Calm before the storm
The interior of the tower was…cozy to say the least, it was full of pictures painted in the walls. And Vi was sure it was the same on the upper floors.
The gargoyle was cutting some herbs along with Isha that was helping her, and the other kid was igniting the fireplace with…magic. One of the things that have shot Caitlyn was now feeding on the logs, like an excited ball of yellow fire.
Her sister had gone upstairs for a moment coming back with a box , she left it on the table sitting on the wooden stool. There was silence between them.
“It's a medical kit, you know, to patch up. Having kids around means having one for emergencies 24/7.”
Jinx gives a soft laugh. And once again Vi just stares, it was just like when she had been with Isha. Calm, soft, happy, not her sister, not the one she had known because this one was confident, not a shy little thing hiding behind her back. Powder had been sarcastic yes, but never so out there, so chaotic. She wasn’t the psycho that had tied her to a tea party of macabre horrors.
She seems so…changed. Her frame was softer, still toned but now it had finally some meat to it. Healthy fat around those holes that had been her cheeks, Vi almost could swear that she had smile lines in the corners of her lips.
It was surreal, of all the things she had expected. Seeing her sister having a home…a family hasn't been one.
Caitlyn was having the same kind of disbelief, hissing between her teeth when she moved on the chair too much and the burn sting. Jinx, the maniac, the criminal that had torn her family apart and tormented her for being with her sister, was alive, with the most saner eyes she had seen in the whole time she had known the blunette.
Those eyes weren't the ones who had hunted her dreams so many times. It was a gaze she had seen her own mother export at meetings, when she was around and she wanted to make sure this new acquaintance couldn't hurt her daughter and husband. Which was revolting in so many ways, that Caitlyn tried focusing on the burn pain, it was better than looking into pink eyes.
She hears swinging of a tail, and by the corner of the eye she sees the big figure of this creature, smiling softly even with those sharp teeth going out of her lips. Passing a pot filled with water and herbs to the little kid, Isha, Caitlyn remembers, also alive, also breathing just like her…mother.
Isha goes to the gold kid side, puts the pot on top of that moving eating log fire creature, and she giggles when it wiggles around the base of the metal. And she stays by…Alina, yes that was her name, that gives her her arm for her to attempt to control the creature. They both giggle when Isha makes her arm do little drawings, changing the form of the flame.
Is all so bizarre but calming, which makes her more disturbed by it all. Alina by example looks exactly like Lux when she was little, yes older than Cait had met her but the resemblance was absurd.
Talking about Lux…
The gargoyle took some rock made mugs, and left them on the table for them all.
Vi could see that Jinx’s mug had a monkey and a hare along the lines of ‘Best mamma’ and her partners had a winged lion with ‘best dadda’.
The gargoyle took a seat next to the blunette, being more in their level, even though she still was massive seated.
“And you ask me why I was doing a whole arrange of mugs”
“Oh don’t get smart with me sunrock, you just did it by accident and now it has work out for you”
“No, no I had seen that we will have visitors”
“Oh? Alina’s sprites told you o great all knowing gargoyle?”
“Perhaps”
They look at each other smirking, and nuzzling their noses, like is the most normal thing in the world. And Vi grits her teeth together, she feels like she is entering something she shouldn’t.
“Are you guys not gonna use the kit? Seriously is better to not get an infection in a nation with no tech”
“Oh yes…thank you sis”
“No prob, oh shit talking about injuries. Are you okay, Luxie?”
“Don’t worry my jewel, was just a crack, a little rest on stone and it would be another golden line”
“Guess turning to stone had it perks at times”
“Just at times. And i'm sorry, there is a hole in the armor although you just fixed it”
“Not your fault big girl, you didn't shoot yourself”
Jinx now looks at Caitlyn frowning. She knows she really can’t take her into account given what she had done herself. But attacking was out of the question. The other blue-haired girl just takes the medical kit, and Vi without a moment's hesitation helps her.
“This stings”
Alina peeps out.
“Could make a whole soldier bounce up again!”
Lux puffs up her chest proud of their kid, Jinx smiles rolling her eyes.
“I still think is a scam and you just hex our kiddos into thinking it works”
“Have some trust in me princess”
“I have all my trust on you big girl”
Caitlyn wants to vomit, and ask questions, but her throat is close to itself. When the kids come over with the pot, and Jinx pours down the tea to all four mugs, Vi lets out a breath.
