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It's A Twin Thing - Ch 5

The twins' birthday starts with some interesting revelations, meanwhile Hetty worries that Jeremy's visit may get Trevor sucked off.

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They spent the whole night talking about each sketch with Trevor asking about the various dreams that he can remember and Jeremy taking the sketches out and making a timeline with them (since he didn’t always dream or remember them in order).

The result is that when they wake the next morning, it’s to ghosts and living alike entering the room (since the door was open) to drawings everywhere and Trevor and Jeremy asleep in the mess of drawings.

“What is all of this?” Jay asks, as he picks up a drawing of the ghosts at the dinner party and the one of Trevor’s slow clap.

“Oh, those are drawings – of Trevor’s time here,” Jeremy offers as he goes to collect them, again, when Jay picks up a notebook – one that worked as a flip book from Elias going to hell. He could flip through it and see Elias disappearing, the ghosts reacting and Hetty trying to send Trevor to hell and his reaction.

“This is so cool – check this out, babe, it’s a flip book,” Jay says, showing it Sam.

“Isn’t this when Hetty tried to send you to hell?”

“Yes, it was.” He gives Jeremy a look. “You really had to capture that one?”

“I dreamed about it for weeks, so yes.”

Trevor rolls his eyes. He knows Jeremy probably dreamed about it because Trevor kept having nightmares that it worked, and he’d wake up in hell. He didn’t like sleeping alone because of it, so Flower had let him share with her until they wore off, luckily, they had worn off by the time they had to ‘bunk up’. The comfort of sleeping next to someone had made him ache for more, hence trying to convince Hetty to stay for pillow talk once they got together. Honestly, he had spent a lot of time avoiding her after that until what happened with Ari happened, and finally felt accepted by her.

“I still can’t believe your girlfriend once tried to send you to hell and yet…” Jeremy teases.

“I did not actually think it would work,” Hetty huffs, as the ghosts that didn’t realize they were still dating act surprised. “And I have since apologized.”

“You two got back together?” Isaac questions, surprise evident on his face.

“They never broke up,” Flower says, cheerfully. “Am I the only one that pays attention?”

“You don’t pay attention to anything,” Isaac retorts.

“Then you must be more oblivious than I am – I mean, ever since the almost banished thing and the conjugal visits question – you didn’t notice that they’re always by each other or that Hetty’s been holding onto him rather than you or that whenever one’s missing so is the other?”

Trevor frowns, “We’ve been terrible at hiding this.”

“Wait, wait, wait – almost banished? Conjugal visits? How did I miss this?” Sam questions, before realizing that she probably doesn’t want to know and says, “Wait, don’t wait – I don’t want to know.”

“I want to know,” Jay complains. “I should really be allowed to see them.”

“I just don’t understand,” Isaac says. “I thought you decided that you weren’t meant to be after the disastrous tea date?”

“You mean this one?” Jeremy asks, picking up another sketch. “And they didn’t actually break up – they just pretended to. See?”

He gestures at a few different drawings of the fight (with speech bubbles) and them meeting up in the room to kiss moments later.

“Damn it, Sass, you’re really slipping now,” Sass mutters. “It’s such a dumb plan, I should’ve noticed!”

“Obviously, it was a smart plan because none of you noticed except Flower – why are you all in here anyway? You don’t usually storm the guest rooms,” Trevor states, somewhat disgruntled.

“Oh! We got distracted,” Sam states. “Apparently, your phone died and when didn’t answer your mom called – something about wanting to make sure you were alright on your birthday.” She hands the phone to Jeremy, as she says, “You didn’t tell us today was your birthday?”

“Ghosts don’t celebrate birthdays.”

“You’re celebrating this one,” Jeremy states, before saying, “hi, mom,” into the phone.

“We’ll leave you two alone,” Sam offers.

“Can I take some of these downstairs to look through?” Jay asks, and Jeremy nods.

Most of the ghosts leave the room as Jay and Sam collect the drawings, except that Hetty is looking on uncertainly, as if she wants to join them, but before either he or her could offer or ask to stay, Isaac takes her by the arm, evidently insistent that they talk about the revelation that she and Trevor ‘fake broke up’ three months ago.

He doesn’t stop her from leaving with Isaac, as he wouldn’t want to get in the way, and within a minute, Jay and Sam bow out, too, leaving the brothers alone.

Jeremy puts the phone on speaker. “I know you can’t hear him, but he’s here.”

“Hi boys. Happy birthday.”

“Thanks,” Jeremy says. “Sorry, my phone died, we were kind of up all night talking.”

“As if that’s the only reason your phone died – your phone was always dead because you hated technology.”

“I’ll have you know I’m much better about it now.”

“No, he’s not,” Esther says. “But he tries. Although I assumed that it was probably something to do with the two of you catching up.”

