"I swear, if I'm dying tonight because of you, I'm gonna haunt your ass so hard, Harrington!"
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah! I'm gonna go full Poltergeist and shit!"
"Then bring it, Graveswood."
"Challenge accepted."
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In which after years of suppressing their...
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Chapter Eighty-Three: One Last Afternoon And Dinner
(pre-Suzie, Do You Copy?, Pt. 2)
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*trigger warning: mentions of racist and homophobic slurs and language*
An explosion and Javier's infuriated, "AMARANTHA!" alerted Rowan to where her cousins were.
Still, she smirked as she saw her cousins barrel out of a portal, cackling like over-caffeinated hyenas as Amarantha closed the portal on a furious Javier's face, which was covered in ash and Rowan saw a box that looked to be suspiciously smoking on the floor of his bedroom, as he yelled, "Amarantha, when I get down there I'm gonna kill you and our cousins you el pedacito de mierda!"
"Holy shit, he's pissed," Ash laughed out, a grin on her face.
"I know! Mama better not hear what he just said or he's getting a chancla to the face," Amaranth said with a grin, as Sage noticed Rowan.
"Rowan! Hey!" she greeted, smiling sunnily as her tight curls swung around her face, as the rest of her cousins noticed her presence.
"Hey Rowan!" they greeted, Ash wearing a despicable smile as she said, "You missed the greatest prank ever."
"It was hilarious!" Kieran crowed, a mad grin to match his sister's. "Javier thought we were getting him an early birthday present, but it wasn't! The look on his face!"
Kieran dissolved into uncontrollable laughter as Rowan grinned.
"I bet it was," she said. Looking at her female cousins, she asked, "Hey, are you still heading out?"
"Uh, yeah, we are," Amarantha affirmed.
"Definitely since Javier will be on the warpath for you, Ame," Sage interjected with a grin, the younger girl shooting her cousin a look.
"You still helped!" Amarantha shouted, the older teen shrugging before she turned back to Rowan.
"Yeah, we're heading out. Why? Are you coming?" Sage asked.
"Yep," Rowan confirmed.
"Hell yes!" Ash yelled, grinning as she slung her arm around Rowan. "We got one of the cool cousins!"
"I thought I was the cool cousin!" Amarantha objected.
"Rowan and Alistair fought monsters in their hometown. That makes them the cool cousins along with Aunt Aco being the cool aunt," Ash reasoned, that grin still on her face.
"Fair," Amarantha muttered with a dramatic huff, but she couldn't hide her grin and the admiration in her eyes—Rowan knew her second youngest cousin idolised her for kicking inter-dimensional monster ass, just like she did for Alistair and Aunt Aco—as Sage linked her arm through Rowan's.
