Forever Charmed

Club Can't Handle Me Right Now

Laura stirs her coffee as orbs light up the room. If there was a way to orb in grumpily, Carmilla was a master at it. She appears in a huff, plopping on the couch and crossing her arms.

Laura brings her mug over, as well as one for Carmilla, and sits down. "What's wrong?"

"Apparently," Carmilla growls, "it's against the rules to work with demons to cast a spell to find out what your charge wants as a birthday present."

Laura tries and fails to stifle a giggle. The Elders clearly had some words to say about that.

"Mattie's not even a demon," Carmilla continues, her scowl growing. "She's a seer."

"Mmhmm." Laura sips from her coffee, amused.

Carmilla narrows her eyes at her. "Are you patronizing me?"

"No," Laura says, snickering.

Carmilla lightly elbows her, her scowl slowly turning into a smile. "I hate you, I'm asking for a new charge."

"Awesome, tell the Elders to send me a new whitelighter who appreciates my coffee."

Carmilla chuckles and picks up her mug, sipping from it. "Damn, that is good," she hums. "Guess we're stuck with each other, after all."

"Guess so," Laura says with a giggle, leaning forward to peck Carmilla on the cheek.

They sit in silence for a moment before Carmilla starts fidgeting with her cup.

"What's wrong, now?" Laura asks gently.

Carmilla sighs. "I still feel really bad for ruining your birthday."

"You didn't ruin my––"

"So, I wanted to take you out tonight," Carmilla interrupts. "If that's okay with you?"

Laura's face softens and she grabs Carmilla into a hug.

"Is that a no?" Carmilla asks through a chuckle.

Laura narrows her eyes in a playful glare. "Yes, Carmilla Karnstein, I would love to go out with you tonight." She tucks herself into Carmilla's side and feels her relax. "Where do you wanna go?"

"It's a surprise," Carmilla says, kissing the top of Laura's head.

~*~

"Okay, you can open your eyes, now. Although we both know you were peeking and totally cheating when I was orbing us here," Carmilla teases.

"I was not cheating," Laura insists, opening her eyes. She frowns. "Y'know, Carm, when you said we should go stargazing and drink champagne, this wasn't exactly... what I had in mind..."

She stares up at the sign for a nightclub named "Stars and Candles."

"Did I mess this up, too?" Carmilla frets. "We could totally do stargazing and champagne! I just figured that was more low-key and relaxing, and maybe after everything, you wanted to cut loose and have a night out. But. We-We can..."

Carmilla looks ready to cry and Laura is immediately stammering. "C-Carm, no! I was just joking. This is fine! It's more than fine! It's, it's–– It's great. Let's go!" She grabs Carmilla's hand, and tugs her at the club.

"Are you sure?" Carmilla asks, biting her lip nervously when they're in line.

Laura nods eagerly. "I love that you cared enough to plan this at all. It'll be awesome to have a fun time with you."