Wake Up Sleepy Hearts

Disclaimer: I own only Raliana, Rhylinye, and anyone else that you do not see normally. I am a poor college student. Please don't sue me! The only thing I ask for is a little feedback. The characters from a Midsummer Night's Dream are Shakespeare's and any reference to King Arthur comes from the numerous authors that have previously written about him, there are too many that I am using so I cannot name them all. I am just borrowing these wonderful So Weird characters, they are Disney property. Please don't hurt me! Feedback is the only thing I ask for. Please!

One In A Million – Chapter 5
by Annabelle

"I have done as you asked my lord," a female voice spoke in a husky tone. "The girl is sleeping now and she will never wake unless Rhylinye reveals her magic to the rest of the people."

"You have done well by me Kaila," the Dark Lord let a smirk come across his face. He looked at young wisp who had just recently joined his factions. He sat with his robes folded neatly around him on a throne. If a normal person walked in and saw him sitting there they would have thought that he was some type of demon and been scared mindless. They would probably die from fright.

"I could have done a much better job," Bricru hissed at his younger cousin. Kaila had only been allowed to join the forces of darkness because he had stood up for her. Now he wished he never spoke her name.

"Yes you could have," the Lord looked at Bricru. "I am sure that you would have not left before finding out who that girl was and why she is being protected, leaving Rhylinye to find out all of this information instead of us," he looked accusingly at Kaila.

"My Lord, I do not understand. I followed your instructions to the letter," Kaila was becoming flustered. "I distracted her guardian and then attacked her, I did not even try to take over her body."

"You did, didn't you," then his smiled faded. "But you did not do your job the right way Rhylinye has the access to the information that is suppose to be mine! So now we are going to have to wait before we find out and lose the advantage that we could have had!"

"My Lord," Kaila stammered, "I did not realize."

The Dark Lord rose from his throne; his red and black robes swirled around him in a furious manner. The look that he was giving Kaila would have killed a weaker soul but the young wisp just watched him with terror. "No you did not realize," he spoke in a harsh threatening voice. "And because you did not think this plan will fail. You have done nothing but cause more trouble and now you will pay for your actions." He reached out and pulled the wisp's life force closer to him, "I bet you do not even belong here," he whispered to her. "I bet you were sent here to try to figure out what I am doing. Well you will never get to tell now will you?"

"Please my Lord," Kaila begged. "I serve you and only you."

"Well that is the way it will be from now on," he laughed menacingly. "Guards!"

With in seconds dark figures dressed in the same red and back as their master appeared. They all had long swords hanging from their sides and the amour that they wore was tinted black. All of them stood at attention waiting for their master's orders.

"Take this troublesome wisp out of my site. Make sure she has a slow death," he smiled slowly as the guards used magic to form a small cage around Kaila. "I want to get information out of her as to who sent her to us."

"Aye! And let your kind know that they are not welcome here," Bricru shouted after her as she was taken away. "It is so hard this days to find good traitors."

"Bricru!" The Dark Lord's voice boomed across the room.

"Yes my Lord," the wisp's voice wavered a bit.

"We will stick to our plan of having you watch our friends. Do not take any action unless I tell you," the Lord's voice turned ruthless again. "If you fail me again I will consider you a traitor to the dark forces and then you will face a fate far worse then Kaila's. Now get out of my site!" With a wave of his hand a grayish vortex appeared behind Bricru.

"I will not fail you my Lord," Bricru yelled as he was being pulled into the vortex. "You have my word!"

*****

"Oh Annie," Jack whispered her name as he stroked her hair. He looked down at her pale unmoving form and his heart almost broke. How could this be happening and why now?

'We need to help her,' Rye pathed to Inky. 'This is the work of the Dark Lord, I know it.'

'What about her guardian,' Inky was a little hesitant. 'He should be here taking care of her. What happened to him?'

'I don't know and frankly I don't care. I am going to fix this with or without your help,' Rye rushed to Annie's side. She looked at Fi and nodded when the girl gave her a questioning look. 'I am going to help her but I need your help too okay,' she asked her niece.

'Yes of course,' Fi responded urgently. 'Just tell me what to do.'

'Join one of your hands with mine and the hold the other over her body,' Raliana held up one of her hands palm out towards Fi and the other palm down just inches about Annie's body.

"What are you doing," Jack's voice was full of worry.

'Don't be scared Jack,' Fi sent the mental message to her brother. 'We are just trying to help her.'

Jack almost jumped when he heard Fi's voice in his head. He felt his head start to spin as she entered his mind again, 'Just hold Annie still and be with her. Make sure that no one interrupts us, Rye and I may get lost if the trance is broken before it is completed.'

