Forever Charmed

Heartbreak City

Laura yawns and pads into the kitchen, jumping when she sees Carmilla standing at the island.

"Finished your cookies," Carmilla says, waving the empty package.

Laura rolls her eyes. "Do whitelighters even need to eat?"

"Nope," Carmila replies, smirking when Laura sighs.

A phone on the island lights up and Carmilla looks down.

"Got a text from a Corrina Scott," Carmilla reads out. "Apparently Mel and Elsie broke up and she's super upset."

"What?" Laura's mouth drops open and she runs over, snatching up her phone. She quickly unlocks it, her eyes darting back and forth as she reads the message.

Her fingers are flying and she presses the phone to her ear.

"Hey!" Laura greets brightly. "I just saw your text about Melsie. I didn't even know they were going out again."

Carmilla scoffs at the ship name. Laura reaches into the back of a cupboard and produces another package of cookies, chewing on one as she listens.

"But that's so weird! It's Valentine's Day. I know yesterday was Friday the 13th, but who breaks up on Valentine's Day?"

"Probably someone with a vendetta against chocolates," Carmilla comments, chuckling when Laura swats at her.

"Yeah, I could do dinner tonight with you guys," Laura replies. She drums her fingers on the tabletop as the details are reeled off to her. "Great. Is Nazneen coming, too?" Laura squeals at the reply. "Yay! See you then."

Carmilla stares at Laura as she hangs up, already anticipating the question.

"Wanna come to dinner with me and some friends tonight?" Laura asks.

"No."

Laura pouts. "They're witches."

"Even more no." Carmilla sighs when Laura's pout grows. "Don't take it personally, babe. I still wanna see if I can get some more answers about your powers. And the first opening with the person I wanted to ask is tonight."

Laura's pout disappears and she giggles. "It's fine, I'm just giving you a hard time."

"You always give me a hard time." Carmilla's lips twitch upwards a bit and she lets out a sigh. "Actually, I should probably get going now. There are some other contacts I wanted to hit up before tonight's meeting." She starts to orb out but Laura grabs her arm to stop her.

"Oh! Wait, before you go, I have a question."

Carmilla narrows her eyes at her. "Shocking."

Laura giggles and lets go. "What did Barbas mean yesterday when he said you'd be afraid that I'd find out the truth about you?"

Carmilla freezes. After Barbas had been vanquished and they spent the evening curled up in the living room with hot cocoa in front of some Netflix, Carmilla thought she was in the clear. Apparently not.

"Carm?" Laura repeats when Carmilla seems to have zoned out. "What don't I know about you?"

"I'm actually..." Carmilla swallows hard and leans in closer, lowering her voice. "...a Hufflepuff."

She orbs out with a smirk as Laura's voice reaches impressive octaves while she yells at Carmilla that that is not an answer.

~*~

Laura takes another sip of her martini, trying not to spit out her drink in laughter as Mel continues on her rampage about the newest campus fraternity shenanigans.