A Loss of Hope

Bitter Bean Blood

It was the late afternoon, boarding the early evening. Hunter slammed the Owl House door open, making King jump out of his seat from the couch "WHEH!" The demon holds his hand to his chest and scolds the witch "Titan, you almost gave me a bile attack. There's a thing called knocking you know." 

Hunter walks in without apologizing "Where's Luz?"

King walks on all fours and in a circle, finding a comfortable position after he was so rudely interrupted "She's in her room. But be warned. The stealer of attention is with her as well."

"Oh relax. You get enough attention as it is." Hunter rolls his eyes "You also sleep with Luz every time Amity isn't here. Which is a lot more than they've had."

King lies down, his head still pointing towards Hunter "Hey Hunter, shut up before I command Hooty to turn you into an owl pellet."

"Whatever." Hunter heads down the hallway to the staircase and goes up to where Luz's room is. This time he knocks loud until the door is answered. He didn't want to risk walking in on anything.

After about two minutes of rapid, loud knocking, the door swung open abruptly and on the other side was a very angry witch. As soon as her eyes set on who was knocking, her ears go down and even further and she grits her teeth "What. Do. You. Want."

Hunter looks Amity up and down, noticing that she's wearing an oversized t-shirt and her hair is all messed up. His plain expression turns into an amused one "Whatcha doin... Mittens~"

She growls "What did you just call me?"

"Oh, I met your older siblings. They seem very fun and friendly." Hunter smiled "If it weren't for the resemblance I wouldn't have believed you were related to such fun people."

"I'm going to kill you."

Hunter smirks "That's the energy I need!" Amity raises her eyebrow "You know a witch named Viney?"

Amity inhales, bringing both her hand together in front of her face "Hunter. You're actually interrupting something right now. You and Viney are the absolute last witches I want to think about-"

Before letting Amity finish, Hunter tells her "She threatened Luz through your sister."

Amity stopped and her eyes were frozen, staring at the crimson eyes directly across from her "What."

He hummed "Yeah. Said something like, Luz is only human and that it would be terrible if anything happened to her."

"Why are you telling me this?"

Hunter, still in his official uniform, now gets more serious and his tone gets softer in case of Luz trying to listen in on their conversation "I think you know why. We've worked too hard to make sure she's ok. Now someone thinks it's ok just to threaten her willy nilly. Emira was going to tell you and let you handle it. But I wanted in so, here we are."

Amity turns her head to the side, then back at Hunter. She then sighs and steps out the door fully, closing it behind her. She crosses her arms "What's the plan?"

"Now we're talkin!" His smile returned showing off this little tooth gap "Considering that you're... Busy, right now. I also have to take into account that I have an important dinner tomorrow night. How about we meet up tomorrow around ten in the morning?"

Amity runs her hand through her hair "That's fine. But I have dinner as well and I can't be late for that."

"With Luz?" Hunter questions.

"Yeah. Something like that." Amity looks at the witch "I'm assuming your dinner is Coven business?"

Hunter crosses his arms "Well, a friend invited me over, so sure. Something like that."