Chapter 4: Flashbacks

Rosalinda was walking down Main Street cursing the day Kyrian had to bring Nick in as his squire. She said as she looked up at the sky. She shook her head and sighed walking past the bar/strip club Nick's mom worked at and unable to handle the injustice of a perfectly good woman working there. She walked over to the Sanctuary bar on Ursuline and smiled up at Dev. "Hey look a runaway squire coming to visit the lowly sanctuary bar." Dev laughed teasing her.

"Come on now, you and I both know I spend a ton of time here and that I am no squire Dev." He laughed and nodded as he passed me on in. Rosalinda nodded at him and walked in as she walked up to the bar where a dark-hunter by the name of Abertio was cleaning up the bar. She smiled and leaned on the counter. "Hey sexy, first where is your sister, second can I speak to Mama Lo?"

He nodded and pointed towards the back. She nodded at him and started walking back to Mama Lo's office where she ran into Alyia, another Dark-Hunter, the only Dark-Hunter who could be around her brother and not drain each other's energy. "Hey girl, what are you doing here? I thought you'd be out patrolling, also have you seen Mama Lo, I need to speak to her about my friend's mom."

Aly laughed and smiled kissing the top of her head, "Hunny, I have known you for how many years. I know you're talking about that young gentlemen friend you have's mother but I need you to know to not try and hide things from me." She wrinkled her nose at her and smiled. "When you're as old as me, you know when it's being done."

Rosalinda nodded and laughed as she looked at the sister of the Dark-Hunter siblings. No one really knew their age, they all assumed they were younger than the first Dark-Hunters, but they very could be older than that. Rosalinda smiled as she grabbed Aly's Gloved hand and smiled as she nodded to her walking into Mama Lo's back room. Mama Lo looked up and gave her a soft smile as she folded her hands on her desk. "To what do I owe the honor Rosalinda?"

She smiled and sat down across from Nicolette Peltier. "I have a dear friend of mine. His mom is a sweetheart, she does not deserve to be working where she does. She works at a strip club. The only reason she works there is because she can't afford to feed her son, if she doesn't." Rosalinda said staring at Nicolette, hoping and praying that she understood and let Cherise work here.

"Well, we can't have perfectly decent women working degrading jobs, let's move her to work here." She smiled as Rosalinda jumped excited.

"Oh thank you Mama Lo, let me go tell her son the good news." Rosalinda practically screamed in happiness as she ran out the door as she came face to face with someone holding a box and it was coming straight toward her, she did a quick duck and jump that she had never known she could do. She closed her eyes breathing in deeply as if felt like something hit her in the gut as she gasped for air holding on to the hall of the hallway. When Rosalinda looked up she wasn't in Sanctuary, she was in a house made out of stone, and she looked the age of 5.

Rosalinda ran to her father and smiled as she had done the same duck and jump move she did in Sanctuary running towards this man she knew as her father, he had long blonde hair that had braids on each side of his head. She jumped up and hugged him smiling. "DADDY! YOUR HOME!"

He laughed and picked up the little five year old Rosalinda as he smiled with a dark glint in his eyes as if he was worried about something. She smiled and touched his cheek as her mother walked in, "Julian, are you sure you want her to go live with Kyrian for a couple months?"

"Pennelope, of course I do I trust him with my life on the battlefield, I will trust him with my daughter as well." She sighed and nodded as he handed her a case of clothes for Rose as he picked her up and put her into a carriage as she rode with her father over to Uncle Kyrian's villa.

She jumped out of what she assumed was a flashback as she gasped for air. The second she could breathe she ran towards home. She was still running when she made it home. She looked at Nick real quick and told him the news about his mother and her job. He smiled and nodded going off to tell her as she ran up the stairs and panted heavily. "KYRIAN! WAKE UP!"

He cursed and woke up putting a knife in his hand instantly as she looked at him. He lowered the knife sighing in relief and then looked at her as she was near tears. Her hair was everywhere and she looked like she just went through hell, "What's going on Rose hunny?"

She bit back a sob as she cleared her throat, "Who is Julian?"

He looked at her dumbfounded that she even knew the name let alone had asked him about it. He sighed getting up, "He is…was a good friend of mine. I was led into battle with him multiple times. I was hard headed when it came to him but he still made me feel like I was worth rations." He laughed slight;y, "I miss him to this day. Why do you ask?"

She looked at him as tears formed in her eyes. "I think I am his daughter."

Kyrian couldn't have looked more dumbfounded had she asked her what was a better size tampon. Without saying a word he pulled her into a hug and hugged her tight. She gasped as that same pain hit her again as she laid in him gasping for air.

Julian was at Kyrian's villa looking at Rosalinda while speaking to Kyrian, "I fear my wife is plotting my death, which I don't care about but I need you to watch my Rosalinda. I would die if anything happened to her, I love her dearly."

