"Cool!" He sprints off.

"Some friend."

"You're a very judgmental skull, has anyone told you that?"

"Yes."

There are two paparazzi standing exactly one inch beyond some imaginary threshold that probably technically counts as "the edge of Lucas's private property". They take a couple of pictures of Peter and Tae-hwan but mostly seem to be trying to get better angles on the inside of the house. Not that that's difficult, given that the walls are practically made of glass given the percentage of their area that's windows, but there's quite a distance between the imaginary threshold and the building proper as it's set rather far from the road (probably exactly for reasons of not giving paps too much freedom).

Peter waves at them as he walks down the stone path towards the stairs up to the front door at a much more sedate pace than Tae-hwan's.

"No, that's fine, don't worry about it, you can take as long as you like, not like Lucas is waiting for you inside or anything."

"Shush you, the sun is out and the day is beautiful and I'm not going to sprint like that lunatic for no good reason."

"I said it's fine!"

"Asshole."

"No, skull."

Peter flicks his familiar's forehead then walks up the steps.

The door's open and Lucas walks over to Peter from where he was chatting to Zach and Eric when he sees him there. He's just as naked as he was on the day Peter met him. "Peter, my man!" he says, going for the secret handshake.

Which Peter's body instinctively knows, once again.

What the fuck, once again,

And then Lucas pulls him into a hug.

Oh! Okay! They're hugging! Sure!

Lucas pulls away from the hug then closes the door behind Peter. "Tae-hwan's in the pool outside, if you want to join him, but make yourself at home."

"Yeah, thank you. Should I, uh, leave my stuff downstairs?" Because he does have some stuff, his laptop and books and flying broomstick and potions ingredients and whatnot. "In the twins' room or?"

"Sure, or wherever. I got you guys beds, too."

"Oh! Uh, thank you," although Peter hasn't slept since Wednesday and he isn't about to start. He's also managed to persuade the other three to not sleep, either, but Zach is the only one who took to it wholeheartedly; Eric likes sleeping, and Tae-hwan is more excited for it but likes spending time with Eric (they're SO CUTE).

"No prob!" And he goes back to his conversation with his grandsons.

One of whom is also his dad! Reincarnated! That's so bizarre. Like if it were Peter he thinks he'd probably have waited another generation maybe? Like can you imagine your granddad being your son in a past life? But then again, they probably weren't expecting their parents to die in a tragic rock climbing accident.

...let's be real, they probably didn't think that deeply about it.

The two high-tech sleeping pods that had been in the twins' bedroom last time are gone and the bedroom has acquired a wall splitting it in two, each new bedroom having a double bed, now.

Wh—a wall? Like a wall, wall? Like an actual wall?

Yeah.