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Chapter Ten ¦ Flashbacks and Feelings

On the outskirts of the mad king's kingdom lay a dark forest, Maleficent hovered atop the trees looking out onto the castle. The rescue plan had been set out and she had a horrible feeling that something had gone terribly wrong. The time had come for the plan to take action and as she looked out to the castle she felt an uneasy sensation take over her entire body. Something was not right…

Below Maleficent In the forest a small troop of ten soldiers stood in the shadows awaiting their orders. The lords of Aurora's kingdom had sworn their best men in service to the young queen and her godmother. They had sworn to bring back Ondine at any cost.

Meanwhile at the castle, Diaval had perched himself onto the cell window, he had ventured to Ondine's room as he had done for the last few months but as he arrived at the window he saw no sign of his mermaid. He became worried; Diaval had come to see her at the same time every night and she was always there waiting for him– tied up to the wall and unable to be anywhere else, but ready and waiting for him none the less. She was a tough cookie she was just as sarcastic as he was, the verbal sparring matches were a sight to be seen. Although now the Raven felt something more human for the mermaid; and this scared him more than anything.

-Flashback –

Diaval glanced over to Ondine; she sat on her cell floor staring at her dirty bleeding feet. A frown spread across her face as she wiggled her toes. Scrunching her lips into a pout she pointed her feet and sighed.

'What on earth are you doing?' questioned the bird-man. He lay on the other side of the room watching her intently. Ondine did not look up from her toes. She just continued to wiggle them and remained in a deep place of thought. Diaval could not take his eyes off of her. He had grown very fond of Ondine even if he was able to mask his affection with his dry sarcasm. If truth be told he would happily spend the whole day sitting with her in her cell. He did not even need to talk to her; as long as he could see her and be around her he was happy.

She is beautiful….so beautiful….

Diaval stood looking at the young maiden; her hair was a deep marine blue and would shine like all the colours of the waves, it lay over hers shoulders and covered most of her face when she was sat in such a position. Diaval was lucky he could see past her scars, they covered her body much like his own; the bruising and dry blood didn't take from her beauty in his eyes. Her eyes had entranced the raven over the last few visits. Ondine's eyes were white and silver and would shine brightly when she smiled or laughed a rare sight to see but he prided himself in being able to make the young woman laugh in such a dark time.

Oh Diaval you silly bird would you PLEASE snap out of it! He mentally castigated himself for allowing his mind to run off with him, he felt as though he had turned into King Phillip for a moment. Diaval had always admired the young king's way with words; he managed to enchant the young Aurora within minutes of their first meeting. He on the other hand would make a fool of himself if he ever tried to court a female, human, fae or feathered.

He imagined the scenario panning out his mind…he knew he would more than likely transform into a human man whilst in flight and fall into a tree or a river very inelegantly. That would be the end of that attempt of a courtship before it had even begun.

'I miss my tail…' Whispered Ondine as she looked up from her feet. Snapping the bird from his thoughts, he quickly blinked and quickly stood up feeling as though he had been caught doing something wrong. 'Oh nice, I tell you I miss my tail and you decide to stand up and go for a nice stroll around the cell…very considerate!' groaned Ondine as she brought her knees up to her chest, closing her eyes and inhaling deeply. Ondine sat in this position for a while trying to drift into a sleep.

She tensed up when she felt Diaval touch her legs. Her eyes snapped open and she kicked her leg into the air which collided directly into the poor man's face. Diaval let out a loud cry and transformed back into a raven before he landed into the cell wall.

Ondine sat there wide eyed, biting down on her bottom lip as she tried to hold in her laughter but as the raven turned to her and extended his wings in a questioning manner as if to accuse her of being insane. She burst out in a fit of laughter, it made her tummy ache. She had not laughed this hard in a long long time.

After ruffling his feathers and composing himself he transformed back into a man and with huff and a pout he sat back in his corner away from Ondine.

'Well that was a bit of an overreaction my dear don't you think?!' exclaimed the bird man as he lifted his hand up to rub his nose. 'I was only going to massage your legs….' Ondine stopped laughing and crinkled her eyebrows in disapproval. 'All I wanted to do was try to make your legs feel better…' Diaval tried to regain a bit of composure as his ears began to burn in realization that what he had just offered to do was completely inappropriate for humans and most fae. Ondine tilted her head to the side in confusion. She could not understand why he would want to stop her legs from hurting; most people enjoyed seeing her in pain or did not care about how she felt at all. She let a small smile cross her lips as she could see the bird man becoming all flustered by his last comment. She looked at the man and felt a surge of warmth rise up her body from her feet to her cheeks. She did not know this feeling and it worried her a little.

'Thank you...I am tired I am going to sleep…Goodnight Diaval' Ondine said quietly and she shuffled back into the corner of her cell and hugged her knees. Diaval tiled his head to the side slightly a little confused by her sudden change in behaviour.

'Goodnight Ondine…' with that Diaval transformed back into a raven and flew out of the cell perching himself on the cell window. He would not fly back to the moors quite yet he wanted to watch her for a little longer.

End of flashback -

He had a horrid feeling in the pit of his stomach…something is very wrong... With that the raven flew off into the forest back to his mistress….he did not know that as that very moment Ondine was being dragged to the mad kings bedchambers.

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