“So, Mattie, are you able to make that radiation chamber?” Rose asked, walking into the room. Mattie nodded, not taking his eyes off his work. He had hundreds of thousands of bullets in a pile next to him. He seemed proud of his work. “Alright, get it ready.”

“Did Sophie agree to get her ability?” Livvy asked, over the phone. We had her on the phone because she said she was bored and wanted someone to talk to while driving back to Albuquerque to recruit and tie up some loose ends. She is sorta shy, but she hates being alone. Irony, yay.

“Yea,” Rose started, “and it’s a time travel ability. With many conditions, including needing people to come with, so I’ll be going with her when she goes. And so will Livvy and Amber. Although I don’t know when this will happen.”

“Oh,” I said, and Livvy laughed, and said “You’re sure I’d be the right one, I mean, I’m a fucking loser.”

“If you don’t wanna go, I won’t make you, but I’m gonna need a replacement.” Rose sighed.

“I have someone.” Jonathan remarked, his figure emerging from the shadows of the room. It was quite eerie.

“Alright, who is it?” I asked, curious.

“He’s a young little guy, about your age. He’s also a vampire, one that you can trust, which might complicate things, and he isn’t very skilled in combat, but he’s a genius. And not in the way that Mattie is. He’s a tactical genius, and he knows the patterns of the underworld pretty damn well.”

“Well, let me meet him.” Rose said.

“Arlight, gimme a minute.” Johnathan said and walked off.

“You sure we should go time traveling, or anywhere? It just doesn’t seem like something you would do on a wim.” I said cautiously. “What’s changed.”

I really didn’t wanna get chewed out by Rose right now, but hey, what can you do?

“We’re going to New York. And the New York underworld at that. I won’t make anyone do anything, but I need someone who knows the backstreets of New York like most people think they know the back of their hands. So Sophie. But she needs a reason to go back, and I found the perfect scenario for it. Sure, I might be playing her like a fiddle, but she gets something out of this as well.”

“I don’t know. What do you get out of this. Really, I think you’re changing and I’m not sure how to feel about it.” I said. Rose would probably say something about Assets and strip clubs, and the national porn museum, that is what I get out of it. Horny no matter how many times we have intercourse, they’re so needy.

“I don’t know, but I feel extremely compelled to do it. However, there are a few assets that I want up there. So, It’s a process.” Assets. I was right.

“What assest’s?” Livvy asked, her voice cracking a bit. I completely forgot she was on the phone.

“Well, mainly money wise. Buying an apartment complex. It’ll bring in a lot of money. Maybe a strip club, maybe buy central park and put an entrance fee on it or something, although I’m not sure I like that one. If we go, which we will, we’ll being going back to 2018, about-ish. I set up my New York base in 2019, so I’ll set it up a year earlier so I can get more money. I need to get maximum money output so that I can hire more people”

As they finished their sentence, they sat back in their chair. Mattie opened the door and told Rose that the chamber was ready.

“Alright, let’s get radiating.”