AU The Brotherhood: Daniel: Turning Back Time (part 3)

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The fox stared at Daniel. He still didn’t know what Kara was thinking, but he hoped he was making a slightly better start than he had before. All he wanted to do was make things work between the two of them, the way it hadn’t before, because he’d been a very different person then. From somewhere he managed to summon smile for her, even though they were still waiting my Miles and all he could hear were the whispers of the people he had once called friends. It was when Miles wandered over, looking confused, that Daniel started wondering what might be happening in the future he left behind, if Miles would take his place as the leader of the Brotherhood.

“What’s happening?” Miles asked, forcing Daniel to focus on what was happening, and he hoped that Miles hadn’t picked up on what he’d been thinking about, because he wasn’t sure how to explain that he was from the future.

“I think we caught a shifter.”

“Why isn’t it in the cage?”

“It doesn’t look dangerous.” Daniel tried to hide how he felt about calling Kara an it, but it wasn’t easy. “If I was a shifter I wouldn’t appreciate being trapped in a cage, so I had it freed, and it hasn’t run away yet, so I think I made the right choice.”

“Maybe.” Miles bit his lip, looking at Kara and then at Daniel. “Okay, someone go and get the shifter a blanket. The rest of you…” Miles shook his head. “You’re free to do what you want for the rest of the night.”

As they all wandered away, a couple giving Daniel looks that told him he’d done something they thought was very out of character, and he knew it was for the man he had been back then. He just didn’t want to act like that man, fearing he might become him again. During his lifetimes he’d realised how many mistakes he’d made, that he wanted to make sure would never happen again, so he needed to be the man he’d become, rather than the man he was back then. Breathing deeply he knelt down in front of Kara, looking into her foxy eyes. Like he had so many times before he wished he could know what she was thinking.

“Daniel…” When Daniel glanced up Miles was biting his lip again, looking as though he didn’t know how to put whatever he wanted to say into words. “You aren’t the same person you were when I want to check the other cages.”

“I know.” Daniel shrugged, turning back to Kara, who was studying them both. “Before you left I was living my first life and now…” He sighed. “This is, technically, my fourth life. When someone gave me a chance to come back, so I could make different choices, I took it, because I made so many mistakes when I did this all the first time.”

“Who’s the fox?”

“Her name’s Kara and she’s here to tell me about what happened to Miriam.”

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

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