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Sorcha
yawned as she leaned back against the tree, her feet stretched out
along the branch in front of her. She was trying to ignore Cearea and
Calin where they arguing over something. Well... Cearea was arguing...
Calin was just being irritating. Raelin was on the swing hung from the
next branch over and was smirking softly as she watched them.
It
was a lazy saturday afternoon. Their parents were away and they were
waiting for the others to arrive. The whole gang was due to be here at
some point today... probably the first time since Christmas that all of
them had managed to be in the same place at the same time...
Sorcha
glanced towards the gate again, and gave a soft snort. Her friend Marli
had said that they'd have 'unusual visitors' today... And here she was
actually expecting them to show up. Ever since Marli had started to
work at developing her psycic abilities she'd been making these vague
premonitions... most had bombed comletely, but the past couple weeks
had been more promising.
The sounds of voices made her drop the illusion she'd been spinning between her fingers and glance back at the gate.
Something
odd had caught Calin's interest and he turned his attention from Cearea
to glance toward the gate. Nothing at usual first, just Nicky and MIke,
Tristan, and Bastin. No doubt Miranda and Maya were following. MAYBE
even Devin and Lily Rose, but he wouldn't bet money on it. And Iris was
to young to join them right now. Or at least by Sands' point of view.
Then
Calin realized Nicky was rather excited about something. Then he
noticed there was some one new with them. Two some ones new.
Calin raised an eyebrow and shook his head. "You three stay here for a moment." He said, heading for the gate.
"Calin!" Sorcha jumped out of the tree, starting to follow him.
"Sorcha,
I said stay here." Calin snapped over his shoulder, before reaching the
gate, his kid sister stopping in the middle of the yard with her hands
on her hips.
"Yo, guys." Calin said, getting Nicky and Mike's attention.
"Hey!
Calin!" Nicky hoped up on one end of the fence, sitting. "Hope you
don't mind...we kinda brought these guys along...yeah...they were kinda
in a scrap, and we helped them out...and then found out some
interesting information about them...it'll blow your mind!" Nicky said.
Calin snorted, giving Nicky an amused look, before looking at Mike, Tristan and Bastin. "He's serious mate." Mike said softly.
"What
do you mean he's serious?" Calin asked, raising an eyebrow, he looked
at Bastin, who was usually the most serious amung them. Bastin nodded.
"Right...well,
this is Gavin...he's like...your half brother...in a really messed up
way, but he's not from our world...we're thinkin'...you know that thing
Tiger used to do with portals? We're thinking something like that, only
different world. And that's Caleb, he's like your cousin...in a some
what normal way, but slightly messed up way, and he's from the same
place Gavin is..." Nicky said, in his unique way of explaining things...
Calin
simply stared at him for a moment, before looking at the two guys. They
weren't much older then Calin and the others, maybe 20 or so. One had
red hair, almost as close as Cearea's, but not quite, reminded him more
of Tristan and Miranda... He was dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, old
sneakers about to fall apart.
The other guy...he'd only seen a
look like that on his cousin Jon, and it wasn't quite that extreme.
Black hair, the front of it blue, was little past the shoulders and
under cut. Dressed in dark jeans, a interesting shirt with Boris Karlof
as Frankinstein on the front and a rather nice tribal tattoo down one
arm. Not to mention the eyeliner and facial tattoo of lines through one
eye. Yeah...this was some one Calin's dad might have a hard time with
if one of the girls brought him home...
"You wanna explain that any better?" Calin asked, leaning against a gate post.
The
two looked at each other. Then the red head sighed. "We're not from
here...we're from some where far far away...like another world..."
Gavin said, knowing Caleb was having a hard time keeping from laughing.
When it'd happened, and they found themselves here, Caleb hadn't found
it very funny. It was slowly warming up to him...like a bad dream...
"Right, okay, another world. What was this about you being a half brother?" Calin asked him.
Gavin
snorted. "In our world," He said slowly. "We have the same mum..." He
watched Calin step back from the fence with a raised eyebrow.
"We have the same mum?" Calin asked.
"Yeah,
but not the same da. Actually, it it sorta makes me half brother to
Mike and Tristan here." Gavin added. Tristan was smirking wickedly and
Mike meerly shook his head.
"You'll get a headache if ya think
to long on it, mate." Mike said to Calin sympathetically. "But it seems
in this other world. My da, and your mum hooked up..."
Calin
raised an eyebrow, and started to ask something, when some else cut in.
"Oh, so I see we're not late. That's good...and I see we're not the
only one with unsual visitors." Calin glanced past the guys to see his
second cousin Sora, with her bubble gum pink hair, and Union Jack mini
dress coming toward them, with some other young people Calin didn't
know.
"Well, while we're on the subject, might as well
introduce the ones with me first." Sora said. "So this is Brina..." The
silver hair was all to familar... "And Elora..." Looked just like
Cearea, for a few differiences... "Travis..." Looked abit like Tristan
actually, "And Marcas." Calin didn't recongize him...wait...he had the
same eyes his cousin Gwyndion did...something wasn't right here...
"Do
I WANT to know? Sora, Mike, Bastin, should I have taken up drinking
today?" Calin asked, eyeing them all. "Or is this one big joke?"
"Well
damn ... Marli was right..." Sorcha said from where she'd been standing
behind Calin cloaked in illusion. Raelin at her side.
Calin turned with a groan. "Didn't I say to stay over there?!"
Sorcha
just raised an eyebrow. She wasn't one to let her brother get in her
way nor was she one to get into arguements with him.. she left that to
Cearea.
She looked around at the others as she heard her other
sister heading their way, her curiosity finally getting the better of
her. "Well.. this is looking interesting... why don;t we sit down
instead of standing around here?" she asked, her eyes going back to the
one called Caleb. She wished she had the guts to be that drastic with
her look. That would put a stop to a lot of the crap... if she survived
the fit her parents would have...
"INCOMING!!" a voice shouted a
second before the gate slammed open and shut and Dante came whisking
through on his roller blades , making every one stumble out of his way.
Ignoring the grumbles and complaints, he didn't even notice the new
faces at first. "GUYS!! You're not going to BELIEVE this!!" he said,
shaking the black hair out of his face as he spoke. "I just met..." his
voice trailed off as he suddenly became aware of the new faces
surounding him. He gave his bangs another shake and looked at each new
face in turn. He actually looked disappointed. "Fuck.. nevermind..
looks like you'll believe it afterall..." he said with a sigh and
yelled back over his shoulder. "COME ON IN!!"
Raelin was
standing on her tiptoes, trying to see who else was coming in that had
her uncle so excited. Sorcha, being one of the tallest there smirked.
"I love you Marli...I so owe you that latte..." she said softly.
