Chapter 1

I jumped awake in the still darkness of night, realising our moving day had finally come around. Silently, I gently reached out and felt Zed still asleep beside me, not even nervous he was leaving his family house and the town where he grew up to move to England to start a job and live with me in a small house. He was excited about it – I, on the other hand, was so scared.

Zed and I had been together for over six years now, so it wasn't that I was scared of. We lived together, sometimes at Sally and Simon's house in Wrickenridge and sometimes at Zed's parents house. When we were at college for four years, we used to sneak into each other's dorm rooms due to their same-sex only rule. So we were somewhat ready to get our own place. In fact, we had started to look for places to live together in the outskirts of Denver. So it was an absolute Godsend when Will, Zed's older brother, called up saying he had a proposition for us.

Will has had a busy year. In February last year, he went to Belfast to work a case. The division he ran in the FBI worked on trans-atlantic crimes, and the case he was focusing on had started in Ireland and was being investigated by the Belfast police detectives. In doing so, he worked with one of the best police sergeants over there, and a few weeks after realised she was his Soulfinder. Things moved fast between him and his Soulfinder, Finley. Will convinced her to move over to Colorado with him, and she agreed. They lived happily together in the suburbs of Denver for quite a while before they received a phone call from Finley's old police captain.

Everyone in the Net knew about the Unit – a specialist branch of the British Government that hired only Savant's and worked on crimes committed by Savants, crimes normal police or other law enforcement couldn't touch. It had been founded near enough a hundred years ago and had continued to expand, and expand, to the point where it had over forty different units working different crime areas and had around two thousand people working for them, in a large secret building somewhere in Kent.

Finley's police captain was related to one of the main people in control on the Unit and called him asking if he knew of anyone who would run this new department, focusing on minimal use of Savant gifts to crack open criminals who wouldn't speak normally, fixing an issue they had with prosecuting criminals. There has been an uproar when people had used their gift to get information out of people whether it broke human rights. So the Unit was looking for someone who had a persuasive way without using their gift, or at least with a minimum amount of gift. So he immediately recommended Finley, who seemed perfect for the job. But it would require another move, this time to England. She agreed, but only on one condition; Will would head the department with her. Of course, they agreed – having a Benedict on tap? They had dreamed of that.

So Will and Finley moved to England and begun to head that division very successfully. They lived together in a three bedroom house in a small coastal town near Norfolk, working at the Unit tirelessly. Eventually, their division was such a success they had been given permission to expand. So, three months before we finished college, Will asked us if we wanted to work for them at the Unit, and we were hesitant. It was a big move. Eventually, Zed talked me into accepting the job and we got a start date for two weeks from now.

Will, since then, proposed to Finley and they had planned the perfect wedding in under two months' time, in the middle of summer. They had found a lovely wooden barn in the middle of nowhere with a seaside view, purchased it for next to nothing and spent the last three months doing it up. They had yet to show anyone photos but they both appeared over the moon with their wedding venue. This was whilst they were simultaneously heading one of the biggest divisions of the Unit, and finding myself and Zed somewhere to live near them.

Realising I wouldn't go back to sleep anytime soon, I kicked off the duvet and made my way downstairs. IT was only as I got to the hallway downstairs I heard people quietly talking in the kitchen and the lights were on. I knew Zed's parents were still asleep – I passed their bedroom on the way down. I nervously opened the door to the kitchen.

Will and Fin were both awake, sitting down at the table with their laptops open. Fin was leaning against Will, and Will's arm was around her shoulders and his cheek against the crown of her head.

'Morning.' They both said together before Fin checked the clock.

'Why are you up so early?' Fin asked as she sat up properly, closing down something on her laptop. I sat down opposite them.

'Just woke up and couldn't go back to sleep.' I said, undoing my hair from its braid before starting to rebraid it. Fin and Will just watched me for a second.

'You're scared about moving?' Fin simply said and I sighed and nodded – I couldn't help but notice our suitcases were by the wall in the kitchen.

'A bit, yeah.' I said, getting up to get a cup of coffee.

'You should be.' Will joked before Fin elbowed him.

'You'll be fine. Your house does need a bit of work but you'd get that wherever you move too. You don't start work for another few days so you have some time to settle in. And we're about a five-minute walk away if you need anything.' She said and I nodded as she very quickly pointed to something on Will's screen, which he nodded and typed something.

We sat in near enough silence for a while, every so often Fin would mumble something to Will about whatever they were doing on their laptops. I knew it had to be work stuff based on how secretive they were getting.

'How's wedding planning going?' I asked and Fin looked at Will.

'Forgot we had to plan it.' Fin said to him and he laughed.

'It's going fine. I've had to do most of it.' Will said and I did a double take. 'I know, I've had to do everything. Booking the caterers, trying cakes, I mean… it's hard work Sky.'

'I've helped!' Fin protested. 'I've… painted the venue a bit.'

'Hun, all you've done is painted a bit and said no to a fruitcake.'

'Yeah, who celebrates with fruitcake?' Fin said and Will rolled his eyes at her. 'I stand by it no fruitcake. Besides, you're better at planning stuff.'

