Witch Hunt || Stucky ✔

IV - The Potatoes Grow Good

The next morning James woke up to the smell of food, something that he's never really woken up to before, so he finds himself pleasantly surprised. He really wasn't expecting to wake up to food being cooked. But he's not about to complain about it. Though, maybe he can see if there's anything that he could possibly do to help.

Getting up off the sofa, he walks into the small kitchen area to find Steve busy cooking what smelt like eggs and toast in a pan over the kitchen fireplace. He doesn't seem to look as though he needs any help, but James still doesn't want to make him do it all himself.

"Hey." James starts, walking over to Steve's side. "You need any help?"

Steve looks over at him. "Nope. I'm all good here." He says. "Just go sit down and I'll call you when breakfast is ready."

James nods. "Where are the girls?" He asks, looking around for them, but not seeing them anywhere.

"They've gone off to school." Steve says. "They left earlier this morning. I went off to the markets while you were asleep to get some bread for us. You were still asleep and I didn't want to wake you."

James nods. He actually wasn't expecting that he'd sleep through all that, which is actually surprising to him, as he's not usually a very heavy sleeper. Then again, he didn't really get that much sleep last night, so it probably made sense why he didn't get woken up by Steve or his daughters at all.

Walking out of the kitchen after he knows for sure that Steve doesn't need his help right now, he walks back into the main room of the house and sits down on the couch. He's not too sure what he should do while he waits for Steve to finish up in the kitchen. He's never actually lived with anyone before - not counting while he was a pirate for a couple months. He's always been living alone, so actually living with someone else is considerably different to him. He hasn't lived with others since he was a child.

James isn't entirely sure if he'll ever get used to living with other people one day, or if he'll just forever live alone. Though, it's probably for the better if he lives alone. For now though, he's going to have to get used to living with other people. He's not sure how long he'll be staying here for, so he better try and get used to it. But he's just going to have to try harder to hide the fact that he's a witch from them. Which isn't too terribly hard, as he's good at blending in. Well, most of the time anyway.

It doesn't take too much longer after that for Steve to make his way over to James carrying two plates with food. Steve hands one of the plates over to James, and they both sit there on the sofa together eating breakfast. Though, James supposes that it's not really breakfast time as such, more like close to lunchtime, but it doesn't really matter all that much. What matters is that the both of them have some food for the day.

Once they've finished eating, the two of them clean up their dishes, before making their way outside to do a bit of gardening. There probably isn't too much that they'll be able to pick from the garden, but at least it'll hopefully be enough for the next couple of days if they ration the food out enough to cover the next few days. They've still got some of the fruit and vegetables that they had picked yesterday though, so that can add onto their rationing for the next few days.

"I'm not sure how much we're going to be able to pick today." Steve sighs, as the two of them walk over to the garden. "We might need to go out to the markets and see what we can get from there if we can't pick enough here."

James nods. "I'm sure we'll be able to pick something." He says, as he waters the tomato plants. "I've noticed that your potatoes grow pretty well."

Steve nods. The main thing that even seems to grow well for him, are the potatoes. Everything else just doesn't grow as well as he'd like them to. Oh what he wouldn't do to have a garden that grows very well all year round. All he wants is enough food and money to care for his daughters, but unfortunately his garden doesn't grow very well aside from the potatoes, and his hens barely lay enough eggs for them all. But they manage with what little they have.