not a matter of fault, but of responsibility

"For each life contains its own burdens, though they may be hidden to all, but one carries them." Goliath Calaban/ Professor of Literature at Pride U / he/him / 36

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Book Thump || Open

The moment Elyon’s concentration had been broken the number of floating books that had surrounded her had begun falling to the floor one-by-one. Each sound of a dropped book made the blonde cringe, she knew that she had managed to make an outright mess where there hadn’t been before. 

“I’m really so so sorry! My magic does that when I’m in deep focus…” Elyon tried to explain feeling very embarrassed that she had whacked a professor.

And made a mess. The librarian was going to kill her!

She was red in the face. 

“I should really know this by now… and oh no, no that’s okay I can’t possibly ask for help after whacking you. You’re okay, right?”

Yes, she had to make sure to ask because a book wasn’t a soft object, she had to imagine getting hit by one would hurt. 

Of course, Elyon wouldn’t be Elyon if she didn’t hop from one topic and then back to the other all in one conversation.

“And my searching is pretty much done anyways. If anything what I should do right now is start cleaning.” Gareth could always go fall off a roof somewhere.

The poor thing looked like she was about to slip through the floor in horrified embarrassment, and he couldn’t help but chuckle. “Really, I’m fine,” he reassured calmly. “Didn’t even leave a mark.” Not that Goliath could check, sleeves being A Thing and all, but his skin was stone. One book wasn’t going to crack him.

“Here, just put them on my cart and I can get them put away,” Goliath instructed, kneeling down to pick up a few of the closer books. “Together we can get these books shelved quicker and you can go back to your research.” 

He hummed curiously as he looked over a few of the titles. “Are these for a summer course?” he asked. She didn’t look like one of his summer students, but he’d been a little distracted since the summer started with the approach of the birth of his grandchildren. Thank the winds it was an easy course, both for the students and for him.

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Book Thump || Open

Elyon was in the library.

She didn’t know what for. Classes were officially over and honestly, Elyon would rather be painting. Even the reason for her being here was stupid. 

It was a hallucination caused by sleep deprivation and slight intoxication. 

Then… why was it all bothering her and making a mess out of her head?! She really didn’t need this right now, and yet here she was hoping to find answers behind the shelves of books on a topic she learned back in high school. 

As per usual, since her mind was agitated her telepathy was too and so there were some books floating around behind Elyon for which the blonde was totally oblivious to. 

That was until she heard someone approaching breaking her concentration. All of the books began to fall and one had even rushed right into the person nearby whacking them directly.

“Oh my god! I am so sorry!” 

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Goliath loved his students. Really, he did. Out of all of the jobs he’d had over the long span of his life, teaching was one of his favorites.

That said, he would be lying if he said he wasn’t glad when they were off campus and he had the library to himself.

It was one of the features of the castle that had changed the least, and it always helped Goliath to feel calm and centered. With Elena’s due date rapidly approaching and the rest of his family a mess of excitement and nerves, he really could use some of that calm for himself. So he had offered to help clean the library following finals; reshelving books and making sure everything was properly in order once the librarian had cataloged everything. 

Goliath was working in the history section when movement caught his attention from the corner of his eye. A young woman, trailed by floating books bobbing after her like ducklings. He blinked at the display for a moment before chuckling, shaking his head as he approached his cart. Kids, right?

He rolled back out to the main walkway, and wasn’t aware he had disturbed the student until a hardcover book was smacking against his shoulder. Goliath blinked at the book on the ground, then at the horrified student before giving her a reassuring smile.

“It’s quite alright,” he promised her with a small laugh, patting his shoulder. “Barely felt a thing.” Goliath bent down to scoop the book back up before holding it out to her. “Anything I can help you find?” he asked.

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Overdue // Stones and Slings

Yes, it was true. Mateo was more than a little nervous around Elena and Isa’s gargoyle family. To be fair though, he had been even more nervous around their human family. Honestly, he wasn’t sure who’s glare was more terrifying—Queen Lucia’s or the whole lot of Elena’s gargoyle brothers. King Raul had been somewhat less terrifying, he was so chill. And Mateo was becoming a bit less skittish around Goliath, though he didn’t see the man too often.

