Hey guys happy Fourth of July! And in celebration, I have uploaded another chapter. Hope you guys will enjoy it, I did.
Cheers erupted throughout the camp form the dragons, the false king was gone; his influence no longer reign over these people. Those who were Arthur's loyal subjects still could not believe that their king would deceive them like that. All heads turned to the voice of Guinevere shouting out Lancelot's name. No one seemed to know where he was, except the red hair queen who reassured Guinevere that she knew where he was at. The two left in search of her true love, but before she left Guinevere told her subjects to listen to Morgana, that they will be in good hands with her. Even though the queen told her subjects that, Maleficent could see fear, confusion, and hate in many of their eyes. She knew it would take a long time to repair the bond between humans and dragons, even so, there would never be full trust between the two, but this was a start.
Out of the corner of her eye, Maleficent saw Lucas walking towards her and her girls with another man who looked around her daughters' age. "Maleficent," he looked straight at her, "Lily, Daegan," he looked at his daughters. "This is Logan. Logan," Lucas looked at the young man, "these are your sisters." Confusion crossed not only the young man's face, but to their girls. Maleficent raised an eyebrow in amusement, of course Lucas would have a child, he did love Sabrina with all his heart; it would make sense. Maleficent could see the similarities between the young man and his mother. They both share the same golden hair, the soft cheek bone. Everything else was from Lucas, his sharp jaw, his sun kissed skin, although it could be because that the young man could had been out in the sun too much. Even his eyes, the same eyes that her daughters had.
"Father?" the young man questioned to his father. Even Maleficent could see that the boy wanted answers, the same look her daughters had when Maleficent was explaining everything to them back in the cabin.
"It happened a long time ago, when your mother died," confusion turned to hurt, anger, as Lucas tried to explain to his son. "Logan it was a onetime thing I loved your mother. LOGAN GET BACK HERE!" Lucas yelled to his son as he started to walk away from him. With one look, Maleficent could see her girls had the same idea and ran after their brother. Maleficent put a hand on Lucas's shoulder, his anger quickly faded away as he looked at her. Without saying a word, the two knew that the best ones he could talk to was his little sisters.
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The two woman jogged their way to the edge of the camp, to their brother. "Go away," he yelled out. They stopped for a moment, Daegan ran to him and grabbed his upper arm. Logan tried to shake her off, but Daegan wouldn't let go.
"No listen, Logan listen to me," Daegan tried to hold on until Logan finally shook her off. He started to walk away until Lily yelled at him.
"You can't change anything. Whether you like it or not, we're just like you," this got him to stop in his tracks.
"I doubt that," he scoffed as he turned to look at them. For a moment, Lily could see herself in her brother's eyes. The pain, the hurt, the betrayal. A look she knew all too well, a look that Daegan had one given her.
"You were lied to about your family for most your life," Lily looked at Daegan," so were we. I was a sixteen when I found out I was adopted. I just barely found out Dae is my twin. She thought I was dead for the last two years, alone. You don't know how much I regret it," Lily was truly sorry for the pain she caused Daegan and made a promise there that she would make it up to her one day.
Daegan slowly walked up to the broken man. "Lucas," he looked at Daegan straight in the eyes, "don't make the same mistake I did. Please don't walk out of our lives, don't push us away. Because I can promise you, you will regret it every day. And one day, it will be too late and you will have more regret. Trust me I know, but not all of us are lucky," Daegan turned around to look at Lily. "Second chances like these don't happen every day," Daegan turned back on their brother," you have to live in the here and now, before it's gone," a smile crossed Lily's lips from her sister's words.
"Yeah, your dad, our dad," Lily knew saying that would be hard and would get some time to get used to," he fucked up. So did our mom," she walked to her siblings, "I defiantly fucked up so many times. Everyone screws up Logan. Well everyone except Dae," she could see Daegan shake her head and rolled her eyes.
"What she's trying to say," Daegan chimed in, "is that everyone screws up. We just learn from it and not let it control our future.
"And beside," Lily smiled, "I never had a brother before."
"It's not you that I'm mad at you. I bet you're lovely ladies," Logan huffed and turned away from the girls.
"Then what?" Daegan asked. "Logan talk to me," she tried to put her hand on his shoulder and he shook her off. Hurt crossed her face only for a brief moment. Daegan was always good at hiding her emotion when it comes to strangers, Lily knew Daegan was glad that Logan didn't see her reaction.
"Okay cut the crap," all eyes were on Lily now because of her outburst. "I know you. I've been you Logan. It's easier to build up walls than to break them down. It's easier to blame others than to take the blame or accept the facts. Yeah our dad had a one night with our mom," Lily pointed to Daegan and herself," so what? There are worse things he could had done," Lily couldn't believe it, she had called Maleficent and Lucas her mom and dad. It felt right for the first time in her life. She had never felt like this with her adoptive parents. This was her family, this was her home, and she will not lose it.
