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Growing up Yue had always wanted pets, but for some reason or another she was always turned down. It would be something like one of her roommates was allergic to anything but skyfish, and then when she decided skyfish were cute enough the pet store was always sold out or went out of business. The list went on and on to the point where she was starting to wonder if she had been cursed. By junior year she had just given up the thought of ever owning a pet until after university. Then she had met Draven and they had started hanging out more and more as friends. She had mentioned that she always loved bats and dearly wanted to own a nezubat. She never expected that a few short days later Draven would come by with a tiny black and orange fluff ball. Sor was just old enough to fly and thus be given an owner.

It was practically love at first sight. The two bonded instantly. Sor went everywhere Yue went or even snuck into Yue’s bag when Yue tried to keep him at home. He even snuck out to check on Tobias and seemed to love that Tobias was orange like him. He took to each new Nezubat easily becoming the lead Nezubat. In fact, Yue remembered when she thought she was close to failing one of her tests and the next night her nezubats had gotten her a new one. It was pretty much no secret that Yue and nezubats were often together.

Even so, she had often heard from people that it was a rule somewhere that if you had outdoor pets that you should always prepare yourself one day that they wouldn’t come home. She always worried every night they did actually use the window to go fly around. However she never thought it would be Sor. Sor didn’t even like going out at night, in fact when she was at the academy he only really left to go check on Tobias. After she went to Asterion Sor only went out if her whole colony for lack of a better word was going.

She had heard stories of black vespercats disappearing during this holiday but Sor wasnt even all black. The nine he wasn’t even a vespercat. He was a tiny little nezubat. Even worse is that she was making Draven feel horrible. She had tried to keep it hidden, especially when Magi had come home that morning practically screeching and near inconsolable. She had known something was wrong. However she wasn’t able to keep it hidden for long. Probably because she had taken the day off of class yesterday.

Even the weather seemed to be in tune with her mood and she glared up at the clouds that were keeping her from searching longer. Well it wouldn’t do to get sick; with a sigh she walked back inside and took the elevator up to their apartment. Opening the door she proceeded to stop half way through as she stared at Draven on the couch. Well something was definitely up. Before she jumped to conclusions, she was going to sit on the couch and let him explain?

Yue was trying to keep a neutral face as she was worried about what Draven seemed to be worked up about but she could tell it wasn’t as neutral as she would like as he seemed to suddenly snap into worried mode instead. So she had tried to say she was fine and they could bring up whatever was troubling him. A distraction while she waited for any kind of news might be good. However it seemed like he needed a distraction and he quickly exited the couch to get her Hot chocolate. She quietly took the cup and using the spoon stirred the marshmallows into the liquid. They were already too soggy for picking out to eat.

In fact she was somewhat curious about the letter that he grabbed, was the contents of the letter what was worrying him. She had barely seen it and had only seen it because she was used to spotting things quick to steal. A rather geist like trait she had picked up while in the orphanage.

Oh… boy. Those words never boded well. She was pretty The expression when she came in was not a worried I’m about to tell you something you’ll absolutely hate expression, in fact she was pretty sure it had been almost dazed? Had she read it wrong? In her experience, those kind of expressions normally hadn’t led to ‘I’m sorry of all things’. Well could she try going neutral again? And saying something like ‘oh…’ then again she hadn’t really had a good track record with neutral today so…. Maybe it was just the horrid situation in general.

“It’s not like it’s your fault” that was generic enough right? Meanwhile she scooted closer to him on the couch. Even if there was really only like inches between them still

Yue easily let Draven move her into a much more comfortable position. When he seemed down with his rearranging she leaned back into him happy to accept his support and love. It meant a lot that he was here. Only thing that would have made the whole situation better she mused as she sipped her hot chocolate is if Tobias was here. However asking her little brother to hop a portal to come from the academy, provided he found time to sneak away from the academy seemed a bit much.

Ah… so it was big news. Could she handle another set of big bad news if that was the case? She thought about it as she continued finishing up her drink. Yeah she could. She did have a feeling that it wasn’t really bad news though. Plus sometimes good things came from tragedies. She could use some good news.

“Well I’ve done all I can for right now. Supposedly magic says that Sor’s going to come back but I didn’t get a positive feeling from it and you can never be a hundred percent right” Yue replied in order to his comment about her dealing with things on top of Sor. “Besides with this storm I can’t really do much except for wait. So spring it on me I guess?” Besides she was somewhat curious to know what had him looking so weird when she walked in the door and maybe Sor returning would be like a watched pot. The longer she was conscious on the waiting the longer it would seem until he came back. She did feel her phone vibrate a couple times before turning off but figured it was a misdial. She hadn’t given out this number for the flyers. She’d check it after she heard the big news.