Krell
paused in the little aisle that lead from the gate into the yard and
eyed all the people gathered there. "Umm.... wow..." he said softly.
Sorcha still wasn't used to seeing him in a human glamour. Krell rarely
visited the mortal realm, although this past year he had made a few
more visits then normal. Her eyes went to the young woman who was half
hiding behind him. She had long silvery-grey hair and was rather
pretty... and there was something about her that just set her alarms
ringing.. just like all the other new faces..
Krell cleared his
throat nervously. "Umm.. hi... this is Gabrielle.. Errin." he said
softly and Dante jumped in, his excitement back. "She's your sister,
guys! Aint that cool!? Well.. half sister... but not really...wait.. I
think I messed that up.." he said and Krell sighed.
"Let me guess... she's not from this world... seems to be a lot of that going around.." Sorcha said with a soft smirk.
Wait,
I'm missing two, hold on." Sora replied, bouncing back the way she'd
come. After a couple moments, she reappeared, this time, dragging two
twin boys with her. Well...mostly twins...one had a light reddish hair,
like Raelin's actually. Calin groaned. "Why am I not liking any of
this..." He muttered mostly to himself.
"This is Cayden and
Gaberiel." Sora said, leaving the two young men near by. "So then? Is
this wild or what? It's like a bunch of black holes opened up or
something...WHOA! I so dig the tattoo, dude!" She said to Caleb, who
meerly smirked.
Calin shook his head, "Right well...shall we take a head count here?" He asked, shoving his hands in his pockets.
"Hold
on! I see some more." Bastin said, looking back. Sora looked over her
shoulder and saw the twins, Jon and Gwyndion with some more.
"Hot damn!" Sora said with a laugh, hoping up on the fence next to Nicky. They watched them get closer with his group.
"Introduce
your friends, guys." Sora said with a smirk as Ryn took in the new
faces. "We're turning into quite a little party...Careful Calin or some
one might call the cops." She added to her cousin, who groaned.
Jon
shook his head, and turned slightly, pointing to them in order. One boy
looked like Tristan, Mike and Gavin. "Jamie." Jon said, pointing to
that guy. Then he pointed to another boy that looked almost like them,
only had reddish brown hair. "Justin. And that's Garrett and Jace."
They pointed to the other two boys.
Then
Calin noticed a young man, maybe the same age, or a year or two older
behind Jon and Gwyndion and the others. His eyes narrowed on him at
once, an odd feeling coming off of him.
Probably something Cearea felt when looking at Gaberielle. He'd noticed Cearea looking at the other girl oddly.
The
young man's hair was pale blonde, but in the sunlight had a faint firey
flare, that which definitly had to be something fae. His ears were
slightly pointed, most like most of the half fae. But his eyes, where
an pale blue Calin was familiar with. He was standing with a girl and
another young man.
"Oh yeah." Gwyndion added. "That's Callum, Rachel, and Jack Daniel...other wise just known as Jack."
"Okay,
THAT IS IT!" Calin said, throwing up his hands. "Can we get a head
count here. All those related to me, Cearea, Sorcha and Raelin, please
raise your hand. That being, either by our father, Faal, or our mother,
Lexine..." There were some looks exchanged, before Cayden, Gaberiel,
Gaberielle, Callum, another boy later recongized as Gaberielle's
brother, Aiden, Elora, Gavin, and Jamie raised their hands.
"Wonderful." Calin said, taking count.
"Okay, all those
related to...Mike and Maya, please raise a hand, that's through their
mother Aiyla, or their father Nate..." Calin said with one of those
tones.
Jamie, Gavin, Elora, and Jack raised their hands, some
shaking their heads. "All under Nate, I believe," Gavin added, looking
at the other three. Mike snorted softly, shaking his own head.
"Okay
then...all those related to Jon and Gwyndion, please raise your hand.
That's either under Saffron, or Alandra..." Calin ticked off.
Justin,
Rachael and Marcas raised their hand. Caleb on the other hand was
looking at Jon and Gwyndion. Jon was the only other one who looked like
Caleb, black hair, eyeliner, dark clothes and piercings. "Fuck Me!"
Caleb said with one of those tones. He could also tell something about
these four. "FUCK ME!" He added again.
Jon and Gwyndion where
eyeing him. He was oblivously older then the rest as was Gavin over
those related to him. Calin was staring to feel like laughing. He added
what he hoped was the last one. "Those related to Tristan and
Miranda..." Jamie, Garrett, Jace, and Travis.
"Okay, my head
hurts. I don't know about any one else, but I'm going to go see about
some asprin, and maybe pinch myself." Cearea said from behind the rest
of her sibilings, heading for the back door, although she didn't fail
to notice Krell.
Sorcha
had gone to lean against the fence, her elbow resting on Nick's knee.
Raelin and Dante both had that look they got when they were on the
verge of major mischief. She looked out over the sea of half familiar
faces and quickly checked for any illusion or glamour .. nothing.
"I
say hang on a minute... so far... everyone that's arrived has had
someone with them. And if you remember, we were ALL getting
together..."she said with a smirk. "We're still missing a few faces,
which means we might have some more .. visitors as well..." she said.
Just
then there was a startled "Oh!" and Gabrielle spun around. "Aiden!" she
said and grabbed Krell's arm. "He's not here... I never noticed!!
Mother will kill me!" Krell patted her hand and opened his mouth , but
just then the gate banged open again, and a moment later Devin appeared
with two guests. The boy shot forward and ran to Gabrielle's side and
Sorcha was floored by his appearance. He was the youngest out of the
lot of them, a couple years younger then Raelin.. and he was the
spitting image of her father. Actually, she was pretty sure if she went
and got the photo album and compared, he'd match up pretty well with a
couple of her younger photos too.
Devin smirked as he took in
the new faces, not surprised in the least. "Tamara." he said simply,
nodding to the copper haired girl beside him.
Calin
tacked a couple more names to the list he was slowly forming, and
muttered. "I should have taken up drinking this morning..." Then
thought of something else. "How many are fire elementals, I'm not sure
our insurance covers so many?" There were several snickers and soft
giggles, and Calin shook his head. "Right, right..."
"Excuse me,
pardon me, yes, thank you." Another voice was working his way through
the group and Calin groaned. He didn't want to deal with this person at
the moment, that was the last he needed. Caspin popped out of the crowd
and was dragging another young man with him, Niell. Calin groaned even
more...God he couldn't stand his cousin Niell. They were leading a kid
with whitish blond hair and dark eyes. "This is Raiden." Capsin said
simply in indication.
Cearea had stopped at the back door and
was leaning on it, shaking her head. In some weird way, it all made
sense that in some other world these people were all their sibilings,
or cousins or what ever...Calin never had the same premonitions Cearea
and her sisters got about things this strange some times. Her eyes were
drawn to the girl Gaberielle, something about her...
