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rohad93 · 4 years ago

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Moonlit Masquerade: Mother of the Bride Pt 3 (Final)

Luz hummed to herself as she hefted a large pot onto the counter and started cutting up the array of strange colored vegetables sitting nearby.

Since her mother was coming to dinner tonight she had decided to take up the cooking. She'd gotten pretty used to the food on the Isles and didn't even blink when something was served to her with extra limbs, eyes, or even if it was still alive; usually. It depended… especially after something had tried to eat her back once, but her mother required a gentler introduction to demon realm cuisine.

She was still very much worried about telling her mother exactly about her familial relationship with Eda, or rather, how she would react, but Amity had told her she just needed to open that door and deal with what was on the other side, or she was going to end up hurting Eda and her mother.

She was right of course; Amity usually was.

"What are you making?" A voice hummed in her ear and suddenly Amity was standing behind her, hands on her hips and chin on her shoulder as she looked at what Luz was cooking.

"I got steak from the human world for everyone to try with a side of mashed paintatoes and… I don't know what these are, some kind of vegetable mom bought the other day!" She grinned and Amity giggled.

"Have you had them before?" Amity asks cocking a brow.

"Yes, dere. I just don't know what they are, but they're good!" She smiled.

"Just checking…," Amity hums, kissing her cheek before she goes about making some tea.

"Did you talk to Ed and Em?" she asks Amity as she moves around the kitchen.

"Yes, and they promised me to behave while your mother was here," she assured her.

"Good, good... I really just need to worry about Mom and Lily then…"

"Lilith shouldn't be a problem… depending on Eda of course…" Amity smirked.

"Right… I'm just going to have to hope for the best on that front…," she mumbled, picking up the bright colored vegetables and suddenly remembered something she thought of late last night just before she had fallen asleep and had told herself to remember to tell Amity.

"Oh, hey!" She looked at her over her shoulder.

"Hmm?" Amity hummed as she spooned tea leaves into her cup.

"What do you think about an outdoor wedding?" she asked, making Amity turn to look at her.

"Outdoor?"

"Yeah, I had an idea last night, so I thought I'd see what you thought about it." Luz shrugged as she started slicing things. Amity set the kettle to boil and walked over to hop onto the counter next to her.

"You want to have it outdoors?" She cocked her head.

"Yeah, but not just anywhere outdoors..." she trailed off and Amity smirked, rolling her eyes.

"I'll bite, where do you want to have the wedding, querida?"

Luz set down the knife to stand in front of Amity, hands on either side of her on the counter.

“I want you to guess.” she grinned playfully.

“I couldn’t even begin to guess with you,” Amity laughed.

“I’m sure you could make some guesses, but why don’t we make it more interesting?” Luz asked, a playful glint in her eye

Amity cocked a brow but smirked back.

“What did you have in mind?” she asked.

“How bout a little wager?”

“Alright, the stakes?”

“If you can figure out where I want to have the wedding by the time mami leaves tonight, I’ll let you decide on the wedding party’s clothes and pick out my clothes for that night,” she offered. That did interest Amity. She had full confidence in Luz’s ability to dress for the night without her input, but she also liked the idea of being able to dress her fiancée for the night herself, as well as what their friends would need to wear.

“And if I can’t figure it out?” She tilted her head. Luz leaned in to whisper with a grin.

“Costume themed wedding…”

Now that, more than her own reward, motivated Amity.

“We are not having a costume themed wedding.” She narrowed her eyes.

“Then you better figure it out, mi amor.” Luz dug a glyph out of one of her pouches and tapped it, a bright purple ring appeared in the air between them and she held her hand through it. “Deal?”

Amity hesitated a moment, she had no delusions that if she couldn’t figure it out that Luz absolutely would make their wedding costume themed.

She liked a challenge though; especially one posed by Luz. She knew the woman better than anyone, and she was going to prove it.

She grabbed her hand in the ring.

“Deal”

“The everlasting oath is sealed,” Luz said and their hands glowed before the ring faded.

“Somewhere outdoors hmm?” she hummed and Luz gave a nod. “I don't suppose you'll give me a hint...”

“Nope! You’re smart, you’ll figure it out… but if you don’t you’ll be marrying a werewolf on Halloween night.” Luz’s toothy grin threatened to split her face.

Oh hell no.

“I’m going to figure it out.” Amity’s eyes narrowed in determination. She was not going to marry Luz dressed as a werewolf, not if she could stop it.

Luz just giggled and leaned forward to peck her mouth.

"We'll see…," she sang before stepping back and going back to cutting up vegetables as the kettle began to whistle.

As if summoned by it, Lilith appeared in the kitchen doorway.

"Afternoon, you two," she greeted as she walked over to the cabinet to get her own cup.

"Lily, just who I wanted to see!" Luz turned to the older witch, who cocked a brow at that.

"I need you to do a huge favor for me." Luz wiped her hands on her pants and set them on Lilith's shoulders, looking very serious.

"What do you need?" Lilith blinked.

"I need you to please, please, PLEASE, not fight with mom tonight," she begged.

"Edalyn starts it." Lilith frowned and from her place over at the counter, Amity snorted to herself but chose to make no mention of how the older woman sounded like a petulant child, that wouldn't help Luz.

"I know, but you're so much more mature and level-headed than mom," Luz laid it on thick as she could, and luckily for her Amity was faced away from them so Lilith couldn't see the auburn-haired witch roll her eyes, but Luz knew she was.

