Puck: I swear if my baby girl gets even the slightest bit hurt you're going to die, Dark Mina.

Ash: Hey! Meghan and I might die!

Dark Mina: Oh you two *smiles* shut up.

Puck & Ash: Make us!

Dark Mina: *pulls out metal bat* I will if I have to *evil grin*

Puck & Ash: *steps back*

Puck: Now, now Dark we'll be quiet.

Ash: yeah, just don't hurt anyone.

Dark Mina: ^-^ don't worry I won't… yet.

Recap: As soon as I was falling to the ground I tried turning into a raven but couldn't, then I tried turning into a blue bird but again I couldn't. In my head I was freaking out but on the outside I fell to the ground rolling. I quickly got to my feet and ran for it. I didn't look back to see if anyone was even following me.

Thorn

I clasped to the ground after running for miles. There was only snow for as far as I could see, but I wasn't that cold, just tired. Where do I go now? I asked myself falling on my back. I stared up at the dark sky and couldn't help but think of Kierran. I wondered what he was doing and where he was, but my eyes slowly closed.

I woke up surrounded by black fur. I looked up to see I was face to face with a wolf—no—The Wolf. I sat up surprised accidently waking up The Wolf too. He looked at me annoyed, but I just looked around seeing I was in the same spot.

Finally I looked back at Wolf and asked, "Why are you here?"

"I have a promise to keep," was all he said as he stood up, and as the warmth from his fur left me I shivered a little from the cold I finally felt.

"What do you mean? A promise to whom?" I asked interesting as I stood up rubbing the snow off my arm.

"When Goodfellow tells you who your mother is, I'll tell you who I promised."

I sat in the snow dumbfounded. My mother? Did The Wolf promise her something about me? I wondered as I watched The Wolf stroll away.

I quickly shook my head and got up running after The Wolf. "Wait, are you telling me you promised my mom?"

"I never said that," Wolf argued.

"Yes, but you were implying it," I urged.

"I didn't mean to."

"Then is it true?" I finally asked

"Why are you so curious?" Wolf asked, but I couldn't believe he asked in the first place.

"The only thing I know about my mother is that she's blonde!" I started, "I want to know more about her, and my dad stays away from the topic the best he can."

"Doesn't surprise me," said The Wolf more to himself than to me.

"Why do you say that?" I asked

"I have to go now," Wolf said before turning and running the other way.

I stood there, in the cold, as I watched The Wolf run away, but I was so spaced out that I didn't even notice an ice shard flying towards me until it was inches away of hitting me.

I turned to see what it was and the ice shard went straight under my collar bone. I reached up slowly and put my hands around the shard. I pulled the shard out and was so shocked by seeing my blood covering two inches of the shard's tip; I fell to the ground passing out.

When I woke up, I was in a room I didn't recognize, again, but there was a certain wolf at my feet that I did recognize. I nudged him with my foot to wake him up as I slowly sat up wincing.

Wolf looked at me calmly as he asked, "Need something?"

"Where are we?" I asked.

"Ion's mom's house," he answered calmly.

My eyes widened as I remembered Ion from the Tir Na Nog as my body guard. What am I doing at Ion's house? I wondered then asked The Wolf the same question.

"I forced Ion to save you after attacking you."

"Ion was the one who attacked me?"

"Yes," he answered as Ion walked in practically on cue.

As soon as we made eye contact I wanted to get up and punch him so hard his icy skin would break. I smiled in the inside with the thought of his gorgeous face having cracks all over, but sadly the Wolf interrupted my thoughts.

"Will you two stop glaring at each other already?"

"I don't trust him," I argued at the same time as Ion said the same about me.

The Wolf sighed. "Ion, Thorn now knows where your mother lives, so get over it. Thorn, Ion is helping you so be nice. Got it?"

Ion and I looked at each other and nodded finally saying at the same time with an annoyance, "Fine."

Ion checked my wound, but we were both surprised to see that it had healed a lot already.

"Maybe the rumors are true." I heard Ion say under his breathe.

"What rumors?" I asked curiosity getting the better of me.

"What?" he asked looking up at me.

"You just said 'maybe the rumors are true' what rumors?"

Ion looked away as he answered, "It doesn't matter."

"If it's about me it does."

"To you."

"Exactly, so answer my question. What rumors?"

Before Ion could say anything The Wolf answered, "The rumors are none sense, they say your mother was a Winter."

"A Winter? Puck has always told me it was a random Summer faery."

"Did he really say she was a Summer?" Ion asked eyeing me.

I thought back to a conversation about my mother with my dad, but all he ever told me about her was that she was very caring and beautiful with blonde hair.

"That's what I thought," Ion said after I didn't reply.

I glared at him but was distracted by The wolf as he asked me, "What has Goodfellow told you about our mother?"

"Um…" I looked at him. "He's only told me she was very caring and blonde, I already told you that."

"Well, maybe she was a human," Ion retorted.

I was going to rip his throat out, but then I remembered my dad liked Meghan before she even figured out she was half fay. But she was still half faery.

"I doubt Goodfellow would keep the child of a human, unless your mom is Meghan Chase," The Wolf suggested.

"If I was Meghan's child my dad wouldn't let me out of his sight," I argued. Then again, maybe that's why dad doesn't want me to fall in love with Kierran, I wondered.

"He'd probably brag about you, too. Calling you the best daughter in the world," Ion added interrupting my thoughts.

"Will you leave already?" I asked annoyed

"Why should I? It's my house. Plus I'm not done helping you," Ion said as he pressed his thumb into my wound.

I winced clenching my jaw, but as soon as The Wolf saw I was in pain he jumped at Ion in a flash. Ion yelled out in pain as The Wolf bit his arm. The Wolf stood over him growling with his hackles raised.

"I warned you not to hurt her," The Wolf growled to Ion.

"I never promised I wouldn't," Ion shot back, but he didn't sound very confident.

The Wolf barked at him. "You promised to help her until she heals though!"

"I can't help her if you bite off my arm!"

"You have another one."

The Wolf jumped back onto the bed at my feet as Ion slowly sat up. His arm was bleeding but he just grabbed some cloth off a nightstand next to the bed and, to my surprise, rolled up his sleeve to already have wrapping around it. I looked at The Wolf, but he ignored me as Ion unwrapped his arm. Ion's arm was worse than I expected. His arm had small scratches all over his arm and it was mostly just red with gnarled skin on his forearm.

"The mutt tore up my arm when I shot you, then forced me to bring you here," Ion told me as he noticed me watching.

I looked at him and was faced by has cold green eyes. "The Wolf has a mind of his own, so stop glaring at me," I said but didn't have venom in my voice; I kind of felt bad for him.

"I never said you were the reason, but I do believe you might be," Ion said back calmly.

"Are you two really having a moment right now? So I tore up his arm, so what?" The Wolf growled, but we ignored him.

"Now, now, Wolf this could be a good thing. They would be more legal than her and the Iron prince," said a voice from the window making us all look at it.

"Grimalkin?" I asked as I met the caith sith's yellow eyes.

Grimalkin jumped from the window to the floor with a soft thump.

"What are you doing here, caith sith?" The Wolf asked as he watched Grimalkin suspiciously.

"Puck asked me to find Thorn," Grim answered.

"I'm not going home, you know," I said.

"I only needed to find you, not bring you home," Grimalkin pointed out.

"Then leave," The Wolf growled.

"Why don't you both go," Ion suggested.

"What about our deal?" The Wolf asked jumping of the bed and walking up to Ion.

"Our deal was that I would help Thorn, not give you a warm place to sleep."

The Wolf growled and left the room without another word.

"You too, Caith Sith," Ion said as he opened the door for The Wolf.

Grimalkin left casually then Ion walked out of the room closing the door behind him.