And yet
she noticed at the same time Calin's gaze was being drawn to the boy
named Callum. Of course, Callum looked as much like their father as the
boy Aiden did...
Then she noticed the girl Brina was looking
around for someone. She finally reached behind one of the boys she'd
been with and grabbed some one. "Gods, Rhyn, now is not the time for
that shit!" She said with a tone.
There was a soft chuckle
from near by and Lily Rose appeared, with two more. "Mariah and Chase."
She said, indicating the young man and woman with her. Both seventeen
or so...
"Wait a minute, Wait a minute!" Bastin spoke up from his corner. "How can we assume any of this is true with out proof."
"It
is true," Brina said from her spot, a hand on Rhyn's shoulder. "I mean,
just what kind of proof do you need? In...our world, my father is Eire
and I was raised by my dads..."
"Dads?" Some one repeated.
"Oh well," Brina snickered as did Rhyn, "Eire and Xander." Bastin did a double take.
"Excuse me?"
"I don't think I stuttered." Brina replied, giving him a look.
"Are you suggesting my dad is gay?" Bastin asked with a cold tone.
"Well...I wouldn't say THAT, but in my world, they're certianly married." Brina replied.
"How dare you..." Bastin took a step forward.
"HEY!
BACK OFF!" Elore snapped, moving forward, she was much shorter then
Bastin, but Travis, Marcas and Raiden were suddenly at her back, as
Brina meerly smirked at Bastin.
"Enough! We start fighting and nothing is going to be figured out!" Sora snapped from her spot.
"Well...I
can tell you this much..." Came an eerie voice, and several heads
turned to see a pale girl with dark hair and green eyes coming forward,
followed by two young men, who both nodded to Callum, Jack and Racheal.
"There's something...evil, that's done this...and if we don't get these
guys home...SOON, things could really get fucked up in their worlds."
Iris Amyerillas said, her wide eyes looking around seriously at all of
them.
Lily
Rose turned and looked at her fourteen year old sister. "Iris, what
have you been told about swearing?!" She asked with a tone. Iris simply
turned her eyes on her sister and shrugged.
"Dad says it all the time." She said simply.
"Yes
well, do what he says, not what he does." Lily Rose replied rolling her
eyes, before looking at the two guys with Iris. "Who are they?"
"Oh, this is Thayer and Johnny." Iris said simply. The two young men nodded, before moving over to Callum, Racheal and Jack.
"And who do you claim as parents?" Calin asked the two.
Thayer snorted. "Well my parents are Mike and Threni MacDonnell, I don't know about any one else..."
Sora fell out off the fence, "Threni?!?" She replied.
"Yeah," Thayer replied, eyeing Sora with a smirk worthy of any mischief maker. "Take it you know her?"
"Well, here, she's my mum, but she's married to Quaide MacDonnell."
"Our uncle in other words." Jamie and Justin both said from their place. "At least in our world..."
"And your parents?" Calin asked Johnny.
"I'm his brother." Johnny said, pointing to Jack. Indeed, they did look a lot of alike...
"Meaning?"
"Our parents are Nate and Larkin MacDonnell." Jack said in a soft spoken voice.
"Making you our brothers." Tristan said from his spot.
"Well so are we!" Mariah said, nodding to Chase beside her.
"Yeah...unfortunetly..." Came a muttered reply from Cayden.
"What is that supposed to mean!?" Mariah snapped, looking at him.
"Stop."
Gaberiel said simply with a tone that left no room for argument. Mariah
and Cayden both snapped their mouths shut. Chase smirked darkly,
shaking his head. The twins were a contradiction of each other...Cayden
was like their mother, and tended to be at odds with Mariah all the
time. Gaberiel was like their father...
"And your parents?" Calin asked, eyeing the twins.
"Faal and Lexine Dominic..." Gaberiel answered simply.
"Oh well, that works..." Cearea muttered from her spot by the door, rolling her eyes and crossing her arms.
"They have a sister too, but I don't think she ended up with them here..." Chase said.
"No,
she was in Paris with our father." Gaberiel answered, crossing his
arms. "Cayden and I were in London, when we...found ourselves some
where else."
"Sounds familiar..." Chase said. "Mariah and I were in Prague when it happened..."
The
others were looking around as well. "Jack, Rachael and I were out in
the country, when we found ourselves not where we were supposed to
be..." Callum said from his spot.
Gavin and Caleb looked at
each other. "You know, I've never heard of something like this
happening." Gavin said, shifting his wait and running a hand through
his hair.
Caleb simply shoved his hands in his pockets and
turned his eyes upward to the sky a moment. "Can't say I have either,
but that one's right." He nodded in Iris' direction. "There's
something...evil that's caused this...I can feel it."
"Well, I always say if you feel it, we avoid it." Gavin said with a shrug.
Caleb
gave him a look, before turning his eyes on everyone else. He took a
long silent moment, to read each of their souls. Everyone of them
seemed decent and good, and none of them were pretending anything. A
few of them were powerful. The only ones that slightly worried him,
where Cayden and Gaberiel, who seemed to have a couple...spots on their
souls...indicating that they knew something of being bad...
He
caught Gavin looking at him with that irritated look again and smirked,
with a shrug. Gavin leaned over. "You keep reading their souls and
you're going to take all the fun out of guessing." Gavin hissed. Caleb
meerly chuckled.
Tamara
eyed the other MacDonnell's curiously. "My parents are Nate MacDonnell
and Sylvie MacDo... Leeman. "she said. "Mike MacDonnell raised me
though, and I have two younger half brothers through him and mum.. but
they're divorced now." she looked around. "I haven't heard anyone claim
my mum as theirs yet. Plenty share my dad though."
Krell cleared
his throat softly and tried not to look too nervous when everyones eyes
found him. He really perferred sticking to the background with Puk. "I
was on my way to meet with Prince Ellander actually...when I found
their highnesses... Gabrielle is.." his voice trailled off for a moment
as he glanced at the girl who sighed and lifted her chin slightly. "My
mother is Lexine Errin... my fathers' Abadon.. and Ellander Errin..
Aiden is my half brother from Lexine and Ellander."
Rhyn
bounced forward, hearing that from Gaberielle. "My dad's Abadon! My mum
is Evelyn..." Rhyn was having trouble saying it. "EVIE Caine..." He
said, some what elated to have some one who might understand. Brina
snorted softly, she still remembered Abadon...
Cearea shuddered
from her spot by the door and looked away from everyone, crossing her
arms over her chest and leaning back against the wood. It seemed like
any one who was related to Lexine shuddered.
Except Gavin, who
meerly sneered, Caleb along with him. They knew the stories... Callum
didn't seem to happy either, shoving his hands in his pockets.
"Did you say Caine?" Bastin asked, looking at Rhyn.
