A/N: Did I lie? Were the last three chapters not just chocked full of good stuff?

Well, if you liked those, you're gonna love this one.

Also, I'd just like to say Happy Anniversary to my parents! Go Mom and Dad!

And as always,

Enjoy.

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CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT: DECISIONS

"Fifteen years in the future." Orion whispered in her ear. "This is what you would have looked like."

"Why?" Katlin ask in an awed hush. "Why would he have done this?"

But instead of answering her, Orion turned his eyes back to the woman standing before them. "Becca," he ask, "you agree there is no way Katlin could know anything you just told me about your life?"

Becca considered the rather strange statement before finally nodding to it.

"All right." Orion stated, turning now to his wife. "Katlin, Love, I need you to tell Becca about what happened to your parents."

Katlin nearly fell off balance she turned back to him so quickly. "What?!" She stated sharply. "Why?!"

"Katlin, would I ask if it weren't important?" Orion replied calmly. "And no elaborating the extras. Just tell her what I ask."

Katlin stared up at him for a few seconds, then turned slowly back to the woman. "My parents," Katlin stated in a slow, overly controlled voice, "were murdered when I was 15 years old."

"How, Love?"

"They died when our house was set on fire by the people in our village."

Becca took in the information without so much as a batted eyelash. But from her expression she was most definitely listening.

Orion brushed her hair back from her ear as he leaned closer to her. "And why did the people of your village murder your parents?"

Katlin closed her eyes. "Because they were made to."

"How?"

"A wizard came to our village. And he used spells and lies to manipulate them until they turned against us."

"And who was that wizard?" Orion ask.

"Heudros." Katlin replied in a near silent voice. "Heudros was the man responsible for murdering my parents."

"Orion turned his attention to Becca. "Any of that sound familiar?"

Becca said nothing in reply.

"Are we done?" Katlin ask in a voice that implied they were whether her husband had more questions or not.

But before Orion could even answer, a low, soft trill caught Katlin's attention.

"Bo?"

As focused as Orion had demanded her attention to be, Katlin had not even seen the boggart until then. But now she quickly pushed away from her husband and turned her full attention to Bo as she crouched once again next to him, gently whispering to him as she stroked the material covering his head much as Orion had done.

"He has not been harmed." Becca was quick to point out.

"That would be good." Orion replied, never taking his eyes off of his wife or the boggart. "Because if you had, lady, you would be answering to me."

Becca huffed at the threat as though it meant little to her. But to Orion her words said something very different. "He has been kept here, and I was sent to watch over him. He has not acted inured in any way. In fact, all he has done is...sit. Unless I came near to him."

Orion turned to her in interest. "And then what did he do?" He ask.

Becca looked actually reluctant to answer at first as she crossed her arms in front of her. "He...he started making gestures." She finally replied. "And that trilling sound he makes."

Orion smiled at the information as he turned back to Bo. "Hey!" He stated with a small smile. "What are you trying to do here? Make a new friend?"

Bo trilled softly back in the same sad, hurt tone.

Orion turned briefly back to Becca. "He was trying to talk to you." He explained at her puzzled frown. "Gestures and trilling are how Bo communicates. That's probably how he thought you did too."

"Me?" Becca looked for all the world as though Orion had insulted her. "Why would he think such a thing?"

Orion paused for a moment. "Because you're the first of his own kind Bo has ever met." He replied. "Nothing I can think of in this world could make him happier than to discover another of his own kind here."

"Here?" Becca ask with the same puzzled frown.

"You and Bo don't come from our realm, Becca." Orion tried to explain. "I'm not really sure where you come from to be truthful. I wasn't the one who called Bo into being and I wasn't there when Heudros called you. So I can't say in all honesty exactly where you come from. But I know that before my father gave the 'Power' a corporeal body, which is Bo's boggart side, it existed solely as a parasitic entity, only able to anchor itself here with the help of a host."

Becca quickly shook her head. "You are trying to confuse me." She said. "Perhaps Heudros was right. Perhaps it is wrong that I listen to you."

