(BL) Hunting The Field Guide novel Chapter 119

Chapter 119: The Taylor pick up

Kellen spent the time traveling with the medical team listening to them go over medical jargon Kellen only knew because he had known Taylor for so long.

It was funny, the more time he spent around them, the more his worries disappeared. It was clear that they didn’t care about what he’d done. It was all in the way they talked. They were clearly more upset with what the Guides had done to hurt the Espers than what Kellen had done to the Guides.

They also seemed...excited that had done what he had? Kellen was a little bit afraid to ask why they were excited by it, but he was happy that he’d made the right call, even while pissed. He knew that leaving anything to Espers when it was a situation wasn’t always a good idea, and he would gladly make that decision again. He had needed to get his anger out as well, but at least he hadn’t had to deal with the clean up from the tower blowing up.

The rest of the medical team left them as soon as they got to the Medical Bay, so it was just Taylor and Kellen as they headed towards the usual guiding room. Taylor had been holding back asking questions, Kellen could tell, and after they passed her office door, she finally spoke up.

"So, did you really have to throw her around like that?" She asked, and Kellen’s heart jerked. He sighed.

"It was either that or I hit her. I think I held back quite well." He told her firmly, and Taylor glanced up at him before she shook her head with a sigh. Kellen winced.

"Well, I commend you for holding back, but that meant I had to spend quite a bit of my time healing her. I was disgusted the whole time. I had to resist throwing up. Next time, just break bones. They take less time." Kellen couldn’t stop the snort that left him as Taylor’s voice dripped with revulsion. He covered his mouth, and glanced at Taylor to find her eyes dancing. He shook his head, relief flooding him. She wasn’t angry at him. _{freēwēbηovel.c૦m}

"I’ll keep that in mind the next time one of the Guild’s Guides decide not to do their fucking job and jeopardize everything the Captain has worked for." Taylor stared at Kellen’s face as Kellen practically spat the angry words out of his mouth.

"Are you upset because of Captain Thatcher, or are you upset because they gave Guides a bad name?" It was an honest question, and Kellen felt his shoulders tense. This wasn’t exactly the conversation he wanted to have on the way to his guiding session with the Captain, but it also felt good to get this off his chest.

"It’s a little bit of both. I know that the way I view the job of being a Guide is a little extreme, and I accept that, but what they did was just downright wrong. Did they forget that Guides used to be fucking tied up and used like objects before the D.E.C. was formed? Before rules with actual repercussions and consequences were put into place?" He shook his head, exasperated and Taylor kept watching his face. Kellen ran his hand over his face, pushing his hair out of his face.

It was clear he was upset, and in pain. She wasn’t sure if it was because of the words leaving his mouth, or because he was remembering the Guides who came before him. "Beyond that, it was fucking attempted murder in the main fucking city! Are they goddamn morons?" He was almost yelling, and Taylor chuckled. She placed her hand on his upper arm, giving it a squeeze.

"Kellen, what you used could be classified as excessive use of force." She told him but Kellen shrugged.

"I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it. Plus, did you see how angry the Espers were getting in the room with us? I did those damned Guides a service by not letting the Espers get their hands on them." Taylor shook her head, but when Kellen met her gaze, that told him everything he needed to know.

She wouldn’t have been kind to them either.