"Yeah, that makes him your uncle." Brina replied from her spot with a cheerful smile. Bastin scowled at her.
"This
is all facisnating and all, but there's still one problem I'm seeing."
Calin said from his spot, getting everyone's attention. Bastin's best
friend Nicky was sitting on the post, snickering his ass off. Bastin
reached over and shoved him off backwards. Neither Mike or Calin tried
to stifle their laughter and several of the other guys smirked faintly.
"Abusive bastard..." Nicky muttered, climbing to his feet and dusting himself off.
"One
problem?" Sorcha asked. "Just one? We have people from several
alternate realities, all of them with blood connections to some of the
others, including us... and they've all wound up here. With us. Iris
says we have to get them back to where they belong... big surprise
there, by the way, kid... " she added with a smirk. "Plus there's a big
bad out there doing it and we have no clue why, who or what to do about
stopping them and putting everyone back where they belong again. Hell,
we don;t even know if this is it or if there are other 'visitors'
wandering around out there!"
"Oh..
hey... " Raelin said, raising a hand and grinning. "I just wanted to
see if there's anyone else here who is related to Sheldon Sands....?"
Sorcha snorted and rolled her eyes and Raelin gave her a look. "What? Always identify the potential scary ones first..."
Raiden
suddenly beamed, those dark eyes sparkling wickedly which was a scary
contrast with the white hair. "Yeah, I am." He said.
Gavin and
Caleb had stepped back out of ear shot, and Gavin snorted. "They're
looking for scary? Theyr'e not looking very far..." Gavin said.
Caleb looked over at him with an amused smirk. "You have to remember...I'm not nearly as scary and intimidating as my dad."
"Yeah, took after your mother too much." Gavin replied.
Caleb gave a laugh, which got several people's attention...
Sorcha
raised an eyebrow at the two. She'd heard the comments between the two
of them.. and as she glanced at the others with fae blood, saw that
they had as well. Since no one else seemed to be eager to ask...
"Alright..
I give." she said, stepping closer. "Who are your parents that makes
you 'potentially' scarier then Sands' kids? I mean .. one look at you
and I can tell you're a MacDonnell." she said looking at Gavin. "but
you... " she said and eyed Caleb carefully. After a moment she smirked
softly. "You... look like you would be a cousin... I see a definate
resemblance to Uncle Saffron..."
Raelin grinned and slipped
infront of her. "Awesome! That makes Jon and Gwydion you'r half
brothers at least...So who's your mom then?"
Caleb
did a double take. "Did you say UNCLE?" He asked, sounding a bit
winded, before looking at Gavin. Gavin was looking at him, green eyes
wide, sparkling.
Then Gavin collasped to the ground, laughing
hysterically. Caleb stared at him, before looking at Sorcha, then at
Jon and Gwyndion, then back at Gavin. "Get your fuckin' ass up before I
rip out your soul." Caleb hissed at him, his eyes flashing darker for a
moment.
Gavin struggled to his feet as he managed to clamp
down his laughter. "Alright, alright." He said quickly before taking a
gasping breath of air and calming down. Before Caleb got moody.
Caleb
crossed his arms and didn't answer Raelin. Gavin sighed and turned to
her. "To answer yuor question, his mum is Saffron...in our
world...yeah...his dad is Graves."
"So?" Came a voice from the
other side and Rachael was crossing her arms. "My mother happens to be
Saffron." She said as if she took offense to the others' reactions.
Sorcha
raised an eyebrow and clamped a hand over Raelin's mouth before she
could say anything. "No prob... not a big deal... our mom started out
as a guy.. well no.. actually her and aunt Larkin were born as girls,
changed into boys then changed back into girls later on.. I suppose in
your worlds the same happened to Uncle Saffron."
Raelin suddenly
bit down and slipped free as her sister cursed, shaking her hand. "OR..
it's true here too and he just hasn't changed yet.. huh boys?" she
taunted her cousins. Dante cracked up laughing and Devin caught hold of
Jon and Gwydion before they could make a grab at Raelin.
"Graves..." Sorcha muttered softly as she inspected the faint bite mark on her hand. "Why does that sound familiar?"
Raelin
suddenly giggled and tapped her ear where a tiny dangling skull danced
and Sorcha groaned. "Oh... "she said giving Caleb an appraising eye.
She had to spend a couple weeks at Court a while ago and upon her
return she'd been subjected to her little sisters unceasing chatter
about Matt Hogan's 'visit' to the offices... Apparently, for some
reason, she'd become quite enamoured with him and had, much to her
fathers horror and her mothers quiet amusement, added a few skulls to
her wardrobe...
Calin
had to bit back his laughter at Raelin's comment to Jon and Gwyndion
and shook his head slightly. He wouldn't be surprised...There was the
fact that Saffron and Alandra seemed...er...distant, but he wasn't
supposed to have noticed that... Well it seemed to be one of
his...gifts, knowing exactly what everyone was feeling around him.
"Is
that a problem?" Caleb asked, eyeing Sorcha with a raised eyebrow. In
this light, the blue streaks in the front of his hair were brighter.
"No."
Came Cearea's reply, she finally came over toward the gate, curosity
winning her over. She stopped just on the other side of the fence from
Gaberielle. Despite having Abadon as a father, Cearea felt...curious
about her most of all.
Calin chuckled softly. "My sister has a
point. It seems our baby sister, Raelin there, has a bit of a...CRUSH
on Graves..." He said, giving Raelin a grin.
Gavin scratched his
eyebrow, with a smirk and glanced at Caleb. Caleb had to smirk slightly
himself and replied. "I'm sure he's thrilled."
Raelin
shot her brother a glare and folded her arms over her chest. "Do not."
she said softly but her eyes were sparkling mischievously and she'd
gone back to toying with her earrings.
Sorcha snorted. "Of
course not.. that's why you've talked yourself to sleep about him for
the past two weeks and are working towards giving dad a heart attack
with the skulls that keep appearing on your clothes and jewelry. By the
way... he heard that joke you made about the tattoo and belly ring...
perpare to be grounded until your fifty if you even give that serous
consideration." she looked up at Caleb, her eyes sparling as much as
her sisters. "And like Calin said.. no.. it's not a problem. I haven't
met Graves.. at least not that I remember. I understand he works mostly
on the road.. when he still takes jobs with Chaos Inc, anyhow. You
know.. I don;t think any of us introduced ourselves." she said. "In
this world, Faal Dominic and Lexine Mordant are married and we're their
children. Calin, Cearea, Raelin and I'm Sorcha." she said. "Lady Chaos
and Auron Mordant are remarried and Devin and Dante are their youngest
sons. The rest of their kids, Regan, Saffron, Lexine and Larkin are all
married with kids of their own... except for Madison.. she's the
youngest and isn't here. Thank god." she added with a smirk. "
There were several nods and hellos. Caleb was considering things before asking. "So wait, whos...Saffron with here?"