“Pow-....Jinx can we talk? I think we need to talk”
The pink on her sister’s eyes intensifies for a moment but she nods.
“Would you guys mind being in your room for a little?”
She says that looking at the children. The girls look at each other, shrug and go upstairs, Vi can hear a trapdoor closing after a while.
“Okay let's do things like this. You guys can ask whatever you want. First bitch mittens then piltie pastry, got it?”
The enforcers just nod, and Jinx nods back. She feels surprisingly calm given the kind of situation she is in. She can hear voices in the back of her head, but they're nothing compared to Luxs claw cupping her little hand, tracing metal like it was a precious diamond instead of cheap copper.
Jinx just waited for the interview, tracing the crack on Lux’s back. A little dent in the form of a bullet hole. But it didn't go through thankfully. She would not be as calm if that had happened.
“So…why did you leave?”
“Vi…I…both you and I know, deep down, that everything would have been a mess if I stayed, with my death though? You could stop blaming yourself, stop caring for someone that brought you just headaches and start mourning in a good way the sister you lost. You deserved to be happy, I still think so”
“But I never stop caring, Jinx. I could never stop caring about you. Do you know how I’ve been since you left? I’ve been looking for your face in every glimpse of blue I got. But I’m gonna give you something, I’ve been calmer. Not happier, especially not when I learn you were a faker…Were you thinking of returning ever?”
“I-....no…no really but I really thought about you Vi, of wanting to try and be closer again. But I…needed to know that I was capable of being anything more than a bad omen to our lives.”
Vi looks at this version of her sister. God…really everyone in her life was meant to change weren’t they? But it was fair…she was different as well. Then she sends a look at the thing sitting next to her sister, the wings that had been stretched before ready to bite or burn her head were on some kind of cape form. Lux…that sounded kinda like Luxanna…didn’t it?.
“So…Isha is your kid?”
“She is our precious little bunny.”
“Such an adventurer, with such a smart mind, just like her mom”
“O shush you”
Jinx pushes her…her someone lightly by the shoulder and a really awful…sound comes from the creature. Jinx just looks. Blushing and smiling like a dork. O god what has this girl done to her baby sister.
“I thought…I thought she was like your little sister…but she does look a lot like you when you were little. I didn't know- She is so big . Did you, oh Powder, were you a teen mom?”
Vi has to stop the horror coming to her face, thinking about a really scared teen Powder with a baby in her arms. But who had been the other parent? She would kill them for leaving her sister all alone to raise the child.
“Wha.- Vi what are you talking about?”
“She is so much like you, she even has those big bunny eyes and walks and-”
“Ey ey ey! Captain stop from sailing that boat! Isha didn't come out of my baby maker!”
“Uh?”
“Vi…darling I think Isha is adopted”
“Oh…that…that makes so much more sense”
“Sis, what the fuck?”
Jinx is a blushing mess, but Vi can tell is from disbelief. When Powder got mad, all her face would get like a tomato. Well now was more of a pinkish hue, just like her eyes…She never had asked about that had she?
“Sorry Pow-Pow”
JInx scoffs at her.
“Search for another nick-name. I get you don’t like calling me by my name yet, but at least use something else”
Lux coughs, Vi changes courses and looks at her, not saying anything. And traces for similarities of Garen. Well the big girl troupe lined up with the big man, and the strong jaw. But everything else…was not so similar to say the least.
“You could use Jay-Jay, follows the same structure but with her new name”
Vi gives her a grateful nod, and plays with it in her mouth. It strays away from bad meanings but is part of this new sister of hers.
“I'm sorry for the misunderstanding Jay-Jay but she looked so much like you and I haven't been at your side for years”
“You of all people forgetting adoption is a thing is so funny really”
Vi has to blush at her stupidity.
“How…you guys happen?”
“Well Luxie was guarding this tower and we just got closer. Guess that co-parenting with your roomie can lead to more than platonic relationships”
Vi just looks at her sister nodding, this is so bizarre.
“She is a Gargoyle”
“She is”
“I am”
“Not weird to you?”
“That is kinda racist”
“No! I'm sorry, is just, she is so…big”
“Well you have a tall gf too”
“Yeah but…this is another level sis”
“She hasn't never hurt me, if you are worried about that, or suffocated me on our sleep”
“You…have slept together”
“Of course, she's actually such a teddy to cuddle against”
Vi could cry of relief upon hearing they had just cuddled. She didn't want the image of her baby sister in bed. She would have beat Lux up if that had happened.
