the Iron Fey: Ash's daughter

by Jess168

The Iron Knight leaves us to speculate about Ash and Meghan's future. This is about their future, and they're daughter, Lydia. WARNING! There are a lot of spoilers in here. If you don't plan on reading the books, or you have read them, go ahead and read this, but if you're currently reading it, wait till you're done or I'll ruin the ending!

1. Prologue

Prologue

At the end of the Iron Knight, we are left with Ash and Meghan reunited, but their future remains uncertain. This is the story I am telling...

Just as in the fabricated future shown to Ash by the Guardian, they did have a son named Kierran. They also had a daughter, named Lydia. They discovered that, like Meghan, Ash only aged if he left the Nevernever. Because of Ariella's sacrifice, Ash could still use glamor as he could as a fey, and his daughter, Lydia, inherited his power over the elements of Winter. Kierran and Lydia were close, despite the fact that Kierran was five years older. Though, like all brothers, he could be annoying at times, he was very protective and supportive of Lydia, and she had always looked up to her brother.

Puck eventually settled down, marrying a pretty Seelie fey named Terisha. His ties to Oberon were severed, and he was no longer welcome in Arcadia, but he didn't care. He settled in a small chunk of the Wyldwood near the Iron border, where he built a home. Him and Ash eventually began considering each other friends again, though the bantering would never end. Puck and Terisha had a daughter around the same time Lydia was born, named Meralyn. Lydia and Meralyn were best friends ever sense they met, though they tended to take after their fathers; though close, they often argued.

Lydia had a bad habit of exploring places where she wasn't allowed to go, which got her into a lot of trouble. Still she never listened, and time and time again, Meghan or Ash or even sometimes Kierran or Glitch would have to come running to her aid. When she was ten, she stumbled across a trod which opened up to the mortal world. Curious, she had opened the trod, and caught her first glimpse of the mortal world. She explored around, fascinated with how she could hide completely from the mortals here. Her mother had taught her about this world, but she still knew little about it. Without realizing the danger, she walked out on to a busy street and was struck by a car. She woke up two days later in a mortal hospital, with no memory of her past. The only thing she could remember was her name.

Ash and Meghan searched the mortal world and the Nevernever for their daughter, but they never found her. Unknown to them, Lydia was eventually placed in foster care, and spent the next five years living as a mortal. This, is where are story begins...