Growth before going home
Bella spent the rest of the week with Charlie contemplating why the sight of the mutilated bodies didn't really seem to get a reaction out of her like she knew just the sight of blood did to others. The night before Renee was due to show up Bella once again felt the pull and not having to worry about being quite since Charlie was once again out on patrol. She bolted down the stairs as fast as she could before heading out into the backyard her bare feet crunching the leaves on the ground as she headed for the ring she could see from the house. It was on the edge of the woods and was positioned so she could see it as it had been forming over the last couple of days she could also see the royal siblings waiting inside with Puck. As Bella crossed over the circle she noticed that one of the squirrel guards was there looking whole and well as female and was with a new female she did not recognize in the tree. Bella raised an eyebrow in question before the queen motioned for her to join them on the ground.
"As you can see we are not human so to avoid the questions Puck is going to explain the finer details of what we all are." Bella caught on that she was included in that statement which to her made sense for her differences compared to the others.
"The most common name humans have given us is fae some of the names given other than this one if repeated in our hearing gives free reign to retaliate in retribution if uttered. We have more specific names for ourselves that we use to divide into two races. The Unseelie or dark fae and the Seelie or light fae these races have no genetic coding for who is what race and even twins such as the Queen and King here can be of different race. What makes them different is something in the soul which denotes that this is the gift that race will have along with any other powers that both races have in common. Unseelie have the gift of aura sight and that means they can see the soul of all living things and because they can see the soul they haven't quite found a limit on what they can tell about the soul even if they still haven't found all the answers. Seelie on the other hand have a gift a much simpler to explain but just as complicated to work gift of foresight or the ability to see the past, present, and future. " Puck made sure Bella was still following along before continuing.
"Those are the only big differences between the two races otherwise everything else is the same, magic, elemental control, and immortality included. What I mean by that is we can't be killed, things like removed organs and severed heads grow back and heal over time. Which brings us to the event the other day and I can tell that your handling it like an unseelie already so my king and his sister have decided to fill you in on what was found shortly after he was brought before the courts."
King Oberon spoke next, " When you brought yourself to the attention of the guards and then to my sister attention. We had begone searching for clues over the past year no clues were found on how you could be possible but thanks to the incident we were able to put a few things together. The man you saw had a few more indiscretions to be found other than killing those guards and the over use of his gifts. He was a seelie who had a vision of his son but his son was in the mortal realm his obsession with the vision he saw and the other visions that were to come of it; he decided that only he was having those visions since no one else seemed to bring attention to the visions he was having. He then set about making sure the visions would become true and decided to act on it the way he saw fit. His obsession grew because of the stories about the fae prince who was trapped in the mortal world and none of us have been able to cross into the mortal realm in a long time paid no mind to the new obsession. These rings you meet us in are considered to be part of our realm so we are not able to cross the ring like you. The new story obsession combined with seeing those visions put it into his head some how that it meant the prince was his son as he forced his sight to see more than he should this caused a number of more issues with his head and eight years ago he bribed his partner to have guard duty alone and using his magic and a human woman had babies. His illusion made her think she was with her husband hiking for their honey moon at the time. "
"You see he had just woken from a forced sleep to once again get his obsession under control and if he had bothered to talk about his vision or any others he had at the time then he would have known that the fae prince had been alive but in the mortal realm since we were sealed in ours. So every day after that for the next eight years he waited and a few months ago he noticed a fae signature near a portal it wasn't his but he figured if he increased his pull and kept bribing his guard partner that "his son" would find him. It just happened last week in anticipation for you being in Forks we sent the guards you were familiar with to the closets portal to you like always and since he could sense how close you were being kin to him and well you saw the results."
Bella sat with them for a few more minutes taking in what she was told before being sent off to bed. The next day she was back with her mother but it only took her a few days before she found a portal near the new home Renee moved them too; with only Queen Mab and her guard were present. The queen spent the rest of the week teaching Bella the basics at what age she should be and in what order to expect her powers to start showing. She also filled her in on her missing twin and as her queen talked Bella realized what the broken piece meant and she knew the only way she was going to find him was if she looked too. Within a few days of watching Renee and some of the looks she would receive when she pretended to not be looking she knew who had be responsible for their separation. This was also confirmed when she over heard Renee making one to many comments about not believing she let her younger brothers talk her into keeping one.
This just reinforced her belief to ignore the humans unless they provoked her with their stupidity. Which made sense because Bella had begun developing another fae trait one she had been using to cope with the broken feeling with out really knowing what it was. Seeing as how Books seemed to be the only way Bella was connecting with the really world and one to many comments from Renee as she tried and failed force more doctors on her. Bella snapped and brought to Renee's attention that she knew about her twin and maybe her reactions should be blamed on the forced separation. Bella then proclaimed that if she was forced through one more doctor visit she would see how Charlie felt about not being aloud to know her twin. After that Renee decided to follow Bella's lead and ignored her unless having to inform her of another move.
