Chapter 19: The Voice Inside My Head Should Leave Me Alone
"Don't do anything stupid Jordan." Chrom orders.
"Wow, that's cold. I'm not one to do something stupid when it's something this important." I say, actually offended. The guards to the Plegian castle opens the large purple and black door to the throne room. Fredrick, Chrom and I walk in.
"Let's just hope this works." He mutters as we walk down the dark, torch lit hallway. A lone figure with long white hair stood at the end of the hallway.
"Let's find out." I whisper as we stop in front of Aversa who had a blank as she looked us over. She stopped on me and looked at my left leg. She smirked then addressed Chrom.
"Greetings, Prince Chrom. Plegia welcomes you." She did a half bow. Chrom and I did the same.
"Thank you, Aversa." He responds. "Will Validar be meeting with us soon?"
"My my, you're a bit hasty, aren't you?" She childed him. Chrom winced.
"I am sorry but with Valm at our borders we don't want to waste time." He clarify's.
"Of course, but I must apologize he will not be meeting with you today. He had something come up last minute. Myself and our Heirophant will be handling the duty's today." She says. I am now surprised and I hope it doesn't show. This must be part of Grima's game. Robin's not here so I guess she is not having Validar here. The side door opens and Grima Robin struts to us, hood down and black hair now turned blonde. She looked so much like Robin that I thought it was her for a second. She then slid into place by Aversa and smiled at us. Robin doesn't have sharp canine teeth like that.
"Shall we begin?" She asks us. Chrom slowly nods, staring at her. I briefly forgot that he was married to her. "Alrighty then…" She pulls out a scroll and unwinds it. "…I have a letter from king Validar. He says that Plegia will offer you 800 warships and 200 transports along with a funding some of the campaign. We need to save some gold for our own economy so we can't fund the whole campaign. He hopes you can understand. We will have the ships sent up to Port Ferox in two weeks. Is this satisfactory?" While I wasn't taken back Chrom and Fredrick were both shocked.
"Th-that is more than generous. Why are you offering most of your assets to our campaign?" Fredrick asks. Grima smiled and rolled up the scroll and smiled.
"I just want to make sure that my precious baby brother is safe." She walked over to me and pinched my cheeks. I instinctually shoved her hand off. I try to rub the mild heat on my I realize what she said. Oh boy… humanization. This can't be good.
Fredrick took it in stride. "Well no matter what the reason is, the Haildom of Ylisse appreciates his majesty's generosity." He says and bows. Chrom takes his eyes of Grima and does the same. I eye Grima with a skeptic mind set. She eyes me and sneers. I grit my teeth and grunt.
"My my, is that some tension I see between you two?" Aversa asks us.
"It's nothing." I grit out. "Now excuse us, we have a war to plan." I turn on a heel and start walking out.
"Stay safe brother. I want to make sure that my niece and nephew have their father alive after it." I stop and stare at the door. That bitch, bring my kids into this like this. I try to turn around but Fredrick grabs my arm and pulls me out the door. I take a look behind me and faintly see Grima laughing as Aversa shakes her head and walks back to the throne room. The soldiers hold the doors open and we walk out. Fredrick let's go of my arm and we walk in silence the rest of the way out of the castle.
I am fuming. She dares talk about my children. She won't get near my babies. Other soldiers hold open the main door and we walk out to the cold day. I cross my arms and rub them as we take a right towards the caravan. Chrom finally decides to speak.
"I think that went pretty well." Fredrick and I shoot him a look of really. He shrugged. "Just saying, we have the ships, and some funds. We accomplished what we came here for."
"We now have more questions than answers though." I tell him. "Like why Validar wasn't there? Why they didn't fund the whole campaign like in the real storyline? Why Grima called me her brother? She said she hated me last time we talked. And most of all, what the hell they are planning?"
"All of those questions will be answered in time." Fredrick says. "We have to be prepared for what happens next." We both nod. "But Jordan, we must learn to control your emotions. We can't have them effecting other events such as this in the future."
