Jared glared at her one more time before leaving. Mina watched him climb onto his motorcycle and speed off. When he was about ten minutes away from her house, the bike shifted into a shiny black convertible. He didn't know where he was going, just that he needed to cool down. He sped along the rode, weaving in and out of the traffic easily.

He turned off of the rode and found himself at the lake where he had first trained Mina to help her finish the tales so she would live, and now it seemed as though it were going to go to waste. If she went to the Fae plane then she would most certainly die. He frowned at the thought of her getting hurt.

She was going to finish the tales and break the Grimm curse. But that couldn't happen if she went to save her brother. It was probably all an elaborate trap set up by Teague...

Wait. A trap... For Mina with Charlie as the bait? Or a trap for Jared with Mina as bait? It made sense, Teague could kill the Grimm and get his other half back because there was no way Mina was going to the Fae plane alone.

He sat down in the sand by the water, not caring that his jeans would be covered. He ran all of the possible scenarios in his head. If Mina went to the Fae plane and he didn't go with her, then she would be killed. If he went alone to get Charlie then he would probably be killed because Teague was stronger than him and had allies. Plus it was Mina's quest, not his, to finish. And if they both went he couldn't protect her the whole time. There was no way she would let him.

The best option was to not go at all. He felt a pang of guilt at what it would cost her: her little brother. He knew that the quest needed to be completed, but not on the Fae plane. They would both have disadvantages there. But he wouldn't let her go to his homeland. He had destroyed the seam ripper, and that was the only way Mina knew how to cross over. Now he just had to make sure she never found a way.

Jared put his hand in the cool water and focused. After a few minutes, he could see her in her room. Pillows lay scattered around the room along with a few books and the Grimoire. Obviously she had thrown a bit of a fit and now she laid scattered across the bed, muttering to herself about a certain prince.

Jared smiled, he loved to see her riled up but then he frowned as he realized that he had unintentionally hurt her. He really didn't know why she cared so much about her brother. He was just another human.

Why were human emotions so complicated, what was the point of having them? They did nothing. But then he remembered how he felt about Mina and he understood.

He waved the image away. What to do? She had figured out that he was as much a servant to her than he was the stupid Grimoire. And she had used that against him. Why wouldn't she understand that going to the Fae land was going to end in her death? He wouldn't let her die, not even for Charlie.

Jared would eventually forgive her. After letting her suffer for a while, of course. But she wouldn't be going to the Fae plane alone, and hopefully not at all. So he just had to keep a close watch on her until the quest came to them. That's what he would do. That's what he had to do.