"He lied to me! He said that he loved her and only her. He loved her to the day she died and even after. Tell me, if he loved her then why did he cheat on her? How can he say that he loved her if he strayed? He was more than my father. He was my teacher, my mentor, my friend, and now I found out he lied to me my entire life!"
"I bet he had a good reason Logan. Maybe he wanted you to be better than him," Daegan suggested.
"He still shouldn't had."
"Well he did," Lily replied. "And holding a grudge over him won't help anyone Logan," Lily spoke from experience. "You got to let it go or else you're gonna be stuck in this endless cycle of hate. I'm not telling you that you have be our brother, or even like us. Just give him a chance. Don't let everything go to waste over this."
Logan was quiet for a moment; Lily could see that he was considering his options. Rolling her eyes, Lily took Daegan's hand and started walking back. If he didn't want to be in their life, fine. She didn't need him; she did fine up until now. The two women turned back when they heard another pair of footsteps behind them. "You two don't seem that bad," Logan shrugged his shoulders and wrapped his arms around his two sisters' shoulders as they head back to the camp.
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Daegan saw Alex, Maleficent, Damien, Lucas, and Morgana in a deep conversation, but before she could see what is wrong, she felt a tap on her right shoulder. She, Lily, and Logan turned to face J.R. "Hi, do you guys mind if I can kidnap Dae for a moment?" he asked Daegan siblings.
Not waiting for their approval, Daegan walked to her boyfriend and gave her siblings a look that she will be all right. The couple walked away from her family as Alex was talking to them about the world theory. Now that Daegan thought about it, the idea wasn't too farfetched. That Earth was a refugee planet, that would explain how fallen angels, witches from another world, and a storybook full of fairytale characters can end up on this planet. If that was not the answer, then Daegan did not know what is.
Hands interlocked, the warmth of the bonfire in the middle of the camp, if Daegan was not worried about her future this would had been perfect. There was not a doubt in her mind that she wanted to stay and know her family, that's all she wanted when she hired a PI to find them, but things weren't simple anymore. Well it never was when it came to Daegan. She had to think about others than herself. She promised Wendy and Arthur Beauchamp that she would find Romen Starr and to top it all off, she just found out that she could not have kids with J.R. Granted, kids weren't on her mind, but now knowing that she can't have one made her want one even more. Yes, she could have one with another dragon, but she didn't want to have a child with someone else, she wanted one with J.R.
"Did you get my message about Belle?" his voice interrupted her thoughts.
"Yeah," through all the chaos from the day, Daegan had a chance to read his message. "I can't believe that she was sucked into a portal to the Underworld, no wonder Alex felt something off this morning." Daegan felt bad for Belle, no one deserved to go to the Underworld and defiantly no one deserved to go to Hell. She hoped that she would find her way back home.
"No wonder that the portal opened and all those Hounds ran through. But it wasn't a complete lose. We went to the pawn shop and found out some information about our guy," a smile crossed his face. "He's living in Napa, California. We got his address and if we leave in the morning it would take a few days to get there by car. And if all goes well then by next week then we will have him in East End with his daughter."
"Yeah I'm happy for them," Daegan forced a smile on her face, she was happy for them, truly. J.R. went in front of Daegan and stopped. She took a step back at this sudden halt.
"What's wrong Dae?" he placed both of his hands on her shoulders. All Daegan could see was concern for her in his eyes, she didn't deserve him.
"Nothing," she tried to chuckle it off and shrugged his hands off. She tried to walk away, but he wouldn't budge. Her smile fell, she hated that he could read her like a book, most of the time.
"Seriously, Dae it's me," he pointed to himself, "talk to me," he gave her that reinsuring smile and she melt right there. She knew she could tell him anything, it was hard sometimes, but they were a team. She had to trust him.
"I'm conflicted," she wrapped her arms around herself. Daegan looked up and saw J.R. gave her an encouraging nod to continue. She did after she took a big sigh. "I know what I have to do but-"
"But you want to stay," he interrupted her. Daegan looked away from him, not wanting to see the hurt on his face. She knew it was selfish, but ever since she thought Lily was dead, and even before that, she would imagine what her real family would be like. Don't get her wrong, she loved her adoptive family, they were great and tried to give her everything, but there was always something missing. Something she couldn't describe, maybe it was because she didn't have any siblings with her adoptive family or that they had no magic. Whatever it was, Daegan felt complete here. Sure her family was broken, but what family wasn't. They wanted to know her and be a part of her life, and she wanted the same. "That doesn't make you a bad person Dae," She looked up to see that his smile never wavered. "If you want to stay, then me and Alex wouldn't say anything."
"But I want to be with you and you know that I'm a woman of my word."