"Alright. Chill, that was one time. Plus, she mentioned my children." I argue. He scolds me.
"If you get worked up every time someone mentions your children, people will use that against you." He says.
"It would help if you weren't right all the damn time." I mutter. Chrom laughs and we walk the rest of the way to the caravan.
"Hold on, to me as we go, As we roll down this unfamiliar road…" I hum along to Phillip Phillips that is playing on my speaker with Olivia resting her head on my shoulder around the campfire Fredrick made as we rested in the Carron Isle canyon. My head filled with thoughts about what had happened today. Robin was furious. Grima had no right to bring me up in the meeting but know they know my weakness. And if Grima hates me like she says she does then it won't be hard to exploit. Olivia was frightened. She wanted to head back to Yisstol immediately. I would be lying if I said I didn't want to go back but we have to be away in order to beat Grima. I keep clinging onto the fact that we will see our twin's adult versions soon. I sigh and realize that my arms have positioned themselves like I would be holding one of them. I wipe my face and pull Olivia closer.
"…Just know you're not alone, 'Cause I'm going to make this place your home…" We sit in silence as the Shepherds were relaxing with us as well. Cherche was grooming Minerva and answering questions by Nowi and Gregor about the wyvern. It was still crazy to see a badass real dragon with my own eyes. She was huge, a wingspan longer than the largest basketball player, and with a solid build. Geez I want a dragon now.
'How about a fell Dragon?' I violently pop up and scare Olivia. I scan around and see no Grima. 'Of course, you don't idiot. I'm in your mind.' Oh shit. 'Indeed, oh shit.'
"Jordan, are you alright?" Olivia asks. She looks worried.
'The smart thing would be to tell her that I'm in your head.'
"Grima's talking to me in my head."
'Tell her I said hi.'
"R-really?!" She stands up and looks me in the eyes.
"She says hi." I mutter.
'Thank you!'
"Wh-what is she doing?" Olivia asks.
"I don't know. But I'm going to find out." I say. I lean down and kiss her on the head. "I'll be right back. I love you my violet." I say and smile when she blushes.
"N-not in public!" She whispers. She then kisses me. "I love you too my hero." She says. I then blush and walk into the woods.
'That was cute. My violet and my hero…' She lets out a squeal. '…so cute.'
"Okay. What then hell do you want?" I shout when I am a safe distance from the camp.
'What, I can't say hi?'
"You can't if you're not here in person."
'Well teleporting takes effort and I'm feeling lazy today so can't talk face to face but I'm just letting you know I will be here with you for a while.'
"Like this, in my head."
"Yep."
"Sweet Naga this'll be a nightmare." Remembering the last time she talked to me in Ferox.
'Nah those are hard to conjure up and you have to think of the scenario and it's just a lot of work. And like I said, I'm feeling lazy.'
"I-I don't care, just get out of my head!"
'Nope.'
"Damnit all."
'I'm doing that later so no thanks.' I start thinking, does she have access to my memories or our plan to defeat her.
'No and no. But I have access to anything past this point so you might want to plan accordingly.' Shit, this isn't good. 'What are you talking about, it's great for me.'
"For me, you stupid dragon."
'Yea it kind of sucks for you.' Well now Robin and Chrom will have to plan everything by their lonesome because I can't join anymore. Shit I have to tell them I have a little friend living in my head. 'That wording will get you locked up in the crazy house, so I would use different terms.' Die in a fire Grima. 'Rude, I'm just being helpful.' I shrug her off and sit down against a tree. This was an incredibly smart play by Grima, but I'm wondering if it's just me. 'Yes. But I could do the other vessel as well but she actually can fight it off.' You calling me weak? 'Not really but yea.' Asshole. 'Oh yea. That I am. You might want to hurry the Risen should be on their way right… about…' A horn went off from camp. 'now. Run little brother run.'
