Who: Lucas, Paige, Savannah What: catching up Where: Off Broadway When: The day after Lucas arrives. Warnings: should be low Status: g-doc
Savannah made her way to Off Broadway. While she could have suggested other places, or gone to Paige’s, the witch wanted to give Paige a night of not worrying about feeding her. Even though everyone knew Savannah still pilfered cookies on a regular basis for her and Adam. Plus, cooking wasn’t something Sav really enjoyed much.
After work, she made her way to Off-Broadway, already dreaming of the tacos about to be shoved into her face. Or a bacon cheese burger. Truthfully, she hadn’t decided yet.
When she got to Off-Broadway, Sav entered and looked around for Lucas and Paige, anxious to reassure herself they were both still here. Yes, she was in her mid-twenties. But, she’d gone through a lot of loss and one couldn’t blame her for worrying about losing more people.
Paige was over the moon with the fact Lucas was back. She’d actually taken a day off from her work and stayed in for over twenty-four hours with Lucas. It wasn’t technically enough, but Paige reminded herself that, as far as they knew, Lucas would be around for a while - she didn’t need to fit everything in at once. Still, it was probably obvious that Paige was lighter than usual as she walked. It wasn’t that she had been entirely miserable without Lucas, but it had been hard on her all the same.
Walking in with Lucas, she saw Savannah and maneuvered them both her way.
Lucas was still trying to come to terms with the fact that he’d been somehow transported to a pocket dimension in Southern Indiana. Although he’d been through many strange things in his life, he was hard pressed to find one quite as bizarre and unexpected as this one.
Still, the fact that Paige was here made everything easier, as it always did, and their twenty-four hours of ‘staying-in’ had assuaged most of his anxiety. Among other things.
He held her hand tightly as they approached the restaurant, smiling as he saw Savannah. He let Paige guide him to the table, then nodded at her before sitting down across from her.
“Savannah. It is good to see you.” And she didn’t look too much older than he remembered.
Savannah offered a hug to Paige and then grinned at Lucas, before hugging him briefly. “Well, if it isn’t my two favourite love birds.” Outside of herself and Adam, obviously, but she didn’t quite know how to broach that subject yet. Or if Paige had.
“It’s good to see you too, Lucas.” She led them to a booth and then a server came to take drink orders. Sav ordered a red on tap and waited for her former guardians to order. “So, on a scale of 1 to 10 for us and weird, where do you fall on interdimensional kidnapping?”
Paige hadn’t quite gotten around to mentioning the whole Adam and Savannah dating thing, but it wasn’t that she’d been keeping it. She had simply let herself get distracted by her husband reappearing.
She ordered some wine after taking a seat and then found herself smiling wryly at Savannah’s question. It was a good question and she knew what her answer would have been when she first arrived. “I haven’t even mentioned to Lucas yet that we can freely go to the magic shop and not have to worry about people seeing us.” Though it had taken Paige quite some time to trust it all and be able to relax and do just that.
“From 1 to 10 I would put this at a seven,” he said after some thought. It wasn’t the strangest thing that had ever happened to him, but it was definitely in the top 30% of strange things that had happened to him. “It might be higher if it was somewhere interesting, instead of a small town in Indiana.” He didn’t seem impressed by the location.
He raised an eyebrow as he looked over at Paige.
“We don’t have to hide ourselves from humans, here?”
*** Savannah grinned. “It’s a weird freedom, but enjoyable. Hell, the burger joint in town has a werewolf slider special.” She’d needed a little time to adjust, but Kate and Paige helped her feel comfortable about being open.
“The things that throw me more are the various ages and memories of people here. Like, Kate is a legal adult here and Logan is still 16, having just arrived recently. Karl showed up, technically two weeks ahead in the timeline than Hope.” And now she and Adam were closer in age than they’d ever been.
“It’s sort of like how I’m technically two years older than I was when I got here, but probably closer to the age I am from your perspective.” Which worked out well, really, even if she didn’t share the memories. The idea both of them actually took time to go to Hawaii was such a foreign and interesting concept.
She reached out to touch Lucas’ hand. “It’s been nice to be so open about magic though. And you have some catching up on spells in your future.” Which Paige was looking forward to greatly.
