"This is the dress you were wearing at your first birthday party."Flora said; she was sitting on the couch with Tammy going through a box with old things she had kept through the years. She was holding up the dress for Tammy to see, when Helia walked in.
"'It is so small, did that really fit me?" Tammy asked finding it hard to believe she once had fit into that little dress. Helia walked over to the back of the couch.
"What are you guys doing?" Helia asked and kissed Tammy on the cheek.
"Hey daddy, why are you home so late?" Tammy asked it was almost her bedtime and he was only coming home now. Normally he would get home just before dinner because he had to stop by his art gallery on his way home.
"Was Kelly having problems again?"Flora asked Kelly was a woman Helia had hired to take care of his gallery.
"No she wasn't, we wasn't allowed to go home before we had sat through a five hour long presentation." Helia had thought that this course was going to be easy and it was but it also was boring. It was so boring that Helia almost fall asleep today.
"That sounds fun." Tammy said even though she didn't know what a presentation was.
"I wouldn't call it fun, but do you have there?"Helia asked and pointed to the dress she was holding in her hands.
"It is the dress I was wearing at my first birthday party."Tammy said and holding it up for Helia to see."Isn't it small I think it fits Mr. Teddy(1), hold it while I go and get Teddy," Tammy ran to get her teddy bear in her room, she ran so fasted she almost tripped in her nightgown.
"I was showing her things for this old box I have with things I have kept through the years. Do you want to see them; all of the things have something to do with Tammy."Flora handed him the box. Helia looked in the box and found a pair of baby shoes; he took them up to get a closer look. "That's the shoes Tammy took her first steps in." Helia smiled he could easily picture Tammy learning to walk in those shoes, and then in hint him he had missed it all. He had missed all of her first time the first step she took, the first word she said, he had missed it and there was nothing he could do about it.
"I missed all of her first times."
"You hadn't missed all of them; there is still a lot of first like her first school day. I don't know how we are going to do it when the danger are over and we have to move out of here, but we are going to make it work so you don't miss anything. " Flora said trying cheer him up she couldn't imagined what it would be like to be Helia right now, but she had often wished Helia had been there to share everything with her. To shear her excitement when Tammy was doing something for the first time but also to share all of her worries about Tammy.
"Do you really want to share her with me now that you are use to having her all to yourself?" Of course Helia wanted to be a part of Tammy's life but he didn't want Flora feel like he was taking Tammy away from her.
"Of course I want to do that, ever since Tammy was born I wished I could share her with you. I wished that you also where there when she said her first word and when she took her first step, but you couldn't be there and that is okay as long as you are there for her now."
"See it fits!"Tammy said coming running into them again with Mr. Teddy who was wearing a dress, in her arms. "Now Mr. Teddy is also, ready for bed."
"That is right it is time for bed."Flora said getting up from the couch."Say goodnight to Helia."
"Goodnight daddy."Tammy said and gave Helia a hug and a big kiss.
"Goodnight Baby."Helia said and looked at Tammy as she ran over and got Flora's hand. He hoped Flora was right that they could work out this thing with Tammy because five years ago they couldn't work out moving in together.
Brandon walked into the dorm tired after one of Chris's lessons they had him a week now and two things were clear one the order of the cave had a lot of history and two Chris loved talking. Brandon used to think that no one could talk as much as Stella but after first lesson with Chris Brandon realized he was wrong there were someone and his name was Chris Perry. Brandon didn't have a problem with him talking a lot he just got tired after hearing him talking for hours about something that didn't seem to have anything to do with Andrew or Michael. He kept talking about how it all started and how the order of the cave had been the most honored and beloved order ever known, all of that were a thousand years ago he hadn't at all talked about how the order were now. Brandon sat down on the couch and looked around the room; there was clothes everywhere it looked like someone had been emptied their closet out there.