"Oh
well that would be our Aunt Alandra...Caspin's elder sister." Iris said
from her spot pleasently. "But it's not going to last much longer..."
"Iris,
hush!" Lily Rose hissed. Iris had gotten her mother's second sight, but
seemed to like to give out the unpleasent information most.
"Well mumma's already seen it..." Iris defended herself indiginantly.
"Well that's for mumma to know and you NOT to tell." Lily Rose replied giving her sister a look.
"Why isn't it going to last?" Caleb asked out of curosity.
Iris
smirked at Lily Rose and turned to Caleb. "Well for several reasons,
some I can't talk about...but I DO know that Saffron's in love with
some one else." She said, smiling, eyes sparkling sinisterly.
Caleb
stared at her a moment, coming to the realization he'd never met a more
creepy girl, and he glanced at Raiden, wondering if he was just as
bad...something about that boy said he might be worse...
"Who?!" Came several voices, including Cearea, Sora and Nicky.
Iris shrugged. "I don't know his name."
There was a stunned silence, before Jon snapped coldly. "Bullshit!"
Iris simply shrugged again, looking at Jon and Gwyndion pitingly.
Sorcha
eyed Caleb thoughtfully for a moment. "You'll have to excuse Iris
Amyrillis... she's coming into her powers as a seer... and is becoming
even more of a pain in the ass then before. Plus she's a Sands...which
makes her an Errin..." she added with a soft smirk and a shrug. "Enough
said."
Raelin grinned mischieviously. "For those of you who
aren't of the Errin bloodline or have any ties to it... you might not
understand that.. but.." she giggled and gave a shrug. Raelin had just
recently begun delving into the family tree and making a point of
meeting as many of her fae and faerie relatives as possible.
Sorcha
snorted and drapped an arm over her sisters shoulders. "Rae... you've
been spending too much time with Uncle Estehl and GrandUncle
Gillorn...especially Grand Uncle Gilorn... you're turning faerie on
us..."
Rae just giggling evily, her eyes sparkling. "Yeah.. I know... I hope I grow wings... that would really freak dad out.."
Iris
turned her dark eyes on Raelin and smirked suddenly. "Make sure you're
close to a phone when he finds out...you'll wanna be calling your mum
pretty quick. She'll be at the office." She said.
Lily simply
groaned, before speaking to Caleb, Jon and Gwyndion. "You can hope
she's making it up, but I highly doubt it." she sighed. "Jon, Gwyn I
hate to say it, but her little predictions have been coming true..."
"Well mumma knows more about it." Iris replied simply.
"I
just don't wanna hear our dad is...you know...turning..." Jon replied
with a sigh, shaking his head. Gwyndion was eyeing Iris for any sign
she knew something.
Iris was simply smiling a coldly pleasent smile.
Raelin
was staring at Iris, her face absolutely glowing. "REALLY!?! I'm
getting WINGS!! YUS!!" she yelled, laughing and Sorcha had to press
down on both shoulders to keep her from jumping. "Wonderful... Cal..
you want to spread the warning or do I get too? You know.. since I'm
more faerie then you, make ME tell .." she shot Iris a look. "and if
you tell me I'm growing the damned things too.. I'll fix a permant
glamour over you that you will never live down... hear me, brat? It's
bad enough as it is..."
Raelin just snorted and shot her sister
a look. "You're nuts, you know that? You're gorgeous, every one thinks
so... and if you had wings, you'd be even prettier! But you go around
in big baggy ugly clothes and argue with mumma and dad about having to
wear gowns at court!"
"Squirt." Calin said simply. "Don't."
Raelin
eyed him for a minute and then shot Sorcha another look before snorting
softly and moving to stand closer to her uncle and partner in crime,
Dante.
There
were a couple broken snickers, before Callum shook his head. "As fun as
this is, I THINK Calin had a point." He said calmly.
He looked at Jack and Johnny. They nodded, they felt time was pressing. Some of the others seemed to feel the same way.
"Anyway,
we don't need to worry about that right now, because in two minutes,
we're going to have trouble." Iris said. "Oo, make that one minute."
"What are you talking about, Iris?" Lily Rose asked, looking at her sister. Iris meerly smirked.
"Iris, don't be trying to creep everyone out, it's not going to work." Cearea said from her spot.
Iris's
smirk grew bigger and she turned, pointing toward the woods near the
house. Some of the guys realized the street was empty. Not just empty,
but eerily quiet. At this realization, Calin summoned his sword, as did
Callum, Cayden, Gaberiel and Sora.
Caleb suddenly shivered,
and began to smirk wickedly, his eyes going darker. Gavin glanced at
him. "Ah shit...don't tell me...I didn't come prepared for this
shit..." He groaned.
Caleb meerly chuckled, and as Gavin
blinked, Caleb was already armed with the two thin blades he had. Gavin
sighed deeply and pulled up his pants leg, taking the hunting knife
from the sheath in his combat boot.
The first creature was
seen, shuffling slowly from the tree line at the back of the house. "Is
that what I think it is?!" Sora asked. "That really a zombie?!"
"Low
level, but don't let it fool you." Caleb said. "Some one's sent it this
way...and it's not alone..." He moved forward slightly, as more
creatures shuffled out. The guys were automatically putting most of the
girls behind them.
"So do we let you handle these?" Gavin asked Caleb, as they watched the zombies. Caleb looked over his shoulder.
"I don't suppose any one else back here can handle the dead can they?" He asked. Everyone shook their head accept one.
"I
can." Rachael said. "Or at least to some degree. Hell elemental." She
moved forward, with two staffs, both ends with wicked blades on them.
"Oh
that's nice to know, same here..." Caleb replied. "With a little
something extra..." He added with a smirk turning back to the
creatures.
The ones in front had moved close enough, Caleb and
Gavin broke to either side. Calin and Callum weren't far behind them.
Calin was hardly surprised to see Krell with a blade, standing near
Cearea. Calin had a sneaking suspecion about Krell and Cearea for some
reason...
Caleb watched one of the zombies in front of him,
his swords resting in front of him. Then he opened his sense and
prodded the zombies mentally, looking for weakness. He found to his
left, that he could get his 'hooks' in, one with some what little of a
soul remaining, a fresh zombie.
He was just about to bind the
soul, when he lost it, some one else had grabbed control...He glanced
at Rachael, but she showed no sign of having control of it. Caleb
frowned.