'You need to go and get your wedding dress, I can't help you with that.' Will said before kissing her.

'I was being deadly serious, I am going in jeans.' Fin added.

'I ain't letting you go in jeans.' I butted in.

'Yeah, see, chief bridesmaid over there knows what she's on about.' Will said, gesturing to me. 'Please, Sky, please force her to go out and get a wedding dress.'

'Do I have too?' She mumbled. 'I don't want people to stare at me.'

Will just looked at her as I laughed.

'Fine, I'll find a dress.' She sighed and Will nodded, kissing her temple.

'Thank you. Pretty white one please.'

'Morning all.' Zed said, coming from nowhere and sitting down beside me. 'What are we on about?'

'Sky needs to fulfil her chief bridesmaid duties and force Fin to get a wedding dress.' Will said, checking the time. 'Jesus, you two are gonna suffer from jetlag tonight.'

'You still haven't got a wedding dress? Fin!'

'It's, like, two months away, that's more than enough time. Do I have to wear shoes?'

'I'll let you not wear shoes if you have a long dress. You can go in socks.' Will laughed. 'Right, the flight is at ten so we need to leave here in around an hour or so, it gives us time to give our luggage in. We should land around three UK time, and it's about an hour and a half drive back to Cliffe. So you'll be pretty tired by the time you get back there.'

'It'll be a confusing day.' Fin warned us and I nodded. I remembered how disorientated I was when I moved over to England. For days I couldn't quite get my bearings and I was not looking forward to doing the same thing this time around, especially as we start work two days time and Fin said she would show me around the tiny town she lived in and even promised to show me the wedding venue.

'Right, we should go and get ready then. You two seem like you've been awake forever.' Zed joked and Will nodded.

'We're going to go and get coffee, we'll be back in an hour – you better be ready to go when we come back. No dawdling.' Will warned.

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A few hours later, we were sat on the plane waiting to take off. Zed held my hand, knowing I was slightly nervous with flying. He had already placed the thick blanket over me as I had started to get tired, too. Will and Fin had come back to the family house, coffee cups in one hand, each other in the opposite hand. Will's old car – saying old, it was a few months old – had been given to his favourite brother Uriel in Denver, so Will packed his car for the last time with our carry on cases and a small suitcase for the flight with the essential overnight stuff in and drove us all to Denver international airport, where Uriel met us with his daughter, Tamika, to pick up the keys for his new car and said goodbye to his favourite younger brother. I knew Will and Uri were very close and they always have been, both of them had been well behaved but Will had more of an outgoing personality whilst Uri was introverted. I also knew Uri was Will's best man for his wedding, with Zed and Xav both ushers. Yves was nominated to look after the kids at the wedding. Trace and Vick had been invited but weren't ushers.

Fin and Vick don't get on – not at all. Vick banned Finley from the Savant Net when she was nineteen for being too "dangerous", despite that not being a good enough reason. When Fin first moved over here, Vick warned her that she was let in just because of Will and she was still a danger. Fin, of course, knew she wouldn't hurt Will ever. So she was getting annoyed when Vick continued to accuse her off being evil. Eventually, she snapped and told Vick to back off and to leave her alone. Will also got pissed off with Vick, telling him that his girlfriend was a psychopath and had no control and will, one day, hurt him – and similarly told Vick to get lost. Ever since then, it's been a rocky relationship between the three of them.

Anyway, we boarded the plane with little to no issue after, with Will and Fin sitting in the chairs behind us. I turned around and Fin was already asleep curled up into Will who looked more than content to sit there, an arm around his fiancé, for the rest of the ten-odd hour flight.

'It's crazy, isn't it? Fin wasn't even in our lives just over a year ago. We had met her what, twice by this time last year? And now they're getting married and we're moving half the way across the World because of a job Fin got us.' Zed whispered to me. 'It's amazing how much one year can change your life.'

'I know.' I mumbled, shaking my head before yawning.

'Do you want to have a nap? I'll wake you up if anything exciting happens.' Zed mumbled and I nodded, curling up into him a bit more. 'Are you still scared?'

'Slightly. I think I'm better knowing that Fin and Will are going to be there and they'll be our managers too so at least we have something going for us.'

'Can't really call your manager an asshole when your manager is one of your favourite brothers.' Zed laughed. 'Sleep. If you sleep I'll get you the World's best fish and chips according to Fin for dinner.'

'They can't be better than the ones near campus.' I laughed as Zed held me a bit tighter.

'According to Fin, she's sacrificed the World to have another portion of Jacks' curly fries.' Zed mumbled, Jacks' being the fish and chips shop that was a five-minute drive away from our new house. 'Half the reason I'm going over is for these amazing fries.'

'Chips over there.'

'I'm not going to start talking British if you're wondering.' Zed joked as I started to fall asleep on his shoulder.

I must have fallen asleep pretty suddenly as I jumped awake some hours later. The on-screen television which displayed the route showed the plane over the Atlantic, being closer to England than we were to the Eastern states of America – and we had been flying for around five hours. Zed was asleep as well. I awkwardly turned and looked over the chair.

