Still Not a Faerie Princess

by taz12335

Spencer is still a Faerie Princess and now she is Ashley's mate as well. Who or what will come between them. This is the repost of the second part of the series.

2. Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I still don't own SoN or it's characters.

Thanks for taking the time to read and review.

ch. 11

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Spencer found herself running in circles, or at least it felt like circles, hell everything looked alike here.

She stopped and doubled over trying to catch her breath, when she leaned back against a tree and closed her eyes all she could see was that damn red eye looking back at her. Then she'd hear a noise, open her eyes and she would see those things coming out behind the trees or sneaking up behind her and she would have to take off again. They didn't let her catch her breath, they didn't give her a second to think. It was like they waited for her to stop and then they came out of hiding just to keep her moving. One got a little too close for comfort and she tried to hit at it, it bared it's fangs and hissed at her that was when one of the other things attacked it and then they all joined in and tore it to pieces in front of her. Then they all turned their attention back to her again and she took off once more.

'How long have I been gone? Is Ashley looking for me?' Spencer thought as she ran. 'I didn't get to say goodbye and that I love her.' That was when she heard something off to her right. It was a fluttering of small wings. She stopped and she strained to see what it was. It was so dark in this forest that she wished she had a flashlight. She looked around on the ground and she found a stick. She raised it like a baseball bat and she swung as soon as she could see something coming at her face. SPLAT she felt it make contact then she heard a moan as what ever she hit landed a few feet away against a tree and slid to the ground.

"P P Princess?" it moaned.

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Meanwhile back at the hotel room with Ashley.

"So that's the plan. What do you think?" Ashley asked everyone.

"Hmph, nots much of a plans" Glen stated as he glared at Ashley with his arms crossed over his chest.

"So little man you think you can do better?" asked Aiden.

"I's thinks a mites on a flea could dos better." Glen said as he looked at Ashley.

"Watch it pipsqueak, your princess isn't here to protect you." Ashley growled at him.

"Well I for one say that we need all the help that we can get." Kyla said as she looked towards Ashley and then back to Glen. "Let's hear what you can come up with."

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"P P Princess...?" something moaned over by the tree. "That can't be Clay can it? I saw his body. We buried him." Spencer thought to herself.

"Princess...I can't seem to get my wings to cooperate, would you mind terribly giving me a hand?"

"But it sure sounds like him." Spencer creeped over to the source of the voice with her stick at the ready. She lowered the stick and poked it at the little mass on the ground.

"Do you mind." It grumbled at her "That hurt." Then it turned over and Spencer went to her knees.

"Clay." She said as she picked him up and hugged him to her. "It is you. How? We saw your body, or what was left of it. How did you get here? And where is here?" She held him out and just looked at him and she hugged him again.

"Yes yes." he said as he pushed away from her and tried to straighten himself out. "One question at a time." He fluttered his wings and took flight in front of her face. "Well where to begin. I suppose it wouldn't do any good to tell you here in the open. We need to get to the castle." at that time they both heard a noise in the surrounding woods. "Come we need to get to cover." he stated as he grabbed her by the shirt and tried to get her to follow him.

She didn't budge. Something wasn't right. "Clay, how did you get here?"

12

Clay was just flying in place flapping his wings and Spencer was standing there not budging with her arms crossed. Clay was still tugging on her shirt collar and it was stretching a bit so she reached up and jerked it out of his small hand.

"Clay?" Spencer tried to get his attention. "How did you get here? And where is here?" Spencer asked as she looked around at the mostly dead dark forest.

Clay started to open his mouth when a twig cracked to the right and he swung his head that way. Spencer also looked that way but she couldn't really see anything. That was when she heard a low growling and then she noticed a golden eye with a red line around it glowing off to that side as well. "Princess Spencer," Clay said. "please do not move or make a sound."

That was when the forest behind them erupted into motion and an army of those rotting corpse's came into the clearing scratching the ground and circling Spencer and Clay. Spencer looked back to where she had seen the eye but it was gone. Clay tried to pick up the stick that Spencer had hit him with but it was to big for him, Spencer picked it up and started swinging.

The next thing she knew something was attacking the ghouls for lack of a better name, from the outside of the circle. She heard bone cracking and splitting. She saw the ghouls scrambling to get away from what ever was attacking them but she still couldn't get a good view of what ever it was. She looked around for Clay and found him atop a limb in the nearest tree. She glared at him as she went over to the tree and climbed up.

'This not having powers sucks, it's so hard. How do regular people survive without powers?' She asked herself as she grabbed the uppermost limb and hoisted herself up.

She looked down on the carnage in the clearing and she couldn't believe what she was seeing. It was a large russet looking wolf with a huge scar on it's snout up across it's right eye, and it was demolishing the ghouls that remained in the clearing, most of them had taken off when the wolf started attacking. It had just ripped the head off of the last ghoul when it turned it's good eye towards them and circled around the bottom of the tree. Every now and then it would wine and look up at Spencer.

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"So's that's me's plan" Glen said with his little chest puffed out as he poked his chest with his thumb.

"I don't think so." Ashley said as she poked him in the stomach and he released all the air he was holding in his lungs.

Madison stepped up and she pushed Ashley in her chair. "I say we call Christine and check on her and make sure she's alright then we fill her in on what is happening and get her to put in her two cents in the mix. I bet she would send the private jet and we can all be back before dinner."

"Ya." said Aiden as he leaned in towards Madison.

"I...can't believe I forgot." Ashley said as she turned towards Kyla. "What was wrong? Is she alright?"

Kyla gets a little smirk on her face. "She'll be just fine. If not a little cranky for oooooo let's say seven or eight more months."

"What? No way. I so didn't need to know they were still doing it. I thought it was just a fluke when the twins came... Gross." Ashley said as she shook her head. "Alright I'll call her and fill her in."

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"How long will that wolf be down there?" Spencer asked as the wolf started to wine again.

"I'm not sure, Princess, for I've never been this close to it before." Clay answered.

Spencer broke a branch off the limb she was sitting on. "I wonder if it would fetch." she said as she looked down at the wolf. "Here boy, here boy." she said as she wiggled the branch back and forth and then she threw it into the woods. "Go fetch." The wolf gave her an irritated look and blew into the ground as it decided to lay down at the base of the tree and put it's head on it's paws.

"Well how did that work out for you?" Clay asked with a arched brow.

"It worked out exactly the way I wanted." Spencer said with a air of superiority. "After all those things are gone and we got a guard dog..." the wolf lifted it's head and growled. "...sorry wolf to keep them away." Spencer's head snapped back to the wolf. "Did you just understand what I said?" She asked the wolf who just ignored her and put it's head back on it's paws.

"Well anyways you now have the time to answer my questions." She said as she swung her head back towards Clay. "First question. Are you my Clay?"

"Yes."

"How? I saw your body. I helped prepare your body." Spencer asked as she eyed Clay warily.

"It's been awhile for me. So let me think a minute." Clay said as he situated himself on the limb a little better.

"Been awhile. What do you mean it's been awhile? It's only been two and half weeks." Spencer said.

"Is that all. Well I've been here for a good fifteen years if I've been here a day."Clay said

"Fifteen years?"Spencer said unbelieving.

"At least. I'm not really sure. The last thing I remember was going to the Faerie Gate in the mortal realm to try and figure out what was wrong with it." Clay said with his eyes closed. "Then the gate started making an awful noise and the inside looked like molten lava. The next thing I knew I was being plucked out of the air from behind and Princess Kelly stepped through the gate, only it wasn't our Princess Kelly it was a more twisted version." Clay opened his eyes and looked into Spencer's blue orbs. "She was laughing hysterically and she walked up towards me and grabbed me out of the ghouls hand. That was when she told me to watch the gate." Clay started to get choked up. "I don't know how, but my body came flying out of that...that...thing for it wasn't really our gate anymore it was the entrance to hell, at least that was what it looked like. I don't think I quit screaming until I was knocked out. When I woke up I was here in this dimension in a cage being poked with a stick and asked all kinds of questions about you and Miss Ashley." He looked her in the eyes and she could see tears in his eyes."I tried not to tell her anything honest, but they kept poking me and wouldn't let me eat but very little. I don't know how long I was kept there until I just broke down. I kept thinking you were looking for me and would find me until she told me you had a funeral pyre for me. That was when I knew my life as I knew it was over. I told her everything, I could remember, after all how could it hurt you if I had been here for what I guess was at least a year at that time surly what I had known was useless to her. I guess I was wrong." He said as he bowed his head in shame.

Spencer patted him on the head and she really wanted to reassure him but she couldn't really, after all look were she was, and without Ashley. You would think after all they were put through that they would get a break, but no. And it wasn't that she wasn't glad to see Clay, because she was, but she didn't really know were here was yet.

"So to answer what I'm sure will be your next question...we're in Faerie or what's left of it in this dimension, and you died in the battle with your uncle."

"I died, but I didn't die, I found the power of love." with that sentence verily said for anyone to hear the wolf cocked it's ear towards Spencer and whined once again.

13

The wolf was still at the bottom of the tree and every so often it would raise it's head and stare longingly up at Spencer. "Hey, do you know what the deal is with that wolf?" Spencer asked Clay.

"I mean, why won't it go away?"