"You're right, of course, I will not rise to her bait, Luz," Lilith agreed and Luz grinned.

"Thank you," she sighed in relief before letting go and turning her attention back to the food sitting on the cutting board.

It was a few hours later that Luz left the house and walked around out back to the portal to pick up her mother.

Being summer, even though it was nearly seven it was still bright and sunny out as she walked through the woods and down the street to her mother’s house. She needed to tell her mother about Eda before they got there because that would be an awkward conversation to have in front of other people, depending on how her mother reacted.

She knocked on the front door and her mother appeared a moment later.

“Hola, Mami, are you ready to go?”

“I think so, Mija…,” she said, stepping out of the house and locking the door.

As they walked back down the street to the woods Luz took a deep breath.

“So, there’s something I should tell you…,” she started, unsure.

“What is it?” Camila looks at her as they walk through the woods.

“I’ve told you about Eda, and how she took care of me the last six years, well… she really looks at me as being her kid and she really filled the void those years and has become a second mother to me too…,” she finally said, watching her mother carefully.

“That’s... understandable,” she says and Luz blinks at that, surprised.

“Really?” she asks.

“Of course, Mija. You were a girl, and I… couldn’t be there for you. I’m glad someone was taking good care of you.” she smiled and Luz deflated with relief.

“I’m glad, I just didn’t want you to feel like I replaced you. I didn’t even mean to start calling her mom at first, but it just became more natural over time." Camila's smile fell at that. "It made not having you around less painful to deal with… ah, here we are!" Luz grinned, hopping up the steps to the door that certainly looked out of place, standing in the entryway to the old rickety shack in the middle of the woods, especially with it's large, glowing, yellow eye.

She opened it and Camila stared at the bright light.

"¡Vamos, Mami!" Luz stepped through the doorway and vanished. Camila took a breath and stepped through.

Luz was waiting for her on the other side of the door.

She found herself standing on a cliffside overlooking the ocean behind a strange-looking house.

"Welcome to The Owl House, situated on the edge of The Boiling Isles, in the lovely and scenic Demon realm!" Luz grinned, holding her hand up to the house. Of course, at that moment a ginormous griffin chose to fly overhead with a loud squawk and snapped up half a flock of birds in its mouth before it flew off. Camila’s mouth fell open and her eyes widened.

“AhAhaH… don’t mind that!” Luz chuckled nervously. “Come on, Mami!” She led her around to the front of the house.

“Hoot, your back, Luz!” Hooty stretched out of the door. “And you have a guessst.”

“This is Hooty, he’s a house demon so he's uh…, the house,” Luz told her mother as the house demon inched closer.

“Oh, um, hello.” Camila smiled a little unsure.

“Hi! Hoot!” Hooty wriggled happily, staring, unblinkingly, at Camila.

"He's the house?" Camila questioned her daughter quietly.

"Yeah… don't think too hard about it," Luz said. "Let us in, Hooty."

The demons sunk back into the door and opened, allowing them to step inside.

Camila looked around the living room and all the strange things hanging on the walls, but among them was a wall of photos featuring the owl house’s inhabitants. Luz and Amity along with Lilith, King, and Eda over the years. Many were of course, of all of them and then just Luz and Amity, but there were just as many of Eda and Luz, shoved together and grinning in various settings, including in front of a large, on fire building and grinning wickedly like two people who had probably just committed arson. Camila frowned, turning away from them only for her eyes to land on four large, framed wanted posters hanging over the couch. One for ‘Lilith: The Traitor’, ‘Amity: The Plague’, ‘Luz: The Human’ and one that looked much older, for ‘Eda: The Owl Lady’.

Camila didn’t know what currency was used in the Isles, but that was a lot of zeros at the bottom of each poster. Luz saw what she was looking at and chuckled nervously.

“Those are old, it’s from the old regime!” Luz quickly said.

“I think it’s a pretty flattering likeness of you.” They both turned as Amity walked out of the kitchen chuckling. “Hello, Ms. Noceda.” Amity smiled.

“Ay, no, no, Cariño, just Camila.” She smiled and hugged Amity tightly before pulling back.

“You only say that cause you got a cool nickname…,” Luz pouted, crossing her arms. Amity chuckled.

“Querida…” Amity rolled her eyes.

“I mean, come on! ‘The human’?” Luz held her hands up at the poster, temporarily forgetting that her mother was standing there watching her complain about the moniker on her ‘wanted poster’. Until she was looking at her with narrowed eyes. “I mean… it’s… yeah, whatever…,” she huffed.

“Are you complaining about that again?” Lilith asked as she appeared from the kitchen.

“Says ‘The Traitor’,” Luz mumbled under her breath.

“Camila, this is Lilith Clawthorne,” Amity introduced.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Luz has talked about you highly and often.” She smiled as she shook the human’s hand.

“It’s lovely to meet you too.” Camila smiled as she looked over the tall, dark-haired woman with mismatched eyes and a streak of gray in her long hair.

“Shouldn’t you get Eda?” Amity turned to Luz.

“Oh, right!” Luz trotted over to the bottom of the stairs. “Hey, Mom!” she shouted, making the other three women flinch, though, Camila for very different reasons than Amity and Lilith.

“What!?” A disembodied voice called from upstairs.

“Come down, Mami is here!”