Minus wanting to punch myself in the face 'won't hurt me' I ignore the voice and run back to camp. I see Chrom, and Robin rushing out of the woods to my right. I see the campfire and the tents.
"Where is she?" I tell myself as I search the camp for Olivia. Weapons or wife? Our tent is right there but I still don't see her. 'Honestly, weapons would be the smarter choice. Olivia has great evasion skills and she might be armed herself, and if she's not you can grab an extra one and take it to her.'
"Stop being logical." I say as I rush in the tent and bump into someone."
"Oww." Olivia says. "What the… Jordan there you are!" She exclaims as she rubs her head.
"You alright?" I ask. She nods and holds out my belt of knives and my mini wrist bow. I grab the wrist bow and fasten it on my left wrist. I pull the belt around my waist and pull a knife out. I look back at her. She twirls her sword and sheathes it. She catches my eyes and blushes. I smirk and motion to the door. "Shall we?" I ask.
"I… I guess." She says and we both walk out… into a flock of crows. "Ahh! Whats with these birds?" She screams at me. I know that it is the white haired, bloody, pun loving, dark mage himself, Henry master of cawstatsrophy himself. See what I did there?
"Who's there?! Show yourself! Gods' breath, I can't see anything through all these damned birds! Shoo! Scat! Away with you!" Chrom shouts and they disperse to reveal a shortish man with a smile and closed eyes. He pushes his white hair out of the way and laughs.
"What's wrong? CAW-strophobic? Nya ha ha! Oh, I slay me!" He says and I can't help but chuckle.
"Not if these Risen do it first! This is no time for japes! Hide yourself, boy!" Chrom exclaimes.
"You know, I thought you were all right... Turns out you're all FRIGHT! Nya ha ha! I'd wish you good luck killing these monsters, buuuuuut... They're ALREADY DEAD!" He laughs again.
"We know that!" I shout from the peanut gallery. He ignores me and keeps talking to Chrom.
The ravens wanted me to give you a message. "Caaw... C-caw-caw." Roughly translated, it means... Hmm, now what was the human word for that again? ...Traipse? ...Tripe? Oh, TRAPPED! Right! ...They say you're trapped." He says motioning to the Risen on the walls of the canyon.
"Thank you, Capitan obvious." Robin deadpans as she joins by Chrom's side. "You're Henry correct?" Chrom makes an 'O' with his mouth at his realization. Henry stutters.
"Ye-yea I'm Henry. I'm here to join you're Caw's, nya ha ha…"
'I hate bird puns.'
"… I know magic and I love killing so why not have me?"
"You're wearing Plegian robes." Chrom points out. Henry then points at Robin.
"So is the blonde one besides you but you must not think she's different because you Crows to marry her nya ha ha…"
"That's reaching there, bud." I say and he finally turns to me.
"Like you could do any better." He said. Was that a challenge. 'Please don't.' Oh it's on. 'Damnit.'
"I'll show you one day but right now we got risen and they are waiting for a good slaughtering and I know you do that well. You put the laughter in slaughter Henry." He blinks a couple times then laughs his ass off.
"That's one imma use for a while. I like you buddy." He tells me. Buddy? We're around the same age. 'Is your ego hurt?' Shut up Grima.
"Jordan is right. Henry you'll be paired with Cherche since she doesn't have a partner. Find the woman with pink hair…" He points to Olivia and I scowl "… and a wyvern." His arm falls to his side.
"Yes-sir-e Mrs. Tactician. I've been Dying for some action recently nya ha ha!" He then rushes off and Chrom grunts in annoyance.
"Another crazy Plegian mage to our ranks, fantastic." He says. Robin turns her head in a creepy way towards him.
"Am I crazy darling?" She says with some fake sweetness. I chuckle and pull Olivia behind me as we start running towards the fighting.
"Ready sweetie?" I ask her as I let go of her hand.
"R-ready." She says nervously.