Jack had no choice but to watch as both Fiona's and Raliana's hands started to glow, then Annie's body was covered in the same iridescent glow. The glow intensified until it was almost painful for him to look at, then he saw Annie's body take in a sharp breath. She tensed up but as the glow started to fade away she relaxed again. Jack looked at Fi and Rye as they came out of their trance.

"What did you do?" Jack was in total shock.

"Raliana was raised by a mystic and learned how to do all kinds of healing spells. She taught me some of them," Fi smiled weakly at her brother. Just then Raliana began to tremble a bit and it looked as if she was going to collapse on top of Annie. "Rye! Rye are you alright?"

"She is fine," Inky spoke for Rye as he helped her to her feet. "Doing something like this just takes a lot out of her."

"What are we going to tell mom when she and the others get here," Fi asked no one in particular.

"We will just tell her that Annie collapsed and we don't know why," Inky answered. "Besides if she brings a doctor he might be able to tell us why this happened."

"I know what happened," Rye spoke weakly.

"What do you mean?" Jack started to question her but then his mom and the others arrived with a doctor.

"Jack, Fi, what's happened?" Molly looked down at Annie's body with worry written all over her face.

"We don't know mom," Fi started to explain. "One minute she was fine then the next she started to look like she was dizzy and she just collapsed."

The doctor bent over Annie for a few moments and took her vitals, "She is fine. She is just resting right now. I would take her up to her room and let her sleep until morning."

Rye looked at the doctor for a moment like she recognized him. Then she shook her head and leaned her body against Inky's. She was so tired, fighting to bring Annie back had taken a lot out of her but she could not figure out why. Fighting the dark ones had never made her tried before.

"I'll take her up to bed," Jack volunteered as he stood up picking Annie up in his arms.

"Jack I don't know," Molly started to speak.

"It's okay Mrs. Phillips, I'll help him," Rye spoke up trying not to sound as tired as she felt. "I was going to go upstairs anyway to lay down."

Molly did not seem very sure of the whole situation but when she looked at Raliana's eyes she started to change her mind, "Well, alright."

Rye smiled and stood on the other side of Jack and let him lean some of Annie's weight against her. Inky laughed them slightly. "What?" Rye asked him giving him the evil eye.

"Oh just this," Inky waved is hand, there was a flash of light and then everyone found themselves standing in the girls' suite.

Everyone looked around themselves stunned for a moment but they went outside the room so that they could talk to the doctor more about what happened to Annie. Rye pulled down the blankets so that Jake could lay her down in the bed. She smiled at how gently he was handling Annie, as if the girl would break at any moment. Once Annie was safely in bed Rye snapped her fingers so that the girl's day clothes were turned into nightwear. Then she pulled the covers up over Annie and for some odd reason felt the compulsive need to kiss her on the forehead.

"What did you mean earlier when you said that you knew what happened to Annie," Jack took Annie's hand in his and then looked at Raliana who had changed into a long nightgown that almost dragged on the floor and looked very heavy.

"Annie has a guardian but for some reason her guardian was tricked into not watching her for a moment and then was trapped somewhere so he could not help her when she needed him," Raliana explained as she pulled two chairs up to the bed, one for her and one for Jake. "I don't know exactly why anyone would want to do something like that, but I know it was something dark."

"How did you," Jack started to ask but then his left-brain functions started to take over. "I just don't believe that you and Fi could fix this. I mean how could you?"

Rye smiled at him, "I have a gift Jack and so does your sister. I know you don't believe in that kind of stuff but don't you remember that time when Fi was lost in the woods." Rye paused in frustration, "You sent a message to Fi using telepathy. And then when Fi and I were helping Annie she sent one to you. You heard her I know did."

"I don't know what you are talking," Jack tried to lie.

"Jack!" Rye was about to say something more but then the door opened up and Fi, Carey, and Inky came rushing in.

"Is there any change," Fi rushed to stand next Rye.

"No, she is just sleeping," Jack looked down at Annie who was starting to get some color back in her face.

'You were about to tell him weren't you,' Fi pathed the angry message to Rye.

'Well yes,' Rye's mind hissed back at her. 'As his aunt it is my right. Besides what happened tonight with Annie is a good example of what could happen by keeping the truth from him much longer. Jack's magic didn't do this but Annie's guardian was distracted by Jack's magic and that is why he stopped protecting Annie for half a second.'

'Wait,' Fi was totally confused now. 'Annie has a guardian? Why?'

'I don't know,' Rye was frustrated again, 'I was trying to find out while we were helping her but her guardian would not say anything, stupid animal guardians. They act like they can't understand us but I know they can, and they know that I know.' Then Rye's head started to spin, 'Oh that hurts!'

"Rye lie down, please. You are starting to worry me," Fi took her by the arm and helped to the bed.

"She will be fine," Inky took Rye's hand away from Fi. "Won't you my dear."