“Who is…Alina?”
“Isha's sister. Not gonna lie when she found us I was so scared. I'm still am. So scared that they would end up like you and I. But we would not let that happen. Ever”
Jinx gives a firm squish into her partner's claw. And Lux leans down to leave a kiss on her head.
“What was the whole little slime killer thingys”
“Those are sprites. They’re like a magic condensation. Alina is a mage. So don't go around telling. That can be kinda dangerous”
Vi looks at Lux’s blonde mane, blue eyes. Magic.
“And before you even say it. She is adopted too”
Vi shuts her mouth.
“So…ey I think is top hats turn. She has been dead silent all the time. And I did promise both of you explanations. And I never break promises.”
“Teemo adventurer code”
“Oh Isha would have hug you so much for that one sunrock”
“I Will say It to her next time”
“You are Luxanna Crowguard aren't you?”
Caitlyn breaks the atmosphere the two love birds were in completely with her question. She is looking at Lux know. Even behind all those monstrous features, she can recognize the little girl she once was.Following Caitlyn around the ball asking if she could hang out with her because a really annoying blond wanted to dance with her. That pristine gold smile, full of mischievous and rightful at the same time. A frame meant for armors not cute frilly dresses her mom put her in at the time.
The wings that have been in her cape form come free startled, gracing the ceiling with their hooks.
Jinx sends a death glare to the sheriff but she doesn't respond to the calling. She keeps staring at sockets of blue marble.
“I think I was…yes”
“What do you mean by that?”
“I…don't remember anything from my past. I get glimpses of what I think It was sometimes. But nothing more. Alina just recognized the crest on the carpet and we just assumed…”
“You have amnesia?”
“That's one way to put It yes…”
“You don't remember me then…do you?”
“I'm sorry…I'm afraid I don't, this is the first time we have even seen each other”
“That is far from the truth. We met at a ball your parents were invited to. You approach me and grab my dress asking if you could hang out with me cause your brother was bussy.”
“I…”
“We even were pen pals for a while until the connections between Demacia and the twin cities broke”
“I apologize…but I can't recall those events”
“What happened to you?”
“I'm not sure either. I just remember awakening here like this”
“Your brother thinks you passed away”
“I'm aware of that part…Alina told us the story”
Caitlyn looks at both of them scratching at her hair.
“Of Course you really have liked each other. So alike and different at the same time. We were right. Maybe too much”
Silence fills the kitchen from both sides .
“I knew you couldn't have done It”
“Ending myself?”
“Yes”
“Miss Caitlyn, I really don't know the person you think I am. I'm just Lux. You might have memories of that person Who bears my name but she Is not me anymore. I don't know her, I don't know her life. I know mine. And I don't wish to come back to something I no longer feel attached to. I don't need fixing”
She ends her statement by returning her wings to be around herself. Jinx looks at her with a smile on her lips, and a proud gaze. It hits Cait, they are in love. How does Jinx end up interluding into all of her relationships one way or another?.
“I met your brother…I know what kind of pain he is going through. Wouldn't you like to see him again?”
“If fate has It we will meet again. Even if I'm…different and I don't remember our life“
“Yeah, just like you and me sis…”
“Fair…”
“Aren't you curious? To know what really happened to you?”
“I am…but I doubt the knowledge would change anything “
“Do you enjoy this?”
“I am happy with my life now yes”
“Jay-jay…you too?”
“Happier than I ever was but…i would like having you back…little by little. The kids need an aunt”
“That…that would an honor sis”
“Now, it is getting late, so we should prepare something for dinner…”
Jinx incorporates going for the kids probably.
“You are going hunting right?”
“Um.. yeah?”
“Me and Cait could babysit the kids while you two go out. Like that we can start know each other more”
“I..I don't know about that, fat hands. I want to trust you guys…but …”
“Please Jinx”
Jinx looks at both of them, she can only see wanting in Vi's grey eyes, longing to be closer to the life of her sister. And from Caitlyn she can't really tell. She looks lost in her own head, doing so many equations.
“I think is a good idea Jewel, and like that we can get a moment to breath”
Jinx nods at what her mate is implying. Family reunions took a real chunk of life out of her soul. So she calls their Girls down, they both Hug them and tell them they are staying a little with their aunts, and if they need help just light up a big beam and whistle really hard.