When Ion came back into the room he was holding a cup of something steaming. As he handed it to me I looked at him confused, but he just nodded to the mug. I looked inside the mug to see a light blue liquid with steam coming off it. It looked like it was clear but at the same time it didn't.

"It will help your wound heal faster," Ion assured me.

I thought about it for a minute and finally took a hesitant sip. It was cold when it touched my lips but it was warm when it touched my tongue and hot going down my throat. It felt like it was hot enough to burn my throat, but it didn't.

"What is this stuff?" I asked as I looked up at Ion.

"It helps Summers heal here in Tir Na Nog faster," Ion answered.

"Why do Winters keep something to help Summers?"

"It wasn't made for Summers. It's a warm beverage for us; the healing is a side-effect."

"I see." I took another sip of the strange liquid.

"So what happens after I'm healed?" I asked.

Ion looked at me seeming to be contemplating if he should tell me. He finally said, "Well, you leave, The Wolf goes back to where he belongs, and I wait until I can go after you again."

"Is that why you're trying to get me to heal faster?" I asked holding up the drink a bit.

"That, and I want you and your friends gone before my mother gets home."

"Who's your mom?"

"You wouldn't know her. Now drink your leighis tea," Ion said annoyed.

"Is that what this stuff is called? Leighis tea?" I asked looking at the liquid curiously.

"Yes, I know it sounds weird," Ion said as he left the room again.

I sighed and finished the tea. I set the cup on the nightstand next to the bed. I laid back and quickly fell asleep.

I was woken up by a woman with curly black hair and beautiful green eyes. She smiled when she saw me awake.

"Good morning, Thorn," she started pressing down on my collar bone. "How are you feeling?"

I looked up at her suspiciously as I asked, "Who are you?" I was thinking she was working for Mab or something, but no.

She smiled sweetly - which was creepy since she was a Winter. "I'm sorry; I forgot you're still a Summer faery. My name is Eira, I'm Ion's mom."

I looked at her surprised as I asked, "What are you doing here? Ion said you wouldn't be back for a while."

"I was gone for two weeks. Ion must have thought I left last week."

I sat up slowly and carefully but was surprised to not feel any pain. I pushed down lightly right where I was stabbed and didn't feel any pain still. I looked up at Eira who just smiled at me. "I'm already healed in one day, how is that possible?" I asked.

"Leighis tea does wonders for Summer fey," Eira said.

I looked at Eira as Ion walked in. He was holding a trey of some food and another mug of leighis tea, but as soon as he saw his mother standing over me he dropped the trey. "Mother, what are you doing here?"

"I told you I would be gone for two weeks," Eira answered.

"A week ago, I still have a week before you're supposed to be home," Ion argued.

"You must have gotten my letter when I was already gone for a week," Eira informed him.

"Well, uh…" I could tell Ion had no idea what to say.

Eira smiled and walked up to her soon. She put a hand on his shoulder as she said, "Honey, don't worry I won't tell anyone about this."

"Thank you, mother," Ion said completely shocking me.

"Of course, but remember you have to clean my entire house once she's gone," Eira told him.

"I never forget that and you know it," Ion said.

Eira smiled and left the room. Ion watched her leave, but I was too busy staring at Ion in shock still. He said thank you!

Ion finally looked at me, but when he noticed the shock on my face he asked, "What are you looking at?"

I rolled my eyes and looked away as I said, "Nothing."

"It's because I said thank you to my mother, isn't it?"

"Well, you're a Winter, it's surprising."

"What does me being a Winter have to do with it?"

"That should be obvious."

"Well, it's not."

I sighed. "Winters don't even show their feelings, let alone say thank you."

"Look me and my mother have a deal about thank you."

"Oh really? What kind of deal?" I asked and smirked at him.

Ion glared at me as he said, "I don't have to explain anything to you." Then he was out the door.

I shook my head smiling; Ion's skin was too easy to get under. I sat on the bed and was squeezing my shoulder. There was still a slight pain but nothing I couldn't handle.

