DarkMina: I know I haven't done this for a while, but it' been tense.

Ash & Puck: Tell me about!

DarkMina: *rolls eyes* You guys need to calm down.

Ash: My son might be marrying a crazy hacker elf, and isn't telling me about it!

Puck: My daughter might be on her death bed!

DarkMina: Yap, yap, yap. Is that all you guys do?

Pack&Ash: What?!

DarkMina: ^-^

Recap: My parents turned to me expectantly. I gulped as I said, "It was right outside the castle..."

"Right outside?" Dad sounded shocked.

I nodded. "It was a Winter wyvern...it was like it came out of nowhere," I had started. "But...it think Thorn knew about it."

Kierran

All three of the adults looked up at that. They looked like i had just said the craziest thing imaginable.

"What do you mean Thorn knew about it?" Puck asked.

"Well, when i was running after her she just stopped and looked up to the sky. I didn't see anything until it was too late."

"She couldn't have planned this," Dad said.

"I know she didn't," I replied. "This wasn't the first time this kind of thing happened."

"What don't you mean?" Puck asked.

"Thorn and I had been out in the Wyldwood and she had shot an ogre, but neither of us heard him or knew he was coming. Thorn just shot him with seeing he'd be there."

"She had a vision?" Dad asked.

"Has, yes."

Dad looked away. "Right, she has visions..."

"I've never heard about this until now," Puck started. "Thorn never said anything about visions..."

"I had learned about them recently, but i don't think she's had them long," I answered.

"I never thought visions were genetic..." Puck muttered to himself like I hadn't spoke at all.

"What did you just say, Goodfellow?" Dad growled deeply. It scarred me so much that even I stood back.

"I...uh, didn't say anything," Puck turned away as he scratched the back of his head.

"You are not getting out of this, Puck. Now tell me!" Dad yelled out.

"Tell you what?" Puck continued to avoid the question.

"Tell me who's Thorn's mother," Dad said finally.

"You don't know?" I asked.

"Do you?" Mom asked me as Dad and Puck looked at me.

"No,i just assumed you two would know."

"We had no idea, until now." Dad glared at Puck once more. Mom looked at Dad as if she knew what he meant but didn't want to know.

Puck wouldn't face them as he tried to walk to Thorn's room but Dad moved faster. Placing a hand on Puck's shoulder, Dad had stopped him four steps away from the door. "Dammit Puck, answer me! Who is Thorn's mother?" Dad yelled.

The room went silent, it almost was like the entire world died. I looked between my dad and Puck, waiting for the first one to speak. I even glanced at my mom once or twice just in case she was the first to speak up. Thankfully Puck was the first to talk.

"Her mother...is Ariella..."

I knew Dad had guessed it already but his face looked as if he had never imaged it, couldn't image really. He looked completely drained of life almost. I was amazed my father stayed on his feet.

"How old is Thorn?" Dad growled.

"Same age as Kierran I believe," Puck answered as I answered, "Two years younger than me."

"Ariella was gone when Kierran was born!" Dad yelled.

"I know that!" Puck yelled back.

"Then she can't be his age or younger than him!"

"Ariella and I didn't 'get' together until the day before she gave her life for you," Puck whispered.

"But...that would mean..." my father sounded confused and broken. "Ariella was gone before Thorn was born."

Puck was nodding. "I don't know how she was born or even alive, all I know is she's my daughter and Ariella's."

"How?" Dad asked.

"He dropped her off."

Dad and Puck had grown silent once more, leaving me and Mom in the dark. But Mom looked wide eyed as she asked, "Who's 'he'? Who are you two talking about?"

"The man who turned me into the first faery with a soul," Dad answered.

"He brought Thorn to me," Puck repeated.

Dad suddenly looked into Thorn's room. His expression was an odd mixture of curiosity and...despair? His face returned to being emotionless before I could really decipher what it was. He took a step into her room.

"Dad?" I asked.

"I just have to see her," he answered in a daze.

No one moved or questioned him as he walked over to Thorn, still emotionless in her bed. Wolf lifted his head to watch him but that was the only movement made. He was looking at Thorn with a look I had never seen, not even towards me. The problem was that I couldn't place it. It was like Dad was seeing Thorn for the first time, as if he had never seen her more than Puck's daughter.

"Ash, what are you doing?" Puck asked. He was stiff where he stood, staring at my dad.

"I had never thought of her as Ariella's child, and now I have to see the resemblance. She looks so much like you I have to wonder."

"You didn't see before? At all?" Puck asked, sounding astonished. "She looks just like her with my color. She has Ariella's eyes, sometimes they even look blue... How couldn't you see her in Thorn?"

"I never thought to look for her in Thorn," Ash answered. "You're right, though, I can't believe I never noticed before."

Mom walked past me and Puck and went to Dad. She whispered in his ear, too quiet for me to hear. Dad looked down at her with apologetic eyes. "She's Ariella's daughter, how am I supposed to act?" he asked, holding Thorn's hand as he said Ariella's name, but after he was done speaking Thorn squeezed his hand.

Thorn

My mind was turning foggy and the visions were beginning to ebb away. What's happening? I asked no one, but it sounded slow, even slurred.

I stumbled and fell to the ground. I could feel warm blood seeping out of the wound in the middle of my chest. Not yet, I thought and I realized it echoed in the darkness though.

Suddenly Kierran and Ion was in front of me again. They were fighting the same fight again. "No, no, no!" I yelled, and froze. I had actually heard my voice, not just fading thoughts.

The boys were continuing to fight as the pain in my chest returned. Blood was leaking out of the wound in my chest once more. I covered it with both my hands but the blood began to ooze faster and faster.

