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"Exactly. See it once, it might be a trick. Multiple times and eventually you have to start to take it seriously. She never knew about the days where I nearly died so..." So it's good she won't have to worry about those again.

"I guess growing up in it is different, huh? What was it like?"

He knows his side of things, but he's curious. What if his friends have kids and they're raised around him, after all. They may learn about him and what that could mean.

His expression tightens as she explain what she and her cousin went through, not even able to imagine that. Yet here she is and she's been through that. "I can't even imagine how rough things were for you both. Dealing with it in your adult years is rough but just being practically a kid and having demons stalking you? That had to be awful. I'm so sorry."

And he is, genuinely sorry for them and all they endured. She's had an amazing life but a rough one as well he's realizing.

His smile softens at her words. "I don't know. The witch I know is still pretty cool," he admits, as sincere as he's ever been.

Though the smile kind of fades then. "You should get some sleep though. Do you think there's something I can do to help? Is it the inability to feel safe enough to sleep?" Because he has some ideas of how he could help with that.

He snorts, rolling his eyes. "No, that would be you. I'm here with a stranger? Everyone wants to know about you now. I'm sure someone will ask me at work tomorrow and they weren't even here."

But they would have heard.

"I'm sorry that you had to go through those kinds of days," she says seriously, watching him.

She goes quiet as she thinks about it. "It all feels so complicated, honestly. My first ability was fire and when that showed itself rather dramatically, my Dad made sure to send me to therapy just as a means to control my anger or emotions. From what I have heard from Jordan's Gran, his gifts were seeing the future and getting glimpses of the past. He didn't know how to handle a budding pyro. I don't know much about my Mom or what her gifts were because she didn't leave anything behind that I've found. When we moved back to New Orleans and they bound our powers, everything just sort of got locked away, if that makes sense?"

Perhaps that was part of the reason why she returned to Seattle after their deaths. It wasn't a conscious decision but perhaps after losing the family she knew, she was seeking the family she hadn't gotten a chance to know.

"Once we found out again, then bits and pieces started to return to both Jordan and me but a lot of it is still a blur." She nods. "The demon had also been really stalker-y because he had a book on each of us detailing our lives up until that point and neither of us could ever bring ourselves to read it. Who would want to?"

She was sharing more with Kyle than she had probably shared with just about anyone but for some reason, she wanted him to know who she was. Not just the woman who sought him out to help heal her.

Piper smiles when he says that she's still pretty cool. "I appreciate that, thank you. Just wait until you really get to know me," she can't help but tease as perhaps some form of self-deprecation.

She thinks about his question before slowly nodding. "I think that's a large part of it. I haven't felt safe enough to truly sleep since they died and so...," she shrugs a little shoulder. She wasn't sure how he could help other than simply staying with her and she couldn't ask that of him.

"Oh, now that does make sense," Piper laughs and takes another drink from her water. "You know, it was always a dream to be a source of gossip in a small town."

Despite all Kyle has learned about his father's family and the aliens, he's been lucky. He had his mom and dad for most of his life. Parents who doted on him and who knew how to handle the man he had been then. The boy even.

They hadn't had to face this in him, and his dad had ignored a lot of it and left his bother to handle most of it.

Jordan and Piper's family hadn't had that chance and they had dealt with it all the best they could. Good or bad.

"Never read those. Ever. There's nothing there that is meant to help. Only to taunt you." He truly believed that and he wouldn't pretend otherwise.

He smiles at her then. "So you'll be safe tonight. I hope. I can stay up and make sure things are safer even, if you want. If you think it will help." He's willing to do whatever she thinks might help. If he can. "If you think that would help. I won't be offend if you think I can't help. I know we're still getting to know one another."

And he doesn't expect her to trust him like that either.

He laughs at that, giving her a look. "Oh well, then we should make a show of you going home with me. Someone from the sheriff's office might show up. Probably not my mom. She would likely send Max to come by and check things out."

Piper smiles. "I never plan to read them. We - I have them so that no one else gets their grabby little hands on them but at this point... so much in my life has changed that I wonder what could someone really benefit from?"

She pauses then lifts a hand to her forehead. "Fuck, I'm so sorry, I shouldn't dump my tragic life story on you like that, you did not sign up for that." She couldn't really blame it on the blood or anything... other than the comfortable feeling she got around him, she supposes.

Piper looks down at the menu still sitting in front of her and questions what she had an appetite for when he gives her the option of staying up while she slept. Piper blinks and lifts her head to look at him. "I can't ask you to do that, Kyle," she says after a moment. As much as she wants him to stay because she does trust him and does think it would help, she didn't want to put him out.