Lux takes her armor off going back to the comfort of her shirt. After all, the plate had a weak spot. Better get more comfortable.
And just like that they're out of the door.
[........]
So they were alone with the kids now. Isha was hugging a lion plushie and squishing her sister's hand, just looking at them…menacingly.
“So…been a long time kid”
Isha lets the plushie on her belt and has her hand free.
[You look weird without oil]
“I Hope is a compliment cause that rose fragrance is on me forever with how much Cait threw in the bathtub”
Isha shrugs.
[ Look healthier. Good weird]
“Thanks, right back at you kid”
“So you are Jinx's sister”
“And your Isha's, right?”
Alina stops for a moment, shuffles her feet and looks at their hands intertwined.
“I..guess I am”
[You are, dumb bear]
Alina smiles and tickles Isha lightly in her sides, gaining for the little bunny to swat at her hands giggling madly. Looking at their antics, Vi can’t help the ache in her heart.
“So what do you guys want to do till your parents come back?”
Caitlyn is still sitting at the table watching this unfold. Watching how Vi is leaning down to be at the children's level. And Caitlyn is reminded once again of this soft spot of Vi. The one It floats to the surface of a strong brawler persona. So sensitive and so strong.
[Draw]
“Okay yeah that sounds awesome, you guys sure have decorated all the walls”
“Not all, Lux was gonna take us to the roof once but she got scared that we could fall”
[I tried parkouring up. Mamma catch me by the scruff]
“Well that's a little mutch, Jay-jay could do that stuff even when she was younger than you guys”
“Really?”
“Really. You know what? I'm teaching you guys to do It and we are going to paint that roof.”
The children squeak in excitement racing each other upstairs to get their paint.
And Caitlyn stands up to go to her partner's side.
“Vi…do you think this is a good idea?”
“Well yeah Cupcake this is gonna be a perfect way to bond”
“I don't know if Jinx and Lux are gonna think that. If both of them have denied the kids to try”
“Relax your pretty head madam, I got this.”
“Confidence in your aunt material?”
“Pretty much. I think I look like a cool aunt dont I?”
“Isha met your when you were a puddle of oil, so is definitely an improvement”
They laugh a little even if It comes out drained. Tiredness picking up on them at this time. Cait traces Vi's lip scar, cupping her cheek.
“How are you feeling darling?”
“Turns out the two girls we thought were dead. Are really alive and not only that, but have a family together “
“This is all so unexpected. Of all the things I could have imagined. This one was not on my board”
“Yeah…what about you?”
“I'm…holding up”
“I felt the same…with Vander and wanted to cure him. But maybe…you should let Lux be Lux. She seems okay with it”
“That's because she doesn't remember anything else, Vi. Who in their right mind would prefer to be a monster?”
Vi frowns scratching at her buzz. She doesn't really know what to think of this. But they both seem content with each other. Vander had been a casket of himself. A poor beast that once was a band.
But Lux was a beast that wasn't hunted by the past. She just…existed. And to be truthful, It made sense someone that was labeled as a monster could understand her sister so well.
“We shouldn't mangle too much in their lives, cupcake. I get you want to have your friend back but…you can't expect people not to change”
“I…I know, but I would like for her to remember her life. Maybe not all, but the good parts”
“Do you know how heavy the bad ones were?”
“Not really Vi, the magesekers' works are really secretive. But for how Garen said they treat magic as afflictions…”
“Yeah…and that can’t be good at all”
“So…you know…I'm not sure of anything. “
“What are we gonna do with Jinx?”
“That's another muddy problem, she has kids, how are we supposed to cage her up and leave their family without their mom?”
“You are taking mom…?”
The kids are at the stairs. Alina holding a box full of paints and wings and paws. Isha hugging the plushie looking at them frowning, ready to lunch at them to fight for her family.
Alina was about the same, but she was fighting some tears off. Adjusting her glasses. It was the first time she had called Jinx mom out loud. She was not about to lose them, not when she had found them. They were her home.
The pair look at each other. They can't do this.
“No we are not…Your mom hasn't been a good person but…behind bars she wouldn't be able to amend herself “
“So you guys can…still live together. In hiding. But would it be okay for us to hang out with you?”
Alina takes a deep breath putting herself in front of Isha. The little girl hugged her from the waist.
