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Heather






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Heather was drenched. The rain was soaking through her lightweight jacket, and she mentally kicked herself for not grabbing the raincoat. Not that she was out here though, she was too distracted to care that much about the rain. Her tea had probably been ruined, a song flashed through her head. She chuckled and was about to go inside when she noticed the jasmine bush by the door looked a little sad. Heather stared at it. Could she fix it too?

Heather glanced around. Making sure there weren't any neighbors looking her way. It seemed quiet, a part of her thought too quiet, but the rest of her reached out to the plant. Her hand brushed against the leaves of the plant. Following the branches, and finding more damaged parts. The plant healed, it's damaged leaves returned to their brilliant luster. Exhaustion washed over her. Heather stumbled slightly and went inside. She stood in the mudroom dripping; her tea left abandoned outside. Heather took off her wet clothes and threw them into the washing machine. In a haze, she went from there to her shower to clean up and then got dressed in dry clothes.

She needed to talk to someone. She picked up her phone and was halfway through dialing her mom's number when she remembered. Her heart twisted, and she set her phone down.

NOPE time to get out of the house right this instant. She grabbed her raincoat, phone, purse, and car keys. Locking the house behind her and hopping into her car. She started driving to the Cafe. It wouldn't take her long. But it was better than being at home alone.
Kaytlin Devlin



Kaytlin's patience was being tried. May was sitting on the edge of her bed crying. This was exhausting, and Kaytlin could feel her tie to the physical world waning.

"Shouldn't you be at school." Kaytlin did her best to keep the weakness she could feel out of her voice. It seemed May didn't notice.

"With that announcement? There's no way. Mom and dad are looking for a way to evict you and that radio take-over... I had to run back here." May was still catching her breath.

"What announcement?" Kaytlin had no idea what May was talking about. Now the girl was rambling. Telling Kaytlin about some hostile take-over of the radio station. There had been a call to arms, of the sort, against the Other. "I'll be fine May. Your parents promised they wouldn't salt and burn me, and that was a call to action against the less savory types. I am not a vampire or a werewolf. People won't see me as a threat." Even as Kaytlin said it, she knew she didn't completely believe it. Literal witch hunts were about to come into vogue. "Now, go back to school for goodness sake. You're going to get into trouble." May did seem a bit calmed down, and stood.

"I wish I could hug you." She scrubbed at her face drying it off. Thankfully missing the stab of pain that crossed her face.

"Me too," Kaytlin whispered. May picked up her backpack and left Kaytlin alone.

Kaytlin took a few moments to compose herself and imagined her sister's dining room. It was only a couple blocks from her own home. Something that May's parents had used in argument against Kaytlin "living" in their home, but dangit it had been her home first. She had put down the tiles in the bathroom herself, ages ago with Gerald. The thought of him caused her heart to pinch. Stupid emotions like that made her mad. She still loved him.

"Hello, Kate." William smiled at her, reading his newspaper. He started to open his mouth then caught himself. Probably stopping himself from offering her coffee, again. "Evelyn is upstairs. Shouldn't be much longer."

"What's in the news?"

"The usual nonesnse, and of course the more obnoxious stuff." Worry crossed his face. "I'm thinking of putting an ad in the paper. Saying we're an Other friendly non-criminal law firm."

"Might want to hold off on that. There apparently was a radio hyjack."

"Oh, about?"

"It was a call to arms against others." William frowned. He was getting older; though he was technically younger than Kaytlin, he was looking his 53 years, even more, these last couple of weeks. The frown showed wrinkles deeper than Kaytlin had ever seen on his face before.

"Kaytlin I didn't expect you this early," Kaytlin explained to her sister the situation. "I agree let's offer our services to Others." Kaytlin raised an eyebrow. "Not pro-bono, but let us help the community. Your community."


A bell rang through the house announcing that it was lunchtime. The couple classes that were running were let out and the teachers left to their own separate lunch eating area. They knew the kids were "troubled" but most of them had no idea of what was actually going on with the children. They all lived offsite. Only Kade and Elenore lived in the house. Kade in the attic still, but now that he was 20 he was no longer a student, and without Lundy, he was in charge of orientation.

Elenore paused on the staircase as she heard footsteps leaving classes, or from their breaks toward the lunch room. Hannah and Sumi passed her grinning and chatting in their wild high non-sense way. Elenore knew that Sumi gave people hope because all the students knew that she was destined to return to her world. Someday she would find her door again and she would save her world and marry and have a daughter. A good portion of the student body had even met Sumi's daughter. Hannah found hope in Sumi's story. They both had been ejected from their worlds by an enemy. Hannah saw that as proof she could someday go back. Kade though was proof that sometimes there was no going back. He had broken a basic law of his world and they kicked him out. He could never return. Elenore worried that Hannah would have too much hope... and someday that would eat away at her. She was what Elenore considered an at-risk student. Elenore finished the climb to Alex and Ryker's room, she gently knocked.
Heather






Location: Home
Interacting with: N/A




The kettle was whistling. Heather pulled it from the heat and poured some water into a mug. She yawned. The night before had been somewhat restless, and she was still tired. She was thankful she had a late shift at the cafe before she went in though she wanted to make sure she pulled some weeds from the garden. The last couple of days had been quiet and simple. It was what she needed and reaffirmed her desire to not move back in with her father no matter what. The stress of living back there would be too much. She was certain of that now.

Heather went out to the garden with her mug of tea and set it down on the little table. She noticed a plant looked a little wilted. She frowned and checked the leaves for bugs trying to figure out what caused the wilting. She ran her fingers gently over the ruined edge. Heather picked up a watering can and refilled it. She checked the soil around the damaged plant for how dry it was and glanced at the leaf. The browning was gone. She paused and stared. It had definitely been that leaf Heather was sure of it.

She tilted the can and let a little water pour out into the soil and moved onto a different plant checking the soil before adding the water. When she found another browned plant, she checked it as before, but this time she watched it. The brown slowly became green, and then the leaf was whole again.

What did that mean?
BACK! *flops on bed like a cat*
Gwyn decided she would follow Karillis' lead. If she wanted to go after some random guy for an even randomer monarch then so be it. She could at least say traveling with Karillis was interesting. Though Gwyn constantly worried she would slip up and somehow someone would figure out her secret. Especially with how much Karillis hated "anathema".

(forgive shortness and formating this was written on a cellphone at an airport bathroom after two drinks)
@kittyluna45 let's do a meal first.
You can buy not necessary. Though I would like to get to orientation as quickly as possible.
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