Just as she'd seen the note on the fridge about the meeting they were going to have, he'd called. Betsy had known that the meeting was going to be about the protest Jamie had spoken of, and that it was important, but she couldn't ignore the call.
Brian was her brother, and Brian was the most important thing in her life. He was rungs above everything else on the ladder of important.
He hadn't sound panicked, but he'd asked her to come get him. She couldn't be sure if he needed help, or just a ride, but it didn't really matter in the end. If she was needed, she was going to be there.
Betsy could only hope that Erik wouldn't hold this too much against her. She'd find a way to make it up to him somehow.
The drive to Boston was made longer by the fact that Betsy had no idea if her brother was in trouble. Their phone call had been extremely short, and it had gotten cut off by bad reception at the end. He might have tried to tell her something, but she just hadn't heard it. If both hands hadn't been clutched onto the wheel so tightly that her knuckles were white, she might have chewed her nails all the way to get him.
Since I was kind of afk there for a long time and missed both the meeting post and the fight post, I thought I'd find a way to explain why Betsy wasn't there.