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Elva could tell that a lot was going through the man's head. There was a lot going through her's as well. As much as she knew that they didn't owe each other much, just barely trying to build some sort of a sisterly bond a dinner a month, when they could, she also didn't think that she'd keep things from her. Elva shrugged. "I don't remember her much, don't consider her my mom. Aoife, the woman and her husband Theo, they're my parents in every sense of the world. Made sure I had everything I needed, wanted." Then she frowned knowing that her twin hadn't.
"Oh," Elva tried to feign surprise. She had surmised so when he had shown up looking for his phone. Listening to him talk about everyone, Elva realized that the family Elizabeth had always been looking for was the one she had. She just hadn't realized it. "So you all just got close while working together. I can see how that happens, working and being together all the time can bound to do that. I would love to meet everyone else some time."
"Huh," She smiled, liked that the man was being honest as much as he could. "Yeah, a family get together sounds nice." The sound of a car pulling up into the driveway made her sit up. "If I ask you to see if everyone is willing to come over next month, would you be able to get them here? It's our birthday and I want her friends here. But you know how she is." Reaching over she placed her hand on Rafe's. "She tends to push those she cares the most away. Not because she doesn't want them there but because she's scared of them leaving. She had a harder time than me growing up." That's all she could say before the front door opened and she had hoped he understood what she meant by that.
"I found it!" Elizabeth's voice rang out as she made her way from the front door over to the kitchen. "Brennivín, it's the first drink I had when I turned 20, the legal age there is only 20. I hop-" She stopped midsentence as she saw her twin and Rafe sitting at the dinning room table. The smile on her face didn't drop but strained a bit. Unsure of what to make of this.
"Rafe." Elizabeth said softly, not sure what to say.
"Isn't this great, Lizzie." Elva said as she got up and around, putting her arm around her and leading her to the table. "Rafe was just telling me about your hunt for the Scion. You guys never mentioned you had teamed up. Come," She said as she took the bottle from her sister and began to pour them all some to go with their dinner. "You guys can tell me more stories over dinner."
That was something Rafe didn't know, but how could he when he didn't even know anything about Elva? After all, he had told Elizabeth, gave her something that she could if she ever desired to hold against him, and yet she hadn't told him about Elva. A frown pinched at his brow, but he was quick to hide it. He started to question them but squashed the thought immediately. "No, I don't believe she ever told me that. Must have been hard on you. Do you know what happened to your mother?"
"I, uh." Decisions, decisions. He shouldn't lie to Elizabeth's sister. "Yeah, me. Kind of. Guess I still have a lot to learn about your twin. But yeah, not sure how it happened, Sage and Charlie hit off immediately, Ashley and AJ, well, we thought they were just a pair of nerds nerding over the same things. Turns out they were nerding out over each other." A laugh that didn't quite reach his eyes.
"Yeah. That was our latest one. We've taken some time off as it ended up being a far bigger hunt than expected." Though conflicted right now, Rafe wasn't going to just drop Elizabeth's death on Elva. "We learned a lot of strange things about Ancient Egypt, but that's a story for a more macabre setting, not a nice little family get-together."