"I can only tell you what I've been told and what I've noticed." Clay said.

Spencer just stared at him waiting for him to continue. "Hmm, yes well you see it's like this I noticed this wolf following me one day while I was flying in the woods" He says as he stares down at said wolf. "and well I tried to get away from it, but it just kept following me. I didn't know why so I made my way back to the castle and the wolf stopped just before the clearing and watched me." Clay stopped here and seemed to be mumbling something to himself.

"Well?"

"I reported it to the palace guards and they went out to see if they could find it, but of course they had no such luck. Word got back to Kelly who I was trying to avoid at all cost and she sent for me. Why she didn't kill me in the beginning I will never know. " Clay mumbles that last part and shakes his head. "Anyways she sent for me and questioned me about the wolf. What could I tell her other than it followed me."

"She didn't believe me, she said that I had to do something for it attacked everything that wondered into the forest by themselves."

"What she felled to mention was that the wolf mainly attacked the ghouls and her, not the other faeries going about there normal routine. She decided she wanted to set a trap for it and I was to be the bait."

"Let me tell you my wings were just a shaking, I mean come on, I'm not the bravest faerie around, hell I'm not even the bravest molecule around and that's saying a lot. I know I talk a big game but that's all it is talk, nothing more." he glanced down at the wolf with a sad smile.

"She set the trap and I was the bait, we were in this very clearing as you can still see the scorch marks on the lower branches of this very tree." Clay stopped here as his eyes seemed to glaze over with the memory of that day. He continued in a quieter voice and Spencer had to strain to hear what he said.

"Kelly had me tied to a stick stuck in the ground and she had her ghouls posted as guards. She of course was safe at the top of the tree concealed by a spell or a glamour if you will. When one of the ghouls took a stick and lit the end on fire and proceeded to poke me with it until I passed out from the agonizing screams that tore out of my throat. When I woke up all the ghouls were dead and the few that weren't were torn to shreds, and the humongous wolf was trying to get to the top of the tree. It was as if it sensed Kelly at the top." Clay shook his head once again and looked Spencer in the eyes.

"Do you see that scar on the wolf's muzzle and across it's eye?" Spencer looked at the wolf and nodded her head yes.

"It got that on this day. It was halfway up in the branches when a fire ball shot down and hit it square it the face. It lost it's balance and fell the rest of the way to the forest floor. I was struggling to get out of the binds that I was in when I was freed I tried to escape into the forest but I was pulled back by a spell. Kelly pulled me back and told me if I wanted to survive that I had to kill the wolf." Clay put his head down against his chest.

"I told you I wasn't brave and I meant it. I didn't want to die so I agreed. She handed me her dagger that hung by her side only it was more like a sword or a spear in my hands and pushed me towards the downed wolf. She wasn't taking any chances and she wouldn't get close to it. I looked in its eyes and I saw understanding and forgiveness in it's big brown expressive eyes. Eyes that haunt my every restless night. I pulled the knife over my head and swung as hard as I could and aimed for the head thinking it would be a merciful death with no pain. I was wrong the knife got stuck and I couldn't pull it out. Kelly just laughed and then she proceeded to kick the poor wolf until she got her fill."

Spencer looked down upon the wolf with sorrow and she noticed that the wolf had it's ear cocked as though it was listening to everything that Clay had said.

Clay continued, "I didn't know who it was. If I did I wouldn't have done it." he said as he looked at Spencer with anguish.

"Who?" Spencer cleared her throat. "Who is it? Is it someone we know?"

"Yes...but I swear I didn't know until afterwards, some time afterwards." He looked at her as though pleading with her to believe him. "Kelly grabbed me by the wings and swung me around in a circle singing that the evil mongrel was dead, only it wasn't, as she turned in circles getting closer it leapt to it's feet and slashed her across the chest. She screamed and she took off into the forest towards the palace...she seemed to have forgotten me as she dropped me in the clearing. I couldn't see straight so I didn't notice the wolf at first. It was looking right at me with blood all over it's face. It could hardly stand up. It growled at me as I tried to stand up. I didn't realize that it wasn't growling at me until later." Clay stopped and looked down at the wolf.

"I took flight and went back to the palace. It wasn't until later that I learned some more ghouls had entered the clearing and supposedly killed the wolf. Kelly threw the most extravagant party you ever saw, all because she thought the wolf was dead. That thing you see down there isn't the wolf that we know...it's a ghost, and it haunts these woods. It doesn't come out all the time just every now and again, and whoever sees it dies."

At that the wolf looked up and whined. Then it stood and trotted over to the edge of the woods and looked over it's shoulder as it shimmered out of existence.

"Who is it?" Spencer asked almost frantically.

'You already know. Why torture yourself with this. Do you actually need to hear it.' she asked herself. 'Yes damn it, I do."

Clay wouldn't look her in the eyes.

"WHO IS IT?" She demanded with tears falling down her cheek.

Clay looked up at her. "It's..."

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Ashley and the others were on their way to Christine's club in a taxi from the airport. They didn't have much to say to each other and even if they did Ashley wouldn't be listening to them she was to worried about Spencer.

Once they got in contact with Christine she told them to get home right away and she would try to get in contact with Queen Paula or the Faerie council if she couldn't get in contact with Paula.

She decided to send some other Were's out to California, to help Jesse with his problem and she promised that if it wasn't handled in a week she would fly out there herself and handle it.

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Jesse wasn't to happy about them leaving but decided to play along until he heard anymore from the master or the mistress. It seemed that the attacks had settled down a little and that every time he called to inform them of what was going on he got the brush off. He was getting tired of playing their game and decided to do a little digging on his own to see if he could find his family. He was getting worried that they might not be alive.

He just needed somewhere to start. He decided to work his way from his house to his club since that was where his mother and his child disappeared from, and with all the Were's living in his neighborhood and nobody seeing or smelling anything it was just sitting with him as wrong.

'Maybe I should have confided in Ashley or even Kyla, maybe they could have helped me and none of this other stuff would of happened.' He shook his head, 'Naw, that would of got them killed if they weren't already. I really need to use my brain and be the Alpha that I am...'

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Ashley was taken in a bone crushing hug when she entered her mother's office.

"Oh, Ashley I'm so sorry. To have your mate ripped from you that way it must be so heart breaking." Chelsea said as she hung on while Ashley tried to straighten up and to hold her tears at bay. Christine came up from behind and she took Ashley by the shoulder and led her to a private chamber and sat down on the couch and pulled her into her lap.

That was all it took for Ashley to release the dam that was holding her tears back and she cried for all she was worth until she fell into a fitful sleep. Christine worked her way off from under her and laid her down on the couch. She covered her up with a throw blanket and brushed her hair out of her face and leaned over and kissed her on the forehead. Then she joined the others in the office.

"How is she?" asked Sean as he was entering the office.

"She's resting." Christine said as she turned and looked at the three who stood in front of her as well as the little devil sitting on her desk playing with her cell phone. She sat in her chair and grabbed the phone away from Glen.

"Hey" he shouted as he looked at who took his new play thing away. "O...sorries." he said sheepishly.

"Yes well, what did you guys find out?" she asked as they all started talking at once.

"Mean Kelly puts me..." "Ashley was crying..." "They were laughing..." "We tried to make a plan..."

"ONE AT A TIME!" she shouted.

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A bright light appeared in the room with Ashley and sphere of white light formed and out stepped Queen Paula. She walked over to the sleeping form and saw that it was Ashley. She stooped down at eye level and whispered. "I hope your love for my niece is enough to end this disharmony in the universe." and she leaned forward and kissed her on the head

Ashley awoke with a start and she saw Queen Paula standing before her, she jumped to her feet and nearly tripped over the blanket as it pooled around her feet.

"Queen Paula." she said as she bowed her head.

"No need for formalities after all we are to be family, and it's Paula." Paula said as she stepped forward and grasped Ashley's hand. "I'm here because all of Faerie as well as the Mortal realm needs your help."

That was when the door burst open and through it came a very hormonal protective mother Were as well as a highly pissed off father and an enraged sister. They all took a protective stance around Ashley.

Queen Paula put her hands up and took several steps back. "I didn't come here to fight. I came here to ask for help."

Christine was the first to recognize the Queen. "My apologies, we detected strong magics and we worried that what happened to Spencer might come back and decide to take Ashley as well." she said as she bowed her head. The other two took a less hostile stance as well and bowed their heads.

At that time came the rest of the bumbling crew with Aiden trying to push his way in by elbowing the others out of the way. "Ow" said Madison. "That hurt." shouted Chelsea. Aiden found himself pushed up against the wall by an angered Were-cat growling in his face. He placed both hands by his sides and went limp to show that he meant no harm. He knew what an enraged mated Were could do and he didn't want to end up with his ears down around his ass hole. "S S Sorry" he stuttered.

"Ha ha ah ahhahahahhahahah, looks the big hairys dog peeds himself. Hahahhahahh." Glen laughed and pointed at Aiden. Which broke the taboo over the room and Sean released him as he fell to the floor red faced covering his groin.

"I did not," he said "I just spilled my drink." Aiden stated as he straightened up. Which just caused Madison and the others to laugh harder.

"Enough." said Christine through her own giggles as she looked back to Paula who had her hand over her mouth trying to stifle her own laughter as well.

