Hey! I've been thinking of ideas for FableHaven for a while and finally, something began to take form. As the summary says, this will be a bunch of one-shots that will mostly-if not all the time-be from Seth's POV. If you find that they have an excess amount of WarrenxVanessa that's because it'll be my main pairing. I love them. However, most chapters will only focus on one couple and will usually follow a pattern. Some will have all pairings (that I support). So without further ado:
Disclaimer: I don't own FableHaven, Toon boom Studio, Google Chrome, Microsoft word, the Internet, or Photoshop. The rights belong to their rightful owners.
Seth POV
Once again, Seth was being left behind. Everyone else, meaning Trask, Mara, Warren, Vanessa, Bracken, Kendra, Tanu, and Dale, was going out to investigate a dispute between some fog giants. When Seth had first got the news, he had been disappointed. Then, a plan had begun to formulate. He had never been in the rooms of his friends. With them out of the house, now was the perfect opportunity.
Seth waved goodbye to his sister and the others. As soon as they were out of sight, he ran back into the house. He walked up the set of stairs that led to the bedrooms and promptly decided to try Mara's room first.
He cautiously opened the door before quickly stepping aside. When no pointy or blunt objects flew out at him, he decided that it was safe to enter.
He snooped around the room for about 10 minutes before he saw something sticking out from under Mara's pillow. Pulling the object out, he found himself staring into the face of a much younger Mara. The small child was perched on her mothers lap and was grinning into the camera. That threw Seth for a turn. He had never seen Mara smile.
Rosa herself was smiling at Mara. Seth had never seen Rosa, so he could only assume that the Hopi holding Mara was the girl's deceased mother. Mara had a much more carefree look about her as she smiled, showing a gap in her teeth where a tooth should've been. Besides the fact that she was showing a sign of elation, Mara didn't look all that much different.
Turning the photo around, he saw a few words scrawled on the back. They read: Mara, I managed to find this after looking though the rubble. Rosa would've wanted you to have this. I'm sure she's smiling down on you, proud of what you did to help. But she wouldn't want you to cry. I know it hurts. I miss her too. We were never very close, you and I, but I hope we can compensate for lost time in the future. –Hal
Below the words, Seth saw a few darker spots on the paper. After staring at them for a second, Seth realized that they were dried teardrops. Seth had never pictured Mara as the crying type, but he didn't blame her. If he had lost his mother, he would probably shed a few tears too.
Placing the picture back where he found it, Seth walked out of Mara's room and down the hall. He decided to skip Tanu's room. He knew enough about the Samoan. Next up was Trask.
Once again running through the booby trap test, Seth entered the room. Seth rummaged through the drawers in the bedside table, and by the time he was done, he had composed a little pile of photos.
The first was of a younger Trask, two older people, and a little girl. Seth could easily tell that the two older people were Trask's parents, and he assumed the younger girl was Trask's little sister. The second picture was a candid shot of Trask practicing sword fighting in a backyard.
The third picture showed an older boy, his little sister, and Trask. Trask was on the bottom of a pile-on, with the older kid on top of Trask, and the little girl on top of him.
Placing the photo's back in the drawer, Seth moved onto the next room, skipping Bracken's. He really didn't care about what was in the unicorn's room.
He walked up to Warren's door and entered without bothering to check for traps. He found few picture's of Warren with Dale and a letter from a friend in New York. However, he found the most interesting thing in a bedside table drawer.
In the drawer, Seth saw a little black, velvet box. Opening it up, Seth saw a diamond incrusted ring. It was made of sterling silver with a small but beautiful diamond on the top. Each side had three small rubies leading to the diamond. Even though he was a dude, Seth had to admit that it was an impressive ring. The ring had to be for Vanessa, seeing as she and Warren were already dating.
'Kendra owes me ten bucks' Seth thought with a grin. Placing the box back where he found it, Seth walked out of the room and shut the door. Realizing he forgot to close the other's doors, he quickly ran back and shut them.
The final room was Vanessa's. Seth had been waiting all day to snoop around her room. He had a feeling that the narcoblix had a lot to hide.
Once again checking for door traps and finding none, Seth entered the room. Since she had been released from the dungeon, Vanessa had been restocking her collection of critters. Instead of a rabbit with wings, she now had a flying chameleon, which Seth thought was way cooler. She had wizard slime, drumants, salamanders, exotic fish, and a regular gerbil. Seth supposed it was used for experiments.
It didn't take long to find some things worth looking at. The first was a photo album he had found on a bookshelf. Flipping through the pages, he saw a lot of unfamiliar faces. However, four kept popping out at him.
Vanessa was in a lot of the pictures, but she was never alone. She was always with one of those unfamiliar people. Two were girls, one older looking, the other clearly younger. The other two were boys, one older, one younger. He didn't figure out who they were until he came across a family portrait.
The Unfamiliar People (as Seth was now calling them) were obviously her siblings. The family photo also showed her parents. Vanessa, her older sister, and her younger one looked exactly like their mother, whereas the boys were the spitting image of their father. Vanessa was much younger on the photo, maybe 11. Her older siblings were there, along with her younger ones, who were obviously twins.
Doing one last sweep, he found a journal. It didn't have a lot of info. Vanessa's older brother was in the Army. Her parents and older sister had died. She had attended a college until she came here. She lived in California. No blackmail material whatsoever.
Skipping to a later date, he found pictures taken of Vanessa and Warren. One showed them kissing, another portrayed them sitting against a tree. In another, they were standing in one of the gazebos by the pond. In the last one, Warren was holding a sleeping Vanessa on his lap, with one arm around her waist. Seth's smirk grew with each picture. He tucked the last one into his jean pocket for future blackmail.
Exiting the room, Seth began contemplating all he had learned about his friends.
'Let's see,' thought Seth. 'Mara actually has emotions, Trask has a family, Warren needs to man up and propose, and Vanessa has a broken past.'
He decided to hang back until the rest of them got home. He couldn't wait to tell Kendra, Bracken, and Tanu about his discoveries. Theirs were the rooms he didn't visit so he could only tell them. Maybe Dale, too. Seth decided to take a nap until the others returned.
It was about 5:00 when Seth finally heard the porch door open. Eh groggily opened his eyes and hauled himself off his bed. He opened the door to his room and trudged down the stairs to the living room. He found everyone seated around the living room, looking thoroughly exhausted.
Seth now looked at his friends differently. He didn't look at Mara like an emotionless weirdo. Now he understood that she kept it locked up. He saw Trask as a family man now, not just a mission man. He now knew that Warren and Vanessa loved each other more than they let on, and that Vanessa had left a lot behind to be here.
As Seth sat down next to Tanu and joined in with the conversing and laughter, he realized that they were a really an odd bunch: A unicorn, a fairy, a potion master, two adventurers, an animal tamer, and a narcoblix. And even though they were all a bit mismatched, Seth found that they fit perfectly and that he wouldn't trade them for the world.
All right, I wasn't too happy with the ending. This is my first FableHaven fic so I'll keep working on it. I have an idea for a real chapter-y story but first I wanna finish the last book. Reviews make me happy. They really, really do.
