(BL) Hunting The Field Guide novel Chapter 437

Chapter 437: The second day after everyone arrived on the front lines

Kellen’s Dad reaching out seemed to be the right thing to do. While Rhys and Kellen’s Mom had been reaching out for days, feeling like they were pulling teeth, it had taken Kellen’s dad literally 12 hours to get a response.

He got several, in fact.

Just went to show that Guide solidarity was more powerful then an Esper bowing and giving up his pride to ask another a heartfelt question.

Rhys had been pissed when his Dad had forwarded him a detailed response from one of the pairs of an Esper he had personally reached out to, but he didn’t get mad at anyone there. He was just frustrated that his efforts had meant nothing.

Either way, the responses weren’t in their favour. So far, out of everyone who they had gotten a response from, nothing similar had happened. They were also open to telling them their compatibility score and how it had increased over time. It was looking like Kellen was just an anomaly.

Kellen was fine with that, except for the fact that it meant he didn’t know what to do. He had no rules to follow, and he had no idea what that would mean for him personally, long term. Rhys didn’t like it for the same reasons, as did everyone else.

Taylor was frustrated because even to the other Espers of her Class and type, they didn’t have any answers either. They had a similar agreement as the Guides and shared information willingly. They were just as shocked at Kellen’s ’mutation’ as Rhys and Kellen had been.

Kellen didn’t really like being the ’first’ to do something in this regard. That meant that if word really got out to everyone, he would have to change how he lived. He didn’t want to do that.

Granted, he wasn’t leaving the Guild Tower much right now because of the E.A.G. threat, but he did like to move around the city when his life wasn’t obviously being targeted. He wanted to be able to walk down the street, maybe go shopping with Rhys again once this had all calmed down.

He didn’t think that would happen if it came out that he, Kellen, had acquired some of Rhys’ powers. Because the next obvious question was, could he do the same with others? Kellen didn’t want to test that. He’d had to do some pretty intimate stuff with Rhys to get to this point, and he didn’t think Rhys would be cool with that now that they weren’t just a pairing, but boyfriends.

He also didn’t want to do that kind of testing, point blank. He already had severe and debilitating issues around getting retested. He could only imagine what kind of tests they would want to run on him if that came out. No thank you. A shiver ran down his spine just thinking about all the weird instruments and machines he’d have to be around.

Awful.

So, it was a good thing that Kellen had suggested it. He hadn’t been sure that they hadn’t reached out, even using Casper, but his Mom’s reaction had made it clear that they hadn’t. Now they at least had some answers right away, and they would probably get a few more trickling in as time went by.

This was the first day that Charlie was officially joining the morning class. Like yesterday, Kellen had everyone arrive at the A Class gym, only now this included Charlie. He got an escort by Kellen’s Dad, all smiles, who offered both his son and Charlie a warm hug smelling of sugar and spices before he went to go pick up some tea and snacks for him and his wife. Charlie waved, as did most of everyone else in the A Class gym, and he left.

That’s what happened when you were the poster boy for pretty much all Guides and had been spoken about positively for nearly three decades.

Charlie was excited, bouncing as unlike the others, he was dressed in the work out clothes for the Guild, not the Field Guide uniform. Kellen wouldn’t say he was excluding him, just that Charlie would need to earn his uniform since he was part of the group that Kellen considered the ’second wave’. That group also consisted of most of the other Guides, but Charlie was getting treated slightly differently because...he was Charlie.

They would not get one on one training time with Kellen. They would be getting the new teachers as their instructors. With that said, Kellen got the groups organised, keeping them the same as the groups that went inside the simulations the day before, and then turned back to Charlie.

He was sure that he had no idea what he was about to get into.

Charlie kept his smiling demeanor until they got to the more intense workout portion. Then the smile faltered on his lips. Kellen told him that they were doing this to learn his limits, learn what he could and couldn’t do. That meant Kellen was leading him around with a little clipboard and multiple workouts written down.

He was testing Charlie on everything. Each column was set up so that Kellen could repeat this again and again. Charlie seemed to think that Kellen was punishing by the time that they got to the bottom of the first page. Kellen didn’t notice until Charlie spoke up.

"Am I...a problem?" He asked carefully, hesitantly and Kellen paused. He had been writing something in the margins of the page, a small note that he needed to remember when he tested Charlie tomorrow.