A/N: Sorry guys. I know I promised to update before now. How long has it been? No wait… don't even go there. I hope it's worth the wait, The long, long, long exceptionally long wait. Right- new years revolution- write more! This is my favourite chapter of all because it has special meaning for me. So… Enjoy- and review!

To my one reviewer (What happened to you guys?)

billie joe: There was actually as reason why I was going in this direction, See why now? Well enjoy it- cos I don't know when I'll get another chapter up. Probably next year. God…

Chapter twenty-nine: Two half's of a whole

Hunter's eyes were downcast when he said " Your so odd" and Morgan smiled shyly knowing what he was getting at.

" Well your not so normal yourself you know" she said pointedly. Hunter bent his head slightly and took a stone in his hands. Morgan had dumped a pile of stones in the middle of the floor but this one was wrapped in a purple cloth. Hunter held the stone up so he could look at it.

" Come here to me and open your hands" he said his gaze serious. Morgan looked at him odd for a moment but opened her hands for him. Hunter placed the stone into Morgan's hand and closed her hand around it.

" What is it?" She asked surprised.

" Where did you get this stone?" Hunter asked

Morgan shrugged " It was one of the stones in the box Maeve left behind for me. It's a bloodstone isn't it?"

Hunter shook his head " No. No this isn't bloodstone" he looked at Morgan's hand again but this time he smiled. He shifted slightly and pushed a stray strand of hair behind Morgan's ears. Morgan blushed slightly under his gaze and looked away. Hunter stopped the movement though and ran his finger from Morgan's forehead to her nose his eyes never leaving Morgan's.

" You say you found it in Maeve's box? Ciaran must have given it to her" Hunter said still looking at Morgan intensely. Morgan knew that gaze well.

" Ciaran" Morgan repeated turning the stone over in her hands. Why would Ciaran give Maeve this?

" He must have loved her deeply to have given her a stone like this," he said gazing at Morgan. His gaze flicked from Morgan to the stone.

" What do you mean?" even after all her training and schooling in Wicca Hunter still knew more than her. It was frustrating to know how much she had still to learn.

Hunter reached behind him for his athame and unsheathed it. It was a simple athame but incredibly beautiful. It had a single sapphire set into it. The sapphire glowed in Hunter's hands and for a moment Hunters eyes changed colour, he shook his head, as if to clear it and his eyes met Morgan's. They were Blue- the same as the stone in his athame and his aura to glowed that colour.

He set it between them and looked at Morgan " Where is your athame?" he asked

Morgan looked around and spotted it lying a few feet away, she stretched to her right and she was aware of Hunter looking at her. Hunter had looked at her before but somehow it was different. He was looking at her in a different way.

Hunter's eyes were still that odd blue- green colour where his eyes had always been a clear green.

Morgan settled back and smiled at Hunter nervously.

" I want you to do something for me" he said looking at the stone in Morgan's hand once again.

" What?" she asked following his gaze.

" I want you to be mine," he whispered his eyes changing back to green.

" I am yours" Morgan said lost. She furrowed her eyebrows trying to understand what Hunter was saying.

" No. I mean. Really mine" he said still staring intently at her. Hunter covered her hand and the stone inside. In Morgan's hand the stone began to become hot.

" I don't understand Hunter. What are you saying?" she asked confused.

" I want to feel what you feel. See what you see. I want it to be real for both of us. I want us to be together- heart, spirit and body. I want it to be connected," he said taking his hand away. The stone became cold again but it tingled slightly.

" But- we are together in the way you say Hunter. Heart and soul and body. She said more confused than ever.

" Each is not connected Morgan. Do you remember what I told you once? About each of us being two half's of a whole? I want to connect those half's. I mean we have found it I want to realise it. I've been waiting for the right time to ask you to do it."

Morgan shook her head " I don't… I mean… what do you mean?"

"This stone is the reason Ciaran killed Maeve Morgan. This stone is called Hecate's bond. This stone is only for Muirn beatha dans. It fuses the two half's together Morgan. Once the stone is intact that person will be your other half forever. You cannot live without that other half. If the stone breaks or something happens to the other half, well, anything could happen. I want to be yours and I want you to be mine. I want this, if you do. And- this stone would deepen our connection to a point where we would be completely joined" He said. Outside it began to rain. The sky changed colour. Sweeping.

" What would that mean?" she asked. But inwardly Morgan was excited. Hunter wanted to be with her totally. No holes barred, as they say.

" I don't know really" Hunter admitted, his eyes unreadable " But- do you want this Morgan. Even if you are in a little doubt you have to tell me"

Morgan looked up "I want it" she said and Hunter smiled and happiness seeped into his eyes " So do I" he said and Morgan smiled to feeling her heart burning.

