Tagged: 7 Lines from "Tracing Trouble"

[scribblemyname]

So geckoholic tagged me and I was already working on this, so here goes.

Pull seven lines from the seventh page of your WIP, then you're supposed to tag seven other writers.

Tracing Trouble

The mental pause had stretched and her brother was getting impatient. Cate...

Don't call me that, she snapped far more harshly than she had at Jarod, the backlash more stinging in a mind that had always been open to hers, her brother claimed even before they'd been taken and modified.

He wasn't Royce to her, wasn't Vision, and she wasn't and shouldn't be Cate to him. You're my brother.

It was a thing untouched by anything that had ever happened to them—from when they were ripped violently from their family and lost their birth names to when they claimed names born of who they were as team operatives. She could not call him by his birth name: Royce. That person wasn't hers. She could not call him by his name among the teams: Vision. That person belonged to his team, and she'd never been allowed to be that. Her brother belonged to her, and she'd never needed a name to fumble along their link and find him.

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And tagging in_the_blue, hiddencait, theladymore, morbane, trovia, and whoever else wants to do this. Most of the others I would think to tag have either been tagged or really write shorter stuff.