'Morning.' Fin said, suddenly looking up at me. She was sitting weirdly, her back against the window of the aeroplane and her feet and lower legs on will, who was gently rubbing her knees. Will also looked up at me.

'You slept well.' He said.

'Yeah, who falls asleep on planes.' Finley joked and Will just shook his head at her. 'Oh, found this, what do you think?' She asked, passing over her phone to me without showing her screen to Will. Fin was showing me a beautiful wedding dress. It was a tight sweetheart line with thin lace over the top. It flowed out just below the waist and had a small train on the bottom, and it came with a sparkly belt. I knew It would perfectly suit her.

'That's beautiful.' I said.

'It's a store about fifteen miles away from home, I've booked an appointment for the weekend as someone is bullying me to go and get a wedding dress.' Fin said, staring at Will.

'Oh, can I see it?' Will said and she kicked him.

'Nope. Not how this is working.' She laughed. 'If you're gonna make me go out and get a dress, you can't see it.'

'Its also tradition, you aren't meant to see her in her wedding dress until the day.' I added and Will gave me a dirty look. 'You knew that!'

'What if I take you to dress shopping, then can I see the dress and help you pick it out.' Will said to her, looking at her with puppy dog eyes.

'Oh, you like being in control and knowing everything about the wedding.' Fin said and he sighed, rubbing her ankle. 'No, you've shown your cards, the dress is top secret. Sky, can I keep the dress at your house? Perhaps the veil, tiara, shoes and some other stuff I'm meant to get as well?'

'You really don't need to do that, Sky, don't let her.'

'You can absolutely keep your dress and stuff at my house. Not a problem. We can also keep the bridesmaid dresses at mine and perhaps some decorations?'

'Will hasn't done the wedding favours either, we can make them a surprise and keep them at yours too!' Fin laughed and Will just looked at her. 'You didn't sort the cake out, we can do that too, right Sky?'

'You two are evil together.' Will said. 'Sky, you can't live near us. I won't get my sweet fiancé back if you live us.'

'Aww, he thought I was sweet at some point.' Fin laughed.

'God knows when,' I added. 'I never thought you were sweet.'

The rest of the flight went fine – a bit of turbulence due to a storm in the ocean – but we landed a few hours after we were meant too. It didn't take long for Will and Fin to get their passports stamped, with Fin being a British National and Will already had his visa to work. It took Zed and I a bit longer to be processed, but the couple remained happy to wait, replying back to emails they must have received from work.

I knew Will and Fin, together, ran a very important division – one of the biggest in the Unit. And of course, as they booked their time off work together, it meant the unit had to run itself. I also knew the Unit was not looking forward until they got married and would go on their honeymoon for two weeks, leaving next to no one in charge. But I also knew the two of them loved their job and I had no doubt they would still be working on the plane to and from their unknown honeymoon location.

Eventually, we got out of the airports with our suitcases. Will led us all through a maze of a carpark a few hundred feet away from the airport, paying a whopping parking ticket to get his car keys back – although he immediately handed the keys to Fin. Four floors up, they stopped next to a large white SUV which doors unlocked at the press of the button.

'Jesus Will.' Zed laughed. 'Very nice car.'

'It's a work one, it's got a tracker in it so they can see where we are In case that something happens.' Will explained. 'We have another car at the house, just a plain Corsa. Also got a tracker. You'll get the tracker business when you start.' Will said as Fin started rearranging the suitcases in the boot.

'How long of a drive is it?' I asked Fin and she thought about it for a while.

'Just over an hour, hour and a half perhaps? Depends how bad the M25 is.' Fin explained. 'It's not horrendously far away.' She said. 'Don't look so scared. But whilst we're here.' She grabbed a small plastic wallet from the side of the boot, fishing a piece of paper out as well as two keys. She handed them over to me. 'Front door, side door.'

'These are the keys to the new house?' I asked nervously and she nodded.

'Yeah, the other keys are in one of the drawers in the kitchen. We moved in what we think you needed for the next couple of days and you have a lot of furniture for delivery tomorrow – that's the stuff you and Zed picked out and we ordered for you. Then you start work on Thursday, so you can get up nice and early.'

'How early?'

'You'll be doing nine til fives for a while until you get settled. Most of our workers do nine until fives five days a week, but if you wanna start early you can, the base is always open and there's some form of unit always on base.' Fin explained as Will walked past Finley, stopping to kiss her as he took back the car keys from her hand.

'Come on you two, I do want to get home sometime today.' Will laughed, rubbing his fiances wrist before she sighed. 'We still have to finish their paperwork when we get home, it aint over for us just yet.' Fin groaned as she headed around to the passenger side of the car and climbed in. Zed came up to me, looking in my hand.

'Who would've thought when you kicked me out of your tree six years ago we would be here, with the keys to our first house.' Zed said before he kissed me.

'Zed, get in the car or you are walking home.' Will called out and Zed shook his head laughing, as we got in the back of the car as the engine started up, reversing out the bay and heading to our new homes, in a new country with a new job, where we would have to face the inevitable.