'I'm probably just being paranoid, I'm too small of a fish to have caught Chuck's attention.' I feel a weight settle over me at my thoughts of not having caught Chuck's attention yet.
Zoey begins to wiggle against my side trying to get closer to me, drawing my attention away from depressing thoughts and metaphysical weights on my body.
"Everything alright, Zoe?"
"Mmm, we need to get this information out there. Your handbook could save countless lives, I think my Aunt Ellen and Cousin Jo will help us." A feeling of shock runs through me at learning of the possible familial connection between Zoey, Ellen and Jo.
"As in Ellen, Jo and Ash from the Roadhouse?" The curiosity I feel is clear in my voice drawing a half-hearted nod and a confirming nod from Zoey.
"Cool, look I have some friends back at Bobby's I gotta go help out. But I'll be back later…if you know anything I don't you can add it to the handbook there are blank pages in the back."
"Okay, I will. Bye." Zoey dismisses me and only wiggles over a tiny bit to let me up.
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Driving through the night back to Bobby's only to hear a flutter of wings in the backseat of the Chevelle.
Looking in the rearview mirror I see Death, chowing down on a chilli-dog and fried pickles.
"Mr.Death, it's nice to meet you. I hope you're not here to collect my soul?" Death literally flinches his head whipping up to look at the back of my head.
"Interesting…and no, I'm not here to collect you. I was going to leave behind a compass that will guide you to a way to return your fellow dimension travelers home. There being here is gumming up the metaphorical machine." Death says in a calm voice the expression of surprise at me being able to see him without him revealing himself to me no longer showing.
"Are they in immediate danger?"
"Not precisely but if they remain here too long their home universe will reject them because they no longer fit within their molds. You may have noticed Miss Wednesday is much more expressive…amorous, then she should be. Miss.Sinclair seems to have been affected the least but her changes are starting on the cellular level if she doesn't get home soon…it won't be pretty." Death answers back a bit cryptically before vanishing from the Chevelle a black compass with a skull on top left behind on the rear seat.
Reaching behind me I grab the compass that is as cold as an ice cube and sends a feeling of numbness up my right arm. But the sensation quickly fades away.
…
Reaching Bobby's house I get Enid and Wednesday together on the couch in the living room and explain to them my meeting with Death.
Enid speaks up and shows both of us a grotesque patch of fused wolf fur and human skin that is slowly bleeding.
"That settles it. We have to get you two home or I put you both in my pocket world permanently…I should be able to undo whatever being here is doing to you both!" The concern in my voice as I quickly go to a medkit and bandage Enid's back.
"During my conversations with my mother…through my visions. She has been evasive about the events that have been transpiring since my and Enid's arrivals here. I believe that it is…for the best that we return to our world." At Wednesday's admission the three of us stand in a circle and I open the compass.
The three of us are surrounded by a black fog and then we're in a darkened forest, thousands of glowing eyes, some glowing red, some glowing yellow, some glowing green and some that are very obviously not human in shape or size that also glow through the darkness surrounding us.
"Purgatory." A small breath leaves me and I immediately move the girls into my pocket world, while drawing my gun and spring in the direction the softly glowing dial points in.
"It's official, Death wants me dead!' I can't help but think as I slide underneath a striking Leviathan that isn't in human form but looks like a giant inky serpent with a huge ass toothy chassumus maw.
Aiming over my shoulder I squeeze off a round without looking behind me while sprinting full speed towards my goal which is a ring structure in the distance that looks remarkably similar to a Stargate, with a DHS near it.
The second my foot lands on the obsidian dias I can feel my pursuers stop chasing me.
A soft applause fills my ears and I see a pair of…pale white feet, long pale legs leading into thicc thighs, a pussy with a thin black bush, wide hips, made for holding and children birthing, a flatish tummy big breasts and the face of a woman that is too beautiful to possibly exist and hair as black as a moonless night…with matching eyes.
"Mommy…" The word slips out of me completely unbidden, a soft tinkling laugh leaves this frighteningly beautiful mature woman.
"I must confess none of my children have referred to me in such a childish manner with such a strong amount of lust wafting off of them before."
"I…I'm not one of your children…am I?" At my question Eve kneels down and cups my chin.
"Not directly no, but Grimms and Witchers were created by experimentation and exploitation of children, by the humans that I gifted magic to. So I believe I am within my right to consider you at least to be a member of my lineage, or would you disparage me of that?"
"Honestly, I'd prefer making little monster babies with you…the way humans procreate…than be considered one of your children." Many growls sounded all around us but Eve's gaze bore deep down into me.
"You would cherish me as a woman…even though the man I was made for was repulsed by me?" There was a very pronounced disbelief and tenderness in Eve's question.
"Look, I won't pretend to know what was going through Adam's head…but if you were even only half as beautiful as you are now back then and I was Adam…we never would have stopped fucking." At my honest admission a shy smile spreads across Eve's face.
"As much as I enjoy your flattery. I believe you are here for a reason…otherwise you wouldn't be here in my prison."
"Ye-yeah, I have a couple of friends that are from a different universe that they need to return to. Death, gave me this." At my explanation and display of the compass Eve nods her head in understanding.
"Hmm, set the compass in the center of the dias. There's a shaped recess for it and from there the gate will open and your friends…who you seem to be absent of. Will be able return home through the portal that opens within the confines of the Gate device." I move and do as Even explained for me to, and a similar display of a Stargate opening a bridge to another gate happens, after I place the compass in the center of the DHS device and I record the coordinates so I can visit the girls in the future.
Bring Enid and Wednesday out of the pocket world the three of us share a heartfelt kisses, hugs and goodbyes, before the walk through the portal.
'I wish they could have stayed.' Eve gently clears her throat, making me remove the compass from the DHS device.
"Now that your problem has been resolved…would you like to give procreation with me a go?" Eve asks and I might be imagining it but she almost looks like she's blushing.