“Well divination magic and scrying isn’t my strongest but I thought maybe it wouldn’t hurt to see if maybe I could find him that way” Yue replied handing the cup over to him when she was done. She was thinking about maybe breaking down and going into her savings to possibly hit up a store that had someone a bit more powerful than her look into it but she was truthfully a bit scared of the answer what if they had different results than her and they were negative results. She wanted to try by herself.

However was that selfish what if she had just broken down yesterday and gone, could she have found him sooner and spared the household this gloom that was falling over it. There was a sudden thump in her lap and she noticed that magi had decided to join them on the couch. Ah she was wondering when the little guy was going to insist on gluing himself to her. Magi was technically older than Sor but she hadn’t added him to her colony until a good chunk after Sor. She knew the little bat had to be missing Sor as much as she was and she lightly pet the top of his head.

She took the letter careful that she didn’t do her first though which was to snatch the letter out of his hand to read it. It would not be good form as a girlfriend to give your significant other papercuts and poured through the words. Two, they were going to give them two? Well it wasn’t like she couldn’t handle two and being of this age they probably would be due to start the academy soon or had just started. She nibbled on the bottom of her lip and folded the letter neatly.

“Alright then, we might as well be productive while we’re waiting to make calls for Sor since we can’t search in the storm. Let’s go give them a home” No matter how depressed she was, being there for kids was first. What if the children had told them they were going to get parents? What if they were waiting? To not go in just because Sor was missing…? She’d make a note to call Morin or Meris and see if they could pop over and maybe check her dorm room in Asterion. She’d believe in her magic abilities that the gods weren’t going to take sor from her just yet. Okay so she just needed to be doing something…

There was a weird sound that escaped her. Probably something Spell would make on a really bad day actually. They weren’t on the same wave length where they? Maybe was it the whole different race thing again or maybe it was just a 'yue wasn’t sending the right mind probes to draven' thing. She knew that tone of voice from Draven and apparently they needed to make sure they were on the same wave length soon. She didn’t want Draven worrying and beating himself up for things she wasn’t even angry over. She was happy, really she was. Yue paused again and drummed her fingers on her thigh careful not to disturb Magi too much as she thought on exactly what she wanted to do. Well in truth she kind of wanted to go outside and b***h slap a random evil doer to get all her feelings out and have a do over, but the police tended to frown against that. She looked down at her lap again where Magi had uncurled himself to stare at her. Well that settled it.

She lightly reached forward making sure Magi was secure in her hands. He was probably the only nezubat that would let her get away with what she was about to do. With a deep breathe she apparated from where she was very comfy to where she was standing right in front of Draven with her hands on her hips. Magi fluttering around in the air before he landed on her head. It could cut down a bit on the seriousness on what she was going to say but eh. “No… No… No. Stop right there” Yue replied.

“I am upset because you know I love bats and Sor was a present from you. He was my first ever gift from you and he was my first Nezubat and he’s mine. So I will be a little weird because he’s missing and I’m worried really worried” Yue state removing one of her hands that were currently on her hips to hold a finger up in the air.

“Secondly the fact that you sent the letter, and were thinking about what I brought up the other day enough to consider reaching out to an orphanage to make a little child happy makes me ridiculously happy. I… want… to… have…a … family…. With… you” she punched the last few words a bit in hopes that Draven would realize that she really truly did mean it. “I really really do, and this letter makes me really really happy, because this is the start of that family. We’re going to be parents to whomever this letter talks about.”

“I may have jumped the gun a bit because what if the post was late, what if the orphanage told the children that there were possible parents coming in soon to take some of them home. Even if the orphanage kept it a surprise there are kids that are just sitting there waiting for a family in hopes that maybe they won’t have to spend this Hallowed Haunt alone. I realize maybe you need some time for that letter to sink in more, and it’s a bit my fault for worrying you because I’ve just been feeling rushed, like I have to get things done before they become worse, or what if I get them done too slow and bad things happen. Don’t doubt yourself and your decisions okay” and with that she leaned forward placed her hands on his shoulder and kissed his nose…. Which was promptly ruined two seconds later when Magi also slid down and bonked his little bat nose to draven’s forehead.

“maaaaggiiiii”