<div class="floatleft">(https://asset3.modelmanagement.com/mm-eyJ0Ijp7InIiOiIzMjAi/fSwiaWQiOiJpMzYxMzI5/IiwiZiI6InBuZyJ9.png)</div><strong>Name</strong>: Elias Watkins (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=280409.msg13785993#msg13785993)<br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>March, around midnight.<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Halliwell Manor, kitchen to dining room<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>Flannel shirt, jean jacket to hide his stunner, jeans, no shoes or socks.<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Kamea, Tempest, Zoey, Victoria, Max, Open<br/><strong>Contents:</strong>New names, and a sudden realizations, oops.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>After getting the girls' attention the birthday girl introduced herself and the other two young women, her name was Tempest. As each name was given Elias looked at the respective girl with a warm friendly smile and gave a nod. He did not know which name to use for the pretty brunette cooking but she quickly made that clearly by correcting Tempest. The other blonde, Zoe, was just a friend, not a Halliwell, possibly not even a witch. He had to stop and think about things he had said since she entered the room. Had he said something that could reveal the secret to an innocent? She had not reacted to him telling Tempest about knowing Max before he had died. So either Zoe had not heard or already knew about white lighters. There was no way of knowing, so he decided he was just going to have be more careful with what he said around her, until he knew one way or the other what she already knew.<br/><br/>That line of thought also made him realize that he had just blown his cover as an innocent. This caused his guilt over deceiving them, especially Victoria, to kick into high gear. Sure he had not told her he was an innocent, but he had also not corrected her when she just took it for granted that he was. He was just so curious about what she would do as a witch and so thrilled to be able to get into the Halliwell manor. He knew he would have to tell her, them, eventually but figured he would be able to do so without causing too much alarm. So far in the excitement over Tempest's birthday and arrival of Max, her white lighter nobody had questioned him yet or shown any signs of noticing his mistake. Max knew, it suddenly became clear why Max had left the kitchen without responding to Elias. Max was concerned, and well he should be. Good witches just did not live for over a century without showing signs of extreme aging. So to Max at least Elias had not only revealed that he knew about magic but was not human. He truly meant no harm to anybody in the house, but knew that Max had no way of knowing that or reason to trust him.<br/><br/>Elias knew that some explaining was about to be needed. Again he forgot about his hunger and wanting a sandwich. He was just starting to follow Max to try and talk to the man when Zoe produced the beautiful foot long sub from the frig. He had completely missed her little butt wiggling dance as she dug in the frig. He glanced from the sandwich to the blonde and gave her a weak smile. “Thank you, Zoe.” He picked it up noticing how  nicely it was wrapped, a little confused. Admittedly he was not really looking in the frig when Kamea had been there, but he did not remember seeing such a thing in there. “Sure this doesn't belong to somebody?” He asked the room in general. It looked delicious, made with fresh baked bread and quality meats and cheese. When nobody protested at him having it he pulled back a portion of the plastic. It smelled just as good as it looked.<br/><br/>Being shooed out of the kitchen and wanting to catch up with Max, Elias took the sandwich and left the kitchen. He paused though sensing that Victoria had come down but was in the bathroom on the ground floor. Her he both really wanted to see, but also dreaded that next meeting due to his having deceived her. He wanted to see her, because he had certainly noticed her and found that he very much liked her and wanted to get to know her better. At the same time he did nothing at previous meetings to get to know her because of his longevity. He usually only pursued women for short term flings because he did not want to become attached, have a long term relationship only to watch that person grow old and die while he changed very little with the passing time. Victoria was definitely not a fling type girl, she was somebody he could see himself easily growing overly attached to. He thought it better to not go down that road and then suffer the pain of lose. Her turning out to be a witch made her all that more attractive to him and a Halliwell too. Yeah there was a bit of a “fanboy” in him.<br/><br/>While Elias, with sandwich in hand and chewing a bite, went to join Max, Victoria joined Tempest in the dinning room. The cousins quickly moved on into the living. He had heard something about burrowing Tempest so thought the witches had something that needed to be discussed, besides he needed to talk with Max, away from the girls. He had not noticed before but now remembered hearing Max call out a name. It was a name he had heard before, his mother's and grandmother's white lighters had mentioned Anduin on a number of occasions as one of the oldest white lighters there was. So he looked up toward the attic again wondering if this Anduin was the other male he had sensed just appearing up there. If that were the case, perhaps the older white lighter might have known about his mother and even about his own birth and how over the past century and a half, give or take, he had never been a serious threat to witches or innocents. So Elias joined Max in waiting for the senior white lighter to respond. “Well, Max, if Anduin is the one I can sense in the attic and he is not coming down, perhaps we should go up there. That way I can explain things to you both at the same time. As it is I'm going to have to explain everything again to the Halliwells soon enough.”