“No funny business or I'm frying you with a rainbow. And Isha would chop your little pieces into more little pieces”
They can see spirals of gold go around the child's eyes.
“Got it. Yep”
“Good”
[........]
Lux and Jinx hadn’t gone too far, catching the trail of some razorbeaks. Lux was carrying two by the legs. Hunting was really easy when they were together. Lux stomped their escape with her magic and Jinx shot them down with the normal arrows.
They were just walking home in silence, Jinx was thinking of everything that was unraveling today, hugging herself in their walk. Now that she had time to really take everything, let it sink, she was having some problems getting her head around the fact that Vi wanted to be here. That made her so incredibly happy, but would the enforcers let her go this easy?
She has done too much, hurt so many people, ones she is regretful about, others not so much and a lot of others who she really can’t remember anymore.
Was a murderer like her, really becoming a family mother? She has, so far, been doing great. Could it last? Could they last?
Shadows lurking closer, one more sentient than the others. Staring at her with that unblinking eye.
“You are perfect, Jinx”
And the humor escapes Jinx, who starts laughing, making Lux stop in her tracks and look at her. Not like she was crazy or concerned, just curious and patient. This girl was perfection, not Jinx.
“Everything alright?”
“Just my crazy father telling me I’m perfect, as if. He really was mental”
“I do think your perfect, imperfectly perfect”
Jinx looks at her mate, she is smiling softly at her, opening a wing. Jinx smiles back, taking the offering and stepping closer to the gargoyle, hugging her by the waist and letting the wing pull her closer while they start walking again.
“Like a sword right?”
“Exactly. My jewel, how are you feeling, after the reunion?”
“Hopeful really, scared shitless too and also curious”
“Curious?”
“About the piltie knowing your pastself”
“mmmm”
“I know you are too Lux, you know it is okay to be right? No one is expecting you to go back to that…but is okay to wanting to know how it was”
“I…I suppose so. It is just kinda funny to me, that I used to know your sister in law”
“A little jejeje seems like fate wanting us meeting too much, one way or another”
“Seems like it my princess”
“I…I love you my knight”
“Pardon?”
“Don’t make me say it again”
Lux had a goofy smile, her tusks and fangs at their full display while she was looking down at a really flushed pink blunette who was trying really hard to hide at her side.
“I love you too my precious soul, you brought color and fun into my plain live. Gave me caring and understatement and made my heart bump like crazy at the ready of filing you with love.”
“Okey okey that’s it, I get it jeez. Shut up and kiss me already”
“With pleasure”
Lux scoops JInx up with her free arm, letting her ass rest in the length of her arm and bring her up. JInx fiercely holds her cheeks and kisses her with force. All her feelings exploding around their tongues and spit, coming out for air just to crash against each other again with quiet words that sound like I love yous. Lux licks around her mate's neck, her tongue holding it tightly a little, making Jinx take hold of the blonde's horns to not fall, letting out a strangle moan.
Lux moves her ears at the sound, stopping her tongue but not going away from her jewels neck. Bumping her fangs lightly against the skin. She wants to mark her really badly, but she’s scared of her instincts, of hurting Jinx by accident. And then JInx pulls her by the mane closer, making her grunt of excitement.
“Do it Luxie, I know you want to, just do it. I can take you”
Lux opens her maw at that, grazing lightly the skin of her neck with the teeth inside her mouth. Her tusks and fangs caged her partner not to move.
Jinx would have felt helpless but with Lux she just felt cared for, even with the longer canines pinching her skin. And then a wave of pain and enjoyment at the same time came out of her in a panting moan. Lux bit hard with her front teeth leaving a trail of blood going down from the wound, Lux licked at it like a thirsty traveler. The mixed of the chems with the blood making her eyes open up and light in a gold color fused lightly with pink.
When she pulled away they were both panting.
JInx trail the mark were her neck and shoulder met with a smirk. Looking at those eyes, full of wanting. Jinx was on fire, she knew Lux was too, but they just continued to stare at the other.
“Lux…what is your softest spot? Your chest?”
“Yes”
“Let me mark you too”
Lux lets out a growl, her tail swinging around, she lets their catch on the floor. Using her claw to pull down her shirt. Jinx took hold of her shoulders leaning her head down into the cleavage. Her mouth leaving wet kisses all around, she put the grey skin in her mouth and bit hard on it. Lux holds on to her pull her closer with a purring moan, her talons drawing lines on the dirt floor.
