So I realized I was very bad at explaining some things when it came to Reyna. I also wanted to wait for the end of Sydney's and Adrian's story to start fully explaining anything. Since I don't own Vampire Academy or Bloodlines. Which...yeah if anyone who hasn't finished that series or read it. Things happened and you need to read it.
(Reyna)
My life sucks. Not like the normal kind of sucks but like having a berserk strigoi feeding off you kind of sucks. I felt like a paradox wrapped in an enigma stuffed inside Schrodinger's box. After Lissa's visit I asked if I could go the library to do some reading. Luckily enough, they did let me after everyone had left. I was under quarantine from the feel of it, kept from my parents only allowed to have certain visitors.
This of course gave me time to think about everything that had happened to me and all the emotions that I had been keeping locked away. Were all coming out at once, the guardians watching over me weren't allowed to speak to me so sitting in a corner of the library by myself as I cried about Vlad and his death on top of what Mordred had told me before my parents came to my rescue. I was a wreck and the ancient books I was reading weren't helping.
I had looked for hours searching for every old book in the library even requesting anything they had that was hundreds of years old. Very few mentioned anything about things like me. Some discussed the uses of dark magic on damphirs that would later become strigoi driven mad by the magic. Spirit, obviously, was the root of it all.
"Here, this is the one that Lissa found a spell in to entwine your parent's souls together," I heard Adrian say setting a book in front of me as he took a seat next to me rubbing my back. "I'm sorry."
"Why? It's not your fault." I choked out between sobbing breaths.
"But I am your uncle, I should have made them wait a day to take you guys back or something."
"I had a dream about it."
"W-What?" he stuttered.
"I get these dreams. More like flashes about stuff that's going to happen. I knew something bad was going to happen. I wanted him to stay behind b-but...I'm already a freak and saying I have visions is like saying that I'm some kind of ultra freak." I admitted wanting the weight of my guilt to go away.
"How long?" he asked.
"Since I could remember. Great-grandmother knows and- and she told no one either. Knowing all my cousins already made fun of me for just being different." I began to cry harder as he hugged me before he got up and went to get a book. He came back with one setting it on top of the other.
"The limits of Spirit we haven't even begin to reach. We didn't even know how it would truly affect you. On top of strigoi feeding Rose blood. It's a wonder she didn't become one, but how it affected you. How it's still changing you and growing. Your aura is dim but that golden ring has gotten brighter with age. You're more connected to something that we can't control or study." he told me. I managed to get a hang of myself looking at him.
"So...I really am Schrodinger's Cat. I'm neither dead nor alive in a true sense." I mumbled defeated.
"Reyna, you're special. You're alive. Your mother was already eight weeks pregnant with you by the time they took her. To her and the rest of us Spirit is what saved you and her from something that would've killed you both." he said.
"Then why am I like this? Why do I need blood? Why are my eyes red? Why was I returned to them? Why is my blood different than the others? Where they reek of death and decay like Strigoi I smelled like a normal Damphir if not better. Why does nothing in this freaking prison have the knowledge I want to know? Tell me why am I so special?" I questioned growing angrier with every word. My hands curled into fists as I put them on the table.
"Because, you're parents made enemies out of powerful strigoi and those that are older and much more powerful wanted to test them to see how strong they actually were. And those ones, those ancients as they call themselves wanted that strength for their own. The only way was to take the woman and see if they could get something even stronger. They just hadn't counted on Spirit lingering in your parents for as long as it had to create a kid with a connection deep enough to magic it flows in her veins." Adrian explained petting my hair to get it to calm down since it was frizzy and messed up from it starting to grow out again.
"That sounds made up." I stated.
"That's a part of what Ivan told them. Apparently he's been the guardian for those boys long enough he did his own research out of morbid curiosity. He told the council everything he learned and discovered. Blood Damphirs as he calls them are those tainted by magic who's mother had come into contact with spirit or magic of some form. You just happened to have been around it a lot. Between Lissa and I being around your mother. Apparently some things just never fully leave a woman's body. Especially magic." he explained further.
