Chapter five
Scotland 992 AD
Castle Wyvern
Just after sunset
Jessondra gasped as young Brooklyn placed the ring on her finger. "My Love!"
"I understand that when two humans love each other, they exchange tokens such as this. I want you to remember that you and I are one, now and forever."
"If you give me a token I must in turn give you one." She removed the chain from her neck and placed it around his. You and I are one, now and forever." she repeated and gently kissed him on the beak.
He looked at the small pendant. It was the sun, something he had never seen.
"You are my warrior that lights my path like the sun." she said.
"And you are my Goddess of the Night, guiding me on my journey though life, as I awaken every evening." He added wrapping his wings around her.
* * *
Brooklyn fingered the chain around his neck. Lex bounded in from the computer room.
"You wouldn't believe all the stuff I'm still finding here!" He said excitedly then he noticed his brother's faraway look. "Hey, you okay?"
"Yeah, sure." Brooklyn answered.
Lex watched as Brooklyn ran his fingers over the golden sun.
"You're thinkin' about Jessondra, aren't you?"
"I can't help it, but I have this feeling that she's still alive and out in this strange world."
"Face it. If she was alive, she'd be over a thousand years old, and not of much use to you."
"Thanks." he said sarcastically, and went back to his daze.
* * *
Jesse sat in the back of her English class, nodding between sleep and consciousness, listening to the teacher drone on about William Shakespeare's Sonnet 71 and Robert Frost's Birches.
"...and for an assignment I'd like you all to come up with a poem of your own."
Moans filled the classroom and a couple of the delinquents threw paper wads at him.
"It can rhyme or be free verse, your choice." the bell rang. "See you tomorrow. Don't forget, your poems will be read aloud, by you, during class."
Jesse wandered to her locker and out to the bus she rode to get back to the Maza's. It had been several months since the attack and Elisa couldn't get anything out of the Xanatos guy.
"He just won't admit to it." Elisa had said the evening after. "He denies, then gives me one of his megalomaniacal grins that makes me want to slap him."
"But if he won't admit, what'll we do?" Jesse had asked.
"Just wait."
The words came back to Jesse like they had happened yesterday. Just wait.
The guys sentence was up in a month, what was she going to do then? Just lay low?
She missed the bus by getting caught behind two love birds who must have thought they were the only two in the world.
Great, the perfect ending to the perfect day. She thought.
"Can't you guy's avoid PDA?!" She screamed at them.
The two were startled out of their day dream and began to walk off in a daze.
"For cryin' out loud get a room!" and with that she stalked off towards the Maza home.
* * *
Jesse sat at the table trying to think up a poem for the assignment.
This teacher was merciless. Not only could he put an entire class to sleep with his meaningless banter, but then he expected you to get something out of it.
She through her pen across the room and went to raid the fridge. No matter how much she ate, she seemed to be losing more and more weight, but she still had her muscle build that made the bully's in school leave her alone.
Elisa walked through the kitchen as Jesse was in the icebox.
"Hey sport, anything good in there?"
"Ham, cheese and. . . liverwurst?"
"No thanks." Elisa continued through the house and stopped in the dining room where there were several pieces of paper crumpled up on the floor.
"Hey sport? Do you think you could keep the house clean?"
"Whatever."
Elisa chuckled. It had been only a few months since Jesse had come to America, but she was picking up being a teenager quite well.
Elisa picked up on of the crumpled papers and started reading it.
~This is really good.~ Elisa thought to herself. "Hey sport, is this an assignment?"
"Don't read those!" Jesse said running into the room and snatching up the papers off the floor.
"Oh yeah? Who's gonna stop me?" Elisa said, then ran.
"Why you..." Jesse ran after her and right into Derek.
"Hey! Where's the fire?"
Elisa ducked behind him.
"Derek, Elisa took my paper and won't give it back!"
"Well, I'm just gonna have to arrest her for stealing."
"Ha ha!" Elisa said. "You're not the only cop here. I could arrest you for interfering."
"Oh really?" He said walking over to the sink. "I'll just have to persuade you to do otherwise!" He turned the water on and grabbed the hose.
"Ah! Stop!" Elisa screamed and ran from the spewing water. Jesse fell to the floor laughing.
"Oh you think it's funny?" She wrestled the hose from Derek and began to spray Jesse.
It was that moment that Peter decided to walk in. He was hit in the face. All three froze in their tracks. Elisa looked at their father and began laughing.
He set down the bag of grocery's and gave them a stern look.
Derek joined Elisa and moments later, so did Jesse.
"Okay, who started this?" Each one pointed to the others. "Fine. I guess I'll have to punish you all."
He walked over to where they had dropped the hose and picked it up. If they were wet before, they were totally soaked now.
