Author's note:
Okay, as you probably can guess..this story is hasn't been updated and probably will not be updated again. I started writing it about 2 years ago and haven't updated it for months now because of school and also because I've lost interest in the story. I'm older now and the style of writing and way I wrote back then seems shabby and unpolished. Anyways, if anybody still cares about this story, I'll leave you with a small summary of what I think was going to happen and maybe a small fluff update that i wrote way back when I started the story? Thanks for reading guys. It means alot to me. If you still want to read any of my stuff just leave a review and if you want any ideas. I have a few of my own but online fiction is a big place and you don't usually get nice reviewers and feedback. Anyways..sorry about all this rambling..on to my summary.
The last chapter left off with Addie seeing her captor for who he really was, a young broken man who had nothing against her. This put her own situation in perspective and Addie started to realize that there was probably more to both sides of the story. She also begins to realize that Jesse has his own problems and despite that he wasn't harsh to her or evil. Basically, the next couple of chapters would outline the beginning of their friendship and desire to create a peace between the two warring sides of the fairyland. During an intense arguement, Jesse also learns about Addie's parents and her human heritage. After those chapters were completed, the next would show Jesse's uncle's desperation in gaining more power and remaining strong as well as his increasing mania. Eventually, he would call for Addie's excecution, the torture no longer being enough to satiate his appetite for pain and torture. This also comes after Jesse's eyes do not turn the expected red after his birthday and his uncles takes it as a sign of foreboding. Jesse finds a way to set Addie free but in doing so he must leave his side of fairy world and choose the other side over his family's. A few months after Addie and Jesse escape, a full-blown war is in place and both sides have increased deaths and wounded. At the end, neither side wins as Addie learns of her inheritance of being the future queen and realizes that she must remove the fanatics from power-both the red and the white side- which involves her killing the Red King and imprisoning some of her grandmother's advisors. Slowly the insane spell that has been cast upon the majority of fairy world is removed and life is restored to it's proper state with Jesse and Addie ruling it all. And of course...Addie and Jesse are together. xD
Old semi Fluff Sequence (shortly after Addie killed the Red King. Keep in mind that she's older and has been through more. and sorry for the cliches)
Addie's POV
I stood in the middle of the wreckage, blood streaked my matted hair, tears spilt over my eyes and a bloody gash on my cheek. It was over. Or at least mostly over...after all I still had to dispose of some minor...but still dangerous, influences. However, my biggest task was finished. The Red King had been slayed. And I now knew how it felt to kill someone. Yes, it had been for the good of my world and of the people. But I still felt dirty. The King had not been a friendly person. He had tortured me, attempted to kill me and tried to harm so many fellow fairies. And yet, years ago he had been a good uncle to Jesse, a brother and son and now all that was left of him was a bloody carcass, courtesty of me. I had tried to create a funeral pyre for him but I was spent. Mentally, magically and emotionally. It had all been so surreal. I had known what I was going to do. But I had also had this doubt tearing at me, insisting that it would not come down to this. That it would not come down to murder. But it had. And if only it hadn't. If only the King had not been corrupted by his own power and greed. If only it was all a dream and I could be back down on Earth. In my little bed with my Dad holding my hand as he read me a fairy tale. Back when fairies had just been a being of my imagination.
But it wasn't and I had to accept that. I had so much left to do, years even and a land to rule over. A partial split up land. And the divide between both sides of the world of fairies would cause trouble again in the future. Not my or Jesse's time. Maybe not even for a few more generations. But conflict would ensue, unless I could find a way to unite the land back to how it used to be, milleniums ago...
I walked to the edge of the dark cloud. It shook beneath me. It was storming back on Earth. And some clouds were storming above. Rain drops plummetted down, but only a drizzle hit me. The storm seemed harsh but in a way pure, washing away the dirt of the world. Maybe even the troubles of my world. Of fairy world.
I looked behind me, one last time, at Jesse's uncle's body. The rain was cleaning off his blood, restoring his body as it melted into the cloud. He was back where he came from and would join others who died, from old age, from fighting for some cause, in sustaining fairy life for the years to come.
