Gordon gets back and runs right into Stella's arms with the messages for everyone in his notebook.

"You came back..." she whispered snuggling into his shirt and purring a bit as he hugged her.

"I have some messages from the families to give to the others," he said smiling.

Pulling away from him, Stella looked over the garden and did a dragon call of a Snow Fury getting everyone's attention.

Within minutes everyone who was still there was before the two of them.

"I have messages from you loved ones" Gordon says to them loudly as he opened his note book and started handing them out.

As one everyone sat down, the younger ones with big smiles, the older ones with looks of confusion to Stella on why Gordon was able to go back but they weren't.

Gordon started handing out the messages from home to them, finally Billy was the only one without a message, a sad look on his face.

'Well I have been here for a while...' he thought to himself.

Pulling the page out at the very back of his notebook out, Gordon handed it to him - it's a letter from his mother asking him if he was ok.

Staring at it in wonder, Billy accepted it with a smile and a great big hug.

Once he let go he ran off to find a pencil and some paper to write a note so Gordon could give it back to her with a reply saying he's fine.

Quietly Stella came over and hugged Gordon from behind smiling.

"Thanks" he said hugging her back, spinning around so it was a proper hug.

"Thank you for coming back..." she said quietly purring gently "And for making it so those cowards won't make me have to take any more kids away..."

"Thank you for letting me visit my little brother" Gordon said letting go.

"You're welcome..." Stella said blushing and avoiding his eyes "I... I caught at the end you promised him you'll go back tomorrow..." she said looking to him.

"Will... Will you return then as well?" she asked.

"Yes," Gordon said rubbing her shoulders gently "Yes I will."

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Hamish had just gotten to the last name in the Sacrifice Box and found out that Klara was right - his name wasn't in here...

His father had lied to him to protect him all these years.

"Well not no more..." he said quietly and got some paper and began writing his name, over and over and over and over and over again until there were as many slips with his name as there were all the other boys in the village.

Once he was done and after rubbing his wrist a bit, he stuffed the ones with his name into the box and put all the others in a bag and stored them in the fire place in the Hall - one of the bricks was loose.

Early the next morning, Gordon came back to the village, with a bag of notes from their sons and another message from Stella.

But before he could even cross the border of the village, he was knocked to the floor and was being hugged to death by Luke.

"Hey Luke," Gordon said hugging him back.

"You kept your promise..." he said looking up to Gordon and getting off so his brother could get up, his teddy bear in his hand.

"Still keeping him around?" Gordon said poking the teddy.

"What's wrong with me keeping Dathi around?" he asks worried hugging the bear so tight his head nearly popped off.

"Nothing, I'm proud that you are," Gordon said stopping him from killing the bear.

"You... You are?" he asked loosening his hold, starting to walk back to the village with his brother.

"Yes," Gordon said nodding, ah he started to deliver the letters from the others to their families.

Smiling Luke stayed by Gordon's side all the way to the Hall where they met up with Klara, Gordon giving her a hug when he sees her.

"Hi dweeb..." she said smirking slightly as she hugged him back.

"Are the sacrifices continuing or no?" he asked letting go of her.

"Technically they've stopped," she said lifting Luke into her arms "But Hamish insisted that there be one last one, but came around to everyone with kids in the age group, telling them not to worry, and everything will be ok," she said "But he didn't tell anyone what he meant..."

"He's putting himself as one..." Gordon said running towards where he thought Hamish was, he wasn't going to let him do this.

Sorry this is a bit short, but it was all that i could fit in here

Hope you're all liking it thought... ;)