There was some thumping indicating the approaching woman. Camila’s hand clenched at her side as the thumping continued until at last, Eda appeared on the stairs, blinking her also, dual-colored eyes at the people in the living room.

Amity decided to make this a little less awkward for Luz and the two older women by stepping in before she could say anything.

“And this is Edalyn Clawthorne.”

“Eda, The Owl lady!” Eda exclaimed with a grin. “Nice to meetcha, Kid’s told us a lot,” she said as Camila looked over the gray-haired witch with a sharp gold tooth poking out of her grinning mouth. Hearing Luz call another woman ‘mom’ stung her in a way she didn’t expect, but she swallowed it in favor of the gratitude she did feel for this woman for taking care of her daughter the past six years.

“Thank you for taking care of Luz all this time.” she smiled, and it must have been convincing enough for Luz and Eda both. Because they both grinned in a scarily similar way that stabbed at Camilla, especially as Eda threw an arm around Luz and tugged her in close.

“Ah! Don’t mention it. It didn’t take long for the kid to grow on me… like a fungus.” Eda ruffled the Latinas hair affectionately, making Luz chuckle.

Camila smiled, though if anyone noticed how strained it was they said nothing.

“Why is everyone shouting!” A tiny voice roared and then King was stomping down the stairs, glaring at them as he came to stand in front of them. “I was napping!”

“Sorry, King. Mami, this is King, The king of demons. Isn’t he the cutest?” she grinned as the tiny demon glared.

“I am not cute!” He stomped.

“You’re an adorable little tyrant,” Eda chuckled, picking him up, making him squeal with rage.

“I gotta go check on dinner,” Luz said, glancing at Amity who smiled, letting her know she had this. Luz disappeared into the kitchen.

“Why don’t we sit while we wait for our other guests?” Lilith gestured to the couch.

“Luz told me you taught her magic?” Camila looked at Eda, hands in her lap as they sat.

“Oh, yeah, at first, but then the kid got pretty good at teaching herself, and then she was teaching us,” Eda snorted, nudging her sister, who nodded.

“Luz is a master of glyph magic, the ancient form of magic our ancestors used before we evolved to do it naturally. She’s taught us, but I doubt we’ll ever be as proficient as her,” Lilith explained.

“Kid works hard, and is pretty powerful,” Eda agreed. “She didn’t get that poster for nothing!” Eda grinned proudly, gesturing to Luz’s wanted poster hanging next to hers over the couch like it was a trophy Luz had won.

Camila pursed her lips. She was certainly glad that Luz seemed to be so talented at something, but she certainly could have done without the being a wanted criminal part.

“Those became invalidated when the Emperor was defeated,” Amity told her. “Luz is considered a hero here on the Isles.” Amity smiled.

“As are you,” Lilith smirked and Amity flushed as Camila’s gaze turned to her.

“I’m really not…,” she started.

“Yes, she is!” Luz shouted from the kitchen. “Lily, tell Mami about how bad-ass she was in the battle at the knee!”

Eda snorted and Lilith grinned as Amity flushed.

“Amity was kind enough to tell me about Luz’s battles but never mentioned any of her own,” Camila said, looking interested and doing her best not to look at Eda.

“It was nothing much…” Amity tried but Eda laughed.

“You call taking out a whole squadron of the Emperor’s goons while carrying an injured Luz on your back nothing?”

Camila looked at her wide-eyed and she flushed darker.

“It really wasn’t a big deal…,” she tries to say, but then Luz is yelling from the kitchen again.

“She’s a pretty liar! Tell her Lily!”

Lilith chuckled and Amity scowled in the direction of Luz’s voice.

“Well, we had a rebel base on the knee, a cold region in the south of the Isles…,” The elder Clawthorne starts.

Another explosion rocked the base, sending debris flying through the air. Smoke is billowing from somewhere and everyone is screaming as spells fly through the air and loyalists are pouring through one of the holes they managed to create in their walls, even as rebel witches shoot fire and lightning spells at them from the battlements while abominations and beasts, with their handlers, try to push them back.

Amity is flying just above the ground, desperately searching the sudden battlefield for a familiar figure in a dark blue cloak.

The 19-year-old had been patrolling the perimeter of the walls when a sudden bright, fiery light had shot through the woods from three different angles, bombarding the barrier around the base until it had fallen and three final blasts had shot huge openings in their defenses. Loyalists had then rushed from the cover of the forest to lay siege to the base.

She shot several spells down at them as they bottlenecked in the openings, catching them by surprise as she flew over, but their surprise didn’t last long as spells started to fly back at her. She managed to dodge the blazing projectiles flying at her through the air before she flew over the wall, out of their range, and into the relatively safer area inside the walls where their forces were already rushing to meet the encroaching enemy, but they were pouring in from multiple places and the number of witches stationed on the knee was hardly their largest force, they assumed this high up on the mountain, with all the natural fortifications as well as the magical ones, that this place would be the most protected and thus require the smallest force to protect, but it seemed the Emperor had sent and an entire legion to take out the base. He must have known they were here, but how?

How had such a force managed to bypass all their detection spells in the woods?

Amity scowled to herself as she dropped to the ground and raced across the grounds on foot, drawing circles and raising abominations in her wake to fight off any enemies nearby as she tore through the ones in her path with her staff.

