I don't own Darkest Powers… I wish I did.

Chloe

All I could do was stand there frozen in place as she approached me, walking next to my friends and through someone of them until she stopped in front of Derek, who was still trying to protect me. I touched Derek's arm and walked around him to stand almost in front of him. I could not take my eyes of her.

She was beautiful; she stood there looking at me with tears in her eyes but with also a sweet smile.

"Happy Birthday sweetheart"...

"M-mom?"

"Hi darling… you look so beautiful and so grownup"

My mom was standing in front of me! She was more beautiful than I remembered; she was wearing jeans and a pretty lavender top. I always figured that if I ever saw my mom she would be wearing an ankle length white gown that glowed like an angel, but she looked like she had just come home from shopping at the mall or getting a manicure.

I could barely hear the voices around me, Derek, Tori and Andrew were saying my name, I guess I had not moved of said anything that they were worried. Carrie could clearly see that I was in shock as she was the only other one that could see my mom.

"Derek, maybe we should have Chloe sit down?'

I heard Tori say to Derek when suddenly I found myself picked up by Derek, bridal style.

That woke me up to my surroundings and I could not help but laugh at his urgency.

"I meant on a chair, wolf boy!"

"Oh, Sorry. Chloe are you okay? Can I take you inside the house? Will your mom follow?"

"Umm… Mom?

"I'm right here baby, let's go inside to talk"

I giggle again at Derek's care and told him it was okay and he could take me inside, before we walked away I noticed the party had stopped and everyone was just staring at me.

"Um guys, sorry for the interruption but please continue the party, I am going to talk to my mom inside" I could not believe how calm I was on the outside, on the inside I was screaming and jumping and just about flipping out.

I did not take my eyes of my mom while Derek carried me inside, she only smiled and I also noticed she was looking at Derek.

Once inside Derek put me down on the couch but he did not relax, he stood protectively in front of me.

"Um, sweetheart, I see you are very well protected. Can you tell your bodyguard that I won't hurt you?"

I asked Derek to relax, my mom was already sitting next to me and I was okay. At first I could not understand why he looked upset, not mad but almost sad.

'I'll leave you too alone"

"No! Wait Derek, stay I want my mom to meet you"

Derek just stood there, he looked scared, "Derek what's wrong?

He forced a smile "Nothing, I am happy you can see your mom, we will have time later to talk, now it's your time with her" with that he leaned in and kissed me on the top of my head and walked out of the house.

"Mom? I can't believe you are here! I thought I would never see you"

"Sweetie, we have so much to talk about, but first I need to tell that the reason I could not contact you before was because of your aunt Lauren. She did something with the help of a witch that was preventing me from coming though. But a few hours ago I began to feel a change, it is like a invisible wall was beginning to come down it happened when you changed the chain to your neck less.

"Aunt Lauren? Why would she do that? My neck less?"

"My guess is so I would not haunt you. Maybe she hoped the spell would keep all ghosts from haunting you, I feel that she wanted to protect you. Now honey, we have so much to talk about. Let's start with your boyfriend"

"Mom, he is wonderful and loving and he will never let anything or anyone hurt me. Please keep an open mind"

"Okay, Chloe, tell me about him"

"H-H-e is a w-w-ware" Dam stuttering!

"Werewolf Chloe, please calm down honey, I know who he is"

"You know who Derek is?"

"Yes, I met him and his brothers when they were little. I recognized him immediately. And, I have been watching you two for some time. I think he looked upset because if I am correct your aunt Lauren does not approve of Derek, am I right?"

"How did you know?, but most important do you approve of Derek? Please say yes mom because I love him with all my heart and I can't stand the thought you don't approve of him"

"Werewolves never did anything wrong to me that would let me to believe they are bad. I am sure there are some bad ones out there but I trust you, and I have seen him with you, so although I think you are too young to really know what love is and I wish you would take it slow. I don't have any objections or a choice with the entire mate thing, besides, he looks like he loves you very much and he is very cute"

I blushed like no tomorrow. My mom and I talking about boys or more specifically my boyfriend and she thinks he is cute! This is the best birthday ever!

My mom spoke for hours, I never rejoined the party at some point of the night Derek poked his head in and I introduced him to my mom. It was funny to see Derek introduce himself to someone he cannot see or hear but he did well and my mom was impressed.

My mom told me that my dad knew about my powers, she never kept it from him but he chose to block it out or ignore it, she was surprised that he allowed for me to be placed in the Lyle House but she thinks he was in denial. Mom made my dad promise her that he would never discuss my powers with anyone including my aunt Lauren. I believe he kept that promise.

She said that she was going to go and check on him, she would go back and forth between us and she would find out about Aunt Lauren and the Edison Group too. My mom said that there was an energy about the house and the area of so many ghost just itching for a fight. She advised me to talk to Andrew and discuss moving our fight soon before the spirits get out of hand.

I asked my mom how she knew Derek. He was very interested in hearing that story too.

"When you were born Chloe, I took you to the Edison Group. Lauren said that you should be checked regularly and monitored by her doctor friends. We made a couple of visits. In one of those visits, Lauren showed me the "pups" as she called them. To me they looked like little boys. Lauren has her reasons for not liking werewolves and her anger showed. Derek was different and she pointed him out. I won't say the things she told me about the boys, but I remember feeling sad because it was not the boys fault who they were and it was not their fault that Lauren was bitter. I never forgot the boys, especially Derek because her opinions were more cruel towards him than the others"

Derek was shocked. "Why did she hate me so much? Well she still hates me, what did I do to her?

My mom hesitated for a while. She needed to give Derek an answer but she did not know how. After a few minutes, she moved toward him, she brushed her fingers on his face, she very tenderly said…

"You did nothing wrong. But your father did"

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