Rye tried to smile at Fi, "I just need to rest a minute. It's okay everyone really. Jack can watch over me while he is here with Annie."

"Hey guys," Molly spoke in a hushed tone as she entered the room. "I just finished talking to the doctor and he reassured me that everything will be fine. We should just keep on eye on Annie for the next couple of days and let her rest for now."

"I want to stay with her," Jack voice sounded resolute and determined.

"Jack, honey. I don't think that," Molly started to say but then Rye interrupted her.

"I am going to be here anyway Mrs. Phillips. I wanted to lie down for awhile," Raliana smiled sweetly at Molly. "I won't let anything happen to them."

"Rye," Fi protested. She did not like the idea of her brother getting closer to Annie then he already was, it would just make it harder on him.

"Why don't you and Carey go get us some food and then we can all still eat together," Rye gave her a look that told her just to agree with her on this one.

"That's a good idea," Molly was starting to sound a little bit like she was in a trance. "Irene, Ned, and I already at with the band. We were gonna find you and give you money so that you could order something or get something from the restaurant downstairs."

"Food," Rye said weakly. "All I ask is for some food."

"Alright drama queen," Inky laughed and kissed her hand. "I will have Fi and Carey get you some food. I have to go have a meeting with someone though. Do you think you will be okay without me for the rest of the night?"

Rye sighed heavily, "I think I'll make it."

"Good," Inky kissed her on the forehead and chuckled. "Keep on an eye on her for me Jack?" Jack nodded and lnky looked at Rye one last time. "See you tomorrow my love." With that he and Molly exited the room.

"Is there anything else you Rye, besides food?" Fi asked before she and Carey headed out.

"Nope," Rye shook her head and bounced into her bed. "I will be waiting for you to come back. Please for the love of the stars hurry!"

"How about you Jack," Fi questioned her brother.

"Nothing, thanks sis," Jack forced a smile.

"Come on Fi," Carey knew that Fiona did not want to leave her brother and her friend but he also knew that Jack needed sometime alone with Annie. "We better get going."

Fi sighed a little bit. She looked over her at her brother one last time. Her heart went out to him, not only because of what happened tonight, but because what was going to happen. 'I'll tell him,' Fi pathed to Rye. 'Tomorrow morning after Annie wakes up.'

'Alright,' Rye replied.

"Okay let's hit the road," Fi looked at Carey and they left the room. Fi lead the way down the hallway to the elevator and pressed the down button. She did not brother to look at Carey; she was so lost in thought.

"Fi, are you okay?" Carey touched her shoulder gently.

Fi jumped back like she had been touched by an electric eel, "Don' do that Carey! Jeez you scared me!"

"Sorry," Carey gave her a lopsided smile. "Are you sure you are okay?"

"Yeah I am fine," Fi nodded. "I guess the healing spell that we did on Annie just wore me out a little."

"Huh?"

Fi realized that Carey had not been there when she and Rye were helping Annie, "Oh, well Rye and I did this healing trance on Annie, to get her back. It took a lot of Rye, that's why she is so tired now. I guess I am a little tired too."

"Healing trance," Carey had a little disbelieve in his voice. True he had seen some pretty remarkable things when he went on his adventures with her or Annie, but neither of them had ever gone into a trance or anything like that.

"Something Rye taught me how to do," Fi sighed a little. "It is hard to explain, you kind of have to be there."

He nodded, "And there is nothing else brothering you?"

Fi started to nodded her head but then she decided to open up, "I am just worried about Jack. I mean I know that he and Annie are friends, but I didn't think that. Well I mean I know he likes her but…"

"You didn't think that he liked her in that way," Carey laughed a little. "Well he and she haven't admitted yet but it looks like it."

"This is bad. Very bad," Fi shook her head, which made Carey laugh even more. "What? It is bad."

Carey shook his head, "You know your mother said the same thing when I told her the other day."

"See," Fi was confident now. "If mom thinks it is bad then it can't be good."

"Fi why do you think it is a bad idea," Carey wondered how much mother and daughter thought alike.

"It's just that, well it's more like. I don't know how to explain it. It is just not a good idea for Jack to get close to Annie, or anyone for that matter," Fi almost bit her tongue when she realized what she had said. She basically just gave away the secret that was supposed to keep.

"Why anyone?" Carey was confused by what she was saying. "You aren't making any sense you know. Your brother is going to get involved with someone. Wouldn't you rather it be with someone you are friends with."

Fi had to find a way to cover for herself and quickly, "Carey you saw what happened to night, Annie could have died. I mean what happens when Annie goes back home or if something else bad happens to her? Jack would not be able to handle it. He was so upset when he and Gabe broke up, I just don't want him to get hurt again. Relationships are just a bad idea, they equal pain." Fi was highly convinced of what she was saying. For her and Jack having a relationship with anyone before they decided to go to Avalon was not a good thing. It was just the way things were, she could not fully explain it to Carey, otherwise he would find out about her family secret.

