Heartbeat

Home to You

She stood and let herself calm down. Sitting the pillow back in its place and kissing a photo of Carmilla on her bedside table, Laura got dressed, grabbed her keys, and headed for the door.

"Groceries," She nodded. Carm wanted steak for dinner.

Once she made it inside the car, she took a deep breath to clear her head. She plugged her phone into the aux chord and blasted her favorite playlist (a blend of her and Carm's favorite songs) as she pulled out of the driveway.

......

"Well, that was a kick." Carmilla breathed, tired from fighting at least the 50th goblin she had encountered since stepping through the door. She took out one of the grape sodas that Laura packed, smiling when she saw a note behind it.

'If you're tired, you better be drinking water instead of this unhealthy fizzy grape juice! Stay safe, I love you. P.S. don't break my dad!'

Carmilla threw her head back with a belly laugh, one she doesn't usually make unless Laura causes it, "Only you would do this, Cutie. You know me too well."

She ignored the part of the note that said to drink water first, chugging the grape soda. When she looked around after her drink, she noticed there was a field in the distance, which had a nice small home that just so happened to have massive security gates.

"Yep, that's definitely Sherman." Carmilla chuckled as she started sprinting towards the house.

If I get him now, we'll be back in time for dinner for sure!

Carmilla giggled at herself for having such mundane thoughts, which is something she never thought she'd have.

We're coming home, Laura.

.....

Laura walked through isle after isle grabbing what she needed for dinner. She had three steaks, baked potatoes, mixed vegetables, sour cream, shredded cheese, broccoli trees, steak sauce, and rolls already in the cart. She just needed to decide on dessert. There were options of ice cream, brownies, cake, or pie even. So, she decided to make chocolate lava cake with ice cream.

You can never go wrong with chocolate.

(A rule I live by very much young Laura.

Ana, get back to the story.

Alright! Alright! I'm going! Hold your horses dude! Yeesh! See how he treats me!)

Grabbing ingredients- adding milk to her cart and checking out- she headed home, grateful for the distraction. Once home- and after the groceries had been put away- she got a shower and threw on something casual. Checking the time, it wasn't even 2 yet. She had plenty of time to start on dinner; but there was no telling when Carmilla would return. Carmilla, who was most definitely coming home with that seductive half grin turned beautiful smile. Laura smiled despite herself as she began preparing dinner.

Just a few more hours.

.....

Carmilla finally reached the front of the security gates and fell to her knees. She was insanely tired and sore. She hadn't expected about 100 trolls, goblins, giants, and dragons to block her path on the way to the Hollis household. She had gotten through them eventually, and she wasn't too hurt- she only had a couple of bruises and scratches. But she knew Laura would freak out about the rather large cut that went from her hairline, right across her eyebrow to the corner of her eye.

Bet you still look hot, Karnstein.

She laughed into the grass and slowly picked herself up with help from the security gate. Spotting an intercom a few feet away, she trod over to it. When she clicked the button, she almost immediately got a response from the familiar authoritative voice: