Chapter Text
Luz woke up like any other day. She got out of bed and still in her pajamas she got down the stairs and walked into the kitchen where she found Eda making some breakfast
“Hey kiddo”
“Hi Eda, watcha’ doing?” Said Luz yawning
“I’m making some pancakes”
“Have you already burned them?”
“HAH… yeah, actually this is my third try”
Luz laughed “Issokaaaay I’ll take it from here, now get out before you burn the entire kitchen”
“Wouldn’t be the first time” Eda snorted as she picked up her notebook and sat down in the couch
A few minutes went by where only the fizzle from the pan could be heard
Luz approached Eda with golden, perfect sized pancakes in hand and offered them to her mentor with a smug face
“Aw come on, why do you get to do them perfectly?”
Luz only shrugged with a smile and sat down triumphantly
“Anyways, do you have anything to do after school?” Asked the older woman
“Nah, why?? You have another job?”
“Yeeah, I need you to go pick something up, I can’t do it myself, I have other things to do”
Suddenly a chubby black cat appeared and jumped on Luz’s lap
“Hey bud” Luz patted the cat lovingly “Ok, so what, it’s a drug thing or do I have to beat someone up?”
It wouldn’t be the first time she had to do any of those things. Luz has been working with Eda for almost a year.
One day, trying to get as far away as possible from home, the young girl planned a backpack trip to a nearby island. What she didn’t expect was to trip on the edge of a path and get completely lost in some random woods.
her phone didn’t had signal so she couldn’t call for help. She had been roaming around for almost a day when she actually passed out from hunger and pain, as one of her legs broke on the fall.
The next thing she remembers is waking up in someone’s sofa, completely naked, a soft blanket being the only thing covering her body.
After calming her down, Eda decided to tell the girl how she founded her covered in blood and wounds in the woods besides her house and how she decided to take her home to heal her.
After that, Luz decided to stay there until her leg was fully recovered but she ended up liking the place and the people, damn she even made some friends while doing chores in town, a thing that had not happened on the 17 years she spend on her hometown.
She had a really long and tedious talk with her mom (and so did Eda) and finally, she convinced her to let Luz stay as long as she visited her every month and that she enrolled on a local high school.
Not long after that the tanned girl discovered Eda’s work with drugs. She hadn’t realized before because well, for starters she never actually cared but also Eda never asked her to do anything. It wasn’t until one day she came back home earlier than she usually did, very mad because that annoying rich girl from school managed to make her angry and got her expelled for the rest of the day, that she founded the older woman selling some drug to a random man.
“No, you don’t have to beat no one up, at least I hope not. It is kind of a drug thing but not exactly, anyways I’m not telling you”
Luz looked at her mentor with a frowned face “Why are you’re not telling me?”
Eda got up, and with the last bite of her pancake she said, mouth full “Buhcouse uf I do…” she gulped “then you won’t do it” and with that she proceeded to get up the stairs to change her clothes
“Eda!!”
“No!!” She said from her room before closing the door
Luz, still frowning put King on the couch and got up the stairs to change as well, knowing Eda it was pointless to keep insisting, she was not going to give her an answer other than ’no’
She got her over sized shirt and shorts off and put on her school uniform pants, a white tank top that kind of showed her black bra and a deep red beanie that almost matched the pants color
“Hah, that’ll piss her off” Luz said to herself
Then, she got inside Eda’s car and drove to school
As soon as she got inside she saw some green hair rush to her
“That’s not the schools reglamentary shirt!” Said the girl
Luz didn’t even stop, making the other girl stand behind her
With a smug face she turned around, still walking, and said “were you waiting for me, Blight?”
The short girl got red “I was not!! I’m going to tell the principal!” She shouted
“Ok, you do you” replied Luz, already giving her back to the other girl, waving her hand in the air
With a groan she turned around and walked towards the director’s office
“Hey guys”
Willow and Gus were chatting as willow picked up some books
“Hey Luz” said both of them in unison
Luz got her backpack on her front and started getting the schools shirt out
Willow instantly knew what could be happening there so she just let out a short chuckle. Since the incident in which Luz was expelled she tried to get on the rich girl nerves as often as she could so this wasn’t new to either of them
Gus was completely lost while watching the taller girl put on her shirt
“Did she see you?” Said Willow
“Yeah, watch her come here with Bump in about 10 seconds”
In the distance they could already hear Amity talking all mad with the school director
“Make it 2 seconds” said Willow
“Look! there she is, Luz!!” Luz heard from behind her, raising a brow and smiling at Willow, only for her to do the same
Amity stood there in shook as Luz turned around
“Hi principal Bump, do you need my help on something?”
