[ PLOT: For some reason today you feel the need to grab someone you've never really talked to and take them for a beer. It must be someone you've never talked to! ]
There was so much going on lately, with actually focus on the wedding and figuring out just general Atlantis stuff, Davina was glad there wasn’t a mission this month and they could just be a little bit more relaxed. It did make her worry about what might be happening next but she was really happy to have things a little bit more back to normal.
Taking a break she headed to Footsteps to grab a coffee and pastry when she saw someone she didn’t know all that well but had met a few times sitting at a table by herself.
“Hey, can I join you?” She asked.
Betty had been feeling a little bit better after Danny’s sudden departure. She had been so upset for the first following days, but she knew Danny wouldn’t have liked for her to mop and feel sad. She had to try and look at the bright side of things, even if there were none in his departure. However, she had found in Mister Henry Ferris a good friend and that was something to be happy about.
She was daydreaming about the Sadie Hawkins Ball and what she should wear to it when a brunette girl approached her.
“Of course,” she said with a smile. She never said no to meeting new people. “I’m Betty.”
“Davina,” she offered as she sat down across from her. And set her pastry and coffee down carefully before looking back up at Betty.
“You got here right before we headed to Breckentale right?” Davina asked as she picked up a piece of her pastry and popped it into her mouth.
“Davina... that’s a really pretty and unusual name. Never heard it before,” she said with a smile. “It’s really nice to meet you,” she said before sipping on her coffee.
She nodded. “Yeah. A few weeks before I think. It was a crazy thing, wasn’t it?”
She smiled. “I guess it isn’t the most common, but I’m from New Orleans, very few things are common there.” She meant more the magical side of things, but names could be part of it too.
“Yeah, you could say that. My fiancé was dating someone else there.”
“I’ve never been to New Orleans, but I so wish I could visit it one day... Although I highly doubt it given my situation,” she added a second thought. If she ever thought of going back home, she would die and wouldn’t get a chance to visit anything.
“Oh goodness, that’s horrible. How did you handle that?”
“You never know, Atlantis goes some strange places, we were just in my version of New Orleans last month but that doesn’t mean they won't send a team from another version of it.” Davina wasn’t going to ask about the comment Betty made, she could figure it out.
“As well as I could I guess, it’s not like it was the other girl's fault or Kol’s fault.”
“It’d be nice to see other places other than Atlantis. Not that it’s bad. It’s nice in here, despite me hating some of its decisions lately. But I come from a very small town and seeing the world had been one of my desires ever since I was a little girl. It’s one of the reasons I joined the Navy back in my world,” she said.
She nodded. “Yeah. No one could blame anybody for what happened in that place.”
“Part of the world is overrated, but it’s worth seeing.” She shrugged. “So you joined the Navy to see the world, see any of it?”
Nodding she frowned slightly. “Yeah, it’s still weird though to think of Kol with anyone else, even if he is over 1,000 years old and I know he had a past.”
Betty nodded. “Unfortunately, not much,” she chuckled. “Just New York and Hawaii. I was in Hawaii when the war started and... And I died.” She would’ve loved seeing the world with Red, but apparently, life had other plans for her.
“Your fiancé is 1,000 years old?” she asked, her eyes wide in surprise.
“Yeah, the whole dying thing puts a damper on seeing things,” Davina said with a shrug. “Oh, trust me, I know, I died,” she paused as if she had to think of how many times, “twice.”
Laughing she nodded. “He’s an Original Vampire from my world, so that makes him kinda old.”
“A vampire? Oh wow,” she said surprised. It still amazed her that things like vampires or werewolves were a real thing in other worlds. “How did you two meet? if it’s not too nosy for me to ask,” she said with a small smile.
“Well, his crazy mother brought him back from the dead and put him in a witches body, that’s how we met and then one of his brothers killed him and I figured out how to bring him back, he was cursed, I died, that didn't last, so it’s been kind of a weird romance, but we met because his mother wanted him to keep an eye on me.” Saying it out loud like that made it all sound even more insane.
Betty blinked a couple of times as the words sink in. “Well, that’s some story to tell your grandchildren for sure,” she chuckled softly, smiling at Davina.
Davina laughed. “We won’t have children, he’s a vampire, doesn’t really work with the reproductive stuff.” Besides she wasn’t sure she’d ever want to be a mom. “Anyways, I should probably get back to work, sorry for boring you with my life story.”
“Right, sorry!” she apologized, feeling her cheeks turning a little red. “Don’t apologize, Davina, I had a very nice time talking to you. I’d love to do it again soon,” she offered with a smile.
“Yeah, sure, we’ll hear your life story next time,” she smiled before heading towards the door and back to work.