Hey everyone just wanted to let you know that Winters Awakening and it sequel may take some time to be updated. I just started to set up my classroom for this year (they change the room every year) and school starts at the end of the month so yeah it may be some time before anything is posted. Sorry.
I was wondering though if you could help me out with something? I was thinking of making some info 'pages' on specific topics about Avalon and the Avalonians except instead of being separate actual pages of writing it'll be audio which I can do while I work on the million other thing I have to do between now and the last week of August. Do you think I should do it or would it be better to keep writing it all down at the end of every chapter and if I do go through with it what do you want to know about Avalon and its people? It could be anything really a specific species, interaction between various species, how the government works, religions and/or if there are any, interactions with mortals, society as a whole or just a species, general physical appearances, etc. These are just some examples. They'll be posted on Tumblr if I do them.
I'm also thinking of looking for a co-writer if anyone is interested. I think it'll help to get the stories finished a lot faster. If anyone wants to contact me for either the co-writing or the info pages you can comment on AO3 or Fanfiction, private message me on Fanfiction, send me a message on Tumblr or if you don't have a Fanfiction account and want to keep it private you can email me at miranda178 live .com (add the at symbol between miranda178 and live) and I also have babblr on tumblr if you want to chat. Babblr only works on google chrome though for anyone who's wondering. This goes for any questions you may have as well.
Now under the page break is a one shot that takes place some number of centuries after WA but before its planed epilogue and sequel and shows one of the many ways that Avalonians interact with beings in other realms. In this case they interact with what are known as 'Alternates' for those of you who haven't guessed for the name alone these are alternate versions of Avalonians that exist in other realms. Jack is in his female form in this one shot but his alternate is male. This has vague mentions of Caught (Chapters 3-11) by QWERTYbee on AO3, midnightalbums on tumblr, which I just happen to be addicted to at the moment. You don't really have to read it to know what's going on. This just to show everyone that I'm still working on my stories don't worry and to anyone who decides to read it enjoy.
Manny sat at his usual seat watching the different happenings in the various realms on the monitors with an indifferent but calculating eye watching for anything that may interest Lady Katherine. He heard the door slide open behind him and two sets of footsteps enter the room one the thump of boots, the other the click of heels. His eyes never move away from the screens as the two continue to move closer to him stopping once they're standing next. He then looks at them from the corner of his eye. They're also looking at the monitors but unlike his small sweeping gaze that never truly takes in what's going on, unless it affects his mistress of course, their eyes seem to be looking for a specific screen. He knows who they are: Aster Bunnymund and his young mate Jack or Jacquelyn as the case may be at the moment. He waits to be spoken to as he has been taught to do to the small few Aster and Jacquelyn are apart of.
Jacquelyn turns to him and smiles at him showing all of her teeth but especially those poisonous fangs of hers. "Hello Manny how has everything been going for you today?" she asks kindly. "As good as they normally do madam." Manny says with a nod of his head his eyes scanning her and her mates' attire. "I see you'll be attending tonight's masquerade." he says motioning toward their clothes. Jacquelyn looks down at her light blue dress and smiles nodding at him. "Yes we are but we wanted to check up on something or rather someone before we go if you don't mind of course." she says while Aster places her arm in his and looks down at her with a small smile on his face.
Manny just waves them off saying, "Not at all feel free to look to your hearts content." They nod and turn their heads back to the screens to search. Manny turns his eyes back to the monitors and ignores them.
"Now where are those two little darlings?" Jacquelyn purrs as she searches through the multiple images in front of her. "Ah! There they are!" she says as she moves the screen toward them. She looks at her mate and asks "Shall we see what's happened between these two since we last checked in on them darling?" He lets out a quiet chuckle at her words while shaking his head before he smiles down at her, his fangs now showing and says, "I don't know why you keep asking my dear when you already know the answer." She giggles and says "I know I just like asking it." before she moves her hand along the screen and the scene changes from the two beings kissing to the two laying in a nest underground. They watch as the larger one takes the smaller one to the surface near a river to wash up then tries to run away only to be caught and taken back down. They watch the boy slowly begin to unravel and slowly but surely learn the truth of his existence and purpose with a rather sick and twisted satisfaction running through their veins as they watched until they reach the point where they had started with the two kissing. Jacquelyn waves her hand over the image sending the screen back to it place among the others.
