Feyre:

"RHYS!" Mor ran up to my mate and crushed him into a tight hug.

After about thirty seconds, they released each other, and Mor reached up and flicked him square in the forehead.

Rhys put a hand to his head rubbing the area. "Ouch. What was that for?"

She gave him a charming smile. "That was for leaving for 50 years without telling us."

Right then, she spotted me at his side and turned to face me. "So Rhys. Who did you bring with you."

He looked down at me and smiled. "This is Feyre, my m—," I pinched his arm hoping he would get the message, "—good friend."

He winked at me as he said 'good'. Mother above, he was an idiot.

Rather than shaking my hand, she pulled me into a hug. "Nice to meet you, Feyre, Rhys' good friend."

"I'm going to go tell the others. We'll meet at the House of Wind for dinner."

"Sounds good."

I sighed once she left and turned to Rhys. "We need to come up with a plan. First, they can't know that we're mates."

He looked confused. "Why?"

"I want to meet them and get to know them as their friend and equal. I don't want them to feel like they have to accept me just because I'm your mate or their Highlady. Also, we can't actually mate yet or else they'll know, so no log cabin...yet."

Rhys pouted. "Fine my love. Anything for you."

I patted him on the shoulder. "And you can't call me love, or mate, or anything of the sorts."

"Feyre darling?"

"That works."

"Okay we're set. Let's go to our room and get ready."

"We have to stay in seperate rooms."

He leaned down and kissed me. "Whatever you say. I love you."

I kissed him back. "I love you too."

(Time skip)

I was walking down the grand steps of the townhouse towards Rhys waiting for me. As I reached the bottom, he took my hand in his and kissed the back of it. "You look absolutely gorgeous, Feyre darling."

I was wearing a dark blue dress. It was long in the back and shorter in the front with a floral lace pattern going from where the skirts frilled out to the neckline. It also had pieces in the back I could move with my magic to make room for wings.

"Thank you," I replied, "why don't we fly there?"

He grinned at me as we walked out the door and with a jump flew up into the air. After having my lessons with Azriel, I have perfected my wings and flying. A warm breeze swept across my face, and I looked down to see shop lights and faeries strolling around. It was still amazing how a place could feel so awake at this time of night.

As we aproached the balcony of the House of Wind, we flew down, and not to brag, but my landing was flawless.

Azriel and Cassian walked over towards us and each greeted Rhys with a hug. "Long time no see, brother," Cassian said with a grin.

It was good seeing them all together again. How long has it been since we travelled back in time? Six months? Half a year away from my family has been rough.

Cassian turned towards me. "Who do we have here."

"This is my good friend, Feyre. She's going to be our new emmisary to the human lands. Feyre, this is Cassian, commander of my armies, and Azriel, my spymaster."

The shadowsinger stuck out his hand which I took in greeting. "Welcome."

Cassian walked up to me next and shook my hand. "Nice to have another lady in the group."

To my right, Rhys let out a soft growl. I just elbowed him in the side and continued talking to Cassian.

"How the hell did you make that bone ladder in the Middengard Wyrm's lair when you look like your own bones can snap at any moment?"

"Trust me, I'm a lot more capable than you'd think. Oh, and how the hell did you manage to survive this long without anyone killing you?"

He tipped his head back and let out a loud laugh.

Just then, Mor walked out onto the balcony. "If Cassian's howling, I hope it means Feyre told him to shut his fat mouth."

Rhys walked over and hugged his cousin. "Let's go eat. If I have to listen to you all bicker anymore, I might as well have some food in my stomach."

We all sat down when Amren walked into the dinning room and sat down across from me. Rhys turned to look between the two of us. "Feyre, this is my second Amren."

"Nice to meet you Amren. Before I forget I brought something." I grabbed a diamond and pearl necklace from the pocket of my dress and reached over the table to hand it to her.

She examined the piece of jewelry in her hands then looked up at Rhys. "We're keeping her."

She then turned back towards me. "So there are two of us now."

I smiled. "We were born something different then trapped in new bodies, but technically there are three of us... if you include Miryam."

"You know of Miryam."

"Of course I know of her and Drakon. Though, whereas she was made immortal, I was truly made. Given a new body and powers."

"A mortal soul in an immortal body."

Mor interviened before we could continue. "I'm hungry."

We all went around taking turns telling our stories while eating. It finally came to be my turn.

Cassian jerked his chin towards me. "What's your story, then?"

"I was born into a wealthy merchant family with two older sisters. My mother died when I was eight, and I promised her on her deathbed that I would take care of our family. Three years later, my father lost his fortune and we moved into a hovel. He didn't bother to ever find work, so we slowly starved for years until the money finally ran out along with the food when I was fourteen. My sisters like my dad were unwilling to work clinging to their wealthy ways, so I went out to the forest and taught myself how to hunt. And I barely kept us alive for five years. Until...everything happened."

They fell quiet until Mor finally spoke up. "Why aren't you with Tamlin now?"

I just shook my head. "I hate him. The whole 'love' thing was a ruse. I'll tell you the whole story one day, but I can't now."

Then Cassian butted in, "So you taught your self to hunt. What about fight."

I smirked. "I know a thing or two."

"Well a thing or two won't keep you alive. Why don't I train you."

"Sure. I'll meet you on the roof of the town house at 6:00 am."

He smirked right back at me. "Okay, but be prepared. I won't take it easy on you."

"I didn't expect you to."

"Well then, see you bright and early."

We continued eating and talking and laughing until we finally said our goodbyes and Rhys and I flew back to the townhouse.

I crawled in bed and fell asleep.

About thirty minutes later, I was woken up again by someone crawling in behind me. "Rhys, your not supposed to be here."

He just put is arm around me and replied, "I just can't stay away."

I sighed and snuggled up against his chest then fell into a deep sleep finally with my mate once again.

*Hey y'all. I hope I captured each character's personalities in this chapter. Please let me know if there's something I need to change.

Spoiler: I just decided who I wanted to be Lucien's mate, but they probably won't get together any time soon. She is not a new character, but she is not a prominent one either so I'll have to develope more on her personality and characteristics since you didn't see much of her in the books.

Answers to reviews:

CrystalShadowStar: I hope this satisfies your curiosities. This specific part wasn't changed that much from the original story, but I hope it was still okay.

Sansriti: Yaaaaaaay!!!! I hope you like this update.

Guest: Thanks! Tamlin definitely deserved it.

booklifeforlife: Yay! Your welcome. I agree, Feyre doesn't need to go through all that crap again.

Guest: :) of course I'll write more. I'd never leave y'all hanging.

Guest: I'm definitely not done. I actually just wrote up some plans for most of the storyline and things that are going to happen in the future, so I have a lot planned out.

Please pm me or comment if you have any questions.

—Anna