'Where are you?!' she thought desperately, gold eyes flickering everywhere. Luz and Lilith had been having a meeting with the base commander before bedlam had erupted, and knowing her girlfriend, she was now somewhere in the middle of it all.

Somewhere in front of her vines erupted from the ground, grabbing up several white-cloaked invaders and flung them with a sickening crack against one of the walls.

Willow!

Amity rushed toward the plants, only just dodging a blast of fire as an emperors coven witch appeared at her side, too close to cast a spell Amity swung her staff, clobbering him the head with it, they stumbled and she followed up with two more mighty swings, something crunched and gave way under her blow as the witch crumpled do the ground in a heap, screaming in agony, but she didn’t have time for that.

She turned and sprinted toward Willow, who she could now see, eyes glowing green as she flung and impaled as many white-cloaked invaders on her vines as possible, green cloak, flung off her shoulders.

“Where’s Luz!?” she yelled over the din of fighting around them.

“She was in front of the keep with the commander and Lilith!” Willow shouts at her before she scowls and flings a sharp, thorn-tipped vine at Amity, who ducks and the vine smacks into two witches behind her, flinging them into another building and leaving a splatter of blood smeared across the ground.

“Thanks,” Amity sighs, grip on her staff tightening, they’re everywhere.

“Got your back!” Willow nods. “Go find Luz!” Amity nods and is running past her toward the keep where smoke is billowing up in a large cloud. There’s a blue glow and then cyan fire is blazing across the ground, engulfing a group of white cloaks in their flames, the screaming is cacophonous in her ears on top of the constant explosions and yelling in every direction. Lilith is standing back to back with a tall male witch in front of the keeps large wooden doors, glowing staff in one hand and glyph card in the other, lips pulled back in a snarl.

She sees Amity and knows what she’s looking for.

“She was over there!” she jerks her head in the direction of a sudden explosion that sends dirt and chunks of stone flying through the air, making the ground tremble under their feet.

“Damnit!” Amity runs and jumps on her staff mid-step, flying toward the cloud of dirt in the air. She flings out a gust of winds that clears away the cloud and sends a few witches rolling across the ground. Bits of the wall are laying everywhere in huge chunks of crumbling stone, and laying on the ground, partially obscured by one, she sees a tell-tale dark blue cloak.

“Luz!” Amity jumps from the staff to kneel beside the human who is laying on the ground, staff in hand, and gritting her teeth. Blood is running down her face from somewhere in her hairline, but that is the least of their problems as fighting rages around them.

A chunk of the wall is laying on her left leg. She must have been hit in the initial breakthrough, but the glowing of her staff and the glyph cards clenched in her other hand, as well as the white-cloaked bodies laying around her motionless, says that she’s been fighting from the ground since the battle started. An abomination rises from the ground and carefully lifts the block of stone off her leg and chunks it into a group of invaders.

Luz groans painfully as it is lifted away.

Amity carefully helps her sits her up but then Luz is pushing her away.

“No, you need to get out of here!”

‘“What?!” Amity stared at her with wide eyes.

“There’s too many, you need to go!” Luz shoves her away. “My leg is broken, I’m not gonna make it out of here, but you can!” she glances over Amity’s shoulder and scowls, throwing up a fire glyph and her staff glows, concentrating the fire into a thick stream, that sets one of the two approaching white cloaks ablaze, her abomination quickly smothers the other, distracted one in its gelatinous body. “Go!” Luz yells at her and Amity scowls back.

“I am not leaving without you!” she screams back and spells both their staffs away before she grabs both of Luz’s arms and pulls the struggling girl forward, hefting her onto her shoulder.

“Amity, please!” Luz is screaming in her ear, partially in pain as her leg is jostled with the movement but mostly anger and fear as Amity stubbornly lifts them both, grunting under the exertion. Luz, for someone who looks so thin and light, is actually solid, lean, muscle; heavy.

“No!” She stands and her knees threaten to buckle but she wills them with all she has to stay strong and they do.

The Emperor’s forces are pushing further into the compound and theirs are beginning to retreat, back toward the keep, where a secret underground tunnel leads out under the mountain, but as they retreat, they have left Amity and Luz stranded on one side, a platoon of white cloaks standing between them and the entrance to the keep.

Amity grits her teeth and draws a circle and two abominations rise from the ground, shielding them from the bursts of magic being fired at them and slowly makes her way forward toward the door to the keep where a group of rebels is keeping them at bay as everyone rushes through the door to escape, but she’s going to have to make it there first.

It doesn’t take long for the group to notice her, she and Luz have become infamous, and two of the most wanted witches in all the Boiling Isles, her half green, half auburn hair is like a beacon in the daylight.

“Amity… please,” Luz whimpers, but her struggling has ceased. She already knows that she can’t stop her.

Amity ignores her, concentrating on the enemy witches rushing towards them and spins a circle, an abomination fist shoots from the ground and sends a few flying but the rest jump out of the way and begin to cast spells at them. A stray shot sends dirt and rock flying into the air and into Amity’s eyes. She hisses, clenching her eyes against the debris, and wills her other abomination forth and it shoots forward, swinging at the enemy and sends one flying before wrapping its gooey hands around another’s head, quickly suffocating them as they inhale abomination goo. She blinks away the dirt and turns back to them and rapidly draws circle after circle, sending blasts of fire, ice, and lightning into the group. They scatter, flinging back their own spells. One explodes at her feet and sends them rolling across the ground.