Christine straightened up as well and thanked Paula for arriving as quickly as she did. "Did you find out anything useful?"

"Wait." Ashley said "I thought the council was investigating you and had you in confinement." Ashley said as she looked at Paula.

"That apparently was a rouse. I wasn't even aware that Spencer had tried to get in touch with me until I caught the culprit in the act of interrupting messages that were meant for me. Needless to say that was when I talked to Christine and decided that I needed a more hands on approach and so here I am." she looked at Ashley. "I need your help, I know where Spencer is but I'm blocked from going there personally I can only send someone not of Faerie."

"Of course I'll go, no need to even ask." Ashley said.

"There's something you really need to know before I send you...I can only get you close to the actual time and not the actual time." she said as she looked at Ashley in the eyes. "And you won't be in your human form until Spencer recognizes you and can turn you back."

"Wait what do you mean close to the actual time and if Spencer recognizes me?"

"Well for the first question is that you will be going to an alternate dimension as well as time. I only know that it is somewhere in the future. You yourself will be in your wolf form."

"Wait.. why will I have to be in my wolf form?" Ashley asked.

"Ya, and can she take someone with her to watch her back?" Aiden said from behind Ashley and every one of the young people were shaking there head up and down wondering the same thing.

"I'm afraid not it can only be one, and it can only be one with a deep connection to Spencer." She said as she looked back to Ashley. "You will be in your wolf form because I don't want everyone to know it's you and it will give you a fighting chance. If you turned up in your human form you couldn't change into your wolf form to protect yourself because of the wards I placed on Faerie and I'm assuming that my alternate did the same thing."

"Okay how long could it be and will I survive how ever long it will be?" she asked as Christine put her hand on her shoulder to give her strength.

"It could be anywhere from a few weeks to one hundred years." She said as she took a bottle out of her pocket. "This will keep you alive for a hundred years or longer if you chose to have more." She said with a twinkle in her eye.

"Wait a hundred years?"

"Yes a hundred years."

"But my life span is only about seventy-five or so years long and that's without the complications. How is this possible? I thought I would have to drink a daily dose of Faerie wine to live that long?"

"Consider it an early wedding gift. You can't seriously believe that Spencer would survive if you died? Her one true mate. No she would want to die anyway possible. You can call me greedy if you will but I couldn't stand to see the light in her eyes die without you. She has been so happy...and she hasn't really been happy in a long time. I would do anything to keep her that way." She said as tears came to her eyes.

"You see she's not just my niece she's my daughter and I would do anything for her. Even break my own rules of letting The Others back into faerie freely whenever they wanted to visit, or possibly live there." she said the last part as she looked at Ashley with hope in her eyes.

"So if I drink this and I end up where ever and I save her you want us to live in Faerie?"

"Only if that's what you both want." She said as she lowered her head and wiped at the moisture in her eyes.

"Okay, just so you know palaces make me itch."

"I don't mean the palace. You could have your own place in the woods by the creek not to far from the palace that way we could visit with each other. You could use it like a summer home or whatever I'm just saying you would be welcomed with open arms, with whatever you decide." Paula said as she took a step back. "You could bring your friends, after all we do have the best hunting in all the world." she said with pride. "But first we need to find my daughter your mate."

"Let's get this show on the road." Ashley said as she rubbed her hands together.

"One more thing you will have the ability to pop back to your den or house at your will, and you need to remind yourself that you are a human not an animal, at all times." she said

"I know I'm human." Ashley said defensively

"I don't mean now, I mean it could be a long time before you see Spencer and I don't want you to lose yourself." Paula said as she stepped up to Ashley and took her in a hug. "If that happened then all is lost." she said into her ear.

"I won't. I promise I won't forget and as soon as I find her we'll be back home and we'll come for that visit. You can count on me." Ashley said as she stepped back and turned and looked at her family.

"You need to turn into your wolf form and I will open the gate, it won't be as large as the one you saw in your room and you'll have to squeeze through."

"Why won't it be as large?" Ashley asked.

"I detest blood magic and outlawed it a long time ago. It corrupts the user and bends you to it's will, not your will." Paula shook herself and looked towards Ashley. "You need to say your goodbye's"

"Aaashley." Christine said as she took her in her arms and hugged , Kyla, Madison, Chelsea, and Sean all joined in the hug.

"Heys, don'ts leave us's out." Glen said as he poked their legs and went through climbing up Ashley's clothes to get on her shoulder. Aiden took a step forward and practically scooped everyone into a bear hug.

Paula plucked Glen off Ashley's shoulder and looked at him while the others were busy wishing Ashley well, she spoke so only Glen could hear. "I need you to go along and keep and eye on her. Try to keep her safe, remind her why she's there. It will be hard for her and I'm afraid she could lose herself. You can't be seen by the others there or they will know something is up."

"Yous can trustes mes." Glen said as he bowed low in her hand. "Your highness."

"Wait, what do you mean he can go? I thought you said if you are from Faerie that you couldn't go." Kyla asked with a little displeasure in her voice.

"That's right I did, but they didn't have the same war as we did with Below. So I believe he can go and as I said it's a small opening and I won't be able to leave it open long. I believe that he can hitch a ride with Ashley and hopefully keep her safe as well. I don't want her to be all alone without anyone knowing who she is and helping her."

"Good idea." Raife said. "Hey little guy." he said as reached down and picked Glen up. "Please keep her safe."

"I's will."

Chelsea stepped up to Ashley and took off her necklace and put it around Ashley's neck. "It's a protection charm and it should keep you safe from harm no matter where you are at." she said as she hugged her once again.

"Thank you." Ashley said.

"Now Ashley, if you please." Paula said as she gestured for her to change.

Ashley transformed into a wolf and Glen climbed on and grabbed a handful of fur. Paula said a spell and a small sphere of white light formed, it shimmered as if it was trying to go out. "Hurry, I..c..can't hold it open...m..m..much l..longer." Paula said with a strained voice.

Ashley started forward and the sphere started to get smaller. She jumped through the sphere just as it collapsed and left behind a few tuffs of fur.

Paula collapsed from the effort. "May god go with her." she said before she passed out.

15

"WHO IS IT?" She demanded with tears falling down her cheeks.

Clay looked up at her. "It's..."

"Wouldn't want to spoil the surprise now, do we Clay?" Said Kelly at the base of the tree looking up at them surrounded by what looked like the royal palace guards. "Now I suggest the both of you come down here so that we can get back to the palace." She said with a slight sneer. "Your expected my dear, and we don't want to keep your Uncle waiting."

"My uncle? I thought you said he was dead here?" Spencer asked

"I did didn't I?" said Kelly as she started to laugh. "Hahahahhahhahah..." The guards looked at each other and they started snickering amongst themselves. "What are you laughing at?" Kelly asked as she glared at them.

"Nothing Mistress." Said what looked like the captain of the guard.

"Well let's keep it that way." She snapped as she turned back to Spencer. "NOW GET DOWN HERE!"

she yelled.

"No." said Spencer

"I said GET DOWN HERE NOW!"

"No."

"If you don't come down right this instance I will have to come up there and get you down, and believe me I won't be so nice about it."

"No."

Kelly reached up to grab the nearest branch when she had a better idea. She took a few steps backwards and waved one of the guards forwards. "Go up there and get her."

"Yes mistress." he said as he hoisted himself up in the tree.

Spencer looked around and broke off some branches and twigs and rained them down upon the guard. He stumbled a couple of times but he kept coming. When he was right under her, he raised his head up and smirked at her as he reached his hand up towards her ankle.

"Nobody smirks at me. But Ashley." She said as she kicked him square in the face. He let go of the tree to grab his face and he fell and hit the ground at Kelly's feet. He picked his head up and looked around when Kelly kicked him in the face and he was knocked out.

"Well I guess if you want something done you have to do it yourself." she said as she looked up to Clay and gave him a signal. "I'll tell you one more time." she said as she walked up to the tree again. "Come down here."

"Noooooooooooooo..." Spencer said as she was pushed out of the tree by Clay.

She hit the ground at Kelly's feet and was knocked unconscious on impact.

Clay fluttered down out of the tree and landed by Spencer's head. "I'm so sorry my dear." He whispered in her ear.

"Growing a conscious?" Kelly asked him.

"No. I was just checking to make sure she was still breathing." he said.

"You almost told her." Kelly said accusingly.

"I was trying to buy you some time to get here. Which I knew you would as soon as you got word that the wolf was spotted again." he said as he looked up at Kelly

"Yes yes I guess you did. Why didn't the wolf attack you this time?"

"I guess it saw me with her and assumed I was her friend. I don't believe it really knew what side I was on. I don't really know why it didn't attack."

"Do you think she knows who it is?"

"Yes, I do." at that moment Clay mumbled something under his breath and he started growing tall. His skin tone changed to a lighter color and his hair turned black while his eyes turned blue. He had a crown upon his head and a staff in his hands. All the guards went to their knees. "My lord" was said by all in the clearing. All except Kelly who just looked on as if she was bored.

"By the way that was a great story you told her about how you got here." she said as she looked at him. "It kind of made me out to be a lunatic."

"Well aren't you?" asked Author.

