A/N: I know I haven't update in a while(and probably won't again), but I do hope you like it!
She Was Hurting And No One Noticed
Three years have passed since Colette had parted ways with Blue. Her child has grown into a beautiful smart girl and Colette had even found a job at an inn. It wasn't stellar, but it gave her the ability and money to raise her daughter.
Usually, the nights at this inn were quiet, but it seemed that it would be different this night. A king was passing through this part of the realm and had decided to stay at the inn for this fortnight. Colette was happy with that because it meant more money for her, but Naeris wasn't that pleased. She thought that the king would disrupt her peaceful world and she was right in a way.
The King was a good albeit stupid man named Maurice. He had decided to stay at the inn to see how the people in that part were living. What he saw didn't please him, but he wasn't terribly moved by it either. Out of everything he saw, the most striking thing he had seen was a little girl and her mother. Both were extremely beautiful, even though it could be seen that they've gone through a lot. He asked the innkeeper about them, but the innkeeper didn't seem terribly interested in them, they were just a part of the staff to him, but the king saw more.
On the last night at the inn, he asked the woman if she'd come with him. Colette accepted, thinking that it would give her daughter a better chance at happiness than being at a shady inn, that was in an almost forgotten part of the land. Her daughter, of course, came along and it seemed as if everything would move for the better. Inside a year, Colette had married a king and Naeris was accepted as a young princess by the entire household. She seemed happy – she played a lot and it didn't seem like she had many problems with her magic about which Maurice had been told.
Naeris though was far from happy. She was four years old when she started understanding what was happening around her. She could see that her mother loved the king, but also that she was almost leaving her behind – forgetting about her.
On her fifth birthday, it was confirmed as far as she was aware. Her mother had given birth to another girl named Belle, exactly on her birthday. No one even asked for her nor wished her happy birthday. It was almost as if everyone wanted it to be a very unhappy birthday for her. Regardless of that fact she tried to love her sister. It was a slow process and it wasn't any easier a year later because only the birthday of the precious daughter named Belle was celebrated. She was forgotten.
Seeing how it would be, Naeris tried to do the one thing she was good at and Belle wasn't and that was magic. It seemed like it danced around and took away the pain that came whenever she saw her mother doting upon Belle. Slowly, Naeris started to detest the king because he was the one that took away her mother's love. She even started hating her mother by her eleventh birthday, but no matter what happened from one year to the other, she could not find it in her being to hate her little sister. She tried to do everything in her power to have the love of at least one creature in this world, but nothing she did could do it. At last, she tried magic.
Naeris was fifteen, it was raining and Belle wanted to play outside but their mother would have none of it because Belle would get wet. Naeris approached her little sister, her words chosen carefully, "Belle, I could make it that you can get out without getting wet."
"How?"
"Magic, of course!" Naeris said excitedly.
"All magic is evil and it should be only in the books! Daddy said so," Belle said naively.
It broke Naeris, hearing that. She thought for sure that her sister couldn't hurt her more than she was already hurting. She left her sister, going back to her rooms. If anyone had seen her, they wouldn't have noticed anything on her face, but when she entered her room, tears slowly fell down her face. She vowed softly that she'd do the duty of an older sister, that she'd protect her sister, but that she'd never put her happiness above her own. Little did she know that just a few years later she'd break her vow.
Not even full three years later another tragedy came into Naeris's life. Her mother died. She wasn't terribly sorry about it but it still hurt, especially since Colette had spent her last two years on making Belle believe that all magic isn't necessarily evil. Even though what she did was good in Naeris's eyes, she still scoffed at the picture that was painted in Belle's eyes by their mother. Now, she thought that there was good in everyone. Usually, that would not bother Naeris, but she, unlike their mother knew that what she taught her wasn't necessarily true.
Ever since Belle had declared the magic evil, Naeris had been having dreams about strange things. At first, it was about a man that lost a son and then fell into darkness. It seemed so real. She thought that it might be future or past, but it was something, for she saw that the magic was performed. She even tried it to be certain and she succeeded. It scared her.
Later, it was about a weird world with no magic. She wasn't certain about that, but she accepted it as a possibility. Her latest dream was just after her mother has died. It was about her birth and the words, the fairy had said.
It all scared her because it promised a lot of responsibility, but she was determined to succeed even if it meant ripping someone's heart out.