Sorcha
scowled fiercely. Krell was guarding Cearea and Gabrielle had joined
her, draggin Aiden with her. Raelin was looking possitively giddy and
the ozone scent of lightening was already in the air as the blue-white
corona started to glow around her hands. She looked around at the
others, who even without any gift with the dead were getting ready to
fight... and her powers were next to useless. Illusions didn't work on
zombies... and her faerie magic wasn't strong enough to be much help
either. With a soft growl of frustration, she pushed up her sleeves and
got ready to do what she could.
The closest zombie suddenly
stopped inches from their group, and then collapsed at Caleb's feet.
She would've commented on it, but the look on his face told her he
wasn't responsible. Another zombie suddenly froze as it reached them
and fell to the ground. "What the hell is happening?" she asked. "Did
dad strengthen the wards or something?!"
A voice behind them suddenly made her jump. "You kids might want to get your asses out of the way... "
Raelin spun at the voice and gave an excited squeal. "GRAVES!"
Sorcha
groaned then suddenly smirked softly. The smirk was quickly followed by
a scowl as she squashed the sudden thought down.. Raelin wasn't the
only one spending too much time with the fae relatives... she was
starting to develope a more faerish sense of humour herself.
Devin
noted her expression as the unarmed amoung them crowded closer to the
house to give the others room to fight. He smiled softly at her and
leaned close. "Tell me..." She raised an eyebrow and tried to resist,
but in the end whispered in his ear, causing his eyes to light up and
draw curious looks form the others with them.
Yes, definately too much time with her relatives... here they were under attack by the undead... and she's getting .. 'ideas'...
Devin
nodded. "We have to." he said softly and before she could say anything,
he went amoung the others closest to them and whispered to them all.
She wasn't sure whether to groan or grin.. or whether to hope the other
parents were around to fall prey as well...
Caleb
turned with Gavin at the extremely familiar voice to look, before they
looked at each other. Caleb took a deep breath, only turning partly
toward the man.
Some of the other kids turned, and moved away,
but Callum and Calin stayed where they were, along with Caleb and
Gavin. Rachael even moved.
Caleb gave in, and asked. "Think you can handle this many?"
Graves
eyed the young man who had spoken and snorted. "I've done more. I don't
recall having an audience this size though... so get your asses out of
the way." he said a bit louder and glared at the kids by the house,
another zombie dropping in its tracks as he did. He pointed a finger
Raelin. "You.. squirt... get inside. Them too."
Sorcha snorted
but waved the others inside, grabbing the scruff of Nicky's shirt when
he made to join Calin and the others. "No sword, no power over the
dead... inside." she said. Raelin sulked not having even let a single
lightening blast go, but turned and followed the others to stand in
side and watch through the patio doors.
The majority of the kids
out of the way, Graves turned back to the approaching zombies. He shot
a glare at the boys. "Fine.. play heros... but don't get in my way and
make me have to save your asses. I hate this hero shit." he said with a
grumble then cracked his knuckles and gave his shoulders a roll as he
walked a bit closer. His concnetration no longer divided between the
kids and the creatures and the 'life force interference' between him
and the zombies out of the way, Graves smirked and opened his control
to the fullest, feeling out the number of zombies and where they
were... and began rapidly shutting them down.
Caleb
could feel what Graves was doing and gave another shiver, this one not
quiet as pleasent. All this time and what....his father could still do
gave him a shiver. But it also bugged the shit out of him and he hated
loosing his fun...like some else he knew...
He couldn't help
it. He reached out with his own powers and began searching out zombies
ahead of Graves that he could break before Graves did and had to smirk
wickedly as he found one two steps a head of the other. He began
breaking the soul, the zombies dropping.
Then he felt another
presence of death and this one caused his concentration to break, and
he winced with a groan at the back lash of what bit of soul was left in
the zombie he'd been working on, snap back into place.
But he couldn't resist looking over his shoulder. Gavin had already fallen back with a stunned look on his face.
Saffron
had been stopping by the house to check on the kids, as a favor to
Lexi, when he'd picked up on the dead. He'd come around the house to
see the zombies, instinct had him with his swords, approaching, but he
didn't miss anything, the new faces with Calin and some one to
familiar...
Graves
growled softly to himself as he felt someone else messing with the
zombies, then smirked softly as he felt the backlash and followed it
back to the tough looking kid. He didn't even have time to bitch at him
for interferring before he felt a familiar cool chill creep over him.
"Fuck." he muttered softly, a soft smirk creeping on his face despite
himself. "Hey Azreal..got bored and decided to come play, did you?"
Saffron
managed a soft smirk as he walked closer, coming to stand near Graves.
"You could say that..." He answered softly, watching the zombies.
"Familiar
presence, but I can't place it." Saffron replied, watching the zombies
dropped. He was feeling that powerful high he'd get off of Graves, he'd
forgotton how good it felt really...
"I fuckin' wonder why..." Caleb replied sarcastically, giving them both a look.
"Do you talk to your mother like that?" Gavin asked Caleb with an amused tone.
"You're kidding me right? She'd smack me one..." Caleb replied to him.
"Alright, so might he." Gavin replied gesturing to Saffron.
Saffron
spun his swords and rested them, before turning to Caleb and Gavin.
"Normally I don't smack any one until I at least have a name. But now
you've got me curious...What'd you mean by that little remark?"
Caleb
looked over at Saffron. He noted he could definitly see his mother,
especially in the eyes. He considered his reply carefully, then said
simply. "The name's Caleb Hogan."
Sorcha
and Raelin watched the men and the zombies outside. Saffron's arrival
had sparked another round of giggles and plotting from the others and
Sorcha just shook her head wondering just what she'd started...
Graves
heard the name and dropped his focus on half the zombies in his reach
in surprize as he turned to glare at the kid. He jabbed a finger at
him. "Kid.. if you're claiming your mine, i'll kick the shit out you. I
don't have any kids and any woman that was crazy enough to risk it sure
as hell didn't like me enough to go through with it." he growled as the
familair feel of the kid and the feel of his power hit him again and he
swore. "Fuck... you're fucking serious aren't you?" he said and slapped
a hand on Saffron's shoulder for the added burst of power that wiped
out almost all the remaining zombies. The few stragglers stood their
ground as if dazed.
Graves ignored the creatures as he stepped
past Saffron and went to glare down at the kid, who wasn't that much
shorter then he was. "So who the fuck is your mother supposed to be?
How old are you? Eighteen.. nineteen?" he said then groaned. "Fuck..
that'd mean SJ... no way in hell..." he said even as he looked him over
and weighing the possiblity. "No way would that woman keep any kid of
mine...i mean .. fuck.. she shot me the ass over a fucking nickname,
for christs sake..."he turned at Saffron's snicker and jabbed a finger
at him then smirked and threw up a hand.