"That's beside the point." she said as she looked at him with her half smile. "I kind of want to get her to kinda like me."

"Yes I see, and having her pushed out of a tree will help how?" he asked as he started to laugh. She looked at him then she started laughing as well.

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The wolf was back at her den curled up by the small fire that was created by Clay. "Hey." said Clay as he poked her with a stick. "Missy Ashley." he said.

The wolf wouldn't even look up at him.

"Dids yous find hers?" asked Glen.

She ignored him as she stared into the fire.

"I's talking heres." Glen hurumphed and crossed his arms.

Ashley still ignored him.

"I think she's getting worse." said a voice in the back of the den.

Glen rushed over to the voice and climbed up into the bed.

"Your Highnesses." he said as he bowed.

"We've been together to long for you to call me that. It's Paula." she said as her body was racked with coughs.

"Yes Missy Paula's." Glen said as he saw a dribble of blood come out the corner of her mouth and down her chin.

He rushed to the living area and got a cloth and rushed back and handed it to her. "Thank you my sweet boy." she said when she could finally speak. "Who would have thought I would be exiled in my own kingdom living with a wolf girl and a little handsome devil of an imp." she said as she patted him on the head.

"Try talking to her again. Make her respond." she said as she went back to sleep.

Glen climbed up her arm and kissed her on the cheek. "Yes your highnesses."

"Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, Ashley, wakey wakey." he said as he danced around her. She opened one eye and followed him around until he got in front of her. "Snap"

"Mmmpmmmp"

"Ashley do be a dear and release him." said Paula. Ashley shook her head no. "Please, for me?" she asked. Ashley blew out her nose and she spit Glen out.

He went head over heals until he was stopped by the wall. "Why yous." He picked himself up and picked up a stick and started towards Ashley. "Bad bad bad bad doggies."

Ashley got up growling and she snapped the stick in his hands in two.

"Children" Paula said out of breath as she tried to sit up but failed as she started coughing again. Ashley dropped her end of the stick a trotted over to her bedside whining and licked Paula's face.

Glen climbed up the bed and said "Yuck! Doggies drool."

Ashley looked at him and she seemed to be saying what of it when a hand started patting the top of her head. "He's just worried about you Ashley." Paula said. "He doesn't want you to forget why you are here, or who you are. You have to give him a break when he does it the only way he knows how."

Ashley looked at her as if asking a question. "I do wish I could read your mind my dear, but alas my strength is almost completely gone with the lost of the faerie forest and nature here. I'm afraid I won't be able to keep you and Glen concealed much longer. I think my end is near. I do wish I could have done more for you." She said as her hand dropped to the bed.

Ashley was worried when that happened and she pushed her ear to Paula's chest and she seemed to exhale the breath she was holding.

"She's just sleepings, Missy Ashley." Glen said as he came over to Ashley and hugged the side of her muzzle. "I sorries." he said.

Ashley pulled back and she licked him up his entire body and then she jumped back and she seemed to snicker.

"YUCK!" Glen said as he took his hand and wiped his face. "Yous yous." he shook with rage as he jumped off the bed and ran towards Ashley.

Ashley had her tongue out as if she didn't have a care in the world.

About that time Paula turned over to her side and she mumbled something in her sleep. Glen came to a stop and turned back to her as a bright light engulfed her and she was gone in a blink of an eye like she was never there in the first place.

Glen turned back to Ashley with tears in his eyes. Ashley laid down and Glen came over and snuggled into her side and his little body shook as he cried. Ashley was effected as well but she couldn't let her remorse out the way she would have if she was a human so she howled a sorrowful howl long into the night.

ch.16

'Where am I?' Spencer reaches out her hand and she feels something as she turns her hand palm down and runs it across the surface that she's lying on. 'It feels like a bed.' Spencer says to her-self.

"I see you're finally awake." Spencer jumped at the voice and jerked to a sitting position. She grabs the sheet and covers herself with it. She looks around and she notices that she's in a bed in what she figures is in one of the rooms in the Palace, naked.

"It's about time." Says an impatient Kelly.

Spencer glares at her as she asks, "Where are my clothes."

"Those old rags? I had them thrown in the garbage." Kelly is still ogling Spencer as she says this.

Spencer bunches up some more of the sheet in her hand as she scoots to the side of the bed to stand up.

Kelly takes a couple of steps towards Spencer and stops in front of her. "What do you think your doing?" asked Kelly in an almost concerned voice.

"What does it look like? I'm getting out of here." Spencer says as she's looking around for something to put on.

"Why?"

"Because I don't belong here. I need to find a way to my mate."

"Mate." Kelly snarled as she grabbed the sheet and jerked it off of Spencer as she then pushed her to the bed and forced her way between Spencer's legs as she grabbed her wrist and forced them above her head and settled her weight on her.

"Get Off Of Me!" Spencer yelled as she struggled to get out of Kelly's grasp.

"No." she said as she leaned forward and bit her ear. Then she pinned Spencer's wrist above her head into one hand and then she proceeded to glide the other one over Spencer's body starting at her upper thigh up to her side and then just under her breast and then down across her stomach and then she started to go down again when Spencer was able to get one of her legs wrapped around Kelly and she tried pushing her off.

Kelly didn't let go as she twisted until she was able to get a better position then she back handed Spencer and then grabbed her chin and made her look at her.

"Don't try that again." Kelly said in deadly calm.

Spencer spit the blood in her mouth into Kelly's face and she got a smug smile on her face when Kelly let her go and stood up. "That was your first mistake," she said as she wiped her face off with her hand.

She looked right at Spencer as she licked her hand and smiled a sinister smile. "Now let's not make another one." She reaches for Spencer again but Spencer is kicking and squirming on the bed backing away from Kelly as she grabs her ankle and drags her back towards her. She grabs the other leg and she forces her way between them again, and before Spencer can do anything about it she feels cold iron form around her wrist and her hands are forced back over her head. She turns her head and she sees her hands are now encased in cuffs and stretched out from one corner of the bed to the other.

Kelly traces one finger from Spencer's leg up to her stomach and she circles her belly button. "Don't you want to have some fun with me? After all, your mine now and there's no way your beast of a mate can save you now." She says with a sneer as she leans forward and bites Spencer on the chest and draws blood.

Spencer is screaming and squirming trying to get Kelly off of her when Kelly leans forward and bites her on the chest again and causes her to scream again.

"I thought you liked it rough." Kelly said as she brought her head up to stare into Spencer's eyes.

Kelly backs off and licks the blood off of her chin then she leans forward again as she forces her mouth to Spencer's and gives her a bruising kiss. She bites her lower lip and draws some of her own blood and mixes it with Spencer's as she forces it into her mouth.

Spencer is gagging and sputtering trying to draw breath into her lungs when Kelly leans back and clamps her hand over Spencer's mouth.

"The sooner you swallow that the sooner we can have some fun." She says.

Spencer is frantically trying to draw a breath, but she doesn't want to swallow the blood in her mouth. She knows' that it's not anything good and she wishes not for the last time that she had her powers back. A single tear escapes from between her closed eyelids. She didn't want it to end like this.

Kelly is straddling Spencer with all her weight, when all movement from below her ceases. She looks down and notices that Spencer isn't breathing or struggling anymore. She removes her hand and leans forward trying to see if she is still alive. She puts her ear to Spencer's mouth and listens. She rises back up and slaps Spencer across the face. Nothing happened.

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Ashley was getting a bad feeling in her stomach. She didn't now what was wrong. Maybe it was that girl that Glen had been talking non stop about. What was her name? Spencer, she didn't know why he kept talking about her especially when he found out I had found her. It was non-stop Spencer this and Spencer that. I think he even called her Princess Spencer a time or two, as well as Missy Spencer. It had become annoying. That's why I haven't been back to the den. It's been two days and I know he's worried about me. He keeps saying that I need to remember her. I'll admit I felt something but what I don't know. I mean come on look at me I'm a wolf and she's human how are we suppose to get along. He tells me we were close that we were in love. Well that was another time and place a place that I can't seem to remember.

Some time he talks and I can almost see this other place, and other times I just wish he would shut up. I mean we're here. We have got to live here. Let's just make a life. But then I think there might be something better and I just don't know it.

He keeps saying that I'm human, but you couldn't tell by looking at me. I told him it was a wonder I didn't attack her with that weasel she had with her. He says that it's not Clay's fault he was put in a difficult situation and he had to survive probably a lot of torture. I don't know if that's true or not, but he sure has been helping that bitch with her traps.

The first time I saw him I didn't want to attack, but then he went and made me blind in one eye with that damn knife. He seemed so scared of her that I tried to forgive him, why I don't know. It's not like I actually care about him, just something inside of me telling me I need to protect him. Kind of like with that girl….she smelled nice, and her voice…..I need to stop thinking about her.

It's been quiet in the forest since that bitch captured her. And what's up with that pipsqueak turning all big without the wings and all. He set my hackles on end. I wanted to attack him, tear his throat out. Tear him limb from limb, but I don't even know him. Why would I feel like that?

I guess the real reason I'm staying away from the den is I don't want to face Glen when he finds out that his 'Missy Spencer' has been captured. It won't be pretty.

I wish Paula was here, she knew how to handle him. Some times I wish she didn't give me the ability to talk to Glen, he's the only one that understands me other then Paula. She warned us that she couldn't hold on much longer and that we were here for a purpose.