"Okay well then when everything is done then we can come back here no biggie," he said in a matter of fact tone. Daegan wished she had his optimisms right now. "What else is wrong, don't deny it I can see it in your eyes."
"It's what Morgana said," she stuffed her hands in her pockets.
"She said a lot of stuff, don't pay attention to her," he tried to brush it off, but Daegan could see some hurt in his eyes. She hated how that woman she barely met could bring such pain to the both of them.
"I wouldn't but-"
"It's what she said about us having kids," he interrupted her, knowing what she was thinking.
"I know you want some, we talked about it a long time ago and we haven't talk about it lately, but I want one," Daegan remember they would talk about a family before Lily had entered their life. She knew how much it was for J.R. to be a father. He wanted to do right by his child since J.R.'s dad left him and his mother before he was born, said it was a one-night stand. He wanted to bring a child into the world and raise it, to be there for them, the good and the bad. As for Daegan, she was the one who was scared to be a mom. She didn't want to wake up one day and think that having a child was a mistake and give it up for adoption like she was. However, now that Daegan knew the truth about her adoption and that that she can't have children with him, she wants one. She had time to grow as a person, do the things she wanted to do, granted there were some things she hasn't done yet, she loved kids. She knew she would be a good mom if she had the chance.
"It sad, I want something that I can't have, something I can't give you."
"Just because she said it doesn't mean it's true. Haven't you heard of second option? And beside I'm a warlock I think that rule does not apply."
"But what if it doesn't and she's right?" J.R. brushed the tears that were threating to pour from her eyes.
"Then I'm okay if we didn't have kids," Daegan could see that hurt him saying that, "as long as I have you. But if really bothers you, we will resort to magic if we have to. Or even adoption," Daegan lightly scoffed. "Come on Dae, there a bunch of kids out there that would love to be adopted, they don't have to have magic. As long as it's a child that you and me raised, then I love it," he gave the sweetest smile, she felt that she didn't deserve him.
"I would too."
"Daegan," J.R. cupped her cheeks, "we've been through cannibalistic vampires, psychopathic witches, crazy possessive ghosts, and now a hoard of dragons and their queen; I think we got this," his strong arms wrapped around the dragon. Daegan felt the safest in his arms, like they could do anything and this was no exception. They will have a family no matter what Morgana said. And with a track record like theirs, the impossible was possible. "But there's time for us to worry about it," he pulled away from the hug. "One step at a time. We have to find Romen first, then maybe a family," he placed his hand on her stomach, there is nothing more for Daegan to have a family with the man she loved and she wanted to do it right, one day.
"Why Mr. Bennet I'm a proper woman," she playfully hit his arm, "and I would like to be treated as such," she said in the most southern accent.
"Nothing less for you," he went along and tried his best southern accent, but failed miserably. The two laughed it off started to head back to Daegan's family. She had only one night to get to know them and she wasn't going to waste it.
Daegan dreaded the next morning. It was hard for Daegan to tell Maleficent that she, J.R., Alex, and Kristin had to leave in the morning. Maleficent begged for them to stay, but they couldn't. Daegan promised that she would come back after she tie up some things back home and would come back as soon as she can. It was hard, both mother and daughter, to part once more, but this time they were not alone. This time Maleficent knew that she would see her daughter again.
As Daegan was about to get into her car she looked up, a small smile formed on her lips as a lonely tear fell as she looked at her family. Daegan knew this was not a goodbye, but an 'I will see them soon'. She got in the passenger seat and J.R. started the car. As he reversed the car, her eyes never left her family until he turned the car around and drove out of the town. Taking a deep breath, her hand unconsciously wrapped around her necklace. A bigger hand covered her hand as they drove out of the town. Daegan could feel the magic in the air as they crossed the town line. She looked back to see Alex and Kristen asleep. Maybe, just maybe, she could have a family of her own.
So guys what do you think? I love to hear what you guys thought about this chapter. So I got good news and bad news. Like all thing they must end, this story is no exception. I have one chapter left, however, it would be released until later on this year. The reason for this is that this story ties in with another story that I am writing. For those who reads that story I do not want to give them any spoilers. But, if you guys want more stories with Daegan, Alex, J.R, and Kristen, please read my other stories. Especially All Hallows Eve, No Day But Today, and soon my story that is in development, A Child That Leads Me Home. And if you really want to get the whole back story about the world that these guys live in, please read my other story Home is Where the Heart Lies. It is a Witches of East End fan fiction. I was very upset when it was canceled. If you haven't watched the show I highly recommend it and then sign their petition to renew the show.
Again I want to thank everyone for reading this story. I've had this idea in my head for a long time when I had started writing my first story and I had finally had a chance to post it. Your posts have been very genuine and encouraging. And with that I will see you guys soon, in the future, one more time. Bye guys.