" So… what do we do?" Morgan asked calmly. But inside she was screaming. Hunter, Hunter will be mine. Morgan knew this was a big deal for him, and it would be for her. Morgan couldn't remember the last time she had been so happy. The night of Beltane?

" Nothing. From what I've read it's pretty simple to do. The spell, I mean. But we have to reach our connection in such a way that we will be able to stay there for a while. It wont be a problem for you, but, well- I'm not that good really"

Morgan reached out to him " Yes you are. You're wonderful. She said without thinking at all and Morgan felt her cheeks heat up at what she said and she cleared her throat loudly and Hunter smiled broadly.

" It's been a while," he whispered still smiling.

" Since what?" Morgan asked smiling also. Morgan couldn't believe what was happening. Never did she imagine she would be doing this.

" Since we've gone into that level of an connection, and we'll have to go very deep. I don't know what will happen " Hunter said carefully as if contemplating it.

"Are you ready for this Hunter?" Morgan asked

" Yes. I don't what's to be in our future Morgan but I do know I want it to be with you. I love you so much" he said and even as he said it he felt he was ready. He felt sure wanted this more than anything.

" I love you too," Morgan whispered "Always"

Morgan got a piece of chalk silently and grew a half a circle around her. Her half. Then silently she handed it to Hunter, he waited for a moment then he reached out for it. He drew the circle closed. In front of them was their Athame's, their points touching the other.

Morgan placed the reddish- purplish stone instinctively on the points where the two Athame's connected. Hunter watched her and smiled.

Morgan then gave Hunter a hand full of stones and kept some for herself. Then with deft hands she placed them around her on the chalk line. Hunter did the same. Once all the stones were placed Morgan looked to Hunter and he smiled reassuringly at her nervousness.

Hunter drew a pentagram around the Athame's and the stone. Then he put a feather to the east to symbolise Air. Then he gave Morgan her bloodstone and Morgan placed it to the south for fire. Hunter took up his own stone and placed it to the west, to symbolise his own element, water. For Earth, Hunter took Morgan's Claddagh ring. The ring he had given her before she had left for Scotland and he for England, and placed it to the north.

" Goddess be with us," he said quietly and Morgan repeated it. Hunter took Morgan's hand and just held it intertwined with his own.

" Allah de allaigh, de beith…" Morgan began her mothers power chant, knowing it would help build up her power. Morgan wondered, as Hunter said, when Maeve had done this herself.

Hunter didn't know the words but he did know the effect they had on her. He wached silently as Morgan closed her eyes and said the rest of her chant. Gradually Hunter began to recognise the words and said them along with Morgan.

The ancient and sometimes dark words filled the room and soon they became aware of only each other. Both Hunter and Morgan opened their eyes and looked at each other silently still saying their power chant.

Morgan felt her power stirring within her and then she felt it come to her in white and orange light. Morgan felt Hunters own power shifting, stirring. Hunter felt it too. His own power radiating with his aura entwined.

Morgan felt as if the whole world was involved in their moment. Morgan had known that Hunter was an exceptionally gifted witch but never had she felt the power from him that she was now. Hunter felt Morgan's power grow and her light turned into a dark orange colour, then to red. Hunter felt her aura touch his and he opened himself to her, and she to him. She gave him all of what was inside her.

Going this deep with someone was dangerous if you didn't know what you were doing and only those who where Muirn beatha dans could really do it. Hunter and Morgan shifted through layers and layers of connection. Connections they had forged long ago. But for the bond to be enforced they had to go deeper than they ever had.

Doing this meant they would have to forge themselves together wholly with no secrets between them. Hunter new Morgan more intimately than anyone and Morgan new Hunter to the same extent. But going this deep would mean they would be consciously aware of their connection. That they could see each other's feelings without searching for them. This was something new to both of them.

Slowly Morgan and Hunter felt their Aura's and powers intertwine. Slowly they felt themselves come together as one. Hunter's aura matched Morgan's perfectly as though they were made to be together. Hunter's own life force came to Morgan's and they to joined and they were in each other's thoughts.

Hunter and Morgan had been this deep before, if not deeper on the eve of Beltane. They hadn't felt their connection this deeply though. Around them the petals of roses that Hunter had given Morgan floated into the air and began to dance around Hunter and Morgan. Weaving around each other. The rose petals leaped with the joy that both Hunter and Morgan felt an they sifted into an even deeper connection. Morgan saw the world through Hunters eyes and Hunter through Morgan's. Morgan felt how deeply Hunter loved her. Hunter felt such happiness at the depth of Morgans love for him. He had never felt so happy, so carefree.

It seemed they danced together, lights around them holding them in the air. So happy and innocent Morgan looked. So peaceful and free Hunter seemed. The lights around them intensified and Morgan and Hunter shifted into yet another connection, deeper and stronger than the last. This connection was solid, definite.

