Description: Aftermath of the kiss in the ally turns to a relationship between Eddie and Jill. Things turn a little south when they find out they are going back to court. So the fun and games end when they return back to court. Jill has duties being the sister of the Queen and part of the Royal Family. So will Jill ever find time to steal a secret kiss or two with Eddie once Princess lessons and duties begin and along with school?

Jill (Darkness With Sunlight)

We were all on our way back to court. Adrian still hadn't found Sydney. He'd stopped taking his mood stabilizers, which didn't help the situation. The spirits took over quickly and took him down. Eddie was just as worried about Adrian as he was about me. Adrian was back to his constant drinking, as well. But this time it was a lot worse. He'd dropped out of college too. We all tried to tell him that Sydney wouldn't like this and he only told us to fuck off.

I think the thing that hurt him the most was that he couldn't even reach Sydney in her sleep. He'd called Lissa who didn't know what was going on, but Dimitri and Rose new a little. Rose knew a little more though. Rose told him that they'd taken her to be re-educated. This only angered him and made him drink even more. He woke-up in cold sweats, screaming every night about looking at Sydney and knowing no matter what he did the Sydney that loved him and the Sydney he knew and loved was never coming back ever again.

Eddie told me that nothing any of us tell him wasn't going to change anything. Everyone has told him that we're all doing what we can to help, but truth was Rose and Dimitri's wedding wasn't helping either. I'm also sure Lissa and Christian's wedding in two weeks wasn't helping anything either. I knew Lissa felt bad about it, but she also knew Christian and her needed to do this with the baby on the way.

I just wished with everything that we could just find Sydney. We all needed it. She'd became a sister to me in Palm Springs. I missed her too, I knew Eddie did too. At first Eddie was yelling about going after Zoe. We'd figured out about Zoe being the one to rat her out and took Adrian's Love Phone. Eddie hated himself for leaving her that night, but he also knew that she'd lied to him for the sake of my safety. Also, for everyone else.

She knew that they would eventually kill him, and Eddie was her friend, and that meant more to her than anything else. I also believe she knew that Eddie would keep the rest of us together and without Eddie I'm sure we'd all be dead by now. So even thought I hate that its not her keeping us all in line and alive I'm glad she left us with Eddie who was sitting right next to me looking out the window of the privet jet.

Lissa said that that's how we now traveled, now that we're the Royal Family. She'd gotten all the votes she'd needed to get the law changed for one blood relative to be Alive. That law was the reason for me becoming bonded to Adrian, and for me going into hiding. They'd picked Palm Springs because of the low Strigio count and because of the weather. Morio's weren't effected the same way as Strigio by the sun. We could go in the sun but we quickly became tired and weak. So they hoped no one would come to Palm Springs to look for Lissa sister, me, the Princess.

Lissa also informed me that things when I got back would be very different. On thing was that my family and I would be living at court now. She told me I had to wait for the rest when I arrived today. I was filled with joy and worry. Joy because I was excited to see my mom, but worried because no one other than Sydney and Angeline knew about my relationship with Eddie. Dhampir and Morio relationships were frowned upon in royal families. I didn't feel worried about Lissa's reaction. I knew she'd except it, but every other Morio on the other hand was what I was worried about.

The flight hadn't been horribly long, it was more the fact Eddie refused to talk to me. I wondered if it was because of the fact that once we get to court it wouldn't be just Adrian and Neil's eyes on us but the whole world's eyes would then be on us. Maybe it was easier for him this way but not for me. I knew his was my guardian but so was Neil and you know what at least he or I wasn't human. I'm sure that would get us sent off to live with the Keepers.

The Keepers are colonies where Morios, Dhapmirs, and humans all live together. If Morios reproduce with Morios then you get Morios. If a Dhampir and a Dhampir reproduce you get a Dhampir and the same goes for humans. But if a Morio and a human reproduce you get a Dhampir, the same goes for Morios and Dhampirs.

So yes, at one point relationships, interment relationships with humans had been okay and excepted. Then we decided to seclude ourselves away from humans, but there are still some that are okay with these relationships, but they all most likely lived amongst the Keepers.

When we did land Eddie finally spoke to me. I didn't think that he ever would. Even when I'd kissed him in the ally after I had saved his life, he'd ignored me. He came around and things had been pretty good for awhile. At least up until the day we found out that we were aloud to come back home. That's when he stopped treating me like his girlfriend and more like I was a job. I didn't understand how someone could do that. How could a person be romantic and loving one minute and the next be disconnected.

"Jill you ready?" that was all he said. He'd said with so little feeling that it made my heart break a little. I wondered if he could see what he was doing to me. I wish I had the guts to tell him that every time he was short with that it felt as though he was taking a knife to my heart and cutting it. But I wasn't that kind of person, I didn't tell people how I felt they just knew how I felt. This was one of those times I wished Eddie would look me in the eyes and see all the pain he was causing me.

"I guess." I tried to say it without showing how much it really did hurt when he treated me like this, but I'm sure that no matter how much I would've tried it wouldn't have worked. I cared a lot about Eddie, and I knew that even through his distant and disconnect he still cared a lot about me too. I also knew that nothing in this world or any other world would change the fact that we were always in darkness but with each other we were sunlight.