"We're fighting risen today. Not people. This should be easier. Let's go." I say as we meet Gaius and Cordelia at a path up the canyon walls. Gaius was aiming his bow while on the back of Cordelia's Pegasus and Cordelia was trying to keep her steady. I notice a sniper taking aim at them and a fighter rushing us. "Olivia, can you take the fighter?" I ask as I aim the minibow on my wrist.
"Yes." She says and rushes off. I snap my fingers and point at the fighter. Ridley then went rushing besides me and I fire at the sniper. It made him miss it's shot. It looked at me and aimed. I started running serpentine towards him. It fired in the middle as I was going middle from the left. I almost dodged but I got nicked in the arm. I take out a knife and throw it right into the sniper's chest. It staggers back but doesn't go down. With him not loading up another arrow I rush it and jam another knife into its chest. It falls down and evaporates into smoke. I reach down and pick up my knives. I flip the one in my left hand but wince as I remember my arm.
It looks like Olivia dealt with the fighter soundly. There was not many left now. Chrom and Robin were b-lining for the leader. Cordelia speared an archer and Gaius sliced down another fighter. On our side there was an archer and solider left. I catch Olivia's eye and motion towards the archer. She nods and we run that way. It fires off an arrow. It misses the both of us and I snap my fingers. Ridley burst forward and mauls it. She hops off and Olivia is right next to it and stabs it through the chest. It dissolved in purple smoke.
"Nice." I tell her as I sheathe my knives. I notice that there are no more risen left as Chrom guts the leader down. Shit Lucina comes tonight. 'Oh fan-fucking-tastic. They'll join the all mighty, righteous cause of killing her mother. That's great.' Well what about Morgan huh? Didn't you want to find him. 'Because I think he can be swayed to my side. But we'll find out won't we.' "Olivia, let's make our way to the bridge." I tell her. "You'll want to see this."
"O-okay." She stutters out. I offer her my hand and she take's it. "Is Gr-grima still talking to you?"
"Yep." I sigh out. "She will be watching what we do from now on so I can't join any more meetings and tactic thingy's from now on." Olivia gasped.
"Does she know our plan to defeat her?" She asks. 'Pfft, I wish.'
"No, she can't see my past or my memories just what I see." 'I'll look away when you two are doing the down and dirty.' I blush at that.
"What'd she say?" She asks.
"N-nothing!" I stutter out. She stares at me with a curious look then shrugs and turns away. 'Nice save there.' Bite me. 'No.' Chrom and Robin were talking on the bridge and Fredrick is galloping down the pathway to the rest of the camp. Unexpectedly, or exactly as expected, a risen spawned in between Chrom and Robin and went for the kill against Chrom.
"Father no!" A female voice shouts and Lucina pops out of the bushes and slices it down. Chrom catches his breath and Robin does the same. Lucina stands up straight and looks at him. "Thank the gods your safe." She says with a smile. Chrom then closes his eyes and opens them with a smile on his face.
"I could say the same thing for you Lucina." He tells her and grasps her shoulders. She stiffens then relaxes. Robin walks around the two of them and places a hand on Chrom's shoulder.
"We could say the same sweetie." Robin then tears up. "It's so good to see you." No longer able to hold herself Lucina throws herself into their arms crying.
"I've missed you so much father, mother." She sobs out.
"You're here now, you're here now." Robin says. Chrom put his arms around the both of them and hugs them close. I hear sniff from my left and I look down to see Olivia sniffling and crying too. I roll my eyes but I should ask her what's wrong at least. 'Oh for the love of-this is so sickeningly sweet. It makes me want to throw up. Comfort your wife you idiot.'
"You alright babe?" I ask her. She wipes her eyes but nods.
"It's so sweet and happy. I-I just can't wait for our turn." She says. I smile and kiss the top of her head.
"I can't wait either." I say.
"Gawds, you're not the only one with parents here Lucy. Geez."
"Quiet Sev. The young heroic princess is finally meeting her parents and it's heroic and beautiful."
"When was hugging your parents considered heroic?"
