The Last Goddess

Disclaimer: Unbeta'd, so all mistakes are my own. All copyrights belong to Ms. Harris and Mr. Ball.

The Confusion Continues

VLAD'S POV

(After Kristina Awakens)

While waiting for Kristina to take her shower and join us, I think back on the last 24 hours. It still amazes me how so much can change in such a short time. A Goddess, she is a fucking Goddess.

Correction, she is a Faery Handmaiden Goddess. Although, I have to admit that it does explain a lot. She never had to work on her powers, they just appeared and instantly she would have them mastered.

I glance around the table that we are sitting at. We never eat here. Usually it is just me drinking blood, Michael eating food, and Kristina eating food and drinking blood. All of which can be accomplished at the bar.

I chose the dining room for tonight because Freya said Kristina would be very hungry. Therefore, I had all of her favorite foods made and this table was much more accommodating.

What is taking her so long? She must know that we are anxious to see her. Freya said her powers would increase after her Transformation but I wonder to what extent? Kristina was already pretty powerful. I just hope that it's not her telepathy that increases.

She can already read everyone except Vampires. She says that we are her only peace. I just hope that she doesn't 'read' Michael and see us in the playroom. I'm not too sure how she would react to that.

We don't have to wait long for her to make her entrance. Kristina looks more beautiful than ever. She definitely has an Ethereal glow to her. It also appears that she now has tattoos; no, markings.

After greeting us, I realize that her back, between her shoulder blades, is red. I also see 'Brigantia' marked on her right shoulder blade. Brigantia is her father's family name is its original form. A few hundred years ago, when they started moving around the mortal realm again they shortened it to Brigant. I notice the mark of the Goddess on her left hand as well.

Michael asks her if she is ok, to which she responds by apologizing to us and crying. Her emotions must be off the charts right now.

With the exception of after Katharine died, I think I can count the number of times I have seen her cry on one hand. She always has complete control.

After Katharine died, she wouldn't even cry in front of anyone. She would to go her room and attempt to cry herself to sleep.

I would go in and hold her until she calmed down. I know for a fact that I am one of the only ones to have seen her cry.

As soon as she started crying, Michael picked her up and sat her in his lap, lovingly and soothingly stroking her hair, willing her to calm down.

Being part Faery, Kristina is soothed by touch. Plus, it is also a gift of the Royal Brigant bloodline. They have a healing touch that calms the soul.

Michael is very fast at reassuring her that she has nothing to apologize or cry for and that he was merely asking about her horror movie audition that she put on after awakening.

Once she is reassured that we are not upset with her, she tells us that she didn't experience much pain from her remerging. That just makes me even more confused. Why did she wake up screaming if she didn't experience pain? Then she tells us why she screamed her head off for almost an hour.

Niall almost choked on his whiskey when she said her wings came in. Wings, seriously? She could already fly, but I have to admit, wings would be pretty awesome.

At some point she got back in her chair to eat. Freya was right, she must have been starving. I wonder when she legitimately ate last.

As her plate gets refilled by the kitchen staff, I decide that it is time to make sure we know the facts.

"So let me see if I have all the facts straight?" I ask her. She nods for me to go ahead with my questions, before downing two goblets of blood.

"So, Freya is your Spiritual Mother; You chose your father and mother to be your Blood Parents; You had to die in order for your Transformation to finish, but you have been going through pain gradually increasing your entire life; You are the final Goddess, the one meant to rule the mortal realm with your Eternal Mate, and you have never freaked out over all of this? Oh and you now have wings?"

In response, she laughs then answers me. She tells me that all of what I have said is true, but that she has a Spiritual Father as well. The confusion is back. Freya herself told us that the Pure Ones are the children of one God. That is what makes them different from the lesser Gods.

She then shocks the hell out of me by saying that I am her Spiritual Father. What the hell? I am about to argue with her when I think better of it. How could I be her Spiritual Father and not know it? And she said she chose me to be her Spiritual Father.

When I think back on the last 21 years, it actually kind of makes sense. She has always been like a daughter to me. She has always found comfort in me and I find her presence soothing. When she goes into battle, I worry for her. When she is sad, I try to make her happy. I also know, deep down, that what she speaks is the truth. Freya even said that Kristina saw us both as her fathers.

Just as I finish my inner musings, I notice a quick look of sickness cross Kristina's face before she schools her features again. Michael asks her if she is feeling sick, which she just nods an affirmative to.

Maybe, I need to call the healer back. Before I get the hobbit back to us, I hear Kristina sigh before explaining that she 'heard' something she didn't want to. She must have heard something bad enough to make her sick. Well, we can't have that now, can we?

I ask her who it was, but she won't answer me. What the hell? She never refuses to answer me. She might tell me to Fuck Off, but that is at least a response. Usually, that is her response to me asking her something about a vision she has seen, but that has to 'play out'.

I ask her again, just to become even more confused when she answers me. One simple word can cause me to become confused, again.

Only my goddaughter could cause so much confusion. Maybe I misheard her. She has never been able to 'hear' my kind.

"Excuse me?" I ask merely to make sure I heard her right. Just to be shocked again when she screams that it was me that she heard, then she teleports out of the room.

Well fuck, now I need to know what she 'heard' that got her so upset. I hate that it was me that has made her so upset that she couldn't even stay in the room with us. It also seems that I am the only one that she has ever truly snapped at.

I hear Niall remind Michael about Freya's warning. Well, that would explain her emotions the last hour. I can sense that she isn't in the house.

Also, she is blocking me from feeling her. I can usually sense her more extreme emotions and location since she had my blood when she became a member of my nest. We all decide to go outside and wait for her to return to us.