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Out Of Thin Air
"Okay, move that vase over there to your left... not my left, your left!"
Youngblood sighed as he ran a hand through his green hair, his emerald eyes holding a look of exasperation. He was here to see how the reception hall for his upcoming wedding was coming along, while his fiancée Dani was out dress shopping, and, well...
"Sorry, Mrs. Weston. It's hard to see my left holding this vase," the workman apologised.
Jazz sighed impatiently, running a hand through her shoulder-length hair, the wedding band on her left ring finger glinting.
"Could you lower the vase so that you can see your left?"
"Uhh... yes?"
"Then please do so!"
You get the picture.
One of the workmen, who was stringing delicate lanterns through the roof beams, laughed at the plight at his fellow co-worker.
"Tough job, isn't it, Lenny?" he called down teasingly.
"And you've got an easy job, Trevor?" Lenny hollered back, countering Trevor.
"True, true."
Youngblood sighed again as he pinched the bridge of his nose.
Jazz looked at him and gave him a smile.
"Hey. They'll get the job done. And the reception hall will be amazing for yours and Dani's wedding."
"I know, but... I didn't how stressing it would be. Your wedding to Wes looked easy."
Jazz laughed.
"Trust me, future brother-in-law, between organising that wedding and starting out my psychologist job, I was even more stressed than you are, right now. Weddings are never easy, YB, but they're the best memories of your life, so don't sweat it."
She patted him on the shoulder, having gotten used to his icy body temperature.
Youngblood smiled at her. "Thanks Jazz."
"Don't mention it." The redhead looked up and sighed in annoyance.
"Marvin! I told you to place the streamers up there!"
Jazz walked away from Youngblood, heading to Marvin to correct his mistake.
Youngblood chuckled and watched as Jazz directed Marvin to where the streamers should be hung... until he felt familiar, deceptively thin arms hug him from behind and a beautiful voice whispering into his ear, "Hey handsome."
Youngblood grinned happily. "Hey Dani."
Dani smiled back at him. "How's the wedding planning going?"
"Pretty boring. How was dress-shopping with my big sis?"
"Much more interesting than spending hours upon hours here," a familiar voice answered for Dani.
Beside the midnight-haired girl, a female ghost with flaming blue hair came into existence, her hands casually holding her guitar.
Youngblood smiled at Ember McLain. "Hey sis."
"Hey bro."
"So... what dress did you get, Dani?" Youngblood asked his fiancée.
Dani laughed. "Oh no, mister, you'll have to wait until the wedding."
"Why?"
"Because it's a surprise! And it's bad luck."
"I thought it was bad luck for the groom to see the bride in her wedding dress before the wedding day?" Youngblood asked.
In response, Dani just kissed him.
Ember was about to say something when a voice called from the rafters, "Lanterns are strung up, Mrs. Weston!"
Trevor began climbing down the ladder and Ember immediately went invisible. Jazz walked up to Trevor and smiled at him.
"Thanks Trevor."
"No problems, Mrs. Weston. Anything for the happy couple."
Trevor turned to Youngblood and Dani and smiled at them. Youngblood felt his throat closing up and beside him, he heard a barely audible strangled gasp.
"Congratulations, you two."
"Thanks, Trevor," Dani thanked, smiling at him, though she sent her fiancé a worried look as if to say, Are you okay?
Trevor smiled back and walked out of the reception hall. Outside, Youngblood could hear a Jeep rumbling as Trevor drove away.
After he left, Dani turned to Youngblood as Ember blinked back to visibility and asked them, "Hey, are you two okay? You both look like you saw something really scary."
"No... he couldn't be..." Ember murmured, still looking paler than usual.
"He died years ago; he can't be alive," Youngblood muttered.
"Who are you talking about?" Dani asked them.
The two siblings looked at each other before answering Dani in unison:
"Our dad, Trevor McLain."
...
Later
Youngblood was pacing; well, he was floating off the floor, so technically air-pacing, but you get the point. He was muttering to himself and shaking his head as Dani watched him, before she sighed, getting annoyed from watching her fiancé pace the air and stood up and asked him, "Okay. Tell me."
"Tell you what?" Youngblood asked back, stopping his pacing.
"Tell me why seeing your dad made you and Ember look like Pariah Dark was released again! I know it might be difficult to talk about, but-"
"Dani, my and Ember's dad died years ago. And now, here he is, alive and well!"
"Isn't that a good thing? Your dad is alive. Shouldn't you and Ember be overjoyed by this?"
"Dani, I know it's a good thing. But why didn't he make an appearance earlier? What did he have to do that involved having to fake his own death. I... I don't get it."
Dani walked up to Youngblood, and placed a hand on his shoulder as he continued.
"Whenever I saw kids playing catch with their dads, it made me feel alone... left out. I saw all of these kids with both their parents, and I thought that maybe I came out of thin air. Ember was four before our dad fake-died. She had the chance to know him and properly grieve for him. Me, I wasn't even born yet. It... it made me think that I did literally come out of thin air."
"Youngblood." Dani's tone was firm. He looked at her as she went on.
"If I know one thing, is that people don't come out of thin air. I should know; I was literally created from Danny's DNA. And I know for a fact that you don't come out of thin air."
"How can you be so sure, Dani?"
"Because I know that someone like you couldn't have come out of thin air. Because,
DANI
"You showed me the world when I was all locked up inside
You reached out your hand and took me on
A magic carpet ride
One look at your smile
And I could see the light shining everywhere
People like you don't come out of thin air."
Youngblood looked at her and said, "Dani,
YOUNGBLOOD
"You don't understand, there is so much that you don't see
Just think if you can what growing up
Had to be like for me
Your father's a man who taught you who you are
Mine was never there
So how can you say I don't come out of thin air?"
Dani looked at him.
"I get where you're coming from. But Youngblood, a father doesn't defy who you are. Vlad... I thought he was my father. He tried to make me his little perfect, faithful minion, yet here I am, independent of him, his influence and my own person. So what if your father wasn't there? You're still an amazing person, and I love you for that. But, if it's important for both you and Ember... then maybe you should go."
"Dani," Youngblood started, as he looked out the window,
YOUNGBLOOD
"There's so much I want to know."
DANI
"You've got the chance to learn."
YOUNGBLOOD
"If it means I'd have to go."
DANI
"I'll be right here when you return."
DANI AND YOUNGBLOOD
"Our wedding can wait(I love you)
I think it's worth this small delay(Maybe you're right)
And won't it be great to have your father
See our wedding day?
It isn't too late(I've waited so long to learn the truth)
And now at last we can finally say."
DANI
"Your father was really there."
YOUNGBLOOD
"There's so much we might share."
DANI AND YOUNGBLOOD
"And you'll finally learn, you don't come out of thin air."
The engaged couple hugged and Dani looked at Youngblood, wiping a translucent green tear from his eye.
"Thanks Dani," he whispered.
Dani smiled at him. "No problem, Youngblood."
They looked out the window and Youngblood said, "I'll find him tomorrow. Now, I want to spend the rest of today with you."
Dani smiled up at him. "I like that idea."
Youngblood smiled back at her and the two lovebirds headed towards the couch, snuggling up to each other as they watched something on the TV, Youngblood thinking about what he would say to his thought-to-be-dead father when he found him again.
No comments, except that this was both a melancholic and sweet one-shot.
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