“I only try because the last thing I’d want is …”

“A repeat of me – you know, not knowing what happened?” Trevor guesses. “That would never happen.”

“You don’t know that. I could’ve easily overdosed –”

“You’ve never done drugs in your life.”

“Well, I could’ve done something else stupid.”

“You’re not the stupid one, J.”

“You’re not stupid, you’re just reckless.”

“There’s a difference?”

“Of course there is.”

Trevor huffs. “I put two pills together to make green after drinking and doing coke that’s pretty stupid.”

“It wasn’t stupid because it wasn’t any different from your other parties, which you survived.”

“That’s the point, I was in danger of dying every time I did one of those parties… you wouldn’t be in danger of anything.”

“Not true – technically, I could die like Thor or Pete or Alberta or Flower …”

“You’re not dumb enough to hug a bear.”

“Okay, the bear one is unlikely.”

“You’re also unlikely to die by an arrow.”

“Okay, yes, the arrow is unlikely as well, but…”

“And you don’t drink and getting struck by lightning is like one in a million.”

“Okay so those accidents are unlikely – well, Alberta was murdered, but some other accident COULD happen. Sam almost died here, too.”

“That was my fault. I wanted to beat the vase.”

“I know, but the point stands.”

“Fine – I can see why mom would be worried and why you would try harder to keep your phone charged, but that means that you’re kind of a jerk for not charging your phone just in case.”

“I’m not a jerk because I was distracted by you and let my phone die – you could’ve reminded me.”

“Why would I remember? I can’t use a phone.”

“Not true – if you can use an iPad, you can use a phone.”

“But I wouldn’t be able to charge the phone – so the point stands.”

“That’s not the point – you always remember things I should be doing –”

“BOYS! You’ve been together for a day and you’re arguing about phone charging? And whether or not Jeremy could spontaneously die like Trevor? Why are you putting me through that on your birthday? Why?”

“Sorry, mom.”

They share a guilty look.

“We weren’t really thinking,” Jeremy states. Sometimes, it’s hard for him to remember that she struggles as much as he does with the loss of Trevor, especially since she can’t hear him right now. “But we’ll stop that for now.”

“Good because knowing that Trevor’s up there, does make me a little nervous and –”

Trevor grimaces. “Maybe…”

“No, I didn’t finally get the courage to visit just to leave so suddenly. Besides, I want to get to know your girlfriend.”

“Don’t worry about my nerves, Trevor. I want you boys to enjoy some time together.” She pauses. “How did you find a girlfriend in the afterlife?”

“She’s been here for a while – she’s actually the Lady of the House – the dead one anyway.”

“Wow, J,” Trevor states.

“And it’s a long story, but they got together on the 26th of December.”

“Oh, that’s so nice. I’m happy for you – not really surprised, I’m guessing it’s the one with the floofy dress?”

“How’d you know?” Trevor asks, before realizing that his mother can’t hear him.

“Because she’s featured in more and more of my drawings – and even though there’s some I haven’t shown mom –”

“Oy vey – ones where…”

“Yeah, I can’t really control my dreams and visuals. Wish I could, though.”

“Has it been – no, you know what…”

“It’s nothing too – inappropriate but I figured…”

“Still here, boys. In case you’ve forgotten. What’s her name?”

“Hetty Woodstone.”

“Does that mean she’s a relative of the weird woman that owns the B&B?”

“Sam and David, yes.”

“Wait, she’s related to your friend, David?”

“Yeah, she’s his great-great-great-grandmother – did you know he died at a strip club? Sam wouldn’t tell me how.”

“He’s a ghost at a strip club? Wow.”

“Who’s a ghost, where?”

“David – Trevor’s friend. Although some friend he is throwing your body in the lake – is Hetty’s great-great-great grandson and he died at a strip club. Fitting for that idiot.”

“He’s not that bad!”

“Do I need to repeat that he threw your body in the lake?”

“No, Thor does that enough, thank you.”

“Thor sounds like an awful roommate.”

“He is, actually. Well, sometimes – he and Flower have scared me off with having sex ten feet from my head and before that he had nightmares about eating his squirrel best friend, but it’s not too bad…”

“It’s not too bad – you what? I just… how?”

“Because now I just sneak into Hetty’s room with Flower.”

“Why wouldn’t you just trade rooms – you know what? I’m not asking questions.”

“I have some questions.”

“Trust me, you don’t want to know, mom,” Jeremy states.

“Well, anyway. I wanted to check on you and the woman said you were both still asleep, so why don’t you call back later? I could get your father here and we could facetime. We wouldn’t be able to see Trevor, but…”

“I’d be able to see you.”

“He’d be able to see you,” Jeremy repeats. “We’d like that, mom.”

“Then we’ll talk later?”

“Sounds good.”

“Love you, both.”

“We love you, too.”

