Las Vegas, Thursday Night

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While the April Fool's Dance had been enjoyable, in retrospect Isabel wasn't surprised that the island decided to play a giant prank of it's own.

Ordinarily that wouldn't be a problem. After five years, both she and Wyatt had a routine for dealing with Fandom weirdness. Facepalm a lot on Monday morning, talk it out, and then life moved on. Except this time life got in the way. An early class meant they couldn't talk that first morning. Then there had been work, and papers to write, and a few demons that just refused to be vanquished in timely manner.

Isabel understood why Wyatt didn't want to leave Chris handle the situation on his own, but she reserved the right to be a bit cranky both about unresolved issues and about spending her birthday alone.

[Open! SPish till about 8.]

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Wyatt hadn't bothered to stop home and shower before orbing to Vegas, so he had more than a little dirt and green goo on him when he orbed into Isabel's apartment. "Happy birthday, babe," he said with a grin.

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Setting aside the container of Ben & Jerry's she'd been consoling herself with, Isabel smiled. "You're here! Best birthday gift ever. The demon's are vanquished?"

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"Messily, as always," Wyatt grumbled, glaring at the splatter of demon blood on his shirt. Dammit, he'd liked that shirt.

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So did Isabel. Fortunately she could probably fix it. "It's their final bit of revenge. Look on the bright side, at least it doesn't smell?"

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"You say that now," Wyatt said, grabbing hold of her and pulling her into his arms. Here, Isabel, have some demon goo.

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Isabel squeaked and halfheartedly tried to fight free before finally relaxing into Wyatt's arms. "Gross. Suddenly doing laundry has jumped up on tomorrow's to-do list." She sighed, looking extremely put-upon. "I suppose I'm going to have to join you in that shower I was going to suggest you take."

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"I see you've discovered my cunning plan," Wyatt said, waggling his eyebrows.

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"Your plan is about as subtle as a two by four," Isabel observed. "But since it has been a very long ten days, I'm thinking it's an utterly brilliant plan."

Tapping her finger against his chest, and the frowning in dismay at the goo that covered it, she continued. "How about a shower, some dinner and then some quality snuggle time?"

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"Yeah, sorry about dripping all over the carpet," Wyatt said, having the decency to finally look shamefaced at that. "I just didn't want to waste any time with it being your birthday and all. But that sounds great."

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"Just be glad I've got mad alien cleaning skillz," she told Wyatt as she pulled him towards the bathroom. "I'll take care of the rug and the laundry in the morning. But for now I've got other things on my mind."

Sometime later, after they'd touched on some of those things (and gotten very clean and possibly kind of pruney in the process) they wound up curled up on the living room couch sharing containers of take-out Chinese food.

"I have to say, this birthday has improved tremendously in the last hour or two."

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"Sorry I couldn't make it earlier," Wyatt said around a mouthful of noodles. "Scavenger demons are a pain in the ass."

He scooted closer and put his arm around her shoulders. "But I'm glad I made it back in time."

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"S'okay. I get it," she said, snuggling into his side. "What you do is important. Sometimes it means sacrifices. I'm okay with that. But I'm even more okay that we didn't have to sacrifice tonight."

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"Tonight's special," Wyatt said, nuzzling the top of her head. He held out a hand and orbed her present (well, part of it) over to him. "Happy birthday," he said, handing it to her.

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Judging by Isabel's reaction, he'd given her diamonds. "Oh excellent! My stash was running low. Thank you!"

Wyatt's company and chili dark chocolate. What more could a girl ask for?

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"I know the way to your heart," Wyatt said with a laugh. "But I also got you this."

He handed her a small wrapped wrapped box.

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"How can you possibly top chocolate?" she teased as she carefully unwrapped and opened the box.

Oh...that was how.

Smiling just as brightly as the necklace, Isabel leaned in for a kiss. "It's beautiful. I love it."

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"Love you," Wyatt said, kissing her. "I almost lost that fighting the demons. You would've laughed at how I panicked."

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It was all too easy to picture Wyatt panicking while Chris waited impatiently to vanquish the demons, so yes, kisses were going to be interrupted by snickers for a moment or two. At least she looked a little sheepish at the laughter. "Sorry, but picturing that is pretty funny."

"And speaking of pictures, you need to see the one Anakin sent me. From the reunion. He didn't change, the lucky bastard."

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"We have photographic evidence of my virility and you being as big as a house?" Wyatt grinned, fully appreciating the chance to get back at her for that laughing. "This I have to see."