She thought we were here to save her kingdom. I tried, but what can one canine due against an army of ghouls. I went out and I destroyed what I could find most of the time, but we've been in hiding so long that they must have thought I was dead otherwise they wouldn't of come into the forest so boldly chasing that poor girl. I've been lenient, but that's about to change. Anything coming into this forest will have to go through me, and I mean anything.

Well, I guess I better head back and face the music.

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Spencer had her eyes closed when she felt the slap from Kelly and it took all she could just not to react. When she felt Kelly loosening her hold she threw her off of her and spit what she had in her mouth out. She tried to move some more but the restraints were keeping her in place.

Kelly stood up by the side of the bed and glared at Spencer. She went to the door and called what looked like a serving girl from the hallway into the room.

"You, girl, get me a guard and then you come back with him." Kelly said.

"Yes, Mistress." The girl replied.

Kelly waited by the door for the guard to knock and then she let him in along with the girl. "Get that…thing out of here and put her in her room."

The guard bows low. "Yes, Mistress." He replies.

The girl moves to help when Kelly grabs her by the arm. "I didn't tell you to help."

"Sorry mistress." She says as she bows her head.

Kelly backhands the girl and she goes to the floor. She grabs the girl by the hair and drags her to take Spencer's place on the bed.

"Leave her alone." Spencer says.

"Why, you didn't want to play with me." Kelly said as she scrunched up her eyebrows and looked at Spencer. "Or do you?" She said as she walked over to Spencer and grabbed her by the chin and forced another kiss on her.

Spencer struggled trying to shake her head free of Kelly's grip.

"I guess you don't." she said as she released Spencer.

"Take her to the room down the hall and make sure she's secured to the bed." She smirked at the guard. "You don't have to be gentle about it."

The guard looked Spencer up and down with a leer. He was practically caressing her with his eyes.

"Don't even think about that." Kelly said as she looked at the guard with cold eyes.

"Yes mistress." Said the guard as he looked to the ground and bowed his head.

He jerked Spencer out of the room and took her down the hall to her room, well it really was only a broom closet with a bed against the back wall. He threw her on the bed and takes the chains on the back wall and secures Spencer in them. He slams the door closed without even looking at her, leaving her in the cold dark room.

She tried getting out of the chains. She put her foot against the wall and pulled with all her might, but it was no use. She falls back onto the bed when she hears the first scream. It continued for hours. It got to the point when Spencer tried to drown out the screams by putting her hands over her ears. She couldn't get it to stop. She started rocking back and fourth on the bed and humming to her self.

She didn't know how long she sat on the bed rocking, when the door to the room was slammed open and bounced off the wall. In the doorway stood Kelly, with blood smeared all over her, and an evil gleam in her eye. Spencer closed her eyes so she wouldn't have to look at her.

Kelly marched over to her and grabbed her by the hair. "You don't get to close your eyes." She said as she started to shake her. "Open your eyes."

Spencer opened her eyes and looked right at Kelly with hatred in her eyes. Kelly reaches over to the chains and releases her. She drags her out of the room down the hallway to her room.

"Look, what you made me do." Kelly snarled.

All Spencer saw was a lump of something on the bed and it was all bloody. The body was unrecognizable. Spencer went to her knees and started dry heaving. She was thanking what ever god was listening that she didn't have anything in her stomach, for if she had it wouldn't be there now.

Kelly kneels down next to her and looks at her. "Why didn't you want to play with me?" she asked as if she was a little girl. "We could have had so much fun." She says as she caresses Spencer's cheek and almost looks at her with a loving look. Spencer shakes her head and says, "Don't touch me."

"Fine, be that way." Kelly snarls as she throws the girls used clothes at Spencer. "Get dressed."

The guard was watching in rapped fascination as Spencer stood up and dressed in the dead girls clothes. It didn't ease the coldness from her bones but at least it kept the guards eyes off of her.

Kelly stormed off into a side room and came back with a bucket and a rag and she threw the rags into Spencer's face and sloshed water over the rim of the bucket when she set it down.

"Clean it up."

"What?"

"The mess, clean it up." She repeated.

Spencer still doesn't move and she's just standing there as Kelly storms over to her and grabs her by the arm as she drags Spencer to the bed and she throws her against it.

"I said…..clean it up." She says as she pushes Spencer's face towards the bed.

"Alright." Spencer says as she shakes her head free. She looks down on what remaied of the girl. Tears come to her eyes as she takes the girls hand searching for a pulse. Her bottom lip starts to tremble and tears trail down her face. "Why?" she asks.

"Why?" Kelly repeats, "Because, I can, and you wouldn't play." She says. "Besides the Master wouldn't want anything to happen to you….yet."

Spencer's head jerks towards Kelly. "Master?" she asks.

"That's right, you don't know about him yet, do you?" Kelly says with a smirk on her face as she saunters towards Spencer. "Well I guess I can let you in on a secret." Kelly says as she leans forward like she was going to whisper into her ear, but at the last minute she leaned back and looked Spencer in the eye. "No, let's keep it a surprise." Then she starts laughing uncontrollably.

Kelly glances back to the guard who has a smile on his face. She storms over to him and gets right in his face. "What the hell do you think you're laughing at?" she asks as she takes the knife out of his belt and thrusts it into his stomach. He falls to the floor with his hands over his stomach. He looks up at Kelly and she punches him in the face knocking him out.

Spencer is looking at the guard bleeding all over the floor.

"Now look what you made me do. Wasn't that poor girl enough for you." Kelly sneers at her as she heads to the door and storms out of the room slamming the door behind her.

Spencer gets up and starts looking for a way out of the room. She's in the side room when she hears the door being opened.

"Spency, where o where can you be?" Kelly says in a sing song voice. "Really Spencer, I wouldn't give myself to that harlot." Kelly says as she starts to mumble something else but Spencer couldn't make it out as she looks around the room trying to find a hiding spot. She sees what appears to be a cubby hole and squeezes into it.

Feeling around with her hands because it is dark but all she feels is a smooth surface, until her hand comes in contact with a button. She pushes it and she falls over into what can only be a small hallway or crawl space with lighting. She looks around and she can't see the entryway she came through. It doesn't take long before she hears Kelly screaming and throwing things in her room. Something hits close to where she was standing and she jumps backwards.

The next thing she knows there's a hand over her mouth and she is pressed against someone's chest. "MMMmmmmmm" she says.

"Sssshhhh." Was whispered in her ear. She didn't know if she could trust whoever this was but she figured she didn't have anything to lose as she could still hear Kelly tearing the room apart.

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ch.17

Spencer was trying to be quiet as possible she still didn't know who had her pressed against her but she could tell that it was a female, not much taller than she was. The female started walking them backwards down the narrow walkway, when there was a loud crash from the other side of the wall and dust and debris fell to the walk way. It caused the woman to release her grip and stumble away from Spencer.

Spencer twirled around and her eyes widened in recognition. 'Carmen' she mouthed, she recognized her from the pictures of her with Ashley and Aiden.

Carmen looked at her with confusion and anger then put her finger in front of her mouth to tell her to be quiet. She grabbed Spencer by the arm and dragged her down the walkway away from the noise.

They walked for about 15 minutes when they exited into the forest at the south side of the castle. Spencer jerked her hand out of Carmen's and came to a complete stop.

"Where are we going?" she asked as she looked at Carmen.

"I'm trying to help you." She said.

"That's not what I asked." Spencer said.

"I'm taking you to the rebellion or what Kelly likes to call them, renegades." She harrumphed. "I mean you must have found the secret passageway for a reason. I was there monitoring the situation and I was told to get whoever was there out as soon as possible. They just didn't tell me that it would be you." She said snidely.

Spencer really looked at her and could tell that the passing time here hadn't really been kind to Carmen. She looked like she had a pair of constant black eyes and her nose had seen better days as well as her hair that hung lifeless on her head.

"What are you looking at?" she snarled as she took a step towards Spencer.

Spencer held her hands up. "Nothing." She replied quickly as she took a step back. "I just wanted to thank you for helping me back there."

"Well don't. If I had known it was you I wouldn't of." She stated as she turned around and stormed off into the woods.

Spencer looked around and then took off after her. "Why? What did I do?" she asked as she ran after her.

"You killed her." She heard as she moved forward.

After that all she could hear was snarling and clothing ripping when she came to a complete stop and in the place where Carmen should be stood a large wolf or lycan. It shook its head trying to get Spencer to follow.

Spencer walked behind the Lycan when the wolf that treed her before jumped into their path. It bristled and growled at Carmen and it circled around behind them. Carmen followed it around and kept between the wolf and Spencer. She returned each growl with one of her own. The large wolf stopped and tilted its head and looked into Carmen's face then glanced over her shoulder and looked at Spencer.

Spencer looked at the second Lycan for she knew that's what it was for a regular wolf wasn't that large and she thought she saw recognition in the wolf's eyes. She couldn't figure what was going on and before she knew it she was taking a step forward. Carmen looked back at her and growled again but this time at Spencer and then she snapped at her trying to stop her from going forward.