"Fi relationships do not equal pain," Carey told her seriously as they entered the elevator. He pressed he first floor button and then looked at her. "I think you are just a little scared of them that's all, and that's okay. I mean your never saw what a wonderful relationship your dad and mom had, you only saw the pain that your mom went through after he died. I can understand where you got your idea from but it is wrong, I mean just look at my Mom and Dad or Rye and Inky."

"You just don't understand," Fi sighed and tried to walk out of the elevator but Carey grabbed her arm. "Carey what are you doing? We have to get some food in Raliana, she really needs it right now."

"And we will get her food, but first there is something I want show you," Carey took her hand in his and lead her towards the doors of the hotel. "Come on, this will only take a few minutes. I promise."

Fi groaned but allowed herself to be lead. What could he possible have to show and why did they have to go outside to see it? Her brain wanted to protest this deviance from their plan but she was really just too tired to care.

*****

She had been sleeping but had not even realized that she had fallen asleep. It was only when she saw a panther with yellow eyes come up to her did she realize what was going on. "Why are you doing this," Rye asked him. "Why are you protecting her?"

"Because that is what I was told to do," the panther replied.

"Told by whom," Rye demanded. "Does she know?"

"No, she does not know the true reason I protect her. Just the one that I have told her," his voice was so mysterious. "I cannot tell you who told me to protect her. I have been sworn to secrecy."

"She is Fey," Rhylinye pointed out to him. "As the princess of the Fey I have the right and privilege to know why one of my subjects is being protected."

The panther gave her a sleepy look, "She is Fey but you have no rights here. I do not take my orders from Oberon or Avalon. I take them from a different being."

"There is no being more powerful then my father, not even the dark lord," Rye told him angrily. "My family overrides any other being that could have given you these orders."

"Trust me Princess you do not want to know why I have be placed in charge of this child," the panther slunk around her.

"Then tell me why you have not taught her how to control her magic yet," Rye wanted some kind of answer.

"I am not exactly in the position to teach anyone about magic," the panther lifted his paw. "If you want to teach her be my guest."

"You are not in a position to teach or just too lazy," Rye was indigent now. "I don't want her to get hurt again because her destiny has been declared so I will teach her."

The panther tilted his head at her, "What do you mean her destiny has been decided? You do not even know who she is."

"I don't," Rye nodded, "but the Fates do. They have declared it to me because it involves my kinsman."

The spirit guardian waited a beat, "Well are you going to tell me?"

"Why should I," Rye sounded a bit like a spoiled child. "You won't tell who she. I think it is fair trade."

"I have my orders," the panther sounded wise and it irritated Rye to no end.

"And I have mine," Rye replied. "You will tell her that I am going to teach her. She is still your responsibility. But wait until after Puck and I start training Jack."

At the mention of Puck's name the panther started to tense up. His action did not go unnoticed by Rye but she was bored with him so she shook her head and returned to her body.

"Oh the pain," Rye spoke loudly as she awoke from her uninformative dream. "My stomach feels like it's eating itself."

Jack was a little startled by her sudden movements but he laughed it off, "Well it has been awhile since Fi and Carey left. I didn't think it took that long to get some food."

Raliana's eyes went big all of the sudden. Carey and Fi went to get food; oh this was so not a good thing. She had to get to them before something happened. "Not good, not good at all," she muttered as she stood up and snapped her fingers to change into some normal clothes.

"What is not good at all," Jack titled his head in confusion.

Raliana whipped her head around to look at him. She had forgotten that he was in the room. "Um, well that they are taking so long," she lied. "I am going to find them and see what the hold up is."

"Okay," Jack laughed at her again as she exited the room quickly to go find his friend and sister. "She must be really hungry."

Jack sighed as he looked back at Annie. There had been no change in her condition since they came back to her room. He did not really expect to see any but he half hoped that there would be something. That she would wake up and tell him that everything was going to be okay.

'It will be okay Jack. There is something that she needs to see now, but she will be fine,' a mysterious voice popped into his head.

He almost fell off his chair when he heard it but he managed to regain his balance before he hit the floor. "Who said that," he shouted out to the room. There was no reply. Jack turned his head to scan the room but he did not see anything. Then he heard whimpers come from Annie.

Her body was totally tensed up and she was starting to thrash around the bed. Her face was scrunched up in pain and her lips were pursed so tightly together that they were almost white. She had ripped her hand from his and was mumbling something that he could not quite make out.

"Annie," Jack touched her head. "Annie it is okay." She did not hear him and kept tossing around in the bed. "Come on Annie you have to wake up. Wake up Annie."

