Hi quick note, just wanted to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year. And speaking of the new year I'm planning on trying to get the next chapter for this story ready on the first or second and then after that the next chapter of squire to knight on somewhere in February. That is to say if I don't get shite face drunk and forget about it over the holidays as I head out to Queensland to spend some time with my family. Hope to see you all soon.

Ch 3 First Night on Earth

Making their way down the stairs and into the kitchen they saw everyone they was looking for something excluding Janna who wasn't there.

The first one to notice their arrival was Glossaryck but he had his face covered with some of the best homemade pudding he has ever had. So understandably he was far too preoccupied to say anything, leaving Angie to be the one to notice and call out to them.

"Marco, sweetie you're awake," Angie called out to her son with joy in her voice. "And I see you also brought Hekapoo with you. Good."

"Mom, we are literally chained together." Marco pointed out." And where's Janna?"

"Sorry sweetie I forgot about that. Janna went home after she came downstairs."

"Figures she'd split, most likely to avoid me gave her panties back" Marco said but he whispered that last part under his breath.

"Oh mi hijo, your mother and your friend's friends have come up with a plan to help out with your little problem."

"I'd hardly call having your son chained up to one of the members of the Magic High Commission a little problem. But yes, we do have a plan that both parties have agreed on." Moon commented. "Hekapoo, you and I both know we can't just take away this child from his family, it would be very unethical of us and 'No!' we can't just cut off his hand and reattach it later. We all thought of that but Glossaryck has informed me that the chain that bonds you two together is not just physical connection to the both of you but spiritually as well."

"I wasn't going to suggest that," Hekapoo pleaded.

It was then Glossaryck pulled his head out of the tub of pudding he was eating and looked over to her.

"Then why do you have your scissors out in your hand mmmm?" Glossaryck asked accusingly.

Panicking Hekapoo quickly hid them in her dress. "I have no idea what you're taking about. I see no scissors." She tried to play it off, but she wasn't fooling anyone especially Marco as he was glaring holes in the side of her head.

Seeing that were starting to go off track, Moon picked up her tea spoon and started to clink it on her tea cup to regain order and focus on the more important matter at hand.

"We really have no time for this, it's getting late and we're all tired from today's events, but I still need to fill you both in on what's going to happen." She waited for both Marco and Hekapoo to start paying attention to her before she continued.

"As I was saying, we can't just take Marco from his family. So instead we've agreed that it would be best for you to stay here with Marco and his family."

"WHAT!?"

"Now Hekapoo, it's not really that bad."

"What do you mean, 'it's not really that bad?' I have a job to do, I also have responsibilities I need to carry out!" Hekapoo shouted at Moon.

She would have continued shouting but Glossaryck managed to stop her in her tracks by just raising his hand. "Well look on the bright side, you finally get a vacation from your Magic High Commission duties. That means you don't have to forge scissors, we'll just put all orders on hold. You don't have to hunt down people who are misusing or stealing dimensional scissors, Rhombulus and Lekmet will take care of it. And finally, you won't need to attend any Magic High Commission meetings until further notice." Glossaryck finished.

"Wait, I won't be expected to attend any more meetings?"

"You can, that is, if both you and Marco want to."

"Hell yeah! Not more meetings," cheered Hekapoo with a smile on her face, but that faded very quickly as she glared back over to Glossaryck. "What's the catch to all of this?"

"Don't look at me," Glossaryck said as he pointed at Moon. "She did all the talking and agreement making with these lovely people over her." He gestured at Mrs. and Mr. Diaz for clarification.

"Moon, what did you do?"

"Well you see Hekapoo, since Marco has his own responsibilities here in his home world and the fact you are chained together, both his parents and I have made preparations for you to attend classes at his school."

There was a sudden cold silence that know filled the room. It was so quiet that everyone in the kitchen could hear Glossaryck's tongue licking the once large bowl full of pudding clean. The silence finally ended when Hekapoo suddenly without warning, burst into hysterical laughter.

"Ha ha ha ha! That's a good one Moon ha ha." Calming down from her laughter, Hekapoo wiped a tear drop from her eye. "And people say you can't tell any good jokes."

"Hekapoo, I'm not joking with you in the slightest. You are going to school."

Hearing this the small flame that hovered above her head was stating to grow in size as the temperature in the room was rising at an alarming rate.