She laughs at the look he gives her and places her hand under her chin. "Hmm, I definitely think we can manage that then," she says with a grin. A thought she didn't expect coming ran through her mind and that was: I wouldn't mind going home with him.

Edited (sorry I thought better of my last edit because her whole goal is to be a source of gossip so! lol) 2023-09-06 01:17 (UTC)

"Good. I'm glad to hear that. They aren't... I mean, like mystical books or anything?" He can't believe he's asking things like that but it's what his life has come to and he has to accept that it's a possibility as well. More than that, he didn't want her dealing with that.

"OKay one, yes I did. Two, I don't mind. Three, it's not fucked up. Just really, really, really different," he teases, leaning in a bit closer to her. "Says the vampire" he whispers. Because to him that's weird and fucked up too.

"Why not? Not like I need all that much sleep anyway. I can pretty much do what I want though sleep helps with control and hunger."

Which it technically does for humans as well.

"Then I guess that's solved, isn't it? We can stay up and watch movies." Or they can until she falls asleep and then he can. "And you can tell me about what's going on."

"No, they're not as far as I've been able to tell. However, I have some mystical books. My ancestors a long time ago decided to put some of themselves or their magic into a book in case they weren't around to "guide" their future descendants. They're as annoying as you may think," she says and brings her glass of water up to her mouth for a long drink. What was most annoying about it was that since Jordan and David's deaths, she hadn't heard so much as a peep from them - either in person or from their damn books.

Her mouth quirks up a little at his words and nods. "I appreciate you listening all the same. I," she pauses and snorts softly. "Not to repeat when we first met but I normally don't just give my life's story to someone when I just meet them but...," she trails off. Was it weird to say she trusted him on some level? A man who she only just met that night but who had come out in the middle of the night to help her? "So thank you."

She grins at his response and nods. "Yeah, movies and talking sounds good," she says and smiles when a man walks over to take their orders, giving Kyle a curious look.

Conversation with Kyle flowed easily through their late dinner and shakes. They didn't really seem to run out of things to talk about which was nice but for now, she kept it away from what's been going on. She could go into that when they got to his place.

It was roughly thirty minutes later when they walked out of the diner together and headed in another direction from the motel where she was staying. "I'm glad they're open late otherwise it might've been whatever leftover snacks I had in the car which... isn't a lot," she admits with a little laugh. She usually wasn't too hungry in general these days but she'd been stabbed and healed and apparently, her body needed it.

It's easy to listen to her, to share these talks. Both about the most mundane of things they're dealing with, like work and snacks, as well as the world that most around them had no idea about. Roswell invested in aliens and never knew they actually had any.

It isn't at all surprising that they hadn't a clue about everything else that went bump in the night either.

Now they are the things that go bump in the night. Even as they stand on a sidewalk, laughing and teasing one another as they plan on heading home.

"Okay rule one, you have to eat at least one good meal a day. Doctor's orders," he says, as if he thinks that will work. "Two, once a month you have to come here to have dinner and rest. I will write it on a prescription sheet, if you want."

Although Adonis (and even Klaus to some degree) looks out for her in their own way and they are working toward the common goal of finding everyone involved in Jordan and David's deaths, they are still more separated than they are together. It's been longer than she cares to think about since someone even attempted to look out for her and the fact that Kyle even says something about taking care of herself, it's nice.

She laughs and sends him a grin. "You may need to write it down on a prescription sheet so I can remind myself that I should/need to do said things," she says with a smile. "It's not something I'm proud of but I get so focused on what's going on or my current goal that everything else sort of takes a backseat."

Is she proud of it? No. Is it something that Jordan, David, and even Ben would give her shit about in the past? Definitely. Despite Jordan being exactly the same way in many ways.

It isn't that Kyle can't understand that thinking or how she's processing things. Learning about aliens and all he had about them, being kidnapped and killed and all that had come with it, he had neglected a lot himself during that time. Yet he knew that he would do his best for others. Do as he says and not as he does kind of a thing.

"I can do that, and maybe I'll just have to make sure I text you daily as well. Just to be sure."

Giving it as an opening and not an insistence. Both as a friend and someone that already cares about her as he does. If he can just do something to try and help her and maybe she her again.

Piper grins and loops her arm with his as they walk in the direction that she assumes is toward his place. "I will not say no to daily texts from you," she says, glancing at him out of the corner of her eye.

"Both for that and just... because."

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