Annie's mind was lost in a nightmare and she did not respond to him. Then she started to speak more clearly, "No! No don't do this!"

"Annie please wake up," Jack started to shake her a little.

"Please don't take him! Stop this! Why are you doing this!" tears were streaming down her face now.

"Annie wake up!" Jack watched helplessly unable to wake her.

"Don't take him, please. Jack! Jack don't let them do this! Don't leave me! Jack don't leave me!" Annie was hysterical now. "Jack don't let them take you! Fight this!" Annie sat straight up in the bed and opened her teary eyes. She saw Jack sitting there looking at her and she threw her arms around him. She was crying with such force that it shook her body.

"Shh, it's okay now," Jack tried to comfort her as he held her closely to him. "I am not going anywhere. I promise."

Annie sobbed for a few more minutes but then she started to calm down. "It was horrible," she whispered to him. She did not move from him when she spoke, instead she nestled closer to him.

"What happened?" he asked her gently turning his head so that he could look at her.

Annie eyes looked at him sadly and with fear, "It is hard to explain. I was having this dream and it was like I was Raliana, only not. I mean it was her but everyone called her Rhylinye and she was daughter of Lord Oberon of the Fey. Inky was there too, but everyone called him Puck."

"Was I Inky, ah Puck," Jack had to keep himself from laughing. What she was saying sounded absolutely ridiculous. But then dreams were just figments of the imagination, and this one had obviously scared Annie a lot.

"No," Annie told him thoughtfully. "You were someone else." She closed her eyes to think for a moment. "You were the Lord Monoceros."

Jack pulled away from her and looked at her doubtfully, "Annie, Monoceros is a constellation."

"Jack," Annie pouted at him as she leaded her body up against the headboard.

"Okay, okay. I am sorry. I was just trying to lighten the mood.," Jack moved to sit next her on the bed and put his around her shoulder. "Why don't you finish telling me what happened?"

"Take your shoes off," she told him.

"What?"

"If you are going to sit on my bed take your shoes off. I don't want to you to get dirt all over my bed," Annie told him pointedly.

Jack sighed and took his shoes off and then sit next to her again, "So what happened?"

Annie started to shiver a little, "It was awful. Raliana, well Rhylinye, she was in love with Monoceros. They had been seeing each other secretly for awhile."

"Why secretly," Jack pulled her a little closer him and rubbed her arm, he though that she was shivering because she was cold.

"Rhylinye was engaged to Puck, from birth. She loved him, he would make her laugh, but she was never in love with him," Annie stopped for a moment. "He hurt her. He would do things with other Fey. She threatened to tell her father but then Puck starting hitting her. She couldn't stop him," Annie started to sob again. Jack pulled her in closer to him. "He had done something to her, something that allowed him control her powers. So that she wouldn't be able to use her powers against him. And he kept hitting her over and over." Annie had to stop, tears were choking up her throat.

"Annie," Jack was worried about her. "You don't have to keep going."

"No," Annie wiped her eyes. "It wasn't all bad. After Puck had knocked her unconscious Monoceros found her. He took her back to his castle and helped her get well again. At first Rhylinye didn't trust him, her parents had told her that he was even though he was Fey he was different from everyone else, but then she started to see things in him that she never saw in Puck. He was so kind, gentle, and caring that she started to fall in love with him. But she had to go back to Oberon's palace before guards were sent out after her.

"Once she was back at home, things with Puck started to get worse. So she would sneak away every day to go see Monoceros. They began to have a relationship together and they were happy."

"And no one ever found out," Jack asked her in a quite voice.

"They were going to tell everyone on a very important night," Annie stopped again. "I don't know why it was so important. I am not sure what happened."

"Well it didn't sound good, you were screaming, begging them not to take me away from you," Jack stopped when she gave him a funny look. "I mean Monoceros, but you said my name."

Annie laughed a little, "That was part of the reason the dream was so strange. Sometimes I would call you Monoceros sometimes Jack. You would call me Rhylinye or Annie. It was very odd."

"Well it is just a dream," Jack replied. "I mean look at how happy Raliana and Incanto are. I don't think that Inky would every hurt her and she trusts him with her life."

Annie was hesitant but then she nodded in agreement. Then she looked in Jack's eyes, there was something there that had not been there before, she recognized it from her dream, or at least she hoped she did. "How long have you been here?" her voice was a little shaky because as much as she wanted to know she was still a little scared to know.

"Oh you know, for a while," Jack tried to act like it had not been long at all but he knew that she wasn't going to buy it. "Raliana said that she needed help looking after you so I volunteered. You know taking care of you isn't the easiest job in the world, ouch!" Annie had hit him playfully. "This is the thanks I get for being at your bedside every waking moment? Memo to self: when Annie goes unconscious do not volunteer for beside duty."

