Chapter Three
Felicity went up to her room angry. Oh if her sister could see her now. She'd be heartbroken about Charity. Her beautiful twin sister killed by that bitch Xena. Before she'd had blond hair though. Suppose she wanted a change now that she was trying to play innocent in this village. She couldn't let Charity be raised by a murder even if she had saved her life.
"Don't worry Charity I'll get your daughter back." said Felicity to the small painting of her sister. Felicity didn't even like Charity. In fact she hated kids, but her sister had loved them. So she would not have anyone else raising her sister's kids. They would know their family. Their true family. She sighed if she succeeded in getting Charity away from these people her acting career was likely to go down the drain in Thebes.
"I suppose I'll have to find me a nice rich young man whose not an thesbian." Felicity said.
"Yea, that might be nice." Solan said coming out of her closet. He'd been searching her room for her diary. He'd read his mother's now he wanted hers. The one person's diary he should have been reading in the first place. He'd actually been reading it when she came in. In fact he found what he was looking for in her diary when she came in. He knew the truth.
"What are you doing in here?" Felicity asked.
"Listening to you." Solan said."You'll leave here today and you'll leave here without Charity."
"No, Charity is coming with me." Felicity said.
"No, you don't love Charity. You just want to take her away, because you think my mother's a bad person." Solan said."Well she's not and we want Charity to stay with us. She's orphaned and we're her family now."
"No, I am all the family Charity has." Felicity said.
"No, you don't get to choose your family's, but in the case of orphans. Charity got too, and she's chosen us not you." Solan said."By the way my mother never had blond hair. Not since she was a girl." He left out.
"Don't you ever come in my room again." Felicity yelled after him.
"Mother, Grandma you can't let Felicity take Charity." Solan said.
"She's Charity's mother." Xena replied.
"No, no she's not." Solan said."She's Charity's Aunt. Charity, Charity's mother is her twin sister. Charity died two years ago by some blond woman she think is you."
"Callisto." Gabrielle said the same time as Xena. She'd been seated at a table writing while Charity sat across from her drawing nothing in particular minding her own business.
"Whatever, and she hates kids." Solan said."We just have to get rid of her."
"She's still her family." Gabrielle said."Charity deserves to be with family."
"Not if they mistreat her." Cyrene said. Xena was just silent.
"Yea, so I'm sure we can all come up with a plan to get rid of her Lila said coming out of the kitchen."You really should lower your voice I heard you all the way in there. Perhaps she's heard you too."
"Naw you have to have really good hearing to hear anything in here from her room." Cyrene said.
"Look you guys, one day Charity will ask about her real family. Now I'm going to tell her the truth, but she's not going to be happy knowing we drove her only living relative away however bad a person she made turn out to be to Charity. So instead of driving her away we need to take this at another angle." Xena said.
"She's right." Gabrielle said."Lila you take Charity for a walk. We've got thinking to do." Lila nodded.
"Charity why don't you go for a walk with Lila." Xena suggested. Charity didn't want too, but Xena promised her dessert at dinner if she went for as long as Lila wanted. They watched them leave.
"Now what?" Cyrene asked.
"Solan it was your idea got anything?" Xena asked. Solan shook his head no.
"I create mischief not compromises." Solan said.
"Gabrielle?" Xena asked. Gabrielle shrugged. They sighed and were silent.
Author's Note: What do you think so far? I'm kind of at a road block. Does anyone have any ideas of how I should get rid of Felicity. I'm very open minded and promise to credit you. You can respond to this by reviewing my story.