Made To Last Part 2: The Nietzchean with Wings.
(Jewel gets to meet Telemachus and talk to him while her brother talks to Beka.)
Jewel put on a cloak, wincing as it settled on her back. Kitara settled it better over her back.
"Jules, are you sure that you do not want me to give you something for the pain?" She asked.
"Go and get it. I am going to find my brother," Jewel answered as she walked out the door.
She didn't have to look very far, because as she walked into the courtyard, there they were.
"Rebeka, this is Jewel, my youngest sister," Charlemagne introduced, noticing that Jewel was frozen like a deer in headlights.
Beka walked over to Jewel.
"Hi," Beka said to Jewel.
"Hello," Jewel said quietly.
"May I ask why you are wearing a cloak?" Beka could tell that Jewel was slightly frightened.
"Could you help me take it off? It's a little difficult." Jewel saw that Beka wasn't like others said she was.
Beka helped her remove the cloak, gasping slightly when she saw why Jewel wore it.
"Charlemagne, Kit should be coming with something for the pain, so don't be paranoid," Jewel warned her brother as she stepped away from Beka to stretch.
As Jewel stretched her arms above her head, a great pair of white wings stretched to full span behind her.
"I've never seen a Nietzchean with wings before," Beka said as she and Jewel joined Charlemagne, Elsbett and Telemachus.
"That is because, Matriarch, Jewel here is the only one," Elsbett stated.
Jewel glared at her sister-in-law. Kitara came up to Jewel.
"I found it," She said, handing Jewel the pain meds.
Without even taking her eyes off of Telemachus, She gave herself the pain meds, which she had never done before.
"Oh, and Elsbett?" She said as she and Kit walked away, turned back to the group.
"Yes, Jewel?" Elsbett said sarcastically.
Jewel gave Elsbett what the Ancient Earthlings called the Biker Salute. Beka laughed as Jewel and Kitara walked away.
"She has attitude," Beka chuckled.
"Yes, she does," Charlemagne groaned.
"You should be happy about that, because my brother told me 'That a seemingly bad attitude is a will to live', " Beka smiled.
"But, Rebeka, she's too headstrong. And too dependent on Kitara," Charlemagne semi-whined.
"The girl with her?" Telemachus finally spoke up.
"Yes." Charlemagne sat down, his head hitting the table.
"How long has she depended on Kitara?" Telemachus asked.
"Sinceshe was2. She had a nightmare and woke up screaming bloody murder...She wouldn't stop screaming no matter what her mother did...so her mother had her made bring Kitara in the room. Jewel jumped off her mother's lap and ran to Kit...telling her that she had a scary dream...and Kit has been there for her ever since," Charlemagne answered.
"They are both 19?" Beka sat down next to Charlemagne.
"No. Jewel is, but Kitara is 23." Charlemagne hit his head on the table a few times.
"Doing that is not going to help, Charlemagne," Beka said, "Why do you want her to marry in the first place?"
"Because the Drago-Kasov's attacks and kidnap attempts are getting more frequent and I cannot protect her anymore," He answered.
"What makes you think that Telemachus can?" She mused.
"He was HER choice. YOU would have to ask her why she chose him," He groaned.
Telemachus headed off in the direction that Jewel and Kitara went, finding them in a rose garden.
"Hello," He said as they looked at them.
"Got away from them, did you?" Jewel laughed.
"Yes. Beka wants to know why you chose me...and Charlemagne is saying nothing," He answered, sitting on the bench.
"Well, like I told Charlemagne...and the only reason I am saying it is because the pain meds make me loopy...I'd like a man with who can wrap his arms around me, you have those arms...and I'd like a man whose hair I can run my fingers through, you have that too. And I like your eyes," She answered.
Telemachus smiled at her and she blushed. Charlemagne and Beka watched from a distance.
"I have never seen her so open with anyone," Charlemagne sighed.
"Not even you?" Beka looked at him.
"Not even me."Charlemagne hung his head.
(More To Come...)