Gemini Hearts
Prologue
Sonia cried, but reluctantly handed over the baby. It tore her apart to see her girl go, but she knew this was what she had to do.
"The name of the child, madam?" Sonia looked up at the hooded man, the younger of her twins in his hands. Sonia let out a sigh and brushed the child's cheek.
"This is Diana," she whispered longingly. She thought she saw the man smile beneath his hood, but she couldn't be sure in the early morning's darkness. Sonia noticed a hint of laughter in his voice when he spoke.
"After the goddess of the moon?" Sonia nodded. "How appropriate for a Nightray." He plopped the sack of coins in her outstretched hands then turned flamboyantly towards his dark carriage.
Sonia watched them go before slowly returning to the quiet house. With the rest of her family asleep, no one noticed that the house was now left with one less mouth to feed. She picked up the lonely twin, who was crying softly. "Hush, darling. I'm so sorry, I miss her too. But she will always be with you, for she is the half that makes you whole." The babe was instantly quiet from the cool touch of the metal necklace against her skin.
"When you meet again, which I promise you will, you and your necklaces will be complete." The child played and laughed with the charm of the upside down T, which matched Diana's right side up T. Sonia rested her head on the kitchen table, sad and exhausted.
At the same moment in time, Diana was playing with her charm as well. Robert Nightray, the man who had picked her up, now sent her an inquisitive look. Robert tried to take it from her, not wanting her to be marked by the past, but when he tugged on the chain, Diana screamed and bit and cried. The carriage driver tapped the roof calling, "Everything all right sir?"
"Yes, fine," Robert gave up, letting go of the necklace. Almost immediately she fell silent again, softly giggling at the Nightray lord's angry face. Robert dozed off as the rain began to fall on that particularly dark morning.
Robert awoke to the whinny of the horses and the halt of the carriage. He looked down at the sleeping Diana, now resting in his arms, and couldn't help but smile at the thought of what great things she could accomplish.
Straight away he took her to his home. His wife was delighted, for she had no children of her own. She took a quick liking to Diana, bouncing her in her arms, showing her around the house. Diana smiled at her new family, and thought nothing of the twin she left behind until many years had passed.
Sonia snapped awake at the sound of the older twin crying. Slowly, tiredly, she walked into the big room where Aurora laid and gasped at the sight of a crimson cloaked figure cradling her baby, a sick twisted grin on their face.
"Aurora," Sonia shouted. The figure turned to her, and in a flash was only inches in front of her face. Sonia stumbled backward and fell; a look of pure fear on her face. The figure giggled.
"Such a beautiful child," the figure said, rocking Aurora in its arms. The figure looked at Sonia. "You can't keep her right? Hows about we take her off your hands?"
Sonia was crying, "Give her back please!" She reached out her arms, but the figure smacked them away.
"Now, now, I can't do that! There must be something you want in exchange for the girl?" Sonia shook her head, crying harder, trying her hardest not to look at the bag of money and give her situation away. As if reading her mind the figure noticed the pouch of coins. "Ah, so it's money?" The figure glided toward the empty crib, hand outstretched.
"No! Please, give me my baby!" The figure smiled wider.
"We need the child, you need the money. We can arrange this, right?" By now Aurora was crying. The figure ignored her, and opened its palm, face down towards the crib. From nowhere, gold coins fell from its palm, and once a hefty pile was created, the figure stepped away from the crib.
A light came from the floor, surrounding the cloaked figure. Aurora cried louder, and in response the figure started tickling her face. The figure started to sink into the floor, disappearing into the light. Sonia screamed and reached for her child, but some unseen fear in the back of her mind kept her from rushing into the light after the pair. The figure smiled at her one last time saying,
"Don't worry, you'll see her again." With that, the figure was completely enveloped, and the light on floor faded out. Sonia was left crying with her back against the wall. With all the commotion, Sonia's husband and two older children, one boy and one girl, had woken up.
"What's happened," her husband panted. He was out of breath from rushing to his wife with worry. Her children, huddled in the doorway, had similar looks of concern on their faces.
"My babies," Sonia whimpered, "They're gone!"
A/N: Yay! First chappie!!! This is written with two authors, and we'll switch authors as well as POV. Let us know what you think! If you don't like OCs, then don't read! We PROMISE not to mess with the plot!
In case you didn't figure, it was the Baskervilles that captured Aurora. And the necklaces aren't really Ts, they look like this: /wp-content/uploads/2008/11/gemini_tattoo_
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