"That one looks good."Brandon heard a voice saying from Stella's and bloom's room so he got up and walked over to the door opening and there was Stella trying on a dress with Lucas sitting on the bed looking bored.
"Dad."Lucas yelled when he saw Brandon and ran over to Brandon, Who took him up in his arms. Lucas had never been so glad to see his dad then now his mom kept trying on dresses and asking him how she looked, it was driving him crazy and no matter what he said she would try on another one.
"Hey what is going on here?"Brandon asked and looked at Stella who was looking at herself in the mirror.
"I'm trying to find the right dress for the memorial service but I don't have a proper dress."Stella said dramatic she might have matured in a lot of ways but when it comes to clothes she was still the same old Stella.
"What about the one you are wearing, that looks good."
"Thank you but it is red it needs to be black and it is too short, it needs to be longer."Stella gave Brandon a little smile and then fell down on the bed.
"She keeps saying she doesn't have anything to wear and I keep telling her of course she doesn't have anything when she keeps throwing clothes out the door." Lucas said serious he didn't get why his mom was so obsessed whit getting the right dress.
"Well we could go shopping tomorrow if you want to? "
"Really don't you have to go to that history course? "Stella asked before getting her hopes up.
"The others can take notes for me."
"Thank you Brandon! We are going shopping Lucas." Stella said excited as she took Lucas out of Brandon's arms and started jumping up and down. Stella was so excited in the cave there was only one store there had everything you needed, she missed going to ten different stores and pick out the best from each.
"Do I have to go too? Can't I just stay at home? "Lucas hate going shopping with his mom she could spend hours looking at stuff and talking with other people she know who was in the shop as well. Normally he could get out of it by asking if he could go and see Dominic because he missed him but he couldn't use that excuse now that he was living in the same house as him.
"We will talk about that tomorrow, now it is time for bed."Stella said when she looked over at her alarm clock and saw what time it was.
"No I'm not tired."Lucas objected he didn't want to go to bed now; his dad had just got home.
"Come here I'll tuck you in while mom clean up her mess."Brandon said and took Lucas again.
"Goodnight honey." Stella said and kissed Lucas.
"Goodnight mom."Lucas waved and leaned his head on Brandon's shoulder as Brandon walked out the door with him. Stella smiled there was no doubt in her mind that Brandon was a good dad, he absolute adore Lucas and Lucas Loved Brandon. Everyday first thing Lucas would do is ask about when Brandon would be home, Lucas really loved having a dad in his life. She remembered the day she found out that she was pregnant with Lucas.
"Okay you look at it." A very Stella nevus said to Brandon she didn't know what to if the test was positive.
"Okay here it goes." Brandon took the pregnancy test up and looked at the result and there he saw it the answer he had hoped not to get."It is positive."
"Shit." Stella said and lean back in the sofa; she was only twenty one she didn't want a child at twenty one maybe when she was in her thirty's and married, but not now. Her dad was going to kill her, she was so screwed."My dad is going to kill me, what are we going to do Brandon?"
"Don't worry he is not going to kill you, you are his daughter. Me on the other hand he probably going to kill."Brandon said and putted his arms around her so her head was on his chest.
"What have we got ourselves into?"
"Okay here is what we are going to do we are going to the doctor as the first thing tomorrow to be one hundred percent sure, and then we take things from there on."Brandon said scared to death he knew that the doctor was most likely going to confirm she was pregnant. What have they got themselves into, they wasn't ready for this.
"I'm scared Brandon."Stella whispered, she was scared of future and what it was going hold. She knew she wasn't ready for is but she had said A and now she had to said say B.
"I know I'm scared too, we just have to be there for each other no matter what happens. "Brandon said and kissed the top of her head.
