A/N Hi guys, Here's a new chapter, I hope you're liking the story!
"It's too dangerous to let you into the loop yet, the wights could have tracked you here already, with all this technology these days." Millard sat on the grass with me as we talked. It had been another week, an we had met up every day, becoming closer and closer friends. I nodded, deciding to change the subject, avoiding my own disappointment.
"So, this Perplexus travelled all over the world to different loops. That's amazing"
"It is" Millard and I sat in silence. "Can I see your wings?" I looked up at him in surprise.
"...Ok, but they're barely wings yet" I undid my blouse and lowered it off my back, clutching it to cover my front. In the cover of the trees here, I felt safe. I felt safe with Millard. Somehow, his company had become a comfortable and his presence essential.
"Wow" Millard's voice breathed from behind me, ever eager to learn. I could feel his fingers tracing my now large stumps, the feathers beneath ready to burst through. I breathed in deep.
"Your peculiarity certainly is a rare one" I smiled at him, or in what I guessed was his general direction.
"Yours too" He told me I could put back on my shirt, and I did.
"Are you ok?" Millard had been more quiet than usual, and I was worried about the tinge of sadness that laced his tone.
"I just wish I could go to all of those amazing places he did, and meet all the normals he must have on the way" I assumed he was referring to Perplexus Anomalus. "You see, and I said this to Jacob, I love my peculiarity, I love being different, but I just wish that I could sometimes switch it off, let the people I care about see me, and maybe have a chance of doing something I can't like this. Like teaching! I've always wanted to do it. I love it, but in some ways, it cripples me." Our voices were reduced to a whisper. "I want you to see me." I decided let my body do the talking.
"I wish I could see you too. " My hand found his cheek and I closed my eyes, picturing his face from what I could feel. This person I felt I knew but couldn't see. This person I had found myself caring for. I could feel his warm hand on my back. Closer. I could feel his breath on my face. Closer. He kissed me, and I knew then and there that I loved him.
When we broke apart he laughed. "That would look weird to anyone who was watching" I laughed and we laid back onto the grass, my hand still intertwined with his and my his arm below my shoulders. I could feel it, the connection we shared. We would share something no-one or very little people could claim, and prove. I hadn't fallen for him for his looks, but his words, his heart, his thoughts. I fell in love with him for his soul.
Suddenly a rustling from the bushes behind us caused me to shoot up. A dishevelled looking girl emerged, her hair a tangled bird's nest of leaves and branches. She was bleeding in several places, and collapsed.
"Fiona!" Millard began to run toward the girl, and I followed him.
"Who is she?" I was confused
"An old friend, we all thought she was dead! We have to get her back to Miss Peregrine"
"I'm coming" I helped Millard pick up the girl. He sighed.
"It seems we have no choice" We left the meadow, walking through the left arch. A faint whooshing sound then my ears popped. We walked out into a warm day toward a rather large cottage. Emma was sitting with Jacob outside. They looked up in surprise when they saw us carrying Fiona.
"Fiona!" Emma ran toward the girl. "I'll get Miss. Peregrine" She turned to the cottage and ran.
"Autumn" Jacob looked at me. "Hey, glad to see you here, Miss. P will want to talk to you too" I nodded but when we reached the door a wild eyed boy flung open the door, taking one look at us before he scooped Fiona into his arms and placing her on the couch into the next room without a word to us. Soon after a woman in a navy dress rushed into the room.
"Hugh, dear, step back, I need to take care of her." The boy stepped back from Fiona's side but refused to leave the room while the rest of us decided to give the two women their space. We all sat down in the room next to us at a large table, and the others introduced themselves to me. There was Claire, who had a backmouth, Olive, who was lighter than air, Horace, who had physic dreams, Emma, who could make fire (though I had already gathered that) Jacob, who could see and control hollows, Bronwyn, who had super strength, Enoch, who could bring life to both objects and people, and finally Hugh, the boy who had bees living inside of him. I smiled and waved, introducing myself as Autumn, and I said how I had wings. I would be joining them soon, I said. I knew I would, compelled even more now through my love for Millard. No matter how fond I was of Serenity, I needed to join them. To leave now would leave a hole in my life I would never hope to fill.
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