In Full Circle just before that Beltane Evening I've changed the series of events that follows... Morgan still believes that her dark heritage will still win out in her and leaves Widows Vale.
Nine years later she returns to her family and to Hunter but what awaits her back home?
A/n: Hi I'm back thanks again for my reviews! I'm loving them all! I hope you all enjoyed the little twist? Let's see what happened shall we? Please read and review… Enjoy!
Disclaimer: You guys probably know by now I hate typing this... you know I'm not Cate Tiernan if I was I wouldn't be posting stories on here I would be publishing them, and you know that this is for entertainment purposes and that I'm not copywriting anything merely just borrowing to amuse myself.
Warning: Story does contain some mature content and mild swearing.
Hunter blinked back the tears and tried to adjust his magesight to look around the dark room that had served as his cell for the last… oh goddess, how long had he been here now? He wondered, it felt like weeks.
His eyes continued searching frantically for any way of escaping, his powers were bound that was a fact but in no way was he bound physically, except for the iron shackles around his wrists and ankles. Odds were pretty slim.
Just then the door flew open.
She was wearing that black hooded robe again, she pulled back the hood and smiled at him with that cocky smile again.
"Let me out of here," he growled
"Come now Hunter is that any way to talk to a woman? Did you parent's show you no manners?"
"Yes, but then again you're no woman" he spat at her.
Her red hair shone in the light from the door and her thick French accent was something he wish he'd never hear again.
"Temper, temper Hunter" she scolded him,
"Piss off Justine," Hunter said and this time he literally spat at her, which only incurred her anger.
Faster than a bullet she was in his face and she'd grabbed his jaw in her hand
"Listen here, I gave you plenty of chances didn't I? But in the end you still chose Morgan, even after she ran away and left you for nine bastard years! I get close to you and still you pushed me away in the end! Not acceptable!"
Hunter gave her the coldest look, "I have never been close to you Justine,"
Justine laughed that silky laugh and released her gripped on him, "Do you not remember this?" she asked and snapped her fingers and a large bubble appeared showing a vision of them 9 years ago, kissing.
"That was a long time ago," Hunter said, "I was… caught up in the moment,"
"No Hunter, what it was, was you had feelings for me, deny it if you wish but ask yourself what else was it that pushed you to kiss me?" she asked
"You kissed me!" Hunter cried
"Did I?" her eyebrows raised, "Well even so, what did you do to stop it? You liked it as much as I" Hunter let his head drop he was disgusted with himself for betraying Morgan like that and when he told her he'd hurt her badly and he cried himself to sleep for days. "Maybe it was this you were close to?" she then said.
Hunter looked up and Justine waved her hand over her face and her shoulder length red hair changed into brunette curls, her sharp blue eyes changed into soft brown eyes. All features on her face softened.
"Maggie?" Hunter cried
"Hunter? Are you okay? What are you doing in a place like this?" she asked in that fading Irish accent of hers
Hunter didn't say anything, he was speechless, Maggie waved her hand over her face and again she was Justine smirking that horrible little smile of her that Hunter wished he was unchained so he could wipe it off her, permanently.
"You were Maggie this whole time?"
"Surprise!" Justine grinned, "You see Hunter, however you looked at it, you loved me, you kissed me and made love to me and even gave me a child, but the shock of seeing Morgan in your arms, I fell down those stairs and I lost our child, it was still me you loved, my personality I just had a different look"
"If you really were her the whole time, why were you being nice to Morgan? Why did you let me go and go back to her?"
"I had a plan b up my sleeve, if I caused a scene you would be suspicious and it would ruin things,"
"So I take it, this is your plan b?" Hunter said shaking his shackles, "you're keeping me here by force? Is this how you see a relationship with me?"
Justine smiled, "All will be revealed in good time my love," she said
"Never call me your love,"
Justine's smile faded, "I've though a lot of pain and suffering to get you Hunter,"
Hunter then smiled, "Good I hope it was excruciating"
"For two years we were together, TWO YEARS! And not once did you not think about getting your precious Morgan back, but persistently I stuck by you hoping you'd get over your little obsession. And when you went off to find her after you fucking knocked her up, I knew I was going to get you back but at a time it would hurt you both the most, to teach you both a lesson, you maybe soul mates, I knew that, anyone could see it and when I saw it like that I did feel a little guilty… but you don't belong together, the world keeps you apart,"
"No it's you keeping us apart! Who are you to judge if we do or do not belong together!?" Hunter cried
"I'm keeping you apart? Oh really? Did I make Morgan run away all those years ago?" Hunter didn't answer her, "Don't you see? It was fate and her returning screwed it all up!"
"The only thing that's screwed up is what's inside your fucking head, Justine!" Hunter yelled, "Let me go! It's my wedding day,"
"Yes I know, you see I had to get you back before your hand-fasting,"
"Why? Because then it would be considered immoral?" Hunter asked sarcastically
"No because then not even me could break the bond of Marriage, but Goddess knows I would try"
"You really are a sad, twisted bitch Justine," Hunter cried "You can't get another guy so you tie one up that you can't have, Morgan will figure out what's going on"
"Don't give Morgan too much credit, Hunter, she's not that clever," Justine laughed
Hunter just ignored her comment, "and when she finds you, she'll kill you,"
"Is that so?" Justine said, "I think Morgan is in no shape to find or kill me"
"What do you mean?" Hunter asked
Justine sat herself down cross legged on the floor in front of Hunter and pulled out her scrying stone which was a lump of quartz and then after a few moments, Hunter saw in the stone what Justine was scrying for…
Morgan was in labor