The second wolf jumped at Carmen and snapped at her face. Before she could turn back around the wolf jumped on her back and pinned her to the ground with her muzzle wrapped around her neck. Carmen started whining and went completely still.

Spencer looked around but she couldn't find anything to help Carmen get free from the wolf. That was when the wolf lifted its head and looked at Spencer; it took a couple of steps forward and sniffed the air. It took a couple of more steps forward and it sniffed Spencer on the hand then tilted its head and looked at Spencer in the eyes.

Spencer shifted her eyes and looked to Carmen trying to see if she was going to get up and help her or not.

Carmen was unable to move at the moment. She was looking around trying to figure out who the other wolf was. Whoever it was must be an Alpha because it ordered her not to move and she couldn't. She saw Spencer look at her then she saw the wolf smell her.

The wolf pushed its muzzle into the crook of Spencer's neck and took a good whiff. Then it licked her right on the mating mark. It then backed up and it looked at Spencer with a concerned look it came forward again and it pushed its nose under her shirt.

Spencer didn't want to move she was scared and she noticed that if she didn't move that she didn't intimidate the wolf and cause it to attack so she decided to stay still. When the wolf nuzzled into her neck she held her breath. When it licked her, her heart started to race. When it backed up she could almost see a concerned look in its eyes.

She couldn't help to let out a little giggle when it came forward again and its cold nose made contact with her skin when it went under her shirt and it sniffed again, but the hair on the back of her neck and arms came to attention when the wolf let out a low growl that set her nerves at attention. The wolf pulled back and you could see that it was angry, it stomped around them and it growled some more. It stopped and then it kicked the dirt with its front paws and then it looked towards Carmen again.

It jumped on top of Carmen and brought its face right up in front of Carmen's and then it proceeded to growl and grumble. It looked like it was trying to communicate with Carmen and Carmen wasn't really understanding it.

Ashley once told me that they communicated not threw words but threw something more like pictures, which would be projected into the other ones head when they were in their Lycan form. She also said that they could understand what was being said around them by other people. If that's the case maybe I should try something.

"Please, don't hurt her Fido." I said as I looked at the wolf. 'Maybe I shouldn't be so sarcastic' she thought.

Even though I couldn't figure out why Carmen didn't like me, didn't mean I wanted to see her hurt. After all at one time her and Ashley were very good friends. Even if this wasn't the same Carmen as the one in my dimension.

The wolf looked up at me and lifted its ears towards me and it proceeded to get off of Carmen. It walked over to me and then it froze. It lifted its head and sniffed the air once again when I noticed that a low rumble was coming from it again. I froze once again and looked right at the wolf. It wasn't even looking at me. It was looking into the forest that was when I heard the noise. It was like an army was on the march. You could hear metal banging against metal and you could hear grunts.

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I can't believe it. There's that girl Spencer and she's with another wolf that isn't me. That just sets my hackles on end so I jump into the clearing and circle them. The other wolf puts itself between me and Spencer, like I would hurt Spencer. Ashley shakes her head when she looks at Spencer she was being drawn to her and she noticed that Spencer was to.

She noticed that the other wolf noticed Spencer coming forward as well and it growled at her when that didn't work it snapped at her.

'What the hell.' Ashley thought, 'No one snaps at my Spencer.' She jumped onto the other wolf and caught it by surprise as she took it down and clamped her mouth around its neck. She had to use her Alpha voice to make it stop squirming and to be still.

She removed her mouth around its neck and she took slow steps over to Spencer. She didn't want to scare her by moving to quickly. She sniffed her hand then she went up Spencer's arm to her neck and that was when she felt it. This person belonged to her. She couldn't explain it, but she felt like she was home. Now all she had to do was get Spencer to agree. So she licked her and she felt Spencer's heart beat race.

She backed off when she got another scent. It was a scent that she wouldn't forget. It belonged to that bitch and there was also a hint of blood. She put her nose under the hem of her shirt and she lifted it with her nose. Her nose must have been cold because she heard a beautiful sound it had come from Spencer it was a tinkling sound and she would love to her it again. That was when she saw the bite marks and the bruises on Spencer.

That just pissed her off and she jumped back and stormed around her. She scratched the dirt with her paws and it went over Carmen. That was when she noticed her. She jumped on Carmen demanding to know what happened to Spencer and where was she when she was getting hurt. She saw that Carmen was hid in the walls listening to what was going on, but she was to afraid to help until Spencer stumbled into the secret passage way.

Which was only by luck?

Then when she found out whom it was she didn't want to help her. She blamed her for Ashley's death.

Well Ashley let it be known that Spencer was her human and that she better not hurt her if she knew what was good for her. Then she heard Spencer pleading for this fools life, and then she called her Fido. It brought back memories of the young Fae standing slightly to the side of her and if she could she would have smiled. Instead she gave her a wolfish grin and hung her tongue out of the side of her mouth. She shook her head and looked back to Carmen. Why would she want to help someone that didn't want to help her? She decided to get off the other lycan and she was walking over to Spencer when she smelt the decaying smell of death, and she heard them making their way through the woods. She had to get them out of here, but how?

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I didn't really know but I guessed that it was Kelly's ghouls sent out to find me and I was getting scared when the wolf turned around and pushed Carmen towards me. Carmen pushed me backwards so I turned around and she followed me deeper into the woods. If I started to slow down I was pushed from behind. I looked back once to see it the other Lycan was following but I didn't see any sign of it. Why would it risk its life for me? What am I to it? Will I ever know who it is? Why do I feel so alone?

I felt tears running down my face when I stopped and Carmen practically ran me over. I turned around and yelled as loud as I could. "ASHLEY!"

I heard a howl then a screech and another howl that didn't get finished. I pushed past Carmen and went back the way we had come. I made it to the clearing only to find it full of blood and dismembered ghouls. I dropped to my knees and cried. I didn't have the strength to go on any more. I just knew that was Ashley. I just didn't know if it was my Ashley or not. The last time I had seen her she was frozen in the hotel room.

I must have blacked out for the next thing I knew I was in a bed in a tent somewhere in the forest. How do I know I was still in the forest? By the sounds and smells around me. It smelled like a forest should smell and I felt the magical energy coming from the earth. I put my hand on the ground and felt the humming coming off of it. It created sparks along my fingers. I blinked and looked at my hand again, and then I plunged it into the ground and absorbed what I could from it. It recharged my batteries so to speak.

I was ecstatic. I had my powers back. What ever Kelly had done was only temporary. I got a grin on my face and waved my hand over myself and I was clean and dressed in my own clothes. There was a noise outside the tent, and then the flap was whipped open I was prepared to defend myself and I conjured up a fireball and through at the intruder.

"Woo, is that any way to treat one of your rescuers." Was said as the intruder started slapping his arm to put out the fire. When he looked up I saw his brown eyes and they crinkled at the corner.

"Aiden?" I said. "Is that you?" I couldn't believe it. It looked like Aiden and sounded like Aiden but how could it really be Aiden? He was so much older and gray headed.

"Yes, young lady, I'm Aiden. Do I know you?" he asked as he was still tapping out the smoke on his sleeve. "You better be glad that I don't have any feeling in this arm." He said when he got it out. That was when I saw that it wasn't really and arm but a prosthetic.

"Aiden it's me Spencer." I said. I don't know maybe he would know me as Carmen seemed to know me.

"I don't see how that is possible seeing as she died fifteen years ago along with Ashley." He said in an angry voice.

I looked at him and could tell he wasn't really angry but heart broken that I had apparently brought up a sore subject.

I didn't really know what to tell him so I decided to tell him my story from the beginning.

The similarities with this Spencer and I was uncanny. All the way up until she faced her uncle. Where as I killed mine with love and saved Ashley's life as well as my own, this one died in the process but apparently she weakened her uncle to the point that he was too weak to take over Fae at the time. That was were Kelly came in. She nursed him back to health and she was promised anything she wanted. She helped to run Queen Paula from the palace and she controls the ghouls. Most of the kingdom seems to be under her spell.

"That's where you come in." he said.

"What do you mean that's where I come in?"

"Arthur needs your blood so that he can be all powerful again."

"Why my blood and no one else's?"

"He found out you were his daughter."

Well that was a shock I thought as I blacked out once again.

"Where did the lights go?" I mumbled as I sat up in the bed. "Thank goodness, it was just a dream." I said as I swung my legs to the side.

"I'm afraid it wasn't a dream."

I jerked my head to the side and I saw Aiden sitting in a chair.

"What do you mean it wasn't a dream." I asked. "He can't be my father. My father's dead. He's my uncle not my father." I said as I crossed my arms. Surly they wouldn't have lied to me my whole life. Not Aunt Paula. Surly she would know that he was my father.

"Queen Paula hid you from him because she could see the darkness in his heart, and she didn't want him to get a hold of you. He was already dabbling in blood magic by the time they divorced. So she hid you under his nose with his brother and sister in-law." He said as he looked into her eyes. "Didn't you ever wonder why out of all your cousins you were the only one to be taken under her wing? I mean come on you supposedly had two other siblings but I don't see them living with you." He stated as he poured himself something to drink. He held out the picture of water to her. "Would you like some?" he asked.

"No thank you." I didn't know what else to say. I mean I never thought about it I just always assumed that they didn't want to live in the palace with so much going on. I was always told that they wanted to live where they were living. How can Aunt Paula and Uncle Arthur, be my parents? It's too much to wrap my brain around. I think I'm getting a head ache.

