Disclaimer: I do not own Fablehaven or any of its characters, I only own my OC's

A/N: Sorry that this is kind of long. I was going to split it into two chapters when I saw but I ran out of time.

Another New Arrival

Kendra's concentration was broken from her book when she heard the tapping on the window. When she pulled the curtains back from the window she wasn't as surprised as she should have been, clinging to the windowsill with his free hand was her little brother Seth. He looked a little desperate to get in. Kendra opened the window and stepped back so he could tumble in. After spotting the jar in his hands she opened her mouth to lecture him but he interrupted before she could.

"Don't bother lecturing me, it's empty." Seth rolled to his feet and flopped on to his bed.

"Why did you have an empty jar with you then?" Kendra asked after confirming that it was indeed empty.

"Because I went to visit Grandma Larsen and when I was there she saw a spider and freaked out like she usually does when she sees a bug, so I caught it and let it lose in the forest on the way back here." That left Kendra with one last question.

"Why did you come through the window?"

"I was going to but then I saw Mom and Grandma Sorenson talking in the kitchen and I knew that they were talking about how I've been lately so…yeah." Kendra understood what her brother meant, ever since everything that had happened during the spring everyone had been fussing over him. She knew that it drove him crazy, how they all treated him like he was about to have a mental breakdown. Kendra was going to try and give some comforting big sister words of wisdom but Dale poked his head in the room.

"Kendra, your parents say it's time to leave. I'll take your bags." Kendra was leaving with her parents to go to a family reunion. The Larsen's were leaving a little bit after them; Seth was supposed to go as well but had begged to be allowed to stay home.

Five minutes later the car was all loaded and Mom, Dad, and Kendra had said goodbye and loaded into the car to drive off. They waved one last time and when the car was out of sight Seth did a little happy dance.

"Wow Seth it's nice to see how much you'll miss your parents and Kendra." Seth turned to look at Grandpa.

"Well can you really blame me? This is going to be the first time in a while that I'm going to have my own room. Now if you will excuse me I have to go catch up on my soaps with the satyrs." Seth needed an excuse to get away and this one seemed to be reasonable enough. And after they helped him during the spring his family seemed more open to the duo.

"Be back before dinner." Grandma Sorenson called out as Seth jogged towards the woods.

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Seth walked into the kitchen just as Grandma Sorenson pulled dinner out of the oven.

"What's for dinner?" Grandma Sorenson jumped, Seth had obviously startled her.

"Meatloaf now Seth dear, go set the table, then wash up. We're having guests over tonight." Seth did what Grandma said and took as long as possible to get back to the table. The family rule was that nobody was allowed to eat until everybody was seated and Seth didn't want to sit there with the food tempting him.

He went through the kitchen to get to the dining room and saw Grandma Sorenson standing in the doorway.

"Could you grab the butter from the fridge? My arms are full."

Throwing the small container of butter between his hands, Seth walked into the dining room and saw everybody at the table. Well, almost everybody Tanu and Warren had left for missions from the Knights of the Dawn, and Mom, Dad, and Kendra had left this morning. So now all there was at the table was Grandma Sorenson, Vanessa, Grandpa Sorenson, Vanessa.

Why were there two Vanessa's? He stood there staring at the other Vanessa, the other one being the one that he hadn't seen this morning. Grandpa Sorenson noticed Seth in the doorway.

"Seth, this is Kit, Vanessa's cousin. She'll be staying with us for a while." She didn't look exactly like Vanessa, since she was sitting next to Seth he got a good look at her face. She had freckles sprinkled along the bridge of her nose and a few under her eyes. Seth couldn't be sure, but he suspected her hair was curly by how the ends of her braid curled up. It was fairly hard to keep looking at her without her noticing so he didn't get a good look at her eyes.

"So," Seth tried to start the conversation after everybody had served themselves. "Do you have any brothers or sisters?" Kit shared a look with Vanessa and grinned.

"You could say that. I have six sisters." Seth's eyes widened.

"Six?" Kit nodded.

"I don't think that my parents meant to, but they don't mind. Twins run in the family so it was two at a time except for me."

"You're the only one out of six sisters without a twin?"

"Yeah. I'm also the oldest. Second oldest are Jenna and Rachel, they're both ten. Then Elena and Caroline, they're six. Last are Dannielle and Gillian, who are three. Next question?"

"How old are you?"

"Fifteen."

"What's your favorite color?"

"Macaroni and Cheese, which is found in the sixty-four packs of the right type of crayon." Seth grinned at her.

"Favorite animal?"

"Shapeshifter."

"That doesn't count."

"Yeah it does. Shapeshifters are totally animals."

"But they're every animal. It's like when somebody asks you what one item you'd take to the desert with you and you're like "My house with everything I love and all of my family in it." It's cheating."

"Fine, my favorite animal is…teenage boys. Next question." The adults listening all reacted. Grandma and Vanessa both laughed and Grandpa wiped his mouth to cover his smile with the napkin. Dale had choked a little on a sip of water. Seth narrowed his eyes at Kit.

"I resent that."

"You're supposed to it's an insult after all. Next question?"

"What would you take with you to a deserted island?"

"A boat big enough to hold all of my family that I can deal with for long amounts of time, enough rooms so we all get our own room, and enough food to last until we get back home." Grandma Sorenson laughed again.

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Seth knocked on the door to his now shared room with Kit.

"Come in." She called from inside. When he stepped in the room he was instantly cold. Kit had opened the window and it was freezing outside. She was on the window seat.

"Do you ever look at the stars from the roof? I bet you'd get a really great view from the top of the house." Seth walked over to the window and peeked out the stars were practically blinding.

"No but I should. Do you know any constellations?"

"A few. I mainly just know all of the mythology behind them." She took one last glance at the sky and shut the window. She grabbed her sketchbook and a pencil from the nightstand and sat down on Seth's bed.

"Unless you would like to cuddle tonight I suggest that you get off of my bed." Kit immediately jumped off of his bed.

"Sorry. I didn't know."

"That's fine but I'm a little insulted. We could have bonded so much through cuddling over the night." Kit resisted laughing.

"Yeah, but the list of people who would be upset us is more important to me than bonding that we can get through the summer."

"Psh. Come one, who would get mad at us?"

"Who would get mad at a pair of minors endeared to them for sharing a bed? If you forget my over protective father, and all of those male cousins who say that I'm not allowed to get married until I'm fifty then nobody else. Then there's Ness who's scarier than all of them combined when mad."

"Good point, I don't think I want to cuddle with you anymore." Kit nodded like she understood. She got up from Kendra's bed and dropped her sketchbook on the bookshelf.

"Where's Ness's room?" She walked to the door.

"I'll show you." Seth moved so he was behind her, he was just barely shorter than her.

"Why do you have to come?" Seth gasped dramatically and put a hand over his heart with a look of hurt on his face.

"I wanted to make sure that you were safe in the hallway. But if you're going to be so cruel…" Kit rolled her eyes at him.

"I just won't go. Said good-night earlier anyways." She pushed herself against the doorway and slid past him. She took a step towards their beds and screamed before taking another step. Seth looked in the same direction to see what was wrong. He did.

At the window was a shadowy figure that was white as bone. It brought images of the revenant to his mind with the striking similarity. Acting on instinct he wrapped an arm around Kit's waist and threw the door open. He pulled her out of the room just as he saw Vanessa pointing up the stair that led to the attic. Later when Grandpa, Dale, and Vanessa were inspecting the room and Grandma was making cocoa Seth couldn't help asking Kit a question.

"Do you want to reconsider cuddling now?"