Diane came in moments later. "What happened here?" The four of them looked guiltily to the floor. "No one will tell me?" She waited for an answer."Very well. Jesse go get some dry clothes on before you catch cold."
Jesse got up from the floor, shook the water from her hair, and walked out of the room, snatching the paper from Elisa's hand as she passed her.
"As for the rest of you..."
"I'll cook dinner." Peter said.
"I think my room needs cleaned." said Derek.
"My shift starts in half an hour. I just came to get something from dad." Elisa stated
"Fine. Fine."
The three of them went there separate ways, and Diane went after Jesse.
* * *
"Would you mind telling me what that was all about?" Diane asked as Jesse pulled on a dry sweater.
"Elisa took one of my papers and wouldn't give it back, so Derek decided to teach her a lesson."
"So spraying down the kitchen solved this problem?"
"I got my paper back, didn't I?"
"Yes, I suppose you did." She looked Jesse over and noticed her jeans hanging loosely around her hips. "Jesse, are those jeans too big?"
Jesse pulled the jeans back up around her waist. "No. They fit perfectly."
"Maybe I should take you to the doctor."
"No. You don't want to waste your money over nothing."
Diane gave her a small worried smile. "Finish your homework, then wash up for dinner."
* * *
Owen opened the limo door. "Welcome home Mr. Xanatos."
"It's good to be home Owen."
"There is something I think you should know."
"If it's about the girl., I don't need to hear it. We're going to try it again, only this time, I'm going."
* * *
"What was on that paper anyway?" Peter asked.
"Just an English assignment."
"Oh."
"Before you ask, it was worth spraying down the kitchen for it."
"Okay."
"So did anything interesting happen at school today?" Diane asked.
"No, not really. Nothing out of the ordinary. We have to write a poem for English."
"Is that what all the fuss was about earlier?"
Jesse nodded.
Peter closed his eyes and chuckled.
He was stopped by a knock at the door.
"Who could that be?" Diane asked.
"I'll get it!" Jesse said jumping up.
Diane rescued her water glass from toppling over. "Jessondra Michelle be careful!"
"Sorry." She said as she bounded out to the front door.
Standing there was a man dressed in black Armani bearing a strange resemblance to Will Riker on Star Trek.
"Can I help you?" She asked cautiously.
"Perhaps you can." he said ginning sinisterly. "Are you by chance Jessondra of Wyvern?"
Scotland 992 AD
Castle Wyvern
Just after sunset
Jessondra gasped as young Brooklyn placed the ring on her finger. "My Love!"
"I understand that when two humans love each other, they exchange tokens such as this. I want you to remember that you and I are one, now and forever."
"If you give me a token I must in turn give you one." She removed the chain from her neck and placed it around his. You and I are one, now and forever." she repeated and gently kissed him on the beak.
He looked at the small pendant. It was the sun, something he had never seen.
"You are my warrior that lights my path like the sun." she said.
"And you are my Goddess of the Night, guiding me on my journey though life, as I awaken every evening." He added wrapping his wings around her.
* * *
Brooklyn fingered the chain around his neck. Lex bounded in from the computer room.
"You wouldn't believe all the stuff I'm still finding here!" He said excitedly then he noticed his brother's faraway look. "Hey, you okay?"
"Yeah, sure." Brooklyn answered.
Lex watched as Brooklyn ran his fingers over the golden sun.
"You're thinkin' about Jessondra, aren't you?"
"I can't help it, but I have this feeling that she's still alive and out in this strange world."
"Face it. If she was alive, she'd be over a thousand years old, and not of much use to you."
"Thanks." he said sarcastically, and went back to his daze.
* * *
Jesse sat in the back of her English class, nodding between sleep and consciousness, listening to the teacher drone on about William Shakespeare's Sonnet 71 and Robert Frost's Birches.
"...and for an assignment I'd like you all to come up with a poem of your own."
Moans filled the classroom and a couple of the delinquents threw paper wads at him.
"It can rhyme or be free verse, your choice." the bell rang. "See you tomorrow. Don't forget, your poems will be read aloud, by you, during class."
Jesse wandered to her locker and out to the bus she rode to get back to the Maza's. It had been several months since the attack and Elisa couldn't get anything out of the Xanatos guy.
"He just won't admit to it." Elisa had said the evening after. "He denies, then gives me one of his megalomaniacal grins that makes me want to slap him."
"But if he won't admit, what'll we do?" Jesse had asked.
"Just wait."
The words came back to Jesse like they had happened yesterday. Just wait.
The guys sentence was up in a month, what was she going to do then? Just lay low?
She missed the bus by getting caught behind two love birds who must have thought they were the only two in the world.
Great, the perfect ending to the perfect day. She thought.