"Is it getting hot in here or is that just me?"

"No it's not you, it's her," Glossaryck pointed at a seemingly very angry Hekapoo. "Moon, if you would so kindly."

"Everyone stay behind me for this," Moon ordered as she pulled out her wand.

"Marco my boy, if you value your life I suggest you come over here, that is if your chain can reach."

Seeing where this was going, Marco made a mad dash towards Moon and just before he could Hekapoo's body bust in flames almost as if napalm went off. Luckily, Moon had cast a barrier in front of her protecting herself and the Diaz's from the hot flames coming off Hekapoo. Marco on the other hand didn't make it in time before he got in the barrier, but he came mostly intact and without serious injury. The one thing he would need would be a change in pants, as the ones he was currently wearing looked more like ass-less chaps.

"Hekapoo, I recommend you calm down," Glossaryck somewhat suggested to calm her down, but she wasn't listing to him. "Well, I tried. Sorry about the kitchen Mrs. and Mr. Diaz, Hekapoo isn't this violent."

"Oh, that's okay. We were planning on redecorating the kitchen anyways."

"Don't worry about the renovation costs, I'd be more than happy to reimburse you for any and all damages that Hekapoo causes when she stays here," Moon stated.

"Speaking of damages," Glossaryck floated over to Marco, pulled out a small pouch, and threw it into Marco's face, exploding into a cloud of fine red power.

Marco burst into a fit of coughing as the red powder made it hard to breathe, also tasting like chilly. "What was that for?"

"So you don't get burnt by her flames, obviously."

"Wait, what?" Marco asked panic clearly heard in his voice.

Glossaryck rolled his eyes at the question and pointed down at his wrist. Looking down Marco saw the red chain appear on his wrist which meant one of two things. Taking into consideration on what just happened to him it wasn't hard to guess what the outcome would be.

"Oh, crap," were the last words that left his mouth as the chain began to retract and sent him hurtling towards Hekapoo.

Hekapoo didn't even see Marco being torpedoed towards her, but it was too late as he collided into her, stopping her fire fueled rage in its tracks before the fire got out of control.

Groaning in pain Hekapoo managed to lift her head off the floor to stare Marco in the face. "Told you, you'd jinx it."

Lifting his own head off the floor, he stared back at Hekapoo as if she had just said something incredibly stupid. "You're the one set fire to the kitchen and my rump!"

"Hehe, who says rump these days?" Hekapoo giggled at Marco's use of such PC language.

Marco was about to quickly retort back at Hekapoo but he decided against it. He also was in a great deal of pain from the burn on his ass and the head on collision he had with Hekapoo, so he really couldn't be bothered to argue.

"Well, I see everything's settled then," Glossaryck dusted his hands clean of the red power he used on Marco. "Now, let's go home. It's getting late."

Moon agreed it was getting late and she needed to get home soon. Who knew what Star or River were doing in the castle without her to keep things in proper order. Reaching into her dress again Moon pulled out a leather pouch of gold and handed it to Angie.

"Here, this well cover the damages to your kitchen and a little bit extra just in case of any other damages Hekapoo may cause in your absence."

"Thanks, this is very nice of you but we can't just take this, it's too much."

"Mrs. Diaz I'm-."

"Please, call me Angie."

"Alright then Angie, I'm a very wealth queen of my own kingdom. In fact, I'm so wealth that the amount of money I just gave you doesn't even cover the food bill for my husband on a meal by meal basis. I'm not joking when I say that, sadly. So take it in good faith."

"Well, if you insist."

Reaching into her dress again Moon pulled out her own pair of scissors and cut out a portal. With Glossaryck close by Moon looked over to where Marco and Hekapoo lied on the ground.

"Oh, and Hekapoo."

Pushing Marco off her Hekapoo stood up to face Moon. "Yeah Moon?"

"Be sure to be on your best behavior."

"I will make no such promises."

Grumbling, Moon decided that this was really the best she was going to get out of her. "Marco."

Hearing his name being called he gets up from the ground and looks over at Moon. "Yes, your majesty?"

"Make sure Hekapoo doesn't get into any trouble."

Rubbing the back of his head Marco had a troubled look on his face. "I don't think I could enforce that."

Smiling with pride Hekapoo slapped the back of Marco's head, not a very hard slap mind you but a gentler one. "Glad you know your place, muscles."

