Chapter Two
"Ashley!" Haley said throwing her arms around the older blonde "I thought you were dead!" She said choking on cry.
"Ashley? How? Helen how?" John said asking confusedly.
"The same way your other daughter is alive." Helen answered with a smile.
"Other? Who Haley?"
"Yep, hi dad, we met like four years ago, I saved your life a few times, cured you, eve brought you here to mom, I think that deserves a hug," she said with a smile and then hugged him, followed by Ashley and then Helen.
"I thought you were dead." John said to Ashley.
"Oh you know us Magnus girls, never stay dead." She said smiling brightly at him. "Plus, when you have your mom's stubbornness, and your father's fighter instinct, you don't stay dead, oh and it might help that I'm now a vampire. Plus mom did do that whole time travel thing, saved Hal first, then me, sent her to watch you and she kept ,me, and now we are all here." She said grabbing Haley's hand and pulling her and throwing over her shoulder, "I'm gunna show her around!" and the two siblings left.
"Helen," John started but was silenced by Helen.
"John, take me to my office and then we'll talk, please."
"Take? I've never been there, I don't know what it looks like." He said apologetically.
"Picture my old one but here," She replied while slipping her hand onto his arm, and they were gone in a swirl of red. The rematerialized right in front of the couch, at which point Helen 'gracefully' plopped on the couch, followed by John.
"So why did I send Haley to you, when you were still a murderous criminal? For a few reasons, one because she needed to stay safe,"
"And I'm safe? Helen you put your daughter in harm's way with me." He said not mad but worried that it hadn't been the best plan.
"Our daughter couldn't have been safer, she had you, another reason I sent her was to take care of you, keep you sane, keep the abnormal at bay, and I knew you would like her while she may look like me, she is all you." Helen said with another smile. "I gave her the cure for you but told her to wait to give it to you until you sent me back in time, and to make sure you didn't die, I missed you John, and I was wrong to tell you your motives were wrong. Because I just went and saved both of our daughters." Helen said rolling her eyes.
"How is it both? Not that I'm complaining,"
"Twins, I only had Ashley and not Haley as well because I didn't want something to happen to both of them, but then when Ashley almost ten she and Henry kept asking for a sibling, I caved and had Haley. Haley made me cry a lot, she reminded me so much about you."
John just sat there not really sure what to do, he had just got himself to believe Helen's parting words a year ago, but for her she had had 113 years to forgive him, he didn't want to chance it, not yet. They sat there in semi-peaceful silence, and John didn't even notice the hand sitting on his lap...