She was still scared of the future and what it was going hold but looking back she thought she had handle things pretty good but how was she going to handle this. everything was going fine now but what was going to happen when all of this was over, when she was going back to Solaria with Lucas. She didn't want Lucas to have the same childhood as she had. Her mom and dad didn't get along very well it was horrible growing up in her house or castle as it was. When they finally did get a divorce she wanted them back together it was weird yes but it is often near the end something or when it is over we realize what we have or had, in Stella's case it was peace and quiet. Before they got divorce they never dragged her into it to their fights of course she could hear them fight but they never talked to her about how stupid or useless the other one were, when they got divorced she became the one they loaded everything off on.
When she had heard her parents got back together she had been happy and pissed that she missed it but now when she thought about it she wasn't happy, she was sad(2). There was a reason they got divorce they didn't get along and she doubted that had changed, the only reason she wanted them together was so they would leave her alone and maybe some part of her had still been six year old Stella that wanted her parents to be happy together. She had grown a lot after having Lucas and she had realized that even if they wasn't together they were still her parents, it was like her and Brandon they weren't together but they were both Lucas's parents and nothing was going to change that, no new girlfriend/Boyfriend or anything else could change that fact. What kind of parents you are is up to yourself and nobody else, now she was not saying her parents was bad parents but she just didn't wanted to be like them. She knew it was going to be hard seeing Brandon with other women but she had to accept the fact that they apparently wasn't meant to be.
She walked into the living room and look from there into Lucas's room, Brandon was standing over Lucas's bed and pulling the blanket over him. It warmed her heart to see that, Lucas might have been an accident but he wasn't a mistake.
"I have to go inside again; Stella will start asking questions if I'm not back soon." Bloom said when they parted for oxygen, only time will show had sky said and in this case time was three days. They hadn't told the other because Bloom was nervous how Layla was going to take it. She didn't know why but Layla always started acting odd every time they talked about the boys or if they talked about what happened the day they got separated from the rest of the world. They were standing outside the house where nobody else could see them.
"But I barely got to see you today." Sky protested he wanted to spend as much time as possible with Bloom, he didn't know why but he had this feeling that he had to be round her all the time to make sure something bad didn't happened. Maybe it was because he hadn't been there with her when the earthquake hit the cave or maybe he was afraid of losing her again but no matter what the reason was, it wasn't a very nice feeling. He would wake up the middle of the night terrified that it all was just a dream, that Bloom wasn't alive.
"I know, I missed you too but I really don't want the others to know yet."
"I don't understand why you want to keep it a secret. "Sky really didn't, he wanted the whole world to know that they were back together. But of course he knew that they couldn't tell the whole world since Bloom and the other girls were supposed to be death but they could tell the others.
"I don't want to keep it a secret and you maybe not understand is because your guys friendship hasn't changed but us girls friendship hasn't been the best after we got trapped in the cave, we have only now gotten back to being like we use to be. "
"I understand that we hadn't been very close these past years neither we only got back to the way we use to be because we had to take care of the kids."Sky told her.
"I just nevus that the girls is not going to, take it very well."
"And by the girls you mean Layla." Sky said sure that it was Layla she meant since she had been acting so strange after him and Bloom had come home from their picnic. Every time he walked into the same room as her, she would walk out of it before he could say anything.
"How did you know?" Bloom asked kind of surprised that he knew that it was Layla she was worried about.
"Layla hasn't been very friendly to me since we got home from our picnic."
"I don't know what's with her, maybe she is just missing Nabu."
"Maybe."
"Okay let's tell the others tomorrow."
"You are sure, I don't want you to feel pressured or anything like that."Sky said he didn't want her to feel like he was pressuring her to do it or anything like that. He wanted her to want to tell the others too.
"No I want to."Bloom said and smiled she was happy she hadn't been that in years. She really wanted to tell her friends she was just nevus how Layla was going to take it but Layla would find out sooner or later.
"Good." Sky smiled, Bloom was on her way to go inside the house again but sky grabbed her hand before she got too far away.
"Where are you going?"
"Inside, I told you that I need to get back inside."
