celia potter

“Celia, no,” Tess said, firmly, in her best mom voice, “It’s too cold.”

“Please, if you are going to sleep in there, take some extra blankets!” This was from Beth, who had already anticipated that Celia would, despite the protests from her sisters, continue to sleep in the sleeping porch.

“You will still freeze,” Blair added, smirking, crossing her arms.

Celia rolled her eyes at her sisters. “Guys, I’m fine. I’ve been fine.”

“It’s going to be even colder tonight,” Tess had warned.

Celia pretended not to hear. She loved her room. She loved that it had windows overlooking the mountains, the forest. She’d hung lights in the windows that lined two of the four walls. It was small (although not to Celia, who had once shared a room of that size with all four of her sisters), but it was comfortable and it was her’s. It was her favorite room in the house and she wasn’t going to let the weather force her into one of the other rooms during the winter months. She just put on a sweatshirt and some socks and she was fine.

It was around 2AM that night when she finally decided that she was not fine.

She hadn’t been able to fall asleep. She was too cold. Even underneath all of the blankets that Beth had dumped on her before she went to bed, she still felt it. If she wasn’t inches away from being an ice cube, she’d go downstairs and sleep on one of the sofas, but it was cold down there, too (although not nearly so cold as it was out on the sleeping porch) and so she swallowed her pride and walked over to Blair’s room; the light underneath the door signaling that she was still awake.

“I’m sleeping in here.” She said.

Blair smirked, “Couldn’t take it, huh?”

“Shut up.”

Blair, still smiling, inclined her head, motioning for Celia to get in. In a few moments, Celia was in bed beside her, snuggling down into the covers.

“Hey, you are hogging the blankets!” Blair said, pulling some away from her.

“I’m just … so cold.”

“You aren’t getting any sympathy from me,” Blair replied, laughing, but she loosened her grip on the covers, allowing for Celia to take some more. “In the morning, you are moving your stuff into the spare room.”

The Potter girls had traded in their small three room apartment for a house where they each had two rooms of their own, a kitchen, a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a library, four and a half baths, and extra two sunrooms. There was so much space here, Celia wondered if they might all slowly go insane.

If the quiet didn’t get to them first.

She’d left on her iPod and the light from her hanging lights gave the room a warm glow, but it was still too dark and it was still too quiet. She couldn’t sleep. She got her laptop.

Someone was at her door, fumbling with the old knob, and the next moment Blair was in her room. “There’s too much space in my room,” She said, “I’m sleeping in here.” It wasn’t a question.

Celia moved over and Blair climbed into bed next to her.

“Your feet are cold,” Blair said, throwing another blanket on the bed, “I don’t think you are supposed to sleep out on the sleeping porch in the middle of winter.” She grumbled.

“Shut up, I like it.”

Blair propped herself up on her shoulder and peered over to Celia’s laptop. “What are you doing?” She asked.

Celia shrugged, “Hacking Adam’s computer. Mainly just sending his google incognito history to everyone in his email. It’s mostly porn — but like hardcore american psycho shit.”

Blair raised an eyebrow, “You’re making my handiwork with his car look like child’s play.”

“It was,” Celia teased.

It was fun, messing with Adam even when they were three thousand miles away, but more than anything else, Celia wanted to make sure that he never got within ten feet of another woman again.

Blair was bored to tears.  Almost literally.  Only that afternoon, having gotten home from an awful (fruitless) job search, she’d sat on the front stoop.  She’d thought about her life - was this really her future?  There was nothing here, except snobs and hicks and they all thought something about them she didn’t like.  There was nothing to do, no…distractions.  And that always made her think about mom and dad.  That’s when she’d felt and salt brimming her eyes and, angrily, she’d dashed them away and stormed off again.  She’d only just arrived home again.

“Celia, I hate to break this to you,” she began with a mischievous smirk, knowing Celia was fully aware but taking the opportunity to tease.  “We really do live with a fifth person.  His name’s, like…Jeff or Joe or something.  He fixes things.”  Which came in handy for the others, because Blair’s favorite hobby was breaking things.  Hearts, fingers, cars…whatever.  “About yea high, easy on the eyes.  I’d set my cap at him, but tragically, he seems boring.”  With the swing in, well, full swing, Blair raised her legs and rested them against the railing (Tess would hate that, she considered with a growing grin).  

