It turns out that not only was the day somewhat crazy for everyone, the night itself will also be chaos.
One minute Meghan was sleeping, the next she was woken from her rest with the force of a screaming siren. Trying to get her bearings doesn't do anything.
Casimir is the first one in the door. “Grandma, there was a noise- Grandma?!”
Dustin and Jyo does NOT want Casimir having to witness something like this. She was only a teenager when their uncle Eugene passed away and it was not a fond memory, she had avoided the part of the old house that he died in ever afterwards. Caz is too young to see something like this. Jyo doesn't want to see something like this.
Dustin doesn't want her to see it... ya'll are cute.
“Grandma!? You can't leave, you're my best friend!”
It's true, Caz and Meg are like this. He has no higher relationship with anyone.
While Meghan is busy dying in her bedroom, Leila's ghost drifts into the cool air and outside of the science building as the researchers there were unable to keep her in the building. They had reported the failure to revive her precious puppy Leila to Jyo, but had failed to explain what they did not know themselves, that Leila was now tied to family in a more permanent way.
Leila knows where she belongs.
Looking somewhat hilarious, her spirit floats towards home.
At home, Grimm shows up.
“Could you not take her... we got along well, right, you find us amusing?” Dustin tries to negotiate but it comes out hollow because his voice is shaking.
Something like a rumbly chuckle comes out from under the black hood.
Meg flips through several personalities before she is reaped.
And one of them, somewhat predictably, remembers to present this.
Grim laughs, in a booming rumble.
...and slips into the carpet as if he was never there to begin with.
Meghan, Andrea, or whoever this is right now, did not like the feeling of being pulled away from her family.
“Why the drama, why the futility of pleading with you? Why am I still wearing this stupid outfit?”
There are no answers.
Gabby feels like she's the one who chased him away. Great work, dog!
Meghan's personalities flips right back into Meghan after a crisis, for probably the first time ever. “Welp, that was exhausting.”
“Go back to bed, everyone.”
Everyone: “...”
Jyoti cannot believe her mother's casual attitude. “But mom, it's still too sad...”
To lose Leila, to find Malcolm, to lose and gain her mother and for Leila's body to not be recovered but the science labs thought her beloved pet also has been unable to move on... there are too many emotions to process all in one night.
Her mom focuses on comforting her dad and Jyo decides to leave them alone. She walks away slowly, noticing that the kids actually listened and went back to bed.
“You are an awful tease.” Dustin tells his wife. “but you came back... how did you know I couldn't stand to lose you for a single second?”
“You should know by now Mister Sparrow, that I will only willingly be wherever it is that you are.”
“Aww.” He can't think of anything funny to say to that.
Meanwhile, down in the kitchen...
Good luck with that.
“I still have my six pack, if were to be drinking too much, it would effect my stomach and I couldn't still be so cut.”
Keep telling yourself that. Just don't let your plane fall out of the sky in the morning.
“Roger.”
xD
...of course.
Despite his words, Dustin has an uneasy feeling as he watches Meg scan the flower he kept at their bedside. It's a losing game, staying alive by bribing the reaper. One of them has to go for good sooner or later. He gets the feeling that it'll have to be him, or Meghan will never relent. He didn't want to lose her of course, but something about overstaying doesn't sit well, either. He hasn't carried one of these for years, but he wasn't sure how to tell her about it. Whatever is next for them, he wants to move on to that one day, too.
Unbeknownst to her humans, Leila enjoys a long and meandering journey home. Everything must look different, living in two realities at once. She seems to be enjoying herself, as she can pass through things but also interact if she should so choose to.
After telling everyone else to settle down, Meghan can't do it herself.
There is a special by a scientist explaining how ghosts work. “Sometimes science cannot fully bring back the genetic composition of the ashes into a more corporeal form. This is why it's important to get to someone before the reaper arrives and changes them, reordering their form. It may be more efficient to negotiate, like in the case of a beloved pet, perhaps the smallest of all the members in a family, and yet there is evidence that for one of these, Grimm may change his mind. We need not fear becoming ghosts, but that doesn't mean that we have to go quietly into the night, either.”
Meg shivers. How apropos.
There seems like nothing to do with her feelings but get to work ensuring that her family will always be together.
Jyo doesn't sleep, even though she was out half the night and came home and drank until she should be exhausted, girl needs to get some supplements. Get some magnesium or something, goodness.
Across town, Leon, eldest son of Dustin's cousin Eugene (and Everet's older brother) has no idea that he is sitting right where the family ghost dog just slept on her long way home.
Leila gets distracted, hunting at the local fishing park.
Someone important is in this picture, we just don't know her yet. Leila's a good girl, giving us so many glimpses of the family's future lately.
It's like she knows I no longer have access to Creative Suite 6 :/ But hey, I made Paint work last time.. let's move on.
“I thought you had some of Loki's blood on display here, too. Could you clone him from that?”
Meg laughs. “Who wants two of that guy? No I put it away, it kind of creeped me out after a while. It felt like there was a part of his spirit in it, or something? Is that weird?”
“Of all the things you've said or done in your life, that's what you think would make you weird?”
“You know what? Yes. Yes you are. You are weird in a way I cannot fix and I love it.”
She grins. “I'm glad I get to stay here longer too.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Meg outside here carrying her own coffin like https://tenor.com/view/coffin-dance-coffin-dead-coffin-dance-dead-man-dead-gif-1795768380065876519
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