Annie laughed a little, "I am sorry. Thank you very much for looking after me." She smiled up at him.

"No problem," Jack returned her smiled and looked at her face. There were a few stray strands of hair that was covering part of her check. He gently reached out and tucked them behind her ear.

'Kiss her,' a little voice inside his head called out to him. It was not the same voice from earlier but he thought the recognized it. Even though he was trying to figure out where the voice was coming from he did not break eye contact with Annie.

'Kiss her!' the voice was more forceful this time, letting him know that it would not be ignored. So Jack decided that he would heed the voice. He leaned in slowly to see if Annie would pull away but she did not. It seemed to both of them like it took eternity for him to close the distance between their lips but once he had they were in totally bliss.

*****

"Yes! It worked! It worked," Rye started to jump up and down in the empty elevator. She was so excited that her planned worked.

After she left Jack and Annie alone she waited a few minutes, then she peeked into Jack's mind to see what was going on. It was rather boring to her, they were just sitting on the bed together talking about how long Jack had been there. Rye wanted to rush back into the room and say, since you decided to join the world of vegetables. But she decided to do something that would be far more amusing to her. So she waited for the right moment and then started sending the mental messages to Jack.

Rye was so pleased with herself that she was grinning like a Cheshire cat and did not notice that the elevator had reached the first floor of the hotel. When the doors opened Rye's smile quickly faded because she remembered the reason that she had left her room, Fi and Carey.

"Oh, oh," Rye stomped her foot. "This is not good. I can't believe I forgot. I have to find her, now!" She ran out of the elevator and started to look around the hotel frantically.

*****

Carey dragged Fi out past the cars and behind the hotel. They were far enough away from the artificial lights of the hotel and parking lot that they could see the night sky clearly. Fi looked up at the night school and then sighed.

"Why did you bring me out here Carey," Fi asked him. "I am freezing. I didn't even bring a coat.

Carey rubbed her arms a little to try to warm her up, "I am sorry. I wasn't really thinking. But there is something that you need to see."

"Well why did I have to come all the way outside on this cold, cold night to see it," Fi asked him. "Look I can even see my breath," she blew some air out of her mouth and watched the white cloud form in the air.

Carey gave her a lopsided smile. He stood behind her but kept one arm around her in order to keep her from getting frostbite. He used is other arm to point up to the stars, "Do you see that group of stars over there?"

"Yeah," Fi's eyes followed Carey's arm. Fi knew which constellation it was but she wanted to hear what Carey had to say.

"That is Andromeda," Carey lowered his arm and started to rub hers again. "Do you know the story of Andromeda?"

"Wasn't she chained to a rock to because her mother was so vain?" Fi half shuddered. The idea that gods could be that vengeful scared her. Rhylinye had told her that the Fey came to power when people stopped believing in the ancient Greek Gods. They still existed but they were no where near as powerful and Zeus and many of the others had to answer to Oberon now. She thanked her lucky star that this happened, who knows what Gods she could have managed to upset by now if they were still roaming about.

"Yes, in order to save her father's kingdom of course. Her father chained her to a rock as an offering to the sea monster that was coming to destroy his lands. But the great hero Perseus saw Andromeda when he was flying on Pegasus and he went to save her. He killed the sea monster and freed the Princess and took her hand in marriage," Carey decided to leave off the part where Perseus ended up killing his father with a disc because he did not see how that was going to be relevant to what he was trying to prove to Fi.

"So?" Fi failed to see what he was trying to get to.

"So, love does not always equal pain. Andromeda and Perseus had a happy life. He rescued her from that sea monster," Carey felt like he was stating the obvious.

"Yeah after she was chained to a rock because of something her mother said. If I were that king I would have chained the mother to the rock and hope for the best. But then again the father obviously did not care about his daughter that much," Fi felt sorry for Andromeda.

"But she meet the love of her life," Carey protested.

"Because she had to be saved from a sea monster!" Fi whipped around and looked at Carey. "You are not going to convince me that just because this poor girl was saved from a monster by this hero type, who probably went and got himself killed later, love does not cause pain. I mean if he did die later on where did that leave her? She probably had two kids and no way to take care of them until she remarried some lesser guy who ruined her kingdom. And then-"

Fi couldn't speak, not that she really wanted to. Carey had silenced her by placing his mouth on hers and wrapped his arms around her to draw her closer. At first she was in total shock, but then she when she realized what was happening discovered that she was enjoying it, so she relaxed. Maybe Carey was right. Love was not painful.

"No!" a scream caused them to break apart. "Help me," Raliana's voice called out to them from a few feet away.

"Rye!" hearing her friend's voice brought crashing down to reality, she should not be there with Carey. "Oh Rye," Fi put on a false front of concern, she was really slightly angry with Raliana. "Are you okay?"