Mateo had been working on the pet shop inventory for Greg, double checking all of their counts so he could hand the numbers off to the accountant before it got too late. Not terribly exciting work, but it was still satisfying. 

So when he heard the familiar deep, calm voice greet him in the last place in Swynlake he would have expected to meet him, Mateo startled, dropping his pen on the floor.

“Oh! Er—Hi! Um I mean, Hello! Hi Goliath!” He stammered, his face flushing as he scrambled to collect his pen and greet his guest. He finally found his pen and straightened, standing up and offering a tentative, friendly smile to the older man. “It’s good to see you. Is—is there something I can do for you?”

Goliath watched with a small, amused grin as Mateo fumbled at his appearance. Poor boy really did startle too easily considering the company he kept, but it wasn’t something he could help. Once he’d regained his composure, Goliath stood a little straighter. 

“Not particularly. I was just passing by on the way home and thought I might stop in and see if you might mind if I treated you to dinner. We haven’t had a chance to talk since this all started, and with Elena in prime nesting mode, I figured we could both use a breather,” he joked. Truthfully, Elena was probably having the time of her life bossing Raf and Felipe around as she rearranged the apartment for the hundredth time. 

“Do you clock out soon or should I try again another day?”

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Overdue // Stones and Slings

Gargoyles were naturally overprotective creatures. 

Goliath had almost forgotten how much so until his sons and mentor came back into his life, and suddenly every stranger on the street was a threat he and his daughters needed to be defended from. It wasn’t their fault; their lives had been hard and fraught with danger and betrayal. One bad night had cost them their home, their family, their lives- hell, even their own time had been taken from them.

They were a protective bunch on the best of days. So Goliath didn’t blame Mateo for still being a little uncomfortable around them all.

Goliath himself hadn’t been doing the best at repairing their relationship since that whole breakup-then-Halloween debacle, even though he no longer held any ill-will towards the boy. In fact, he was more than proud of the young sorcerer! He’d stepped up magnificently during Elena’s pregnancy, and Goliath knew she was only able to be so happy about the incoming twins (twins!!!!) because her boyfriend was right at her side. Goliath couldn’t be prouder of them both.

It was high time he told Mateo that.

Classes were done for the day, and once he had made sure that Maru was happily settled in the uni’s library and had his phone on him, Goliath made his way out into town. The pet shop was easy enough to find, and Goliath took a deep breath before heading inside. Probably not the best idea to approach him in a place where most of the animals would be made skittish by his appearance, but he didn’t want his sons underfoot and glaring at Mateo and negating the whole point of this conversation. He’d talked to them about their behavior towards Mateo and Ollie but it was... slow going, getting them to relax.

Goliath stepped inside, waving with a smile towards Naomi and Mateo’s friend Greg before searching out for the young Avaloran. He was behind the desk, working on something on the computer, and Goliath approached carefully. He knocked gently on the desk twice, giving Mateo a smile. “Hello Mateo,” he said warmly.

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Willpower || Elena & The Gargoyles

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Backdated: January 19th

Summary: The gargoyles smell a change in Elena’s hormones, Elena weaponizes a loaf of bread and calls bullshit.

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Second Opinion // Rock and Roll

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Franny, though their work didn’t really overlap, had gravitated toward Professor Calaban when she started teaching a couple years ago. He was nice, funny, super fucking intelligent; and was one of the few men who not only never tried to shoot his shot at her, but would politely ask how her husband was doing when they ended up running into each other. It helped that Goliath Calaban clearly had a good taste in music, as he was a confessed fan before he’d known her personally.

For an added bonus? He was always reliable for clarification whenever she attempted to be real poignant and make a literary reference in her lyrics. Look, Franny read. A lot. But she listened to and wrote music much more often than she read, so sometimes she got things a bit confused.

The barely older - lmao, if only she knew - woman sighed dramatically and flopped into one of the chairs on the opposite side of this desk, her notebook in hand. “As my designated literature nerd, I’m in desperate need of your services. I’m workin’ on somethin’, let me know if it makes sense or if I need to go back to high school American lit. I used to love Emily Dickinson, but I’m not sure if this reference makes sense. But I want it to.”

“I should be workin’ on finishin’ up scoring student performances, but.” She waved her hand dismissively. “I’ll put them out Friday. Give them the weekend to cuss about what a bitch I am and hopefully come Monday they’ll be ready to take critique.”