“Oh, no, don’t worry about it, I think we just got some misunderstanding here, haven’t we Blight?” The man looked at Amity with annoyance in his face
“What…?” She was confused, exactly what Luz wanted
“It’s ok Blight, seems to me that you’re still a bit sleepy, happens to everyone right?” said Luz with a sided smile on her face
Willow was trying so hard not to laugh while seeing the scene, Gus was still lost
“Ok girls don’t start a fight again, and Blight, I think this obsession you have with Noceda it’s getting out of hands, let it go for once”
“Yeah Blight, let it go” added Luz, arms crossed, big smile on her face trying not to laugh
Amity growled at Luz as the principal started to get back to his office, then she pointed a finger at the taller girl and said “I’m not obsessed with you” then she pushed her with her shoulder as she passed by her side to get to class
Luz simply laughed at this.
____________________
What felt as too many hours of school went by and the girl returned home, hoping that Eda would tell her anything about this mysterious job she had for her
“WHATS UP FUCKERS!” she said as she got inside her new home
“Luz what the fuck”
“It’s… It’s from vine, haven’t you- like… ‘why are you on my phone, fuck you that’s why’” said Luz in a small voice
Eda just looked at her with a very confused face
“Ok, sorry, anyways, what do I have to do this evening that you can’t tell me?”
“Yes, about today. Well, it’s not just today, it’s a trip. It will take you all weekend” her mentor said, casually
“What do you need me to do that will take the entire weekend? This is not a big island I can get through the other side and back in a few hours with the car” Luz was bugged by having to be away for the entire weekend doing a still mysterious job
“Yeeeah um, you’re getting outta here, on a plane”
“Oh shit ok, I’m actually interested” having to travel was an interesting addition to the job
“Let’s get trough this as usual, here you have a paper with your instructions and directions”
“Can't you email me?”
“No” she said with a small smile “It’s actually not a hard thing, I own someone a favor and this is my chance to return it”
“But you won’t do anything, I will”
“Then I’ll owe you a favor, sounds nice?” She’d rather own a favor to Luz than a powerful rich man
“Very nice” A good idea, though luz
“Ahh I can already see you going trough all the things you’ll ask me to return your favor you rascal”
Luz responded with a :P face
“Where am I going?”
“I don’t actually know, well I don’t know the specifics of it, I just- Look, you’re kind of an extra here”
“An extra?”
“Yes, this powerful person I own a favor needs a guardian and protector, and as you’re already eighteen and you’re strong and you have a bat, I thought I could offer my services”
“I’m the services” clarified Luz
“Yes, you are the services”
“I’ll let that slip because I am indeed strong”
“And you have a bat”
“Hell yeah”
They both smiled and nodded to each other
“Okay, listen, as I said, you have to get there, you’ll have a place to sleep the next two days since there aren’t any other flights available, pick that something up on the last day and then come back with the plane on Sunday, that other person will take care of things after that”
“That other person that I’m the guardian of” said luz without even giving it a second tought
“Exactly”
“And is it really necessary that I spent 2 days there doing nothing with someone I don’t know?”
“If you’re smart you will know how to spent those two days” Said Eda with a mischievous smile
sudden realization
“I’m sorry is this other person a minor?”
“I’m not answering any more questions” Eda said while going up the stairs, again
“Eda am I the only adult in this trip thing?”
She heard Eda laugh followed by a “pack your stuff your flight’s in three hours and you still need to eat and shower”
________________________
Eda and Luz were in the airport doors, saying goodbye when a black van parked besides them
The man approached Eda while the other person got in the back of the van to get their stuff, Luz tried to get a glance at them, unsuccessfully
“Clawthorne” said the man
“Blight”
Luz quickly looked at the man with mad confusion in her face, only for a second though, as realization came
Luz whispered to Eda “Eda did you just agreed to send me on a three days trip with the rich bitch?”
“I did, sorry kiddo, had to be done, you can kill me when you get back”
Amity appeared from the side of the van, ripped mom jeans that covered her waist and a black turtle neck
As she got her sight up she meet brown eyes
“…what?” Amity whispered, frozen in place
“Amity” her father said
“Sorry father” then she positioned herself besides her dad
“I expect that your mentee meets the expectative and keeps my daughter safe, as well as letting Amity complete her task” the Blight man told Eda
“She will, believe me, she’s very capable” she said winking at Luz, who still haven’t processed any of the information here
“Excellent” He offered his hand to Luz for her to shake, and she did
She could have been so proud of herself at this moment, not only they trusted her but they also asked her to keep Amity safe, you know how smug she could have been, and even more knowing how Amity could not reply as her father was there and she had to keep appearances
But she was still in shook so she just shook his hand and said “I will, Mr.Blight”
He nodded, then he said something to his daughter as Eda and Luz stomped into each other sentences while whisper-arguing
Suddenly, there they were, Amity Blight and Luz Noceda walking side by side into an airport to spend the next 3 days together.
“This is not going to end well, is it?” Said Luz
“Just- shut up” Responded Amity