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Elva had been getting dinner ready when Elizabeth said she had to run out to pick something up. As Elva checked on the food in the oven, she just called out over her shoulder to her twin saying that she better not take too long or else she'd have dinner without her. Since finding each other a couple of years back, these dinners were a way for them to check in with each other and see how they were doing.
So as she began to plate the food and the doorbell rang, she laughed as she ran towards the door. ❝ Don't tell me you forgot your keys! ❞ The smile fell when a man was what standing before her and not her sister. She hadn't said someone would be coming over, they wouldn't have planned dinner tonight if she had other plans, right? She never pried into Elizabeth's life, knowing that her work kept her traveling all the time and sometimes it was dangerous. And Elizabeth never pried in hers, always letting Elva share what she wanted and not anymore. They were letting each other in slowly but found that there was also no secrets between them. The only men she knew about in her sisters life were AJ and Charlie, and this man was neither.
He surely had to have been at the wrong house. ❝ I'm sorry, can I help you? ❞
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"Hmm," Elva sighed. "Nope, sorry. She left in the middle of our cooking to go pick something up but didn't tell me what or where. But I'm sure she won't be long."
While Elva was not dumb and could tell that just as Elizabeth had not told her about a man named Rafe in her life, he knew not of her existence either. "Please." she stood to the side, opening the door wider. "It seems you were looking for something, don't let me stop you. This is her place after all, if I kept someone she trusted enough in her space from coming, I'd never hear the end of it."
Closing the door after him, she began to head off to the kitchen. "Please do consider staying. I'd like to get to know some of my sisters' friends better. You must also work with Charlie then, right?"
Rafe felt uncomfortable, he'd called someone not Elizabeth beautiful, regardless of her being attractive or not he can almost her the smartass remark at his words. "Well do you know when she'll be back?" He really did need his cell, not just as a way to reach her, but to contact Sage and Ashley, have them get things ready.
"Oh, dinner-" He started taking her hand to shake when she said she was Elva, Elizabeth's sister and not just a sister, but a twin sister. "Well its great to finally meet you Elva," He didn't want to tell her that Elizabeth had never mentioned her before. "Rafe, Rafe Adler. I work with your sister from time to time. I'd be happy to come in, if you're okay with that."
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."