Goliath watched Franny with an amused smile, taking the other seat on the same side of the desk. It would feel too weirdly formal to be opposite her behind his large wooden desk, so today, Goliath got to appreciate the comfy chairs he had brought in from his private collection to use in the office.

(Not to sound Old, but they really didn’t make chairs like they used to. This pair had to be almost two hundred years old.)

“I will do my best,” Goliath assured Franny, relaxing back in the seat. “Dickinson isn’t in my henhouse, so to speak, but I’m familiar.”

He snorted a small laugh at her admittance that she hadn’t finished her grading yet either. “I should as well,” he admitted. “I usually grade at home, but my sons are having some bizarre fight about some internet meme and everyone else is only encouraging them so I’m trying to stay out of it. So feel free to make this a very complex question,” he joked.

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Second Opinion // Rock and Roll

Goliath appreciated his office more now than he used to. Sure, he had the occasional visit from a student or fellow staff member, but usually his office was quiet; a little oasis away from his now-crowded home. Felipe and Maru were arguing about something and had been for the past three days, so Goliath was maybe spending more time in his office after class than he should be.

Not that he'd ever admit that. But he was getting older, now. He needed some quiet every now and again!

He was working up the energy to pack the papers he was grading and head home when there was a knock at his door. "Come in," Goliath called out, watching the door curiously. When he saw who came in, he smiled and rose from his seat. "Mrs. Robinson," he greeted as he stepped out from behind the desk. "What a pleasant surprise! Please, have a seat," he said, gesturing to his couch. He'd had a few interactions with the new teacher in passing, and had known about her beforehand through her music.

"How can I help you?" he asked.

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HRH Elena of Avalor Presents: A Modest Proposal || joya y piedra

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“Have you considered going back to school?” Goliath asked with a grin, looking at her powerpoint. “I think you miss giving presentations more than you want me to start dating.”

No, he didn’t, not really. Elena had been trying to get him back onto the dating scene even before he had started aging again. This whole thing was just making it clear that they needed to get back to Avalor sooner rather than later; Elena was too smart to be stuck waiting in hiding with nothing to do. At least Isa was starting college soon.

It was at this time that Goliath heard the front door open and Naomi walked in without preamble, tossing her jacket onto the couch next to Felipe. “I can not believe you started without me,” she said accusingly, throwing herself into the couch. “Maru is the only bitch in this house I respect now. At least he texted me.”

Maru reached over to give the mermaid a high-five.

“Where we at?” she asked.

“Strangry,” Felipe offered from the other couch. 

“Excellent,” Naomi said with a devious grin. “Carry on.” She had caught Elena working on this powerpoint late one night and proceeded to get very invested. Namely in Goliath’s reaction.

“Naomi!” Elena said in her best serious-Goliath-voice impression. “You’re late!”

She sighed and pointed at Maru with the ruler. “Next slide, Maru. Please.” 

Elena turned back to the couch to address Goliath and cleared her thought. This was very, incredibly serious! Getting her dad dating was imperative for both his sanity and hers.

“Goliath. Dadliath. Papa. Rock Dad. Who is the last adult you’ve spoken to? No, not me, your almost twenty-five year old disaster child. I don’t count. I mean a real adult. Cesar also doesn’t count, he’s new to…” she gestured vaguely. “All this.”

“You need! Friends! Adult ones, preferably also ones who want to be friends with benefits, but baby steps.” She pointed the ruler at Goliath like it was a sword. “Either way! You need to talk to actual adults once in a while, now that you age again and we’re going to stress you out even more. Because you’re old. And now you’re gonna get old.”

“Did you know that pre-sliced bread only became a thing in, like, the 1920s? You are literally older than sliced bread. Here’s a list of things you’re also older than. Ahem; the Magna Carta, the entire lifespan of the Ottoman Empire, the Mongol Empire, the printing press, Palestrina’s Sicut Cervus, the modern understandinf of the English language, and gunpowder only predates you by like a century.”

Jazz hands!

“Talk to adults!”

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Naomi just stuck her tongue out at Elena before relegating herself to being a bystander enjoying the all-time greatest Avalor pasttime: watching Elena be extra. She never disappointed, that was for sure.