Orion held a hand up. "Becca, wait. I told you I could prove what I tell you. Most of it at any rate. But you have to be willing to hear me out."

Becca stared back at him, considering his words carefully.

"Are you ready to listen to me, Becca?" Orion ask.

The woman stood for a few moments simply staring at the Unspeakable in silence. But finally she gave a small nod.

"All right. Now understand, Becca, part of what I'm going to tell you I'm only guessing at. I admit that straight out. The only person who can confirm anything I tell you is Heudros himself. But I'll tell you what I suspect based on my own experience with one of your kind. Bo."

Becca only nodded again. But Orion was pleased to note the only emotions he sensed in her were fear and apprehension. This time there was no anger, no walls she was raising to keep him out, and no outright denial. In short, she was indeed, listening.

"All right. Let's start, as they say, at the beginning. You say your first clear memory was of Heudros calling you?"

Becca nodded.

"I think that memory wasn't just your first clear one, Becca, I think it was your first one, period. Heudros' call was his casting the spell that brought you into being. The last part of that spell is that you have to be called."

"How did he know my name?"

"He didn't. He gave you one and attached you to it, so to speak. Your name is no more than a word in a spell. The spell is designed so that whatever word is spoken at a certain place in that spell, it is the word you respond to. In your case, Heudros made that word your name."

"Does your boggart come to his name?"

Orion turned briefly to the pile of robes still being coddled by Katlin. "Bo? No. 'Bo' isn't the name assigned to him in the spell, Becca. It just...sort of a nickname we gave him. You know...'Boggart' - 'Bo'."

"So what is his name?"

"I can't tell you that."

"Why not?"

"I just told you. A 'Power's' name is a leash to them. Anyone who has it has a certain amount of control over them. Only one person knows Bo's real name, and that is his host. The name is past from one host to another. My father, who is Bo's current host, knows his name. But it will die with him. Bo then, will be the only person who knows his real name and he can give it to whoever he wants."

"Why do you do such things?" Becca stated. "He is your servant. You give him too many liberties. Such a thing is not good for him."

"Why not?" Orion ask. "Or better, why did Heudros tell you such things were not good?"

"Servants serve. That is what their purpose is. These...liberties...they foster rebellion. They give way to a servant thinking above himself."

"Or for himself." Orion countered. "Becca, first off, Bo isn't my servant. We've been through this one already several times. He is my friend. And I treat him as such. He is an intelligent, sentient being who, although he needs a little help living in our physical realm, has the right to do so on his own terms. He's a living being. He deserves a life of his own."

Becca simply huffed at the answer.

"All right, back to where we were." Orion said, redirecting off of a subject she obviously wasn't ready to deal with the concept of. "Heudros called you into being. Tell me what happened after that memory. Do you remember being with someone?"

Becca cocked her head to the side. "Being with someone?"

"Yes. Do you remember having a host?"

The woman's expression grew more puzzled. "Host?"

"Surely Heudros was her host." Katlin supplied in a tired sounding voice.

Orion shook his head. "I don't think so. He's way to ignorant of her abilities to be her host. Someone else had to be. Becca," he ask, directing his attention back to her, "when you first came into being, didn't you have someone else you...followed around? Someone who was always with you, day and night. Always at your side?"

But Becca shook her head. "There has never been anyone else. I have always been myself. By myself. The only person who was ever with me for long periods of time was Heudros. But even he would go away." She added, looking about the room they still stood in. "At those times, he would leave me here, in the castle."

Orion saw opportunity knocking and decided to forego the current subject while he ran to answer the door. He had an idea about what purpose the castle served, but he wanted to see just what Becca knew about her so-called 'home'. "Explain the castle to me, Becca."

"The castle?"

"Yes. Why did Heudros have the castle? He obviously didn't live there."

The woman drew herself up indignantly. "Of course not. The castle was my home."

Orion saw his suspicions becoming more reality based. "Yours?"