"Yeah
fine.. it was kiinda funny at the time... stung like a bitch.,., but
yeah..." Graves snorted and turned back to Caleb with a glare, already
accepting the reality that he was looking at his son. "So... either
you're older then you look.. or younger... cause there's no way in hell
Serenity Jane Murdock had you..." he stopped and looked
thoughtful."Although... would explain why she avoided me like the
plague and shot me.. never bought it was over calling her SJ..." he
muttered softly.
Caleb
took a breath, looking up at the man he called father in his own world,
held his gaze quiet steady, and then pointed over Graves' shoulder at
Saffron. "She...he is." Caleb answered as calmly as possible.
He
could hear Gavin snickering behind him, trying very hard to keep the
laughter in and Caleb did everything he could to resist glaring over
his shoulder at him. Although he did contemplate running him through
back ward with his swords, his mother would kill him...and then have
father ressurrect him so that his aunt could kill him...he knew
that...Bastard...
Saffron had not missed this. "What?" He asked,
sounding a bit... breathless and feeling oddly... confused. Not a
normal state for Saffron.
"Would you believe we fell through a worm hole?" Caleb asked, glancing at him around Graves.
Graves
raised an eyebrow and grabbed the front of the kids shirt, lifdting him
off the ground. "What?" he asked incredulously. "Are you fucking
insane?!" he asked then snorted and let go. "Fuck... you ARE Serenity's
kid... only she would be fuckin' twisted enough to put you up to this
shit.." he said and snorted. "Wonder if she still works for us... bet
she's on file... Az? You wanna hack into the employment records for me
and get me a phone number or address or something for her... crazy
fucking woman..." he stopped walking and turned a look on Saffron then
back at Caleb and snorted,. "Fuck... she's not still pissed about those
damned boots, is she? Fucking ugly ass things... "
Sorcha had
noted the end of the zombies and opened the doors so they could listen
in, but held the others back. As Graves started walking towards them
she stepped out. "Umm.. actually, Mr.Hogan.. he wasn't joking about the
worm hole thing... At least half of of the people you see here are from
alternate realities... Caleb IS your son.. and in his world, Uncle
Saffron... you're a girl... and his mother..." she said with an
appologetioc smirk. "But they're all from different realities... with
different 'parental combinations', lets say..."
Just then she
lost her hold on the others and they pushed past her, spilling out
around them. With barely suppressed smirks and giggles several of them
starting calling out 'hi mom' to Saffron and 'hi dad', and Saffron's
face drained of all color.
Graves face grew darker and he looked
back at Caleb. A minute later, shoving aside a couple grinning and
giggling twins who didn't bare any resemblance to him what so ever, he
swore again. "Fuck."
Just then Raiden shoved his way to the head
of the pack and everyone fell silent as they watched him and that glint
in his eyes as he walked up to Graves. Calin looked form Raiden to the
others curiously trying to figure out what was going on then cursed and
lunged for Raiden a second too late.
Before the fae prince reached him, Raiden looked up at Graves with a big eyed innnocent look and batted his eyelashed. "Hi mom."
Caleb
felt his expression breaking as the laughter slowly built up in him. It
started as a soft chuckle and slowly grew...in a few moments time, he
was literally on the ground holding his sides as he laughed
hysterically.
Gavin was standing beside him, looking down at
him. He looked up at the others apologectically. "I'm sorry, he has a
mental condition..." He said sincerily. That only set Caleb off even
more.
Saffron had turned his eyes to the sky and was trying to
remember to breathe. "Today, of all days.." He muttered to himself,
before looking over at Graves. He raised an eyebrow, something tugging
at the corner of his mouth, as a thought came to him.
Calin
shoved a giggling Raiden behind him and cleared his throat as he looked
up at Graves. Graves was standing with his arms crossed looking
definately unamused at everything. "He's joking.. they all are..." he
said, glancing back at Saffron. "Well.. he's not.. The two of you are
his parents..." Calin said pointing to Caleb. "And ... he searched out
Rachel and pointed to her. "And she's Saffrons ..." he said.. and the
rest are different.. most seem to combinations of Uncle Nate, Mom...
and apparently Aunt Larkin..." he added looking a bit confused.
Sorcha
sighed and made her way over to join them, reaching out to snag hold of
Raelin's shirt collar and missing. "Sorry...its the faerie blood... and
Devin only encouraged it..." she added softly.
Saffron
vanished his swords, and gave his hands a clap, resting them against
his lips a moment, before sighing deeply and looking at every new face,
searching out their life force. Which only proved what Calin and the
others were saying.
"You know what. I fuckin' believe it. I do."
Saffron said finally. "I ended up in the future once with Lexi , Bull
and Tiger, so...ANYTHING is fuckin' possible." He had to get away from
Graves, it was getting to him.
Caleb raised an eyebrow. Then said. "If it's any consulation, you're a hell of a mom."
Saffron leaned his face into his hand, covering his eyes a moment, then looked at Caleb. "Thank you." He said deadpan.
Graves
had to bite his lip at that and looked over at Saffron, before cracking
up. "Fuck... this is fucking insane.. no .. no it's beyond insane.. its
fucking demented..." he said, shaking his head as he laughed. Still
laughing he turned to Raiden. "You ever pull that shit again and I WILL
shoot your ass. Trust me.. I've done it before to nicer people." he
said then shook his head and laughed some more, his eyes going back to
Saffron then Caleb. "Fuck... only with you people..." he muttered
softly. "Crazy shit like this only happens around you people..."
"This
ain't my fault." Saffron replied, giving Graves a look. Caleb had to
snort softly, the look to familiar to him. "I would blame the Fates,
but I don't want any more surprises..."
"Would you consider
that I'm a hell elemental with some rather awsome control over the
dead, and so is Rachael over there...except her father is Eire
Montgomery..." Caleb asked casually, gesturing to Rachael, who meerly
waved shyly.
Saffron stared at him for a long moment, then began moving away from Graves.
Graves
broke off in mid laugh. "Montgomery?!" he asked. "Are you telling me
Azreal is a girl in at least TWO worlds?" he asked then looked Rachel.
"Fuck man... Montgomery?!" he asked, a smirk breaking out again. Then
he laughed softly and ran both hands through his hair, lacing his
fingers behind his head as he did. His gaze went to Gavin. "Gee... let
me guess... you have to be Nate's kid. Hell... alot of you must be
his... Fucking rabbit.." he added with a another chuckle.
"Only
because...I don't think Saffron met you...in Rachael's world." Caleb
said thoughtfully in Graves' direction. He looked in Rachael's
direction.
"Probably not, my mom was a slave to LiVed most of her life." Rachael said softly.
Saffron
flinched and shook his head. "I'm able to believe this too...look at
Lexi and Lark..." He said logically, walking over to a place in the sun
and sitting down, turning his face up ward and closing his eyes. Jon
and Gwyndion knew the look was his way of trying to stay calm and
didn't say anything.
