Meeting Vlad's eye, Thomas sipped the coffee and whiskey again, slowly, before he set the mug back on the table. So he didn't know. And the way Vlad was looking, with protective anger rising beneath the surface, made Thomas suspect the reason he didn't know wasn't because he had stopped watching because he was tired of seeing his sister naked on television (thanks Harry).
"Almost a month, no wait..." It took a few minutes for Thomas to remember that he had been the one on a weird time. And then he realized Vlad might not have been on the same time schedule as the house during that time (even though Chicago and Forks had both been). Thomas sighed in irritation, giving up. "A while back, something freaked out Lacci. A lot." He held up a hand to stay any demands.
"The lawyers... I don't know what they did, exactly, but she was gone for days. We didn't know it. It seemed perfectly normal to all of us that she was gone. That we knew she would be and it was alright. But she came back, and as soon as we saw her, whatever they had done went away. I'm not the wizard, I don't know how it happened. I just know the signs of having been fucked over."
Thomas took another sip from his coffee mug. "She didn't sleep for days, thinking they would come for her again." A hint of anger, not at Vlad but at the memory of another man, crept into Thomas' voice. "We did what we could, to get her to sleep. But you know how stubborn she is. She ended up screaming bloody murder at the mirror one night."
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"Almost a month, no wait..." It took a few minutes for Thomas to remember that he had been the one on a weird time. And then he realized Vlad might not have been on the same time schedule as the house during that time (even though Chicago and Forks had both been). Thomas sighed in irritation, giving up. "A while back, something freaked out Lacci. A lot." He held up a hand to stay any demands.
"The lawyers... I don't know what they did, exactly, but she was gone for days. We didn't know it. It seemed perfectly normal to all of us that she was gone. That we knew she would be and it was alright. But she came back, and as soon as we saw her, whatever they had done went away. I'm not the wizard, I don't know how it happened. I just know the signs of having been fucked over."
Thomas took another sip from his coffee mug. "She didn't sleep for days, thinking they would come for her again." A hint of anger, not at Vlad but at the memory of another man, crept into Thomas' voice. "We did what we could, to get her to sleep. But you know how stubborn she is. She ended up screaming bloody murder at the mirror one night."