***

Hetty didn’t really want to leave Trevor and his brother alone. She had tossed and turned all night, eventually getting up and going to the twins’ room only to spy them so lost in conversation and half-asleep that she couldn’t bear to interrupt. Instead, she watched over them for hours, worried that if she wasn’t watching Trevor would get sucked off and she wouldn’t even get to say goodbye.

It hadn’t really occurred to her that as much as they all wished to be sucked off that somehow any of them would be or that she would be this upset about it. Maybe if it were Isaac, but she never believed that she could have this sort of attachment to Trevor.

Trevor, the pantsless son of a bitch that had stolen her heart.

She never thought it was possible, but now, she could lose him.

She’d never seen him so happy. So at peace with everything. In the last year, he’d essentially resolved many of the issues he had that would make sense for him to be staying there – he’s learned about his friends’ betrayal (and somehow forgiven them), his parents found his body (and they had a memorial even) and now, his brother – the other half of his soul – is here and they’re dealing with all of their issues.

What if Jeremy is exactly what Trevor needs to move on and leave her behind?

Fortunately, he hadn’t, yet, left her behind, but she still didn’t want to be away from him for too long just in case. Before he could invite her to stay when Sam suggested they all leave the brothers alone, Isaac takes her by the arm evidently wanting to discuss why she and Trevor had gone back into the shadows.

She wanted to stay, and she could see that Trevor maybe… possibly wanted her to stay, but she could understand Isaac wanting to speak with her after the revelation.

Rather than going downstairs, Isaac leads her into an empty nearby room.

“I don’t understand, Henrietta,” Isaac states. “Why would you pretend break up? Did the tea date not show that he doesn’t fit in with us?”

It takes a second before Hetty realizes that Isaac meant what he said after the horrid tea date. Although they had intended for the date to go poorly as part of their plan for things in their relationship to be on their terms rather on Nigel’s terms, she’s quite surprised that Isaac could live with Trevor for twenty years and think one awful attempt at tea should scare them off being together.

Especially since she and Trevor had spent time together prior to getting together – watching TV, discussing livings, and even listening to each other’s stories. He seemed to enjoy her stories as much as she enjoyed his stories, and it was not just during ‘pillow talk’.

It may have taken awhile for her walls to ‘come down’ as he said, but when they did, she has yet to regret it. The man has wormed his way into her heart, and she cannot believe that Isaac is standing before her believing that one horrid tea date was enough to scare her away.

She laughs. Actually, laughs and shakes her head.

“Isaac, as much as I enjoy your company and Trevor’s company, I do not believe that horrid tea date is a show of whether or not Trevor and I are compatible. Particularly due to the fact that we did that on purpose.”

“What – what do you mean? You purposely tanked the date, why?”

“Surely, you realized that Trevor and I coming out happened rather dramatically, yes?” Hetty questions.

“Of course,” Isaac states. “I assumed that it was because Trevor likes that sort of thing – with all of his stories and such.”

“It was not for Trevor that I made such a big deal of our coming out. It was because Nigel had caught us together the week prior and had opted to blackmail us into keeping his silence.” She pauses. “I am ashamed to admit that I was too embarrassed and wanted to follow through with the blackmail, as a result, Trevor and I broke up, but when Trevor went to tell Nigel that there was nothing to blackmail us with anymore, he said that he would still inform everyone of our entanglement. Trevor followed through with giving Nigel what he wanted, despite getting nothing out of it and it was then that I realized that I had - that I have … feelings for Trevor.”

Not that she’s admitted such things to him.

Isaac still looks entirely confused. “I don’t understand. How did that lead to everything that happened?”

“Well, I decided that the only way to deal with the situation and show Trevor that I was not embarrassed was to tell everyone. We beat Nigel – checkmated him. Yet, it felt as if he pushed us out before we were ready.”

She smiles slightly when she thinks about what happened after the big announcement. Trevor had been delighted that she was no longer embarrassed by him but could understand that there was a level of uncomfortableness regarding how and why they came out. He didn’t like that Nigel had essentially forced them out of their little horny nest as he enjoys calling it. Thus, they had discussed it and decided that with both of them okay if people found out about them, they could essentially scheme their way back into the shadows and come out on their terms.

“… and so, everything (aside from Stephanie’s input) that happened that day was planned, from the overly obnoxious way we showed off ‘being a couple’ to the awful tea date and the discussions we had with our friends in the house. Everyone surprisingly played into it well, thus it was easy for us to fake fight and break up.” Hetty smiles. “Then it was just us, again. At first, we tried to be less obvious, but then I was almost banished, and we assumed that if we were found out, again, we would just let it happen.”

“This is what you want?”

“More than anything.”

“Then, I support you and I shall talk to Nigel about this – blackmail business. Perhaps someday soon we can actually attempt a proper double date.”

“It may take some time, but I think Trevor and I may enjoy that at some point in the future.”

“Good.”

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