I stood up and started pacing. There wasn't a lot of room in the tent so I went outside. There was a fire and around the fire were sitting some people so I walked over to the other side of the camp instead. I didn't want to be around any one at the moment.

So here I am sitting on a rock by a stream. It's peaceful here. I don't feel dread at the moment like my life is hanging in the balance.

I just want to go home to Ashley. Is that really to much to ask for? In order to do that I guess I need to see what I can do to help these poor souls. I just hope I have it in me to defeat them without Ashley. I hope I'm alive after wards to feel her arms around me. I close my eyes and whisper a little prayer.

I don't know how long I sat there when I screamed and fell off the rock. Something cold and wet had nudged me on the face. With a thud I looked up into the one good eye of the wolf that had attacked Carmen and me in the woods. It had the most expressive brown eye with gold flecks. 'Ashley' I thought.

Before I could voice my opinion we were surrounded by the other Lycan in the camp as well as a few magic wielders as well. She didn't seem to care as she loped over to me and put her head into my lap. I felt a rumble from her chest as I ran my hands through her fur. I felt something around her neck and noticed that it was a medallion and it had an inscription on it in Latin.

I read the inscription out loud and it caused the magic wielders to gasp as the eye of the wolf in my lap healed as well as all the battle scars it had sustained. It lifted its head and looked into my eyes with all the love it possessed and I leaned forward and….

ch.18

Spencer was leaning forward looking into my eyes when from the side there was a rustling of bodies being pushed out of the way and someone spoke.

"Where did you get that spell? Who gave it to you?" was heard. Spencer turned her head towards the interruption.

"It was around her neck." She said as she gestured to me.

I just lifted my head off of Spencer's lap and stared at the intruder. I knew this person or someone like her. She had a protruding belly that was heavy with a little one or two and she smelled of magic. Standing directly behind her hands on her shoulder was another female this one I knew it was Madison my best friend. I walked up to her with my tongue out and tail wagging. She took a step back and pulled the female behind her and bared her teeth. I stopped in front of her and sat down.

"She smells like a Lycan." Madison spoke as she continued to stare down into my eyes. I looked back to Spencer and whined. Spencer stood up and walked up beside me as she ran her fingers into my fur.

"She is." Said another voice I recognized as Carmen. "And she's powerful as well." She said as she looked down. "I believe she's an Alpha." She said as she looked around to everyone in the clearing.

There was and audible gasp from the crowd. "How is that possible?" one asked. "I thought they were all killed off." Another said. "Christine was the last and we haven't had another born with the ability of an Alpha since Kelly cast a spell on all the Were clan." Then there were murmurings amongst themselves as they parted for Aiden to step up.

He put his hand out to my nose and I sniffed it, I gave him a big lick up the palm of his hand and sat back down and cocked my head to the side.

"Why doesn't she shift?" he asked

Chelsea pushed her way to the front of Madison, "Ask her where she got that spell." She said as she looked to Aiden.

"Why?" he asked.

"Because it belonged to Raife and me. We were working on it to heal wounds on all Were's, but we couldn't get it to work." She said as she shook her head "Even still it has the same wording and that's my pendant." She said as she took the chain from off around her neck and showed everyone. "Sean had it made for me. It's one of a kind…." She said as she looked over to Spencer holding the other pendant. "….or it was." She finished.

Spencer stepped forward and handed the pendant over to Chelsea, "I don't know how she got it and I don't really know why she can't shift, but if she could shift I bet she would tell you." She said as she looked at me.

I nudged her in the side and she yelped, I guess my nose is still cold. I stood up and turned around and walked towards the woods and looked back at her. Spencer walked towards me and took a handful of my fur in her hands and I shimmied us out of there. We heard gasp from around us but I didn't pay them any mind as I knew I had to get Spencer away from there so that she could concentrate on the problem at hand…namely me and why I can't shift.

I figured if anyone would know it would be Glen, so I decided to take the fastest route to get to the den which just so happened to be the power that Paula had bestowed upon me to shimmy from one place directly to the den. I just didn't figure on Spencer freaking out on me. I thought she knew it was me. You would think I would be the one freaking out as I hadn't really had any contact with very many humans be them Fae, Were or not.

We ended up in the den and she let go of my fur and scurried away from me as fast as she could and into a corner. She looked around like some one was going to attack her. Which in hindsight is probably what will happen when Glen notices that she is here? That caused me to snicker or at least snicker as much as a Lycan can.

Just about that time I see the blur and its' headed straight for Spencer it doesn't even stop when it reaches her it just climbs up her leg and stops on her shoulder and leans forward and hugs her.

"Missy Spencer is it reallies yous?" he asked.

"Glen?" she asked as she picked him up from her shoulder and put him in her hand.

"Yes its me's." He stated

"So that is Ashley?" she asked as she looked at me.

"Yes that's the doggy." He glares at me. "Bad doggie" he stated as he continued to glare at me.

"What did she do know?" she asked with a head tilt.

"She left me heres all alones." He said as he wiped an imaginary tear from his eye.

"She did?"

"Yes she did." He stated as she shook his head up and down.

"For how long?"

I knew I was in trouble as soon as she asked that question. So I had to distract them. "Glen tell her what to do." I said to him, but he just looked at me.

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I couldn't believe it. I don't know how we came to be in this cave when we were surly in a clearing by a pond with the other Lycan's when all the sudden we were here and Glen came out of nowhere and hugged me, and clarified that the wolf was definitely Ashley.

It looked like she was talking to Glen and that he understood her, but all I got was a bunch of gibberish.

"Did you understand her?" I asked as I waited for him to respond.

He shook his head in the negative and stuck his tongue out at her. She jumped at him and he climbed back up to my shoulder glaring down at Ashley. She stopped at my feet and looked me in the eye. It was kind of weird having her look at me like this. It was diffidently her; it was her brown eyes with hints of gold spread about. She sniffed me again and then she lay down on my feet.

So here we all are sitting in the corner just absorbing each others closeness. Why can't she shift? It must be something. I need to think. What was done to her when she left our dimension? It must have been something Paula did. But what? And why?

"Glen?" he just looked at me like he was drowsy and he continued to ignore Ashley. "Glen?" I said a little louder he shook his head and looked at me.

"What?" he said a little irritated.

I looked at him and raised my eyebrow as if in question.

"I's sorry." He said with his head down.

"I need to know how you got here and how Ashley came to be in this form."

He rung his hands and his tail was twitching while he was staring at his feet. I don't really think he could get redder than he was already naturally, but here he was turning a shade darker, like he was angry. Ashley was yipping at him at the same time.

"All right," He yelled as he looked down at her. "I's telling her."

So he explained everything that had happened or at least what he could remember since it was fifteen years for them. Fifteen years. I've only been here at the most a week, and I missed her like crazy but fifteen years I couldn't imagine what she must have gone through, and I hope I never have to.

He told me about the Paula from this dimension and that she just disappeared one day. She gave Ashley the gift of transporting from one location to the den, which came in handy when she was attacked by Kelly and Clay. He couldn't figure out why she didn't die. I told him at had something to do with the medallion that she had worn around her neck.

He didn't really say how to get her to transform back into her human form other than that I would have to recognize her, well check I do recognize her and I need for her to be human. I need for her to wrap me up in her arms and never let me go again.

I am sitting here thinking about a spell that I can use, but it may be painful for her to go through, I don't know if she would want to be in pain or if she even wants to be human. From what Glen said she didn't really remember being with me or any other human, she thought she was a wolf and supposedly she wanted to stay that way.

She's out hunting right now, I think she felt crowded and she needed to get out. Glen says that's not so, but I don't know. I'm looking around the den and she didn't have much to survive other than Glen. Don't get me wrong I'm grateful for what Aunt Paula…..mom…..I'll just stick to Paula, what she did for us, but why did she have to be here all by herself for so long….well not by herself just without me.

Did she even want to be with me? Did she remember what we are to each other? Sure she seemed like she knew me, but did she really. I mean she's been a wolf for a long time. She's had her freedom. Would she want to be tied down to me again? Not only me but the pack, they need someone here to lead them. I just hope it's not Ashley.

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I came back to the den with a rabbit for Spencer and Glen; she didn't seem all that impressed with it. Instead she just conjured something up with some faerie ale and some roasted meat for me. Don't get me wrong I appreciated it, but I just wanted to be human again and get on with my life and get back home.

She's now explaining the spell she wants to use to turn me human. Glen is finally telling her everything that I say which is about time.

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I told her everything I knew about the spell and what she should expect, and she agreed to do it. I hope this goes well. I lean forward and kiss her on the nose and then I lean back and I chant the spell in a low voice to begin then I get louder and louder, until all you could hear was a humming sound.

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Dear god, it hurt, everything hurt.

I was in extreme pain. Just breathing felt like I had a vise around my chest that kept getting tighter and tighter until everything started to come apart. It felt like I was being split in two and went from my toes all the way up to my head.

I couldn't remember exactly where I was or how I had gotten here. All I could feel was pain. I listened for any sound around, but all I could here was a humming somewhere above me and a rough wet rasping sound close by and it was erratic. It was when I was exhaling that I noticed the erratic and ragged sound was actually a moan that was coming from me.