Goliath had reclined into the couch, putting on his best ‘Teacher Watching a Student Presentation’ face so he didn’t crack and laugh again. His lips twitched into a smile as his daughter began to list all of the things Goliath was older than - a few of which he cold remember the invention of, even if he wasn’t in the right country at the time, a few which he had missed entirely.

“I do have friends, Elena,” Goliath reassured. Sure, they were mostly work friends, but friends nonetheless! Goliath never had to worry about sitting in the teacher’s lounge alone, even before considering some other family member usually arrived to keep him company during his hour. Also, Elena usually brought snacks, but Goliath was pretty sure that Elena was trying to butter the teachers up for Isabel (as if he hadn’t sung her praises around them for years now).

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HRH Elena of Avalor Presents: A Modest Proposal || joya y piedra

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“He’s not lying, his body count includes both of my parents.” Elena said, and then without giving Goliath time to go ‘Elena, please’ she continued. “That actually seques us right into point two.”

“Your polyamorous relationship with my parents has been confirmed, which - cute, love it, but also how embarrassing, you had a crush on my father? My father? He was such a dweeb. Anyway.” Elena cleared her throat and moved to the next slide, which featured the diagram.

“Recall my previous point about how you’re never not stressed.” Elena began, reasonably enough. Before she jumped into the bullshit. “You are also a creature full of rage, which means you are pretty much always-” Elena pointed to the word “-strangry. Just stressed on good days.”

“Add sexual frustration into the mix, and you’re experiences period of strorngriness. Which, from experience, is not fun. I’m a bitch when I’m at any intersection that isn’t sorny, hungerad, or strad. Ask Mateo what horngry Elena is like.

“On second thought, don’t. You’ll be ashamed.” She cleared her throat, Maru’s signal to go back to the point two main slide.

It was then that she saw Felpe’s addition in pink.

 “HEY! FUCK YOU!” She snapped.

“It’s TRUE!” Felipe shot back, throwing a pillow at her.

“Eep!” 

Elena ducked just in time to not get walloped in the face and quickly fixed her hair and regained her composure. 

“Questions so far?”

“Have you considered going back to school?” Goliath asked with a grin, looking at her powerpoint. “I think you miss giving presentations more than you want me to start dating.”

No, he didn’t, not really. Elena had been trying to get him back onto the dating scene even before he had started aging again. This whole thing was just making it clear that they needed to get back to Avalor sooner rather than later; Elena was too smart to be stuck waiting in hiding with nothing to do. At least Isa was starting college soon.

It was at this time that Goliath heard the front door open and Naomi walked in without preamble, tossing her jacket onto the couch next to Felipe. “I can not believe you started without me,” she said accusingly, throwing herself into the couch. “Maru is the only bitch in this house I respect now. At least he texted me.”

Maru reached over to give the mermaid a high-five.

“Where we at?” she asked.

“Strangry,” Felipe offered from the other couch. 

“Excellent,” Naomi said with a devious grin. “Carry on.” She had caught Elena working on this powerpoint late one night and proceeded to get very invested. Namely in Goliath’s reaction.

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HRH Elena of Avalor Presents: A Modest Proposal || joya y piedra

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“Thank you.” Elena cleared her throat. “If you’ll once again turn your attention to the screen, you’ll see an expansion on the first point, that you might be a little sad.”

She gave him a beat to let the bullet points sink in. 

“I’d like to draw your attention to the second bullet in particular. After dealing with whyte with a y nonsense for a thousand years, I genuinely want to know how you aren’t on a daily regimen of psychiatric medication.” Elena said, in a serious, university classroom-approved oral presentation voice.

“And I don’t just mean the real fucked shit like racism, colonialism, and capitalism. I also mean a millennium of shit like this - Maru, the video evidence, please.”

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Maru was having the time of his life as he perched on the edge of the couch, presentation clicker in hand.

Felipe was inspecting the ends of his long hair, having already heard this entire spiel after a half-dozen rehearsals standing in as the Goliath understudy.

And Goliath was officially muffling his laughter into his hands, bent over in an attempt to not rudely laugh directly in Elena’s face. If he hadn’t known Elena since she was a child, he might have thought this whole thing was a joke. But no, Elena was dead serious; she was just That Extra all the time. Goliath wasn’t sure if he was flattered she went through the trouble of setting this all up or not. He was leaning towards ‘deeply, deeply amused and a little touched’.