"This is not the first encounter she has had with her parents in this timeline. She stayed with them for a serviceable amount of time during the Plegia-Ylisse war a cou-"
"We get it Laurent."
"Umm, can we go find our parents?"
"D-do we have to?"
Well this was different. Severa, Cynthia, Kjelle, Laurent, Nah, Yarne, and Noire were all here. Lucina sheepishly smiled.
"That's what I was doing for the past couple years. Trying to find the others and Morgan." She says scratching her cheek.
"Well tell them that they can stop hiding in bushes." Robin said loudly. Cynthia let out a squeak and hopped up. She was around Sumia's height and had Fredrick's hair and eyes. She gave them a smile.
"Hi aunt Robin and uncle Chrom." She says. Kjelle and Laurent stand up next. Laurent was surprisingly six feet tall which was taller than both his parents but everything else was like his mother, except his sandy blond hair. Kjelle had her armor off and was actually pretty thin. She had Stahl's dark green hair but everything else was Sully's features. She was a head shorter than Laurent but taller than Cynthia.
"Greetings." Laurent states while bowing. Kjelle rolls her eyes. Noire and Yarne stand up next. Noire was very frail and scarily thin. She held onto the bow like it's going to save her life and her eyes shifted around looking around. She had Virion's gray-blue hair but Tharja's bo-everything else. Yarne was tall, as tall as Fredrick but he slouched back so he lost around five inches. His fur was a really dark brown and, in some areas, straight black. He was scanning the area for anything but jumped when Severa and Nah stood up and a twig snapped.
"Ahh!" He shrieked and hid behind a tree. Noire in turn got scared but then shifted into her Mr. Hyde persona.
"Ahhhhhh! YOU DARE SCARE ME? OVER A TWIG SNAPPING? YOU COWARD! GET BACK HERE YOU!" She shouts. Severa put a hand on her shoulder and she went back to being timid. "I-I'm sorry."
"You need to learn to chill sister." Severa says. She looks a lot better than the last time I saw her. Her arm looked good, even if her sleeve was rolled up and white gauze was around the elbow area. She had her orange hair cover her left ear as that was the one with the piece missing from it and she had a faint scar across her left cheek. Nah was the shortest out of all of them and maybe in the entire camp. Ricken should be happy. She had her rust red hair into braids that ran down the sides of her face and she looked like she was twelve. Why the hell did I ever ship Morgan with her? Because it's damn cute that's why. 'We are not shipping my son with anyone brother. He's too young." If he made it back he should be around sixteen so that's not that old. I still don't like it.' You're just over protective. 'So what?'
"Well, there's a lot of you." Chrom says looking at each one of them. Robin was doing the same but she was whispering to Lucina.
"Think you can make room your highness?" Nah asks him.
"You think he wouldn't?" I say and all eyes turn to me and Olivia.
"Uncle Jordan!" Cynthia shrieks and starts running towards me. She jumps and tackles me to the ground.
"Agh." Another body lands on me and Cynthia. Then another one. Another one. I raise my head to see Nah, Yarne, and Noire on top of me along with Cynthia. "H-hi there." I wheeze out. Robin was now laughing and Lucina is shaking her head. Olivia squatted down besides the dog pile and giggled.
"Seems like you have some fans Jordan." She says in between giggles.
"Apparently." I wheeze out. Now I'm trying to push the kids off of me. Noire gets up first, then Yarne. Back on earth I couldn't have done this but here I stand up with two girls hanging on to me. Once I stand they get off. I rub both of their heads. "Hi girls." Cynthia Giggles and Nah pushes my hand of and flattens her hair.
"Hi uncle." Cynthia squeals out then hugs me again. "It's good to see you again."
"You too…wait." I haven't met her yet. "Nice to meet you Cynthia." I lean down to whisper in her ear. "Did you mean to tackle me?"
"I tripped." She admits and I laugh.
