Alone For Now
Disclaimer:I do not own any of the Assassin's Creed Characters except for the Crone and Christine Neumann. Might add a few OCs in here during future chapters
Author's Note: I'd like to start up a Reviews answer for my readers.
Sarafinja: Thanks for that outlook for how the story might turn out and I decided to leave out the first time Ezio sees her change. Might be in Chapter 7 or 8. don't know when.
I like to also point out that I will have a translator for each chapter so that you don't have to use Google Translator. If any translations are wrong, please feel free to PM me. Love to hear from you all!
Chapter Two
It was long after the Auditore family fell asleep when Christine turned into her human form. Her arm was still tight around her body, but it seems that it too was fractured.
After finding something to eat, she sat in front of the fire, wondering if her life would ever go back to normal. What she knew of the Auditore family was that there were three boys; Federico, Ezio and Petruccio, who had fed her the fish that was offered at the market, one girl, Claudia and then there was Maria and Giovanni. Christine took a pen and paper and wrote in French, "Giovanni, thank you for your generosity and I hope to somehow see you again as a friend, not an enemy." She placed the note at the front door, making it like she had visited there instead of morphing into a helpless eagle and by dawn, Christine was her eagle friend.
Ooo
"Maria, it seems Christine Neumann was here last night."
"Really? Let Annetta read us the note." Maria looked at the perfect handwriting of a woman and was surprised that Eagle Christine was hopping around with no way of getting anywhere.
"Claudia, can you send Christine up to get Ezio up, please?"
"Si, mother, venga con me*, Christine," Claudia cooed while picking up the eagle. At her brother's room, Claudia tiptoed into his room and placed Christine on his bed.
Christine didn't know what to do, but she gingerly walked over to his head and gave a shrill cry.
"Wha- Cazzo*." Ezio swore, nearly knocking Christine off of the bed.
"What are you doing in here, Christine?" he got out of bed, nude. With her free wing, Christine covered her face, inside blushing a huge forest fire. She didn't look in his direction as he looked confused by her actions.
"What, Christine? Its like you aren't a woman, right?" he gt his breeches on and a whistle came from her beak, you barely know half of it, she thought. She dropped her wing and climbed onto the footboard of his bed.
"I will have to get Claudia for this." he fumed. Christine pecked him for not to blame his sister, but it was her totally volunteered to do what his mother asked. Though he took it the wrong way.
"Father, look at what Christine did to me." Ezio sad, a longing to kill the bird he held in his arms.
"So you didn't get up with that shrill she apparently let out that woke Federico this morning. I guess you deserved that." Giovanni laughed, and even Christine gave her own hearty laugh.
"No, father, I was up and nearly posed her off the bed and after I mentioned Claudia's name, she nipped me."
"That's because, dear brother, mother told me to bring her in there and didn't squawk when I left her in there. At least I know how to get you up now." Claudia began nibbling on her toast and Christine perched herself on Ezio's shoulder, making faces at Petruccio and making him laugh. It was a perfect family picture.
Ooo
It was two months later that Christine was allowed to be taken outside to give her wings a try to see if she could fly without hurting herself.
Ezio and Federico stood ontop of a tower and then he threw her up and the wind caught her wings as she flew around. But when the boys thought she would leave to go home, she turned around, frightening them when she landed on the railing to say in her own language, "I am staying with you, okay? I have no home to go to."
"Is she looking like she wants us to leave or is it that she wants us to bring her, Federico?" Ezio had been a little timid of her since he first had that shrill in his room. But she was quiet, until she knew he had to get up.
"I think she wants to stay with us." With her nodding expression, Federico braced her on his arm and noted, "Though when you're off with Christina, she seems sad that you're not there to wake you up. She seems to like you, little brother."
"Shut up, Federico. And I don't think I feel safe with the aquila in my room. Sometimes I have a feeling that she is really a woman."
"Oh, and how is that possible?"
"I don't know, but it's a feeling I have. And she acts modest when I'm naked. Covers her eyes when she thinks I'm not modest enough for her."
"Father found out what happened to the Christine Neumann girl. She was at home near the river when she disappeared. Something about how she ran into someone and that maybe they tried to kill her. That's why father found her, but outside of Milan."
"Maybe she was a ghost of the girl. How old was she?"
Federico took out a portrait, a miniature of just her face and if the boys knew that they had the real girl on their shoulders, they were in for a surprise.
"She is... Well, molto bella*." Ezio stumbled on the words and thought that the eyes look similar to their eagle friend.
"Go on, I'll take Christine home and you do whatever you do for your nights."
Ooo
Alone in Ezio's room for about the thirtieth time, Christine sat down, missing her own bed in France.
Did her family miss her? Do they know what happened to her or care? Even though she was the baby, does Sammy even care about her welfare?
"Those things I have yet to find out," she sighed, falling asleep. It was almost dawn when Christine heard footsteps outside the door and she hid, hoping the sunset came sooner rather than later. The door opened and Ezio stepped in.
"Christine?" he whispered, her own body hidden behind the curtain. She tried to keep quiet, but the thought of having Ezio so close at hand, she moved slightly.
"Is that you?" he came closer to the curtain, the light of the morning peeping at her and she shrunk, back to what he though of her as.
"Why are you doing back there?" Ezio picked up his friend and put her back on the bed.
He smelt it, a light smell of a woman sleeping on his bed!
"Was Claudia in my room?" he asked, peering at the eagle that nearly fell asleep.
Footnotes: Starting from the top down-
* Come with me
* Fuck (haven't played the videogame, there is a lot of swearing with Ezio around.)
* Very beautiful