In the image, Kierran's hand went out fast and smashed into Ion's face."No!" I yelled and tried to stand to stop them, and the vision dispersed. I had already taken and a step and stood frozen until another one appeared next to me.

It was my dad, but I hadn't recognize him at first. His fiery red hair had dimmed dramatically to an almost white. His bright green eyes were dull and emotionless. He looked so old. I felt uneasy and cold just looking at him.

Another image appeared to my right. It was Kiri. She was the same little girl I already knew; small, no emotion, and cold; except she had scars. Lots of scar, they almost looked like battle scars. She made me think of a porcelain doll that broke and was glued back together. There was a specific one on her neck that I couldn't stop starring at.

Right next to her materialized Ion, colder and harder than ever before. His face was emotionless, but his eyes. They burned with anger He was shaking that he was so furious. It was so foreign to me just seeing emotion in him that all I could do is stare. Then he doubled over holding a bloody side.

Finally, Kierran was beside the vision of my father. He looked drained and sagged in a huge iron throne. He was chained to the chair by his wrist and ankles with a heavy looking crown on his head. I was scared that he was dead.

Suddenly another vision appeared in front of the others to make a sort of dead end hall around me. It was a Iron fey; a hacker elf to be precise. Though her eyes were purple numbers instead of green ones. Finally I recognized her. She's that girl with Kierran. She had been with him at the Winter ball and was the girl he was fighting with in my earlier visions. She was standing in a battle field full of dead bodies, and then I noticed the spear she was holding. Horror filled me as I looked at the dead eyes of Mab's and Oberon's heads at the top of the spear. Titania was at her feet, also dead, with Meghan and Ash.

"You can defeat her," a voice behind me echoed. Her voice was sweet and matter-of-fact. She sounded...familiar. I slowly turned to see a woman standing a few feet away from me, her almost white hair blowing in wind that didn't exist.

"Mom?" I heard myself ask.

Her smile was dazzling as she nodded. "Yes, I'm Ariella."

"But y-you're dead," I stuttered. "How are you here?"

"You have an important decision to make, the same one I had to make," she explained. "Wyverns are messengers. They come to us to warn us of the future ahead that could change the world. Usually a great danger that threatens our existence."

I touched the wound in my chest lightly as I turned to look at the hacker elf. "Why?"

"To see if we're needed or not. We're psych and could be a danger to the ones we love," she started. "When I was dying I saw what happened if I died and how Meghan came in and saved the NeverNever, but if I lived she would have never came to the NeverNever and I would have been used by the Iron King against the courts. The NeverNever would have been destroyed if I lived."

"So you let the wyvern kill you?" I asked.

"No, I knew I would be needed at the end of the war, so I lived but died to the Ash and Puck," Ariella answered as she looked towards my father. Her eyes looked sad and wistful.

"You gave him your soul, so he could be with Meghan," I said, remembering the stories.

"Yes, and at this moment he's standing by your bedside so I can help you. Though he doesn't know it."

"What do you mean?" Ash and I didn't really talk to each other, and if we did it was very short.

"I may not be around but I am inside Ash, so I detached myself in a way to help you." She smiled at me and stepped closer to me. "Now, do you want to live? Do you believe you'll save them, or danger them?"

I looked to the hacker elf once more to Kierran and my dad, so sad and drained. Then I looked towards Kiri and Ion, hostile and unemotional. Turning back to my mother I answered, "If this is what happens if I die, I'm going to live."

Ariella took my hand. "That's my girl."

Squeezing her hand the black space broke away from me. With a shattering sound surrounding me, my eyes flew open.

Kierran

Thorn's chest expanded as she gasped in deeply right before her bright green eyes shot open. But with her eyes opening an explosion of ice surrounded her and her bed.

No one moved except Wolf to jump off the ice covered bed. Thorn was panting slightly and sitting up. Her eyes lifted slowly from the ice to meet my own eyes. With no explanation she reached her arms out to me as she yelled out my name.

I was at Thorn's side so fast I must have looked like a blur. I held her against me tightly as my lips found hers, or maybe she found mine. I couldn't tell. Everything went blank around me except Thorn. I felt her arms wrap around me, pressing me against her even more. It wasn't until my dad cleared his throat that we pulled away.

Thorn's face was bright red with embarrassment, and I don't think mine was much different. "Sorry..." she whispered. "I was just so scared for you after everything I saw."

I looked at her with confusion, but my mother spoke up before I could ask the question. "So, how long has this been going on?" And at the same time Dad asked Puck, "Did you know about this?"

Puck nodded. "I knew they loved each other, are you two too dense to tell or something?" he asked. "I don't know how long but I've had suspicions for a long time."

"Does anyone know when they fall in love?" Thorn asked, silencing the room.

Everyone froze for what felt like the hundredth time that night. I looked down at her shocked, but then realized something. I quickly pulled Thorn away from me and looked at her chest.

"Kierran, are you serious? You're staring at my breast right in front of our parents." Thorn looked at me with a raised eyebrow.

"Your wound," I said, ignoring her, "it's gone." I looked up at her in disbelieve.

Thorn touched the bloody bandage over her wound slowly as Puck pushed himself over to get a closer look. "How is that possible?" he asked.

"I chose to live," Thorn answered in a thought. She looked up at me and her father slowly. "I chose to live..."

Puck: I am sooo confused.

Ash: I'm so pissed! You slept with Ariella!

DarkMina: You're surprised?

Ash: *glare at Dark*

DarkMina: Oh come on! Puck needs someone too, right girls?

Ash&Puck: Who are you talking to?

Meghan&Ariella: Very right.

Ash: O.O

Puck: O.O

DarkMina: Review!