Derika kisses Vishanti's hand, and follows her sister into their parent's house.
Sara peeks her head out of the kitchen door. "Come oooooooon, we're hungry."
Gashka laughs, "We're coming kiddo, we're coming." Gashka and everyone joins the rest of her family in the kitchen.
Kealey is busy dishing up salad, boar ribs and potatoes as Dran sets the cups on the table. "We've got wine, juice and water to drink."
"I'll have some wine with this delicious looking meal." She says, taking a seat at the table.
"I'll just have some water, thank you. It does smell delicious." Derika says as she sits on the other side of the table with Vishanti.
"Juice will be fine for me," Chris says, sitting next to Gashka.
"I would be fine with water as well, thank you." Vishanti says with a smile, gently squeezing Derika's hand.
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Kealey begins pouring drinks. "Wine, Anyka?"
Gashka looks over at her sister with a somewhat worried expression on her face. She had been so quiet since they had arrived at this new place. Though she looked a good deal happier when she came back from her shopping trip...she was still so quiet.
Derika returns the squeeze and gives Vishanti a loving smile.
"Yes thanks!" Anyka says with a smile, musing at how things had oddly brought them full circle, literally a world away.
Kealey finishes serving drinks and smiles. "Eat up, everyone."
Gashka pauses a moment before digging into her meal, to realize just how lucky she was. How blessed they all were to be back together again, even though there had been losses....she felt they had gained so much more. She was thankful for her family, the old as well as the new.
This was a whole new beginning, and she couldn't wait to see what life had in store for them.
Giving Chris's hand a gentle squeeze, Gashka lets go and digs into her mother's meal with a delicate gusto.
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Giving her love a smile, Derika tries to remain well mannered...but the food is so delicious that she ends up attacking it with reckless abandon, completely forgetting about her utensils once she's done with the salad.
After everyone is done eating, Kealey gathers the dishes and Thrainn helps to wash them. "It was good to have you all over. I know you're heading out tomorrow, so get some rest and be safe."
Gashka gives her parents a hug, "We will. Have a good rest of your night, and I love you." She says before taking Chris by the hand and turning to her sisters, "We'll see you guys tomorrow morning after breakfast. We'll stop by and pick them up on our way over. Goodnight everyone." Gashka heads out of the house with Chris, and walks with him towards their home.
Chris groans. "I'm stuffed."
Waving to Gashka and Chris as they leave, Derika takes Vishanti's hand and turns to Kealey and Thriann, "Thank you so much for dinner, it was wonderful. We'll see you after we get home, and then we can talk about wedding plans and stuff." She pauses momentarily before giving her mother a brief hug, "Goodnight." With Vishanti's hand in hers, they head back across the street to their house.
Gashka nods and rubs her stomach with her free hand, "Me too. I totally overdid it."
Chris chuckles. "When we get back from this last outing, we can overdo other things."
Gashka blushes and giggles, "Oh yes....that would be very nice. Right now though, I think I'll just take a warm bed with you in it."
The witch stifles a yawn. "That sounds good to me."
As they arrive at the house, Gashka waits for Chris to unlock the door before following him inside.
Going straight to the bathing room, Gashka cleans her teeth and face before turning down the bed.
Changing into her warm sleep set, Gashka gets into the bed and waits for her beloved.
Chris lets Renard run around for a few minutes before coming inside, locking the door and going upstairs. He smiles at Gashka, already in the bed, as he changes for the night. The witch climbs in the bed and puts an arm around Gashka. "I love you."
Feeling his arm come over her, Gashka turns in the bed to face him. With a tired smile, she leans in to give him a gentle kiss. Gashka sighs softly while snuggling into him, "I love you too. Lots and....lots." She finishes with a big yawn.
Chris kisses Gashka's forehead and closes his eyes. He quickly drifts off to a food-induced deep sleep.
Gashka sighs again softly and doesn't even notice when she begins to drift off to a deep contented sleep in Chris's arms.