"I see you two have things settled, for now at least. Tomorrow I'll investigate the spell book and its maker, and I'll inform you of any developments as soon they appear. Until then, enjoy your somewhat forced vacation."

Cutting a hole in reality, Moon waved goodbye to Hekapoo and the Diaz family with them waving goodbye.

"See you next time."

"Come by any time you want. It would always be a pleasure to have you in our home and always remember we'll always have pudding for you to eat when you do come over."

Peaking up in interest Glossaryck smiled widely in anticipation for his next visit. "I really do love this family," Glossaryck said before he and Moon stepped into the portal.

With both Moon and Glossaryck now gone Hekapoo looked down upon her wrist and the red chain and inspected its new length before it vanished from sight.

Three feet of chain.

Furrowing her eyebrows in frustration Hekapoo started to curse out loudly, "Shit! Fuck! Dammit!" Hekapoo only stopped her outburst when she noticed the Diaz's were watching her. "Sorry about that," she apologized.

"It's okay sweetie, we understand that you're going through some things and we know it might not seem like it now, but you'll get the hang of things sooner than you think."

"Yeah, like the old saying we have on Earth here. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade or another saying is, when god closes a door, he opens a window." Rafael paused as he saw the confused face of Hekapoo for a bit before he continued. "Look, what I'm trying to say is that you may really like it here if simply give it a shot."

Angie couldn't help but smile at her husband's reassuring speech he was giving and decided to add a bit of her own as well.

"He's not wrong you know, I'm sure you'll like it here. Anyways tomorrow is a weekend, so Marco will be able to help you get ready for school on Monday. But until then I say we all get some sleep. It's very late now and we could gain a lot from some well-earned rest."

"And don't worry about the damage done to the kitchen Hekapoo. I'll start to fix it in the morning."

"Oh, don't worry about that. I've got it covered." With a snap of her fingers Hekapoo started to make some clones and they immediately started working on fixing the kitchen she destroyed. "My clones well most likely have the kitchen fixed by tomorrow."

"Well that's fantastic," Angie cheered. "Marco, go and show Hekapoo to the spare bedroom for her to sleep in."

"Ah, Mom. I think you're forgetting something really important here," Marco pointed out as he raised his arm in the air making the red chain appear. "We've only got from the looks of it, only 30 centimeters of chain separating us."

"Oh? Well then, take her to you room then and help her get comfortable."

"And remember son, no funny business," Rafael sternly warned his son.

"Dad! I'd never do anything like that!"

"I know that, I was just messing with you," Rafael and his wife giggled a little at Marco's reaction. On the other hand, Hekapoo who was full on laughing at him.

"Whatever! Come on Hekapoo let's go. I need to change my pants."

"Right behind you, Muscles."

When they walked away both Rafael and Angie started to coo when they left to his bedroom.

"Did you hear that honey?"

"Yes, I did. Hekapoo has already given our son a nickname. I can already see they're going to be the best of friends."

Back in Marco's room, Hekapoo looked over the room once again as this was where she'd be living in for god knows how long. It didn't look half bad either. It was far cleaner than her own place, although it was a bit on the plain side, but she could add some of her own things to liven the room up a bit and give it some character.

'I wonder if he'd let me in store a forge in his bedroom? Or maybe a weapons rack on that wall over there?'

"Hey, uh, Hekapoo. Can I ask you to do something for me?"

'Okay this is interesting,' she thought, not expecting this of all thing to happen so soon. "Sure, what is it?"

"Can you wear this for a minute?" Marco handed Hekapoo a black sleeping mask.

Confused as to why he'd ask her to do this, she'd just had to ask. "Why do I need to wear this?"

"So I can get changed. I don't want you looking at me when I do."

"Are you serious about this?"

"Yes I am, I'm very self-conscious, and especially with my body and I've never gotten undressed in front of any girl before. Excluding my mom that is."

Hekapoo at first wanted nothing more than to laugh at him, tease him and make him suffer, but the shy puppy dog eyes he was giving her melted her ironically cold heart. He was just so cute like this.

"Fine," She agreed reluctantly. "You're lucky I find you cute when you beg." Placing the sleeping mask on she waited for Marco to change.

