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Lorenzo blinked as Bryce spoke to him in Italian before breaking out into a broad grin and laughing. "Yes! I like him very much. Where did you learn such wonderful Italian?" He asked the man curiously as he walked forward and gave the man a hug.

Betta just covered her mouth with her hand to keep from laughing as she smiled happily. She knew he would be just fine! She could tell that they were already warming up to him and by declaring him as the man she loved instead of her boyfriend let her Uncles know just how serious she was about all of this. She knew it would only help in the end. She wanted Bryce to stick around. Wanted this to be different.


Sare just grinned as she stole another kiss, content to rest on Iggy's back, her chin propped on his shoulder. "McDonald's is so very bad for you but so good." She said with a sigh as she brought her hand around to play with Iggy's hair.

Devin just took Nina's hand in his as she sat down next to him and gave her a smile. "I'm pretty sure they have food there she can eat. If anything, she can have some ice cream to eat before we can get to a place where we can find something for her."


((*blows out breath and claps hands together* All of the new people being introduced lately... okay! Let's do this! lol))


Kyler led them through to the package claim where there were four rather large men waiting for them. It was one of the Branagan's signature traits; their large size. All four of them had most definitely grown up since Antonia had seen them last. All of them were wearing tailored suits that fit them to a tee, obviously specially made to fit their large frames.

The shortest one was the oldest Tavis, but what he lacked in height, he made up for in a broader frame. The tallest was one of the middle children, Egan, and he stood at a solid 6'6".

The other middle child, Donovan, had his head leaning towards Egan as he whispered something to him and his brother laughed. Ciaran, the youngest, was checking something out on his smart phone, obviously still doing business even while over here in America. His face was solemn and it looked like he didn't laugh often.

"Well well, look who it is." Kyler mused as they walked up and the men looked to them and grinned all in a similar fashion.

"Well look who the cat dragged in. Been a while, Langstrom, hasn't it?" Tavis asked as he held his hand out and Kyler shook it firmly.

"That it has. Some quick introductions before we get heading out. Boys, this is my mate and fiancée, Kai Freedmon. Kai, this is the boys. The one with grey in his hair is Tavis, the two conspiring are Egan and Donovan, and the mute is Ciaran." He introduced them, leaving out Antonia for now.

Tavis scowled as he checked his hair, knowing that it wasn't grey. Egan and Donovan both turned and grinned at Kai.

"Well look at you, lass! Seems like your lad sure didn't waste any time making sure that you would stick around." Egan teased.

"Well why wouldn't he? If I had a mate that looked like you, I wouldn't want you to leave either." Donovan winked playfully at her.

((Tavis: https://charahub.com/character/104933/Tavis-Branagan
Donovan: https://charahub.com/character/104935/Donovan-Branagan
Egan: https://charahub.com/character/104936/Egan-Branagan
Ciaran: https://charahub.com/character/104937/Ciaran-Branagan
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Bryce chuckled, hugging the man back and stepped back beside Betta as he answered. "It was all a part of my studies. Latin, Italian, French, English, Gaelic.....was a pain when I was younger but its been useful as I've grown up." He admitted with a small shrug, retaking Betta's hand.


Nina smiled, "Sounds like a lunch date then..." She told them, giving Devin's hand a slight squeeze. "Goddess knows how many questions Erik will have for you...." she added, giving her cousin a knowing look.

"Oi.....Lily brought up Keegan didn't she...." he mused with a sigh, chuckling lightly as Nina nodded.


Antonia nearly blanched as she walked up and stood on Kai's other side. She physically contorted her closed lips to keep from speaking, her eyes darting between the boys. Damn they'd grown up....She rubbed her mouth to keep from laughing as Tavis scowled and checked his hair. Her eyes landed on Ciaran then who was involved in his phone. Yeah, he was definetly the one who d changed the most in her eyes. Unfortunately for the expecting couple she definetly was hard to miss even silent.

Kai chuckled, "Very nice to meet you...and what can I say you wolves work quick." She shrugged with a small smirk. Okay, she was going to have fun with them.
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Lorenzo whistled as he nodded his head in approval. "Studies are good! School is good. I always tried to get my bambina back into school, but she refuse! Went her own path, free as a bird she is." He said as Betta blushed before scowling.

"Zio..." She chastised him as he merely winked at her. Clapping his hands, he turned to Bryce.

"It is lunch time, si? Come! You must eat your fill! I will prepare it myself! We will all sit and eat and talk like family! I want to learn about my bambina's amore! You seem like a good boy." He said, and turned to go cook, leaving no room for argument.