Having eaten way too much of the delicous food, Derika is able to do little else than get ready for bed. Sitting down on the bed after getting up to their room to take her boots off she sighs, "Oh man....we're gonna have to develop some kind of exercise routine if we're gonna eat like that very often. It was soooo good, but just...way way too much. I was thinking about some hot tea, but I don't think I could force another single thing down, not even liquid." She says, falling back on the bed as she has to tug to get the boot off.
Dropping it on the floor she sits there for a bit before pulling off the second one, "I feel like I'm gonna bust."
"Neither could I," Vishanti says with a laugh, reaching down to pull off her love's other boot.
Heading to her bedroom, Anyka knocks gently on the door in case Vaeri was at home and awake, waiting a moment for a response before entering.
Derika lets out a soft sigh as her feet are released from her boots, "I am just so tired now. I can't wait to get home after we drop them off at their respective residences, so we can really start planning our wedding and future together." Shoving herself up off the bed, she gets changed into her warm sleep set.
Going to her love, Derika wraps her arms around her from behind in a tender embrace. Giving her beloved a kiss on the cheek she whispers softly in her ear, "There are so many things I look forward to after we get home....but, most of all, I just look forward to getting to spend every day with you, and having a family together. I love you Vishanti. More than any words could ever express."
Loosening her grip, Derika moves around so that she's facing Vishanti. Looking up into her beautiful eyes, Derika leans in and kisses her softly on the lips, "You're my everything." She says, after pulling back a little. Derika softly caresses her cheek as she stairs into her eyes.
Vaeri looks up from the journal she writes in to glance at Anyka as she enters. "Back for the night?"
Vishanti melts into the embrace, her love's strong arms the only home that truly matters. "And you are mine. I can't wait to just, enjoy life with you, every single day, whatever comes."
Gazing into her love's beautiful golden eyes, she smiles as she slips off her own boots. "And I can't wait to plan our wedding."
Derika gives her another soft kiss before pulling back and smiling at her love.
Already in her warm sleep set, Derika gives Vishanti's rear a gentle squeeze. Ending her squeeze in a playful swat she stifles a yawn, "Alright love, I'm gonna finish getting ready for bed. The sooner we get this adventure started, the sooner we get to come back home to our life together." Giving her love a wink, she heads to the bathroom to wash up and finish getting ready for bed.
After her business is taken care of, and her face and teeth are washed and cleaned, Derika heads back into the bedroom. Unable to hide a large yawn that escapes, she goes to the bed and turns it down before climbing up into it.
"Yeah! It was nice. Everything quiet here/ Did you need anything, or have trouble finding stuff?" Anyka asks, slipping off her boots.
Vaeri shakes her head. "No, everything was fine. I managed to get along while you were out."
Once Vishanti gets changed and into bed, Derika wraps her arms around her beloved and snuggles up to her. Giving her a soft kiss she says sleepily, "Night Night, I love you."
With Vishanti in her arms, Derika falls asleep quickly and deeply.
"Good, I'm glad. How do you feel about things so far?" Anyka asks, sitting on the edge of her bed and taking off her boots.
Vaeri sets down her journal to look at Anyka. "I'm scared. I'm scared because I don't know what to do now. I mean..."
She pauses as if trying to corral her errant thoughts. "All my life I've been told what to do with a small degree of freedom. I don't have anyone telling me what to do now, so I don't know what to do or how to do it. I don't even know what I want."
You awaken the next morning, having slept well.
Chris yawns and rolls over, gently rubbing Gashka's back. "Good morning."
Gashka stretches in the bed before yawning as she slowly opens her eyes. Feeling his hand on her back she smiles, "Mmmm...is it really morning already? I slept soooo good for once. It's...it's been a really long time since I've been able to sleep without having nightmares." She confesses a little softlyh to her love as shed starts waking up.
Chris smiles. "That's good, at least. Should we have breakfast here or should we get everyone together so we can leave as soon as we're done eating?"
Thinking for a moment she says, "Maybe we should get all out stuff together, go check on the others and get everyone together and then we can go eat at Hadrinn's before we leave?"
Chris nods and starts getting dressed. "Sounds good."