Samad was still smirking, his mood over babysitting the Bloodlines faded into a brighter one after he finished annoying Lucas, the Patriarch of the Peraltas. His hand pushed in his chair then reached for his cane, something he had been using the whole time and turned on heel, his casual walk gradually being him to his position. The Asylum fully intended on resuming his earlier spot to continue watching the families ‘
playing’ nice, an act faked by many. Halfway there, his mind caught the telepathic message Kiara sent to everyone. He paused a moment and listened to the details.
’There are bombs on the ship. Five of them. We need to disable them before things go boom, and before the families find out. We don't want an all out panicked brawl breaking out.’Samad’s fingers gripped tightly the lion head, knuckles whitening in concern upon learning about the threat.
‘Shit…’ he thought bitterly. Irritation rippled through his patience and started to surface into his features, his face chiseled into a hardened expression.
He reined it in quickly and his teeth bit back his inner conflict, knowing it wouldn't have done a lick of good to rant like a child over the circumstances. His eyes shifted toward where he had last spotted Cade, and noted his partner’s mysterious absence. The Iranian’s eyes narrowed in suspicion then pushed forward, pain edging into his attention from the continue thought about the new threat bearing down upon them. There was little way to tell how they still had.
Samad’s mind reached out to Cade’s through their link, his mind compartmentalizing his issues then centering on the most important one: Contacting Cade. As his headache stirred, the Asylum made a note that his medicine was wearing off and he would have to ask the Doc for a new round. It was bad enough he was around his family, but having to also suffer through almost crippling pain was beyond acceptable.
‘Did you hear that Cade?’Nothing.
Samad mentally cursed. That’s when one team of Asylums, his knowledge of the team lacking due to them being late, Cade’s fault naturally, mentioned they would be checking on engine room near the stern. The place where the most damage could’ve occurred with least amount of effort. Samad had been about to answer when Cade’s anxiety came roaring out of nowhere, hitting him like a train with enough force to cause his head to hurt from the tons of stressful emotions smacking him about in its wake.
Samad’s eyes widened slightly in shock as he quickly addressed the flood, trying push through the thick and clouded over distraction created by his new link. This was still something he had to readjust back to since Elsa’s death. He also didn’t like the fact something had irritated his partner when he wasn’t around and he didn’t know exactly what it was or how threatening it was.
‘Cade, what's wrong? Talk to me this time, or I swear-’ Cade's next words sent chills down his spine, interrupting his threat.
‘I think I just… found one of the bombs…’ ‘Where?’ Samad demanded.
‘I’m currently a little busy disarming it… Get here, please.’ Cade stated, his tone calm but his mind was pure, untamed panic. Something that Samad was getting rather uncomfortable with the longer he was exposed to it.
‘Don’t move, I’m coming.’With that in mind, Samad abruptly started to quickly move away from the guests. He wanted to get somewhere out of their range of sight then detour back to Cade. He had no doubt that Lucas would’ve been relieved to see him depart and staying away from his niece, at least until the Patriarch discovered why. Oddly enough, Samad didn’t doubt the other Asylums’ ability to keep secrets, but he knew all secrets came to the light eventually. One could only bury something so far before it was tracked back up and spotlighted because of that to create additional harm. Especially since some families were more were adept at reading into and putting things together than others, even when it wasn’t their business to do so.
Last thing that help it was him suddenly popping out to who knew where.
That was something Samad was afraid would happen when he felt his father’s eyes latch onto his retreating back and lingered there. He knew there was a questioning glance accompanying it. He hastened his steps with the momentum stolen from Lucas’ flick, a minor burst of speed but effective enough to pull away from anyone following him. In moments, he shortly vanished out of the room. Taking the long corridor before him, he branched off and moved down the nearest stairs.
He seemed to be heading away from where he sensed Cade’s location… at first. Gradually, his alchemy started to buzz in his veins while he envision a teleportation spell, thinking of being in the same area as his partner. Suddenly a pop happened, and then he vanished into thin air.
A bit later, Samad popped back into existence.
Annoyance spread across his face when he noticed
where he was: right outside the ship’s public restroom. Inhaling deeply, he pushed his right hand out to open the door and strolled inside. The first thing that caught Samad’s eyes was Cade sitting upon the floor within one of the stalls at the other end, his torso propped against the toilet bowl and head pulled nearby as if he was getting sick within. Frowning, the ex-Kian moved past the urinals on his left and the sinks on his right toward his partner.
When he stopped near Cade, he hopped down into a crouch position and spoke.
“Where the hell is the bomb?”Cade abruptly jerked from the start Samad gave him, his head twisted backwards and came face to face with the stern faced Asylum. It was now that Samad could now clearly see the younger man’s arm reaching against the far back and near the top of the bowl, his fist gripping a few colored wires. Fear and curiosity sparked deeper into Samad’s core causing the dark complexioned man to slowly lift. He shortly spied the small bomb planted behind the very toilet as Cade’s skin looked much more paler than usual.
