessie and James, even with the new hair colours I could tell it was them. Mondo gasped, it was one thing hearing they were still alive and another actually seeing it was true. Meowth jumped of the sofa arm and run to them, he jumped up and Jessie caught him in her arms holding him close to her. James looked at us and them wrapped his arms round the pair of them, pulling them close to him. All three of them were crying softly, tears of joy I guess, happy to be reunited once again.
I could hear Mondo crying softly, Cleo trying to comforting him. I looked up at Butch and he winked at me and I knew he didn't regret not killing them. May glanced at the three of them, placed a hand on James back and whispered something into his ear. He nodded softly, released Jessie and Meowth and led them over to where we were sitting. Jessie sat down on one of the chair, Meowth curled up in her lap, May sat in the other. James smiled softly at me and reached and patted Mondo on the arm, telling him everything was going to be OK. I wondered if he knew what he was saying.
James sat on the arm of Jessie's chair, placing on hand on the back of her neck, she glanced up at him and smiled softly before turning her attention back to us. I guessed they must have finally told each other how they felt, I mean you'd have to be blind not to see how much they cared for one another. Jessie sighed softly and said, "You OK Mondo?"
He nodded softly, "I will be." he said, resting his head against Cleo, who rubbed his back softly. Jessie nodded softly before turning her attention to me and Butch, "How'd Giovanni find out we're still alive?" she asked. Butch frowned and said, "He found your old tops and worked it out from there. Don't ask me how he got hold of them 'cause I don't know."
James closed his eyes and started to say something, but Jessie stopped him. He looked at her confused for a moment before nodding. "It doesn't really matter how he he found out," She said, "what matters is what we do about it now."
"You're right of course." I said, it felt strange agreeing with Jessie it wasn't something that happened very often. "But what can we do about it." I continued.
"We have to prepare for an attack." Butch said, "And it will come, as soon as he finds out where we are." With that he pulled me even closer and I knew he was worried about what was going to happen.
"What's the likelihood of him finding out?" May asked softly.
I was about to answer when the front doors blew open with a loud bang causing everyone to jump. The smoke cleared to reveal The Boss standing there with about five of his elite troops. Just the sight of them was enough to make me feel sick, no one ever got away from them. He smile at us all and said, "I have to thank you for leading us to our missing team members, I doubt I'd have ever thought to look for them here if it wasn't for you."
As he said that the truth suddenly hit me, I should have know it was all a set up when we'd escaped so easily. He'd used us to find Jessie and James and like fools we had let him do it. As his elite troops began to spread out around us, I couldn't see anyway out of this for us. I buried my face in Butch's chest and prayed that it would be over quickly.