7-Learning the Truth
"Arianna said you have something to tell me." Courtney said. She hadn't even given Nigel a chnace to shut the door behind him as he entered their house. The brunette teen had been standing on the stairs, arms folded and brow furrowed, waiting for him to return.
"I might do." Nigel shrugged, taking off his jacket and hanging up. He walked into the living room, leaving Courtney to trail after him.
"Are you going to tell me?" Courtney asked, not letting him get away so easily.
"Okay, Princess." Nigel fell onto the sofa and Courtney sat herself down on the edge of the seat beside him. She was quite curious to see if he actually did know. "Every sorcerer has an element." That threw Courtney straight off the trail. "Mine, for example, is Earth."
"And mine would be water, right?" She had a rough idea of where this was going, but wasn't entirely sure of what to expect from her father.
"I think so." Nigel relied, smiling at his daughter. "It usually kicks in around your eighteenth birthday, but, since you didn't have one, it's happening now."
"Is that why you were warning me about my powers?" She asked, confusing her father. "If I had moved back to Earth, you said my powers would go a bit funny." Nigel smiled, understanding what she meant.
"Yes, it was just in case you freaked out and had to call your very busy cousin away from her duties." Nigel told Courtney.
"Speaking of which, did you know she's a vampire?" Courtney asked, still in shock from that. It was Nigel's turn to raise his eyebrow at Courtney. Of course he knew she was part Vampire, he had known her father, after all. "How come everybody knew this BUT me?" Courtney was getting aggitated because her father and fiancee had both known before she had. "Busy my ass!" Courtney shot, gettig out of that awkward conversation while she could.
"Being Queen's a difficult job." Nigel expalined to Courtney. "There are so many rules, roles and responsibility. Plus, having a baby on top of that doesn't exactly help much either." Courtney huffed, blowing her hair out of her face. Arianna wasn't that busy. And if she was, she didn't seem to let it bother her, too much.
"And you would know from experience..." She sighed. "I know, I know." She sighed again. "But...I don't know..." Nigel hugged his daughter. He understood what she meant, even if she didn't.
"I was king for almost a year, it was hard work." He whispered in Courtney's ear and she nodded her head, hugging her father back.
"But, mom was only Queen for seven months." Courtney said, breaking the hg after realzing what Nigel had said.
"I stayed on after her death. It was my duty to stay king." Nigel tried to expalin without going into the still painfull memories he had. "Then I took you and jetted off to Canada...Leaving this entire town in the hands of a baby..." He didn't sound so proud of himself for that.
But, that was what the council were there for. If the royal family couldn't, or weren't able to, rule over the kingdom, they took over. There was no reason for it to be that way, it just was. Some people found it to be a stupid rule and would much rather have a royal member in charge. But there wasn't always a royal member available at the time.
"Do you think that it would be me in Arianna's position if you hadn't taken me away?" Courtney asked, fidgeting with her hands and not looking at her father. It was a hard subject for the both of them to talk about, but they had to talk about it.
"What?" Nigel asked. "A pregnant Queen?" Courtney smiled, Nigel was always someone to joke around in a serious conversation. "Probably." Courtney gently slapped her father's arm.
"That just shows how much confidence you have in me and Duncan." She scoffed in a joking manner. Nigel just shurgged and smiled.
"You probably wouldn't have known Duncan." Nigel told her. "Or, you would have grown up with him around and not thought of him the way you do now."
That was true. If Courtney had grown up in the palace, Duncan would have been there with her her whole life. They would have more than likely thought of each other as brother and sister, and Courtney would have probably been dating Eric.
"Huh...I guess I am happy with my life, then." Courtney smiled, after thinking it through in her head. "Well, this has been fun." Courtney smiled somemore at her father. "But I have friends to go back to see."
"A circus is nothing without it's ring leader." Nigel winked and Courtney fake gasped at him.
"Trying to say we're all freaks?" Courtney asked, folding her arms across her chest again. Nigel just laughed, and Courtney joined in. "Bye, dad." She got up from the sofa and left the house, walking back to the fountain to see her friends again.
