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Part of C.T. was glad for Esther honestly, they had found her powers so quickly and while she was hesitating to use the word "easily" because of what had happened when they did indeed find the girls powers, but the process hadn't exactly been something that C.T. could call hard. Esther had literally seemed to just stumble across it.

"Hide and Seek just got a million times easier for me,"

"You ever do that to me again, there is no telling what I might do to you." C.T. threatened, though she wasn't seriously meaning to do Esther any harm at all, and it reflected in the light manor in which her words were delivered. But there was a bit of a strain there. She did in fact want to tell Esther to never slip in to the plain on the other side of the glass ever again, but she knew that she couldn't demand that type of control over her girlfriends abilities. Because although it indeed was a very scary ability to have, it was still a beautiful thing, and she'd be evil to even try forbid Esther from exploring her new found abilities. "Let's at least try and figure out how it works better, before we ok it for recreational use." That didn't mean she wasn't going to be the overprotective girlfriend though.

"I can't help but worry about you." C.T. said a bit under her breath as Esther pulled her out of the shed and into the light of day, it was a bit surprising to see how bright it was outside again after they had spent all that time inside that dark dusty shed. C.T. had all but forgotten about their little game of hide and seek until Esther mentioned that Leisha had won the game. Guess that meant that Leon didn't find her. C.T. looked over to the boy who just shrugged at her, C.T. returned the gesture and she supposed she'd keep their teaming up a little secret for now. No need to give out their strategies when they could always save them for later. Speaking of storing secrets for later.

"So where were you hiding Leisha?" C.T. asked, curious. However it was clear that Leisha wasn't going to tell her by the look that she gave C.T. That's a secret Connie, if I tell you, I won't be able to use that spot again." the girl said, and C.T. raised her hand in surrender. "Ahhh, your right I forgot. Sorry sorry." C.T. said, guess she should of known better.

"Kids it's time for your snack, go wash up okay?" C.T. heard her father calling from the kitchen, Leisha took Leon by the hand and lead him inside again, she was always leading him somewhere it was honestly very sweet. Though it made her wonder how lost he would be if he didn't have Leisha to help him out. Probably not too lost honestly, he had a lot more brothers and sister to take over the role if need be.

"So.... I guess we are done here?" C.T. asked Esther, referring to the little game of hide and seek, and only that.

"Yea there was a mirror." C.T. nodded, following behind Esther, she didn't know how she felt about releasing her girl back into the void so soon after she got her back out, but she supposed finding out how all of this worked sooner rather than later was a good thing.

"Do you remember when you were first figuring all of this stuff out?"

"If you mean my powers, then yes I do remember figuring them out. But it was nothing like what you are going through now." C.T. said. She was in a bit of a tough spot, Esther knew what she had been through yes, but it was still hard for her to just out and say what she had experienced to the girl. She didn't want to make Esther sad. "The healing component to my powers is automatic, my body just does it. So when I was taken, they put me through a series of stress test. Testing the limits of what I could heal to an extent. My further mastery of my power, came from me learning to defend myself." C.T. said quickly, just trying to rush through her explanation and keeping it as brief as possible.

"Yea, as if." C.T. said with a roll of her eyes as she entered the room with Esther. "If you honestly think I would just leave you to do this by yourself, then you don't really know me as well as I thought you did." C.T. said, though she sounded disappointed she wasn't being serious. "Besides the anxiety would be worse if I wasn't here, then I would just have to leave everything up to my imagination." C.T. added with a bit of a shiver for good measure.

That out the way, Esther seemed to move on very quickly, grabbing pen and paper from the dresser in the room, so that they could communicate. "Good thinking" C.T. nodded, she hadn't even thought of how they would be able to communicate until now and she was glad that Esther had thought of something before it was too late. C.T. took her pen and scribbled a bit of a message on the paper, and folded it, she wasn't going to show Esther until she was on the other side of the glass.