“Tell me about it!  That’s not the worst though.  It’s so quiet.  And dark.  Last night, I woke up cause of the quiet and…I swear to you, I couldn’t even see my hand in front of my face.  Can you imagine?  I went staggering and I literally knocked over my nightstand.”  Blair giggled.  “Actually fell, broke some old weird…decorative plates or something from Aunt Crazy.  Whoops.”  She arched an unfeeling brow and inspected her nails.  “It’s ridiculous.  When I pictured the future, it was definitely not this.  And what is that sound?…Are those crickets?”

Celia smirked, “The only problem is that they’d probably get lost trying to find the place. D’know some of these back roads don’t even street names? We’d probably have to give the cops vague directions like -- turn right at the black and white fence post, go past the cow in the road and it’s the yellow house with the red door -- but good luck see any of that in the dark.” 

“So, that’s who that tall guy is.” Celia said, “I honestly thought he was just some guy who was probably trying to fork another casserole off on us.” She paused, “That’s kinda weird, right? I mean, everyone in this whole town seems to feel the need to drop by and feed us. How many of those things do you think are poisoned?” She asked, with a grin. “... that started as a joke, but I’m not sure I’m kidding.” 

This town felt like something straight out of a horror movie: where everyone seemed so nice and happy but they were really cannibals or something. 

HAHAHAHAH I do feel like he spends most of his spare time fixing things, but he def doesn’t mind.  He likes being useful and if there are apples around, he’s more than happy anyway I s2g his needs are so small hahahahaha  Plus he’s like, “This is still the best deal I could possibly have, not gonna do anything to blow this.”

HAHAHAHAH omg he probs get bemused when they ask him things like, “What the ‘best’ x is,” and he’s just like, “Well, that’d def be y and that’s mostly bc it’s the only x in town.”  But if theirs isn’t good/there isn’t one in town, he can probs point them towards the closest one too ;DDDDD

It’d def mean alot to him that she’s cool w Jere/Tess bc he def wants her family to be comfortable w it if anything ever happens ofc but tbh he probs doesn’t think they would be that cool w it bc I feel like he doesn’t think he really deserves Tess and so he probs assumes her family thinks that too :(((

honestly jere asking celia about nyc is one of the best things he can do to get on her good side (as long as he’s like “that sounds amazing” vs “that sounds horrible” when she starts talking about it). she def lights up when she talks about home b/c yeah she misses it a lot. <3

anyway, i think that her initial reaction to her aunt is pretty mixed and like part of her does want to dislike her since she wasn’t around but it feels harder to hate her b/c she’s dead and she did leave them this house so ???? but yeah after talking w/ jere i think she’ll slowly come to love her aunt and wished that she knew her and yeah <333 idk why she was never part of their lives at all beforehand tho? i mean, obviously the distance, but i think that maybe she and their parents had a falling out at some point (possibly over something stupid idk???) but anyway, idk that she ever reached out to the girls b/c she didn’t know what their situation was like for one and she also assumed that they wouldn’t want to have anything to do w/ her b/c their parents didn’t either?? 

IT’S THE ONLY ONE OMG

celia: okay but what do you mean you only have one pizza place?????? also it sucks????? 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA tbh I do think Rosie would wanna help but she’d be like I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO SHOULD I EVEN TELL HER OR WOULD THAT BE WORSE??????  But I think she’d ultimately try to tell her and probs come off sounding crazy and internally be like, ‘no, it’s ok, you’re def not the first person to think i am’ but still be bummed she botched it.  I think Rosie was v effected by having a mom w powers so close by but who was never able to instruct her or anything and she doesn’t want anyone else to ever have to go through this alone like she did and tbh she just wants to help (bc I’m cruel I also think some of her first visions were of her mom’s disappearance but she did nothing bc she didn’t know she was foresighted and she’ll forever blame herself for not acting #goodtimes) so then she’ll freak out that she pushed Celia away instead of helping, if she reacts negatively and smh

THE TWO YOUNGEST W POWERS I DIDN’T REALIZE THAT NOOOOOO LIZZY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IM NOT OK

omg she probably doesn’t tbh!!! i feel like the other potters are like a three ring circus tbh like there’s tess who is being a total mom and asking all kinds of questions about their day/project/life/everything and then there’s beth who is probably baking them cookies and knitting them sweaters and then there’s blair being blair smh ;DDD I think that Celia would love talking to her about NY b/c while there are some improvements here (she will admit this) she misses it a LOT and basically it’s already on her mind like 24/7 so when people want to talk about it it makes her happy :D

