A/n: Sorry it takes me so long to update but I don't have the internet in my new apartment… well I do but my laptop has broke… again, so I can only use the net at mum's… it's like torture!
Please r+r

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I had another one of those dreams again last night, oh goddess help protect me and the one's I love. The dream goes the same every night, I'm in a dark room tied to a large marble table and all over the walls I see red sigils and ancient runes they glisten at me disappearing then reappearing again, almost as if they themselves were mocking me, mocking my powerlessness. The setting seemed highly familiar, like back from a time I long forgot and never want to go back to. Then I hear a familiar laughter and I know it's the laugh from my father, the father I had killed. His death will always on my conscience, but I knew many others would die if I didn't sacrifice my own father, and it was too late for my mother. I turn my head to one side and my mother's dead body is on the ground, tears stream down my cheek. Then Ciaran stands above her with a solemn expression on his face he couches beside my mother and dips his finger into her blood, he regains his posture and walks over to me on the table and uses her blood to write on my forehead, without seeing I knew he was drawing the Rune, Yr, for death. In many cases it doesn't mean death but I knew that was the purpose Ciaran was using it for, what else would he use it for? "Like mother, like daughter" he mutters, then his fist went through my chest and I scream, he rips out my still beating heart. "How does it feel?" he asks me. That's where I usually wake up.
Oh Goddess I know something terrible is coming my way, I just know it, but surely it cannot be Ciaran, he is dead. Then that annoying witchy voice inside me tells me that nothing is ever as straightforward as they may seem. I fear telling Hunter, but I know I must, for now it shall be my secret. Until I know more.

- Morgan Riordan

Hunter walked into Herb's for Healing and headed over towards Morgan who was sat at the counter writing down their next batch of orders, he'd recently seen a change in his love, she'd been a bit tense and jumpy, not at all herself, he knew something was wrong, but they had a trust, if something was wrong, Morgan would tell him, wouldn't she?

"Morning Love," He greeted her with a quick kiss on the cheek, "Morning" she smiled briefly "Everything okay?" He asked "I didn't feel you leave this morning"

"Hmm?" Morgan looked up from her order pad, "I'm sorry, what?"

Hunter sighed, "What's the matter?"

"Nothing, just not feeling myself at the minute, nothing to worry about" She said quickly, He was about to ask more until Alwyn breezed through the door.

"Morning boys and girls" she said chirpily, Morgan rolled her eyes, she wondered if she was the only person in the world who wasn't unnaturally happy in the morning

"How was your first week at school?" Morgan asked

"Definitely found it different from schools in Britain, don't have to wear a stupid uniform with a tartan skirt for one thing, but I'm annoyed because in England, I've finished high school, but here I've got to stay on till I'm 18… that sucks!"

"Yeah, sucks to be American" Morgan agreed, she tried to imagine living her whole life here, she secretly missed it back in Ireland, even Scotland was better than here, but she had a life here now, a purpose, a new family.

"How's things with you and my big brother?" Morgan queried

Alwyn had been living with them for two weeks now and to Hunter's dismay, she shared a room with Killian, Morgan had talked him round, "Remember what's she's had to grow up with, she's older than her years, I'm sure she's responsible enough to share a room with my big brother, he'll look after her" is what she had told him

"Wonderful" Alwyn had smiled

Hunter couldn't help but smile, he was finally able to see Alwyn as she should have been when she were younger, she was brought up on a strict schedule of studying the craft with their uncle Beck she blew off friends and parties to study, and not only that their parents had disappeared when they were young children, so they and their other brother who had died, victim to the dark forces that controlled him, had to grow up fast. Now she was settling down somewhere and finally enjoying her life, she deserved some happiness.

"How's things with my big brother?" Alwyn grinned and wiggled her eyebrows

Morgan smiled but Hunter knew there was something hidden behind it, and he wanted to know what was bugging her.

"Anyways, Alisa and Mary K. are meeting me here in a couple of minutes we're going to the cinema to catch a chick flick."

"Sounds fun" Morgan smiled

"Do you have enough money?" Hunter asked her

"Well..." Alwyn began, fluttering her eyelashes

Rolling his eyes, understanding what she meant, Hunter pulled out his wallet and handed her a twenty-dollar bill

"I love you!" Alwyn said putting on a fake baby voice

Morgan laughed, Hunter glared at her jokingly and Morgan stuck out her tongue.

The bell above the door jangled, the three of them looked toward the door as Alisa and Mary K. walked in

Morgan smiled at Mary K. who smiled broadly back at her, Morgan recalled meeting her once or twice, obviously she had been quite rude to her at the time because it was before her transition but thinking about it, she shared a weird bond with this girl, like she was meant to protect her, almost like a little sister. She cast out her senses without thinking about it and picked up a faint sign of distress coming from her, it was then she noticed a small black ring around her eye, a bruise. Who was mistreating her? She wondered

"Alisa, would you be able to take me straight home after the movie?" Mary K. asked quietly

"Sure, why?"

"Um… Bakker called before I left he wants to talk to me about something"

Morgan frowned, "Okay then, lets go" Alisa said, "You coming Alwyn?"

"She'll be there in a sec" Morgan called as they headed out the door, Morgan gently pulled Alwyn back by her arm, "Alwyn, who is this Bakker Mary K. is seeing? Is it the same Bakker that's in my year? Bakker Blackburn?" Alwyn nodded, "They've been going out about a year or something, you can tell Bakker is using her for one thing and poor M.K. is too scared to back out" "Seems like he's doing more than that" Morgan sighed shaking her head, that poor girl, she thought "Doesn't her big sister know?" Morgan asked remembering she had an elder sister who was adopted and she was in some of her classes, "Nikki Rowlands?"

"Yeah, but Nikki just doesn't seem to care, she's vein, a bitch and frankly looks down on everyone else" "I have noticed that" Morgan rolled her eyes.

"Well catch ya guys later" Alwyn said putting on a fake American accent, the jangle above the door signalled her exit as the door clicked behind her.

Hunter turned to Morgan, "Tell me what's going on?" he asked pointedly

"Well, I think that Bakker is…" "No!" Hunter cut her off, "That's not what I'm talking about it and you know it. Please don't hide things from me, we don't hide things from each other, You're my muirn beatha dans, I need to know your okay"

"Okay" Morgan sighed, she filled him about her nightmares, "Do you think it means something?" she asked afterwards

"You're a prophet, all your dreams mean something or tell us something or show us something," "What? Giant pink bunnies are going to come barging through the town" Morgan asked trying to lighten the topic "You know that's not what I mean" Hunter replied irked, "Stop trying to change the subject" "Sorry, I know it means something and I know I should have told you sooner," Morgan said trying to redeem herself, "Yes you should have" Hunter said, there was a tone in his voice that made Morgan realise she was in the dog house… again. "I just wanted to wait until I could get more information from the dreams, I didn't want to panic anybody" she argued, "I don't care Morgan" Hunter practically yelled, "You should have bloody well told me at least, you need to get out of the habit of keeping things from me, even if you think it's for my protection, I can handle it" Morgan nodded, and sunk back onto her stool behind the glass counter, "I know you can, I'm really sorry, really"

"I know, I'm sorry too, I'm just a little… wound up, this is big Morgan, something bad could happen soon and I needed to know, I need to prepare myself for the worst. Now come here and give me a hug" the corner of Morgan's mouth raised into a little smile as she stood to give her love a hug and a kiss.

"Now these runes and sigils you saw. What were they?" Hunter asked braking their moment, Morgan rolled her eyes for like the 5th time that morning, Always business as usual