Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Chapter 14 - Stay Strong

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Alex's POV

My heart stopped. Those words that I had always been afraid of, but never though I would actually hear, replayed in my mind over and over again. You're under arrest. I've always been a rebel, and it never bothered me, but hearing those words made my whole body go limp. I felt dizzy, ready to faint.

"Momma? What's going on?" I heard a voice speak up from the smoke. My heart dropped. Professor Crumbs and the Wizard police spun around in surprise. Leah clutched her stuffed hippo; eyes full of fright and confusion.

"What is this?" one of the wizards demanded angerly, glaring at Leah, then at me.

I regained my strength at that last comment. "This is my daughter, thank you very much." I retorted, very smart alec-y.

Professor Crumbs's eyes widened. He studied her for a moment. Leah stared back. He looked at one of the wizards. The wizard nodded.

"This is completely unheard of!" Crumbs noted. "What's worse than the law broken, is the fact that this child is crossbred!"

Mason glared at him instantly. "Crossbred? So? There are hundreds of half-werewolf half-mortal wolves around the world! They actually take up sixty-seven precent of our population!"

"I am aware of that, Mason. But you see, this child is also a wizard. Do you know how potentially dangerous this creature is?"

"Creature?" I demanded. That name struck me hard. "Does she look like a creature to you?"

"Things aren't always as they seem, Ms Russo."

"Graybeck." I corrected.

"That's not helping for your sake, Alex."

I shut my mouth angerly, not wanting to cause any more trouble.

"No matter," Crumbs continued, "this will not stand. I will see you in Wizard Court in seven days." without another word, he was gone.

One of the other wizards grabbed Mason by the wrist. Alarmed, Mason pinned her to the ground. She instantly let out a surprised squeak. "What do you think you're doing?" Mason demanded.

"Y-y-you're required t-to wear these w-w-wrist cuffs, s-sir," she studdered nervously, her bright eyes full of fright. "So P-professor Crumbs can make sure y-you don't mm-make an escape for the time b-b-being, sir." I glanced at her. She was young; probably around sixteen.

"Just do what she says, Mason," I sighed.

"Sorry," Mason muttered as he helped her back to her feet. She nervously locked the black cuff on his wrist. Another officer, a buff man probably in his thirties, placed a smaller one on Leah's. He tried to put on mine, but my terret-like reflexes made me impulsively elbow him in the gut. He let out an "oof" in surprise.

"I've got it," I grumbled angerly, snatching the cuff out of his hand and hesitantly snapping it on my wrist. He raised an eyebrow, but sighed and poofed out of the house along with the other wizards. The young girl Mason attacked gave me a sorrow glance. She was the only one left. She started to pull out her wand to leave.

"Wait," I stopped her. Her eyes widened. I pulled Leah onto my hip. "Can you explain what's going on?"

She put her shiny blue wand back in her jacket pocket and sighed. "A month ago, a new portal opened up. When a portal opens, it emidiately show up on the WWWM, the World Wide Wizard Map. It shows where every portal is located in the entire world."

Mason folded his arms over his chest. "What does that have to do with us?" he asked concerningly.

"Well, A wizard portal only opens the day that a wizard recieves his or her powers," she explained. "But we didn't know of any other wizards in that area. That's when Professor Crumbs found out that you two were still together, which, werewolf-mortal relationships are illegal. So, he was seriously ticked."

"What does that have to do with Leah?" I asked.

"No one's ever heard of a wizard-werewolf crossbred child," she continued. "It's never been done."

"But there are plently of wizard-werewolf relationships, because it's legal."

"But those relationships couldn't have kids," she explained, "something about the genes crossing together doesn't work, I don't know, but it's impossible. Which is why Crumbs flipped out about your daughter."

"Then how did-" I asked in surprise. I may be mortal now, but I do have wizard blood, which means my kids one day would be wizards. But that didn't make sense. Leah is half wizard, half werewolf, and yet, she is here.

And then, it hit me.

"My mom's a mortal." I breathed. "Full-on mortal."

The girl gasped. "Then maybe that's why, what's-her-name, is here! The human trait!"

"Leah. Leah is what's-her-name." Leah corrected in third person.

"Then, that's how Leah was born! She's a wizard, a werewolf, and a human! All in one! That makes sense!"

Mason spoke up. "What doesn't make sense, um,"

"Okay, what doesn't make sense, Hannah, is that, why are you explaining all these things to us when you're just helping turn us in?" Mason raised an eyebrow at her.

"Believe me, I'm totally against it. You guys are known around the Wizard World for your story. You fell in love. You lost each other. You found each other again, only to learn that neither of you had fallen in love with anyone else. You almost lost each other again. Then Alex lost the Competition, but instead of separating, you stayed together, no matter what anyone said or did. You guys have a lot of courage, but you're living proof that true love is unstoppable." she smiled, making her bright blue eyes sparkle. "I heard your story about a year ago, and I instantly fell in love with it."

Mason and I exchanged glances. This girl replayed the first two years of us in under three minutes. I cracked a tiny smile.

"Professor Crumbs has lost it. He can't separate you two, especially now that Leah's in the subject. I may be kind of crazy, spazztic, and awkward in some cases, but I always stand up for what I believe in." She pulled the silver police star off her jacket and threw it on the floor. "I'm on your side."

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