Shortly after Bella snapped she received a story that would be the trigger for her biggest obsession. Queen Mab took notice of the increase in books and seeing her mood decided to tell her the story of her nephew
Once she made sure she had Bella's full attention, the queen explained, "two thousand years ago a powerful witch fell in love with the fae prince so much so that she convinced her coven that they were betrothed. Since she and every witch in the area thought they were just strong witches and no one had the urge to correct that assumption. The fae prince at the time allowed for the rumors to go around until me met his mate in which he tried to tell the witch to stop saying those things but she wouldn't listen."
"Only catching parts of the conversations between the mates the witch thought that he had created and used an immortality spell on the two of them. Not wanting them to marry and wanting the mate to suffer at the perceived slight the witch set her plan into motion. She and her coven trapped us in what they thought was a prison world not knowing it was our realm. By the time the spell degraded enough for us to appear in our portals that had managed to survive the onslaught a thousand years had passed. It was only a few years ago that it degraded enough for them to start making new portals. It was still no help though and my brother's son and his new mate seemed to be lost with time though we could tell they were still alive we just didn't know how to locate them since a number of spells were being used to block their locations." After hearing the story Bella swore then and there to help find her missing kin and the smile she put on the queen's face for saying so was breathtaking.
Shortly after the queen informed Bella that she would be adopting her into her line and that once her brother could be found he would be adopted too. The queens brother agreed with the adoption knowing that unlike himself she had not found the other half of her soul so the twins would be a good distraction for his sister. This of coarse did not stop the teasing between the two about what would happen when the cousins would meet.
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When Bella turned twelve she awakened her next gift and being able to confirm that her mother had a wolf soul chained in a sleep like state was a big adjustment. This was also the year that Renee decided to see if she could dump her daughter on her brother since she did not wish to continue traveling with her daughter around. Bella had not meet her other family members and besides Charlie and her twin who still could not be found. Was a surprising discovery and even more surprising discovery to her was the fact that her oldest uncle was the mayor of Mystic Falls.
She had listened as Renee made a number of claims to her brother in an attempt to pawn Bella off on him over the past year but his wife would not have it until a few days ago she final gave into her sister in laws demands. Bella's aunt had been watching her niece the entire trip from the airport and the fact that Bella was showing no emotion even though she clearly could hear the adults talking about her was putting the woman on edge even more so than when her husband when he indulged in his temper.
Bella though surprised the adults and herself when she met her baby cousin. Tyler, who upon seeing the girl slightly older than him among the adults realized this was the person they were saying was a member of their family and proceeded to walked up and hugged the girl when his father wouldn't even make eye contacted after the car ride. Looking at her baby cousin she could feel a bond forming that tied them as family which she didn't form with any of the others in their family. She could also see that the sleeping wolf ran among her mothers side of the family and she could tell just by seeing her baby cousin had it along with his father made her want to learn more. Tyler quickly learned Bella did not tolerate people no matter the age, though he did not he was the exception to that rule for now. She much preferred books and with a determination only a child his age could have he set about showing her a few more ways she could get the stupid people as she called them to leave her alone so that when her methods of ignoring them did not work she could still get them to leave her in peace. In return Bella decided that Tyler was going to reach her level of intelligence no matter what her uncle said. This also caused her to drag him into reading the diaries with her in the Lockwood house even if he took longer to get through the books.
The remarks and the violent tendencies her uncle showed just forced her to confirm that only Tyler was family and once she found the Lockwood diary about the werewolf curse her obsession began to change growing into a much bigger tendency. Her developing a need to research stories quickly progressed into wanting to research all supernatural creatures. She eventually told Tyler what she found and even went as far as to introduce him to her queen to at least get confirmation that the bond with Tyler was healing some of the cracks in her soul from Renee's actions concerning separating the twins it was also what brought to Bella's attention that because of the wolf part of his soul that Tyler had he was forming a bond that was also doubling as a guard bond that most fae developed with animals in general.
Mystic falls also became known as the town were Bella found the one human she would humor though she didn't know why. Bella called her duckling any chance she got because the girl, who was Tyler's age, and she found that it turns out to be one of his only friends. The blonde girl had saw Bella scoring the library for books and had taken to following her around every where and even trying to mimic what Bella was doing. Bella figured ignoring her was the best approach but Tyler wanted to know why and they had not expected for her to say "My names Caroline I saw her get Elena to shut up and not get into trouble for it so I figured if I watched her long enough I could learn how to do it to."
Shortly after Renee figured out that she would not be able to pawn the girl off like she had the boy in the hospital so she reluctantly took her back. Bella would keep in contact with her cousin over the phone and when she began to have lessons in controlling her magic and the elements. Tyler managed to make her promise that she wouldn't try and set Renee on fire after she was once again overheard mumbling under her breath about having should have just left both of them at the hospital. Bella's lessons broke up her research into the supernatural and looking for the prince though it was slow going with Renee's need to drift being worse than her Uncle Mason's between cities made it slightly harder. Though Charlie making their time together mandatory in Mystic Falls instead of Forks made it better.