Chapter Two: Black as Night

[Solace]

Paige let out an honest to goodness giggle, “Oh yeah, thank god for the mission…ah’m pretty sure this little southern girl could beat yuh up.” She replied her tone playful and for the first time she wasn’t feeling extremely down or morose on this mission. As Frank scolded Vance like a small child Paige had to cover her mouth and smother the fit of laughter that threatened to surface as Vance just had to make his sarcastic commented, “Yeah yuh flirt, pay attention to the mission.” She mock-scolded her hands placed on her hips as she tried to do her best impression of her mother when she used to scold Josh and her used to get into all sorts of trouble. As Vance went into explaining some of the known superheroes that know had a set of fangs Paige almost wondered if she’d run into anyone she knew, had any of Gen-X been turned? Did Gen-X even exist and had she been apart of it? Paige let those thoughts circle through her mind, trying to fight off the nagging urge to ask if she was in this reality and what had happened to this reality’s version of her. Finding it to be a morbid question that didn’t need to be asked, after all nobody wants to know they’ve died…and she didn’t know if she could handle being told that this reality had a vampire Paige. So for the young blond she felt she was better off not knowing, after all she’d just gotten her moods up she didn’t need something morbid to worry her a bring her back into her morose mood.

Paige noticed a change in Vance as she walked along side him, and somehow she felt as if she was responsible for his sudden silence. “Vance ah’m sorry for askin’ about that…mah stupid curiosity gets the better of me.” Paige apologized, running a hand through her blond hair as she now walked along scuffing her boots on the ground like a two year old.