"You are not going anywhere before I give you a goodbye kiss." Sky said and placed his lips on hers while putting his arms around her and here they go again.
Riven unlike the others didn't walked into a dorm where the kids needed to get tucked in, the triplets were already in bed. Or at least he assumed that since Musa were dancing in the living room with her headphones on. She was wearing a way to big long white t-shirt and she was facing the window so she didn't notice him walking in the door, Riven leaned up against the wall and watched her dance. It wasn't the first time he walked into room and find her dancing she had done it a coupled of time before but normally she wouldn't have headphones on. Normally the music would be playing out loud and Musa would be singing a long, the music would always be playing so loud that she couldn't hear him coming home. And Riven would like now lean up against the wall and watch her dance to find out how long it would take her to notice that she wasn't alone.
"How long have you been standing there?"Musa asked as she took of her headphones and shock her head, he definitely hadn't changed in some ways.
"A minute, or two." Riven replied. From where he was standing he could see what were on the T-shirt, he immediately recognized the autograph was on it."When did you meet Alexander December? "Alexander December was one of Riven's opponents; he came in second at the last leva-bike race. He couldn't stand the guy but his father was very fund of him and apparently Musa was too.
"Who? Oh the guy who's autograph is on the shirt I have never met him but Alexander have, he is the one who gave me this shirt. He was so excited when he told me about it, he had met somebody with the same name as him, I didn't have the heart to tell him that Alexander is a very common name. "Musa said smiling and sit down in the couch. "By the way why are you home so late, Dominic was getting worried, that you might not were coming home."
"Dominic?" Riven and Dominic wasn't really talking, Dominic was only talking to him if he thought it was necessary. Riven found it hard to believe that Dominic was worried about him.
"Yeah Dominic."Riven sad down in the couch beside Musa." He just needs time-"Musa said when the door to the children's room opened and Dominic came out dragging his blanket after him.
"I can't sleep." Dominic said standing in front of the couch and waited for his mom to tell him to get up in the couch or get back to bed.
"Come up to me."Musa said to Dominic who got up in the couch and sat on Musa lap while she was wrapping his blanket around him.
"You are home."Dominic said and looked over at Riven, was that a little smile on his lips Riven could see?
"Yeah why wouldn't I be?"Riven said, yes was a little smile Dominic was glad that he was home.
"I don't know. Mom tell me a story."Dominic said he just needed is mom to tell him a story, listening to his mom talk always made him tired. It wasn't because he thought she was boring he just liked the sound of her voice, it always made him fall asleep.
"The story book is in your room."Musa said, not really wanted to get up of the couch.
"No tell me…"Dominic said and thought about what he wanted his mom to tell him about and bam then he got it. "About the first time you met each other."
"Okay but Riven have to help me little with remembering? "Musa said getting Riven involved too she remembered perfectly well How they met each other, how could she forget. "Well the first time I met your dad the ship he was in charge of had crash and a troll had escaped because of that."
"You let a troll escape?"Dominic said with big eyes.
"I didn't let the troll escape but don't worry we captured it later on that day." Riven assured Dominic, did she have to bring up that he was in charge.
"Anyway your dad told me and the other girls to mind our own business and that was pretty much how we met."It wasn't a very long story but it wasn't a very long meeting.
"Well you forgot one thing." Riven said, she had forgotten to tell the most important thing.
"What?" Musa asked confused what had she forgotten, she couldn't think of anything.
"You forgot to tell him how hot you thought I was."Riven smirked
"What makes you think that I thought you were hot?"Musa said playful.
"I saw the way you were looking at me, you so wanted me."
"That is so not true, don't listen to him Dominic." Dominic smiled in his sleep; he had fallen asleep right before Riven told her she had forgotten something.
"He is sleeping."Musa whispered and looked down at Dominic.
"Already that was fast." Riven moved closer to them so he could see Dominic. He looked so peaceful, untroubled and with not a car in the world. " He doesn't look like a troublemaker when he sleeps."
