A/N: This is going to be a fairly short chapter because, well, its basically what happened after the huge confession. And, it also reveals who her father is. Now, bear in mind, I was originally planning on exposing her father in the episode where she returns from the Avalon World Tour with Goliath, Angela, and Bronx; but I felt this might be the perfect moment to tell you who it is.

Chapter 17

The Mirror pt. 2

It was deadly silent as the words Demona had said bounced off the walls and continued to penetrate Quinn's inner mind, Quinn, I am your biological mother... 'Oh, God, please just let this be a sick joke of some sort.' the red head thought as she stared down at the still chained up Demona, "Y-your bluffing. Admit it, I know your just lying to me!" she said it so strongly that it sounded more like she was just trying to convince herself that it wasn't true.

The female Gargoyle shook her head in slight disappointment at her daughter, "Why must you doubt me so?" she sighed as she turned her gaze up at the girl for a moment, "I am your mother. And you are my daughter. I should know, after all, you were hatched from an egg that I laid seventeen years ago. You were born looking like a human. Your father is a human, so you must've gotten the trait from him; he said that when you were older, you would change into more of a Gargoyle image that I wanted you to be. When it had to be given to you by force, I realized that, while science was what brought you into this world, magic would be the thing that made you whole.

"So, I summoned Puck to help you get that.. Of course, he turned it around and threw my words back at me by turning you into something that I truly despised, so, I picked a terrible Child of Oberon to help me." at this, the female cast a glare in the white haired elves' direction, his only response was tightening her chains and making her grimace in slight pain, before she turned her gaze back to the ground and stayed quiet.

Quinn breathed heavily for a moment, she was feeling incredibly emotional right now. She just found out her mom was her 'father's' old flame from a thousand years ago, as well as one of the enemies on her list, she was just underneath Cody's father, David Xanatos.

Science was what brought you into this world.. Demona's words came back to her, 'Science brought me here? Then she would have had to get with a scientist of some sort to create me... Who is my father?' the girl stared down at her mother, "Demona," she called the female's attention to her, "who is my father?" she asked her.

Demona looked down at the ground, "Goliath, as you have claimed." she said and Quinn shook her head once.

"No, I mean, who is my biological father, Demona?" she asked again.

Demona chose not to look up, keeping her gaze drawn to the ground, she didn't answer.

"Demona?" Quinn tried to grab the woman's attention, starting to move forward, but she found she couldn't when a hand, Brooklyn's she guessed by the warm comfort it brought; wrapped itself around her right arm and held her back. He must've been worried about what Demona might do if she went any closer.

But, the female Gargoyle still didn't answer her daughter.

"Demona, who is he?" she demanded.

Goliath cleared his throat, "Quinn, if Demona is not answering you, then she probably has a good reason." he said as Hudson nodded,

"Aye, you never know, lass. Yer father might be someone she knows would hurt ya." the two elder male Gargoyles had no idea why they were actually sticking up for the red headed Gargoyle, but they feared that if Quinn's father was who they thought it was, then Quinn might have a heart attack, or worse, shut down from everyone permanently.

Despite their reasons, Quinn shook her head in determination, "You don't understand, I have to know who he is, even if it kills me." she looked at Goliath out of the corner of her eye, "You never had to go through something like this, dad. You once told me that Gargoyles don't care about their parentage, that they're raised by the elders of the clan, right? Well, humans are different. The world is a very dangerous place, as you all very well know, and human children need to rely on their mother and father to teach them how to get through it alive.

"I never had that. I grew up in multiple different households my entire life. Each couple or single parent would get agitated with me and throw me back to the foster care. The only person who taught me anything decent, died when I was young, after that, no one bothered with me anymore. I never had a stable family that actually stopped to take care of me; and now, I find my mother. Who, if I am correct, has been around for my entire life but never bothered to show her face. Not only that, but she knows who my father is, and I need to know who he is for my own sanity." she explained and Goliath just stared at her as she turned back to Demona, "Demona." she tried.

The female still refused to look up and acknowledge her.

"Demona." Quinn was growing impatient.