"Well," Becca admitted slowly, as though thinking the facts over, "Heudros designed it. When he..." she paused, considering her words as she hit another mental stumbling block she still hadn't quite gotten her mind around the idea of yet. "When Heudros...created me..."

"Heudros didn't create you, Becca." Orion corrected her gently. "He brought you into being. You've always existed. This is simply the first time you've experienced a cognizant form. Don't give Heudros more credit than he's due."

Becca gave him a small nod. "Just the same," she went on, "he said the castle was a safe place for me to live. That outside of it I could get hurt. I was never to leave the castle without his permission or that of the others, and I was never, ever to leave it without them."

"Did you ever leave the castle with Heudros?"

Becca shook her head.

"What about when you met us in the corridor? You weren't in the castle then?" Orion ask.

Becca shook her head again. "The corridor was designed as part of the castle." She answered, verifying another of Orion's suspicions. "To keep me safe, I never leave the castle. It is where I am protected, Heudros said. It is my home. My protection."

"This castle isn't your home or your protection, Becca. It's your prison."

"Prison?"

"Have you ever left it?"

"I told you, no. Heudros said..."

"...it was for your protection." Orion finished for her. "I heard. But my guess is more likely Heudros not only used the castle to contain you, but heaven forbid you ever got a look at the outside world."

"The outside is very dangerous." Becca countered. "People there would want to hurt me. I am safe in the castle."

"Well, he was almost right there. There are people out there who would want to hurt you, Becca. Use you and your power for bad things."

"All right, so Heudros brought you into being, fashioned a body for you, makes you a lovely gilded cage to live in, and sets you to work for him. What about Harry? Where does Harry fit into this grand scheme of Heudros'?"

Becca seemed to consider the question for a moment. "Heudros feared that before he could complete his work, others would try to stop him. He told me he needed protection from this happening and explained to me how to work the Fidelius Charm."

"So Heudros used you to make Harry his secretkeeper?"

The woman nodded.

"But why Harry?" Orion ask.

"Heudros ask me to find him someone who I felt would make a good secretkeeper for him. He also told me that the others who might seek to harm him could be very powerful, and he wanted a sort of general exclusion type of spell woven in with the Fidelius charm. But he said he wanted me to work this spell for him. That it would give me good practice with my new-found magical abilities."

"That and the fact that with a flashlight, two hands, and a faithful guide, Heudros still wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in the Mediterranean of finding such a spell, let alone probably working it correctly." Orion reasoned out. "So you worked up a spell where Heudros stayed hidden from the world at large no matter what. No one could find him, period."

Becca nodded. "But the spell was only as good as the secretkeeper. If the person who held that post were to be captured by Heudros' enemies and made to reveal what they knew, the spell was worthless. So I thought of a way to prevent that." She added with one of the few genuinely proud smiles Orion had ever seen her use.

"Use a secretkeeper who didn't know he was one, who couldn't tell anyone even if he did, and who would likely forget he was one by the time he could tell anyone." Orion stated. "Very clever, Becca."

"But it wasn't just that easy." She pointed out. "In order to do that I needed a small child who still harbored a reasonable amount of power. Who showed potential to be a powerful wizard. Power that I sensed in a young child."

"Harry."

Becca nodded again as Katlin slowly worked her way to her feet with Orion's help.

"Are you all right, Love?" He ask solicitously.

Katlin nodded slightly. "I'm just tired. But Orion," Katlin went on, returning to the former subject her husband seemed to have completely forgotten, "what about the issue of Becca's Host? If Heudros wasn't her host, and she doesn't remember one, is it even possible Becca never had a host?"

Orion shook his head. "Oh, she had one, Love. Or, if I'm right, Heudros planned one. But things went wrong in that plan and he ended up having to seriously compromise his spell. And so the problems started."

"Compromise?" She ask.

"Love, I think Heudros did have a host picked out for Becca, but unfortunately she died in a fire. Or at least he thought she did."

Katlin stared up at him. "Me?" She ask. "Heudros had planned to use me as Becca's host? Why?"

