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Summer vacation elapses, and sees their storefront doing one heck of a business in the Avalon with the help of their griffin employee. There is a suggestion box for new spells they should invent, some of which have to be long-term projects but others of which are converted into new product fairly promptly.
School starts up again. Darren and Bella are both skipping straight into twelfth grade. (Bella looked into just starting college early, but while she does technically have the sort of resume that can lead to that kind of thing, she can't exactly write an essay about how she saved the life of another person and this caused her to have Moral Character, let alone about how she started a small business - so skipping one grade it is.)
They apply to colleges. They both get into University of Washington and get sufficient scholarships to accommodate both going there.
Summer ensues again.
One afternoon, Bella is over at Darren's, and has fallen asleep - in purring fullform - across his lap on the couch.
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shesepankh
shesepankh
"I - I want a shower and a nap but I don't want you to be far away either."
castmyown
"I love you, too."
Cellphone, out. "Hey, dad. Yeah, nope, we're fine. Bella would like to keep me and use me as a pillow for right now. Mhmm. That's the gist of it. Yeah, I'm all right. Rain check on the hug. Love you, too, dad. I'll be home after. Bye."
Click.
Cellphone, out. "Hey, dad. Yeah, nope, we're fine. Bella would like to keep me and use me as a pillow for right now. Mhmm. That's the gist of it. Yeah, I'm all right. Rain check on the hug. Love you, too, dad. I'll be home after. Bye."
Click.
morethanimaginary
"Unless you need me to be there," says Savannah, "I will go home and fall into a coma for the next week or so."
morethanimaginary
"Happily. Also, burning my clothes. Good thing I didn't love them anyway."
shesepankh
"Never wear your favorite clothes on a rescue mission. Do we have extra invisibility scrolls to cover our landings or are we coming in via the woods?"
castmyown
"Woods. We brought all the invisibility scrolls with us, and used them all. Next time, more invisibility scrolls, apparently we didn't bring nearly enough."
shesepankh
"Entire bindersful," says Bella. "Do you suppose we could enchant a three-ring binder or something to make it clear which scrolls in it were already used up? Then we could just bring forty of everything and clear it out and replace the paper later."
shesepankh
"I'm very clever," she yawns, and she starts circling for a sufficiently obscured landing in the fog of the woods near her house.
morethanimaginary
Savannah waves, and then heads off to her home, to go be in a coma. She's tired. Killing people and eating their hearts is hard work.
shesepankh
Bella lands on soft paws, then trades them for shoes, and puts away all her nonhuman parts, and waits for her boyfriend before walking to her house.
castmyown
Darren lands shortly after, putting away his hooves and wings and returning to human form. He takes her hand, and then - off they go.
shesepankh
Bella lets herself in the back door, lets her father hug her briefly, and then kisses Darren and says she'll be back in a little bit and scurries upstairs for a shower and change of clothes.
castmyown
And Darren - is there, with a bullet wound obviously in his shirt, looking drained and exhausted. He returns the kiss, and watches Bella go with a very obvious 'in love' face. Then, he looks at Charlie.
"I'll do my best to make sure this never happens again," he promises.
"I'll do my best to make sure this never happens again," he promises.
castmyown
Darren follows his gaze, and looks at the bullet hole. "Oh. Um. I healed it, it's fine," he says, lamely. "We kept Bella out of harm's way once we got to her."