"Of course you did." I look to the other three who joined the dog pile. "It's nice to finally meet you Nah, Yarne and Noire." Nah smiled, Yarne gave a toothy grin and Noire blushed and looked away. Oh sweet Naga no. 'Yes!' I ignore the voice in my head 'Asshole.' and catch Laurent, Severa and Kjelle staring at me. I pull my arm out of Cynthia's grasp and wave. Severa looks away with a huff, Kjelle gives a lazy wave and Laurent bows. I meet Robin's eyes and smile. "I think we need to introduce the children to their parents."
"We are not children!" Severa exclaims. Then she looks at Cynthia. "Ok maybe most of us aren't children." Robin and I ignore her.
"I think that is a wonderful idea." She says. Chrom nods and turns towards the packed-up camp. He motions for Lucina to follow and they start walking down the pathway. The children looked around at each other like saying what now. "You can follow him if you want." All seven of them did just that. Some, like Cynthia, ran after the father daughter duo and some, like Noire, stayed back a little before ultimately following. Robin tailed in after them. I sigh and look around hoping that maybe, just maybe my kids would be there, but if Gerome, Brady, and Owain weren't here, then neither would Inigo and Evelyn.
"They're not here?" Olivia asks from my side.
"No. Lucina got all the children from this continent besides Morgan. When we reach Valm you and I are going kid hunting…" 'That sounds gross.' "…you know what I mean."
"I-I do." We stand in quiet as I watch the party reach the tents and excited emotions on display for the whole camp to see. I smile and can't wait for my day. For my kids to be here.
"We might want to start packing up our stuff or we'll be left behind." I say.
"Robin wouldn't allow that." Olivia states.
"You want to find out?" I ask. She grabs my hand and pulls me with her as she starts walking to the camp.
"Not really." She says. Once we reach camp we hear laughs, and sobs. Happy tears. 'Blegh, happiness.' Shut up Grima. We walk passed Stahl, Sully and Kjelle and I slow down to hear what they are talking about.
"…So is that a challenge?" Sully asks Kjelle.
"You bet it is!" She counters.
"Alright then, but if you lose I'm going extra hard on you in training."
"Sounds like a win-win scenario for me. I can take your training any day."
"Har, I highly doubt that little miss."
"Watch me, I'll cook something for father and he won't through up like with your cooking."
"You don't even know what he likes." I now notice that Stahl is getting more and more pale as the conversation goes on. Olivia and I laugh and walk past the family. We next pass Gregor, Nah and Nowi. Gregor has both girls in his arms while letting out a boisterous laugh.
"This is best day in Gregor's life! To find out he has a beautiful daughter, Gregor might shed a tear or two!" He exclaims. Nah is blushing but smiling all the same and Nowi is enjoying every second of this.
"We'll have so much fun together Nah! I have a load of games we will play!" She shouts and throws her hands up in the air. We walk past them and stumble upon Cynthia, Fredrick and Sumia. Cynthia is in the middle of telling a story about Sumia and the woman is taken back by it.
"That doesn't sound like me at all." Sumia finally says.
"Bu-but it has to be!" Cynthia exclaimed bewildered. "You're a hero! You and daddy!"
"And she is a hero." Fredrick says. "But not in the way you have heard. There are more to heroics than slaying enemies and saving the day." Cynthia's eyes light up.
"Really?! Can you teach me?!" She asks.
I smile and we continue our walking through the camp. Next up is Vaike, Laurent and Miriel. Laurent and Miriel are talking about something and Vaike is trying to not fall asleep. He gets up and walks over to the mess tent and comes back with three tankers filled with something. He places one in front of his son and places another one in front of his wife. Laurent thanked him and Miriel kisses Vaike on the cheek. Laurent takes a drink and continues talking with his mother. A couple seconds later he lets out an amazingly large burp. Miriel looks appalled while Vaike is amazed. Laurent pulled his hat down so his eyes aren't showing, but his blush is. Vaike then starts laughing and slaps his son on the shoulder roughly.