"I think for the simplest reason of all. Because you were there.

Heudros was traveling around while he worked on his spell. He couldn't have come up with it on his own. Roland said he wasn't that great a wizard to begin with. And he didn't get it from my family. So he must have worked up his own version. Going from place to place, he compiled information from different people on how such a spell might work. One that could make a corporeal being out of pure magic. Just as my family did with Bo. When he thought he was ready to try the spell, he must have just arrived in the area of your village. But I don't think he did what he did without reason. I think Heudros had a plan. A very sinister one.

Realizing he needed a host body for his spell, he looked for the most available person."

"Me." Katlin stated quietly.

Orion nodded. "Sadly, yes, Love. You. You told me yourself your village was fairly isolated, which probably only added to its appeal to Heudros. And due to its location, there probably wasn't another magical prospect around for miles for him to try his plan out on. But he didn't need one. Because he had you. A young witch, talented in her own right, and most importantly to him, an only child. To him it was a simple matter to turn you into an orphan and take you, no questions ask."

"But he didn't use me in the end."

"He thought you died in the fire along with your parents. Nasty hitch in his plans."

"So what happened then? He had no host. How could he go forward with the spell?"

"Plan B, is my guess."

"Plan B?"

"Heudros decided if he didn't have a body, he'd make one. Bo has told me several times he can sense Becca, but nothing else."

Katlin gave him a quizzical stare. "What does that mean?"

"There's nothing else there, Love. This body," he indicated, waving a hand at Becca, "is just a body. A shell, if you like, made to house a non-corporeal being. I suppose my father could have done the same for Bo. But he wanted more of an anchor for Bo in this realm. So he used the boggart. Becca, with this body, has a much less firm foothold here than Bo does."

"But I remember Heudros calling me." Becca put in.

Orion turned to her. "So you've said."

"But I remember waking up. You ask me what my first clear memory was. It was Heudros calling me, and I woke up."

Orion's brow formed a deep furrow. "You woke up?" He repeated, suddenly thinking over the implication of her words a bit more thoroughly.

"Is that important?" Katlin ask.

"It could be." He replied, still mulling over the information. "Mostly it just confirms my suspicions that Heudros created this body first, and then called Becca. Which is exactly the opposite of what my father did. So Heudros already had a home for the 'Power' to move into, but it wasn't a person."

Katlin watched as Orion's frown grew deeper. "Why does that worry you?" She ask.

"Because," he replied "from everything I'm putting together, Becca literally has no Host. She has a corporeal form, but it was never a person."

"But what about the spell we saw the others performing. Maybe one of them...?"

Orion waved off her speculation. "That spell was a Channeling spell. Like the one Bo taught to me with a few modifications. But it was still the basic spell. All that spell did was allow the thirteen to channel Becca's power into themselves. Nothing more."

"Can she not have a Host?" Katlin ask.

"It's possible." Orion replied, still thinking over whatever problem he was trying to work out. "But I'm also pretty sure its not a good thing."

But whatever problem Orion was trying to figure out the solution of, his train of thought was suddenly derailed when Becca suddenly turned about as though something behind her had suddenly caught her full attention.

"I am being summoned!" She stated, taking a step toward the back of the room.

Orion quickly brought his hand up. "Becca, wait!"

With hands balled at her sides in frustration, Becca gave him an exasperated look as she turned back to him. "I am being summoned!" She stated more firmly. "I must go!"

"That fine." Orion replied calmly. "And I wouldn't for the life of me keep you from going to Heudros. But do three things for me before you leave."

Becca merely stared back at him, impatience pouring from every outlet.

"One, take Bo and me with you." He said.

Again the woman simply stared back at him for a moment, her expression betraying nothing. "Why?" She ask finally with growing agitation.

"You want the truth in all of this, don't you?"

"Yes."

To Orion's astonished relief, she answered without the slightest hesitation. "And I'll help you get it from Heudros."

But this time Becca did pause to think over her actions and their possible consequences. "Heudros will punish me most severely for doing such a thing."