"Can't you guy's avoid PDA?!" She screamed at them.
The two were startled out of their day dream and began to walk off in a daze.
"For cryin' out loud get a room!" and with that she stalked off towards the Maza home.
* * *
Jesse sat at the table trying to think up a poem for the assignment.
This teacher was merciless. Not only could he put an entire class to sleep with his meaningless banter, but then he expected you to get something out of it.
She through her pen across the room and went to raid the fridge. No matter how much she ate, she seemed to be losing more and more weight, but she still had her muscle build that made the bully's in school leave her alone.
Elisa walked through the kitchen as Jesse was in the icebox.
"Hey sport, anything good in there?"
"Ham, cheese and. . . liverwurst?"
"No thanks." Elisa continued through the house and stopped in the dining room where there were several pieces of paper crumpled up on the floor.
"Hey sport? Do you think you could keep the house clean?"
"Whatever."
Elisa chuckled. It had been only a few months since Jesse had come to America, but she was picking up being a teenager quite well.
Elisa picked up on of the crumpled papers and started reading it.
~This is really good.~ Elisa thought to herself. "Hey sport, is this an assignment?"
"Don't read those!" Jesse said running into the room and snatching up the papers off the floor.
"Oh yeah? Who's gonna stop me?" Elisa said, then ran.
"Why you..." Jesse ran after her and right into Derek.
"Hey! Where's the fire?"
Elisa ducked behind him.
"Derek, Elisa took my paper and won't give it back!"
"Well, I'm just gonna have to arrest her for stealing."
"Ha ha!" Elisa said. "You're not the only cop here. I could arrest you for interfering."
"Oh really?" He said walking over to the sink. "I'll just have to persuade you to do otherwise!" He turned the water on and grabbed the hose.
"Ah! Stop!" Elisa screamed and ran from the spewing water. Jesse fell to the floor laughing.
"Oh you think it's funny?" She wrestled the hose from Derek and began to spray Jesse.
It was that moment that Peter decided to walk in. He was hit in the face. All three froze in their tracks. Elisa looked at their father and began laughing.
He set down the bag of grocery's and gave them a stern look.
Derek joined Elisa and moments later, so did Jesse.
"Okay, who started this?" Each one pointed to the others. "Fine. I guess I'll have to punish you all."
He walked over to where they had dropped the hose and picked it up. If they were wet before, they were totally soaked now.
Diane came in moments later. "What happened here?" The four of them looked guiltily to the floor. "No one will tell me?" She waited for an answer."Very well. Jesse go get some dry clothes on before you catch cold."
Jesse got up from the floor, shook the water from her hair, and walked out of the room, snatching the paper from Elisa's hand as she passed her.
"As for the rest of you..."
"I'll cook dinner." Peter said.
"I think my room needs cleaned." said Derek.
"My shift starts in half an hour. I just came to get something from dad." Elisa stated
"Fine. Fine."
The three of them went there separate ways, and Diane went after Jesse.
* * *
"Would you mind telling me what that was all about?" Diane asked as Jesse pulled on a dry sweater.
"Elisa took one of my papers and wouldn't give it back, so Derek decided to teach her a lesson."
"So spraying down the kitchen solved this problem?"
"I got my paper back, didn't I?"
"Yes, I suppose you did." She looked Jesse over and noticed her jeans hanging loosely around her hips. "Jesse, are those jeans too big?"
Jesse pulled the jeans back up around her waist. "No. They fit perfectly."
"Maybe I should take you to the doctor."
"No. You don't want to waste your money over nothing."
Diane gave her a small worried smile. "Finish your homework, then wash up for dinner."
* * *
Owen opened the limo door. "Welcome home Mr. Xanatos."
"It's good to be home Owen."
"There is something I think you should know."
"If it's about the girl., I don't need to hear it. We're going to try it again, only this time, I'm going."
* * *
"What was on that paper anyway?" Peter asked.
"Just an English assignment."
"Oh."
"Before you ask, it was worth spraying down the kitchen for it."
"Okay."
"So did anything interesting happen at school today?" Diane asked.
"No, not really. Nothing out of the ordinary. We have to write a poem for English."
"Is that what all the fuss was about earlier?"
Jesse nodded.
Peter closed his eyes and chuckled.
He was stopped by a knock at the door.
"Who could that be?" Diane asked.
"I'll get it!" Jesse said jumping up.
Diane rescued her water glass from toppling over. "Jessondra Michelle be careful!"
"Sorry." She said as she bounded out to the front door.
Standing there was a man dressed in black Armani bearing a strange resemblance to Will Riker on Star Trek.
"Can I help you?" She asked cautiously.
"Perhaps you can." he said ginning sinisterly. "Are you by chance Jessondra of Wyvern?"