*about a week and a half later*
I get up in the middle of the night for water, feet padding out of my room as I utilize my phone's flashlight to navigate the winding halls of the sanctum. I just reach the top of the stairs when my phone gets a text. I see it and my brain short-circuits.
//Sarah: Hey how's the manhunt?\\
\\Cate: Yeah, you whoop ass yet?//
Holy carp I have to call them and tell them what's happened. So, at 2:00am I dial the group call.
"Hey guys! I've missed you so much!!"
I whisper, not wanting to wake Stephen wherever he happened to pass out if he decided to not actually go to bed.
//"Maddie where are you right now?"\\
Sarah's voice asks.
"New York."
I reply.
\\"Still? I thought you'd've been in North Dakota at least by now."//
Cate chimes.
//"Did you break down somewhere?"\\
\\"Are you being held somewhere?!"//
Cate and Sarah's overlapped shouting makes me pull the phone from my face a little. The shrill noise making Strange let out a tired groan, the sound makes me jump. He must've passed out in the study. Meaning I should probably walk downstairs to continue my conversation. But someone distracts me.
//"Who was that just now?"\\
Sarah whispers. Cate sounds giddy.
\\"Is that him, did you find him and tie him up somewhere."//
"No... Spurnbok... Spurnbok is dead."
\\"You killed him?!"//
"No Cate he-... he was dead long ago."
//"Oh honey~ Then why haven't you come home?"\\
"I uh... met someone."
//"Is that who's in the background?"\\
"Sarah wipe your smug grin off your face right now!!"
I shout, momentarily forgetting I'm talking over a phone and someone is trying to sleep in this building. Said person appearing at the study door, his hair tossed from awkwardly snoozing in his study chair most likely.
"W-what're you yelling about? You alright?"
\\"He sounds attractive~"//
"Cate not you too!!"
I hiss, they're assuming things.
"Who's on the phone?"
Stephen's question flicks my gaze towards him. And despite their current teasing, the thought of Cate and Sarah brings a smile to my face.
"My best friends from Kentucky,"
I decide to flip to speaker phone.
"Cate, Sarah, this is Stephen."
"Hello."
Strange greets, voice still slightly croaky from being rudely woken up.
:sorry Steph:
I quickly think to myself before continuing introductions.
"Stephen, this is Cate"
\\"yo"//
YOU ARE READING
A Strange Turn of Events
FanficBook 4/6: Maddie has been building a close friendship to Strange in the Last book The Grimm Happenings of Dark World, but after his accident, she is once again having to help a friend put himself together after trauma. This time she isn't going to q...
