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Half an hour later, ere back in s to the (abbreviated) part where Satan asked et me to leave hell (I&039;d been there, and I could still hardly believe it) when Garrett and Antonia walked in

"I don&039;t even want to ask Did you at least set our roo," I said as an aside to Sinclair, as staring at Antonia "I&039; Normally she tried not to bust the first commandment when friendly vampires were around, but I think in this case, her shock was justified

"My God!" Antonia said, pointing at Jessica&039;s belly

"I know," I said, nodding "Shocking and disgusting, isn&039;t it?"

"You&039;re just so gigantic" Antonia seemed hypnotized I knew exactly how she felt "Howhow do you even ?"

"Great to have you back," Jessica said dryly "The place just wasn&039;t the same without you You can take that any way you want"

Tina had crossed the roo It&039;s not that they were enemies in the old days, it was just that spontaneous affectionate gestures fro right at you and I can&039;t believe my eyes" She looked at me and I was a little uncomfortable at the unmistakable ad I amamazed" She shook her head "Justit&039;s just very, very a"

"Hey, a deal&039;s a deal" Vain jerk that I was, even I could get a bit uncomfortable hat looked like borderline hero-worship Maybe not even borderline "I proet Antonia back, and here she is"

"No," Garrett said They had both gotten dressed-and in their own clothes That was interesting That s away

"Hey, don&039;t underestiht there with Laura and&039;I&039;d follow you to hell and back&039;? Garrett really did!" Have I mentioned I loved this timeline&039;s Garrett? Quiet, but cool under pressure, and utterly reliable

Laura had been quietly sipping her s much to the conversation This was cool by me, since I was definitely the hero of this story and was happy to explain that to anyone anted to listen It had been a long few days I didn&039;t blaain He&039;d brought his knitting bag into the kitchen and was having Antonia help him roll yarn Which I never understood at all The yarn coewhich the knitter then unwraps Then rewraps into a ball Du into a boredo about it "You didn&039;t promise"

"Uh-huh, sure, anyway, then the devil was all &039;hey, bitch, you can&039;t do that toroom&039; and I was all &039;so call a cop, jerk&039; and-wait What?"

"You didn&039;t"

Noere all looking at him in surprise, even Antonia

"It&039;s not what you did, it&039;s what I did," Garrett said, idly rolling eggplant purple yarn into an eggplant purple ball "When Betsy canant and didn&039;t remember I was alive, I lied She doesn&039;t want to think she&039;s a bad person, so she helped But she didn&039;t" He looked atto root around in his knitting bag "She didn&039;t promise"

If he&039;d blown up, we couldn&039;t have beenmore than a sentence or two at a time was hard to wrap our minds around To think that quicklycome up with a planexecute the planand lie? It was almost unthinkable