"No he doesn't, he looks like a perfect little angel." Musa said.
"Yeah he looks just like you."Riven whispered softly that Musa almost didn't hear it, almost. They didn't say a word after that they just watched little Dominic sleep.
"What are we doing here?" Darcy said she was sitting at the dining table with her sisters, Andrew and Michael. They had all really had dinner so Darcy couldn't see why they needed to come to the dining room. Icy where sitting beside that creep and were acting like a love sick teenager, Darcy had never thought her sister out of all people would behave like that.
"Shut up and listen."Icy hissed at her sister.
"Think it time you know the truth about this whole thing. For a hundreds of years ago six men known as the order of the cave(3) were asked to guard the cave of dead from any evil, they were granted great powers to protect the cave but only to protect the cave, they couldn't use them for anything else. For many years nothing happened but one day one of the men had enough he wanted to use his powers for something else, he wanted to make himself immortal. No one knows exactly how he was going to do it but we know that he needed to be inside the cave to do it, some say luckily the other men found out what he was doing, I say unfortunately. So the five men made another cave to go around the cave of the dead with a whole lot of tunnels in it so no one would find the cave of the dead." Michael started telling the story about the order of the cave. "The order of the cave from that day on lived in side the cave with their family and the man who turned angst them never found the cave."
"What does that have to do with you? And us?"Stormy asked confused.
"Our plan is to be immortal but for that to happen we have to talk to the sixth man. Because Andrew and I are members of the order of the cave we can't go in the cave and ask to see him, so we have to bring him back to life." Michael answered Stormy.
"Hold it there you told me that you got kicked out of the order thing."Icy said and look over at Andrew angry, Andrew had told her everything Michael just told the others but he had said they were kicked out of the order.
"I'm we both are the others kicked us out, that why we can tell you about it. "Andrew said and took Icy's hand to reassure her he had told her the truth but Icy wasn't having any of it. She didn't want her sisters to think she was weak and needed Andrew. She was only using him to get more power she was going to dump him as soon as she got the chance; it was her there was in control not him.
"There are rolls that the members can only tell men about the order." Michael said and leaned back in his chair.
"If you are not members anymore then you have no problem going into the cave and ask to see him." Darcy said hostile and looked over at Michael and studied him, there wasn't much hair left on his head and you could clearly see the wrinkles in his face, she felt sick to her stomach ever time she remembered that Stormy had slept with him.
"No we can't, we might not members but we still have our powers since we are born down in the cave. So that cave will not let us in." Andrew said and making Darcy snap out of it.
"Okay how do you want to get that man back from the dead, you are not very power full."Darcy mocked Andrew after she yesterday had won a little friendly fight they had.
"No we are not that power full but the kids are since they were born down in the cave they have is unique gift, they can bring back one person to life again. You see the children's destiny is to get Nabu or whatever his name is, back to life when they grow older. "Andrew said still bitter that he lost yesterday. "So since they are going to use their gift on something that stupid, we are going to take their powers away from them."
"I don't understand the kids are dead so are their mothers." Stormy said who was still a little confused.
"They are not dead darling trust me the Winx are very much alive they are just hiding from us, probably with their children." Michael said and over at his son who still believe that the kids are dead.
"But there are going to be a memorial service next week, all of their parents has finally agreed on that they are death."
"Maybe we should pay Alfea a visit at the memorial service after all; they are old friends of ours."Icy said while thinker about the letter she had read that Andrew had given her.
(1)In chapter three (I miss my mom) Gabriell gives Tammy her Teddy bear back.
(2)In chapter seven (What have you done now?) Stella finds out she has missed her parents getting back together.
(3)In the last chapter Chris mentions the order of the cave.
Okay here you got it the longest chapter so far, what do you think? Is there anything you guys think I'm missing or are there something that should be more of, let me know if there is. Please review, it lets me know that you are reading this story.