"Have a nice chat?" Arianna asked, her bright pink hodd covering her face once again.
"Yeah, I did." Courtney replied, sitting down on the floor beside her and pulling off her hood.
"What's wrong?" Duncan asked, shifting so he was sitting in front of his fiancee. Courtney shrugged, showing that nothing was actually wrong.
"He's got me thinking..." She then said, deep in thought in her mind.
"Well, there's something that doesn't happen very often." Taylor mutterd. Courtney ignored her, but Arianna turned and gave her a 'Not-Now' look.
"Thinking about what?" The blonde teen asked her cousin. Courtney thought for a moment longer, trying to word it all in her head.
"You and your shitty life." She finally said, and Arianna burst into a massive smile.
"Guess I can't blame you for that one." She winked and Courtney burst out laughing. The brunette teen nudged her cousin in the ribs.
"So, you do have a shitty life, then?" She asked, but the laughter wasn't dying down. Arianna thought for a moment, trying to think of all the good things in her life put up against the bad.
"Definitely shitty." She then replied and the two brust into more laughter. Everyone else was just staring, totally confused, at them. No one had the slightest clue what they were going on about.
"DUNCAN!" Came a high pitched shriek. Kristy had tackled Duncan to the floor, staring deeply into his eyes.
"Kristy...?" He replied, not quite sure of that himself. The girl rolled off him and he sat back up. "Did we not have a discussion about not knocking me onto the ground?" He asked, staring down at her. Kristy sat up, too, shaking the dust from her long locks of brown hair.
"THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!" The ex-council member screamed. "Me, you, Masey, Nigel need to have a meeting, NOW!" She cried out, shaking Duncan's shoulders so he fully understood.
"About what?" Duncan questioned her, not entirely sure if he even wanted to know.
Kristy let go of Duncan and stared around at the others. Everyone had their eyes on her, but she tried not to look at them in return.
"I can't say here." She whispered, only it wasn't all too quiet.
"I'm not going anywhere without knowing why first." Duncan told his dysfunctional friend. Kristy sighed heavily. There was only one person who knew what it meant anyway, but she could always get her in trouble.
"Code 3-4-7." Kristy told him and Duncan's eyes widened with fear.
"CODE WHAT?" Arianna screamed as loud as she could. Arianna knew exactoy what the code meant, along with Duncan. It was one of the many things that you had to know to be in the council, which both had been at one point or another.
"Hey, yeah, SHUT UP!" Kristy yelled, her voice and face deadly serious. Kristy was rarely serious, but when she was, it really was a serious matter at hand. "You are not supposed to be involved with this."
"Not supposed to be involved?" Arianna questioned. "I AM INVOLVED!" Everyone else was just looking even more confused. No one else knew what code 3-4-7 was, but they knew it was serious.
"What's code 3-4-whatever?" Bridgette asked, wanting to know exactly what was going on.
"We'll explain it later, but right now we need to go!" Duncan replied, jumping to his feet.
"I'm coming with you." Arianna said, getting to her own feet. Kristy sighed, rubbing her temples.
"Okay, fine, just come on!" Duncan urged the two to move, and they did. The three of them ran off to the Black house for their private, and deadly serious, meeting.
A/N: =O! OMG! Code 3-4-7!
I keep writing Cody, not code...LOL!
=O! What is it? Hmm...Only I-And Aaron-Know MWAHAHAHA! LOL!
Quite upset...Didn't get to watch Robert Pattinson die afterall...
Ah well...Once I get me DVD player hooked up I can wathc him die over and over and over again on the TV ;) LOL! That'll be fun XD!
So, what do you think code 3-4-7 is? Hmmm? I wanna know what you think it is :) I wanna see if any of you know what it is, or can guess it right :) LOL!
...I'm feeling quite ill and confused right now...Trust me, it's not a good combination to have...It SUCKS! Life sucks...
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sweetElisabeth: Hmm...Good idea ;) Will it happen though? Thank you :)
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