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"Big as a house?" Isabel repeated, eyebrow raised. "Mother of your children here!!! I demand the appropriate honors or I'll get Ronan to work a spell that'll have you be the one with an eight pound basketball sitting on your bladder."

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"I'd laugh," Wyatt said, "but that did happen to my parents."

And he'd been the one who did it. Which mean Victoria or her brother probably could, too.

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"Then I'd be very, very afraid. Trust me, tiny feet shoved up into your rib cage are no fun." Except Isabel couldn't help remembering how content and happy she'd felt with Wyatt's hands resting on her belly as the baby moved, and how she wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

"I can't believe we're going to do it twice."

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"No doubt Miss Victoria was very persuasive in her wishes to have a little brother or sister," Wyatt said. "We can only hope the world is big enough to handle two alien-witch-whitelighter combos."

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"Forget the world, I'm kind of worried about us," she snickered. "I have this vague memory of panicking because she orbed off to the zoo to see the lemurs without us."

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"It's only going to get worse," Wyatt said with a groan. "I used to orb Chris around when he was a baby when I thought he was getting more attention than me."

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"We're so doomed."

Relaxing back against Wyatt's shoulder, Isabel wondered if she bring up the conversation that her older self had had with Parker. Of course then she wondered if things would change just because she now knew about what was going to happen. For the first time in a long time she let herself miss Jack and his input on all things time related.

"How much do you remember of our lives then? Not just what happened on the weekend, but the twenty years before it?"

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"It's all kind of blurry," Wyatt admitted, wrapping his arms around her. "I just remember little bits and pieces, I guess."

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"All good stuff?"

It was a perfectly innocent question and didn't at all imply that she remembered bad things. Except she did.

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Wyatt shrugged a little. "Or maybe I'm choosing not to think too hard on bad things that aren't going to happen."

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"That's probably the better way of looking at it," Isabel agreed. "So not happening. Because wow, nobody could be that dumb."

She'd tried to give her future self the benefit of the doubt, but couldn't get past the point of what the fuck where you thinking?

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"How much of it do you remember?" Wyatt had to ask.

On the plus side, he hadn't turned evil in that future, at least?

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"Enough to know I was an idiot," she admitted honestly. Which was her first step in making sure that particular bit of the future didn't come to pass. She was going to be honest and talk about her fears.

Which was worse? Evil or stupid? At least if you were evil you could repent. There's no cure for stupidity.

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But someone could learn to overcome stupidity. Eventually. If they weren't stubborn and, well, stupid.

"Well, I wasn't too bright, either," Wyatt said. He'd let her go too easily.

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Way too easily. Although Isabel was doing a pretty good job of beating herself up over it so she wasn't getting off completely.

"You were blindsided and hurt. You had every right to be upset."

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"Yeah, but some things are more important than my bruised ego," Wyatt said, squeezing her tighter.

One or two things. Not much.

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"Not many," she said, shifting her arms to do a little squeezing of her own. "But I guess my family is one of them."

Which meant at some point they were going to have to make sure they were protected. "Too many years of being worried I guess."

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"Your family isn't even in the same world as the demons in mine," Wyatt said. "I don't even know how a demon could've found them. But I promise it's not going to happen in this timeline."

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"I don't think there's a rule that says demons always have to be dumb." Even though a vast majority of the ones Wyatt had told her about did seem to be a bit on the dim side. "I mean look at Bel. Bacon addiction aside, he's pretty smart."

Isabel was just going to ignore his whole turn Angel evil phase.

"I know you'll do what you can to protect them. That's all I need to know."

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Wyatt snorted at the mention of Bel; he wasn't entirely inclined to believe that. Fortunately he hadn't been around for said Turn Angel Evil phase, so he didn't have specific examples.

"I'll check out the Book of Shadows, see if I can find a spell to protect them or obfuscate them, or at least give us some warning if something were to happen," he said. If he just remembered who or what kind of demon, that'd make life easier.

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Somewhere, tucked in a drawer, Isabel still had pictures of a photoshoot after an inadvertent body swap. Someday during a cleaning binge, Wyatt might just get to see one of those specific examples.

"That's a good plan. And I'll let them know. Just so they can keep their eyes open."

Life would be easier if they knew the demon. A nice proactive vanquishing and a lot of worries would go away.

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Wyatt would be on his way back to San Francisco to vanquish said demon's ass if he knew who it was, oh yes.

"They're practically my family, too," he said. "I'm not gonna let anything happen to them."

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He'd have blonde company, no if, ands or buts about it.

"Not practically. They are family. It's just a matter of making it official at some point," Isabel smiled, feeling more content then she had in days.