After scrambling around to find some clothes we descend the stairs and enter the kitchen to find my mother red faced and my father coldly staring at Callie. "There's a reason you're sleeping in separate rooms you know" He boomed at Callie, causing her to visibly shake. "You abused my trust Calliope when you decided it was alright to have sex with my daughter in my house, do you understand me?!" He bellowed in our direction.

"Daddy no…" I'd long since descended into tears. "Daddy, this is my fault not Calliope's, but come on Dad, I'm 25… she's 24. You know I have had sex." His gaze is locked on me, his jaw set. "You will not be having sex in my house again do you understand me?" I start to nod in understanding until my mother speaks up. "Enough Daniel, they're adults. Your daughter is a grown woman, capable of making her own decisions." She turns to me "next time, can you not leave a trail of clothes. I felt like I was following the yellow brick road." She smiles slightly at me while my father continues to glare. Finally with his nose flared he utters out "fine… but I don't need to know!" Callie goes to grab my hand. "Now, dinners on the table you need to eat." We ate in silence until we got up to leave. "I don't want any funny business up there you know." My mum gave me a wink whispering something about her daughter being a "stud."

I've never seen Callie run out of a room so quickly; it was as if the ground beneath her was on fire. I was dragged out the room so quickly I thought my arm would dislocate, before we reached my room and Callie sat on the bed putting her head in her hands. "I thought your father was going to eat me alive then." Shaking my head I come to sit behind her my arms wrapping themselves around her waist I place a kiss on the nape of her neck my wings enclosing us protectively. "I promise you I would never let my father do anything to hurt you. He just still sees me as his little girl, you know?" She nods her head and leans into my embrace. "Arizona, do you think you have better co-ordination with these things?" She strokes her arm down the primary feathers of my left wingtip. "Mmhhhm, why?"

"Well, it's still light outside. Do you want to try flying tonight?" I gasped in shock; I hadn't tried to fly since driving across from Baltimore in fear of being spotted. "Hey, it's okay if you don't fancy it. I just thought it might give you a break from your parents?" I look at her with wide eyes as she strokes a hand down my cheek. "Would you come with me to see if I can do it?" She nods before adding.

"And I'll catch you should you fall." I give her a quick peck before releasing her and taking her hand. I lead us down the stairs, out the house; with only one snarky remark about not having sex outdoors by my father; and onto the path that lead a little way to a secluded spot in the woods. Callie pulls me towards her when she realises quite how nervous I am. "You're gunna do awesome babe, don't worry. You've just got to relax and do this." She removes the hoodie and belt that impede my flight muscles with an added kiss to my neck. "Just do what you're gifted with." I nod my head with somewhat new found confidence, however a little bit of self-doubt lingers on.

I find myself walking away from her to provide some distance as in the very likely occurrence that I career to the ground I wouldn't want to collide with her. Okay, I can do this… I mean how hard can it be, right? I stretch out my wings the primary and secondary feathers impressively spreading out at my sides. With a final glance at Callie who is, as ever, giving me an encouraging smile. I push down using the pectorals attached to my shoulder, the thrust causing me to fly into the air impressively. I had however not thought about what I would do once I had managed to get myself in the air, I flapped wildly, heading rapidly back to Earth. However eventually I managed to spread my wings enough for their purpose to be established, spreading both humerus out caused air to be trapped by the primary and secondary coverts, leading to up thrust and an ability to glide. I found myself travelling quite far and could see Callie attempting to keep up with me on the ground. I found that my changing the angle the wings had to each other would cause me to turn, I turned around and attempted to land in the same area I had started off at.

This didn't go quite so smoothly and I found myself crashing heavily into a large oak tree knocking myself unconscious. I wake up moments later with a panicking Calliope cradling my head in her arms. "Oh thank fuck, I thought the worst. Are you ok?" I go to nod but she won't let me. "Hey, hey stay still ok."

"I think this is just a ploy of yours to take advantage of me" I manage to croak out, she leans down to kiss me on the head before easily lifting me to pick me up. "We're going home." She says flatly, "enough flying for you." She starts walking towards the direction of the house, abandoning my hoodie on the grass inside the clearly. "Calliope… what if somebody sees me?"

"Nobody will see you, your parent's neighbours are all over 70 and its past nine… babe, you're hurt I got this ok?"

"O-okay." I allow her to carry me the short(ish) distance home, it was nice being in her arms and let's face facts the woman smells divine. Little did we know however that someone had been watching us….