There's a piercing high pitched ringing in Amity’s ears as she rolls across the ground before finally coming to a stop, everything else is muffled but as sound returns, she can clearly hear luz’s scream of pain as she rolled around on her broken leg.

She quickly scrambles to her feet and is at her side, pulling her up, but Luz is pushing her away, tears welling up in her eyes as she sees the blood now running down the side of Amity’s face and the screaming pain in her left leg.

“Amity, please, just go! You’re going to die trying to save us both!” she pleads.

“Then I’ll die trying!” Amity snaps back, digging her fingers into Luz’s arms painfully and hauling her back over her shoulder against her protests. She struggles to lift herself from her knees. Exhaustion is nipping at her heels from all the magic she’s expended along with Luz’s dead weight on her shoulder, but she manages to force herself to her feet.

She meant it, Amity would rather die here than leave Luz behind to do so for certain, or worse; leaving her was never an option.

There are still four white cloaks standing between them and their escape. Amity pants, stumbling a little as she shakily draws three more spell circles and three abominations rise. She digs into one of her pockets and throws whatever glyphs she has to their backs before willing them forward and when they meet the four witches blocking their way there is an explosion of ice and vines that impale them with nightmare-inducing screams and squelching sounds as blood splatters across the ground in a grotesque mosaic that will haunt Amity’s dreams for years to come. Amity moves forward as quickly as Luz’s weight and her growing fatigue allows, making it past the group of rebels defending the entrance to the keep. They are the last to make it through before a large force of loyalists is rushing toward them.

Everyone else still fighting is now on their own as the rebels retreat inside and with a final joint spell, collapse the stone entryway behind them before they make their escape through the tunnels.

“We lost a number of good fighters that day, along with the knee…” Lilith frowns, she remembers every battle she fought in with striking clarity that still haunted her dreams at times.

Camila is looking wide-eyed at a bright red Amity, while Luz smiles at her adoringly, having returned from the kitchen halfway through the story, she had told Lilith and Eda many times since then.

“That… is a story…,” Is all Camila can think to say in response. Amity strikes her as a serious young woman, but not some fierce fighter, yet the way everyone, especially Luz is looking at her tells her that it must be true.

“And when we got out, she shot a Slitherbeast and egged it into attacking the loyalists following us!” Luz unhelpfully added.

Before she can say more, there's a knock on the door, and Amity sighs in relief.

“Thank the Titan…,” she mumbled as Luz got up to answer it.

“Hey!” A chorus of voices sound and Luz grins, stepping aside.

“Hey guys, come on in!”

Gus, Willow, Viney, and the Blight twins pile into the house.

“Guys, come meet my Mami.” Luz grins, hopping over as her mother stands to meet the new group of young witches. “Camila Noceda,” Luz introduces her to the group. “This is Willow and Gus, mine and Amity’s friends.

“Nice to meet you!’ Willow smiles at her.

“You came from the human realm right?” Gus asks, the 19-year-old bounced excitedly as the prospect, being one of Luz’s closest friends, he was considered the foremost expert on humans in the Isles. Though Luz was a bit of an outlier.

“Later, Gus,” Luz chuckled.

“Oh, right, right!” He nodded. “Pleasure to meet you.” He smiled.

“And this is Viney.” she pointed to the older witch, still sporting her signature fishhook earring.

“Hey!”

“It’s so nice to finally meet you all.” Camila smiled at the three young adults.

“What about us?” Edric butted in with a grin and Amity rolled her eyes at him and that stupid mustache he was still sporting, in fact, he’d waxed it to curl up at the ends, he was doing this on purpose. She was going to kill him

“Camila, these are my older brother and sister, Edric and Emira Blight.” Amity held a hand out to the twins.

“Oh, it’s nice to meet you.” She shook both their hands.

“The pleasure is ours.” Edric smiled.

“Yeah, anyone who can raise someone that can put up with Mittens all this time must be a real stand-up.” Emira grinned and Amity glared daggers at her sister.

“Amity is a lovely girl,” Camila said.

“See?” Edric said with a shit-eating grin directed at his younger sister, who scowled.

“We were just telling Mami about the battle at the knee,” Luz tells them and the young witch’s grimace.

“I’m not mad I missed that one.” Gus frowned. He’d heard plenty after when they had all returned to their main encampment, bloodied and haggard.

Willow nods, thinking about it, and the twins frown. When the Blight family had sided with the emperor in the beginning they had stayed, working as an inside source of information rather than fighting publicly for the rebels. They still felt guilty whenever they heard the stories about Amity’s battles, even if their information had been invaluable in the first year of fighting.

The kitchen timer started chiming and Luz looked over her shoulder.

“Food’s done!’ She grinned.

‘Food!” King screeched and clamored out of Eda’s arms to the ground before taking off into the kitchen.

‘Well, let’s eat!” Eda grinned as they all followed.

Dinner is, as it always is at the owl house when they all get together on Sunday night, loud, raucous, and most importantly; fun.

People yell and talk wildly over each other and palismans run amuck across the counters, quickly forgetting they're supposed to be on their best behavior for their new human guest, or at least the two sets of siblings do. Ed and Em tease Amity mercilessly, they’ve long given up on embarrassing Luz, who always rolls with their jokes, no matter how… inappropriate, at least, for dinner with her mother. Eda and Lilith get into a quickly, thankfully, resolved good fight, that involved a spoonful of mashed paintatoes and a steak slapping the elder Clawtorne in the face before King snagged it off the floor and started gnawing on it.