“A thousand years of practice,” he answered with a smile, shaking his head. “I don’t think ‘getting laid’ will solve all my problems in quite the way you’re hoping it will.”

“Don’t know until you try,” Felipe cut in.

“I didn’t stay celibate the entire time you were asleep, you know, I have tried,” Goliath said, knocking his elbow into his son and sending him pinwheeling for balance. “Don’t pretend to be more worldly than me.”

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HRH Elena of Avalor Presents: A Modest Proposal || joya y piedra

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Felipe did not know why Elena was so deadset on Goliath dating… well, anyone, really. Goliath BSS (Before Stone Sleep) had a mate, and Goliath ASS (yes, he knows what he did there) was too busy with his literal horde of children - and one grumpy old man - to bring another person into the fold.

But watching her try to convince him would be hilarious and entertaining, so Felipe was immediately on board. And yeah, Goliath deserved love and happiness and whatever. Felipe was here for the Laffs.

So while Elena set up in the living room, Felipe grabbed Goliath’s chair and rolled his dad out of his office with nothing but a jovial “Hang on tight!” Goliath, good sport that he was, just let himself be pushed; pen still in his hand from revising lesson plans.

Once he had been shuffled from chair to couch and Felipe had perched himself on the couch’s arm, that’s when Elena started the slideshow.

To his credit, Goliath had simply sighed and shaken his head with a small smile on his face; leaning back to settle in for the show. “Please, continue,” he said with a wave of his hand.

Elena pressed the right arrow on her laptop to reveal the first slide.

Elena grinned and  gestured to the sheet used as a screen.  “Thank you. As you know, you are very stressed out as a single father to five adult children who, for various reasons, need a bit more attention than the average twenty-four and eighteen year old. And your job as a university professor, and of course, all of the bullshit going on in Sywnlake and in Avalor right now.”

“You’re also, along with Naomi, some bodyguards, and the rest of the clan, making sure I don’t get murdered. Which is very sweet of you, thanks, Dad.”

“Felipe and I have come up with a comprehensive list of reasons you should probably date.”

“Are you ready for the next slide? And Felipe, you’re right, but I’m still going to kill you.”

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"I stand by that," Felipe said with a shrug, lips curlIng in a grin. Goliath, meanwhile, was smothering a grin under his hand; struggling not to laugh outright.

Had he mentioned recently how much he loved his kids? Because he adored them, the little brats.

"You may proceed," Goliath said, waving his hand in a motion for her to go on. This was the weirdest/funniest presentation he had seen in a while, and considering his students? That was saying a lot.

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HRH Elena of Avalor Presents: A Modest Proposal || joya y piedra

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So here’s the thing. Elena was in love. Like, ridiculously in love, with Mateo de Alva. She had never been so in love before in all of her past relationships. He just - he made her heart sprout wings and flutter around her chest.

Which, you know. Speaking of wings.

Gargoyles! Specifically, one gargoyle. Goliath, the gargoyle who helped raise her and Isabel, and who acted as their father now. Though, was it really unofficial if, while her parents were alive, they told him to consider their daughters his, too? 

See, Goliath wasn’t just a surrogate father to the princesses- he was their father, just not their biological one. And Elena (and Felipe) thought it was time he get out there! Enjoy his now-not-immortal life!

And that’s where Elena, and her top-tier powerpoint skills come in.

“Thank you for joining us today,” Elena said as Felipe ushered Goliath to sit down on the couch. Elena stood in front of a sheet she hung from the cieling from which to project her powerpoint. “Felipe and I have a presentation for you.”

She then revealed the first slide, the title page.

Why Our Dad Needs To Date

by Elena and Felipe (but mostly Elena, Felipe can’t spell) (fuhk you) (you are jared, 19) (wat up)

“Shall we begin?”

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Felipe did not know why Elena was so deadset on Goliath dating... well, anyone, really. Goliath BSS (Before Stone Sleep) had a mate, and Goliath ASS (yes, he knows what he did there) was too busy with his literal horde of children - and one grumpy old man - to bring another person into the fold.