Callum just shook his head with a chuckle. "He takes some getting used to, but it seems like you'll be around long enough to figure it out." He promised Bryce with a smile before nodding his head. "There's a back dining room where can eat in. Betta, why don't you go help Lorenzo and Bryce and I will set the table, si?" He asked as Betta nodded. She gave Bryce's hand a squeeze and kissed his cheek, kissed Callum's, then moved to go help her uncle in the kitchen.



Sare giggled as she kissed his cheek. "Don't sigh, you big baby. It's just a couple of questions about a dragon. How bad can it be?" She teased him with a grin.



As Lily and Erik were playing their game, they moved a lot around the playground. During one fantastical adventure where they had to journey through the forbidden forest to find a clue of the bugbears layer, they ended up passing a bench with an old woman sitting on it.

Just as they were passing her, Erik stumbled and dropped his shield. The older woman simply smiled and picked up the shield for him.

"You dropped this dear. You ought to be more careful." She scolded him as she handed it out. Erik had to rely on his nose as he moved his hand around until he had the shield back in his hand.

"Thank you." He told her kindly, not too keen on talking to strangers, but felt like it was the right thing to say. For some reason, her voice made his wolf sit up and cock it's head to the side. His gut was saying that something was very different at the moment.

"What a kind young man. Nobody remembers their manners anymore these days." She sighed before smiling over at Lily. "Well hello dear. Aren't you just a pretty little thing?" She asked and when she smiled over at Lily, the little girl would suddenly be filled with warm and happy feelings and an almost overwhelming feeling of safety. There was nothing that made her stand out too much. Her grey hair was pulled back into a chignon, and she wore black wool slacks with a silky grey blouse with long sleeves. The only thing odd about her was her blue eyes. The were the darkest of blues and had a spiked ring of gold in the center and they looked ageless.



Egan and Donovan grinned at Kai before looking over at Kyler.

"We like her." They told him simultaneously as Kyler groaned. At this point, Donovan then looked over at Antonia and grinned at her.

"Where is my manners?! Or Kyler's for not introducing us? I'm Donovan Branagan lass and it is more than my pleasure to meet you." He said. At this point, Ciaran looked up from his phone finally and over at the group. His eyes skimmed over Kai and Kyler before landing on Antonia. His head cocked to the side as he studied her, his nose flaring slightly. It looked like he wanted to say something, but he did nothing but sit there and stare at her and study her.
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Bryce chuckled lightly, not minding Lorenzo honestly. He nodded to lunch, but blanched slightly as Betta suddenly left him on his own. He looked to Callum, clapping his hands together. "So....I'll just follow your lead then...." he mused, following behind the older man amd let out a deep slow breath.

Lily giggled, thouroughly enjoying her time with Erik. She skidded to a stop, though, as they ran into the other women. She stayed behind Erik though as the woman adressed her, despite the overwhelming urge to trust the woman. "U mm....thanks?" She mused, her .accent pronounced. Her brain told her to leave and stay at the same time. "Sorry the botha you..." she added, wondering if Erik knew her.

Antonia gave a small smirk and before Kai could stop her she answered Donovan. "Antonia, lovie..." she said simply, not even trying to hide her accent. Of course...they knew her as Katherin. She felt Ciaran's gaze on her and laughed, a very memorable sound. Like windchimes. "Ciaran....say what's on ye mind, laddie, lest you bust." Kai very nearly facepalmed. So much for that.
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Callum simply laughed as he led Bryce into the back room where a small room filled with lots of natural light stood. It was cozy and obviously used a lot by the scuff marks on the floor and the state of the table there. "Calm down, kid. I'm not going to decapitate you or anything." He assured Bryce. "We're just setting a table. You place the knives here on this side of the plate like this with this fork next to it and the spoon here." He quickly showed Bryce how to do it. "So how did you two meet incidentally?" He asked curiously as he looked over at Betta's... well whatever he was. To be honest, he was a bit surprised. Bryce was nothing like her usual type, which would also explain the fact that Bryce would be the first one that she brought home figuratively speaking. Bryce was the only one of her men that they had ever met. That alone spoke highly of how Betta felt about this one. He was handsome enough, sure, but he was a bit on the awkward side. He seemed to have his head firmly attached to his shoulders and Callum thought that maybe this was a good idea. Betta needed something stable in her life.



"It's no bother at all dear. It's definitely a perk to my day. It's not often I get to talk to this generation of young folk." The woman smiled at her and winked playfully. As she winked it would mind Lily of a star twinkling up in the sky.

What the children wouldn't notice was that while they were sitting there talking to her, nobody else noticed the old woman. Only they could see her. It would seem to the others that they were talking to mid-air, so they would most likely assume that the two were pretending talking to somebody in their game.

