The week had been spent with him trying to find out ways to help Lilith and constantly getting Midnight under control though it seemed like Gabby was starting to get the hang of things. She even was able to shift in and out of Midnight on her own and everyone was just a little impressed with her progress in a short time. Taking her for runs in the woods was helping too, if there was anything about Gabby and Midnight it was that the two of them had more energy than the rest of the wolves. Good thing she had Randal to keep up with her. Of course a whole week of just being around Vera for a few brief moments was starting to get to Hamish a little, especially with that new guy around constantly following her like a puppy dog.
"I hope Vera is alright." He spoke out not even knowing he was talking out loud rather than to himself as he went through one of the grimours on demons and their dimension.
"I swear, if you are about to complain about that Brazilian guy again Hamish I'm going to lose it." Randal responded with a bit of snark.
"I'm not." Hamish was quiet for a moment before looking up. "But I don't trust him at all. He's up to something I just know it. Could be trying to gather information on us or Vera to take her down again."
"Or he's just trying to get into her pants." Gabby spoke up from beside Randal. If anyone's snark was overdone by Randal it was Gabs. Looking up she shrugged her shoulders "Typical man."
Hamish looked a little disgusted by that bit of information. "Absolutely not."
"Do I detect a hint of jealousy there Ham-ster." Randal mocked him, he loved nothing more than mocking Hamish over his little infatuation with Vera Stone. Honestly he didn't get what Hamish saw in her. She was a bitch, she'd taken their memories, and she made them sign their freedom away to the Order. As far as Hamish was concerned Midnight killed the wrong person that day. Had he gotten Vera instead then Alyssa would still be alive and Jack would still be here with them helping with Lilith.
"No." He snapped back.
"Come on, we all know you and Vera are a thing." Randal added.
"Yeah, it's pretty obvious." Gabby added.
"Are you two ganging up on me?" He narrowed his eyes at them.
"I mean, from where I'm standing, one girl to another it's more obvious from her as well." Gabby continued. "She practically spends all her free time with you and plays with her hair when you talk to her or laiughs at your stupid jokes. We really only do those sort of things when we really like someone."
That made Hamish feel a little better but it didn't distract from the fact that he was here helping them with Lilith and Alejandro was putting Vera at risk by being around her all the time. At what point would he notice she didn't have her powers anymore?
"Well despite what you think Vera and I just respect each other."
"Oh no, you two are so sleeping together." Gabby responded with a little sarcastic laugh. The look on Hamish's face said she was right too. So predictable. "You haven't noticed the difference? She's not as uptight as she normally is and she was actually almost nice to Randal."
He cut in agreeing with her. "Yeah, I took a few books out of the reliquary and when she caught me she just told me to return them when I was done. Before she would have totally given me a death threat and made me put them back."
Hamish looked between them realizing he didn't like the team that was Gaby and Randal. Who even let them be in the same room together? "It's okay big guy, just admit you have a thing for Vera already." Randal snarked.
Hamish rolled his eyes at them both. "Fine, maybe I do like her but I respect her more than anything." He had to add to be certain he wasn't just crushing on Vera like a little school boy. Randal always liked to say that Hamish had the hots for teacher and Hamish was always reminding him that he respected Vera because he did. He respected her strength and her leadership. Sure she had a great body and a nice set of legs and a smile that lit up a room, and her hair was gorgeous and her eyes were alluring and her smell was a drug. Hamish forgot where he was actually going with any of that. "She's not a bad person once you get to know her."
"Sure, whatever." Gabby responded, she didn't dislike Vera, in fact she appreciated the Grand Magus but Hamish clearly hadn never been on her bad side. "Anyways I found something that might be useful." She set her book down and pointed out the passage. "This is on demonic possession. Do you think Lilith is possessed?"
"Possibly." Hamish took the book and looked it over. "But we won't know for sure.." He skimmed over everything in the passage, his face going from hopeful to concerned as he went. "An exorcism. You can't be serious. You realize how dangerous these are right? Not only to the practitioners but to the one you are trying to cleans." He shook his head. "Absolutely not, we can't risk it."
"Sure we can, ask Vera to help us with it. She'd Grand Magus, she's done an exorcism before in the past too." Gabby shrugged. "Another acolyte told me about it."
Hamish shook his head no again. "I'm not dragging her into this, not without her powers. It's too dangerous for her to go toe to toe against a demon. It's too dangerous to put her in the same room as Midnight too."
"Come on Hamish, she doesn't have to be apart of it, she just needs to help us set it up. It's for Lilith. If it makes you feel better we can lock her up in the basement until it's over. Put protection runes all over the doors and windows." Randal begged though he sort of wanted to just leave her locked up there for good.
"No, no way. We'll have to find another way. You can't make me put both Vera and Lilith in harm's way like that. We'll just have to find another way. There has to be a better and safer option."
"I don't think there is a safe option with magic." Randal snapped back. "We opened a demon portal just to get her back." Maybe if Hamish didn't bring it up then he would.