Jinx doesnt stop her teeth from going at it until she feels a liquid go into her mouth. The taste of blood feels her buds, blood and a more sweet sour flavor. She lets go looking at the mark between the curves of Lux´s boobs. And cleans her chin with a hand, looking at her stained fingers, Lux does the same. Gold and neon pink meat each other and they let out a breathless laugh.
“I'm all yours blondie. I love you”
“I'm all yours as well, Jinx. I love you”
They let their foreheads lay together before getting to walk again. Lux covers Jinx's neck with a wing. Even if the girl has a proud face looking now and then to the mark.
When they are back at their tower, their happy hearts are filled with worry and amusement at the same time.
“What are you guys doing?”
Caitlyn was hanging for her dear life to a dent in between the bricks of the tower, while Vi was at the top trying to help her up. Isha holding Alinas hands lightly as if they were looking at some injury.
“Ow um hey Sis you guys are back with the dinner?”
The nervous laugh could win awards.
“Alina touched the brick without me here?”
“I yeah she got a…little burn on her hand”
“Jinx, can we kill your sister?”
“O Sunrock believe me, I’m trying really hard to content the murderer in me”
“I told you Vi this was a bad idea…this is embarrassing”
Jinx and Lux signed and the gargoyle passed her mate their hunt. Before extending her wings and climbing up the tower catching in her wake a really embarrassed Caitlyn and putting her on her shoulders like a sack. Once she was at the roof she did the same with Vi to the other shoulder and put her tail around her precious girls. Isha was kissing a bad burn on Alinas palm.
“We are sorry dad, we thought we could draw on the roof”
“I’m not mad, I should have told you to be careful without me in the tower. Some bricks stilll have their properties. You grace one going up”
[I kissed it better]
“Perfect my little adventurer. Let's go down and take a better look at it, yeah?”
They both nod and Lux puts them to her chest and lets herself fall, with her wings gliding her down soft. Jinx comes to them immediately and Lux lets the kids down softly and a little hard the adults.
Jinx leans down cupping Alinas hand, having left the food inside letting out a deep breath seeing that is just a little scratch. Some water and ointment and it would be okay.
“Isha let her drool all over it, was more gross than painful”
“Isha”
[Is good for bobboos] “Mhm hmhm!”
“Good job little bunny but please don’t do this again without either of us here”
“Yes mom”
“Mhm”
“Now let's get cooking. Lux could you treat Lina? I want to talk with their aunts”
“Of course my jewel. Come on girls”
Lux takes a hold of both their little hands going inside.
“We are so sorry Jay-Jay, they wanted to try and I…I didn’t it would do harm to Ali”
“Alina, not nickname basis, not for you”
“I’m so sorry…”
“Is fine…I…You didn't know, mistakes are made”
“They told us you didn't like them going, but I wanted to look like a dumb cool aunt”
“Well the dumb part you got it right. But…is fine Ali is fine luckly”
“You are not upset?”
“Oh I am upset, top hat. You guys can’t barge in here and interfere with our lives like nothing happened. I put my trust in you and you break it. But it is not…is not like I’m perfect, and it was just a little mishap…but please just be more careful. If we have a rule is for a reason”
Caitlyn looks at Jinx oddly, she is so…mature…so changed for the files she had in her office. Grounded, she was not okay by any means, she could see the short girl shaking but her muscles were putting a front for her. She decided to ignore the really big mark on her neck that wasn't there a minute ago. She plays with her choker a little tracing the pink jewel, just like her eyes and looks at them again.
“Let’s eat, yeah?”
“Yeah…your home. You are boss”
“Good for you to understand sis”
When they enter, Lux has started cooking while Isha is decorating Alinas bandage.
“What are you doing, you goblin?”
[Don't move. Gonna ruin it]
“Then tell me what it is”
[Surprise]
“You are so dramatic”
[Mammas genes]
“Ey I read that! Again with that, I’m not dramatic”
“You arrived flying a whole fang to a fight”
Lux smirks looking at her. That was news to her. But nothing she wouldn’t expect from her mate.
“Don’t spill my secrets, piltie. I have to keep the mystery going”
“Your entrance wasn’t a mystery sis, all the battlefield saw it”
“Lux didn’t!”
“Now Im picturing it”
“Doooon’t”
Jinx comes to her mates side and lets herself hang dramatically from her shoulders going on tip toes and jumping at the figure like a little monkey.