After a few seconds of waiting Marco told her she could take off the sleeping mask. As she did, she looked over Marco and saw that he was now wearing a long sleeve light blue night wear.

"Not bad Marco, looks like you can pull off more than just red it seems," she complimented in her own way.

"Not that I don't appreciate the compliant but what are you going to wear for bed. Or are you just going to sleep in that dress?"

"No, I don't sleep in my dress," She answered. "Well, not most of the time but that's beside the point. I'll simply just open a portal back home and grab a few things," she explained as she reached into her dress to find her scissors but unexpectedly found nothing, beside a letter addressed to her.

'To Hekapoo, I took away your only pair of dimensional scissors away from you so you can't go dimension hopping. This is not a punishment, as I believe that if you did go dimension hopping with the boy attach to you, he would most likely get hurt.'

Furious, Hekapoo burned the little note to ashes and started violently swearing curses in a language Marco didn't recognize. He rightfully assumed they were all directed at Glossaryck.

"WHO THE FUCK DOES HE THINK HE IS TAKING MY SCISSORS AWAY? UH!" she yelled out only to face Marco. "Do you know I MADE those FUCKING scissors myself?! Do you know how that makes me look? The creator and scissor enforcer, having her own pair of scissors taken from her," she paused for a moment for Marco to answer, but seeing how nervous he looked, he wouldn't be giving an answer any time soon. "It makes me look like a chump!"

Thinking fast Marco came up with a quick solution to hopefully calm down the very angry fire hazard down before she burned his bedroom down like she did to the kitchen.

"Could you, I don't know… call someone you know… ask them to lend you a pair?"

Pausing her fire spouting rage Hekapoo thought about what Marco just said. "Shit, you're right." Smacking herself on the head. "Why didn't I think of that? Good call, Marco."

"No worries, just please don't burn my room or any part of my house."

Not even bothering to hear his request she reached back into her dress to find her mirror, but instead found another note.

'P.S. I saw your mirror fell out down from your dress when you tried to put away the scissors that you were going to use to cut the boy's hand off and didn't want to embarrass you too much in front of the other Magic High Commission members. I'll be holding onto it until we met again. Until then, good luck and try not to burn the poor kid. I see great things in his future. Mostly him feeding me pudding, such and such about faith and how the red strings connect everything and everyone and all that nonsense, but really just the pudding stuff. It's really good, you should try some while you're there. Just remember to leave me some.'

When she finished reading the note, just like the first one she burnt it to ash, but didn't throw a temper tantrum that threaten to burn the house down. Instead, she looked back over to Marco with a piercing glimmering eye of fire and gold.

"Any more ideas, muscles?" she asked surprisingly nicely despite the look of rage in her eyes.

"Well… you did say you were the forger of all dimensional scissors. Can't you just make another pair?"

"I could, but I don't think you have what I'd need to make one."

"Well what do you need? We may have it here or I may know where we could get some."

Hekapoo was very hesitant to say anything as she doubted Marco's words. It's not like she thought Marco was lying to her. It was just that she knew that Earth was a very backwater place when it came to things of the magical persuasion, but she decided to humor him. And who knows, there may be some hope for her.

"Okay then, I'm going to need a forge," Hekapoo stated to list of with the most crucial part of the making of dimensional scissors.

"I know of a steel mill not too far out of town where one of my cousins works."

"Good, good that sounds promising. A place like that would also surely have the tools I'll need as well. Well that takes off a few things right there, but do you know where I could get any fairy powder. And I'm not talking about the cheap stuff. I need that high-grade stuff if I'm going to make this work."

"Fairy powder?... yeah… we don't have any fairies here, well not any real fairies anyways."

Marco could very much see and feel the disappointment on Hekapoo's face when he said that to her as he braced for a fiery explosion to happen, but it never did happen. Letting down his guard Marco saw that Hekapoo wasn't really angry. Okay, she did look angry, but not I'll-murder-everything-in-the-room angry. More like I'm-very-tired-and-will-deal-with-you-in-the-morning sort of thing.

"Are you okay, Hekapoo?"

Letting out a painful groaning Hekapoo sat down on Marco's bed. "Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just very tired right now. Too many things are happening to me and I just want to sleep it off and deal with it later, as in far later. Maybe in a week or two later, depending how I'm feeling."

"Well, I'm impressed. For a second there I thought you were going to burn down my room," Marco joked.

