Part 3
Disclaimer: see previous chapters.
Note: "Flesh and Blood should be read before this story for it to make more sense.
It was some time later. Abby was once more sitting in a comfortable living room, drinking tea with some sort of a brownie cake, and feeling positively surreal, seeing how Helen Cutter had made it, and it was good – which she promptly told the older woman.
"Small surprise," the ex-anthropologist said with a grimace. "When I married Nick, I became a housewife. I hated that, but I loved him – at that moment in time, and so I became a housewife, and my duties included cooking and cleaning." Her face grew hard. "Since then, I became a time traveller instead, but these skills still stick."
"Really, a housewife?" Abby could not help but ask.
"Yes," Helen nodded, "and what about you? Who do you plan to be once you're married?"
"Gah? Gah! That's- that's personal!" Abby sputtered. "Mind your own business."
"Fair enough," Helen nodded, but looked slightly hurt. "Well, I'm assuming that you're feeling better now?"
"Yes," Abby nodded gratefully, finally standing up away from the table. "Thank you. I really should be going now."
"And you're free to go," Kuro spoke up, "the bus stop is just down the street and around the corner. You can't miss it," she paused. "But please, do not tell about this to anyone, 'cause if you do, I won't kill you – since Helen trusted you enough to bring you here – but you will not like what I will do to you instead – do you understand me?"
Abby looked straight in the eyes of the much bigger woman – and did not like what she saw there one little bit. "Okay," she complied quickly, "thank you for the tea, bye now," and she quickly left.
Moreover, Abby quickly left and never returned – just as she agreed to Kuro's statement. She remembered the address where she and Helen came to as clearly as she did remember the Latin-speaking mermaid, but she never returned to that place, not even when Helen's co-operation with Oliver Leek's crazy plot...
...But when later, once the ARC exploded and Helen did not shoot Nick, Abby did – but that was an entirely new story.
End