"Food," was the only thing Rye, her voice was a little scratchy and weak.

Carey laughed, "I think she is fine."

"I would have been better if you guys just brought me food," Rye started to try to get up. "Ouch!"

"What's wrong?" Fi tried to sound concerned.

"I tripped on something," Rye told them as she fell back to the ground. "I think I sprained my ankle."

Carey helped her up, "You can put your weight on me. Don't try to walk okay?"

Rye grunted when her foot touched the ground, "I am not going to make it back to the hotel."

"Fi why don't you go back for help. I'll stay here with Raliana," Carey told her, Fi nodded and started to take off.

"No need," Raliana stopped her. She leaned her weight one foot and tried to stand up as straight as possible. "Stand near me."

"Rye I don't that you should," Fi scarcely got the words out of her mouth when a flash came and they found themselves all back in the hotel lobby. She quickly looked over at Rye who started to collapse.

Carey was still standing next to her and caught her before she hit the ground, "I think you should go get some food. I'll take her back up stairs."

"Food," Rye mumbled a little and then passed out again.

"Rye wake up! I know you are faking this," Fi started to hit Rye's face. "Magic doesn't take this much out of you."

"Ow! Stop doing that. I really did pass out, I was kind of enjoying it to, sleep is good," Rye tried to make Fi laugh but she was not taking the bait. "We'll go get food and then we will all go back to the room, deal?"

"Fine," Fi agreed reluctantly. She knew that she should talk with Carey but she also knew that she wasn't ready to. "Let's just get this over with." Fi walked away from them and headed to the hotel restaurant.

"Fi, I am sorry," Rye called after her. "I didn't mean to scare you or anything. Fi!" Fi just kept walking away. "What's up with her?"

"I don't know," Carey lied. "We better go catch up."

"Yeah," Rye felt bad. She knew what was wrong, but there was nothing she could do about it. 'We have to talk about this Fi,' she pathed to her friend. No response came, 'Fi you can't ignore me forever you know. We are going to talk about this.'

'Leave me alone,' Fi yelled back at her. Her mind voice was full of anguish.

Rye sighed to herself, "This is going to be a long night."

"Why do you say that," Carey asked her a little confused.

"I can just feel it," Rye didn't look at him. She watched as Fi talked to some of the wait staff from the restaurant.

*****

"Come one I am going to starve to death soon," Rye walked down the hall to the suite ahead of Carey and Fi. Fi was still being really quiet and did not say anything to either one of them.

Once they were closer Rye threw open the door and everyone was shocked to see Annie and Jack quickly pull apart from what had obviously been a kiss. Carey stood in the doorway with his mouth opened and Fi looked like she was about to loose it.

Rye on the other hand smiled at them, "You're up! I bet you're hungry. We have food, you can share mine." She walked into the room and placed the bags of restaurant take out on a near by table.

"What!" Fi stormed up to her and looked at her with angry eyes. "That's it? You're up, are you hungry? That's all you are going to say!"

"Fi," Rye started to speak quietly.

"Oh no," Fi yelled at her. "I don't think so. You are not going to Fi me. I am out of here!" With that Fi ran out of the room and down the hall.

"Fi wait," Rye ran to the door.

"Excuse me," Carey was totally lost. "What just happened here?"

"I am going to talk to Fi," Rye told him. "You guys just stay here and have dinner. I'll be back soon." Rye took off after Fiona.

"So you and Annie," Carey give the two a sly smile and Annie blushed. Jack just groaned and got up to take out the food.

*****

"Fi!" Rye called out to her. "Fi, we have to talk!" No one responded. "You can't run away from me. I know where you are!"

Rye transported herself to stand right in front of her friend and niece. "Fi, look I am really sorry this had to happen this way," Raliana started to apologize.

"What?" Fi was still extremely angry about what was going on. "The fact that you have known from day one that Jack liked Annie and you didn't do a thing about it? That you let this happen and didn't freak about it, but when Carey kissed me you stopped it by pretending to twist your ankle! You think sorry is just going to make up for all of that?"

Raliana looked at Fiona with sad eyes. "Fi, I don't expect you to understand all at once but there is a reason why Puck and I didn't do anything about Jack and Annie."

"Oh really," Fi snarled at her. "And what is that reason?"

"I know this is going to be really hard for you to understand, but the reason we didn't do anything is because it is suppose to be this way," Fi looked at her with disbelieve and that made Raliana feel even worse about what she was going to say. "Jack and Annie, well it is their destiny to be together. Annie is Jack's match, we don't know why. Annie is Fey, she doesn't know it yet, but she will soon. And I know this seems incredibly unfair but you should be happy for Jack. I mean he found the one person that he is going to be with for the rest of his life."