I tried to listen harder and I could hear that humming sound again and I could smell vanilla and lavender.

Then I was screaming….. Tearing…. Screaming…. Tearing…. Stretching…. Screaming…..screaming until there was nothing else coming out of me.

I need to get out of here. Please God, get me out of here.

My racing heart sped up even faster and I felt a dizziness try to over come me, I tried to open my eyes and see where I was but my eyesight was covered in a haze, but what I could see seemed to be melting, my limbs were twisting in ways nature had never intended them to rearrange themselves. I was screaming again and I bit my tongue to try to make it stop.

Please make it stop….Please God.

Then I tasted blood in my mouth and I was surrounded by complete silence.

It felt like I was ripped out of my skin and set back down in a completely different body, one that didn't seem to fit me.

Then I felt someone run their hands over my body and they leaned over me and it felt like they kissed my forehead. I tried to open my eyes but they were too heavy and then just before I fell into the oblivion that I so desired I released one last breath with a murmured word. "Spencer….."

ch.19

"Spencer….." was the last word out of her mouth.

I held on to her as I dragged her onto my lap. I checked her over running my hands over her body and then through her hair making sure everything was where it was suppose to be. She was naked and she was shivering with a fever. I reached over to the animal skin that Glen dragged over to us before he left and went into the separate room.

I hung on to her as if my life depended on it and in a way it did. I don't think I could live without her in my life somehow. I didn't believe in soul mates until I met her and what other word could describe what we are. Who would figure after all we've been through that I would willingly cling to her as if she was the end all be all in my life?

I reached up to my face and I felt the tears running down my face. I wiped at them furiously. I didn't want Glen to see my weakness. Not that it would really matter, as he's seen me cry before but I can't show how lost I've been without Ashley. Right now I need to show that I can be strong for my mate as well as her pack.

Even though it's not really her pack, but in a way it is them just the same.

I hope she wakes up soon, as I need her arms around me to take away the cold feeling in my gut yelling at me that we have a ways to go before we can get home….if we get home.

I've been too busy to stop and consider everything that has happened to me while I've been here and I can't help to think that I haven't seen the last of Kelly, and for that I'm scared shitless.

I mean she's a scary crazy bitch. She just killed that poor girl, she peeled the skin off of her and let her bleed to death, as if she was nothing more than a bothersome fly.

I just feel that we won't come out of this unscathed. Not that I came out unscathed the first time mind you, but this time I have Ashley with me. In some ways I'm grateful for that but in others it terrifies me that she might do something to hurt her and there won't be anything that I can do to prevent it.

Look at how easy she took my powers away. I still don't know how she did that. If she can do that what's to stop her from doing it again.

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I woke up and kept my eyes closed. I didn't know where I was. My head was on something soft and warm and it felt nice. I listened for any distinguished noises but all I heard was two separate heartbeats besides my own. One was kind of faint and the other was right by my ear.

So I was in a room with someone and by the feel and smell that someone was female.

'Thank god' I mumbled to myself under my breath. I just wish I could remember where I'm at and who I'm with.

I take a whiff and I can smell dirt, decay, and a woodsy smell as well as vanilla and a strong sense of magic in the air. I slowly open my eyes and I swear that the person holding me is an angel with long blond hair. She's gorgeous and so peaceful looking and asleep, with her arms wrapped around me.

I have to know if she's real. I lift my hand up and shakily reach out to her face to caress it with a feathery soft touch just barely touching her, when her eyes snap open my hand freezes. Her eyes are the bluest I've ever seen before.

I think I'm mesmerized until she gasps and I pull my hand back so fast and scoot away from her until I hit the opposite wall and what ever was above my head falls down and everything goes black once again.

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I felt something on my face and I prayed it was anything other than a spider anything at all seeing as I'm terrified of the little hairy critters. 'Please don't let it be a spider, please…' I thought to myself until I felt Ashley shift in my arms. 'It's Ashley.'

I opened my eyes slowly and she stopped caressing my cheek she was looking right at me as if she didn't know me. I searched her eyes and there was nothing no recognition what so ever. I gasped and that brought her out of what ever spell she was under and she tried to get away from me as fast as she could, in the process she bumped into the opposite wall and the shelf that was there fell and hit her head.

"Ashley..." I yelled as I got up off the floor and raced to her side.

"Whats going on heres?" Glen asked as he came out of the other room scratching his head looking like he just woke up.

"I don't know. She woke up and freaked out and backed away from me like I had the plague, then hit the wall and the shelf hit her in the head." I babbled as I knelt down next to her and touched the blood that was seeping from a cut on her head.

I ripped a piece of cloth off my shirt and put it to the cut and applied pressure. "Glen can you get some water?" I asked.

"Yes, Missy Spencer." He replied.

He came back with little more that a thimble worth of water I looked at him a quirked and eyebrow.

"Me has little hands." He said as he shrugged his shoulders. He looked to Ashley and turned around and turned redder then he already was shouting "My eyes my eyes, their melting, melting I tells yous."

"Hush." I say looking at him.

"Melting."

"Glen." I say a little aggravated. "This is not a game."

"It's just the mutt and shes gots a hard head. She's be fine." He stated as he headed into the other part of the den not looking back. He came back with a shirt dragging behind him, and brought it as close as he dared seeing as he can probably see steam rising from my head.

"I sorries." He says as he looks to his feet and shuffles them.

"I don't care." I say a bit harshly. "You shouldn't talk about her like that." I look to Ashley and run my fingers through her hair.

"When we're married in Fae she will be your Princess and you should treat her with respect due to someone of that station, not like she's your play thing or punching bag." I say as I lift Ashley in my arms and carry her to the other room in the den and lay her on the bed. 'My god she's so small and fragile looking.' I mumble to myself as I look on her with love in my eyes and cover her up.

I turn back to Glen and glare at him. "You will treat her with respect from this moment fourth or so help me…." I shake my head as I soften my glance at him. He looks so small standing there with his head down and his shoulders slumped.

I wipe my hand over my face and shake my head to clear it. I can't believe I was taking out my frustration out on Glen. The little guy has been stuck here with her and they only had each other to rely on. She was his only companion; of course he was just as worried as I was.

I looked back at Ashley and placed my palm over her wound and a bright light swirls around my hand and enters the wound until there is nothing left of the light or the wound.

"I's sorry Princess." Glen mumbles as he turns away dejectedly.

"Glen." I call as he turns back around and looks at me. "I appreciate all you have done for her."

"I's not do nothing." He stated as he tilted his head and continued to stare at me.

"Yes you did." I proclaimed as I turned back towards Ashley and traced my fingers across her forehead down across her cheek then over her lips. "You kept her sane, and alive; and you were there for her when I couldn't be, for that I will always be in your debt."

I continued with my stroking of her face and neck when Glen cleared his throat and interrupted my perusal of Ashley.

"Yes."

"Do yous owes me big or smalls?"

"Big." I said as I continued to look at Ashley. "I couldn't possibly pay you what I owe you." I stated as I turned back towards him. "Why?"

"I's want to goes home and not leaves again." He said as he looked down at his feet. "I's knows yous needs me. Nobodies can protects yous like me's but the doggie…" he shuffled his feet. "she's does a good job." He looks up. "I's miss home."

He was breaking my heart. I went to him and scooped him up and hugged him to me. "If I had the power I would send you home." I told him.

Glen sniffled and pulled away from me. "I's understand." He said as he wiggled his way out of my arms and took off to the other side of the room and climbed up on the bed with Ashley. He went up to her ear and whispered something into it.

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"Can you find her?"

"Maybe."

"What do you mean maybe? Didn't you give her your blood?"

"Yes Arthur."

"Arthur!" Arthur threw his arm out and pointed at Kelly with his hand as a light shot out of his hand and encircled her and she felt a blinding pain shoot through out her body and she fell to the floor convulsing.

"M..M..M..Master…."

"Better, know remember it for next time or I won't be so lenient." He said as he continued to watch her convulse on the floor.

"Why can't you find her?" He asked as he got bored with what he was doing.

"I….I…d..d..don't know."

"Well I suggest you find out."

Kelly makes her way up to her knees with her head to the floor. "Yes master."

"Kelly?"

"Yes master."

"If you don't find her I'll take it out on you, after all we are related." He said with a sneer. "It won't be as delicious or as permanent as if it was Spencer, but you would give me the time that I need to get her." He looks down on Kelly and kicks out at her with his foot. "Get going and find her." He sneered. "You don't have long."

Kelly lifted herself off the floor and made her way to the twin doors at the end of the great hall. She stormed through the doors and passed the guards. They were standing at attention but the one on the right snickered.

She turned around and came face to face with said guard. "Is there something funny?" she asked.

"No." said the guard.

"Oh, come on you know it was funny, after all it was me on the floor getting yelled at."

"No Mam."

"So it wasn't funny at all?"

"No Mam." Said the guard.

"Did you think it was funny?" she asked the second guard. As she turned her head toward the second guard she reached for the knife in her belt and brought it up and across the first guard's throat. "Now that was funny." she said as she pointed at the face of the second guard as she laughed. She continued to laugh as she walked away down the hall with a swagger.