In Trouble, part 3

[frogs_of_war]

 It's only the second morning of long days and I've already not been able to find my glasses that I'd just taken off and put my roll in the toaster oven wrong side up (the bottom gets toaster, so all I got was crispy crust.) . I've got two more super long days and two eight hour ones. What I'm I going to be like by my Friday?

Title: In Trouble, part 3

Series: Wizard's familiars

Length: .9k

Note: Nacio is short for Ignacio, so it sounds like Nay-she-oh, not Nacho

 

 

JD settled into his chair. His fellow students grinned his way. The one beside him leaned across the aisle. "Good to see you back."

The student in front of him turned around. Nacio, wasn't it? "I heard you got knocked up at the party. Like me." Nacio put his hand on his belly. "At a litter a year, I'll have a huge family by the time I graduate."

"All by the same guy?" asked the girl beside him.

Nacio grinned and stuck out his tongue. "If I do that, my other boyfriend will get jealous."

"Only two?" said the girl. "I was sure it would be three or four by now."

Nacio blinked slowly. The girl rolled her eyes.

Two boyfriends? Maybe that's what J Danyal wanted.

The class was fun and challenging. After it was over he gathered with the others in the hall and made plans to meet them right before the next class.

Nacio walked JD to the room where the committee was meeting. JD mostly listened, but a few of his ideas made it as far as the white board and two were circled.

He bounced out of the room with Nacio. A white-haired man looked up from a bench and watched him pass.

Nacio grinned. "That's Sapulvado. He was a blue Maine coon, which I wasn't aware existed."

JD glanced back. "He's not blue anymore."

"No. A magic accident when he was sixteen. His mother hadn't realized his dad was a wizard. A one-night-stand, like mine." Nacio rubbed his belly. "But I got two—maybe three—boyfriend out of it, so I'm happy."

He bounced down the hall.

"Sapulvado?"

"Oh. He was playing his violin." Nacio mimed the action. "Losing himself in the music when all that magic attracted the wrong sort of attention and poof!" He threw his arms wide. "It was at a recital. Blood and smoke and chaos. People screaming."

"And that's when he lost his color?" How did that even happen?

"Yeah. He's just got blue points now, but his eyes are still bright green."

JD had noticed his eyes.

"You'll have to get the rest of it out of him."

Like that was going to happen. JD looked back into the building. "How old is he?"

Nacio bounced down the stairs. "Sapulvado? Older than us. He graduated not too long ago. And I don't know all the details, but word is it he can't leave the university. Too dangerous." Nacio grinned. "But you like dangerous."

J Danyal stepped onto the path. "JD."

"Spill next class." Nacio bounced away.

J Danyal took JD's bag. "I'm glad to see you again."

JD was too, but…

Mom stepped out of her car.

"I have to go."

"You'll be here tomorrow?"

"Yeah." The distance to Mom decreased every second. But what was DJ supposed to say? Did J Danyal know about the kitten? "Mom's waiting."

Oh no, would that make J Danyal think JD didn't want to know him better?

J Danyal grinned. "Lead the way."

Have his mother meet his lover? If that's what J Danyal was.

Mom frowned.

J Danyal nodded to her and introduced himself without saying what he was—or wasn't—to JD. He handed JD's bag back. "See you tomorrow."

JD wanted the hours to rush by—and not to move at all.

Mom didn't say anything until they were halfway home. "Was that…?"

"Was that what?"

"Who. Was that…" She took a deep breath. "The boy who got you into trouble."

JD had got himself into trouble. He stared out the window. She was making him feel like a kitten again. "And if he was?"

Mom pressed her lips together.

At home the boys had just woken from their nap and they were making up for the hours of peace. Mumsey offered JD milk and cookies. "How was your day?"

JD shrugged.

Mom kissed Mumsey and hung her jacket up. "You know what we forgot to ask JD?"

Mumsey perked up.

"What he guessed his kitten will look like."

Mumsey smiled. "A tabby like JD. You were so cute and tiny."

"Or a Persian."

That wasn't how a familiar with only one familiar parent worked. He might have a Maine coon if Sapulvado fathered a kitten, but if he got with a Russian wizard, he wouldn't end up with a Russian Blue.

Mumsey turned to JD and put her hands on her hips. "You got involved with one of those Persian wizards?"

"So powerful I could feel the crackle at twenty paces."

Mumsey shook her head. "You know how we told you to watch out for those men. It's said they have Djinn in their ancestry."

"And how is that bad?" JD didn't care whose J Danyal's great-grandfather was. And almost every wizard JD had ever met cracked to some degree. That tingle up JD's spine was because J Danyal was so attractive.

"They aren't bad in and of themselves, but… You should stay away from them."

JD wasn't going to stay away from J Danyal no matter what his mothers said. He drank the last of his milk and left three cookies for his four brothers. They wouldn't be following him upstairs for a while.

Comments

[charisstoma]

Sapulvado may be the white haired man with J Danyal?
I'm getting a MUmsey and Mom seem a bit leery of older Wizards. Which makes sense if they're looking for a young vulnerable familiar.

[frogs_of_war]

He is.

Mumsey and Mom are leery of most wizards when it comes to their "little boy". The more powerful, the more leery they are and wizards get more powerful with age. (although J Danyal is only 19 and Supulvado is not quite 24)

JD showed up at college and took (sat through) several classes. J Danyal and Sapulvado had no way of knowing that he wasn't already eighteen.