Olivia and I walk away before I burst out laughing. Olivia swats me on the shoulder but can't stop giggling. Virion, Noire, and Tharja are in front of the tent. Noire is hiding behind Virion as those two talk out something. Tharja then says something and Noire peeks her head out. Tharja strokes her daughter's cheek and smiled, not in a creepy way but actually smiled. Virion then roped an arm around Noire and pulled her to his side. Noire squeaks but then leans into his embrace. Virion pulls Tharja closer as well and Kisses the both of them on the head. 'That was surprisingly sweet. I don't know what I expected.' Same.
We then walked past Panne, Yarne and Lon'qu. Panne was scolding Yarne over something as Lon'qu just watched. Panne then sighs and takes her sons face in her hands. She looks over to Lon'qu who walks over besides them and place a hand on both of their shoulders. He says something and Yarne hugs him, he stiffens for a moment before hugging him back. After a little bit, Lon'qu holds out a hand towards Panne and she accepts. They hug as a family now.
We finally reach our tent which was right next to Gaius and Cordelia's tent. I forgot my speaker was playing and Paradise by Coldplay was on. Fitting. 'It really is.' Go away. 'Can't.' Damn you. 'No damn you.' I go over, pick the speaker up and turn it down. I hear voices as soon as I turn it down.
"You knew about her the whole time?" Shit. Cordelia is angry.
"Yes, I did." Gaius answered slowly.
"And you didn't tell me!" She exclaimed.
"Yes. I wasn't even supposed to know, but I snuck in to the medical ward looking for something and I saw Severa. She had my hair color and I felt something for her and I couldn't let that go. Blazer and Bubbles were pretty pissed if that helps."
"NO! It really doesn't!" She shouted. 'That's not good.' "You knew that we had a daughter the whole time and didn't tell me. You probably don't even want me, you only staye-" Her words were cut off with something muffled. My interest was piqued and I walked over to the shouting. I notice Olivia and Severa peeking around a tent and Olivia had an arm around Severa's shoulder. I place my hand on the girl's shoulder. She jumped and looked up, I noticed that she had some tears in her eyes. I smile at her, a soft smile and look out at her parents. They just separated from a kiss. Gaius had a sad expression and Cordelia had tears in her eyes.
"I never knew who the mother was. All I knew is that she looked familiar. During those two years I fell in love with you and after we were married I knew you were her mother. You have the same eyes. The same beautiful ruby colored eyes. Cordelia…" He gently took her face in his hands "… I didn't fall in love with you because you were the mother of my child. I fell in love you because I wanted you to be my wife. I had doubts if I chose correctly, but when I saw you walk up the aisle I said damn the future. Because baby…" he leaned in and kissed her again "… you're the sweetest thing in my life and…" he smirked "…I just can't let that go."
Cordelia was staring at him with awe. She then started giggling which turned into full blown laughter. "Only you could make something so romantic turn corny in the span of seconds." Gaius looked hurt.
"Cut me slack, I'm trying here." He says. Cordelia continued to giggle. She then motioned with her finger at us to come forward. I almost started walking when Olivia held me back and only Severa walked towards them.
"I'm sorry you had to see that sweetie." Cordelia said as Severa reached them. She wasn't looking up. Cordelia took her by the shoulders. "Please look at me Severa."
"We should leave." I whisper to Olivia.
"Why? We intruded on their fight why not this as well?" She answers. I open my mouth and think of nothing. I close my mouth and hum an alright.
"Did yo-you really think that, that's the only reason daddy married you?" Severa finally speaks.
"F-for a little while yes." Cordelia admits.
"Well you're wrong." Severa says and she looks her mother in the eye.
"Why is that?"
"Don't make me say it."
"Say what?"
"You're perfect!" Severa shouts. "That's why he married you. There. Happy?" Cordelia gasps but then she smiles and pulls her into a hug.
"You're so sweet Severa." She coos over her as Severa is starting to blush.
"No need to be so touchy gawds." Gaius smiles and wraps his arms around the both of them.
