* PHOENIX !

josie: want some company?

landon: so you can make sure i keep my promise

josie: i still think it's what I needed, but i do miss everyone

josie: do i need to get lizzie after you?

landon: we miss you too, jo

josie: sometimes I feel like I still don't know how to function at this normal school.

josie: landon

josie: eat

landon: do you like it? it's going okay, right?

josie: my first ever snow day

josie: aren't I supposed to do something exciting? That's what the movies tell me

josie: have you eaten today???

landon: that only works when snow days are something to look forward to, ie gets you out of something boring or awful, like school

landon: but you've only ever lived at yours so maybe you can't relate as much

josie: i had a snow day today

josie: what does one do on a snow day??

landon: good time for reading?

landon: and soup

Katherine turned and looked at him for a second. “Wait, you’re bird boy.” She realized. “Aren’t you a unique one.” 

🔥 ― He was used to name calling, so he doesn’t bother to defend himself against her. Bird boy was pretty tame anyway. “Yeah, I get that a lot.” Landon didn’t know if he wanted to get into it, but there was something about her attitude; “Who are you supposed to be?” It wasn’t cold or aggressive sounding, just a little confused, squinting at her.

“Right…. because events in Mystic Falls always go sooo well.” Katherine was only showing up in hopes of spending more time with Nikolai and learning more information that could be helpful in defeating the Necromancer. “I’ll take that, thanks.” She grabbed a drink from a passing youngster and brought it to her lips to sip. 

🔥 ― “I was.. still drinking that.” Landon didn’t put up much a fight, especially after seeing the look on the woman’s face. It just wasn’t worth it. “You’re welcome, I guess,” he added.

@landonely​  “this party would be so much better if there was food. hot dogs and hamburgers sound incredible right now, don’t they?” maybe it was her own fault for not eating before drinking but hey, she’d get some takeout on her way home. 

🔥 ― food hadn’t crossed his mind, not before the girl had mentioned it anyway, but she had a point. “yeah, why isn’t there food?” a fair question. “not like lizzie to just miss a detail like that.” but it was all in good fun. 

“Thanks.” Ellie nodded. “I get what you mean.” She nodded a second time. “I forget too. When I look in the mirror I just see me.. an average girl. I forget that everyone else looks at me and sees a resurrected witch. It must be even weirder for you, being the only phoenix around here.” 

🔥 ― “It’s not much different than being the unknown. In retrospect, uncompellable human made more sense.” He was a riddle everyone wanted solved from day one. At first it made him feel like an imposter. This other that was just weird enough to not fit in anywhere... He was still that, technically, only it was less about not being. No, he was special, special, special. “I see an average girl,” he told her. “I think we can be both. Special and just us.”

“Phoenix?” He knew different creatures were real, he hadn’t realized this boy was one of them. “Interesting.”

🔥 ― “Yeah, that’s what they say at school too. It’s a whole thing.”

“What? I can’t say hello to my daughter’s… friend?” Klaus was probably being overprotective, wanting to get to know those who spent time around Hope, but that was just in his nature.

🔥 ― Ouch. He didn’t know why it hurt, he was ‘over it’ by now. But there was something about hearing it from him that made it hit different. “Yup,” he said with a nod. “Hope’s friend. Whom you can say hello to whenever you like.” An apologetic air to his words. “Welcome back,” he added, genuinely happy for him and his daughter.

“Yeah…yeah if I could help people the way I wanted…it would be so much easier. I don't want to learn it the hard way.”

“I do, actually.” It wasn’t a lie, at least, in her own mind. Death seemed like a bigger deal in her own mind than the egotisctical necromancer, but perhaps it was because she was the one dying, how would she ever know. The answer had been offered with a deadpan expression on her face, and her arms crossed in front of her as she looked at the funky phoenix. “Somewhere far far away from this dumpster fire.”

🔥 ― Now that didn’t surprise him. “Okay,” was all he had to reply. Penelope had her agendas, and her priorities, too. The way her scales weighed weren’t like his or anyone else he knew. Even Hope. “It’s that a particular place or are you just, going.” It was a pretty tempting solution to the problems, wasn’t it?  To just run. It made his stomach knot up just thinking about it. 

“Ah, that’s right. Landon.” He gave the boy a smirk. “I intimidate you.” He said, noting the boy’s behavior. 

🔥 ― “A little, yeah.” Surely there was no wrong in admitting it. He swallowed, attempting to stand up straighter. “What can I do for you, Mr. Mikaelson?”

“I am.” Kane confirmed. “How about you?” The boy didn’t seem like a vampire, Kane could tell he want a witch. Kane nodded. “Yeah, it was a family trip.” Kane remembered the week before they left. Kane threatened not to go if Sage wasn’t allowed.

🔥 ― “Oh, phoenix.” He confirmed the answer with a nod. “It’s a long story.” At least Sage had her family with her, he thought. If the trip really was her escape from everything.