Paige looked at Savannah. She meant the look to quietly ask if she’d mentioned Adam yet. It wasn’t really her place to say, but she did say, “I’ve been helping Adam run a night of fighting for fun amongst those who sign up. He wrangled me into it after you left.” She could at least steer the conversation in Adam’s direction and see if Savannah went with it.
It was odd, how this place brought them from different times. But as he thought of it, why not? This place obviously had great power, so it was no so odd that it brought people from the times it wished to.
He raised an eyebrow at Paige, a very slight grin crossing his lips that to him would be a very bright smile. “I do love learning new spells.” And the activities that usually went along with that.
“That sounds like Adam,” he said. The half-demon had been friends with Paige since she was a child, and he knew that Savannah had a bit of a crush on him, but he had no idea that it had gone further.
*** At the mention of Adam, and Paige’s look, Savannah decided to rip off the Band-Aid, so to say. Lucas would find out somehow and she preferred he hear from her. “Speaking of Adam, I moved in with him recently and moved out of Paige’s.” Hopefully, Lucas didn’t care too much. “We’re actually closer in age here than back home.” Only by about a year and a half, but still.
“Between Paige, mom, and me, you have a lot of spells to catch up on, Lucas.” She grinned at her former guardians, although she did not want to think about what came after the spells, thank you very much. “Paige and Adam run Fight Club rather well. I even won the magic section back in the summer.” Did she sound proud? Yes.
“You should also know I briefly dated someone else. He got sent home and brought back without memories.” Again, Sav didn’t want Lucas to hear from anyone else, although she didn’t want to say who, given Quentin had zero memories about it. She would never tell Lucas about being a blood bag, though. Especially since Paige liked Kol and Sav thought the two would work as friends.
Lucas blinked, but gave no other outward signs of surprise. It would have been strange if he had. And really, at her age, he assumed that she would be dating, and while Adam would not have been his first choice, he wasn’t going to act like an overprotective father and try to control her dating life.
“I…trust you to make wise choices.”
Adam wasn’t his favorite person in the world, but he didn’t hate the guy. They were mostly just very, very different.
“And I look forward to learning those spells,” he said, his eyes turning a little greedy before looking over at Paige with a completely different look. He certainly had not forgotten what spell casting usually turned into between them.
Paige was a little surprised, but happy and proud of Lucas’ reaction. She reached out and squeezed Lucas’ hand. It was a good way of looking at it and she was sure, too, that once Lucas saw how Savannah lit up around Adam it would make a lot of sense. It probably helped Adam was a childhood friend of hers.
“You should have seen him when he had been turned into a prince. I wish we had pictures of it.” It had been a look for sure and very un-Adam. “I’m sure we’ll get to see him in other embarrassing situations soon.” She said it with fondness since Adam was a good friend of hers.
Well, colour Savannah surprised. Not that she minded, obviously. Her hope hadn’t been high, though, that Lucas would react maturely.
“Thank you, Lucas.” She offered her former guardian a smile. The witch loved Adam and couldn’t imagine being with anyone else at this point, especially not after she got sent back home.
Savannah laughed. “Which time? Kate has pictures of him as Prince Charming trying to find his Cinderella. The most recent time? Let’s not talk about that. I did not enjoy going back in time when people hunted witches.” She said, “I have some younger half-siblings from Dad’s relationship here. But, Sean married a wonderful man named Alex.”
Oh, Lucas’s good reaction with Paige and Savannah didn’t mean that he wasn’t going to have a word with Adam. Several strongly worded sentences. But what could he do? Savannah was old enough now that she could choose who to be with. She wasn’t a child, and Lucas wasn’t her father, even if he had helped care for her as a teenager. He was quite certain that Nast would also be watching the situation. Perhaps he would speak to him as well.
“A prince?” He raised an eyebrow, looking between Paige and Savannah. He certainly would not consider Adam that. “An…odd transformation.”
His eyes widened. “A time when people hunted witches? This place can time travel?”
Of course it could. It had brought all three of them here from different places. Lucas had just not expected it to be so…literal.
“It can. Whatever this place is, it has the power to do a bunch of things. It can make you forget things too. Most of the time, it seems to not be trying to cause us harm.” It was something, though it also begged the question if this place was more sentient than any of them realized.
“How about we order some food and we can tell you about some of the stranger events that have happened while you were gone?”
“Yes. Food.” Savannah offered a grin, happy to be with Paige and Lucas.