"I have a question, if you two don't mind. It might seem a little odd, but you won't mind indulging in an older woman like me?"

"No ma'am." Erik answered politely as he shook his head.

"What a sweet child. I bet your mother is very proud of you." The woman said that as if she knew something that Erik didn't. "Anyways, I just wanted to know your favorite colors? Is that alright?" She asked with another smile and once more, both of them felt safe and protected, like a mother watching over them.



Ciaran just stared at her, but after her laugh and speech, all of the boys were now staring at her.

"I know you..." Ciaran trailed off and his voice had most definitely deepened since Antonia had heard it last, his voice low and gravelly with his Irish brogue.

"But we don't know an Antonia." Donovan pointed out.

"But we know a Katherin. Can't forget that laugh. Bloody Sheperd, is that you, Kat?!" Tavis demanded incredulously with wide gold eyes.

Well... so much anonymity, Kyler thought to himself as he watched the reunion, wondering how this would go.
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Bryce rubbed the back of his head awkwardly, "Sorry....give me a war room any day, sir, but this...this is new territory for me." He admitted with a slight chuckle, nodding and following the older man's example. "A friend and I came to visit some.other here...Kai Freedmon and Ignacious Kincaid? Anyway, Kyler brought me out with Ian and a few others. We ended up here which is how I met her. I'll admit I couldn't get her off my mind so...Came back a day or so later to ask her out and....well the rest is history I suppose." He explained with a small shrug, looking over to Callum with a small smile but one could see the obvious love in his eyes when he spoke of Betta.


Lily nodded, seeming to be a little more willing to go with it since Erik didn't seem scared. "Me favorite color is red, ma'am." She answered simply, figuring it was a harmless enough question. There was something...otherworldly about the woman but....magic didn't exsist here. Did it?


Antonia chuckled with a bright grin, eyes flashing gold briefly as her wunde form fought to get out. She cracked her neck a little to calm it before nodding, "In the flesh....well....so to speak. Goddess above he 'ave gotten old...." she teased them, looking to Ciaran then, "Surprised he even remember me. Such a we lad when I las saw ye. Get ye head out of ye phone and smile. Wouldn't kill ye. You two are still up to mischeif I see..." She added, looking to Donovan and Egan then. Finally her eyes rested on Tavis, "and look at ye. All grown up....thinking he ah important." She teased, a playful flash in her eyes.
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Callum sat there quietly as he listened to Bryce tell the tale from his point of view before looking over and seeing just how much the young man seemed to care for Betta. That certainly made him feel much better. He chuckled as he shook his head. "Ah young love." He sighed. "It truly is a wonderful feeling. Just do your best to not mess it up. As you can fully see, Betta is a very special young woman. I don't want her coming home utterly destroyed because you casually cast aside her love like it's nothing. I may not be a wolf, but I'm human. That's much worse because you'll never know what I do next. Wolves are creatures of habit and nature, you know exactly how they'll behave. I'm human and that's me unpredictable. Remember that." He said as casually as he was talking about the weather and flashed Bryce a smile.


"Red, such a vibrant and bold color. Passionate and fiery." The old woman mused with a kind smile. "What about you, dear boy?" She asked Erik as he thought about it.

"I like the sound of yellow! It sounds so... happy!" He said as she chuckled.

"Yes, yellow can be a happy color indeed." She agreed. "Now I'm not going to bother you two anymore. Go on and play. Thank you for indulging an old woman." She thanked them with another smile filled of warmth and security.

((Ah-ha! So that's what you're doing!))


There was lots of grinning and laughing (except from Ciaran who was still stony-faced) as they all lined up to give Antonia bear crushing hugs.

"And you haven't changed a bit, lass! But you have! Sheperd, I didn't even recognize you! What'd you do to yourself?! Looks good though." Tavis said as he pulled back from hugging her, a smile on his face.

"And don't expect a smile from Ciaran. The only one who can manage that is his wife. And that's if she promises him something naughty." Donovan winked as he walked up to give her a hug, picking her up off her feet. Ciaran just glared at his older brother, not seeming to find the statement as amusing or funny.

"And he is important. Da is gonna make him Alpha once he finally decides he's gonna step down. Not that he's looking forward to that or anything." Egan added as he finally got his turn to walk up and hug her, even twirling her around. It was obvious that they were all happy to see her.
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((Ughhhh I hate wating for phone interviews.....I hate phone interviews period!!))