Fi had turned away from her aunt at when she started to talk about Jack's destiny. She felt tears roll down her face. She knew that she should be happy for her brother but she could not help feeling incredibly jealous of him. Rye was right half right when she said it seemed unfair, half right because it was completely unfair. "What about me," Fi asked quietly. "What is my destiny?"

"I don't know," Raliana replied sorrowfully.

"What? I don't understand," Fi looked around at her.

Raliana was hesitant, "Well, the Fates didn't tell me, yet. They were going to tell us on your sixteenth birthday but Oberon told them he didn't want to know. So we never found out."

"So because of Oberon I have no idea what is going to happen to me later in my life. I have to keep putting everyone off because there is this one person that I am supposed to be with," Fi was starting to cry again. "But I don't know who they are or how to start looking for them!"

Raliana hugged her tightly, "I know. I am so sorry Fiona, but there was nothing I could do about it because you weren't there. Now though, once you and Jack are fully trained you can go to the Fates yourself and ask them to tell you. Although they may only tell you the person's Fey name. But believe me, we will find out, and I am going to be with you every step of the way."

Fi started to calm down now, "So what I am going to do with Carey?"

"Fi, what you do with your love life, or whatever you call it is none of my business," Raliana pretended to shudder. "Believe me I don't want to know! Jeez girl, I don't tell you about what Puck and I-"

"Just stop right there," Fi held up her hand to silence Rye. "I don't even want to know."

They laughed for a few seconds but then Fi became serious again, "So are you saying that?"

"You can go out with Carey," Rye finished for her. "Well I mean technically it is up to your mom, but yes. Until you decided whether or not you are going to pledge your alliance to the Fey you can do what you want. Fate always wins anyway, that is the unfair part. My great aunts always have to be right," Rye pouted.

Fiona laughed at her, "Well I guess that is just the way things are?"

"So…," Rye looked at her expectantly.

"So what?" Fi tried to play innocent.

Raliana gave a little frustrated hop up and down, "So are you going to go out with Carey?"

"Well I don't even know if he likes me," Fi tried to be rational about the situation.

"Fiona Phillips! The boy kissed you for crying out loud. I am pretty sure that means that he likes you," Rye was not going to be put off.

Fi sighed, "Yeah but he prefaced it with trying to convince me that love was not a painful thing."

"Oh please," Rye rolled her eyes. "I know you read his mind. I saw you poking around in his subconscious."

"Yeah well," Fi felt kind of guilty about the whole thing. "I didn't really mean to, it just kind of happened."

"Sure, just keep telling yourself that," Raliana laughed her. "Well do want ever you want but wait until after you tell Jack about, well everything."

"You want me to tell Jack that Carey kissed me," Fiona was in total shock. "Jack will kill him. As in using all of his untrained powers to fry Carey burnt crisp kill him!"

"I wasn't talk about that," Raliana pretended to be annoyed. "You have a one track mind, you know that?"

"Hey," Fi acted offended. "Fine I promise I will tell Jack this morning. But you have to promise me that you and Puck will be near by, okay?"

"Promise!" Rye laughed a little. "Come let's get back to the room before they eat everything, I am dying here."

"Talk about an one track mind," Fi smiled at her friend.

"Ha, ha. Very funny, let's just get going already," Rye pulled Fi with her back towards the room.

"Where is Puck anyway? I know he said he had a meeting of some sort but I thought that he was just saying it for the benefit of the others" Fi asked her as the made their way through the hallways.

Rye shrugged, "I don't know. He goes away sometimes to do stuff. I guess he was trying to find out some more about Annie. Anyway he is usually always back before the next day."

"That is so strange," Fi contemplated Puck's disappearances for a moment. "I thought you guys told each other everything."

"Well I tell him everything. You know where I am going, who I am going with, when I will be back, but he never tells me so I don't ask," as soon as the words left her mouth she regretted saying them.

"Oh really," Fi started to get all worked up again. "And you never wonder what he is doing?"

"Please don't start with this again Fi," Rye begged. "I just want to go get some food and then go to sleep. Can we save the woman's rights speech for another time?"

"Fine," Fi agreed. "But tomorrow I am going to ask him where he went."

"Fiona!" Raliana warned her.

"Hey it is fair game," Fi replied. "Let's get going. I am really sleepy." She faked a yawn.

"Sometime Fiona, sometimes," Raliana chuckled but she did not finish because they had reached the room. Sighing Rye followed Fi inside and they joined the others in a late dinner.

Author's Note: This is the first So Weird fan fiction that I have written. I hope everyone likes it. I will try to update as much as possible, but just to warn you, I am slow writer and I am working three different stories right now. There is one trick into getting me to write fast though. Feedback, I live on it. Feedback is a drug for me. Hope to give you more to read soon! Oh yeah, English is not my first language so please forgive any spelling and grammar mistakes.

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