Hekapoo looked up at Marco and even more surprisingly smiled at his joke. "Yeah, I'm impressed with myself as well." With that said and done with Hekapoo yawned as her eye started to feel heavy with exhaustion. "Hey, do you have anything I can wear for bed? Sleeping in my dress is not the most comforting thing to sleep in and trust me when I say I've done it one to many times."

"Sure, I'll ask my mom if she's got any spare nightwear you can borrow."

Marco started to walk out towards the door thinking that Hekapoo was going to follow him, but unexpectedly felt the red chain pull him in the opposite direction. Looking back, Marco saw Hekapoo was walking towards his closet as she opened it and took one of his clean red hoodies.

"Wait! What are you doing?!"

"What's it look like? I'm finding something to wear for bed."

"And I told you I'd ask Mom if she has anything for you to borrow for tonight."

"I know, but I'm too tired to wait for that. Also, your mom's way to nice and I'd feel bad asking anything from her. After all, I am living in her house so it's best not to bother her or your father too much."

"Oh, and you don't feel bad at all when you take from me without asking first?"

"Well we are chained together so what's yours is mine and what's mine is yours. That and I like seeing your over the top reactions to things. Also, you don't mind it when that Janna chick comes in and wears your clothes."

"First off, you have nothing I want. Also, you have nothing, period."

"Not right now, but when I get my hands on Glossaryck I will. And trust me, you'll want what I have."

"That's beside the point and secondly I don't 'let' her take my stuff. I always try to get it back but she always…" Marco stopped mid-sentence as he saw Hekapoo start to take off her dress in front of him.

Quickly Marco averted his gaze from Hekapoo and covered his eyes to shield himself from her nude form. Noticing this Hekapoo looked back at the boy and chuckled to herself at Marco's sense of innocence.

"What a virgin. Can't take the sight of beautiful naked lady?"

"I'm fifteen! It's considered normal for people my age to still be virgins!"

"I know, I was just messing with you," she clarified as she zipped up the hoodie. "You can look, Muscles. I'm clothed."

Marco uncovered his eyes and looked at Hekapoo and saw that she was wearing his hoodie, but it was really hard to look at her. She had grabbed one of his larger hoodies he had. The ones he only wore when it got really cold or when he had nothing else to wear or for when he started to outgrow some of his older hoodies. Thankfully, since it was one of his larger hoodies it covered more of her then the smaller sizes he had, but there was still a problem with it.

The hoodie only covered just enough of her lower section as a skirt would, but the most problematic part of it was that her breasts were far larger than he thought they were as the fabric of his hoodie clearly showed him they were stretching his hoodie out.

Getting a feel for it Hekapoo was starting to like this hoodie. It was comfy and loose in all the right places and smelt great.

"This is nice. I can see why you have so many of this hoodie. They are very comfy."

"Whatever," Marco conceded, as he knew she wouldn't listen to him. "I'll get you one of my night wear pair of pants for you to wear as well."

"Na, I'm fine with just this," She said as she walked to the bed leaving her clothes behind.

"Wait, are you just going to leave your clothes on the floor?"

Stopping she looked back and merely said, "Yeah, what about it."

"Well for one thing it's rude to leave your clothes on the floor." Bending down, Marco grabbed Hekapoo's clothes as to properly hang it in the closet, but nearly stumbled over himself as he picked up her bra.

Marco's face lit up as red as a cherry as he quickly hung them in his closet and closed it all the while Hekapoo laugh at his misfortune.

"You know this is starting to become one of the best days of my life. Can't remember the last time I've laughed this much before."

"Well I'm glad you are having a great time," Marco said sarcastically.

"You said it, Casanova," Hekapoo reapplied knowing Marco was being sarcastic with her. "Now let's get to bed, I'm tired."

Agreeing with her, Marco followed closely behind her and as they reached his bed Hekapoo slipped in while Marco did not. Instead, he knelt down and was looking for something under his bed.

"Uh, what are you doing, Marco?"

"Looking for my sleeping bag that's under my bed."

"Why are you doing that? This bed can easily fit the both of us?" Hekapoo pointed out.

"Yeah, I'm not going to be sleeping in the same bed as you."