Bryce nodded, finally feeling a bit more relaxed until Callum continued. Welp, there went that. Knots in the stomach were back....but it was paired with an odd sense of defensiveness at the thinly veiled threat. “Believe me, sir, you never have to worry about that. I make it my goal every day to make sure she's happy and know she's loved. As long as she'll have me I'll be by her side.” He assured him, slipping his jacket off and placing it on the back of one of the chairs. It left him in a simple but well fitted grey polo Betta had bought for him some time back. It also left his arms exposed which showcased the variety of markings which encased them. He found himself wanting to mention just how much they'd already been through in his world but something stopped him. Did Betta actually ever tell them he was royalty? Or even that he was from another plane? Oh this was really going to be an interesting lunch...


Lily smiled as she got approval for her choice in color, waving to the kind lady as she said her goodbyes. “Bye! Was lovely talkin te ye...Come on, Erik...” She urged with a small giggle, tugging lightly on his arm.

((Ohh care to share??))


Antonia laughed softly, answering all of their questions at once Egan had put her back down on her feet. “I'll explain the look and....well...everything else...when we get back te the mansion. As for Ciaran I guess all of those sweets I snuck ye when ye were a wee laddy were for naught. Not even givin me a small hint of a smile.” She teased the youngest, looking back to Tavin then, “Faolan's puttin ye in charge? Oi..that should be a sight te behold...”

Kai couldn't help but chuckle and look confused at the same time. Antonia was never this... well... genuinely happy to see anyone. She had a feeling the other woman had downplayed her time with the boys and the other pack. Antonia didn't create meaningful bonds with anyone. Even her relationship with Kai was rocky at times. “Alright....more reunion later. Ian's going to be wondering where you all are soon...” She said simply.
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((I've never had one! I don't really want one. I HATE talking on the phone with a passion! I'm currently trying to find how many ways I can distract myself from writing a paper lol))

Callum paused, not even looking at Bryce as he took time to listen to his words. Finally, he just nodded. "Good." Was all he told him as he finally looked over at him. That was when he noticed the markings. How unsual...

"Those are certainly not tattoos." He said, proving that he was very observant. That was not ink in his skin, there was a sheen the markings had that permanent ink simply did not.


((The Sheperd is NOT happy that little kids could possibly be targets in this coming up issue with Nina's cousin. Besides being nosy, she is a very maternal deity and kids are very sacred to her. So, after getting Incendi's permission for Lily (She's apparently very polite when it comes to other deities followers, she's going to make some charms for Erik and Lily to help protect them!))


Ciaran, despite his usual temperament actually gave her a small, ghost of a smile once she mentioned sneaking him sweets as a child.

"Oh, I'm not exactly thrilled about it. I am not leader material. I'm too lazy to want to put up with the effort that comes with it." Tavis said as he made a face at Antonia's words.

"Too bad da isn't here to see you! You just might put him into an early grave, but he'd be happy to see you again." Donovan said as he hooked his arm through hers with a broad grin. "Come along, lass! There's much we need to catch up on and we can do so as we walk. Everybody went and got families now except for me. Tavis has two hellions of his own and Egan's got one on the way." He started up a happy stream of chatter as he led her towards the door, Kyler taking Kai and following them as the other boys followed behind them.

"Eh, Johnston can wait. He understands that we're social creatures. And in a new area so to speak. Gotta sniff everything out." Egan winked playfully at Kai as he suddenly looked down at his watch. And in three... two... one...

Suddenly there was an ear piercing shriek behind them as the water fountain nearby exploded much like a volcano would and water sprayed everywhere, but specifically at one particular lady working at the airport and effectively soaking her.

((Hehehe, Betta has a lot of explaining to do. xD She didn't really go into just how important Bryce is in the other world. lol She was kind of working up to that.))
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((This will be my third...it doesn't get any better honestly lol. Ahhh papers...I start school in a week...meh. Lmao))

Bryce blinked but gave the man a small nod and a smile. “You'd be right about that. They're markings. They're....well a part of me I suppose you could say. Grown as I've grown. All Guardians have them. Warriors and leaders especially.” He said simply with a small shrug, knowing this could very possibly lead to a very involved conversation.


((Ahhhhhh.....Incendi shouldn't have a problem with it since she's not a fan of Griffith's family as a whole.))


“Hah! I got a smile!” Antonia chuckled, taking Donovan's arm contently. “Yeah, he left 'fore I came in. Goddess its been, what, ten years?” She shrugged, “Oh goddess ye all are reproducing...Ye betta have pictures to show me.” She teased them, looking up at Donovan with an amused smirk. “Why doesn't it surprise me ye ah the only one not hitched?” She added, rolling her eyes as she heard the screech. “Oi....what did ye two demons do....?” She asked, immediately looking to Egan and Donovan with a knowing eyebrows raised.

((Oh geeze....lmao))
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