Reunions~ADJC~

[Amaya Smith]

(ooc. the fab four are reunited. may all who live quake in fear.)

Elly had helped her mother up the steps into the house. Amaya was still incredibly skinny after all those years in that hellhole. But the house was more or less intact, not an easy feat with those six kids running around. And it sounds like she would still know her way around.

From Elly's description of Dante's work schedule, Amaya knew he would not be home for awhile. So she decided to go into the bedroom they had shared for a very long time together and take a nap.

And she must have slept a lot longer than was expected, because the next thing she knew, someone was holding a frying pan over her head and was shouting that this was not a church and that you can't just walk into people's houses and sleep in their beds and that this is the Captain of the Guard and that he'll cart her off to prison.

She sat up and looked at him.

"Well, at the time your salary was shit, so I'm pretty sure that since this house was paid for with my money, it's actually my house." Amaya said.

And that was a fact that so very few people knew. After all, even though it wasn't a real wound to his pride that his wife had bought the house and not him (His salary really did suck back then and he had previously had no concept of saving), it was really just something that wasn't brought up. Wasn't any one else's business.

"Ama?" Came the weak whisper. She stood up and wrapped her arms around him.

"The kids had a mission to set loose hell upon some Rassi prisons. They found me there." She whispered.

He wrapped his arms around her tightly.

"After all these years. I..I can't believe it. I've missed you so much, you know that?"

"Darlin', there'll be time for all that later." Was her reply before they kissed.

(ooc. I'm going to double post here. The reason is that I really don't feel like making separate threads for all of the reunions, so this post hsould be considered a completely different thread than the posts that will follow. Thank you, and good night/day/morning/dance party.)

[Amaya Smith]

Amaya had been back a week and as she had specifically requested that news of her arrival not be given to anyone, even Jay, she was expecting this to be a surprise. She had needed the week with her husband though. Seven years was too long to be separated. He had informed her that the address of her best friend was indeed the same as before she left.

So she went a-knockin' there, not sure what she would find and actually, a little bit scared. Jay was the one person who knew her inside and out and seven years is a very very very long time to be apart. She wasn't sure how Jay would react and Amaya was in no shape for a sparring match. A quick knife evasion, sure. She might be able to manage that. A sparring match? Just one look at her would say otherwise.

[Jaysn Forrest-Allen]

Jay was in the kitchen when a knock came at the door, and was not followed with some random kid crashing in and asking for advice, she was a little surprised. She went up and answered the door.

She blinked, and in that blink she had a knife to the person's throat and them up against a wall, and then just glared.

[Amaya Smith]

"Hi." Amaya said. "Well, you haven't held me at knife point since you were pregnant with May, so I'm going to guess that you're pretty mad at me. Is it because I'm still more adorable than you?"

Amaya wasn't really sure what she was supposed to say when she hadn't seen her best friend in seven years, and said best friend was holding her at knife point. So she just went with whatever. Plus, that was something that only she and Jay would know about. So there was that.

[Jaysn Forrest-Allen]

Jay grinned and squeezed the life out of her best friend.

"You need food. Come!" she said and dragged her into the house. "Whatchya want? I won't take nothing as an answer."

[Amaya Smith]

Well, Jay was apparently in a good mood. Amaya had no clue why though....

"Ummm...I dunno, whatever you've got on the stove or fresh outta it would be geat." Amaya said. She was constantly being fed at home. She was pretty sure the only reason that she was able to get over to Jay's and out of Dante's sight was because he was currently passed out in a food coma.

Yeah...It'd been a great week to be fed at the Smith house.

[Jaysn Forrest-Allen]

Jay smiled, and started to throw things together.

"Sit. Tell me what you wanna hear about. And how was your week with Dante?" Jay said with a wink. It was a guess, but Jay knew those two, she was most likely right...

[Amaya Smith]

"He won't stop feeding me!" Amaya complained. "And he's made the doctor check in on me three times! They had to break my ribs five days ago to reset them properly. I couldn't move from bed for a few days after that and they still hurt like hell, but I wanted to see you, so I'm sucking it up. So whatever you're thinking, get it out of your head. I've spent the last few days in bed, getting fed and told by a doctor what to do. Which....I'll be honest, I'm not going to complain about. That's pretty much heaven. But...the ribs thing kinda sucked."

She was quiet for a moment.

"I'm...I'm just glad to be a home. A huge, huge part of me says that I'm not. That this is just some starvation and dehydration induced hallucination coming up before I finally kick it. But, I'm glad to be home." She said.

She looked at Jay.

"I've been gone seven years Jay. My babies grew up without me. Tell me everything."

[Jaysn Forrest-Allen]

Jay smiled and poured her friend a glass and appeared to spike it.

She leaned over pinched her friend and gave her the glass.

"Where do you want me to start?"

[Amaya Smith]

"At the beginning." Amaya said, taking a sip of her drink. "Start at the beginning, seven years ago, and work forward to now? I know it's a lot, so just fill me in on what I should know, the things that you know no one else would tell me and then we work from there?"

[Jaysn Forrest-Allen]

Jay nodded and started talking.

It took hours to fill her in on everything, with occasional comments and questions from Amaya. She told her it all though, from the silly shows the kids put on to the occasional fights, to the broken pinky and arrow in one of the guy's legs (it was a really bad idea to piss off May and Elly at the same time), to the recent marriages and all of the kid's flames, and what each of them had become interested in, not that she could actually truely explain what Gabe liked...she didn't really understand it herself.

When she finished she said, "So that's all of it, I think."

[Amaya Smith]

Amaya walked over to her friend and kissed her cheek and hugged her.

"Thank you. So much." She said, knowing that she wished there were actual words to thank her friend more appropriately with, but there weren't. "I should go. You should bring the family over later. It'll be good to see everyone."

[Jaysn Forrest-Allen]

Jay nodded.

"Of course." She smiled and hugged her friend tight.

[Amaya Smith]

Amaya left, to go home. Home. Well hell, there's a word she hadn't used in awhile.