“You gotta think I'm cool and with a haunted paaast not like a circus attendant.”
“I think your both my little monkey”
“Okay fair…Lux, did you know that an asshole told me once that I had circus pants?”
“What? What a disgrace!”
“I know right! They didn’t even think I was Jinx. Leave a card in all of the city with my face on it and that douche was saying I was a copycat!”
“How could someone mistake you for anyone?”
“Right?!”
“You are too memorable”
“You make me blush big girl”
“Thank you”
They both laugh and Jinx lets go of her hold going to start the fireplace.
Vi goes to sit next to Alina and Caitlyn sits next to Isha.
“I’m so sorry for this Alina”
“Don’t worry, dad patch me up and Isha is making a guardian for it to heal better. But the jerk is not telling me what it is”
Isha just saws her middle finger at her sister, earning a gasp from Cait and a laugh from Vi.
“Isha that is a really disrespectful singh to show your sister”
The dyed blunette just huffs rolling her eyes continuing her drawing.
“Seriously is a really mean one”
“Cupcake let her be, there is no one in the undercity who doesn't use the funny finger”
Isha looks at Vi smiling like the little gremlin she is.
[Mom was so pissed when she lost her finger. It was so funny her trying to do it then looking at the missing thing with a dumb face]
“What did she say?”
Vi laughs alongside Alina.
“She’s saying that the only problem with you shooting Jinx’s finger was that she couldn’t use her funny finger”
“Of Course that would be a problem for her”
“I’m still in the room you guys”
“Sis, did you seriously just do that mechanical digit to be able to flip someone off again”
The answer is a smirk and a slow flip off.
The kids laugh, Alina is pretty sure Isha has messed some lines up with so many giggle shaking.
“Luxanna, are you okay with this behavior?”
Lux laughs while putting the pot on the fire. Her tail hugged Jinx by the waist and gave her a twirl.
“Like she said she’s a circus my little monkey”
Jinx is laughing proudly before going to sit at the table looking at what Isha had done. Cait just looks at Vi who has a calm smile while looking at her sister.
The guardian that Isha had prepared turned out to be a slime creature made out of oil and a little mongoose trapped inside.
“see cupcake…? the mongoose stays”
“I hate this family”
This time all of the table laughs and they eat the razorbeaks between tales of the past from the twin cities and little adventures of the cloud family. Jinx can’t believe this is real, her mate at her side, her kiddos eating, Caitlyn cleaning Isha's face with a napkin on her pocket, Vi showing Alina how to clench her hand correctly when having a bandage. It almost feels like this was meant to be, just like this.
When they end Jinx and Lux go to put their rascals to bed, the two children cuddle together and they both receive kisses to their forehead and their handshake.
When the pair go down again Vi and Caitlyn are seated by the fireplace.
“So…for how much time are you guys staying?”
“We…”
Caitlyn puts a hand on Vi’s shoulder nodding.
“We can stay for some days if you are okay with it, then we will have to go and see the king”
“Yeah sure fine by me…wait why are you going to see the king?”
“It was the only way to be here in Demacia legally, I contacted the Crownguards, well Lux…but it was her brother who answer me”
Jinx looks up at her sunrock looking into marble blue eyes that move around trying to grasp memories. Jinx is sure of that. She crosses her arms, let out a nod and lean on her.
“So big brother is going to soult you guys right?”
“When we send him the letter yes”
“There is a village past the river, you can send it there”
“Princess?”
“Well Luxie…It could be your opportunity of remeeting your fam as well”
Lux scratches at her fangs unsure and Vi steps in to try and reassure her….sister in law?
“Garen was so devastated by your loss. Hw would be crying learning that he can hug you again”
“Even…like this?”
“Trust me, once a babysister always one, even if you guys turn out to be grown adults or creatures of 2 metres”
Jinx offers a hand out at that to Vi and she takes the offer. The sisters hug for a while both of their partners looking at them with a small smile.
“Got you back sis…”
“Even when we are worlds apart”
[...........]
A figure on the outskirts of the tower clutches their bandana closer to their neck adjusting the hammer on their back. They had been looking at their interactions when they had caught sight of the strange pair going back to the tower.
They could feel a lot of magical potential and weird mixes of it as well.
With a smile on their tanned face they started running away. Sylas would adore this information.