"Randal, what about this?"
He took the book from Jack and looked it over, "This sounds awful, I don't want Vera to be in love with me but I also don't need her to hate me...more. She already hates me enough."
"We could put the curse on her that makes her just avoid you because the sight of you makes her violently ill." Lilith pointed out a passage in another book. "Seems kind of nice actually."
"Yeah, but then Hamish would hate me and so would Gabby. We watch Theo for her a lot." Like, a lot a lot. Gabby loved that stupid baby and apparently Theo liked her too. It already made Gabby a bit ornery that Theo's real aunt was watching her right now since she claimed she was really more like an aunt to her anyways.
The doors to the reliquary opened up making Randal jump a little, "Oh man, did she get out?"
Hamish walked into the room looking around a little confused. "Um, did who get out?" He looked at the group of wolves pouring over the books they had piled up. "Where is Vera?"
"HAMISH." Randal laughed uncomfortably. "Hi buddy, you're back already. Listen I had something important to talk to you about." He stopped and threw the book in his hand over his shoulder. "I forgot what it was, Vera? She's good, she's great. Just being normal Vera you know." Making his hands into claws he did a fake snarl.
"Randal." Hamish looked at him with suspicion. "Where is Vera?"
"Uh, Lilith knocked her out." He put his hands up when Hamish's eyes flashed silver. "With magic, she didn't punch her. Ha, we wouldn't punch the Grand Magus, all of us do what to live you know."
He clenched his jaw glaring at the three of them now. "Why did you knock out Vera?"
"Well you see, she got magic whammied into…"
"She got love spelled into loving Randal so we locked her up in the vault."
"Dude, Vera is a very handsy person." Hamish looked like Randal was about to get a serious ass kicking if he didn't shut up right now. "Which is why out of respect for you as a leader I locked your wife up so nothing weird would happen."
"I'm gone for one day and this happens?" Hamish looked a bit disappointed in them all. "Theo." He picked up his phone seeing it was still dead. "Is Vera's phone still on her?"
"I think so." Jack shrugged his shoulders.
"Has she checked it lately? We were supposed to pick up Theo an hour ago."
"Oh well, we kind of knocked her out an hour ago." Lilith added. "So she's probably awake by now."
Everyone phones went off with a group text as they all picked them up and read them. "Hey guys, maybe we want to find out how to fix this now because Vera is pretty pissed.
"You didn't think to do the magic cure all?" Hamish raised a brow at them, what? He spent a lot of time here doing research. "It fixes curses, hexes, and enchantments put on people, you do know that right?" Hamish shook his head and took Randal's phone from him reading Vera's text. "Guys, you locked the door with magic?" He grumbled and gave the phone back to Randal before running up to the bookcase. Pressing the button he went down into the secret passage and walked towards the vault doors. Waving his hand the doors came open with Vera standing on the other side looking pissed, very pissed. "Hello Vera."
"Where is Randal?"
"Don't kill him."
She furrowed her brows, "Why would I kill him?"
Dammit, love spell, gross just gross. Hamish didn't even like the joking concept of Vera having any affection for Randal, it bothered him and this was going to really gross her out once she was back to normal. "I need your phone."
"Why would you need that?"
"Mine's dead and Theo is still with my sister."
Vera checked her phone remembering the baby. Pulling out her phone she ran through her texts. At least he could be comforted to know she was still the same old sMother as usual. "Thank god, she's fine." Hamish let out a sigh of relief. Putting her phone back Vera marched right past him pushing him out of her way. "Shouldn't you be doing something?"
Hamish looked around the corridor as she marched passed him, "I missed you too." Hamish followed behind her as she stepped out of the secret passage and saw Randal.
She ran up to him making him almost jump up and run for his life but Vera caught him in a hug. "Randal, thank god." She kissed him, Hamish's eyes flashing back to silver as he cleared his throat.
Randal pushed Vera away from him and grabbed her shoulders. "Vera, yeah, missed you too." He playfully punched her in the shoulder like a college football friend. "Hey, do me a solid and maybe hang out with Hamish in the anteroom and I'll um, I'll come make you a drink because I know you are a secret alcoholic." Normally that statement would have gotten him in serious trouble but totally in love with him Vera was so forgiving and disturbing.
She giggled at his little 'joke' and kissed him again making him grimace. "You are so sweet, maybe later tonight you and I can…"
Randal put a hand over her mouth, honestly he didn't even want to hear what she had to say. "Oh, keep those weird little fantasies to yourself." He waved Hamish over to come grab his wife. Grabbing Vera by the arm he was trying to drag her far away from Randal because if Randal thought Vera kissing him made him feel gross then Hamish must have been trying to not vomit into his mouth.
"I miss you already." Vera shouted back to Randal as Hamish tried walking faster.
"Yeah." He waved at her. "Me too." He choked those words out and almost broke down laughing. "Jack, if she ever tries to kiss me again do me a solid. Do it first and tell her I'm gay."
"I mean…" Jack shrugged his shoulders and smirked.
"Shut up."
Hamish set Vera down at the bar and started making a drink for her, "So the time rift is closed in case you wanted to know. We had a few more problems than we had expected but it's all good now." Hamish set two glasses down on the counter as Vera put a hand over hers.
"I know what you are trying to do." She narrowed her eyes at him and glanced down at the ring on her finger.
