Chapter 2

Faye's POV

For the majority of my life I have lived in the Village of Wish with the family that had treated me as if I was their child even before I had married their son through my childhood they had reared me as if I was there own even though they were fairies don't be surprised I know that about them for they taught me about all that after my tenth birthday they also told me that the man that had come to visit that day had been the Fairy lord I was a very shy girl at the time after all my biological family had abandoned me to die in the village of Wish when I was only a year old.

I was thankful to be taken in by my husband's parents I am grateful to them however when they had also told me that the Fairy lord had wanted me to go to the fairy realm to undergo a special treatment I feared that they were only saying that because they no longer wanted me any more so I asked them about that and they immediately and honestly told me that there was no way they were going to ever leave me alone they loved me with all their hearts but none the less they told me that there would come a day when I would have to go to the fairy realm and face what was to come they could not stop it or fully prevent it but they could make the fairies fight for it every step of the way I smiled but then frowned slightly and asked, "Won't you get into trouble for that?" Tangle answered saying, "Not in the way you might think for the treatment the fairy lord wanted you to undergo is actually more or less a gift he wanted to bestow on you for you see once long ago when there was a lot more friendship between fairies and mortals that is before mortals began to fear fairies this gift was often given because fairies were often marrying mortals and/or adopting mortal children who had been abandoned even younger than what you were. There were times the adoptive parents would take the child to the fairy realm and the child would undergo a transformation if you will it would turn the child from mortal to fairy however there was a small requirement of the adoptive parents they must leave the child in the care of the dream librarian for a at least 7 full days at longest a full month so that they child might learn all that there was to being a fairy stuff that the parents alone could not teach to the child. In your case the fairly lord suggested that we do that but we knew that since you had been just old enough to be aware of the fact that your parents had not wanted you and the betrayal of your trust in them that occurred when they abandoned you we felt it would not be in your best interest so we taught you all that we could about ourselves and the world we come from so that when the inevitable occurred when we could no longer prevent you undergoing that transformation that it would seem less like a betrayal for you would have been well prepared. We will keep you safe as long as we can."

those were the last words we spoke on that topic till the day Fidget and I got married they commented on it once more at the reception and Fidget put in his two saying, " they will have more than a fight on their hands if they think they are going to touch my Faye." Aeval smiled gently at her son and replied, " Calm yourself my child the dream librarian and the rest of the fairy realm mean your wife no harm but wish to grant her a powerful gift that if it isn't granted when a mortal child is adopted into a family it will happen after she marries a fairy so be assured it will happen your father and I can't prevent it any more than you can but you need have no fear for her life. All will be well."

Fidget nodded his appreciation on our wedding night fidget and I conceived my first child and after nine months I gave birth to our beautiful daughter Lyra it was then that terror seized my heart fear that my parents/in-laws might be wrong that the fairies of their former home might really want to kill me the same fear had also gripped Fidget's heart as well so he began to keep a diary that would contain instructions for me to use to escape if I could.

Everyday we spent with our daughter and enjoyed to the fullest acting as if it might be our last which both of us believed it very easily could be though little did either Fidget or I know that as Tangle and Aeval have promised us they were making the fairies fight to get to us firstly with a magic barrier that kept Wish hidden from any fairies forgetting of course that there were mortals that could mean us harm but our gates around the village worked well enough to keep those out.

Thanks to the barrier it was eight years before we heard anything from the fairy realm but it was still devastating when Fidget used his magic to wake me from Lilith's sleep spell she had placed over Wish and I woke to find I was all alone. Figuring that Lilith had kidnapped my husband so she could marry him herself I concluded I would need to rescue him not realizing I would be walking right into her trap if I tried which no doubt Aeval and Tangle could have told me that but I wouldn't have cared even if they had told me Fidget was my husband and I was not going to let anyone take him away from me.

Fidget's POV

After I used some of my power to wake Faye from the sleep spell Lilith had used I turned to her (Lilith) who by the way was carrying me and said, " Faye will find me and rescue me from you I hope you know." Lilith looked at me and smiled as she said, " That is what I am counting on she will be walking right into my trap. And will be completely powerless for a time."

I sneered at her and replied, "I will never marry you why can't you get over it and just let me be happy?" for a second though I could be wrong on this I thought my words had just wounded her as she replied, " I am not doing this to take you from your wife, I had disguised myself for many months and played and went to school with the two of you when we were kids I love you both but not in the romantic way I already have a mortal man of my own what I am doing will protect Faye from the true foe her biological family have learned that the Daughter they abandoned supposedly leaving her to the fairies is not as dead as they wanted her to be your parents were protecting Faye, you and your child from the wrong people the Fairy Realm has been eagerly anticipating the day your wife would under go the procedure after all according to the fairy lord she should have undergone this treatment many years ago."

That is when I finally snapped saying, "Will you stop talking about Faye as if she had an illness that needed treatment you say you were and are her friend and yet you don't speak of her as if she was a person to be cared for what kind of friend are you?!" I has expected Lilith to return my anger with like kind but she surprised me her voice was soft and her face had fallen even lower as she replied ,

"Your wife Faye though I care for her as a close and very dear friend is a mortal woman who unlike us fairies will not leave very long she will grow old one day and die. The fairy lord wanted her to under go a transformation so that she could be turned into one of us same everything and that is why I am carrying you off since your parents declined to allow her to under go the transformation while both you and her were small children for fear that she would see it as similar to that her mortal parents had done it must be done now before she becomes to much older to where it would be impossible for her to under go the transformation this is for her own good the Dream Librarian has dictated that it would make Faye feel better if I used you to lure her to the Fairy realm and then she would have you there to keep her company as she underwent this procedure and underwent the training to follow."

It finally dawned on me that this was what my parents had been telling us the day of our wedding but now a deeper fear sank in and I voiced it to Lilith figuring she hadn't realized the danger that as she had earlier pointed out that Faye might now be walking right into saying, " But if what you say is true then do we really want her following us if her biological parents and hunting her so as to kill her is it wise or safe for that matter?" Lilith smiled happily almost proudly as she replied,

"That is why the sleep spell was cast you woke your wife from the spell but there was more to the spell it hides her from all eyes save fairy eyes your parents no doubt have already awakened to find Faye gone and realizing she is somewhere in the village following you and me her parents being mortal humans will not be able to see her now they will when you and she finally return to wish which is why I advise you to trying and make a long and extensive stay in the Fairy realm not just until her training is over but possibly long enough to enable the Dream Librarian to come up with at least one or two powerful fairies to escort you back to Wish."

I could indeed see the sense of this after all if Faye's life was in danger then it would be for the best but then I decided to ask one last question saying, " But Lilith if Faye is turned into a fairy herself then how would her mortal parents recognize her for I am sure she would look different than she does now as a mortal?" Lilith met my eyes and the look in her eyes was sad and sorrowful as she replied saying, " she indeed would be a fairy as you and I are and as your father and mother are but she would still look the same as she does now the only true change would be she would be able to do magic, she would have the ability to call out her wings to fly with you whenever you choose to do that. And all the other things fairies do but nothing about her looks will not alter much other than what I just said." I smile my gratitude and reply, "Good I would never forgive my self if any one harmed Faye." that being said, and because as I was finishing up our conversation Lilith had been casting her sleep spell upon me to put me out while we continue to travel since I am still being used to lure my wife to her fate. I give in to the pull of sleep that I am now finding extremely strong and I lean back in to Lilith's arms as easy as a child going to sleep and I knew no more.