Gus and Willow talk animatedly with Camila who is charmed by the two sweet young adult witches. She can see why they and Luz are such good friends, as well as Viney, who tells her some of the intricacies of running a beast farm. Her daughter's future in-laws are charming as they are sly troublemakers, it’s the liveliest meal she’d had since Luz lived at home, but she can’t help but glance occasionally at Luz, who’s sitting across from her with Amity on one side and Eda on the other.

The older witch ruffles Luz's hair and cackles at something, making the younger woman grin and laugh too, and she shouldn’t feel this way, she knows, but it stabs at her heart that Luz looks at and calls her ‘mom’, that she's the one who has been raising Luz the last six years. She’d been there for so many important moments in her life, while she herself was going through the motions of her daily life for the past six years without her baby, trying to live through that heartbreak, wondering just what happened to Luz.

Eda snorts and pokes Luz in the cheek, which she slaps away with a grin and says something Camila can’t hear but it makes the older witch laugh.

She looks away.

Half listening to the conversation Lilith is having with Willow about a plant she has that is dying for some inexplicable reason and asks the younger witch if she might be able to nurse it back to health. Willow agrees to look at it after dinner.

Camila focuses on these delightful friends her daughter has made here in the Isles, something she was never able to accomplish back in the human world.

“I’m so glad you’ve made such good friends, Mija.” Camila smiled at her daughter, drawing her attention, and Luz grins.

“They’re the best!” Luz agrees and Gus waves a bashful hand and Willow and Viney grin.

“The little free-loader has a way of attracting people.” Eda agreed with a grin, and Camila’s smile tightened as she looked at the witch. Her chest makes another painful thud and she needs a minute.

“Mija, where’s the bathroom?”

“Oh, upstairs, first door on the right,” she says and Camila excuses herself. Once she’s gone Luz turns back to the table.

“I want the record to show that Amity and I buy groceries, and do chores and cooking the same as you and Lilith.”

“Yeah, but you don’t pay rent,” Eda smirked.

“You’ve never asked for any!” she throws up her hands and Eda cackles.

“But, while we’re on the subject…,” Amity started, giving Luz a meaningful look from her place next to her.

“Oh, right.” she nodded, sitting up a little straighter, drawing everyone’s attention. “I guess now is a good time to tell you then that Amity and I have been talking and…,” she hesitated now that Eda was looking at her curiously. “Well, Amity and I are going to be married soon so… we just figured… we, uh...” she taps her fingers nervously on the table. Amity lays a hand on her leg under the table.

“Luz and I are moving out,” Amity finished for her struggling fiancée.

“What?!” Lilith and Eda shouted. King is staring wide-eyed at her, the steak hanging out of his mouth falls back onto his plate. The rest of the group is looking at them just as surprised.

“Not till after the wedding!” she quickly assured them. ��But… yeah… the time’s been coming for a while, and since we’re getting married and starting the next part of our lives… that time is now,” Luz said, starting to sound more confident as she looks at Eda. They had discussed this at length and agreed it was time. She and Amity needed to do things on their own.

“Well, that’s…” Lilith is unsure what to say, but Eda does.

“Damn, Kid.” She frowns and the pain in her eyes is clear to everyone at the table.

“We won’t be going far.” Amity smiles at the sisters.

“Yeah! We couldn’t leave you two.” Luz grinned.

“They’d kill each other…” Viney leaned over to whisper to Emira, who laughed under her breath.

“Are you moving to town?” Willow asks.

“Or to the council headquarters?” Gus guessed.

“Too far… and absolutely not!” Luz shook her hand at them, grimacing at the second suggestion as Amity smirked, rolling her eyes. “Do you see that over there?” she pointed.

They just happen to be sitting by the open windows and Luz is pointing at a section of the forest outside the house.

“The forest?” Willow blinks.

“You’re finally gonna live in the woods like the wild witch you are?” Edric asks with a laugh, delighted by the idea.

“What? No!” Luz frowns at her future brother-in-law.

“We’re going to build a house next door,” Amity explains, exasperated already by siblings tonight, but this is good for them, good enough anyway, so she lets it go. “Members of the construction coven kindly offered to build us a place at no cost, as thanks for things we did in the war… and while Luz and I don’t like to use that to get things, we figured, just this once, since a chunk of our current savings is going toward the wedding we’d take them up on the offer.”

“If you’re just going next door, why even bother going?” Eda frowns, brows furrowing between her eyes.

“We need our own space, where we can just be alone together, ” Luz tells her.

“So you two just want to be loud when you…,” Emira starts with a smirk until she catches Amity’s glaring gaze that promises nothing good if she finishes that sentence and her mouth snaps shut. There’s rising tension in the air and now is not the time for her sibling’s patented form of shit.

“You have a bedroom!” Eda huffs.

“That can barely hold our stuff and us anymore! The two of us barely fit in the bed, and there’s no space to possibly put a bigger one,” Luz argued.

“Luz, can’t you two…”

“It’s not up for debate!” Luz cuts off anything she’s about to say, much to everyone’s shock, most of all Eda’s. Luz takes a breath, straightening, and finds strength in Amity’s hand squeezing her leg, this hurts her too, but she and Amity agree, they need their own space to just be. “We love you both, but after the wedding, we're moving out,” she says with finality. The kitchen is oppressively quiet as everyone looks at each other, unsure what to do or say.

