Superheroes vs. Supernaturals: A Crossover Between Guardians and Shadow Falls

Chapter 29 | The Shadow Falls

Kylie

Kylie sat with Miranda, Lucas, Derek, Jenny and Perry at their formerly regular dining table at breakfast. Miranda and Perry were so into their little lovey-dovey conversation that would have made Della hurl, that they didn't hear Derek and Jenny's debate about what color best suited for painting their kitchen now that they have moved in together. Jonathon wiped off a bit of jam off the side of Helen's lip. They were all so sweet. Kylie wasn't the talkative type, and neither was Lucas, but she felt him stealing glances at her when he thought she wasn't looking. She blushed–and man, was she glad no one at their table was noticing. Well, almost no one. She caught Lucas staring at her puffy pink face.

It was a good distraction from what was troubling her mind. The ghost man's problem was halfway dealt with–she found his estate in Redwood, his family's name and the business connections, so she wasn't all too worried about finding the hidden will. But there was something else: Quinn was coming over for another tour today. And Holiday said that he was coming to talk to her in person.

She didn't know what to expect, but since the woman asked her not to say anything, the best she could do was keep her mouth shut. Thankfully, she mastered the art of concealing secrets without telling untruths, courtesy of being around lie-detecting vampires. And Quinn's super hearing didn't seem to work that way.

She felt bad about keeping the secret, but if Laura said it wasn't time yet, she had to trust her. Or at least wait it out for as long as she could.

"Hey, Kylie, what do you think? Eggshell, sweet pink, titanium or emerald?" Jenny asked with four slides of color in her hands.

Derek looked with awe. "Hey, no fair. I was gonna ask her."

Jenny gazed at him with a smug look that said, I beat you to it.

Lucas reached over the table and snatched the green slide out of her hands.

"Hey!"

"Emerald green is definitely not the color to paint a kitchen unless you want it to look like smudge when the grease fills the walls everywhere," he commented and handed the slide back.

Kylie stared at him then back at the slides.

Let's see. Emerald green doesn't work all that well for kitchen walls. Eggshell white–the color gets easily smudged. Titanium gold makes it look like bronze had been embedded in the walls. But pink is so 1960's.

"Pick titanium," Lucas suggested and sipped from his coffee. "The best color to blend with smudge. Plus, it's a good color for the kitchen."

Jenny glanced between him and Kylie. Kylie just nodded. She had no idea which color to pick, so inclining that she was following Lucas's suggestion seemed like a good option. She looked between them for one moment longer before relenting.

"Titanium it is."

Derek looked away and shook his head.

The alarm on her phone went off. Twenty minutes left.

Time to get ready.

She finished the rest of her food, told her friends goodbye and started away. She was halfway across the hall when she felt the presence of someone–a living someone–catch up to her. She felt the werewolf body heat ooze out of him beside her and didn't need to look up to know that it was Lucas.

"You going to meet with Quinn?" he asked.

She glanced his way and nodded. "Yeah."

"Mind if I tag along?"

"Don't you have to go to a Were Council meeting?"

They dumped the leftovers and put away the trays, plates, and utensils, then started heading out the door.