The hivemind is conquering for me?

Making my way downstairs, I was walking fast and apparently right on time to watch Kathrine come in from her balcony with a bag of food. As I followed her to the dining room, It appeared I was the last one to arrive.

"Morning everyone." I said politely. "Good morning!" Nathanos said with a smile. He had the time of his life with his new pick up strategy and scored a set of twins last night. He felt he owed Apollo for his new lot in life.

"Morning." Rhea said back with a pretty smile while wearing a set of comfortable pyjamas, her eyes accidentally glancing downwards as she remembered what she saw last night.

Willow had her head on the table also wearing pyjamas borrowed to her by Rhea and simply grunted. "Ugh." While waving her hand in greeting.

"Forgive her Apollo, Willow can't handle her alcohol that well, she will be fine after breakfast." Rhea defended her friends action who grunted once again in confirmation of the statement.

"Heh, Its fine honestly, I've seen your mom hung over shortly after meeting her while at my club, so Willow here is no big deal, she just needs to eat."

My response caused the twins to perk up in curiosity. "You managed to get mom that drunk?" "You have a club?" Nathanos and Rhea said respectively.

I looked to Kathrine to see if she had anything she wanted anything omitted from the story, she simply shrugged her shoulders to say 'whatever' and started to plate the breakfast. "Yea my family owns the club 'Sophia's' just below the equator. Its apparently pretty famous." Both Rhea and Nathanos nodded their heads as they too had heard of it.

"And yes your mum and I had some Takot which sent her over the edge and the next day she was super hung over during our meeting."

Nathanos looked at his mother in shock. He would never guessed she would partake in drugs like that. Rhea on the other hand. "Whoo momma! I did not know you were a party girl. I feel so proud for some reason.

We should go out together soon and party hard if you catch my meaning." She yelled causing Willow who was sitting next to her to punch her hard. "OWW! Bitch."

It was then Kathrine walked over with the plates of food. It was meat of some sort, eggs and a small variety of fruit. "There is a lot you do not know about me sweetheart and you would not be able to keep up." Kathrine said with a smile and kissed Rhea on the top of the head. "Now eat your food before it gets cold."

She then moved onto Willow, helping her sit up right and placed a pill into her mouth before going to sit on her chair.

The breakfast was quiet as we all ate together. After we were done Rhea asked. "So Apollo, what are your plans for today?" She took a subtle glance at her mother as she said this.

"I will be going back to the base after this to say goodbye to the mercenaries. Then I will be going home to spend time with my family. What about you?" I asked, being polite.

"Oh me and Willow are free all day. Our jobs pays a lot and we don't get to use our money for sometimes years at a time, so we are going on a bit of a shopping bender for the next few days."

It was my mistake asking the woman the question as she spent the next 20 minutes explaining in detail every single shop she was planning to go to and why and for how long etc. etc.

Thankfully I was saved when a vehicle had begun to hover over Kathrine's balcony and landed shortly after. "Apollo dear, are you ready to go now?" Kathrine asked with a knowing smile on her face.

I flashed my eyes at her in thanks before turning back to Rhea. "Well Rhea, it has been a pleasure to meet you, I hope we meet again soon." I say as I am standing up. I then reach out for her hand, but instead she leans in for a friendly hug. "It was nice to meet you too, I am sure we will meet again soon."

After the hug I looked at Willow who was still sat with her head on the table. "Bye Willow." Willow proceeded to raise her head slightly and whispered. "Bye." Before she placed it back down.

As I turned to Nathanos, He patted his chest twice with his fist and then pointed at me while nodding. I did not understand why he did that, so I just nodded back at him and turned around.

Kathrine had already made her way inside of the vehicle so I simply followed her in. The flight back to the Base was quiet as Kathrine just wanted to cuddle all the way there. Once we landed, She put on her large coat and activated the heating in her skinsuit and proceeded to step outside.

In contrast from the previous few times, Kathrine extended her arm out to help me down which caused me to smile

As we walked through the current snowstorm, we finally arrived back at the Thanatos. In the loading bay, I spotted Caleb pacing back and forth as he held his chin in contemplation. Upon noticing us, Caleb let out a sigh of relief before walking over. "Kathrine I am glad you are back, The Serpent swords took off a hour or so ago without giving their final reports."

"They did what?" Kathrine asked in surprise. What they Serpent swords did was not illegal or a contract breach or anything in that matter. However by not doing final reports, they immediately lose 15% of their cut.

"I know right crazy! Here, Gellon left this letter for you before they took off. I haven't read it as it is in your name." Caleb said as he handed over an envelope to Kathrine. As Kathrine opened and began to read the letter, her confusion turned into a soft smile of sympathy.

"*Sigh* Poor girl. Here darling you should read it." Kathrine said as she passed me the letter. I was confused as what was happening, but as I read the letter it began to make sense. Aside from all the official jargon at the start and Apologies to Kathrine, Mindy had begun to write why she had left.

Apparently she had been unable to control her new power during her grief and her entire room had become stone. Due to her grief, she felt to embarrassed to come and find me for help and just wanted to curl up and let it pass.

At the end of the letter, there was a P.S addressed to me.

P.S

Apollo, I am sorry that we have left in the way we did. I want you to know I am grateful for everything we did together. You have allowed me to see my station in life in a different way.

I know I was going to separate from Jacob once the mission was over, but his passing has affected me greatly. Just know that even though I left without saying a proper goodbye, I value your friendship greatly and hopefully that friendship can continue in the future when I have healed, that is if you still want to be friends.

Hopefully sometime soon we can meet together at your club and have a pleasant drink as I would like that very much. But until then Thanks your for everything Killer,

Mindy.

As I finished reading I smiled. "Are you ok Apollo? I know you two became good friends in the short time you knew each other." Kathrine asked as she stroked my shoulder with her hand.

"I am fine, totally. I would have liked to say goodbye in person, but if she needs space she needs space." I said truthfully. I liked the woman and considered her a friend true, but the most we had done was a kiss and as she said, she wants to meet again in the future so its not a proper farewell.

Kathrine looked me over and determined herself that I was indeed fine. "Very well then darling. I have to deal with the paperwork the Serpent swords have left me to deal with. My transport will be waiting for you when you are ready to leave. I will come to Sophia's in a couple of days to sort out our business agreement.

Until then." Kathrine, with more aggression than usual, Grabbed me by the head and gave me one last kiss. As our tongues clashed against one another, I could feel the passion behind her action.

As she pulled away, we stared into each others eyes a moment. There was a fire in her eyes as she stared at me and licked her lips. She then smiled as she walked away seductively passed Caleb who was just whistling as he stared up into the clouds.