WHO: Jasper Sampson Spencer & Eddie Spencer WHEN: Wednesday, July 12th. WHERE: Hop. SUMMARY: Eddie has another vision about Jasper & Ryan. STATUS: Complete.
The picture was hazy at first, an uneven mess of light and colors that could have been anything, but as Eddie rolled over in bed, grumbling something intelligible, the picture focused.
He recognized the sofa, and then the room, and finally the people in it.
A familiar voice was speaking offscreen, coming from the direction of the kitchen. Idle chatter, filling the occupant of the sofa in on his day and all that had happened in it. Nothing in the living room fixed an accurate date, no calendar adorned the wall, the television showed a rerun of some long since concluded sitcom.
When the disembodied offscreen voice suddenly made it’s way around a corner and into the room, Eddie wasn’t surprised to see Jasper’s face. But his next comment was puzzling.
“Lola seems to like her new food.”
A conversation about groceries followed, things Ryan needed for baking, what they ought to buy if people were coming over for dinner on Friday.
A few seconds passed before the haziness returned and the vision slowly faded into something else.
As they waited for their food to arrive, Eddie found his attention drifting from the baseball game playing on a screen over the bar. Scrutinizing Jasper wasn’t exactly a new pastime but he usually didn’t let it get in the way of observing Giants games.
“What’s new with you?” He asked in what he hoped was a conversational, unsuspicious tone.
Jasper looked from the game, to Eddie, slightly surprised that he hadn’t waited for a commercial break to say something as vague as that. “Not much.” He shrugged his shoulders. “Minty’s wedding was nice,” he offered.
Well, that was something to go no anyway. “Yeah? Did it give you ideas and stuff?” For your wedding with Ryan was implied.
He snorted. “I don't think Minty and I have the same aesthetic. Besides, I still think giving Ryan a ring at this point is too soon.” He paused for a moment, “not that we haven't talked about it, in a general sense.”
“Oh yeah?” Eddie sounded plainly interested. “What else did you talk about? Kids?”
Jasper raised his eyebrows. “Not much, at least not yet. But it's a conversation the two of us need to have before any proposal.”
Holding information back had never been Eddie’s strong suit, especially not when it was something he deemed exciting. “Right, well, I think I like, saw you doing something related to all of those discussions …”
The way his brother squirmed when he had information was always amusing. More so now, when he wasn’t attempting to hide anything big, like his sexuality. “Oh, did you? Are you going to share what is was or…?”
“SHOULD I?” Eddie asked uncertainly, as if he was being baited into answering a trick question before he’d had the time to think it through. “What if telling you influences future events?” If there was one thing that he didn’t want to take the blame for it was fucking up Jasper’s kid’s name.
Jasper shrugged his shoulders. “Do you think your vision from last year caused me to be in such a serious relationship with Ryan?”
“I mean, we’ll probably never know,” Eddie admitted with a shrug. “It’s the chicken or egg thing, just in a different way, you know?” Or maybe he didn’t, but Eddie had spent countless hours pondering the impact that his power had for years now, and even if that didn’t automatically make him more cautious, it did mean that he had a million thoughts and theories.
That was true enough. Jasper could have done his head in if he really tried to overthink his little brother’s powers. “Would you have mentioned the vision if you weren’t intending to share it?”
Eddie snorted. “Probably not? But mentioning it has to be better than a random outburst, right?” It was a mostly rhetorical question and he continued speaking. “It was you and Ryan kind of talking about your day’s and boring stuff like what you needed from the store, but like, one of the things you needed was food for a Lola,” he offered dramatically.
Jasper only just refrained from snorting into his drink at the rhetorical question. But Eddie’s revelation made him grin. For some reason that name felt like something Ryan would choose. “Oh, yea? How about that.”
“Right?” Eddie was grinning too. “It made me think of that song, you know --” he hummed and mumbled a few words before giving up. “But, I mean,” a shrug, “I guess it’s cute.”
“Did you see this Lola?” Jasper asked.
“Nah, she must have been napping or something, or hey, maybe I was babysitting.”
Jasper did laugh into his drink this time. “So you think Lola is a human baby?”
Eddie paused long enough to consider the idea that she wasn’t. “You fucker,” he gave his brother a shove. “Does that mean you’re ACTUALLY getting a dog?”
Watching Eddie work through what Jasper could mean was just about as fun as figuring out what he was going to get Ryan for their first anniversary. He supposed that this vision was better than Eddie seeing the pause Jasper had taken outside of the jeweler. That would have probably been far more dramatic, considering he didn’t actually go inside.
“I don’t know, when are your visions ever correct anyhow?” Jasper teased.
Eddie’s eyes narrowed but he was still smiling. “Don’t be a dick.” After taking a sip of his own beer he added. “I could still babysit the dog.”
“I believe it’s called dogsitting,” Jasper corrected. “And don’t tell Helena or Ryan. Or, anyone, really. It’s supposed to be a surprise for our anniversary.”
“Same difference,” Eddie shrugged. And after a split second of wondering if this meant anything, coming from him, he added. “I promise I won’t.”
Jasper narrowed his eyes, trying to impress on his brother that this was a secret he wanted to be kept. “It’s only a week and half away. So you won’t be sitting on the secret for that long.”
“I’ll try,” Eddie offered, “I’ll really REALLY try. But like, if you wanted to buy me another drink that probably wouldn’t hurt.” He finished with a laugh.
He rolled his eyes, but flagged the waiter over again. “You know what? I can’t wait until we do actually have children and they get to bribe you.”