Silence.

"Demona!" purely agitated.

Silence.

Quinn was starting to seethe, "Demona!"

Silence.

"Mom! Who is my dad?!" she finally yelled.

Demona's head shot up, "You called me 'mom'.." she breathed, a happy, sad smile on her face, "You don't know how long I've wanted to be called that." she closed her eyes and relished in the name for a moment.

Quinn didn't say anything, mainly out of shock for actually calling this Gargoyle her mom, but also because she said it in front of her family. As soon as it came out of her mouth, she felt Brooklyn's hand slid a little ways down her arm, seeming like it might fall off her all together, "Demona," the female looked up sadly at not being called 'mom' again, "Please. I need to know, who is my birth father?"

Demona took in a deep breath before exhaling loudly, "The same man who awoke Goliath and his Clan from their stone sleep." she said before the mirror behind her suddenly glowed green, and Puck was pulling her back and through the mirror, taking the ancient artifact with them as they left; leaving her daughter looking at her like she was just stabbed in the gut.

"I am telling you; just leave, Puck. Now." Demona growled in agitation as she slumped down in her chair only moments after reappearing in her home.

As soon as they had arrived, Puck had started bouncing all over the place, yelling about how much fun that was. And Demona was a little more than pissed off at the being at this point.

Puck shook his head, "No! I simply must repay you!" he looked to the mirror, which was glowing green at his wish, "What do you want, hm?" an image of Quinn gliding through Central Park with tears going down her cheeks popped onto the mirror, "Your daughter to love you as you have loved her? Or!" the image went back to one of Goliath, who was standing in what seemed to be a rather awkward silence, "Do you want your old flame back?" he asked.

The female paused, both of those sounded tempting, but Puck had done nothing but twist her words around all night long, and she was tired of him, "I want you, Puck, to leave. Me. ALONE." she ground out as she held her head up with one hand.

Puck shook his head stubbornly at her, "I need to repay you for all the fun I've had tonight! Oh, but what to give you.. What to give you.. Aha!" he suddenly gasped as he started hovering above her with his eyes glowing, "Fearsome creature, who would stay; unchanged by the light of day. Remain thou thus throughout the night; and be thou flesh by dawn's fair light." at the end of his spell, he vanished with a POP! Leaving the female alone to herself.

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It was silent after they left, no one wanted to say anything, if they did, they were afraid to say the thing that was painfully obvious to everyone there.

Cody, on the other hand...

"This is great!" the black haired boy exclaimed in excitement, "Q is really my little sister! Well, half of her is anyways." he joked.

That was a mistake.

Quinn turned around, ripping Brooklyn's hand away from her arm, and glared murderously at her friend, "No! It is NOT okay! My mother is a fraking female Gargoyle who, may I remind you, has tried to kill my family countless times; and my father-"

"Our father, Q." Cody cut in gently.

The red headed girl was starting to turn almost as red as Brooklyn, "Our father, betrayed my family as well! You expect this all to be okay?!" Quinn was starting to seethe.

Cody looked at her like it was obvious, "Uh, no! I don't expect this to all be okay right away, but, c'mon, Q. We're related! Do you remember when we were little and we told each other how much we wanted the other to actually be blood related to us? Just to say we had one family member in this world? Now, we find out that it's true, and your acting like it's the end of the world because of your parentage." he said as Katie hit him in the side, "Ouch. What-?" then he noticed that Quinn had this strange look on her face. Like, she was emotionless, yet displaying everything she ever hid in her life at the same time.

Like she was about to die.

Brooklyn moved to touch her again, "Quinn...?" he asked.

That seemed to bring the girl back to reality, for she shook her head swiftly, taking a hissing breath from between her teeth, she moved away from him before his talons could so much as graze her seemingly paler skin, "I... I think.. I need to be..." she couldn't even finish a the sentence, before she turned to a large gap between Goliath and Lexington; and she sprinted through it.

Jumped off the building, and used her wings to glide her away from the tower, ignoring everyone's calls to come back. Her figure faded away in the dark night sky, until it was nothing but a lost dot in the sea of black.

