!HEADS UP! This is going to be a bunch of one-shots and funny character interactions that I am inspired to write about. So BE WARNED there will not be a solid plot to this nor will it make sense if you try and connect the chapters . . . well some might but it is unintentional. I will give backgrounds, and other things I think about while writing each chapter but hopefully they won't be too extensive. So please enjoy my spurts of imagination!
!DISCLAIMER! The only characters I don't own are the three cougar cubs who are not named. They are from LA Knight's "Once Upon A Time" fan fiction and they are adorable! (I hope to write more about them soon)
So as of now Carol is at her own house and knows nothing about what is going on in the Once Upon A Time story. You could say this is one way I see my OC character jumping into fanfic.
A dreamless sleep has her in a warm embrace when she stirs in her bed. A whispering feeling slips up her spine saying, Someone is here. Her eyes shoot open.
"I'm up, I'm up Faden." Her tired voice could barely be heard in the room so needless to say Faden couldn't hear her either. The girl pulls the covers over her head, arches her back stretching each and every muscle she has control over while a pair of tiny feet tiptoe into the room.
"Miss Carol?"
"I said I'm getting up." Rubbing her face in her pillow she muffles a yawn that nearly makes her jaw pop.
"I have just now gotten here Miss." The tiny voice is closer now for the little Brownie is sitting on Carol's nightstand. "There is someone here Miss, on your property."
"I felt that before you came in. Is it just one?" The Brownie closes her eyes as the human struggles to keep hers open.
"I only feel one set of feet but sense three different bodies meshed into one."
"Two are hurt." The human, fully awake jumps out of bed and finds the fastest thing to put on. "Where did they come from Faden which side of the property to they enter?"
"They didn't enter Miss," the brownie is confused and a little worried, not sure of what they are going to be dealing with, "they appeared." The human is yanking on her old leather boots over her jeans and tucking them in.
"Ok so they are trying to escape something and used some kind of teleportation. Faden reinforce the property boundaries would you I need to prepare a few things before I find our new guests." She braces her hands on the bed beside her and closes her eyes reaching out to the three beings who found her sanctuary. The one carrying the two is larger in size and older more than likely. All three are Fae but instead of the two smaller ones being hurt the one carrying them is dripping blood. "Oh shit!" She dashes to the door grabbing her light jacket just before the front door. Jumping over the railing of her porch was easy enough and the soft grass eased the jolt in the landing and felt as if she rolled on fluffy carpet. Placing her hands firmly on the ground she pulses a large wave of magic and lets the radar like image form in her mind. When she sees no large number of moving bodies she stands and takes a deep breath of air in. Please be up wind, please, for your sake, be up wind and let me find you quickly. Taking another deep breath and prays again and stops abruptly opening her eyes and running in the direction of the new sent of cougar cubs. My god they are only children! Running past the open stables of day old hay and sleeping horses she wakes three who prance around her wanting to know the trouble. She hopes on the bare back of one large graceful black stallion. "Ride hard Jineen or there will be three less fae in this world." The powerful beast flew through the trees with the two twin whisky brown and white paints hot on her tail.
They passed up the three the first time because of the overzealous horses but instead of riding back Carol jumped off the trotting horse and lightly jogged in the direction of the one shadow of three bodies. "Hello?" Her voice is sweet and genital but it still made the youth jump and draw his sword. Hearing a hiss Carol stops and the horses do the same just before passing their human. "Please do not be afraid, I want to help. You're hurt aren't you, what about the little ones you carry?" Seeing the sword waver a little she takes a step forward afraid he will fall and land on one of the children. "Please I beg you come to my home where there are warm beds for the children and plenty of healing remedies to help stop the bleeding and heal your wounds." The figure takes a small wobbly step back and slumps one shoulder onto one of the many large trees around him. Carol jogs a few steps before stopping again surprised that the glint of the sword points at her.
"Stay . . . back." A shaky pain filled breath is taken in between his words.
