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Theo nodded knowingly as she hopped on his offered excuse faster than...well, faster than a jackalope. Her blush was evidence enough but he decided to let that go for now. If her face got any redder people might start confusing her with a tomato. "Well I try not to disappoint." He said playing along with her explanation. "Though I may have add pulling a jackalope out of a hat to my repertoire since I've actually got one now. It might be the most impressive trick I have."

Theo chuckled at her sleep over idea understanding perfectly well what she meant but, as usual, adding it to his never ending source of ammunition against the poor girl. "Well the invitation is always open. I'm sure we could figure out some interesting activities for a sleep over." The insinuation for what he really meant was there but as usual he backed off before he took things too far. Crush or not Hailey didn't seem to be ready for those types of advances yet.

Still grinning at her he gave a nod to her little nose twitch. "That still hasn't gone away huh?" He wondered if it would be permanent or if she would eventually grow out of it. In either case it wasn't really something she should be embarrassed about. Certainly after everything she had been through she had an excuse. "I wouldn't worry about it too much. It's kinda cute in fact and there's nothing wrong with being cute."

Theo could have been mistaken but he thought that Hailey had just actually been joking around with him. That was progress in his book. He grinned widely and was about to say something about to make a teasing statement about how he didn’t know what she was talking about because he had a real live jackalope in front of him but she then said something that gave him an even better one. She didn’t know if she could handle two of him. Well, well, now wasn’t that something? “Oh I’m not that hard to handle am I? Or maybe there’s another reason you came over today…” He paused for a moment seeing if he could catch her off guard but then decided to give her a little break. “It’s the magic isn’t it? You wanted to see more magic.”

Poor girl. She had walked right into that one but it was good to hear that things had gone well with her family. If not she might have to find a way to get Hecate to adopt her and he wasn’t really sure how that would work. “See I knew it would all work out. Saphron’s going to be pretty upset though. She had me keeping your bed made just in case.” He chuckled. Saphron hadn’t really been involved at all but it might make her feel better to know she was being thought about. “So I guess everything is working out pretty well for you right?”

He chuckled at Hailey's explanation about the gift. He had just been kidding about the whole mascot thing but it was good to see the girl could take a joke and run with it. "A very, very poor substitute but it will do. Thank you Hailey, really." He sat the stuffed jackalope down on his bed and turned his attention back to the girl who still seemed kind of unsure about the whole idea of being here. He supposed that was mostly his fault and yeah maybe he felt a little bad about that but what could he say? If he didn't have his theatrics and bravado what else was there for him to hang his hat on?

The familiar name of Hailey's brother caught his attention and for once he was grateful for the distraction. "James, that's the one. Good looking guy if I do say so myself but not much good for a laugh. A shame really but I don't think the world could handle two Theo'es let alone the camp." Family still sounded like kind of a touchy subject for Hailey. Maybe the reunion hadn't gone as well as she had hoped which would have been truly unfortunate.

He looked her over trying to see if she gave off any tells of being unhappy but no, that wasn't it. Since that was the case he thought he might try and approach the subject if only to see how she was doing. "Remind me to put them to work when I find my next magic spell." He said and then paused for a moment in consideration. He wasn't sure if this was over stepping his bounds or not but he was concerned. "So how did the family reunion go? All settled back in at your old cabin?"

Theo loved days when he could be lazy. Searching for ancient spells and magical artifacts was all well and good but there was something to be said about getting to just sit down in a chair with good book and wasting the day away. Such as it was that was precisely what the son of Hecate was doing as a mistform drifted around him cleaning the cabin for him. He wasn't really expecting any visitors at the time. In fact, he was kind of hoping that his peaceful day would continue uninterrupted but then the knock came at his.

Theo glanced up from the book he was reading to stare at the door and sighed. None of his other siblings were here. He was all alone and supposed he could just ignore it but if he didn't get it then whoever it was might just come back and that would almost be worse. No, he needed to handle this right now and maybe he could scare the uninvited guest away for a while.

Standing up Theo had the mistform bring him one of his cloaks which he slipped into as he walked to the door. Drawing the hood up to conceal his face in shadows he worked a few quick spells to darken the room and send some must billowing out around him. With another spell Theo filled the room with eerie dancing lights and then dropping his voice to a raspy whisper he opened the door. "Who dares disturb the cabin of the lady Heca..." He began before he noticed who was standing there. When he finally did his demeanor instantly changed as his voice went back to normal and he pulled the hood away. "Oh hey Hailey. How's my favorite girl turned jackalope turned girl today?"

As they got back to the room Hailey would be staying in the girl spoke up again this time sounding a little more sheepish and shy. Theo turned to and smiled at her not wanting her to feel bad about the circumstances she found herself in. "Hey, now none of that. It wasn't all me and we are happy we could help. Don't be so hard on yourself, that’s what Artemis would have wanted you to do while you were in your jackalope form. You don't have to worry about that anymore."

For once Theo sounded sincere and sympathetic with no hint of the laughing, sarcastic conman that he usually played himself up as. He really did care and if there had ever been any doubt of that his friendly tone did away with it now. Unfortunately, that seriousness was short lived as hardly a moment had past before he was back to his old self. "Besides, I would say that if all jackalopes turned out to be pretty girls then there would be a lot more guys making fools of themselves trying to turn them back so I can't really claim to have gone above and beyond there even if it did turn out pretty amazingly." Theo gave her a wink and then motioned at the room around him. "In any case this is where you'll be staying. You’ve got a lock on the door so you’ll have your privacy but I understand if you get lonely and need some company.”

Hailey seemed to be interested in the clothes Saph was able to find and that was good. He hated to leave the girl with just some hunter rags to get her through and a cloak could only go so far. Any clothes, even if they didn't fit just right, would be better than nothing and Theo was glad to see that Hailey wasn't picky. He waited as she went to change making small talk with his sister about the successful spell and cleaned up the destroyed teddy bear before she returned.

When she did come back into the room looking at least partly refreshed he glanced up from what he was doing to smile at her. "Well, well. You're looking better already and that cloak suits you. Keep dressing like that and people will start thinking you're a Hecate kid in no time." He continued watching her as she spoke and chuckled at the comment about where she was going to sleep finding in it another opportunity to tease her. "Now that's a dangerous question Hailey." He said with that playful tone in his voice. "But since my sister would probably take offense to my lecherous ways I guess we can clear you out one of the extra bunks and get you comfortable if that sounds alright. It's been a long day after all."

For a moment he didn't know if he was going to get lucky or not. The request had been made in jest, Theo not really suspecting his bravado would pay off but Hailey did seem pretty flustered by him so who knew? It was worth a shot in any case just too see if he could get a rise out of her. Unfortunately it didn't pay out exactly how he wanted, Theo would never turn down a kiss from a pretty girl if he could help it, but he still thought she wasn't entirely as confident as she acted.

As she motioned towards the disemboweled bear Theo shook his head in exaggerated shame. "Curses, foiled once more by my callow youth. I suppose I can let you off on a technicality this time but don't think you're getting off the hook that easily." He said with a chuckle. "You are welcome to stay here though until we find a better alternative. The runes on the cabin should keep Artemis from trying to get revenge on you again and I'm still counting you as a mascot until we know something to do with you bunny girl."