Own nothing. Thanks to My Beautiful Ending for letting me use Linden and Coriander. 3 Go check out her story: The Choice
(One year later, Robin-11 Much-10ish and Cel-9)
"Hello boys." Celandine's father Linden answered the door.
"Is Celandine allowed to come with us?" Robin asked.
Linden looked over his shoulder a second before sighing and looking down at him and Much. "Not today boys."
"Oh." Robin said mouth in the shape of an o. "Is she alright?"
"Just a bit under the weather is all. She should be fine in a few days." Linden said, "Now if you will excuse me I must go to work." Closing the door he walked off past the two boys and down the path.
"What-ya think she is sick with?" Much asked as they stood outside the door still.
Robin shrugged and knocked again. There was no answer, not even the sound of movement within the house. Robin sighed and tried once more. Nothing.
"You think she is even really home?" Much asked.
"I don't know." Robin answered, "Lets head home."
Celandine's mother, Coriander, had just explained why she could suddenly do things others could not. She sat silently pouting as her friends knocked on the door.
"You can go if you want Cely." Her mother said tucking back her daughter hair from her frowning face.
"No." Celandine said pushing her mothers hair away before hiding her face in her dark hair.
Coriander frowned , "It will be okay."
She shook her head and looked up at her mother, "Am I the only one that's half?"
Coriander did not know the answer she shrugged before saying, "I'm sure there is someone else."
"That's why I can see the spirits? Why I could heal that bird?" She paused, "Can I do that too people?" She looked wide-eyed up at her mother. Coriander smiled softly looking down at the youths green eyes.
"Yes, in a way. You see I had those powers once, and even more that with time you will develop." Coriander explained, "Be patient, do not strain yourself by using them too much, and Celandine dear?"
"Yes mother?" She said wanting to soak up as much information as she could.
"Tell no one Celandine." She lost her soft smile, face turning grave, "Not even your friends must know that you are not full mortal."
Celandine frowned, "I tell Robin and Much everything. They tell me everything. Why can't I tell them?"
Coriander bit her lip and brushed one hand through her blonde, almost silvery, hair. "It's very dangerous." She thought a bit on how to word the next words, " Celandine, there are very bad people out there, many of which who do not-" she paused, "do not fully except people like you and I."
Celandine's brows furrowed together, "You mean they will hurt us? Not Robin or Much though!"
"I mean that-" She sighed, this was far more difficult than she thought, " I mean that people may-may hurt us. Yes."
"So not even Much?" Celandine got the look in her eyes that meant tears where coming soon.
"No sweetheart, not Much." Coriander said placing a hand on the girls cheek.
"Not Robin?" Coriander could see the tears beginning to form in her daughter's eyes. Shaking her head she waited for them to come out.
Celandine frowned and blinked a few times pretending to be tougher than she was. A thing she often did with her mother or friends.
"What- what are the spirits called Mama?" She asked, eyes closed.
"The Aelfe." Her mother whispered.
"I shall not tell anyone." Celandine looked up, a few tears making their way down her cheeks, "I promise."