#Constantine doesn't have the heart to tell Ida that he was alive all the time

[thatrandomsarahchick]

All the fuckery he's done with Demon deals means he registers as a ghost to Danny, too, but since the man is clearly not here to cause trouble, Danny let's it be.

Oh, he's suspicious of the Ghost, of course, but the man genuinely seems delighted to have found Grandma Ida and be catching up with her.

Danny spends time at Sam's house in human form for a few days before he gets a chance to talk to this Constantine privately. John clocks Danny as being something, and so takes him seriously of his softly spoken words of warning. He declines the offer for a safe trip into the Zone, though, saying he had a safe way to teleport himself there if needed.

Sam thinks he's amazing. He's grungy and crass, and her parents have to put up with it for Grandma's sake! She does a bit of googling, and comes across an old website that streams music from the band he was in when Ida knew him.

It's not completely to her taste, but her mum hates it with a fiery passion. So she plays it extra loud in her room.

Ida is Constantine's good ex.

They separated on good terms after a few months because Ida wanted to start a family and not Constantine (for obvious reasons). Then, despite Ida's efforts to keep in touch as a long-distance friend, she quickly no longer received any news from him.

So when she sees him barely older and seeming lost in his town… she takes him for a ghost who has retained a very human appearance. She rushes to him because she is surely not the only one to notice the presence of a “tourist” in town.

She takes a minute to pity him and apologize. He hadn't ignored him, he was dead!!! Then start explaining to him why as a ghost it's not safe for him here even though it's very nice of him to visit <3

Constantine had not informed Ida about magic, after all it was one of his exes from before his cancer (a little near the time when he stopped responding to her) and his first triple sale of soul for escape death. But he knows Ida well enough not to contradict her. In addition, she gives him all the information in flash notes that he is looking for.

…

Okay, he also missed Ida. It felt SO strange to see her old. But she apparently hadn't lost anything from a mental point of view

This is how Constantine was invited to have tea and catch up on lost time at Ida's in addition to having a more complete debrief of the Amity Park situation