“I’m not sure yet. I will see when we get there. However, I do have one small request,” he says with a wicked glint to his eye.
“Oh?” I ask, intrigued.
He leans down to whisper in my ear. “I want to see you two together.”
I chuckle, typical bloke. “Of course, you do.”
“Hey, it’s a valid fantasy.”
“I know, sweetie. Oh, by the way, what should I call you?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, I can’t call you ‘Cole,’ that would defeat the object.”
“Don’t call me anything. No names.”
“Done. What time do we leave?”
“Not for a few hours yet. Can we go to bed?”
“Definitely,” I say with a leer.
“Not for that, we will do enough of that later. I’m tired and I want to hold you and sleep with you. I feel oddly needy today,” he says with a frown.
Uh-oh, I hope that isn’t something to do with the blast back to the past.
“Come then. I could do with a siesta,” I say, leading him to the bedroom.
“You always have a siesta,” he says lightly.
“Hey, I can’t help it. These Powers are murder on the energy sapping.”
“Oh, quickly, before you fall asleep, message Constantine to send your fella Ramon up before we go. You will need all of your strength.”
I snicker. “What about you? Should we get Dawn up too?”
“Dawn is in L.A. with Scott,” he says with frown, which turns to a grimace as he realizes this is something else, he probably told other me. “Besides which, I intend to feed when we get there.”
“Oh, would that be part of your specific plans?” I say, putting the phone back down, and climbing into bed next to him.
“Definitely yes,” he says before he falls asleep in much the same manner as I normally do. Only now I am really worried, and it takes me ages to drop off. But I keep my arms around him and hope that just being with me like this will be enough to put his equilibrium back on track.
I fall into a fitful sleep and start to dream of Constantine and Sebastian. They are both at Ponte in my old room and talking about me and my decision to take care of Sebastian.
“What do you think made her change her mind?” CK asks.
Sebastian shrugs nonchalantly. “I guess this whole situation with the other her.”
“She seemed so adamant before, it is a surprise to me she folded so easily.”
“I’m not. You haven’t changed your mind though, have you?” Sebastian asks, worried.
CK ponders that for a moment. “No. But there are going to be rules. And they will be adhered to,” he says sternly.
“Of course. Whatever you want.”
“Well, first things, she said that it will take place while we are here on either a Tuesday or Wednesday when she is with me.”