nebabies (nebabies) wrote in madisonvalley, @ 2017-04-12 21:37:00 |
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Entry tags: | !closed, !completed gdoc, !log, [plot] future kids take 4, ~25 points |
Who: Owen and Cole
What: They’re baaaaaaack!
Where: in town
When: Thursday
Warnings: none
Status: Closed
Owen could tell he was back in the past again because of the decor in Hinkles. He wasn’t sure to what point in time he’d come to, but as long as Cole was kicking around somewhere, he didn’t care what year it was.
He took the sack of little burgers and another case of tots and fries, and moved off to the side to shoot her off a text. She replied almost right away, and they quickly agreed to meet at the park. Owen gathered up the bags of food and drinks for the both of them, and headed out, his steps quick and light, heading for the park.
He grinned when he saw her, and hustled the last few yards. “Hey.” I got food,” he told her, but that was obvious from the bags he was carrying.
***
When things had first changed, Cole hadn’t realized it. She’d been in the woods, and they all looked pretty much the same. In fact,she’d gotten all the way back to the edge of the clearing the house sat on when by the time she realized. She could smell them all. The kids who didn’t even exist. She’d been through this enough times to know it wasn’t worth finding her parents right away, had considered just going for another Run when her phone buzzed in her pocket.
Elated that Owen was there with her, she was off before they’d even really decided, wound up waiting for him in the park where they’d agreed upon.
“You’re amazing. I’m starving.” She was always starving, it was a werewolf thing, and it was so great that Owen didn’t judge her for it. A lot of boys would have something to say about a girl her size eating enough for three men twice it. Pulling Owen to sit with her, she draped her legs across his lap and dug into the burgers, talking around a full mouth. “Did you find your parents yet?”
***
Owen shook his head. “Dad wasn’t here at all last time, and Mom didn’t even know him yet, so.” He shrugged. He was in no hurry to find out if his dad was here now. Cole was here, that was what mattered. “I’ll see if Mom’s around later. Right now, I only care about being here with you.”
He was such a sap, and he knew it. He got that from his dad. And the fact that Cole was his girlfriend made it easier. He loved her. He knew they were young, and they had their whole lives ahead of them. Maybe they’d break up, maybe they wouldn’t be together forever. Owen couldn’t think about that this early in the game. All he knew was that he loved her now, and wanted to be with her now.
Despite her scary as hell parents.
***
Sap, yeah, definitely, but Cole liked that. She didn’t come from a family of sappy. She came from a family of not talking about feelings and glaring and teasing. There were just so many boys being boys and Owen was different. She loved that he was so different from her Pack.
“I didn’t see mine either.” Not exactly. “I was at the house but there are so many strange kids there….” It just wasn’t worth trying to get in there too. Not when she knew for a fact that being in this version of things, the one where there were other kids around, just led to her being housebound because her dads didn’t think she was grown up enough to hang out with her boyfriend.
Which was wrong. She was a full member of the Pack, it was the Law that they were as soon as they Changed, and she should be treated as such.
“Do you think your mom’d be okay with it if I hung out with you guys?”
***
“I mean, I think so. Probably.” Alex had expressed an interest in wanting to meet Cole last time. It hadn’t worked out, they’d been sent back to the future before it happened. Now they were back, and while Owen hadn’t seen his mother yet, he didn’t think she’d send them away. And really, it would be best if they didn’t have to deal with Nick and Clay and everyone else at the pack house at all.
“I just have to, you know, figure out where she lives now and all.” He shrugged. It was an odd thing, knowing his mother didn’t really know him. She didn’t even know his father the last time he’d come around. But she’d accepted him anyway.
She was kind of cool that way.
***
“I could probably find her. If you wanted.” She knew what Owen’s mom smelled like, from home, and she wasn’t a great tracker, had never really had to be it wasn’t like the Pack she knew was anything like the one her family said that they’d had in their own world. But she was good enough, and Cole wanted to help. In any way that she could.
Owen was the most important person in the whole world to her. She’d do anything for him. He just had to ask her to.
And, okay, she wanted to have a place that wasn’t overrun with strange children she didn’t know, having to fight for her dads’ attention. That was the worst. She was far too used to being the one and only, having everything she wanted the moment she wanted it.
***
“Maybe in a little while,” Owen said. He grinned at Cole. “I’d like to spend some time with just you for a while, first.” Owen loved his mom, but in this timeline she didn’t know him very well, and hadn’t actually met Cole at all. It would be awkward, but his mom was cool and he knew she’d accept Cole just as she was.
He still wanted time alone with Cole first. Because once her dads knew she was in town again, their alone time would probably be a lot less alone.
***
Knowing that when she did inevitably have to let her dads know that she was there again she’d just wind up trapped at the Pack House with everyone, Cole was perfectly happy to just hang out and sit with Owen for...ever.
“And eat burgers?” she teased with a grin. “Or...make out?”
Since their parents didn’t know they were there and there was no one to interrupt them the way they always somehow did.
***
“I don’t see why we can’t do both,” Owen said. He liked the fact her dads didn’t know they were there, yet. His mom didn’t know either, but reaching out to her wasn’t nearly as daunting as dealing with Nick and Clay.
“Burgers first, because making out isn’t as much fun on an empty stomach…” He grinned. Really, he knew she had an insatiable appetite, being a werewolf and all. And he was more than happy to indulge her.
***
“It’s like you know me,” Cole just laughed. It was kind of true that it wasn’t as much fun hungry. Being hungry was too distracting and if they were going to make out she didn’t want her stomach getting in the way of things.
Preferably she’d like to do it somewhere a little more private where they could just go with the flow of things, but moving from where they were increased the risk of their parents finding them. So it was better to stay where they were and eat burgers for now.
***