The bomb itself was rather crude. It was small, black box with multiple wires sticking out from its sides and were attached to what appeared to be several chemical tubes filled with blue liquid. Samad guessed they were some type of explosive in liquid form for easy smuggling onto the cruiseliner. A timer, its analog readout ticking down, was visible with digital red numbers underneath.
“Why didn’t you use alchemy to defuse it?” Samad asked in a blunt, obviously disapproved tone at Cade’s approach.
”You don’t think I didn’t? It didn’t work and the last thing I wanted to do was to get down on my hands and knees in front of a toilet bowl....” Cade growled, then added a question in huffy tone.
“Now, can you get to my medical bag?”Samad shook his head then proceeded to look around, his cane placed on the wall divider near the urinal. As he spotted the bag, he retrieved it from the marble surface then placed it beside Cade. He had even been nice enough to open it up and reveal several tools made for blond’s specialty in medicine. After a moment passed, Cade commented -while reaching for a pair of clamps within it- about the door.
“Also, prop yourself against the door to make sure no one walks in on this. I much rather not reveal we have a bomb or come up with another reason why I’m down here.” “Tell them you’re drunk.” Cade paused, his torso had edged into a laying down upon his side, propped himself back upon his elbow. He started to cast a look that screamed ‘Really?’ right back at the Iranian. For a moment Samad become aware how stupid his suggestion sounded and naturally corrected himself.
“Yeah, you’re right. You don’t look the type to get drunk.” The doctor rolled his eyes at his partners snickering and returned to defusing the bomb, ignoring him to focus on the bigger issue. This only made the man’s smirk deepen. Samad then informed the others where their bomb was currently located at so to prevent anyone else from trying to search here and waste more time. He especially enjoyed Cade’s embarrassment, everyone knowing exactly who had found it first, while he did it. Cade groan softly in the background as Samad leaned against the door, blocking it and preventing anyone inside.
His amber eyes studied the doctor working carefully through neither of them knew what exactly they were doing. Inwardly, Samad was debating on if this was a good time to drill Cade over his connection with the Legendes or wait until the bomb was disarmed. Sensing Samad’s eyes on him like a pin tacking a butterfly to a display, Cade spoke to break the silence.
“Why are you staring at me?” “ I was just wondering something. Namely why you were flirting with that Legendes girl earlier.” Cade’s ears heated at the topic causing them to becomes slightly reddish as he tried to cast off Samad’s interest with a causal and unemotional comment.
“What do you mean? I merely wanted to learn...”He stopped abruptly, his parents memory flooding his mind and caused his heart to ache. He wasn’t ready to deal with this pain and certain not right now. However, Samad was determined to press it.
“ Really? And what did you want to learn from her? Especially a pretty little thing like that? ” “Just… drop it Samad.” “Tell me. ” “Drop it or you’ll make me blow us both sky high, taking the ship down with us.” “She’s a Bloodline, you’re Asylum… it won’t work. ” “Samad… please, not now.” Cade pleaded making Samad grow silent.
~~~|Nearly Two Agonizing Hours Later|~~~~
Cade, after he heard the bomb timer go dead silent, sat up with the device in hand. He held the box, several wires were frayed and seemed cut with expertise of a surgeon, in his shaky grip while his other held the tubes carefully in the other. Cade was very, very rattled and anyone could easily see it. He cautiously held out for Samad to pull out of his hand and relieve him of anymore burden in handling it. Samad reached out then placed it onto the counter before he held out his hand for Cade to grip and pull himself to his feet.
“Good god. I wasn’t even sure if that brief study in bomb defusion was going to actually pay off one. Thankfully it’s all over now.” He bent down and gripped his bag, ensuring the clasps were all tightly secured.Instinctively, his eyes warily noted the bomb just sitting there almost too peacefully.
“Now, you have ideas of where to put this?” “Not a clue.” “Geeze, you’re helpful.” Cade stated blandly.
Samad had been about to reply when a sound made them both stop in their tracks. Tick...Tick...Tick. Their heads turned to spy the analog hand move and digital numbers once more counting down from its original 7 seconds, the point where Cade had managed to defuse the bomb.
“I thought you disarmed it.” Samad looked accusingly at Cade’s shocked face, their heads unable to tear away.
In total disbelief, the younger Asylum defended what his logical mind knew was true.
“I did, I swore I did…” Then something clicked that he hadn’t considered before.
“Oh dear God... it has to have a backup battery!” “DAMN IT CADE. If we get out of this alive, I’m going to beat you senseless!” Samad snapped, his arm jerked out and seized it. He quickly bolted toward the stall. His arm shoved Cade to the side as he tried to slow the ticking timer to a crawl… without success.
“Samad don’t--” Their telepathic linking them to the others cut off almost instantly when the bomb went off.
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