"No he won't, Becca." Orion replied. "I'll protect you from him. I promise."

"Why must we have your ser...boggart there for that?"

"Because I'll need Bo's help to protect you from Heudros."

Becca gave a short laugh. "Him?"

Bo looked up at her and gave a short, soft trill.

The woman regarded the boggart for a few seconds. "He can not stand up to Heudros."

"Don't under-estimate him, Becca. I assure you, Bo can more than stand up to Heudros."

Becca pulled herself up and crossed her arms in front of her. "If he is so powerful, then why has he not freed himself?"

"My guess?" Orion replied. "He didn't want to."

Becca gave the same short laugh. "What? He preferred to stay here with me?"

Orion gave her a solemn stare. "Exactly."

The woman gave him a curious stare. "What do you mean?"

"Becca," Orion ask, "what did you tell me Bo did the entire time you were with him?"

The woman paused as she thought for a moment. "He...he kept making gestures."

"He was trying to talk to you, Becca." Orion explained again. "You are the only one of his kind he has ever met. He was probably desperate to try and communicate with you."

"Then why does he not talk?"

"He can't." Orion replied with a slightly sad tinge to his tone. "One of the mistakes we made in giving Bo this form for a corporeal body was that he can't talk to us. But it was never a problem until now. My father speaks to Bo through his connection to him as his host. And you've seen how I talk to him. You're the first person Bo's tried to communicate with on his own. So you see, Bo stayed here with you because he wanted to. It was his choice."

"Then let him take you to Heudros."

"Bo doesn't know where he is. You do. If I let Bo do it, he would have to waste valuable time 'looking' for Heudros. You can take us right to him."

Becca paused, but then nodded slightly. "But I would not think it would please you to see him."

"Well, he won't be pleased to see us either, so it all works out in the end."

"All right. I will take you to him. But only to learn more of this 'truth' of yours. What else do you wish of me?"

Orion turned to Katlin, who was more or less leaning against him now. He could feel the fight she was waging with her deteriorating strength just to stay on her feet.

Orion turned back to Becca. "Send Katlin back to Hogwart's. Back 'home'."

Katlin immediately pulled around. "Orion..."

But Orion quickly laid a finger to her lips. "Love, please. You're still sick. You need more help than Sirius can give you. Please, let her send you back if she can. I can't help Becca if I'm worried about you. Please."

Katlin stared at him for a few moments. She didn't want to leave. To have Orion face Heudros alone with only Bo for support. But she knew at this point she likely would be more of a hindrance than a help. Slowly she gave another tired nod.

Orion quickly turned to Becca. "Can you send her back?"

"I have offered again and again to send you all back." The woman replied. "But you are right to ask this. She is not well. And she still harbors the sickness in her body. If you wish, I will send her back to your home."

Orion turned to Katlin. "You go and find Dumbledore. Tell him what happened to you. He'll see you're taken care of, all right?"

Katlin nodded slightly.

Orion bent to place a kiss on her forehead, and in the next instance, she was gone. He turned back to Becca. "Thank you." He said quietly. "I am very grateful for that."

"You do not fear I did otherwise?" She ask quizzically. "I could have sent her anywhere."

Orion shook his head. "I trust you to keep your word." He answered. "You said you would send her home, and I believe you."

Becca considered the answer, then turned her attention quickly back to the matter at hand as though dismissing the former statement entirely. "You wished three things." She commented dryly. "What is the third?"

Orion steeled himself up for a fight on the last matter. "Becca, when we meet with Heudros, I want you to do one thing for me."

Becca eyed him carefully. "What thing?"

"Whatever Heudros asks you to do, I want you to refuse."

The woman all but leapt at him. "Refuse!" She stated in a tone just one mark down from a shriek. "Are you totally without your senses suddenly?! Heudros will...he will take my magic from me for such an offense. Already I have kept him waiting too long wasting time with you and your requests. I have done what you ask so far! I have agreed to take you to him. I sent the other home. Why this?!"