Kyrian nodded looking at the little redheaded girl with red eyes and smiled, "Of course, I will watch her. Julian I give you my word that as long as I live I will always protect this woman."

He smiled and gave him a tight hug. Julian leaned down tears in his eyes as he held Rosalinda tight in his arms as she smiled saying bye, not realizing that this would be that last time she ever sees her father. Julian nodded to Kyrian and he left as Kyrian gave her a hug. "Come now, sprite, what do you want to do."

She came out of the flashback staring at Kyrian and then looked at the room around as she stared at Kyrian, "You raised me?" He bit back a curse before he smiled at her and nodded.

"Yes sprite, I did." She smiled in happiness as she hugged him and left.

A few weeks later Rosalinda was at the bar Sanctuary watching Nick's mom work as she smiled. Nick walked up to her and smiled sitting down across from her. She turned to look at him and suddenly wished she hadn't. Ever since she found out she could not be Nick's lover it's been harder and harder for her to be around him. She loved him dearly. She bit her lip and then looked back at his mother. "I wanted to say thank you Rosalinda, I appreciate everything you do for me."

"Nick, it's what friends are for." She cringed inwardly at the idea of calling Nick her friend.

"So what do you want to do about us?" Nick blurted out as his face turned red.

She turned to him gasping as she closed her eyes as a tear escapes her cheek. "Well, isn't it obvious, we can't be together?"

She turned away from him long enough to see a blonde man who looked extremely familiar to her followed by a girl. They looked like they were in love. She concentrated hard enough on the male to see that he had a bow and arrow necklace around his neck. She gasped as the usual pain that comes from her getting flashback came to her as she held on to the table for support as she closd her eyes.

The blonde man from Sanctuary appeared in front of her and held out his hand for her. "You must be my niece, your beautiful, isn't she Psyche?" The woman from the bar nodded smiling at her as she looked at her reflection in the mirror and she looked to be about age 10.

She smiled and hugged him laughing, "Oh, uncle Eros, I love you. How is Grandma?"

He smiled and kissed the top of her head letting her down. "She is doing well my little flower, she misses you. Do you want to pray to her at her temple?" She nodded smiling as Eros, Psyche and Rosalinda walked to the temple of Aphrodite where Rose got on her knees and started praying to her as Aphrodite appeared.

Rosalinda looked up and gave her a hug smiling. "Oh grandma."

Aphrodite smiled and looked at Eros and Psyche who nodded. She smiled and giggled as she looked down. " Grandma I have to go because Uncle Kyrian will be worried about me if I don't hurry back. Next, time though I am all yours grandma."

She came out of the flashback wide eyed as she stared at the couple heading up to he poker room. Rosalinda without a second thought ran upstairs to the poker room and stopped the couple staring at them. The blonde male turned wide-eyed and smiled as he hugged her. "Oh Rosalinda we were so worried, next time your grandmother decides to a mind wipe for you tell her we don't approve."

She smiled and hugged him smiling as Psyche just stood off to the side. "Rosalinda I need to speak to you."

She glanced at her uncle and then nodded going over to her aunt who stared down at her with a kind expression smiling. "I am the goddess of soul mates. I know you have met your soul mate. Have you felt extremely close to anyone recently Rosalinda?" Rosalinda looked down at the man who leaves her heart fluttering and her stomach cramping with need to be near him. She quickly shook her head no.

She sighed and nodded as they continued up the stairs to the poker room telling her that they would catch up more later. Rosalinda nodded and ran down to whom she assumed was her soul mate, that she couldn't be with. Smiling she sat down and stared at him and giggled. "What was that about?"

"Apparently, those two are my uncle and aunt."

He laughed at the though and nodded as he kissed the top of her head. "So now you know your uncle, aunt, father, mother, siblings, and grandparents correct?"

She smiled and nodded, "Now I just have to learn everything else, like why I'm so good at fighting and why I am immortal, and why I keep losing my memories."

They both nodded as Nick grabbed her hand. "I'll help you anyway I can my beautiful Rose, you're the best friend I have ever had, and you are certainly amazing."

She nodded as she looked up. She had this knot in her stomach that her life was going to fall apart within the next couple years that she won't know anything at all about who she is or who she was. She squeezed Nick's hand and smiled softly. "Thank you."

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Thanks guys, I love you guys so much for liking my story 2,004 words. Oh god this was crazy. But so much happened this chapter and next chapter we are going to start the actual dark-hunter series. Finished Styxx in a week. OH GOD I LOVE STYXX, I hate Ryssa, and Acheron is no longer the saint I thought he was. Urian rocks, and Tory got even better in my eyes. Anyway this is my chapter, guys please review and tell me what you though ok?

CHARACTERS I OWN IN THIS CHAPTER:

Rosalinda

Alyia

Abertio