Second Chances

Lunch Plans

"Mom?" Hana cautiously approached the stairs, "Mom?" Hana runs upstairs and bursts into her parents bedroom. What she saw was tragic, Tina was curled up in the middle of the bed silently sobbing. "Hey, you okay?" Hana sat on the bed.

"Did you find him?" Tina asked.

Hana nodded, "Yeah, he's healthy, but..."

"But what?" Tina sat up.

Hana winced, "But he isn't well enough to see you..."

"Alright," Tina nodded, "do want lunch?"

Hana smiles, "I got an idea, I'll order pizza for lunch..." Hana sighs and heads out to retrieve her phone from the table beside the staircase, as she pulls out her phone from her duffle a picture caught her eye, a picture of a young Tina with a bunch of other women but the woman beside Tina was Morgan... Hana knew exactly where the picture was taken; Hana spent three months there learning how to harness her power. "Fuck..." Hana whispers.

"Everything okay?" Tina asked.

"Yeah," Hana takes the picture and her bag, "just really crappy service, just gonna go outside and see if I get better service..." Hana ran down the stairs and once she got outside, she took out her phone to call not the pizza place, not her sister, but a Nepal number. Ring! Ring! Ring! "Finally!" Hana gasped.

"Ms. Minoru, what can I help you with?" said the man, with an Eastern European accent, on the other end of the line.

"New Wong, I need records..." Hana said urgently.

"I have a name, it's Gregory..." the man states, "but what records?"

"Morgan Le Fay." Hana replied.

"Morgan Le Fay or Morgana." Gregory read, "I'll email you a copy..."

"My email should be in the data banks..." Hana sighs.

"If you are entangled with her," Gregory said, "please, please, be careful. She has it out for your family."

Hana sighs, as she bids the man goodbye, ends the call, and calls her sister. "Raincheck, I have to stay with mom."

"You've got to be kidding me!" Nico exclaimed, "No wonder you're mom's favorite, you're willing to drop everything for her!"

"Hey!" Hana stomps her feet, "That's not fair, you have the staff and your friends; mom has no one, but me right now. Just be careful."

"Don't worry," Nico sneers, "you leaving me, wouldn't be the first time..." she then hung up.

Hana shook her head as she calls the pizza place.

A few minutes later, Hana came into the kitchen and set the pizza box on the counter. "Mom! Pizza's here!" As soon as Hana takes a bite of her pizza slice she received an email, making her drop her pizza, "Crap!"

"Bad news?" Tina asked.

"Hold that thought..." Hana ran outside again and dialed Molly's number, "Molly?"

"Hana, hey." Molly responded.

"Um... are you close to the Essex Hotel?"

"Um... yeah, why?"

"Send me your location," Hana begged, "I'll pick you up."

"What? Why?"

"Evil witch dating my dad." Hana said, "Need to save my sister. You in?"

"I'm a block away from the crater." Molly sighs.

As Hana entered the house once more, Tina stood by the window. "Is it about your father, Hana?" Tina looks at her daughter.

Hana nodded, she knew it wasn't practical to tell the truth but she could no longer lie... she was too tired to lie and be lied to. "Yes, he's dating Morgan Le Fay."

"What?!" Tina demanded.

"Let me handle this; please, mom." Hana begged. "I'll handle this and bring dad home... I'll be back." Taking her bag and driving away.

The moment Molly rode on the frontseat, "So this witch is really evil?" she asked.

"Oh yeah." Hana nodded handing the files to the girl.

"Oh my God!" Molly gasped, as she reads:

When all else fail,
Try true love's kiss
It has shown to work.

"Who gave you this?" Molly chuckled.

"A sorcerer in training..." Hana laughs, "I am truly hoping it doesn't come to that..."

"Who do you think your dad's true love is?" Molly inquires.

"Honestly," Hana sighs, "as of lately, I have no idea."

"Oh..." was the only sound heard for fifteen minutes, until they got to the parking of Essex Hotel.

Hana and Molly got out of the car, just as Robert was introducing Morgan to Nico. Hana walks towards the table, "Sorry, I'm late."

"I thought you weren't coming..." Robert smiles, "Nico said you had an emergency..."

"Yes, well it was a very sad emergency..." Hana sighs, "very heartbreaking actually."

"And you brought Molly!" Robert smiles.

"I hope you don't mind," Hana sighs, "I needed backup for when I tell my mother..."

"What?!" Molly's eyes grew wide, "You didn't tell me you were confronting Tina Minoru!"

Nico grabs Molly's arm, "I'm going to the restroom and you two are coming with."

Hana scoffs, "Fine."

As the three went to the restroom, Nico turns to her sister, "So... you told mother? How'd she take it?"

Hana leans against the counter, "As well as you would think, if you loose the love of your life to an evil witch trying everything to wreck everything you built."

Nico nodded, "Mom did loved dad?"

"She still does..." Hana pushes herself off the counter.

"Has she told you that?" Nico questions.

"No," Hana admitted, "but it's obvious... if you actually pay attention."

"Well, I'm sorry but Alex is still missing!" Nico screamed. "So fixing mom's brokenheart is not on my immediate to-do-list."

"It is in your to-do-list, right?" Hana came nose to nose with her sister.

"Yeah, but Alex is alone in the dark dimension..." Nico reasons.

"And I'm not saying that you should forget that," Hana puts her hand on her sister's shoulder, "I'm merely telling you to make sure that the person you're asking help from is the right person..."