River grins, “Pretty sure. We can explain more at home.”
Ransom walks over to me and cups my cheek in his big palm, “I’ll sort it. We’ll keep him safe.”
I pull him close and kiss him fiercely, “Thank you, Ransom.”
He nods, and then Doc smirks, grabs Ransom’s shoulder, and they both disappear.
“It appears that we have quite a lot that we need to talk about,” River says, bouncing on his toes.
“I have no idea what’s going on,” Baz grins, not seeming perturbed by the fact that he’s got no idea what is happening. To be honest, if anything, he looks excited and intrigued by the turn of events. He continues, “One minute I think that you guys are the good guys, and then an incredibly strong supernatural appears who is supposed to be in prison, says a few words, and then voluntarily goes back.”
I grin, “Yeah, it does sound pretty nuts, I’ll give you that. We can explain what we can at home. It’s complicated.”
“It definitely seems to be,” Baz smirks.
I’m glad that none of this seems to be fazing him. He seems to be taking it all in his stride, which is surprising but also very welcome. If he were freaking out, then that would have been a major sign that we shouldn’t tell him about everything because this shit is just scraping the surface of the crazy that we deal with.
“Dimi? Ransom and Doc are coming to erase any evidence on the cameras that you disappeared,”I tell him.
Dimi sounds surprised as he says,“Thank you. You guys didn’t have to do that.”
“Yeah, we did,”River replies.
“He’s right,”Raiden adds.
The others are soon all chiming in, and I smile. I can feel the way that he’s joined us so that we’re all able to hear each other. I’m realizing that as much as I know about Dimitri’s magic, there’s a hell of a lot that I don’t know as well.
“I need to go, thank you. I mean it,”Dimitri replies.“Especially after everything that I’ve done.”
“Are you okay?”I ask with worry obvious in my voice.
“Yes, Love. Just need to recharge for a moment, that’s all,”he replies. He adds questioningly,“Keep me updated?”
“You got it, man,”Van replies. I look at him questioningly, and he shrugs.
“Thanks, man,”Dimitri says, and then the connection goes dead.
“We’re going to keep him updated?” River asks with a knowing smirk on his lips.
Van shrugs, “He’s one of us.”
“Agreed,” everyone says, even Doc and Ransom, who suddenly reappear.
I don’t even know how to unpack that right now. So I don’t.
“Did it go okay?” I ask.
Ransom nods, “Yeah, it only took a bit longer than I intended because I wanted to add some stronger magic to the spell that Doc put down.”
Doc grins, “He’s made it so that only we can get through.”
“We being?” Reed asks with a smirk.
Ransom waves his hand around at us, “All of us, and Dimitri.”
I can't help it, I laugh.
It only takes a moment, and they’re all joining in, apart from Baz, who is smiling but also looking a little bit confused. He hasn’t run off though, so I guess that’s a win.