Hunter stopped in their dance and looked at Morgan. And she at him He saw how beautiful she looked, how innocent and good. Morgan saw his courage and strength. His loyalty and honour.

When Hunter looked into Morgan's eyes he saw what Morgan saw and she saw what he saw. They were one. Their feelings were one. But they had to keep this connection in order to perform the incantation. Hunter tightened his hold on Morgan determined never to let her go. Morgan felt as though she would burst with the feelings she had. They were both hers and Hunters. She felt alight and pure…. And good. Hunter seemed aglow in love for her and his love surrounded her like cloud, white and pure. Morgan's love surrounded Hunter and it filed him completely. Only with Morgan near him did he feel whole- complete.

The world around them burst into beautiful colours and there hearts beat as one. It seems there hearts talked to each other, their souls and bodies reacted to one another. Morgan saw her life flash before her and she saw Hunters. Hunter saw it too amazed. Morgan's birth and Maeve holding her, Her adoptive mothers face, Hunters father and mother locked in an loving embrace, a younger Hunter and his father alone talking, Morgan walking for the first time, Morgan learning to ride a bike, going to school and church every Sunday, Hunters life after his parents were taken away, Sky, Hunters first kiss, first time with a girl, first girlfriend, Morgan when she found out she was adopted, Hunters initiation, Hunter when he discovered linden was dead- that he was responsible, When Morgan met Cal, their first kiss, Hunter coming to widows vale, When Hunter and Morgan met, Morgan in the pool house, Cal's voice in her ear, Hunter and Morgan's first kiss, Hunters jealously over Morgan's feelings for Cal, Cal and Hunters fight by the river on the cliff, Hunter falling over the edge, Morgan's intense joy when finding he was alive, New York, Ciaran, Hunter seeing his father for the first time in 11 years, Morgan finding her half brother Killian, Morgan shape shifting, Hunters face when Morgan said she wanted break up, The dark wave, Alisa, Morgan's magick being reined, Selene as a hawk, Morgans guilt over Cal, Hunter and Morgan's first time together, the pain and fear of it, the beauty and joy, Morgan leaving for Scotland, Hunter and his father going back home to England.

Hunter sadness, pain and guilt- and love became Morgan's as well as his own and Morgan's own fears and pains in her past became Hunters, along with her love for him. Hunter had never felt more connected to anyone than he did in that one moment, and neither had Morgan. They were one and they finally saw what it meant to be Muirn Beatha Dans, two half's of a whole. The beauty it held, the love and pain, fears and pleasures.

The stone between them grew bright with both Hunters aura and Morgan's. The colours swirled and faded then came back anew. A storm cloud grew and both Hunter and Morgan felt that connection in themselves.

The stones around them split and one by one and a red-white mist spun around Morgan and Hunter. The circle around them expanded. The Athame's rose into the air and became aglow sending their magick into both Hunter and Morgan. The stone began to spin in the air slowly taking in the magick around it and it became brighter.

"For love of two hearts together,

For strength of love and protection,

My pain, my fears,

My love and passion forever yours,

Love binds us together,

As nothing else ever could,

Hear us god and goddess,

Forever make him/her mine"

Hunter and Morgan sang and their hearts lifted with each sentence. Each word became them; it entered their hearts and sang to them.

The cloud around them began to lower and with it the world came back to them slowly. Morgan became aware of Hunters hand around hers and hunter became aware of it too. They opened their eyes and each found the other aglow. Without a word Hunter leant over and pressed his lips to Morgan's and she felt that his cheeks were wet and Hunter felt it too, they had both been crying. Morgan made a noise and Hunter smiled inwardly as she came to him. Hunter held her to him tightly. Morgan held his shoulders and they kissed over and over again.

They were closer now than they ever had been and they both felt strange. Intoxicated almost. They stopped and Hunter pressed his forehead against Morgan's and rubbed their noses together causing Morgan to laugh and then Hunter.

" Are you okay?" Hunter whispered

Morgan nodded slightly and leant into Hunter again pressing her lips against his. She kissed him again and again. Short kisses and she pushed his hair back; he was sweating so it stuck up in odd spikes and Morgan new he hated that it did that.

Hunter kissed her again, this time moving slightly so he could take the end of the top and pull it over her head. Morgan pulled away and looked into Hunters eyes then looked down and ran her hands up Hunter's chest and kissed him once. Morgan swallowed and realised she was nervous; she hadn't felt that way with him for a long time.

Hunter caught her and ran his hands down her arms holding her hands. Morgan moved and lifted the shirt over Hunters head with his help.

Morgan lay back and opened her arms to Hunter, her love, her life.

A/N; I'm so pleased with that chapter, I cant tell you because I am so not happy with the last one I wrote. Was it worth the wait do you think?