I shake my head, “No, nothing, but I was obviously supposed to hear it for a reason, and I wonder if it’s because there is something out there that still exists that has information about them?”
“I hope so,” Reed agrees.
“At the end of the vision, someone was calling for me. I don’t know who. I’m reasonably certain that it was a woman, but I could be wrong. She couldn’t hear me, but she warned me to stay away from the water,” I say, feeling confused.
“Water?” River asks. “In what sense? Can you shower? A glass of water? Rivers? Lakes? Puddles? The ocean? Van?”
“Hey!” Van frowns, and then looks at me with concern, “She didn’t tell you to stay away from me, right?”
I shake my head and smile, “No. Don’t worry. She wasn’t really specific at all, but I’m not staying away from water indefinitely, we’re currently living in Ireland for goodness sake, it’s rained since we got here. I’m just going to be cautious.”
The guys look unsure.
“I realize that it would be impossible for you to stay away from all water, but please be careful, she, whoever she is, wouldn’t have felt it necessary to warn you if you were just going to slip or something,” Doc says.
River smirks, “Yeah, maybe don’t shower alone, just in case.”
“Excellent idea,” Coen agrees with a heated smirk.
I burst out laughing, and so do the others.
“Okay, so we need to be cautious around water, but at least that’s the vision, and what happened at the stone circle is dealt with,” Van says. He looks at me, “Dimitri?”
I grimace slightly and then look at Baz, “I’m sorry, but this is probably not going to make much sense. I’ll give you a quick cliff notes version of who he is before I explain anything else.”
Not that there is much to explain because I have no fucking idea how he did what he did, all I know is that I want him to do it again, bad.
“Anything that you are comfortable sharing, I’m happy to listen,” Baz replies, the scars on his face pulling up as he smiles. It in no way detracts from his attractiveness.
Not even a little bit.
I am so fucked.
Not yet, you’re not my inner voice teases.
The Voices snicker.
For fuck sake.
“Neith, you don’t have to explain anything that you aren’t comfortable with,” Baz says, his eyes watching me with concern.
River, Coen, and Raiden smirk. They all seem to know exactly what I was thinking about, and when I look away from them, I find Doc watching me with gold eyes and a sultry smile.
I decide at that point not to look at the others because I can feel their gazes watching me, and if those four have figured it out, so have the others, and I’m already close to blushing, which I never do.
I clear my throat, “No, it’s okay. Dimitri saved me.”
I continue to explain as much as I can, and although Dimi said that I could talk to Baz and I trust Dimitri, which is a whole weird thing I might have to unpack later, I still chose to leave some of the more personal things out. Thankfully, the guys take their lead from me and chip in what they can without giving away too much, like what he saved me from, or what kind of supernatural Dimitri is.
At the end of my explanation, Baz just sits quietly for a moment, absorbing what we’ve told him and patting Bitey absently.
“Okay, so there is no way that Dimitri should have been able to appear, hold you, and then disappear again,” Baz says thoughtfully. He adds absently, “I would ask why he would risk punishment by escaping,” his darkened purple gaze meets mine, and his lips tip up slightly, “but that’s obvious.”
“True, I don’t think any of us are questioning why he showed up,” Reed agrees.
I sit there utterly stupefied, I mean, that was hot, right? He meant what I thought he meant by that, right?
Damn.
