The Perk, Monday morning

[glacial_queen]

After getting Hannibal's message about having a new child show up on the island, Karla had wasted no time chartering a portal to get to Fandom. Portalocity, however, had managed to waste plenty of her time, accidentally sending her through a portal with both a half-day layover and the wrong destination. While the dimension of blue had a very lovely

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[b_town_girls]

As it turned out, caffeine was an obsession that Rain shared with her mother.

"Baron Samedi is your guidance counselor?!" Leda was signing incredulously as the pair entered.

Rain shrugged. "He stuck around after the career fair. I think he's still hoping to get us all to become undertakers. 'It's de only business guaranteed not to go out o' business'." she quoted, somehow managing to get her gloves to sound like the guy from the Allstate commercials.

"Rrrrrright. Nice to see I found a properly weird school to send you to. Sila's having to do it the hard way, going to other dimensions instead of having them come to her."

Ah, there was Karla.

"Hello! your Majesty!" Leda grinned.

"Hi Aunt Karla!" Rain grinned as well, just managing to restrain herself from calling her 'Aunt Mom's Ex'.

[glacial_queen]

Karla would have to give Rain a disappointed glance at that. Karla was far more than just 'Leda's ex.' She was a savior of Faerie, dammit!

"Well, hello back Your Majesty!" Karla said, waving Leda and her daughter over. "Well, well, who do we have here visiting this year?"

[b_town_girls]

Ah, but Rain had known about the Savior of Faerie thing for quite a while. But somehow Leda and Karla's romantic past had never come up until this weekend. So that was what was fresh in her mind.

"Karla, this is my Daughter from someday in the future, Rain."

"Pleased to meet you, or, see you again I suppose." Rain laughed. "Because I saw grown up you about two months ago, and talked to you you last year. Yay time travel!"

[glacial_queen]

Pffft, Leda should clearly gossip with her daughter more!

"Oh yes, I remember darling," Karla said, holding her face up for a kiss. "You and your wonderful gloves! Is this the first time you're meeting her, though, Leda?"

[b_town_girls]

Rain agreed. She didn't know if it'd ever have changed how she viewed her Aunt Karla, but she felt that it was vital information. (Just wait till she finds out which of her other aunts Leda also dated.)

Rain kissed Karla on the cheek, and hugged her.

"First time in person." Leda nodded. "She called me last year as well as you and Momo. This year I wasn't gonna let the opportunity slip by."

"Mom practically tackled hugged me right out of the portal." Rain giggled. "You'd think I'd be used to it by now."

It was only fair, Rain tended to do that to her mom and dad a lot.

[glacial_queen]

"Tackle-hugs are a sign of love and affection," Karla declared, sticking up for Leda. "Everyone knows that. And if your proper!timeline mother doesn't do that, then let me know and I'll go kick her in the ankle and remind her that she swore not to go all stuffy High Elf on me."

[b_town_girls]

"Mom glamours herself invisible and sneaks up on me just so she can pick the most embarrassing surprising times to tackle hug me." Rain assured her. It was revenge for all the times wee-tiny Rain had stealth tackle hugged Leda during inopportune moments.

"Use, glamour and tackle hugs to embarrass, daughter." Leda mimed writing this down.

[glacial_queen]

"She picked that up from me in high school and don't ever let her tell you different," Karla said. "Sight shields were great for pranks."

[b_town_girls]

"Air walking too." Leda nodded. "I learned that one from Karla too. With some technique from Momo."

Rain's favorite use for air walking was for scare pranks. Hovering outside someone's window glamoured as a banshee or something was great fun if you were in a sadistic mood. They had Mab to thank for that one.

"I like air skating." Rain nodded. Eccentric uses for magic was one of her hobbies.

[glacial_queen]

"That was one of my favorite parts of Fandom," Karla said with a fond smile for Leda. "Experimenting with Craft to see what would work with other kinds of magic and what wouldn't."

[b_town_girls]

Rain found herself starting to wonder just what kind of experimenting they'd been doing, and mentally backed away from that line of thought. Eww, parents love-lives!

"And maybe how magic and technology could work together?" Rain asked.

Which didn't help Leda, who was glad her daughter wasn't looking at her when she burst into giggles. Her mind had gone to a dirty place too.

[glacial_queen]

Karla was also snickering into her coffee. Put them on the island together and suddenly they were fifteen again.

"Sure," she said, nodding at Rain. "Let's go with that."

[b_town_girls]

Later, Rain would be very amused to have seen her mother being so immature. (It wasn't that Leda never acted like this in the future, just that Rain had managed to be oblivious to it) At the moment however...

"Not dirty!" Rain insisted, mortified. Somehow it'd never occurred to her that the way she often joked with her friends was something she'd inherited from her mother. It had taken her a moment to realize how her comment about magic and technology could be taken wrong, but once she did...

"I meant like mom's ray gun or getting Facebook and Netflix on a scrying mirror."