But watching her try to convince him would be hilarious and entertaining, so Felipe was immediately on board. And yeah, Goliath deserved love and happiness and whatever. Felipe was here for the Laffs.

So while Elena set up in the living room, Felipe grabbed Goliath’s chair and rolled his dad out of his office with nothing but a jovial “Hang on tight!” Goliath, good sport that he was, just let himself be pushed; pen still in his hand from revising lesson plans.

Once he had been shuffled from chair to couch and Felipe had perched himself on the couch’s arm, that’s when Elena started the slideshow.

To his credit, Goliath had simply sighed and shaken his head with a small smile on his face; leaning back to settle in for the show. “Please, continue,” he said with a wave of his hand.

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it’s 3 am you must be lonely || elena + the bois

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Elena’s mouth hung open as Felipe gave her a wing-hug, making eye contact with Rafinha and mouthing ‘Do you see this?’

She couldn’t believe it, Felipe giving her hugs!

Ah, and feeling comfortable enough to ask her what’s in the fridge.

“I’m not entirely sure, it’s mostly food Babette’s brought over. So you can be sure it’s at least delicious.”

Rafinha grinned at Elena and gave her what he thought was a subtle thumbs up. Felipe just rolled his eyes and essentially melted off of Elena. “Works for me!” he said, vanishing into the kitchen. 

Maru had hopped up onto the couch, looking at her TV set up curiously. The gargoyles had only been to Elena and Isa’s apartment a few times, and every time Maru found something new to tinker with. With it being so late, most of her things were safe from meddling. For now.

“But seriously, it’s late for humans,” Raf said, concern coloring his voice. “Is everything alright? I can do a sweep of the perimeter!”

Maru scoffed. “You’ve been watching way too many crime serials.”

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City Of Dreams {Avalor Crew + Ollie}

Ollie & Isa ask for permission from her family/Avalor Crew to take her to New York so Ollie can confront his biological mother.

Excluding Mateo as we did this back before we had Becky in the group. Sorry Becky!

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Date: Early/ Mid March 2019

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it’s 3 am you must be lonely || elena + the bois

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Elena was about to text Babette to see if she was awake when a knock at the balcony door caught her attention. Without lights on in her apartment besides the television, it took her a moment to focus in on who it was. (It could only be six people - people? gargoyles - but the question was who.)

“Raf!” Elena whispered with a grin bright as sunshine, only getting bigger once she saw Felipe and Maru approaching behind him. She opened the door to let them in. “What are you boys doing here so late?”

“And without Goliath?” 

Wow, he really was trusting them to roam Swynlake unattended? They must have improved a lot since waking. Seems like just yesterday Felipe scared the piss out of her when she opened her eyes the day after waking them to Felipe’s bigass beak in her face. 

“Hi, Princess. Just finishing up patrol,” Raf said with a bashful grin as he stepped inside the apartment, wrapping his wings tight around his shoulders like a cloak.

“And what do you mean, late? We’re noctornal,” Felipe said dryly as he followed Raf into the apartment. Instead of standing respectfully in front of the royal, however, he immediately went to her side and dropped his chin on her head, one wing curling around her. It, more so than the vastly improved English, was a testament to how much they had changed since waking in this new world. “Also bored. So bored.”

Maru was the last one inside, carefully closing the door behind him. “Goliath had some papers to finish grading, so he and Cesar are staying at home tonight,” he explained. “What are you doing up?”

“And what’s in your kitchen, because I’m starving.”

“Felipe!”

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it’s 3 am you must be lonely || elena + the bois

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Elena was still more or less housebound, what with her broken tibia and ribs, but hey, could be worse right? Could’ve been so banged up the ultimate prognosis is just a big ol’ shrug emoji like Mateo.

This whole wheelchair business was getting old though. Just until her ribs are healed, which is supposed to happen before her shin bone is, so she can support her weight on crutches. Wasn’t at all a comfortable one, either, nothing like the wheelchair her uni classmate Ricardo used. She often wondered these days if he’d survived the Shuriki dictatorship thus far. Probably. He wasn’t from a political or noble family, as long as he kept his head down…he was a Slavic languages major, not a polisci nerd.

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You know what got incredibly boring, incredibly fast?