Cody rushed over to the edge of the building, looking up at where his sister disappeared, "Why can't she just accept it? I mean, I did when I found out Xanatos was my dad." he said in exasperation, before someone slapped him on the back of his head, "Ouch!" he cried, turning around, he glared at Tanya, "What was that for?" he asked her.

Tanya took in a deep breath, "It's not that Quinn isn't accepting it, she's just having difficulty with the coping part. And it doesn't help that you, her newly found out half brother, won't bother to realize that both of her parents have done nothing to help her for her entire life; instead, you focus on the relation between the two of you, which is all fine, believe me. If I had known that I had an elder brother that was at least half of what you are, I would be jumping up and down with the most geeky smile on my face.

"But, I know my parents. Quinn never did. So, while I'm sure she's happy that she has a brother, her parentage has always been her main concern, basically her whole life." the white feline mutate finished this thought, hoping that it somehow made it into the black haired boy's brain.

Cody said nothing as he turned back and stared at the dark sky, feeling slightly ashamed with himself, he remained quiet even as Katie walked up behind him and tentatively placed her petite hands on his back in a small sign of comfort.

"Where'd Quinn go?" Lexington asked, sharing a glance with Broadway as he walked up next to Tanya.

Nobody answered the youngest Gargoyle, nobody had an answer for him in the first place; they were as clueless in this as he was.

The silence was broken by the leader of the Clan, "We should go back to the tower, sunrise is almost upon us." Goliath said, and several nods followed the suggestion.

Brooklyn said nothing, not a single word even as he slowly picked up Katie and glided alongside Broadway, who was carrying Cody, on their way home.

So many emotions were racing through his system at that time, none of them good. Anger, sadness, etc.

But, mostly anger.

Anger towards Demona, for doing this to Quinn in the first place.

Anger towards Xanatos, for... well, did he really need a reason to be pissed at him?

Anger towards Cody, for only paying attention to siblings.

Anger towards himself.

For not being ready to help Quinn sooner.

If he had just followed his gut, ignored Quinn's sob story, and yanked her up and outta that area before Demona could do anymore damage, then maybe she'd be gliding beside him instead of heading off on her own to be depressed.

Maybe, she'd have allowed him to hold her while she cried her tears of shock.

Maybe, he could have spoken to her in a reassuring manner that told her it would be okay, and that she'd never have to see them again if he could help it. Perhaps, she would have listened and believed him, though with her stubborn streak he seriously doubted that thought.

Maybe he wouldn't be feeling so useless at the moment.

They touched down on the concrete of the tower, and set the humans down as they turned around to get on their pedestals.

Victoria hesitated as the others went inside, she honestly didn't know what she was doing.

"Vivi?" she turned to see Katie standing in the doorway with a curious expression on her face, "Aren't you coming inside?" the younger girl asked.

Victoria looked at Goliath from the corner of her eye, he was staring at her as if waiting for her answer, "I'll be there in a moment." she finally said as Goliath turned his gaze away when she had looked him right in the eyes.

Katie shrugged, "Okay, well, Tanya was going to fix breakfast real quick before we all head out, so, no rush I guess." she said as she turned around and walked back inside the warmth of the clock tower.

Victoria turned back around to face the lavender Gargoyle, he was still looking away from her, "Goliath." she called quietly so as to not get the other Gargoyles' attentions.

Goliath looked up at her with a questioning expression on his face as she crossed the distance to him, stood up on her toes, and kissed him on the cheek, whispering, "Thank you for the help." before she turned back around and walked inside the tower without a second glance at the now frozen Gargoyle with the sun hitting his back.

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Demona threw open the curtains of the biggest window there was in her house, an ecstatic smile on her face, "Ah! The sun! How long I have waited to feel it's warmth against my skin!" she gasped out joyfully, though through her joy, she couldn't shake the feeling that something was a little... off.