A tiger sensing it's end is most fierce. ". . . No." Her whisper dances through the air and surprises both the youth and herself. Was she answering him or her thought? Taking a few steps closer to the shape shifter she kneels down below his eye level and lets the tip of his blade shake just inches from her face. "You will not die tonight warrior. I will make sure you and the children are taken care of even if I have to drag you to my house myself." The cougar's knee gives out and in that split second she is under him careful not to harm the two small bodies clinging to him in their sleep. "Shh shh shhh . . . you three are safe." Helping the boy to the ground she lightly scratches the back of his head and neck and murmurs the words of soothing magic into his tense neck and spreads it through his shoulders. His ears twitch and his blade hits the ground with a soft clink and rustle of brush. "Jineen, Kah, Fah come here and help me." Lifting the boy's chin to meet eyes she softly speaks. "Listen warrior, my friends will take you to my home there a brownie will help you and the children inside. I must go and make sure nothing has followed you. Is this ok?"
The boy slumps his head down onto Carol's shoulder and in a rough tired whisper answers. "Yes . . ." Letting the "s" trail off into nothing the boy tries to breathe deeply but the pain in his side cuts him off short.
After helping the cubs onto Fah and the young warrior onto Kah she places a hand on each of the cubs cheeks. Sensing nothing but exhaustion she moves quickly over to the warrior and doses the same. Broken ribs, many cuts, three that are deep, and muscles on the verge of being pulled. Lightly brushing her thumb over the blood stained fur of the boy she watches his shallow breathe rise and fall on his back. She walks to the front of the horse and kisses both on the nose. "Ride gently and take your time the little ones do not need to be woken up and the boy is hurt very badly. I will be back as soon as I can. Go." Each horse passes her on either side as she walks between them and stands beside her black beast. "I didn't bring any weapons." Seeing the cougar's sword on the ground she picks it up and swings it around a little. The ring is perfect and the blade is light. "Beautiful work." Careful not to cut Jineen she jumps onto his back and rides hard and fast to the border of her property.
When Carol has gotten back to her house she found that Faden was first helping the boy into the house with her levitating magic. "Wow Faden you practically have the boy off his feet." Carol lightly slide each child off Fah and told the three they are guaranteed treats the first minutes she is able to leave the house. With the boy on her back and the girl in her arms she walked into the house and down the hall into one of the two extra bedrooms. Laying them on the covers beside each other she covers them with a silk sheet and a wool blanket before rushing into the sitting room where Faden had laid the warrior on the couch covered with a few extra sheets. "Now, let's take a look huh?" Glancing at the boys pained face every so often she cuts open his shirt to reveal two large and deep wounds. Taking the cloth and dipping it in the steaming water that Faden quickly provided she begins to clean the wounds once clean she dips the cloth again into the water rings it out an neatly folds it and clasps her hands around it as if she is praying, hard.
"Wha- ah!" She didn't flinch when the cougar tried to sit up instead she opened her eyes and as gently as she could rubbed to warm cloth up one wound and down the other. The boy's eyes squeeze shut and a hiss escapes his clenched teeth.
"I am sorry . . . I am so sorry but I had to stop the bleeding." She couldn't meet the cougar's eyes not when pain, that she inflicted, filled them. "I have to heal your ribs and then I have to do the same to the wound on your back. After that you are getting a message to relax the muscles you have strained so much." The cougar closed his eyes and tightened his jaw, ready for anything. She doesn't want to do this hurting is not something she likes doing. If she does she always regrets after gaining her senses back. With a deep breath she places her hands lightly on his chest. "Ready?" With an incline of the cougar's head she closes her eyes to see better with her hands and begins her work.
She couldn't sleep after healing the warrior beside the fact that it was now 5:39 a.m. she didn't want to fall asleep and miss one of the small ones waking from a bad dream . . . Dreams . . . now that is something that I can do. Smiling she takes one of the cougar's hands and murmurs soft words of sweet dreams and small pixies and then leans over to kiss his forehead. Letting the magic flow the boy doesn't stir but instead breathes even better than after he had fallen asleep. She stands and walks into the spare bedroom to find the boy and girl cleaned and in new night clothes that she kept in the room for all different kinds of guests she might have. Taking both their hands she murmurs the same words and kisses each on the forehead. Looking up at the window seal Faden sits looking out the window. Carol takes in a breath about to thank her but stops just as she begins to from the words in her mouth. Instead she says. "Extra fruit for you later today Faden, for the miraculous miracles you preform." Faden smiles and bows at the waist not able to get up because her legs are probably about to give out.
Woot woot hope you enjoyed I did like writing it even though it is quite sad. : ( Ok so please tell me what you think and what I can do to make it better!
TTFN ^-^
