Blackwood Grove- Saturday morning

[thatwaslucky]

So, that had been a good week.

Rey could tell immediately upon waking up that the pollen was gone. That halfway buzzing feeling was gone, and she was relieved but also a little sorry about it, even if they didn't exactly need it.

And despite all the closeness this week, she snuggled a little closer to Adrian, because even if she was awake and actually a little hungry, she didn't want to be apart yet. Sure, there were things that she'd needed to do that had gone wholly ignored and she should get to them, but it wasn't like real life was going anywhere.

She'd also historically not had a reason to automatically remember what this weekend tended to be, but it should register in a bit.


[For the fam]

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[witchoftheflesh]

That had been the best week. Sure, he'd also neglected his Grove and gardens for the better part of a week, but that was easy enough to make up. It wasn't like the plants had stopped growing.

All of which to say, he was onboard with Rey's idea of snuggling for a little while longer, dropping a sleepy kiss on the top of her head and wrapping his arms around her more tightly. "Mornin'," he murmured softly.

He hadn't had kids last year, so any links between events were completely unknown to him. He was about to learn, though.

[thatwaslucky]

"Morning," she said, dropping her own kiss on his chest. "We're back to normal."

[witchoftheflesh]

"So, no change then?" he teased, brushing her hair away from her face with gentle fingers.

[thatwaslucky]

"Aside from the rest of the island feeling quiet in my head, no," she laughed, this time kissing his lips. "Maybe we'll be slightly less distracted."

Ehhhhhhh....

[witchoftheflesh]

"But what," Adrian said, his hands snaking to her hips to tug them closer, "if I like being distracted?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Then I'm happy to distract you," she said, leaning in for a longer kiss and wow, you two.

She did pull away sooner than intended, because now that her head was clear, she could say, "I think there's someone outside, though."

[witchoftheflesh]

"Outside?" Adrian asked, confused and with his attention still snagged by that kiss and where it had been so pleasantly leading. "Who would be outside? The Grove hasn't warned me of anyone entering..."

Why would it? It recognized Blackwoods, after all.

[thatwaslucky]

And then it clicked.

"Oh. It's the weekend with the kids, isn't it?" she realized. "We should get dressed."

[witchoftheflesh]

Well. Clicked for one of them anyway.

"The kids...?"

No, don't get dressed, Rey! He'd had plans!

Well, okay, he'd more had half-conceived ideas, but he'd really liked the way they had been shaping up!

[thatwaslucky]

Sorry, Adrian, but she was already getting up, because she also wasn't sure that any kids would have the decency to actually wait outside and no one needed that scene today.

"...you've never been through the kids, have you?" Rey said. "Alternate universes. They might be ours. Or just yours. Or mine. It's always kind of a surprise."

She'd only ever had one that made any sense to her so she was a little apprehensive.

[witchoftheflesh]

"Oh, wait...like the time Boston had Amherst?" he asked. "I remember that, but I hadn't had any. Why would--oh." He looked at Rey and actually flushed.

[thatwaslucky]

He was going to be in for an interesting morning.

She came around to his side of the bed to give him a kiss. "We should see who it is."

[witchoftheflesh]

It certainly was. But hey, at least he had Rey to help him through it.

"Okay," he agreed, tugging her back in for a slightly longer kiss. Not trying to start anything! Just...he was grateful that she was here.

For so many reasons, really.

"And maybe start some breakfast," he agreed, leveraging himself out of the bed, too. "Which, either way, we should probably be dressed for."

[thatwaslucky]

"Yes. And I'm also pretty hungry," she admitted, handing Adrian over some pants before donning her own shirt. "Can't imagine why."

Yes she could.

[witchoftheflesh]

"We've been so lethargic," Adrian agreed, pulling on his pants and reaching for a shirt. "Barely got out of--"

"Adrian!" Boston called from the foot of the stairs that led up to the loft. "Adrian, you're going to want to come down quickly!"

[thatwaslucky]

"One is definitely yours, then," Rey deduced, heading down to see what Boston was dealing with.

[witchoftheflesh]

"One?" Adrian yelped as he followed. You had not said there was more than one, Rey! "How many might there be?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Uh," she called back when she saw the two girls standing there. With hats. "At least one."

And it always felt weird having to greet kids with, "Hello," but here she was.

[thatwaswitchy]

Well, that answered one question and raised several more at the same time.

"Mom! Dad!" The one whose hair wasn't in a complex style of braids under her hat looked up from where she'd been studying the other girl. "Why is the Grove different? Also, when did I get a sister?"

She gasped. "Oh! Oh! Is this a Luke-and-Leia thing? Were we separated at birth?"

[thatwaswitchy]

"We were not," insisted the other, looking at her parents for answers. "Is this for real?"

This was more then she'd bargained for by stepping through a weird portal, see.

[thatwaswitchy]

She'd been expecting an adventure, not a sister!

"We could've been! You don't know! Dad didn't know he had a dad for years and years!"

[witchoftheflesh]

"Um."

Okay, so this was a whole lot. He was also looking to Rey for answers. Or instructions. "I mean, I did know? I just never...well, thought about it, I suppose."

Possibly something for him to consider? But later, when there weren't two children on his porch calling him Dad. He turned to the darker haired one. The one who'd inherited his plot-relevant curls. "It's real, at least for the weekend."

However this worked!

[thatwaslucky]

Don't worry, she had this!

"I would never separate sisters," Rey promised. "Fandom's a little strange, and sometimes people from different universes meet. I think that's what happened here. We're parents to both of you?"

[thatwaswitchy]

"You don't know me?" But even in a different universe, wouldn't her parents know her?

[thatwaslucky]

Oh, don't give her that look.!

"We haven't met you yet," Rey said, feeling some complicated things about that 'yet' but she wasn't about to give a kid an existential crisis. "There will be some things we don't know. But we'd love to learn."

The dad thing, for instance, she was guessing.