Silently, I removed my gaze from the body and turned back to the edge of the cloud. Now how was I going to get back? I had nothing left in me to fly and no one had known I was here. Unless Jesse..
No, he would not know. He would be able to feel the loss of his uncle. Just as the fairy peoples' would be able to feel the upcming peace...But I doubted that the bond between us was that strong, that he would be able to tell it was I who had caused it and I who needed aid to get back.
And he wouldn't give it to me. I had just killed his uncle, one of the few people who was left within his family. I settled down in the trembling cloud to wait, wait for however long it took for someone to realize that I was missing during what must be a celebration of the peace. I stared down at the green earth...
It must have been hours later when I felt another, familar prescence. It was close by, near the area where the king's body had once been. Obviously, Jesse had been the one to come. It was his uncle, and for some reason he felt that I was his responsibility.
His footsteps were right behind me. I stiffened and gingerly shifted myself around on the ground.
"You killed him." His voice was neutral. I could almost believe that he wasn't angry and that he would understand the reason behind my actions.
"I'm sorry." What else was there to say? I couldn't do anything to take it back, and nor would I. I had just destroyed the main force behind the upheaval of my world and despite my horror towards my actions I knew it was for the best. Deep down. Very very deep down.
He sat down and stared at my face. Even sitting he was taller than me. And stronger. In fact, if he wanted to, he could finish me with barely a snap. Physically or magically. At least right now when I was practically as strong as jello.
"It's not your job to apologize, you know. I would have done the same." He was looking at me carefully. Did he see me as a monster?
I stared at him for what might have been only a few seconds or maybe an eternity.
His hand slowly flicked out towards my eye and wiped away a tear. Slowly he moved me closer towards him. I was shaking with fear, shame and exhaustion.
"I'm a monster...aren't I?" My voice was crazy. His arms tightened around me as he waited for me to finish. Most of it was a repetition of me wailing about how despicable I was and how terrible it was.
Finally, I voiced something that had been echoing in my head ever since I had some to finish off the Red King. "What, if I become just like him. I don't want to be like him. And look at what I've done..."I had killed someone. I like every other being had the potential to be someone..evil. Someone who destroyed lives, someone who wounded others, someone who killed and someone who broke people.
Jesse laughed, it was a somber laugh, but a laugh none the less. "Addie..as long as this experience didn't leave you ectastic and ready to go and do more damage..I doubt you have anything to worry about."
He lifted me up. "And now, I think is the time to get you to a place where you can rest."
I wrapped my arms around his neck as he flew me home.
Later
I was lying underneath soft plushy covers. I rolled over. I was in Jesse's guest room area in the cottage.
"Ah..awake finally..." Jesse's voice was dry.
"Good...morning?"
"No, good afternoon. You've been asleep for a day and some."
I smiled wearily and absentily touched my cheek. The gash had healed some but it would scar lightly.
"Want me to heal it for you and get rid of any scar so your vanity won't be hurt?" Jesse hands were already glowing blue when he reached towards my cheek. I slapped it awat and laughed.
Suddenly I sobered. "You can heal it but...leave the scar. I never want to forget how it feels to destroy someone. I never ever want to have to do that again."
Jesse's eyes were thoughtful as he touched my cheek lightly and healed the gash. I touched my cheek and felt the light line that would forever be part of me. I smiled ruefully. "It doesn't look too bad, does it?"
His hand was still on my face. He lightly brushed my cheek and drew me towards him. He lightly kissed the scar and then full on my mouth.
I hadn't been kissed like this since back when I was about to be executed. It was a nice change from those little pecks. I wrapped my arms around his neck...
I felt him smile as I tickled the back of his neck.
He drew away. "Not..that bad." His tone was mocking. his face serious. Then he looked at my appalled face and burst into laughter.
That earned him my pillow in his face .
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Thanks guys.
This wasn't the end. In the end Jesse and Addie got married and so they united both parts of fairyworld.
Anyways, thanks for reading. (if you did)
Nurin.