Patrolling the same bit of town and woods over and over again. Every night. For months. At least at Castle Wyvern they’d had the rest of their family to joke with to make the time pass faster, but now there was only six gargoyles left. Guardians of a little piece of humanity in the middle of nowhere.

Felipe was bored of out his mind.

“Sunrise is four hours away and we have nothing else to do,” he whined, draped dramatically across one of the uni’s towers. Maru and Raf barely paid him any attention, instead looking at something on the phone Goliath had given Maru a few weeks ago. “Come on, guys, give me something to work with, here,” he grumbled, reaching out with his tail to smack Maru’s shoulder.

“Hey!” the smallest gargoyle growled, returning his smack with his own. “If you make me drop this, you get to buy me a new phone!”

“With what money?”

“The money you use to buy all those makeup palettes, duh.”

“One, most of those are hand-me-downs,” Felipe huffed, sitting up. “Two, that would be the same as Goliath getting you a new one.”

Maru stuck his tongue out, neither noticing the alert popping up on his phone. “It’s the principle of the thing, you overgrown pebb-”

“Guys, look!” Raf interrupted excitedly, grabbing Maru’s phone. “Elena’s up!” Sure enough, there was an alert from Twitter about something their princess had posted, and just like that, the night turned around. 

“Race you to her apartment,” Felipe said with a grin across his beak, rolling onto his feet easily and shifting into a crouch. 

“Oh, you are so on,” Maru shot back, wings already spread wide. “Come on, Raf! Time to see your girlfriend!”

“She’s not my-!” The flustered gargoyle’s protests were wasted as his brothers took off into the night. “Jerks,” he muttered, following after at a much less frantic pace. Felipe and Maru were so busy trying to knock each other off course that Raf made it to her apartment first anyways, landing on her balcony carefully. He knew that they had guards that lived with her and Isa, as well as the scary mermaid, but most of them already knew about the clan. Raf made sure to knock extra quietly just in case, waving with a big grin once he had Elena’s attention.

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Family Outing // stone princess

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To say that Isabel Flores was excited about this trip to the museum was a complete understatement. She was super excited! This was a trip to a museum! She loved museums and it had felt like a long time since the last time the brunette has been to one.

They were always exceptional places to learn about so many things! 

Isa would have been bouncing on her toes had it not been for Maru who had her captivated enough with the article he was speaking to her about. At times, he was a little hard to follow as Isa was still in the learning curves of Gaelic, but Spanish and English she understood fluently.

Either way, she understood enough to maintain a good conversation. 

Some of her attention was split apart watching over the rest of the boys. She couldn’t help but smile as she wondered how seeing this town must look like through their eyes. She once knew that feel, the feel of something new, especially a new place. Isa had felt it every time her, Elena and Mateo lodged in a new country while in hiding from Shuriki. 

Goliath appeared behind her, Isa turning her head to look up at him with a super bright smile. 

“Si! I don’t remember the last time I’ve been to a museum, and I love them! I’ve definitely never been to this one so this will be fun! All the exciting things to learn!” 

Goliath’s smile only got bigger at Isa’s excited response, pulling her in for a quick one-armed hug before the line moved forward. “I think you’ll like this one, they have some wonderful exhibits here,” he said, looking back to make sure their whole group was still together as they approached the ticket booth. Felipe slipped around the side to get to the window first, resting his elbow on the counter so he could smile charmingly at the ticket clerk. 

“Hello,” he said in heavily accented English, although heaven help whoever tried to figure out what exactly his accent was. 

“Stop,” Raf whined in Gaelic, pulling his brother back with a bashful, apologetic smile as Goliath quickly stepped in. 

“Six tickets, please,” Goliath said, ignoring the whining happening behind him. By the time he had all the tickets in hand, as well as a map of the museum and a tour schedule in hand, Felipe had moved on and was standing looking bored next to Isa, resting his chin in her hair. Once the initial wariness had passed, all of Goliath’s clan had happily welcomed Isabel and Elena into their family, and Goliath was just glad that Isa was already used to her older sister having very few personal boundaries, because gargoyles were very much the same.

“We ready?” he asked, eyes still hidden from the world by his sunglasses as he draped his arms around Isa’s shoulders. Maru was pouting at him, clearly upset that Isa’s attention had been pulled away from him and his article.