“Well, why wait, Why not just go now?!” Eda shouts as she stands from the table and stomps out of the room.

“Mom!” Luz calls but then the front door slams shut making everyone flinch. “Ugh…” Luz buried her face in her hands while Amity squeezed her leg comfortingly under the table and Willow reached over to pat her back.

“That was rough…” Viney grimaced.

“It could have gone better…,” Gus agrees.

“Coulda went worse though… right?” Edric asks, looking around, no one says anything.

Luz drug her hands down her face tiredly.

“Should I... go talk to her…?” she glanced around.

“Just… give here some time…,” Lilith tells her gently, frowning. She also feels hurt at the impending loss of the young couple, but she understands where they’re coming from, they need their own space to be a married couple, one not shared by her, her sister, King, and Hooty.

They don’t notice the front door quietly opening and closing again.

Camila had only gone as far as the stairs when she’d overheard the conversation and stopped to listen and then saw Eda, scowling angrily to herself stomp out the front door. She hesitates for a long moment, considering, but feels pulled by the pain she saw on Eda’s face. One she is intimately familiar with. She follows quietly out the front door and looks around at the dark yard.

She doesn’t see the gray-haired witch.

“Hoot! If you’re looking for Eda she went thaaaat way!” Hooty stretched out of the door to point his face in the direction of the portal around the house.

“Gracias” Camila nods before walking around the side of the house. She spots the witch easily, sitting leaned against the side of the house, in front of the portal.

She hesitates a second before walking over quietly.

Eda glances up at the approaching steps and is surprised to see Camila standing there, but it’s not Luz or her sister, so she’s not particularly bothered, despite wanting to be alone.

“May I sit?” she asks quietly.

“Whatever floats your boat.” Eda shrugs, so Camila sits a few feet away, carefully folding her legs beneath her as she situates herself on the grass.

It’s grown dark and is quiet outside, away from the ruckus of all the young adults inside the house.

“Well, this sucks…,” Eda finally says, breaking the silence they’ve been sitting in for the last few minutes, drawing Camila’s eyes to her. “I didn’t expect that…,” she says slowly, frowning. “But I guess I should have…she’s not a kid anymore...”

‘No…,” Camila agrees and now it’s Eda’s turn to glance at the other woman sitting nearby.

“Ya know, I don’t really know how you must be feeling… but I know how I’d feel if Luz was suddenly gone from my life one day… I’d really miss the kid… well, ‘miss’ probably isn’t a strong enough word… I already miss her and she ain’t even moved out yet!” she threw up a hand. “So, I can’t imagine how you felt when she disappeared without a trace…,” Eda said, turning back to stare out at the dark ocean.

Camila’s fingers clench the fabric of her dress.

“Like there was a hole in my chest that couldn’t be filled…,” she says quietly after a moment. Eda grunts in acknowledgment.

“Sounds about right…,” she mumbles, which prompts Camila to speak again and she figures the only way to work through this is to air her grievances.

“I don’t know how I feel about you…,” she finally says and Eda turns to her, blinking. “You got the last six years of my baby’s life, I lost her and you got her… all the moments in her life that I didn’t get to be part of… but you took good care of her too when I couldn’t…” Camila clenched her fists as Eda watched her.

“I tried…” Eda finally says after a long moment of quiet, normally Eda couldn’t give a flying fig about most people’s feelings, but she thinks that she understands Camila, and Camila must understand her, at least in this, otherwise why the hell would she come out here? Like her, she’d kill or die for Luz, for her kid, the same kid as Camila would. “Tried not to get attached to the kid, but she’s damn good at worming her way into your heart…,” she huffs with a rueful grin and Camila can only agree with that. “Told her I could never replace you, and I didn’t wanna try, and I’m not and I didn’t,” she leaned her head back against the house. “But Luz… filled this emptiness in my life I didn’t even know I had. Made every day better just by being around, I love that kid, and man do I wish she wasn’t going… even if it's just next door…,” she sighed.

Camila thinks hard about that, and she can just tell that Eda means it, loves Luz as much as she does, and while it still stings some, it lessens the pain by miles. What Luz said is true, no one tried or did take her place, and while Eda got the last six years, she didn’t get the first fourteen, that's something that can’t ever be taken away from her, and the rest of her daughter’s life is still stretched out in front of them, both of them.

“I suppose... we’ll both have to learn to deal with it as she keeps growing up…,” Camila finally says and Eda hums.

“Damn kids and growing up…,” Eda grumbled, frowning, and despite her still unsure feelings about her, Camila can’t help but chuckle at that. That’s a sentiment she can agree with. After a while, they both go back inside and everyone looks up.

“Mami? Where did you go?” Luz asks her mother as she walks back into the kitchen with Eda.

“I was talking to Eda,” she says simply.

“Did we miss dessert?” Eda sits back in her seat next to Luz.

“Um, no.” Amity shakes her head, uncertain about what has gone on.

“Good, I wanna enjoy every meal we have with you brats before you go,” Eda says.

“So, you’re… okay, with us moving out?” Luz asks cautiously and Eda sighs before smiling at her and wrapping an arm around her shoulders.

“Yeah, Kid. As you said, you aren’t going far, we’ll see you all the time!” She grins and the whole kitchen relaxes.