I swung my legs over the bed side and noticed I wasn't wearing my blue dress but a white night gown. I blushed as I wondered if and when Ion changed my clothes.

I quickly got up; I wanted to find my dress as fast as I could so I could face Ion sooner about the gown. I first looked through the nightstand. Nothing. Then I looked into a small closet across the small room from the bed. Again nothing. I wondered where else I could look and jumped to the ground and looked under the bed. Nothing except my shoes.

My dress has to be around here somewhere, I thought, but there was nowhere else to look. I sighed and did the one thing I thought I never would do, I got up and went to find Ion to ask him.

Thankfully Ion was sitting next to the door, but I almost hit him with the door too.

"What are you doing up? Trying to kill me with a door?" Ion asked glaring at me.

I smirked. "I tried to go with a stealthy approach."

"Well you failed." Ion stood up pushing the door completely open.

"So, what do you want?" Ion asked and looked me up and down. "Feeling any pain?"

I shook my head. "Did you change my clothes?" I asked pulling at the night gown lightly.

A light blush actually appeared onto Ion's pale cheeks. "No, of course not. Eira thought you'd be more comfortable in that, and she decided to wash your dress also."

"Oh," I said a bit shocked. They weren't like normal Winters to me. "Tell Eira I appreciate it."

"I will," Ion reassured me. "You should go lay back down, I'll bring you more leighis tea."

"No it's okay, I just need my dress."

"But you're not fully healed."

"I'm fine, plus I would like to get home as soon as possible."

"But—"

"Ion!" Eira yelled from somewhere in the house. "Can you come help me for a minute?"

"Stay right here," Ion commanded before he quickly went to find his mother.

I was going to leave anyway but I didn't have my dress still, so I stayed where I was.

I could hear muffles from the other room. It sounded like Eira, and it sounded like she was warning Ion about something. I was curious to what she could be warning Ion about at the moment, but I tried not letting my curiosity over take me.

Eira and Ion started talking over each other, it sounded like a fight was starting up between them. My curiosity got the better of me. I quietly stepped over to the wall of the other room. I concentrated on their voices until I heard Eira say, "Don't you dare tell her anything! We don't know if it's true!"

"But, Mother, she should know! I hated it when I didn't know Sage was my father!" Sage is his dad! I thought stunned.

"That was different! Ion, you're the heir to the throne, the Winter prince for crying out loud. But she'll just be known for who her parents are like everyone else before they make a name for themselves. Like Meghan Chase was known for being Obrion's bastard child before she became the Iron queen."

"But she could strengthen Tir Na Nog!"

"How? It's not like knowing her mother would make her queen."

My head was spinning. Who could they possibly be talking about? They couldn't be talking about me; I'm not the only fey to not know her mom was. Besides it sounded like they're talking about a Winter.

"But—" Ion started interrupting my thoughts. Then Eira interrupted him, "No! This conversation is over! Thorn has to figure out herself."

Thor. She said my name. They are talking about me, but why? I'm no Winter, I can't be, I thought. Practically every Winter hated my dad and many of them have made promises to kill him.

My thoughts were interrupted again as Ion walked out of the room. As I made eye contact with him though everything stopped, and then it was like my eyes were seeing Ion but my mind was seeing something completely different.

Two men crashed through the door as I was talking to Ion. We looked over at the men, shock covering Ion's face as he glanced from me back to the men. But the men rushed forward and the next thing I knew one was lifting me off the ground. Ion was fighting them but the other one picked him up. Then they were rushing us out the door with Eira shouting at them.

"Thorn, are you okay?" Ion asked me as I came back to reality.

I looked up at him as I said, "Two men are going to charge in here and take us. I don't where they're going to take us and I don't know who they are or why they are."

"What?" Ion asked.

"It's hard to explain but—" Before I could finish the men in my vision came barging through the door. It's already coming true?

Puck: O_O

Ash: O_O

Dark Mina: ^-^