"To prove a point to you, Becca." Orion replied calmly.

"What possible point could such an action have?"

"That Heudros can not, in fact, take your magic away from you."

"No!" Becca shook her head, then turned back to Orion with an almost pleading gesture as she held her hand out.. "You are asking too much this time. It is not a risk that costs you anything. But I stand to lose everything to such an act. Do you not understand? He will take my magic from me. He gave it to me. He can take it away again."

Orion did his best not to sound defensive. "Becca, Heudros did not give you your magic. You are his magic. So he can no more take it away from you than...than I can. Now, I said I could prove that to you, but you have to accept the terms of that proof. And part of those terms are that if I am to be able to prove this to you, Heudros has to be given reason to threaten to take your magic from you. But listen to me! I promise you...he won't do it, Becca. He'll threaten it. He'll swear he'll do it. He'll do everything he can to control you with that possibility. But he will not do it."

"How can you be so sure?"

Orion gave her a small smile. "For the simplest reason of all, Becca. Because he can't."

Becca considered the request again, but then finally gave a slight nod. Without any other move on her part, Orion suddenly found himself, Bo, and Becca now standing in a different room.

Heudros stood with his back to them, and Orion quickly noted that the area of the room Becca had apparated them to was the one that placed them as far from the man as possible.

Turning around, Heudros opened his mouth to speak, but the words somehow got lost. But the wizard quickly regained his hold on the situation, and, taking a brief stock of things, finally allowed his attention to settle on one person.

"Becca!" He all but shouted at her. "What is the meaning of this?!"

Orion quickly held a finger up to the man. "Heudros? Can I give you some advice?" He ask.

The wizard turned to him.

"Shut up."

The man looked taken aback at first, but then turned a solid stare on the Unspeakable. "And you would do well to show more respect to your betters, Mr. Black."

"My only 'better' here, Heudros," Orion replied, fixing a small smile on the woman standing next to him, "is Becca. And I will show her all the respect she wants."

The wizard gave a loud laugh in response. "Becca? Your better? Then you are a sad wizard indeed, Mr. Black. Becca!" Heudros ordered. "Come here!"

The woman started forward out of what Orion was sure was pure habit.

But suddenly, to his surprise and pleasure, she abruptly stopped. A look of indecision crossed her feature for a moment, but then slowly she stepped back beside him and pulled herself up to face her master.

"No!"

Q&A

Lee Swain:

Awesome story , i Love Bo he is cool, very inovative thinking on making a "Bogart" like him. cannot wait to read more great job!

Thank you, Dear. Always appreciate a kind review.

ilovesiriusblack:

Ahh Bo is so cute like a giant teddy bear you just want to give him a hug! I really can see no way in which heudros would willingly give up Bo. Ok so he might not be able to use him but i bet hes one of those people who think if i can't have it no one can, which leads to the question is she lying? Or does her master not know of her actions? With the threat Heudros has hanging over her would she really go out of her way to help people she doesn't even sem to like? I say seem to like as in advance of these new chapters all she has shown towards them is anger. Also why is she waiting for their permission?By bringing Katlin to them she has shown that she doesn't need their individual consent.
Ok I'm back tracking I have no idea why Heudross would kill Katlin's family. The story he has given Becca wouldn't stand up if she were to go back and check around the village, someone would be old enough to remember the truth.Oh wait did Katlin destroy the village with Voldemort? But then Heudros couldn't have known that would happen if he didn't know Katlin was alive.
Waves hands in defeat I don't think I'm going to work this one out.
As always a great chapter and looking forward to the next one, I am proudly hanging my gold star on the wall and hoping that the hurricane isn't too bad.

Oddly enough, a lot of people feel that way about Bo.

Well, true, Heudros can not 'use' Bo. In the line up on the food chain of who commands Bo, Heudros is the thing that everyone else eats.