"So I guess I should just start with going back and forth, maybe?"

C.T. nodded. "Yeah, I guess so. Almost makes me wanna tie a rope around you, even though I know I won't be able to pull you out if things go wrong."

C.T watched with bated breath as Esther slipped into the mirror. She had to resist the urge to reach in and pull the girl back halfway through the process, simply for the fear of accidentally causing her harm. She calmed considerably however when Esther was on the other side of the glass and was waving back at her, perfectly fine from what C.T. could see, Connie smiled faintly and waved back. Still a bit nervous but it wasn't like she was going to have a panic attack or anything like that. She watched Esther shift around a bit, seeming to look around the space, C.T. couldn't see what the girl was looking for, but she seemed to be enjoying her exploration, which was good, C.T. was glad that she was enjoying what she was finding.

C.T. watched Esther scribbling her note, for a moment finding herself disappointed that she couldn't hear the girl's voice, but getting over her discomfort in favor of reading what Esther had written down. It's so cool. We could totally use it to hide from Mag if I figured out how to bring you with me. C.T. gave a bit of a smirk and nodded, she wondered now if she could go in there with Esther, it really would make a good hide away for a little while if they needed to be alone. "You think you'd be able to drag someone else in there?" C.T. wrote her question down quickly, though she knew Esther hadn't figured it out yet, she'd be willing to give it a try. She was truly interested in the complexity of her girlfriends new found abilities.

It was hard for C.T. to be patient when Esther wondered away from her line of sight, she took to pacing and even biting her nails while she waited anxiously for her return, but when the girl did return, ten minutes or so later smiling and giddy, C.T. couldn't help but smile too, Esther's good mood rubbing off on her. She was now pretty confident that Esther was safe in that world. It seem to be her own, and Connie was glad for it. However as soon as C.T. became confident of Esther's safety, that confidence was thrown away just as fast when Esther asked C.T. to throw a blanket over a mirror.

C.T. was no scientist, and she wasn't 100% sure how light and reflections worked, but she was pretty confident that with no light mirrors didn't work. She wasn't sure how much Esther's abilities required light to work. "I don't think that's a good idea." C.T. scribbled quickly, but she didn't hold up her message just yet, she thought it over for a moment. Before crossing it out, in favor of holding up the message she had scribbled down before. "Stay safe love." it read, and with a sigh, C.T. grabbed the blanket from her bad, gave Esther one last fleeting look, and covered up the mirror.

C.T. gave it two minutes, and that was all she was going to give it.

She removed the sheet from the mirror, because for one she couldn't stand not knowing what was going on behind it, and two, she wasn't going to take any more chances than she had already taken by allowing Esther to talk her into covering up the mirror in the first place. She could see Esther standing on the other side of the mirror and she seemed safe, so that was good. Taking a step back Connie gave Esther some room in case the girl wanted to exit. "Are you ok? What was it like." She held up her piece of paper, the message she asked having already been written out. She couldn't wait, even if Esther was going to come out the mirror, she just had to know as soon as possible, and that extra time that asking the girl verbally when she exited the mirror would have killed her.

"Alright so we know you need light for it to work." C.T. had expected that, but confirmations were always more valuable than hunches. Though still knowing that Esther's was safe also wasn't the same as having her here on C.T.'s side of things and she wanted her out. She was going to scribble down a note suggesting that they take a break but Esther was already writing so she would wait for the girl to finish.

Marry me, Connie

The note read, C.T. didn't answer instead she took the opportunity to let her jaw nearly hit the ground. She loved Esther very much yes, but the thought of marriage had never came to her mind really. She didn't think Esther would want to. But C.T. was soundly proven wrong.

I'm not coming out until you say yes.

C.T. shook her head with a laugh, and began scribbling down a note in reply. 'You don't have to force me to marry you, of course I'm going to say yes, I already gave you a ring remember?' C.T. asked referring to the promise ring she had given Esther a few days before.