"I see you two have been quite busy recently." says a voice from behind them. Manny moved to bow when the voice says, "As you were Manny I only came here to talk to these two little devils." Jacquelyn and Aster turn around to see Katherine behind them in a beautiful kimono like dress that looked as if it were part of the night sky. Jacquelyn crossed her arms over her chest and said, "I resent that Katherine. Me and Aster may have some celestial demon blood but I wouldn't say it's enough to call us devils."
"That may be true my dear but you and I both know that was not what I was referring to." Katherine said while motioning the two of them out into the hallway with her, leaving Manny to continue watching the screens. Once in the hallway Katherine looked at Jacquelyn and Aster before setting her eyes on Jacquelyn. "You've been placing thoughts in that boy's head and pressing your influence on him." Katherine then gave her a light glare "Now I want to know why I shouldn't send you two to your elements Master or Mistress and their advisors as well as the others to be punished for messing with things you shouldn't be. I know they're your alternates but that doesn't give you a free pass to mess with them in any way." she said.
"We do have permission Lady Katherine" Jacquelyn began "My Mistress once went to that realm on a missionyou had sent her on and meet Asters alternate. I don't know exactly what happened but I do know that she promised him a mate or 'doe' as he called it. She put me and Aster in charge of that she told us to pick the family they would be born into, the town he would live in, how they would look, how they would act everything. She also told us that we were to influence them in anyway we could and we did, we keep him away from most of the village so he would stay pure from there foul human taint and the humans in that realm are all rather tainted let me tell you and now" she paused and tilted her head to look Katherine directly in her golden eyes with her blue eyes that at the moment looked like to glaciers "Now we're helping him adjust to this situation the best we can after all there is only so much we can do madam.".
Katherine stopped glaring at them and smiled sighing in relief. "So that's what's been going on." she said. Jacquelyn and Aster looked at her confused not understanding what she meant by that. "I've been watching that realm but those two in particular. Watching them is a great way to keep the darkness within me at bay for at least a little while and recently I noticed traces of your magic around the boy and wondered what was going on." Katherine said when she noticed the confused look on both their faces. The two nodded in understanding.
"Now what are you two going to do now?" Katherine asks. "We were going to find a young a muse who'd asked us if we could find them something rather dark to watch and then tell and inspire another being, probably a human, into telling. In won't be an exact retelling of what happened, gods know it never is, but close enough. Then we were going to a masquerade in one of the human realms where we'll be spying on some guy who's been supposedly using his own children as prostitutes to his business partners despite being rich as fuck himself and that just being completely and utterly wrong. If it turns out to be true we get the kids out and then kill the sick bastard." said Aster with a shrug of his shoulders. "Yes but not before us and all the others have our 'fun' with him" said Jacquelyn with a vicious gleam in her eyes and a wide Cheshire Cat like smile that showed of all her teeth but most especially the two very sharp fangs that had lengthened at Asters words about their mission.
Katherine gave them an equally vicious smile and wished them luck on their mission before relaxing her features again and saying "There's already a muse covering this but I've noticed that they've been rather slacking so tell your muse that they'll both be working together but if the other one continues to slack off they have to find something else to use. An artist's only job is to show up and have to willpower and courage to use what the muse gives them. The best case scenario is that both of them show up and the muse inspires them by planting ideas into their head whether it's an image for an artist to draw or a story for a writer to pen down on paper and whether that image or story is just a vague concept for the person to develop on their own or an exact image or story, that is the job of a muse after all, and the person draws or writes it but that of course is not always the case. There are times when a muse will give someone inspiration but they have neither the will and/or courage to do anything with it and then there are other times where the person is ready and willing to work but there is no muse to give them the inspiration." Katherine sighs.
"I hope things continue to go well for you two and-" she pauses and gets a faraway look in her eyes before she smiles and looks at them "and it seem congratulations are in order sometime in the near yet rather distant future. Goodbye Aster, Jacquelyn." she said nodding at each of them in turn before quickly spinning on her heel and leaving the hallway. Aster and Jacquelyn both turn towards each other with equal looks of confusion and seeming to ask if the other knew what she meant with those parting words. They both just shrugged their shoulders and shook their heads before leaving to complete their mission.