"Momma!"
A little boy comes rushing into the room and jumps onto a bed. He cuddles up to his mother and laughs.
"Momma wake up."
She pretends to be asleep when her son starts to tickle her.
"Got you!"
She rolls over tickling her son as his laughter fills the room.
"Hungry?"
The boy smiles and nods. They get up and head to the kitchen where she gives him cereal.
"What are you doing today momma?"
She sighs and sits across from him with the newspaper.
"Working at the library and then going to get groceries. Anything special you would like for supper?"
He thinks about it and smiles.
"Pizza! Can we have pizza?"
She smiles and nods.
"Yeah sure."
He squeals happily and gets out of his seat hugging her tightly.
"Finish your breakfast and get ready for school."
He gets up and rushes off to his room.
She gets up and grabs the bowls from the table and goes to the sink placing them inside when suddenly her head begins to pound.
Flashback
"You are my past, present and future Aethelfled and I love you."
"Momma?"
She shakes her head and turns looking at her son who was standing by the doorway.
"I'm dressed momma."
She smiles and goes over to her son hugging him tightly thinking about the name she heard in the flashback, who was Aethelfled.
"Grab your school bag and we'll get going."
"Have a good day at school today Milo."
Milo smiles and hugs his mother tightly.
"Momma who is that man with the weird face he looks like a monster?"
She turns and sees no one standing there.
"I don't see anything."
She looks at Milo who shrugs.
"Hi Cristy."
The teacher walks over to them to greet them.
"Hi Mary."
Cristy gets up and feels suddenly weird as her head painfully pounds and hurts.
Flashback.
"Why do you love me Magnus?" She cuddles up to him in bed after making love. He smiles and holds her close in his arms.
"I just do." He takes her hand kissing it tenderly.
"What do you think about the Shadow hunters coming to us for help?"
He sighs and kisses her head.
"I don't care about them and what they need or want. It's not our concern."
She gives him a look.
"It does in some ways, you are half demon after all."
He snickers and sighs.
"I don't feel like I should or need to help them with this war."
He rolls over her and they kiss."
She opens her eyes hearing Mary calling her name.
"Cristy are you okay?"
She was holding her up.
"Yeah sorry I've been having these terrible headaches they just come and go."
Mary nods and hands her some of her water from her water bottle.
"You should go see a doctor and get something for your headaches."
Cristy nods and smiles.
"I will."
She looks at Milo and hugs him again watching him rush off to play with the other kids.
"Milo, has been saying he's seen things."
Cristy gives her a look.
"What kinds of things?"
"Monsters he says, I'm concerned. I mean kids have vivid imaginations but his is wild Cristy."
She pulls out a paper from her pocket handing it over to her. Cristy opens it and it was a drawing.
"Milo did that yesterday and there is more like it. He says that is what he sees all the time pretty much."
Cristy stares at the picture wondering what or who this monster was or where he could have seen it.
"Thanks for telling me about this Mary."
Mary smiles and hears the bell ring. "I have to get inside, make a doctors appointment okay, please."
Cristy nods and looks down at the drawing again.
She places it in her pocket and walks home.
Cristy arrives at her apartment to find the door opened, she stares at it for a moment wondering if she had accidentally forgotten to lock it. She slowly opened
the door and peered inside to find two men standing there.
"Hello?"
They turn and smile at her.
"Who are you and why are you in my apartment?"
One man laughs and walks slowly over to her looking her over up and down.
"Still beautiful as ever Aethelfled though I wonder if you can fight the same."
She slowly backs away staring at this larger bald headed muscular man with tattoos all over his arms and neck.
"I don't know what you're talking about, I'm not Aethelfled. My name is Cristy Connor now please leave before I call the police."
He laughs and looks at his partner with dark hair and eyes. He was of medium build and shorter than the other man.
Cristy goes to run when the first guy grabs her by the arm holding her tightly as she tries to get away from him.
"No! Let me go! I don't know who you are looking for!"
She cries out in fear.
He tosses her across the room as she hits the wall sliding down it to the floor. Cristy lifts her head and sees his face had changed as he walks over to her.
"What are you?" She whispers softly.
"Oh please Aethelfled I expected more of a challenge from you, not this what ever it is that you are doing." He laughs as he walks over to her.
He grabs her by the arms knocking her to the floor as he holds her down.
Cristy begins to cry and beg for him to let her go.
"Shut up!"
He raises his hand to slap her across the face when he's suddenly tossed to the side of the room. Cristy gets up and rushes to her room hiding in a corner of
her closet.
She huddles in the corner of the closet crying and shaking when she hears a lot of commotion going on in the living room suddenly there was silence.
She hears footsteps walking into the bedroom and stopping for a moment then walking slowly over to the closet.
It opens and someone kneels down in front of her.
She slowly lifts her head and sees a guy kneeling in front of her.
He was handsome with black hair with yellow/green eyes. He smiles at her and extends his hand to her.
"Please don't hurt me." She whispers threw tears.
He smiles and gently takes her hand helping her out of the closet.
"I would never hurt you."
She looks at him and looks around the room shaking, as he watches her. She looks up at him and tucks her hair behind her ear.
"Why are you staring at me?"
He smiles walking around the bedroom, looking around.
"You haven't changed I see, you're still beautiful as ever."
He walks over to the wall looking at it, taking the picture off the wall.
She was still short as ever with the same long waist length curly black hair and he knew those eyes of her only she had the most distinctive icy blue eyes along
with that sexy smile of hers.
"How do you know me? I have never seen you before."
He turns his head and gives her a look of surprise.
"Aethelfled why are you pretending you don't know me?"
Cristy becomes annoyed and angry.
"Why does everyone keep calling me that!? My name isn't Aethelfled! My name is Cristy Connor. I don't know who you are or who they were! I don't know
anything!"
He puts the picture back up on the wall and puts his hand on his hip.
"How can you not know anything or who you are?"
She shrugs and wipes the tears from her face.
He walks over to her and looks down at her staring into her eyes.
"Please just leave me alone." She softly whispers looking up at him.
He spots a picture of a boy on her dresser, he walks over to it picking it up and looking at it.
"Who is this?"
He shows her the picture.
"My son Milo."
He cocks an eyebrow and puts down the picture.
"Where is he right now?"
She sighs softly.
"School. Why?"
"You are coming with me and we're going to get Milo. It's not safe here for the both of you and you will be safe with me."
Cristy goes over to him.
"I don't even know who you are! Why should my son and I go with you?"
He folds his arms over his chest and gives a sigh of annoyance.
"My name is Magnus Bane."
Her eyes widen in shock when she heard his name, the same name from her flashbacks she had.
"You should trust me because I can protect you, now get some clothes for you both and we'll go get him."
She was hesitant but felt she could trust him and rushed to pack some clothes for herself and Milo.