@Rhoxi: ghost tag was hilarious, mainly because Stiles just floated around as the Most Useless Tag Opponent Ever. You could at least pretend to be enjoying yourself, Stiles.
A lot has happened in the Levine household! First, Elijah and Tovah went on vacation. Not much really happened, except for Elijah being knocked out by a mummy.
Tovah got up to visa level 2, so hopefully the next time they head to Egypt they can buy a nice vacation house.
Back home, Tovah got to work.
And her other work.
Delvin Beckwith.
Zachariah Goode.
Dana Turpin. (The kid to his right is Don Goetz, Ida's brother and Tovah's uncle.)
Tucker Crandall, talking to Ida's father (Tovah's grandfather).
Clay Moreland.
And Humberto Parent.
So with all of these boys to choose from, with whom did Tovah end up going to prom?
No one. She don't need no man! (Except that she does because this is an immortal dynasty. But shhh.)
To be fair to our Prom Queen, she did have other things on her mind. She was doing her homework at the table one day when her grandmother Hannah had a strange meal.
It was hard not to notice the explosion of goo that followed, nor how some of Grandma's wrinkles and age spots seemed to magically disappear. So Tovah asked, and Hannah explained. Which went a long way toward explaining how she had survived this.
Hannah left nothing out of her explanation, including that she wanted Elijah to become immortal too, and hopefully, one day, Tovah herself. Intrigued and a little frightened, Tovah talked to her mother, who invited Hannah out to lunch at the diner and confronted her there. Now the whole family knew.
Hannah told Ida how her husband and daughter could live forever, guiding and loving each new generation of Levines. Ida, of course, wanted to know why she herself wasn't being considered for immortality. Sadly, Hannah explained how there were too many requirements for Ida to meet, in too short a time-- Ida was now 87 days old and simply didn't have enough time left.
The next day, after doing some research of her own, Ida brought up the the whole issue to Elijah.
He was only two days away from his elder birthday at this point and feeling his life begin to ebb. And then there was Tovah, whom he had just taught to drive, also two days away from her birthday. If he joined Hannah in immortality, he could stay with his daughter forever.
Without fear of her crashing the car into a fiery wreck.
But in the end, it was loss that convinced him.
Grim came for Mitzvah after 52 days, when the whole family was out to eat. She passed only in the presence of a stray cat.
There were birthdays to be celebrated and graduation to attend; life had to move on. And Elijah realized, standing over Mitzvah's small grave, that he should be there to see it. It would be his gift, and his curse, and that of all the Levines to come: their duty would be to bear witness.
RIP, Mitzvah Levine.
(Having recently lost my cat of 15 years, I cried so hard at this. I may possibly need a life.)
