"Who is she? What is she doing here? Why is there a ward up around the building? And for the love of everything good and green in this world tell me someone has answers!" Keller shouted.
"Good to have you back boss…" Winnie murmured.
"Keller calm down." Galen said, he took a closer look at Keller and saw she was pretty battered up.
"What in the world happened to you?" he asked.
"Bloomin' warlocks." She said.
"How you feeling?" he asked concerned.
"Well apart from having a bust lip, grazed knees, a bump on my head, a semi dislocated shoulder, a throbbing headache and a strange woman in the house I'm fine." Keller said in one breath.
"My name is Vanessa." The woman said.
"Again who are you?" Keller almost hissed at her.
The woman sighed and said,
"People die…
Beauty fades…
Love changes…
And you will always be alone."
"Oh my god." Galen said.
"Get out." Keller said quietly.
"Raksha please…" Vanessa began.
"I said get out! You're dead to me! You don't exist anymore!" Keller shouted angrily.
"Please Raksha I need your help." She pleaded.
Keller laughed evilly.
"My help. You want my help. Why should I help you? Where were you when I needed your help?"
"I was young! And terrified, your farther left and my parents disowned me, I was living in a one bedroom apartment, with no money or food, I had no job and I didn't know what you were." She explained
"What do you mean 'what' she was? She was an enfant! She couldn't help being the way she was! She needed a little guidance from her mother that was all." Galen interjected.
"Who do you think you are? How dare you tell me how I should have led my life!" Vanessa glared at Galen.
"Leave him alone!" Keller jumped off the balcony into the garden.
"With out him I would probably be dead. I would still be, how did you put it in you little 'poem'? Oh yes I would always be alone. Well you couldn't be anymore wrong. Look around mom what do you see?" she asked.
Vanessa looked around, she looked at Galen and then she turned around and looked at Winnie.
"I see what I think are two of you friends." She said.
"Wrong again. You see one of my friends. Galen is more then a friend. He is my lover." She said proudly.
"I don't understand." She said.
"Galen is my lover, I'm in love with him, he is my world, the person you cant live with out, the one who picks you up when you're down, the one who loves you no matter what. My soulmate." She finished taking Galen's hand.
"In other words they are both head over heels in love with each other." Winnie smiled.
"Why is it so hard to get forty winks around here?" Nissa asked from the balcony.
"Oh hi Boss! Jeez what in hell happen to you?" she asked wincing a little.
"Warlocks." Winnie answered.
"Now you see two of my friends. Happy now?" Keller said nastily.
"No not really." She replied.
"Why? Because you have seen how happy I am? Because I have a good job? I work with the two best people ever and I have a man who loves me for being me?" she growled.
"Because you don't understand!" she shouted.
"I don't want to understand!"
"Please Raksha! I'll answer all you questions but you have to help me!" Vanessa tried to hold her hand but Keller pulled away.
"I have told you once and I won't say it again. Get out." Keller said slowly and harshly.
"Oh but before you do go, I want you to witness something." Keller dug into her pocket and found a small piece of paper she opened it up just to make sure it was the right one and she pulled out a lighter from the other, she didn't smoke but having a lighter comes in handy some times. Like now for instance.
"This is what I think of you." She said. She lit on corner of the paper, which was her mother's poem she carried around since she was abounded.
"You know where the door is." She said and dropped the paper on the floor so the fire would die down.
"I am sorry." Vanessa said and turned to go.
A/N Well what do you think? I know Keller is a little hard on her mother but she did abandon her, wouldn't you be a little angry too?
Anyway I am sorry if I don't write in a little while, I'm in the middle of writing 2 other stories too, one of which I have abandon. Oops.
Anyway I hoped you like it! Please Review!