"We went because there was no where else to run and because our parents were guaranteed to be as unarmed as they were going to get; and even then Alex manipulated us into going in the first place by calling the cops to our hide-out." Nico shook her head. "He led us around by the nose right up until he woke me up to tell me that his end goal was keeping his parents from being killed."

She scowled across the bed at him. "I can't raise people from the dead or even guaranteed travel through time with my magic, I'm not about to fling myself into the sucking void between realities where Kuk is on the off-chance I can make it home, much less bring Molly with me. There's no where to run, so I might as well fight."