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crawled through the tunnel, raced back
to the car, and hit the road in record time.

Chapter 7
    Emmett was waiting for us when we got back. He must have been watching
from the window because he flung the door open before either of us could knock.
“You’re alive!” he said, relief washing over his face.
    “Barely,” Jet replied. We sat down and told Emmett what had happened.
    “So now you can heal people.” Emmett shook his head in disbelief, staring
at the massive rip down the right pant’s leg of Jet’s jeans.
    “You didn’t have any, uh, psychic premonitions about that, did you?” I
asked him.
    “No, I haven’t been able to see much of anything lately,” Emmett said.
    Jet stood up. “I have to go. Aurora, it’s been real, and it’s been fun…”
    I laughed and finished the sentence. “But it hasn’t been real fun.”
    “Do you need a ride home or anything?” Jet asked.
    “No. It’s almost 3 a.m. My parents would flip out if I walked through the
door right now. Emmett said I could stay here.”
    Jet shook Emmett’s hand and hugged me goodbye. When he’d left, Emmett
turned to me. “I’ve got get some sleep. Make yourself at home. What’s the plan
for tomorrow?”
    “Mom thinks she’s going to pick me up from Kelly’s house and meet her
parents,” I said. “But I’ll get Henry to pick me up from here and tell mom I’m
hanging out at his house or something.”
    “When are you going to tell Lucas about your excursion tonight with Jet?”
Emmett asked.
    “I guess tomorrow. Er, later today,” I said, realizing that it
technically was Sunday. I shrugged my shoulders helplessly. “He’s going to be
pissed.”
    “He’ll get over it,” Emmett said.
    “Is that psychic Emmett talking or are you just trying to make me feel
better?” I asked.
    Emmett smiled. “Perhaps a little of both.”
    ###
    The next morning I called Henry. “Can you come get me from Emmett’s
house?” I asked.
    “Emmett’s house?” Henry echoed in surprise. “That’s not what I expected
you to say. Is everything alright?”
    “Yes,” I assured him. “But it’s a long story. I’ll tell you when you get
here.”
    “Wow,” Henry said when I’d finished. “I guess I’m glad I didn’t know,
though. I actually got a decent night’s sleep, for a change. I’d have been
beside myself with worry if I thought you were getting the wendigo tooth.” He
paused. “But at least it’s over with now. And it’s exciting to find out you can heal people. I’m pretty sure Tobias doesn’t have that ability.”
    “What about you?” Emmett asked Henry. “Are you ready for Saturday? It
will be here before we know it.”
    “Yeah, I think so,” Henry said, sounding nervous. “I just have to see if
Lucas and Nicholas got the rest of the junk last night. And I need to study the
spell a bit more, but I’ll be good to go by Saturday.”
    “I hope I can say the same,” I mumbled. “If Tobias realizes I’m trying to
double cross him, he’s going to be furious. You know how crazy he is. Who knows
what he’d do? Hell, he might try and kill me if he wasn’t lying about knowing
how.
    “It’s not going to come to that,” Henry said sharply. “I’ll get the Gates
open and Lucas and Nicholas will push Tobias and Magnus in. Then I’ll close
them.”
    In theory, I thought, but I didn’t comment any further. Henry was
right; we needed to have the attitude that everything was going to work out.
Because the other option was far too scary to fathom.
    “Thanks again for letting me stay here,” I told Emmett. “We’ll get out of
your hair now.”
    When we got to the car, Henry said, “Want to come back to my house for
awhile?”
    “Sure, why not?” I replied, hoping Mr. Matthews wouldn’t be there.
    “Yeah, I was thinking we could get our plan set to deal with Benji,”
Henry said.
    “Ugh, I almost forgot about that with everything else going on.”
    “Tomorrow will be a week since he tried to attack you,”