HAHAHAH omg noooooo (but also yes) Celia will def think she’s a total psycho and tbh that would def botch whatever relationship she and allison have (idk that they are super close, but i feel like they are kinda friends and enjoy working with each other on projects and def laugh at mrs. ryan all the time). BUT rosie would legit be the first person she’d go to when she discovers her abilities and lkjalfjalfjlajflajlJALDKFJALFJ

Kicking off her shoes, Blair sank gratefully into the snugness of her plush chair.  “I was sure I was never going to like this house,” she commented, eyes searching the room.  A vast fireplace was situated across from them, over which sat a huge painting of a nineteenth century boy, wearing gold and a bold red sash.  Making a face at him, she let her head fall backwards under the bemused gaze of her younger sister.

“And what about now?” asked Celia, who was slung across the sofa with a book.

Blair didn’t respond at once, letting her eyes close.  “What’re you reading?” she asked, instead.

Celia smirked, casting her large eyes towards her sister.  “It’s not New York, I know,” she began.  “But it’s ours.  That’s something, right?”

Slowly, Blair raised her head, turning to look at Celia.  “You know what’s really great about this place?”

Celia raised her eyebrows in question.

“The abundance of down.”  With a small laugh, she chucked a large pillow at Celia.

“Two can play that game!” she responded, catching it and proceeding to plop down on it.

Snickering, Blair slid off her chair and onto the floor to rest near her sister.  “Less walking – that’s nice too.  No train overhead.  And a whole room all to myself.”

Omg both of these are flawless!!! And Rosie would def be that big sister who hangs out in the room while they study and only leaves to bring them things from the kitchen, when she’s not working????? #facepalm Tbh idk how helpful she is to the studying effort but she tries. Tbh I think Rosie gets half her customers through curiosity/boredom hahaha so I feel like she’s pr used to that. Do you think she’d get any kind of reading on Celia as powered or anything?

hahahahaha tbh celia def knows what that’s like (points to three older sisters back at home. tbh i feel like all of her sisters can be distracting -- in v different ways -- when she has ~study groups~ at the house ... or at least they were when they were in NY now celia could probs take them to one part of the house and no one would even know they were there ;DDD) anyway, maybe that’s how celia meets/hears about rosie (through allison that is) and i can see her thinking that that’s kinda a cool job (not that she believes it’s legit but how many people do that ??) and yeah can def see her hitting her up on a saturday or something

but oooohh! maybe she does??? and like idk how clear it is or if rosie picks up on it but is like “idk how to tell her this w/o sounding totally crazy???!!” like idk if she’d try to tell her or if she’d keep it to herself but i think that would be totally cool if she saw that celia was powered or whatever. 

Ok, so I feel like Jere basically moved into the apartment as soon as he turned 18 and could move out of his parents’ home.  I think his relationship with his family is…strained, but he always had a great relationship with their aunt and tbh I think he loved her like she was his own, yknow?  And I feel like he might’ve promised her that he’d look after her nieces, if they let him stay.

Anyway, they did, and he’s continuing the deal he had with their aunt: that he basically keep everything running smoothly (which at an old house like theirs basically is a full-time occupation tbqh I would know hahaha) and I think he really likes the girls and loves hearing about NYC and is really, really grateful that he got to stay bc tbh I think he basically has six bucks to his name tbh.  Like, he started out pr poor and then he was like, “Hey, I wanna do something to help ppl,” so he became a firefighter but that doesn’t pay ~that well and yeah hahahaha but he doesn’t mind.

but she also realizes that she really needs to be v nice to him b/c shit breaks a LOT in this house and like everyday it’s not “is everything okay?” but rather “what is broken today?” 

also i think he’s def her go to person when she has questions about how to get somewhere or where the best (probs only tbh) chinese place is or whatever. 

Jo will def bring them a plant and probs help along any plants on their property and just act weird bc she just acts weird?????  And I think she freaks some people out, but she’s a genuinely sweet person she’s just…Jo????  Anyway, I can see where maybe their aunt bought plants from Jo, or something, maybe?  And so she’s like, “OMG!  June, there you are!” and rushes over to some plant and I’m sorry about her.  And then proceed to be like, “Just let me know if she [the plant] wants any company!  I’d be happy to swing over any time!  Not to mention, I could bring one of her sisters.  You know how plants are when they get lonely.”