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Description: Part ½. I just have to much for this to be one… my muse was running wild! And for the wrong story!

A/N: I hope to have the next part up soon! Enjoy!


"This is near the way that we started, you know?"

"On the Eiffel Tower? I don't think so Justin?"

"I meant sitting on top of a building that we weren't supposed to be on in the rain."

"Oh that… yeah. But I didn't know that Summer was going to get upset. She is hot headed and cries a lot. At least she isn't really crying, with the sobs and screaming and the pouting. We would have thunder and… lightning," Autumn said as the city flashed bright with the lightning behind her. "We should probably get down now."

Justin grabbed Autumn's hand before the wind picked up around them and they traveled away leaving leaves to crash onto the medal under the rain.


Autumn watched Justin sleeping on the bed from the window seat of her cousin's room. She could hear her sister in the other realm crying softly still, but the rain out side was still raging on, but the thunder and lightning had at least stopped.

The seasons, her sisters and herself were supposed to be calm, supposed to control their emotions so that they didn't change what grandma was doing. But it was hard, and Summer was only 8. Her hamster dyeing was a big deal, and mom wasn't doing the best job of explaining it.

All of a sudden there was a freezing gust of wind and Autumn turned from looking out the window to see her closest youngest sister Winter standing by the rocking chair.

"Hi," she whispered before walking over to her older sister, not even turning to look at the snoring boy. "Can't sleep either?"

"Nope," Autumn said moving so that her 15-year-old sister could curl up in her lap. "Her emotions are so strong, and I have to concentrate to keep them from mixing in with mine. She is so young, it isn't fair for her to feel this."

"What feelings are they mixing with… you haven't told Justin yet have you?"

"How do I tell him?"

"I suggest just opening your mouth and stretching your…"

"You finish that sentence and I am going to punch you."

"You love me," Summer said staring at her sister with a coy smile.

"I do, but that doesn't mean that I am against violence."

"Look, Aut, it really isn't as bad as you think," Summer stated as she slid to a standing position on the floor. "There really isn't that big of a change, just… the equinox is going to be different after this year, along with the two solstices and the spring equinox. Really though, I am looking forward to 19. I plan on…"

"You have a reason too, you get the real solstice. I get…"

"12 hours of day and 12 hours of night. Both the same time, both equal. Just like you, you equal everything. I mean, it is a little OCD, but…"

"But nothing," Autumn said standing. She was getting angry, but was trying to keep her voice down. She turned to watch Justin for a few minutes before turning to her sister and saying, "Leave."

Autumn walked to her side of the bed as her sister left in another gust of cold air. And as she slid under the covers, but before Justin unconsciously turned and pulled her into him, a cold air brushed her cheek.

Autumn fell asleep wondering how her sister became the more mature one… but she was the season of death and sleep. She had always been mature beyond her years.


The next day, while Autumn and Justin walked through the streets of Paris, Autumn was thinking about how she should explain her situation… not only to her grandma and the rest of her family, but to Justin. It was all screwed up.

She hadn't even noticed that Justin had stopped them by a small café and was trying to get her attention.

"What?"

"I was asking if you were okay? You seem lost in thought."

"Yeah… umm, Winter came to see me last night."

"But that isn't what you are really thinking about, is it? You seemed distracted for days, after that visit to the National French Library Wizard section."

"I just learned something… and … ugh, I don't know how to tell you!

Autumn stood and looked around. She was frustrated. She mumbled a few words before grabbing Justin's hand and bringing them both to an unpopulated beach somewhere warmer, sunnier, and cleaner then where they were in Paris.

"WHOA! Autumn what did you do?"

"Chill out, no one saw, I made sure of that. I… I …" Autumn lost her confidence that had brought them here.

"Where are we?"

"Ummm… an island that isn't really here… the Bermuda Triangle."

"Really? Wow."

"Yeah cool… listen I have something I need to tell you."

Justin stopped looking around the island to face Autumn, and when he was the pained look on her face, he… he didn't know what he felt.

"Autumn?"

"I am going to lose my powers; everything because I made a mistake… and it is all your fault. Or Alex's, I am still unsure… maybe it is mine, cause I knew better, you didn't, how could you know. I just, I thought that it was a myth. I didn't know that I really did have to wait. But this hasn't happened in such a long time… so you know, I thought, I can live my life, and nothing is going to happen."

Autumn turned to look at Justin, tears filling her eyes, tears that she didn't want to shed. But she knew that at least none of her family was going to know. They couldn't sense that she came here, or that she was here.

"BUT Something is happening and I can't change what I did. Not that I want to, but GOD! It isn't fair that I had to remain… FUCK! Justin, why are there so many stupid rules that were created thousands of years ago that are still used today when they are outdated! Times have changed! I should be able to do what I want, live the way that people of this time live!"

Autumn fell to her knees and bent over, her head and hair landing on the soft sand. Justin rushed over to her and sunk down to her. "What is going on?"

"I… I … I ruined my coming of age powers Justin. I am not CLEAN anymore according to the Old Laws."

"Old Laws… what?"

Autumn pulled back up so that her butt sat on her feet, "The Old Law states that 'A Daughter or Son of Mother Earth' the current one that is 'must be clean when she or he reaches their 19 year on the eve of their celebration' either the equinox's or the solstices 'and that during the celebration, she or he shall give themselves to the power and their choice sharer. If the child of the Mother is not clean, her or his gift is forfeited and that time period shall be weak until the next child comes forth.' This means that my season, after the autumnal equinox, everything is going to be week until one of my sisters takes over for grandma… and that could be next to a million years!"

Justin sat looking at Autumn, trying to think of the right words to say, the right questions to ask. "Are you saying? Clean… as in…"

"I had SEX!" Autumn screamed at the top of her lungs, her last word no longer recognizable as her voice carried over the wind. Once she stopped screaming and took a few minutes to breathe to calm down, "I am going to be mortal Justin."

"Mortal?"

"Mortal, as in… no powers, no wind, no family. I have to make a choice. You see, I have to decide now, do I want to stay with my family, my mom, dad, grandma, and sisters, allow them to keep me safe as I grow old and die, or to leave, to stay in the mortal world without them until I grow old and die."

"You…"

"And if I stayed here… I wouldn't be able to see you. Nothing magical… nothing at all. But staying with my family… I wont see you either."

Justin stared at Autumn who had lowered her head and started to cry again, sobs wracking her body as her hands clawed into the sand.

"Justin, what have I done?"


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