“And perhaps the two of us can finally sleep through the night again without being… awoken,” Lilith smirked as Luz and Amity turned red and the twins burst into choking laughter. Gus and Willow tried to hide their laughter behind their hands, but Viney wasn’t so inclined and slapped her leg, bent over wheezing.

Camila couldn’t help but snort behind her hand at that, that was something she was glad to have missed over the last few years.

Dinner continued on at a much lighter tone before it was time for Luz to take Camila back.

“So, what did you think of everyone?” Luz asks as they walk down the street to her childhood home.

“They were all lovely, Mija.” Camila smiled at her daughter who visibly relaxed. “It’s easy to see why you want to stay. Them and Amity.”

“Yeah… I wish you could be closer too though,” Luz tells her and Camila smiles, she knows she means it too.

“Maybe I’ll take some time off work and come stay for a few days when you have time and you can show me around, Eda wanted to show me some shop in this ‘Bonesburrough’ as well she said I would be interested in.”

“Eda did?” Luz questions, blinking at that and Camilla nods as they stop on the front porch.

“I’m glad you had her all this time, Mija.” Camila finally tells her and Luz smiles.

“Yeah, me too. I never stopped missing you though.” Luz tells her and Camila nods as she wraps her daughter in a tight hug.

“I know, Luz. Te quiero, bebe.”

“Yo también te quiero, Mami.”

Luz heads back to the demon world and finds Amity waiting for her, leaning against the side of the house.

“What are you doing out here?” she questions with a grin.

“Willow is helping Lilith with her plant and my brother and sister are still being annoying, but now Eda and Lilith are making fun of us with them,” she grumbled, rolling her eyes.

“That sounds about right.” Luz chuckled, walking over to give her a quick kiss. “Good thing you’re here though, we have a matter to settle.” Luz grins and Amity blinks.

“We do?”

Luz nods and crosses her arms, looking at Amity challengingly.

“So, mi amor… did you figure out where I wanted to have the wedding?” Luz asks with a sly grin and Amity’s insides fill with ice. She had completely forgotten about their wager!

“Fuck!” she suddenly shouts and Luz blinks at her before bursting out laughing, tears forming in the corners of her eyes as Amity scowls. “You forgot, didn’t you?!” Luz laughs, clutching her stomach.

Amity covers her face with her hands, cursing to herself. She had totally forgotten.

“You know what that means don’t you?” Luz chuckles, wiping at her tears. “You get to marry a werewolf on Halloween under a blue moon…,” she sings, hopping up and down excitedly.

Amity groaned loudly into her hands.

Luz’s grin softened into a smile. As much as she’d like to win this little wager, and absolutely will collect if she does, she still can’t stand the idea of making Amity suffer through it without at least giving her a chance. She takes both her hands and gently pulls them away from her face.

“Ya know, Amor... tonight did get kinda crazy… how bout this, I’ll give you one guess right now, to try and figure it out, and if you guess right, no costume wedding, but you forfeit your prize, sound good to you?” Luz cocks her head.

There’s no way for her to win now, so the best Amity can hope for is to avoid the costume disaster that is looking to be their looming nuptials and break even.

“Okay, yes.” she nods quickly, and Luz chuckles

“So, Amity Blight! Where in The Boiling Isles would I like to become your wife?” She grins, and despite the desperateness on her part in this situation, Amity’s heart flutters wildly in her chest at Luz’s words. She does her best to stomp it down, she can be head over heels in love with Luz when she’s out of danger of marrying a werewolf in front of their closest friends and family on Halloween night.

“I…” she stalls brain quickly thinking back to all the places on the Isles they’ve been that are outside and would mean enough to Luz for her to want them to get married there. There are many, all for varying reasons but none that immediately stick her as being the perfect place.

She then spots Willow and Gus leaving the house, a sad, dying plant held in Willow’s hands. It’s once bright pink petals are wilted and dry, and the first thing that pops into her mind comes out of her mouth.

“Th- the grom tree!?” she guesses and Luz’s eyes widen as she stares back at her for a few long seconds and Amity bites her lip.

“Damn, you’re good!” Luz finally breaks into a grin and Amity blinks.

“Really? You want to get married under the grom tree?” she asks, and now that she’s said it aloud, of course that’s where Luz would want to get married.

“Yeah!” She smiled. “This probably sounds super corny,” she chuckled, scratching her cheek with a finger. “but I just thought… that was the first place we danced together and then it was where we said ‘I love you’ the first time… so I guess it just seemed… poetic, in a way, that we make this promise to each other there, where things kinda started and where we’ll be starting the rest of our lives together and all…” She’s blushing. It definitely sounds overly corny now that she says it out loud.

She looks up at Amity and blinks. Her fiancée is staring at her with wide gold eyes and an expression of awe on her face that makes her cheeks darken further.

“So…,” before she can think of anything else to say Amity’s arms wrap around her neck and she kisses her; hard.

She’s breathless when Amity finally sees fit to let her breathe again and releases her lips.

“Titan, I love you.” Are the first words out of her mouth when she’s caught her breath.

“You… like the idea?” Luz asks, a grin starting to pull at her lips.

“I love that idea.” Amity nods, squeezing her.

“Great, let’s go tell everyone!”

They go back inside to break the news to the rest of their family about where they'll be getting married in a little over four months from now.

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