"Well...it's just because you and he were
meant to be." Iris spoke suddenly from her spot, gesturing from Saffron
to Graves. Saffron snapped his eyes open, looking at Iris with wide
eyes.
Sorcha
and Calin both said it at the same time. "Shit." Calin shot his sister
a look then turned to Iris. "How many times do we have to say it, Iris?
SHUT UP!" sorcha snorted. "I can find some tape... does any one have a
really good mute spell?"
Graves ignored them. He was staring at
the young girl who was looking calmy at him, an odd spooky quailty to
her stare. He narrowed one eye and pointed a finger at her. "You are
one seriously creepy kid, you know that?" he said softly. "Iris... that
sound familiar... the rest of you rname is kinda fucked up isn't?
Amarillo or something like that?.. You're Sands's kid.. Sands and
Rue..." he shook his head softly. "I know your dad. You... you are your
fathers daughter in an extreme way...with a nasty chunk of your mother
mixed in there" he said shook his head. "And i really shouldnt be
saying ANY of this outloud, should i?' he said softly before glancing
at Saffron. He felt that familiar connection between them, that pull
that was always a battle to resist... then he glanced at Caleb.
"Fuck.." he said softly and forced himself to walk away from where Saffron was sitting. Raelin danced along at his heels.
Saffron
forced his gaze away from Iris, who simply shrugged at what Graves had
to say. "I take that as a compliment, really." Iris said calmly. Lily
Rose had a hand over her mouth, looking like she wanted to hide.
Saffron
shook his head slightly, and breathed slowly, leaning back in the
grass, his eyes closed again. His thoughts where some what
distracted...in a bad way...
Calin suddenly titled his head, looking between Saffron and Graves, then at Iris, with awe. "Fuck me..." He muttered.
"Well
you know really, you're both pretty cool parents..." Caleb said toeing
at the ground. "I mean, I've been able to really express myself...and
you were even tolenrant of my misguided attempts to conjure Marie
Laveau..." He added.
Saffron cracked an eye open, looking at
Caleb. "Tolerrant? Trying to conjur the Queen of Voodoo's soul is about
the LAST thing I'd let my son do..."
"Yeah...well...as my mother you really werent' to happy about it either..." Caleb said as an after thought
"Let me guess...you tend to take more after your father..." Saffron said with a look.
Caleb considered a moment and looked at Gavin who nodded. "Yeah...I suppose..." Caleb answered.
Graves
glanced back at them at that comment then looked at Caleb and laughed.
"Oh fuck... yeah.. I can see that..." he said then shook his head.
"Shit... " he looked at Caleb again and smirked softly. "Well.. always
figured if by some sick twisted joke of the Fates or the Lady some poor
woman wound up with my kid.. neither of them would ever want to admit
to it. Never imagined I've ever hear someone say I was a 'cool
parent'...." he said then looked at Raelin sitting beside him on the
picnic table. "You have a dad, kid.. go stare at him. You bother me."
Raelin just grinned.
"Well...I
suppose I could have done worse." Saffron said from his spot, eyes
still closed. "In either case." He added in Racheal's case. He finally
looked at Caleb. "Hell Elemental eh? Been to hell yet?"
"Yeah...a
few months ago." Caleb answered. "Mother son bonding." He added.
Saffron snorted, looking away. "See, in mine and Gavin's world...you're
triplets with Lexine and Larkin...and you grew up in Hell with Lexine."
Caleb said softly. "You're also Orcale of the Seal...with...dad as your
guardain..."
Saffron looked at him sharply. Caleb shrugged. It didn't help that Iris suddenly snickered...
Graves
choked on a laugh. "Guardian?!" he said in surprize. "Me?!" he looked
to Saffron and smirked. "Fuck... " he jabbed a finger at Saffron. "You
just keep dragging my ass into this hero shit!" he said with a laugh.
"Fuck.. never should've took this job... shoulda stuck with being one
of the bad guys..."
"Might
I point out, that the Fates don't often deviate their plans, so what
might be true in one world, is possibly very true here...MEANING...you
could quite possibly still be his guardian, hence the hero shit." Iris
said logically from her spot. Lily Rose bound forward and clamped a
hand over her mouth, dragging her back, but Raiden was snickering
wickedly.
"She's got a point..." Sora said, with a nod from
Brina. "I mean...at least three to four people here are Lexine and
Nate's kid...so either in their world, Faal is some where else, with
some one else, or, Gods Forbid, dead..." Sora pointed out.
Saffron had run his hands through his hair twice, the only nervous gesture he hand...
Graves was still looking at Iris then he gave a sigh and flopped back across the table. "Fuck. I hate that kid."
Raelin giggled. "Yeah.. isn't she a pain the ass?"
"Rae..
mouth." Calin said at the same time as Sorcha slapped a hand over it.
"You bite me again and you'll have green hair for a week whenever mom
and dad aren't around.. got it?" she said softly. "And warts the size
of m&m's all over your face..."
Raelin raised an eyebrow at
that but didn't bite. Instead she licked her sisters hand than cracked
up giggling as she pulled away in disgust. "Gross... I am SO moving
out..."
Graves listened to the two girls beside him and to the
soft chatter of the other kids all around him and just shook his head
as he covered his face with both hands. "Fuck. I'm insane... I fried my
brain and am lying in some asylum or something right now.. and all of
this is just a bad dream... yeah.. that sounds good.. Let's go with
that.."
"Do
the words, 'yeah, right.' mean anything to you, Matt?" Saffron asked
softly from his spot. Jon and Gwyndion were looking at Iris
murderously, to which Iris simply ignored.
"Hey, I know what I've seen." Iris replied indiginatly.
Saffron
shook his head. Creepy ass kid that was probably completely and hundred
percent right. "Jonathan, Gwyndion, I suggest you go home...now." He
said from his spot.
"Hey! We should be allowed to stay!" Jon said crossing his arms.
"Mum wouldn't make us go home..." Gwyndion added.
"Does
the term Adult Issues remind you of anything?" Saffron asked with a
sharp tone. Jon and Gwyndion groaned and Jon began opening a portal.
Graves
gave a short bark of laughter at that and waved a hand in a vague
circle above him indicating the kids surrounding them as he lay
sprawled over the table. "Yeah.. Azreal.. look around you .. see any
fuckin' adults aside from us? Really think two more are going make a
difference here? Besides... your other kids get to stay.." he said,
sputtering through a chuckle at the and before covering his face.
"Fuck.. if i wasn't insane before, i'm going there now... this is
actually starting to be funny..."
"Plus we still need to figure out who'd behind all this and get the others home to where they belong." Sorcha said.
"Yeah...
think we need everyone for that." Calin added, still stealing glances
betwen his Uncle and Graves. He wondered who would be more tickled over
this... his mom.. or his dad..

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