She merely shrugged it off as she practically bathed in the light of the sun, "Perhaps Puck's repayment isn't so bad after all." she said to herself as she started walking away from the window, "Maybe I shall search for my daughter and get her to talk to me. I feel like I need to say something to her, let her know that I had no idea she was even alive, let alo- ah!" she gasped out as she walked back to the mirror to look at her reflection.

Where there should have been light blue skin, there was a pale color that looked more human than Gargoyle. Her wings, tail, talons, fangs, and ears had disappeared, leaving behind human features instead. And her originally black eyes were now a greyish blue like Quinn's.

Puck had turned her into a human by day.

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At half past noon, if anyone had bothered to look up into the sky, they would have seen a lonely figure of an eighteen year old girl, gliding into the clock tower with a pair of light blue wings to hold her up.

Quinn landed silently on the ledge of the him she had shared with the Gargoyles and Tanya for a while, standing right behind Brooklyn.

She sniffled once as she she walked forward and placed her small hand on his back, "I'm home, Brookie." she said it as a whisper that was lost to the wind, before she turned and slowly made her way inside the large room.

She had to take tentative steps inside because Tanya was sleeping on her mattress at the base of the steps, before she jumped up and glided to the ceiling, or more specifically, the loft in the ceiling.

She had made this space her own when Goliath had allowed her to live with them, it wasn't a very big space, but it wasn't very small either. It was actually the perfect size for someone as small as her. Her mattress was pushed up against the far wall, her loft was connected to the main wall of the clock tower, so she had pressed it against that. She had a dark green thick blanket and a pillow on there, she had snagged it from Julie's house before she left, as well as extra blankets that Tanya now snuggled in down on the ground.

Quinn caped her wings on her shoulders as she kicked off her shoes and padded her way to her mattress. She didn't bother to remove her sweatshirt, just flopped down on the bed with a sigh, fully prepared to go to sleep for the rest of the afternoon.

"Welcome home, Q." Tanya's voice drifted up to her lazily, the girl was half awake.

Quinn yawned hugely before she spoke, "Nice to be back. Talk to you later, T." before she rolled over and drifted off into a deep sleep.

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"Hey, guys." Tanya greeted the newly awakened Gargoyle Clan as they sleepily made their way down the steps to the bottom, where Lexington met her in a hug, "Quinn got home sometime around noon. Actually, she's still sleeping right now." she called up to Brooklyn, who was making the glide up to Quinn's loft.

As soon as the words 'Quinn got home' had reached his ears, he had wasted no time in jumping up and unfolding his wings to glide up to her, wanting more than anything to make sure she was alright.

Brooklyn touched down on the floor of the loft, silently making his way over to the lightly snoring girl that was curled up in a light little ball, her tail wrapped around her right ankle as it had been the day he had found her after her transformation. Her lips were parted ever so slightly, and would allow her to create a small sigh with every breath she exhaled. There were faded tear tracks down her pale cheeks, she must've neglected to wipe them off before she came home; and her eyes were closed gently, looking almost like they'd flutter open at any second just for sensing him staring at her.

He let a relieved smile stretch across his beak as he walked the rest of the way to her and sat down beside her mattress, right next to her head, "I had no idea you were going to come home sooner than expected." he started as he reached one taloned hand and stroked the firey red hair on her head, "Goliath actually just told us not to get our hopes up that you were in here waiting, yet, here you are, sound asleep.

"I actually wanted to say something to you when you got home, but it can wait. You just sleep, and I'll still be here when you wake up." he smiled, "I'll always be here for you, even if you aren't aware of it." he finished just as a loud banging sound came from the kitchen, followed by a string of curse words in Broadway's voice, then he looked down at the girl almost pleadingly, "Though, I do wish you'd hurry and wake up now, I doubt Broadway can cook a meal without burning something."

I know, this chapter is shorter than my other chapters, but that's because it's a second part to The Mirror, and not much happened.

So, next chapter will skip right to Eye of the Beholder, the Halloween episode. I know, I'm skipping another episode, but that's because one of my friends told me it would be a major struggle to try and type it out into a chapter, so I'm going ahead.

Next chapter, you will find out more about why Xanatos gave up his daughter without Demona knowing.

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-Zabby