On any other day, with any another guy Hekapoo would've taken that as an insult to her beauty as some people may think she was ugly. It really did depend on the dimension she was in. She knew there were different standards of beauty, but Hekapoo liked to think she was beautiful all round, no matter where she was in the multiverse.

It was either that or the person in question that said that to her was as gay as her life time was long. She may not have known Marco for very long, less than a day in fact, but she could tell he wasn't gay. He was just very shy about the opposite sex.

"Aw~ that's cute. You don't trust yourself to sleep in the same bed with a beauty like me. What? Afraid your inner animal instincts will awaken and you'll try and have your way with poor little old me, Muscles? Don't worry, I can hold you back from doing anything too brash. I'm stronger than you'll ever be."

"Oh please, if anything it's more realistic that your inner animal instincts will awaken, and you'll try to have your way with poor little 'young' me. Or did you forget the literal first moments we met?"

"Hey! I've told you I thought that you were nothing more than just a figment of my dreams," Hekapoo tried to defend herself but Marco was having none of that.

"That's not going to hold up in a court of law just so you know," Marco hammered in.

"Muscles look, I know I'm not the nicest of people to be with but I'm not that bad of a person to make someone sleep on the floor in their own room, so just get in the bed, Muscles," Hekapoo asked but Marco was still trying to find his sleeping bag. "Look Muscles, stop. I'll sleep on the floor and you can sleep on the bed, okay?"

"No, I'm not going to let a lady, such as yourself, sleep on the floor. My family taught me better than that."

A lovely smile came upon her face as he said that about her. "Aw~ and they say chivalry is dead," Hekapoo coed sweetly, but now she grinned madly as she had just came up with the perfect plan for Marco to sleep in the bed with her.

She first out stretched her arm until the chain re-appeared, grabbed onto it, and then yanked on it forcing Marco onto the bed with her. As Marco landed, she immediately grabbed onto Marco with both her arms and legs keeping him in place. Sure, he tried to struggle to get free but what Hekapoo said about her being stronger than him was not mere boast of hot air.

"Hekapoo! Let go of me," Marco demanded.

"Not until you agree to sleep in the same bed with me."

"Never," he denied her.

"Okay then, let's try it this way if you'd like. Agree to sleep in the same bed with me, or else."

"Or else what?!"

"Or else I'll start making loud sex noises. Very, loud, sex noises. So loud in fact that the whole neighborhood will hear me screaming your name at the top of my lungs as I say what an animal you are in bed."

"You wouldn't dare," Marco stopped struggling as he looked her dead in the eye.

She totally would.

"Try me, Muscles."

"…" Marco said nothing as he was trying to find the right words to say.

Hekapoo on the other hand was not going to give him the time to do that. As she took a deep breath in and opened her mouth to do exactly what she promised him she would do.

"Okay, okay stop," Marco frantically agreed. "Can't believe I'm saying this. I'll sleep in the same bed with you."

Smiling in victory Hekapoo let go of Marco. "See, wasn't that hard."

"Speak for yourself, you nearly gave me a heart attack with that."

"Oh, don't be such a baby, Muscles."

"Also, could you stop calling me Muscles, it's embarrassing."

"Okay I was going to because it was betting boring but now~ after you said that, not anymore."

"Can you at least not call me that in public please?"

"Only when you're being a good boy and if I'm felling generous I will. Now shut up. I want to sleep now." With her eye lid closing Hekapoo started to drift into sleep.

"Fine, just don't do anything funny to me when I'm asleep."

"You'd be so lucky." She got off one last witty retort before sleep finally claimed her

Marco, seeing Hekapoo fall asleep right next to him now had a slight problem on his hands. Well it's more like, he had a big problem in-between his arm. As it would appear Hekapoo was using Marco's arm as a pillow as it was currently wedged between her voluptuous breasts. He did try removing his arm but found Hekapoo tightening her grasp on it.

Seeing no way out, Marco gave up and decided to deal with this tomorrow and hoped to set some ground rules for Hekapoo. Especially if they ever had to share the same bed again. Closing his eyes, Marco soon found himself falling to sleep of the rhythm of Hekapoo's breathing.

With the both of them now fast asleep, neither of them noticed that the chain appeared and grew in length as they slept or the fact that there was a dark figure hanging outside the window.

"It would seem our little game has gotten more complex," the dark figured pondered. "Oh well, I've already made plans just in case something like this happened."