“Well, that was certainly easier than going around in circles trying to figure out how we can test it,” Coen says with a smile as he pulls me under his arm, drops a kiss on the top of my head, and then steals a candy out of the bag.
“True,” Ransom says, as his lips tip up into a smile. “Although it was only Neith who was going around in circles.”
I try not to smile as I stick my middle finger up at him. “I got there in the end.”
He just smiles at me, his expression holding more than my tired brain can comprehend at the moment.
“Wait. What if those rooms aren’t for guests?” Griff asks, completely out of the blue and confusing me entirely.
“What rooms?” River asks with a frown, seemingly as confused as I am, and making me feel better about the fact that I didn’t know what he was talking about.
Griff winces slightly as he realizes that he’s started the conversation in the middle of the sentence, and that the rest of us have no idea where he began it, so we have no idea what he’s talking about.
“Sorry. The two extra rooms that we have. What if they aren’t rooms for guests?” He clarifies.
“Who else would they be for?” I ask, my eyebrows dipping down slightly.
He shrugs, “I don’t know. But if they weren’t for guests, and House has done all of these rooms to match us, then it would tell us a lot about the people those rooms belong to, and if they belong to anyone.”
“That’s true,” Reed agrees. “But that would mean that at some point we will have more people living with us.”
“I feel like that’s quite unlikely,” Doc points out.
Griff shrugs, “Maybe so, but then again, did any of us think that we would be in the position that we are in now?”
“Alright, I hear you,” Van says. “I still think it’s unlikely though.”
“I mean, it wouldn’t hurt to have a look,” Raiden shrugs. “They will either be decorated like ours are, and then we’ll know that eventually we will have more people with us on a more permanent basis, possibly living with us, or they won’t be, and we will know that they are just for guests.”
“Well, I’m nosey, so I want to know what’s in those rooms,” Ransom shrugs.
“Let’s go,” I grin as I grab Coen’s hand and simply pull him behind me.
“I guess that’s settled then,” Van chuckles.
I don’t know why, I’m going to blame it on tiredness, but I knock on the door of the first spare room that we come to.
“Erm, Neith?” Doc asks with amusement.
I shrug, “You never know. It felt polite to knock.” I pause, realizing how crazy that sounds, and add, “I’m really tired.”
Quiet chuckles are the only response I get to that statement because they know me well enough by now to know that I’m tired. The fact that a couple of them are yawning too makes me feel a bit better.
I don’t waste any more time, my bed is calling to me, and I push down the handle, opening the door. I’m not really sure what I was expecting, but I do know that I am slightly disappointed that it looks like a pretty generic room. There are no personal touches and no signs of any personality.
“Unless whoever is intended for this room is really boring, then I would assume that this is a guest room,” Reed says.
“Agreed,” Griff mutters as he looks around and pulls open the doors for the closet and bathroom, both of which have the same kind of décor as the main room, and look a bit like rooms in a fancy hotel. He continues, “Let’s check out the other one, maybe that one has a personality.”
River narrows his eyes slightly, “Are you getting some sort of premonition, or is this just an idea?”
Griff’s eyebrows dip down slightly as he thinks about River’s question, and then he shakes his head, “It’s not a premonition, just an idea.”
River nods, “I just thought I’d check. With your visions playing up, it’s possible that you had a premonition feeling but didn’t realize it.”
“He’s right,” Raiden agrees. “I know that you have always had them, but with this latest development, I think you should treat it like a new gift with all of the complications that come along with it, as we mentioned before in Reed’s room.”
Griff nods, “Yeah, I’ve been thinking about it since it was mentioned, not that it was mentioned that long ago, but the new visions don’t really work as my old ones did. It’s going to take me a little bit of time, but I should be able to work out the more subtle signs pretty quickly.”