If I wanted to wrap this story up real fast, all I would have to do is bring Talon into it. At that point, it would literally be a simple matter of Talon going up to Bo and telling him how he would like things to be and telling him to (if I may quote Captain Pickard) 'Make it so'. That is the power Bo truly yields under the guidance of his host.

Is she lying about what, Dear?

Does Heudros know what Becca is doing all the time? No. Try thinking of Heudros and Becca in these terms. Becca is like a very sleek, very fast, very powerful sports car. Heudros is like a fifteen year old who steals it for a joy ride. Point being, Heudros has really bitten off more than he can ever possibly chew with Becca, and Orion is just starting to realize that. What's worse, is so is Becca. Has Becca intentionally been doing things knowing Heudros doesn't know? No. She's just sort of followed her instincts on some things and figured she 'got away with it'. It's only now that she's starting to think differently. That maybe her great, powerful master ain't all that powerful and dang sure ain't all that great.

Becca doesn't 'not like them', nor is she angry at them. She is, in fact, sort of ambivalent towards the group. What they are to her, is more irritating than anything else, and for that reason, she wants them gone. They are, in short, upsetting her quiet little world and she's none to happy about it.

Orion's biggest problem currently is he's aware of that fact and is trying very hard to make sure Becca doesn't decide to use that little problem solving tool she's so good with in dealing with them.

Why is she waiting for their permission? To do what? Send them back home? Because she wants them gone permanently. If she just sends them back, she's pretty sure they'll come back. She'd rather take the time to convince them such a thing is a waste of time. Hence, she figures if they leave of their own freewill, they won't come back.

Two things on this next point.

One, yes, Katlin's village was destroyed. But that was solely Voldemort's doing. Katlin had no hand in it.

Second, those points were sort of covered in this chapter. Heudros thought Katlin had been killed in the fire with her parents. He never checked back to find out if that was true or not because by then he had already moved on to what Orion termed 'Plan B'.

Heudros also never bothered to lay down a very solid foundation because he never thought he would have to. He basically just needed to have a story to tell Becca. He never thought it would ever be challenged by her and certainly never by someone who knew the truth. As Orion said, Katlin is Heudros' worst nightmare coming to life. Not only does she (sort of) know the truth, she can rip his whole story with Becca to shreds.

CelticHeiressFiona:

Awesome chapters again! And yeah now I realize that I shouldn't rule it out. Yeah.

Thank you, Dear.

Indeed. I am the first one to say that Becca is very likely a slight victim of 'Stockholm Syndrome'. She's just way too compliant with whatever Heudros wants her to do all in the effort to please him. She also identifies with him in a big way, but there's a reason for that. Consider that Orion got Bo after several other people had already been with him for their whole lives and left their own imprint on him of their beliefs and values. So at this point Bo is pretty much his own person.

Becca has only ever had Heudros. And in relation to Bo, in many ways, she's just a baby.

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Yeah, I know Sirius isn't the focal point of this story, but I still like it when he's around.
Wow, this chapter really brought a lot of things about Becca into focus. I can't believe Heudros was the one who killed Katlin's parents just so he could have a good background story to tell Becca when he made her a power. I really like how these things are coming together, though. Heudros, however, is still a problem. Well, I suppose once Becca realizes what's going on, she probably won't be loyal to him anymore, and then Heudros is as good as defeated since he won't have any power left.

Anyway, this is a great chapter. Please update soon!

I know how you feel, Dear.

Well, as you found out in this chapter, it was a little bit more than that. Heudros actually was planning to use Katlin as Becca's Host, such as he understood the concept. Something that would not have boded well for Katlin. Heudros' idea of a Host is more or less just a body for the 'Power' to reside in. The original person is just excess baggage to him.

Oh, Dear, trust me, Becca not being loyal to him anymore and losing his power base is the best Heudros can hope for as an outcome in all of this.

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And remember;

HappyBirthdaytome, HappyBirthdaytome, HappyBirthdayHappyBirthday, HappyBirthdaytome!!!

GO PAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another year older!

(And no, this is no indication my birthday is July 1st, only that it is this week.)