"I love you both." He says.
"I love you too daddy/honey." Severa and Cordelia say at the same time. Gaius winks our direction before kissing the both of them on the head. I smile and lightly pull Olivia back to our tent. I sigh and now I feel jealousy and wanting. Can't those two just be here right now.
"Inigo, please stop flirting with the barmaid. You can't even drink yet." A female voice tells her brother.
"In Valm I can dear sister." He says and turns just in time to be slapped by the barmaid. He falls off his stool and Evelyn squats down besides him.
"Hmm… if you only listened to me." The girl says offering him a hand.
"Shut up Evelyn." Inigo spits out, but still taking the hand. She helps him up and brushes of his shoulders.
"She wasn't even the prettiest girl you flirted with today." She says.
"Well since I can't flirt with my sister, so I won't ever flirt with the prettiest girl I've seen today then." He says with a smirk. Evelyn blushed and slugged him on the shoulder.
"That's weird and kind at the same time." She says.
"Damn that hurt. You hit like a truck."
"Stop using dads saying in public. No one knows what that is and I'm pretty sure that you don't know what that is either."
"He said it was a type of ca-" Evelyn put a hand over his mouth.
"Please shut up. Can you do that?" Inigo nodded. "Okay…" she takes her hand of his mouth "…we need to get to Valm harbor soon and we need to plan our trip there. Let me find my bag…" She looks around. "Inigo…" She slowly turns to him "…where is my bag?" Inigo paled and ran a hand through his hair.
"Whelp…that's not good."
AN: So a lot has happened in the last couple weeks. School got ramped up to an 11 on a scale of 1-10 and work went to a twelve. I turned 19 on May 27th so I went on a little trip to see my family. Finals are coming up soon so I need to do a lot of studying and writing. I'm sorry if the last chapters haven't been that good because I have to focus on school in order to keep that GPA up. The next chapter will be hopefully better when I can focus on it more. Now onto the story. 8 of the 14 children are here. YAY! and i have ideas for their ships but if you want a certain child ship, leave a review and I'll consider it. We get Morgan next chapter and that chapter will be fun. We also got our first glimpse of Inigo and Evelyn at the tail end of this one. I hope that Inigo is in character and that you like their relationship. And if you find that paying a complement like that to your sister is weird... why? It's sweet. Any way, next chapter is Morgan and some seafaring shenanigans. See you people then. -3008
Reviews:
Guest N(CH.18): All of the 2nd gen boys were mama's boys in my opinion, even Gerome. And every parent tries with there kids, or at least I hope. See you next time friend.
Scorin(CH.6,12,18): Thank you for the reviews. I'm glad that i got some criticism and support in the same ones. Having Olivia join early just sort of happened and I just went with it. Chapter 12 was one of my favorites so far. It seemed to flow nicely and have believable reactions from all party's involved. But trust me when I say that The story will go lower. I have it all planned out...mostly. The relationships will be toyed with and it's starting right now with Grima inside his head. We all know that that can't be good. I'm glad you liked Chapter 18, while i believe that it wasn't the best start it was alright. I'm starting to realize that writing fight scenes isn't my favorite, i like watching and directing them for film but in books, to me they can be great but most are meh. The story is what matters the most to me. I like the Guardians of the Galaxy you have in the review and i think that Henry would work as Groot in all honesty. Miriel, I think, works really well as Mantis from the movie.
Now onto your questions. The book was the Six Of Crows and it's super good. Check it out if you like fantasy and heist books. His third wish will be reveled later on, but not for a long time. He did use it though. Evelyn is going to be a Hunter then it master seals into a Huntress. Huntsman focus on Defense and Skill while Huntresses focus on Attack and Speed. It's gender specific. Second gen ships are a definite yes. Any ideas, shoot me a Review and i'll consider it like I said in my authors note.
Lastly, I would love for you to be my Beta once you have an account. I need one badly because I don't really have a lot of time on my hands. I would appreciate it.
See you next review.