"You know, you were the one who asked me." Hamish smirked.
"It was a mistake." She pulled her hand off the glass and looked down at it.
"Really? Then why don't you take it off?"
Vera took the ring and went to take it off her finger before her phone vibrated again. She picked it up quickly and looked at the text. "Your sister said Theo is not settling down for her now."
"Was she a mistake too?"
"NO." Vera put her phone back down. "Don't call our daughter a mistake or an accident or a…" she looked away from Hamish and pulled off the ring. "I'm sorry Hamish but whatever we had is gone now." She gave it back to him and looked away.
"Vera, you know that isn't you saying that." He poured her a drink with a little smirk and stuck the ring into his vest pocket. "I should go get Theo."
Vera sounded genuinely concerned, "Let me know when you get her home."
"My phone is dead, I'll take her to the apartment with me."
"I'll come by and pick her up later then." She picked up her drink and sipped it a little. "I'm staying here and waiting for Randal."
"Yeah, you have fun with that Vera." He narrowed his eyes at her. "I'm tired" He wasn't necessarily mad at her because it wasn't her fault she had gotten a magical roofie but he did feel like he just came out of a very traumatic situation and he'd just wanted her to be there with him for a moment. He told himself he could get home and things would be alright and normal but it was a little disappointing that she had to get hit with a random crush on Randal right now. Even harder was having her call them a mistake and give him back the ring though it wasn't her it didn't take away from the knife to the heart. "Theo and I are going to go take a nap."
Randal and Lilith came back once they had finished the cure all potion and found Vera with no Hamish. Ah grat, now who was going to keep vera away from him. "Hey, Vera, I made you something." He pounded like someone who was trying to talk to an angry dog before syringe feeding it medication.
"Randal." Vera jumped out of her chair and ran up to him making him jump back and hold up the potion like holy water against a vampire.
"Where is Hamish?" He paused. "Did you kill Hamish?" Oh no, was Vera okay with killing Hamish if she wasn't so horny for him? How could she, Hamish was the best, he was too pretty to die.
"He went to go pick up Theo."
"Oh." Well at least he wasn't dead, he was just being a domesticated puppy dog. Typical, when the hell had Hamish stopped being a werewolf and started acting like Vera's well trained German Shepherd? "Well here drink this up."
Vera grabbed the potion from him and sniffed it. "What is it?"
Randal looked around a little nervous, "I made you a smoothie, since I know you don't drink a lot of alcohol these days." Was she going to buy that? No, no she wasn't. Vera set it down on the counter and smirked at him, crap, backup plan. "Jack."
Jack came up behind her and grabbed her arms. "Sorry Grand Magus but this is for your own good."
"And mine." Randal cried out while Lilith grabbed the drink. If they didn't feel like they were trying to get a beloved dangerous family pet to take their medicine before now they certainly did now. "Please don't kill us Grand Magus, please don't kill us." Randal was begging as Lilith forced her to take the potion. She put a hand over Vera's mouth so she couldn't spit it back out and plugged her nose. "Lilith, chill, don't kill her."
"It's how we use to make our cats take their dewormer."
"Lilith, she's a person not a cat."
"I mean, could have followed me, have you seen her claws?"
Vera pushed Lilith back and choked putting a hand on her chest before looking up at Randal. He cringed being afraid Vera would come back at him again and get handsy. "Mr. Caprio, what the hell is going on?" Vera growled at him, an actual growl, oh she was so pissed. Wait, that was a good thing.
"Vera." He rushed at her now and hugged her happy to have the normal pissy bitchy Vera back. "I mean Grand Magus." He corrected himself as Vera pried him off her and brushed herself off looking like she threw up in her mouth a little. Oh perfect, she was repulsed by him touching her too.
"Excuse me."
"Sorry Grand Magus, you got spiked by a love potion, NOT BY ME." He put his hand's on his chest and partially yelled it "You ended up falling in love with me so we force fed you the cure all potion because you creep me out when you are nice."
Vera didn't even know what to say, she pinched the bridge of her nose feeling a headache coming on before taking in a deep breath. "I, I don't even know where to beggin."
"With a thank you?" He was a bit sheepish because right now he was a little afraid of what she might do next. "Or a better idea, Hamish is upset." He clapped his hands together.
"Hamish saw it?" She sighed and looked down at her hand. "Oh shit, where is my ring?" Randal shrugged his shoulders because really he didn't know. Not that he hadn't noticed, the stupid thing could blind you in the right light, talk about wanting to have Hamish ask him to marry him if that's the sort of bling he'd be given. Vera must have been keeping some sort of super secret power from them all because someone really had to like you to get you a ring like that. She checked her phone seeing that Emma had said Theo was being fussy and she couldn't calm her down. "I was supposed to pick up Theo two hours ago."
"Hamish got her. According to you." He almost reached out to grab her shoulders so he could move her towards the tunnel but stopped when Vera glared at him. "You should maybe go talk to Hamish, he was pretty shaken up after that job you sent him on." Vera pulled up her contacts list making Randal smirk a little. "He's Wolfish in your phone?" Vera glared abc at Randal again. "No, I mean that's cute. Wolfish." He smirked and looked at the contacts list again. "Hey look, I'm asshole in your contacts. I'm in your contacts."