(Rose)
I stood outside the library where Adrian had said Reyna was in. Dimitri was talking to Ivan who wasn't actually that upset at him for not being there was pretty surprised that by the time they had graduated that the "Ancient" ones knew about him. Which both were now theorizing that those strigoi had followers. That whatever plans they had were bigger than anyone could imagine. I kinda scoffed and had Adrian help me find my daughter. They were keeping her on lock down so no visitors except Royals, excluding Ivan since his full status hadn't returned to him properly yet.
"You know Rose, this is kinda reminiscent of the old days." Eddie said since he was one of the guardians set to guard Reyna.
"Hopefully she doesn't make any of the choices I made. I can't believe the council lied about Ivan's death and what's more there's many who believe that he's not sincere. Even worse, the red strigoi ring is taking it's time to dissipate. They're blaming my little girl for it." I said.
"Who knows maybe she's the shift in the balance of life and death," the other guardian said. I looked at her quizzically. "Think about, we're already bred and born to do our job to the best of our abilities. She can do things we can't, her healing rate is faster than ours. Her speed and strength already above our if she focused more. I heard she broke a bench at St. Vladimir's once to get her point across that no one could touch the princess or Kaleb Ivashkov without going through her. She's incredible." she added with a hint of amazement in her voice. Eddie sighed and told her to go inside the library.
"She's not wrong though. We all watched Reyna grow up. She holds back fearing herself. Imagine what she could do if she didn't." he stated.
"That's what Dimitri fears, if Reyna didn't hold back locking that monster side of her away like she does- what she could do scares us. She has a bloodlust inside her. Adrian sensed it when she beat Jesse's kid senseless. The little jerk should be glad he was alive. Provoked like she was it took Adrian using spirit to stop her from breaking his face altogether. He even used it to heal him later on. Incredible and powerful but terrifying... like her father." I replied back thinking of when Dimitri was a strigoi. So much has changed since then but Moroi never change that fast. They were afraid of her now and if Dimitri and Ivan were right. There would be those who would want my daughter gone and they were going to find out the extremely wrong way. "Text me when she's back to the guest house." I whispered to him before leaving and heading back to the living quarters. I was already thinking of ways to try to get Reyna out of this mess. If someone mess with though-
Hell hath no fury like a Hathaway's wrath.
(Dimitri)
If there's one thing I might have possibly feared next to making Roza angry. It was when her father was angry and coming for a visit. Her mother included but Janine and I got along great so I was relieved that she was coming with. Abe still wanted to go on that hunting trip and truthfully I wouldn't mind nowadays since I think it was more to just get to know me now rather than to secretly dispose of me.
"I want to take Reyna back with us." Abe stated bluntly. I choked on the hot chocolate I had made. It helped calmed nerves most days.
"Abe." Janine scolded at his bluntness as I got my cough under control.
"Why?" I asked clearing my throat.
"The older countries are more forgiving and the schools there won't judge her for what she is. She'd make a great guardian there plus we'd have time with our granddaughter." he answered. Janine sighed.
"We want to protect her as much as possible. We couldn't do that with you and Rose like we wanted to when you two got into trouble but that was because you would figure you're way out. She's not graduated yet and overseas the system is more lax but the schools are better. St. Vladimir's is the best in North America but my old teachers at my school in Scotland said they'd be more than welcoming." she explained. I knew she was a teacher there as well and the headmaster liked her well enough. Plus Abe probably bribed them to say that if I had to take a guess.
"The council may not allow that." I told them.
"Good thing money talks just as bad as this court does then. I'm pretty sure I could convince a few to let us take her." Abe replied. I chuckled softly running a hand through my hair.
"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear my father in law just say he's going to bribe royals to let them put my daughter into his custody," I said taking a deep breath in and letting it out. "Let's talk to Roza first and get her opinion on this before you go do anything though. She's protective of Reyna and I really, really don't want her to go sticking pictures of our faces on staking dummies during practice." I added. Janine nodded while Abe seemed content for the moment.
