Randal walked into the office expecting to see Hamish but instead he found Vera sitting there just like the good old queen bitch. "Ah." He jumped back a little. "I'm sorry, you freaked me out. I thought Hamish got replaced by a monster for a second."
"Hamish is out running a task for me so I'm here to keep the temple in order, after all I'm still Grand Magus am I not?"
"Yeah, I guess so." Randal stuck his hands in his pockets. "Well, good talk, let me know when Hamish is back."
Vera flicked her wrist, closing the doors behind Randal. "You know Hamish told me that he selected you to be a werewolf because you were naturally heroic."
Randal pretended to be flattered, "Awww, gosh, he's such a tease." Standing up straight again Randal tried to push his luck and get a bit sassier with her. "So do you guys talk about everything while you braid each other's hair?" vera hardly had time to react to that before Randal looked a little panicked. "Wait, if you are here and Hamish is out who's watching the baby?" He was honestly worried for the well being of Theo, it was almost sweet.
"Calm down, Hamish's sister Emma is staying in town for a while at his apartment. She's got Theo right now."
"Oh, thank god." Randal recovered quickly trying to act like he wasn't too much worried about the baby. "Not that it's her, Hamish just turns into such a woman when he worries about Fluffy. It's so sad." He paused a moment. "You know, that stupid hairless thing with her cute chubby cheeks you could just…"
"Randal, why are you here?"
"Oh yeah, I just wanted to…" Randal was interrupted when one of the new acolytes came waltzing into the room.
"I'm sorry." He paused and looked between Randal and Vera. "Am I interrupting something?"
"When did it become customary to not knock on the doors anymore?"
"Sorry Grand Magus. I just thought it would be nice to bring you something to drink." He smiled and set the drink on her desk.
"Have you just trained everyone to be your bartender?" Randal asked, looking between Vera and the acolyte.
"You can leave Acolyte." She looked back down to her book before tapping a finger against the desk. "Now." The acolyte jumped and headed back out the door while Vera reached for the drink.
"Whoa." Randal stopped her. "You are just going to drink this? What if there is poison in it?"
"Excuse you?" Vera cocked her head to the side.
Randal picked up the drink and sniffed it making Vera glare at him with a raised brow. What the hell was he doing "Seems okay." He gave it back to Vera who sipped it a little before setting it down on her desk. "Anyways I was looking for Hamish, you know, Knight things."
"Well, considering the Knights are now apart of the Order and as Grand Magus Knight things are need to know by me as well." She folded her hands and looked up at Randal with a little smirk. He hated her, he hated her even more because she was right. Vera put a hand on her chest and coughed a little.
"Haha, very funny, acting like you were poisoned." Vera stood up still coughing though. Oh shit, did that little shit stain actually poison her. "Vera." He ran around the desk to her side as she passed out. Randal caught her leaning her back and letting her fall into her chair, maybe a little too hard. "Oh shit, Hamish is going to kill me." He got down putting a hand on her back and shaking her. "Hey, Vera, Vera wake up." Shit, she was going to kill him. Randal slapped her in the face knowing the Grand Magus might wake up and set him on fire but whatever got Vera up right?
Startling back she sat up feeling a little dizzy. "Oh, wow." She put a hand to her forehead "What the hell."
"No kidding, I need to go find that kid and beat his…"
"Randal." He stopped and looked back at Vera, what the hell was up with that look on her face? "Remind me why you were here again?" he was about to answer her until she slid up on her desk and crossed her legs.
"I was just…" Randal watched her partially curious and a little afraid. If he didn't stop whatever this weirdness was then Hamish would double kill him. "Vera, are you feeling okay?"
"You know Randal, I've always had a thing for those funny guys who use it as a defense to hide their sensitive side."
Was she coming on to him? That was a strong drink. "Hahahaha, Vera, you see I thought you had a thing for valour filled pretty boys who enjoy making cocktails and thinks showing a girl a good time is reciting Shakespeare."
"Not really."
"Vera, Hamish, think about Hamish, tall, knight, and sexy? Father of your child, fiance. You guys always find an excuse to sneak away and go suck face. You guys are a really…." Randal lowered his voice a lot "hot couple."
"He was a mistake." Now he really knew something was wrong.
"You kidding me? You practically pine like a whinny, okay maybe not whinny but you get very down when he's not around."
Vera walked over to Randal smirking at him. "I tried hiding my true feelings and I can't anymore." Vera leaned in killing him and Making Randal crouch down and grab her shoulders so he could get away from her.
"Oh boy, Gabrielle is going to kill me, Hamish is going to neuter me." He kept pushing Vera back and tried brushing off his lips with his hands. "Hey, Vera I have a great idea. How about you wait here for me and I'll come back and we can go…"
"Back to my place?"
"Wow, you are so cute, no." Randal shook his head. She was also very quick, no wonder why Hamish had jumped on her in a heartbeat. "I'll be right back, you stay put..be...beautiful." It felt so gross saying that but if it kept her from leaving then fine. Walking out of the room he closed the door behind him. He needed Jack and Lilith. This was way above his magical abilities, also was it just him or did Vera have really soft lips? Gross.