Enchants ch 15
Xandria was looking through the metal tube when they walked into the room. She was adjusting a knob on the side. When suddenly she got a very close up view of Reid's nose. She jumped back in surprise. Lowering the tube to look at a now laughing Reid. She set the tube down and threw a pillow at him. He saw it coming and ducked. Tyler walked into it. The pillow hit him in the face and fell to the floor. She giggled at the look on his face. "Gee thanks for the warning Reid," said Tyler. "No problem little bro" said Reid. Tyler frowned at him and walked over to Xandria.
"Hey sorry we asked you to leave" he said before pulling her into a hug. She hugged him back and whispered "that's all right I understand" she said softly. Reid cleared his throat "all right enough you two, eesch I'm getting nausous,"said Reid. Tyler flipped him off while still hugging her.
Xandria closed her eyes and leaned into his arms. She felt absurdly safe and protected. Even for a moment before her traitorous mind mocked her confidence. She sighed and Tyler unconsciously tightened his grip. "Easy babe what's wrong?" Tyler asked. He pulled away slightly and brushed both sides of her hair from her face. He was holding the sides of her face and looking at her in concern. "I'm worried that's all" she said softly. Reid moved closer and put his hand on her back. "Hey don't worry nothings going to happen to you" said Reid "we won't let it" said Tyler.
Pogue and Caleb came into the room at that exact time. "What the heck happened in here?" said Pogue. He picked up a pile of debris that used to be a music box. Reid self-consciously broke off from the almost group hug. Glancing around the room as he did so."Xandria what did you do?" gasped Tyler. She shrugged "explored, you left me nothing else to do" she answered. "Oh gawds my mothers going to kill me" said Tyler. "Chill Tyler we can fix it" said Caleb.
Tyler was holding up, what was supposed to be a model of the Kitty Hawk. "I'm sorry," she said softly. "I can fix it if you like" she said. "No!" they yelled almost as a group. She looked surprised by the outburst. "You said you were hiding, we don't want you to give yourself away" said Caleb. He felt the need to explain why they had all yelled at her, not meaning to startle her.
"Oh" she said. She stood there and watched as they used their magic's to put everything back the way it had been. She felt guilty for not helping when she had made the mess in the first place. She did however learn something about their power. She felt the drain on their energy a lessening of their life force. Something that worried her even more. When they stopped they sat down slightly exhausted, trying to catch their breath. "I'm sorry," she said softly. "Oh it's all right don't worry about it" said Pogue.
"So" said Reid "are the wings as hot as the rest of you?" said Reid. Tyler slapped his arm. She laughed at his audacity. "Judge for yourself" she said. Then extended her wings stretching them to almost there full span in the small room. They stretched from one wall to just before the other wall. They were shaped like dual sets of butterfly wings. Two sets across the top and two lower sets. They were iridescent like her skin had been, in opalescent jewel tones of blues and greens. They looked fragile but something told them they weren't. Tyler was close enough to touch them so he did. Stroking the outer edge along the top. She closed her eyes enjoying the caress, until he hit a ticklish spot and she giggled.
He pulled his hand away and noticed it was coated with a glitter like substance. "Wow there softer than anything I've ever felt" he said in awe. The rest of them had crowded around her and were watching her like they wanted something too. "You can touch them as well if you want to" she said softly. They took the invitation for what it was and gently stoked the surface. "Wow how strong are they?" asked Pogue. "Can you actually fly?" asked Caleb. "Strong enough to lift me and twice my body weight" she answered "and yes I can fly quite quickly in fact" she answered. Reid had moved behind her and reached out to lift the back of her shirt. She turned her head to glare at him. "I wanted to see where they came out of," Reid said. He looked like a kid caught stealing cookies. She smiled at him and he seemed to relax a little. He reached out to touch where the wings protruded from and followed them up.
When he started back down he went just a little too low and got his hand smacked when his hand caressed her ass. She looked like she wanted to smack him again. He held up his hands in surrender. "Sorry hard to resist" said Reid. Tyler glared at him and Xandria picked up a pillow and smacked him with it. "Ow hey!" said Reid when Tyler picked up another pillow and hit him also. "Hey we just cleaned this up," said Caleb. They looked guilty and set the pillows back where they were. Xandria folded her wings back into place.
Then Caleb asked what she had been expecting him to ask. "Tell us about this creep your supposed to marry?" said Caleb. Xandria didn't know where to start. " Well his name is Hanadrin, he's from the Ravenwolf clan of the unseelie court," she said. They all took seats to listen to her.
"His clan and ours were at one time allies of a sort and neighbors" she said. "That all changed about thirty or so years ago, that's when the war began" she said. "My father and Hanadrins' rode out to take care of a Wight problem along our borders" she said. "It turned out to be a ruse hanadrin's men slaughtered my father and his men," she said softly. The pain was still evident in her voice. Tyler put his hand on her back in a comforting gesture. "They wanted you to marry your father's murderer?" said Reid. "That's fucked," said Pogue.
"Yes it is, and to make matters worse the only ones on my side have gotten banished because of Hanadrin's machinations," said Xandria. "So you came here," said Tyler. "Yes I wanted to find the one person who was still on my side, my cousin Connor, he was the one who got banished because of me," she said ending with a slight sob. Tyler pulled her into his arms and held her close. She buried her head in his shoulder. "Its ok, your safe now" he said into her hair. "So he's the one that enrolled you at Spencer's?" asked Caleb. "Yes" she answered without lifting her head. "So what's your real name?" asked Reid.
"Ozxandria of the Morningrose Clan" she said giving the traditional greeting. "That's pretty," said Reid. They looked at him funny "what I can't give a compliment" said Reid. They frowned almost in unison, Reid usually only gave compliments when he was trying to get into someone's pants. They asked her a few more questions and then decided to call it a day.
They had class tomorrow so working out a plan to deal with Hanadrin would have to wait. Tyler was planning on spending the night there so Reid caught a ride back to the dorms with Caleb. Not that Reid could blame the boy for wanting to spend a night alone with her. Hell he would gladly trade places with baby boy in a heartbeat.
She seemed to have eyes only for Tyler though so Reid knew that was a hollow dream, but it didn't stop him from wanting it. He was the last one out the door and couldn't help himself he had to tease Baby boy one last time 'enjoy yourself" Reid said with a wicked grin. Tyler blushed in response before he closed the door. Xandria wrapped her arms around his waist and murmured into his ear. "Oh we intend to, make no mistake on that" she said wickedly. He turned back to her and said "can you really lift me, with those wings?"