After moving as many times as they had, Landon longed for the day that the entire process would no longer be such a pain in the ass. The new house was nice but it was a lot bigger than what they vampires were used too - it also meant the entire place was flooded with boxes. Naperville was the newest place of residency after having spent the holidays and colder months of the year down in New Orleans. The small suburb was the opposite of what Landon had been grown accustomed to recently but he was a firm believer that change was always a good thing.
Oh, and there was the tiny fact that Naperville was the newest home to his favorite werewolf family.
To this day Landon wasn’t entirely sure how he and Julian had managed to get in so deep with the Payne’s. He remembered making his way from the grocery store one night when he saw tiny figures on the rooftop next to his and the next thing he knew he was catching eight year old Archibald Payne.
The rest was history. He hadn’t been able to shake them since - which was perfectly okay with him.
They were all complete terrors as children. At times Landon couldn’t help but feel like a third parent, especially when Ella and Auggie would call him ‘dad’. But as the years rolled by and the Paynes finally gained some sense, Landon, thankfully, acted more as an older brother. He had a relationship with each of the Payne children but secretly, although he’d never admit it, Archie, the only human of the bunch, was his favorite.
They’d been through a lot together - from Archie’s first hockey game, to his first school dance, first date, and more, Landon eventually began to view the boy/man as his friend, probably his best friend aside from Julian.
All things considered, leaving Canada had been difficult…but not before he forced each of the Payne’s to promise to keep in contact with him - which they did. The years went on and throughout the course of letters, emails, skype dates and surprise visits to Archie’s away games, Landon honestly felt like he hadn’t missed a thing. But when he opened his door and saw Archie standing there, a huge smile broke out on the vampires face. “Dude!” he exclaimed, stepping forward and wrapping his arms painfully tight around the man, accidentally lifting him from the ground.
“Holy shit, man, you look great!” he noted, finally putting Archie down and examining him head to toe, “you’ve really been taking those workout sessions seriously, haven’t you?” Had it really been that long? It had been around Christmas when Landon had last seen the man but it felt longer. “Come in! We still got boxes and shit all over the place, but we got a working fridge and pizza coupons.”
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