Author's note: Thanks for all the patience. I am o.k. and my new little one arrived healthy, strong, and safely (for those interested)!
Chapter Twelve: The Reaction
(Warren's POV)
There was something amiss with Siobhan's re-telling of history. He couldn't quite say what but other than the obvious he wasn't sure how it was wrong, it just was. Her smiling face when she finished showed how honestly she believed what she had just told him and how she seemed to think he would too. He didn't want to smash her hopes but he couldn't believe in her goddess. "What? I don't want to smash her hopes? I'm growing soft" thought Warren
"That is the most creative fairy tale I have ever heard" said Warren
"It is not a fairy tale" protested Siobhan
"Oh sure, and we sprouted up from the legs of a giant" said Warren
"You can make fun of it all you want but the truth will remain the truth when you are ready" said Siobhan
He had to give her credit for being sincere but he believed her sincerely wrong. He might not believe in all the tenets of Catholicism, as his mother did, but he also knew better than to believe in a goddess - who created an entire race and an Island from her blood. He grabbed his jacket and stood up, "time for the nonsense to cease" Warren thought with a shake of his head.
"Where are you going?" said Siobhan
"I am going to a place where you can't go" said Warren
"Oh yeah, where is that?" said Siobhan
"It's a little place called reality" said Warren
"Ha, ha, very funny" said Siobhan
"It certainly amused me, since it's the truth" said Warren
"What, so you think I am mentally deranged now?" said Siobhan
"Something like that or brain washed" said Warren
"So, you don't believe in any spirituality?" said Siobhan
"I didn't say that" said Warren
"So, you do believe in something?" said Siobhan
"Well, yes, I suppose. I have never really given it much thought" said Warren
"Then how come what I said seems so far-fetched?" said Siobhan
"Are you really asking that question?" said Warren
"No, I just said it to sound silly" said Siobhan
"Well, you did sound silly" said Warren
"Just answer the question" said Siobhan
"I don't think it needs answering. Your story is answer enough. I mean a race created from blood? Powers granted by a goddess? Come on!" said Warren
"Then how do you explain it?" said Siobhan
"I don't know, evolution?" said Warren
"And the mating?" said Siobhan
"A wormhole? Figment of our imagination?" said Warren
"So this is your spiritually?" said Siobhan
"Yes, no, I don't know. It works better than believing I was created by the blood of a goddess" said Warren
"Blood mixed with earth" said Siobhan
"Whatever, the point is that this world is more rational than irrational" said Warren
"Oh, so now I am irrational" said Siobhan
"Damn straight" said Warren
"So, you are just going to leave?" said Siobhan
"Yep" said Warren
"What about us, our mating bond?" said Siobhan
"Well, let's assume it is not real and move on with our lives" said Warren
"What about what happened this morning?" said Siobhan
"Clearly we both did not have enough sleep after the oddness of the day before and we hallucinated it. There is also the theory that someone poisoned our drinks from the day before and the last two days have been entirely made up. Either way you reason it, it didn't really happen" said Warren
She seemed shocked. Warren watched as her eyes went wide then blinked quickly. Her mouth opened then shut. He had finally silenced her tart tongue. "Well, that wasn't as hard as I thought. I don't think I have lost my touch after all" thought Warren
"I can't believe it" said Siobhan
"What? You can't believe my disbelief?" said Warren
"Yes" said Siobhan
"Defiantly brainwashed" said Warren
"I am not" protested Siobhan
"It is a working theory" said Warren
"It is not working at all. I am not brain washed and you are just stubbornly ignoring the truth" said Siobhan
"That is your theory. I will stick with mine, thanks very much" said Warren
Warren watched her lips wrinkle up in anger and her eyes roll back inside her head in irritation. His lips almost curled upward when he thought, "This is amusing me too much"
"This little chat has been highly entertaining but I must excuse myself as I am wanted at my job, back in reality" said Warren
"So what now, you are leaving and just going to ignore me?" said Siobhan
"Yes to the leaving and who knows, I have never tried to be friends with a brainwashed person before" said Warren
(Siobhan's POV)
Her whole system was in shock. She could feel Warren leaving. The way his hair felt as it swayed with the motion of his feet moving toward the door, the crunch of his leather jacket with the swing of his arms, and the ire amusement for him from their conversation. "Yet, he claims our bond is not real!" thought Siobhan
"Can't you feel my nerves and my frustration?" said Siobhan
She turned around but no one was there.
"He left" she said to the air
"He left" Siobhan repeated
Her little half room had never felt smaller than it did now. Warren's presence felt like a cloud that refused to dissipate. She could almost see the road speed past her as he rode his motorcycle farther and farther from her home.
"If our bond isn't real, how do I know you're riding a motorcycle?" said Siobhan to her empty room
She heard a tap on her the door leading into her nursery-bedroom. She almost hoped he had come back but she knew he was waiting at a red light in the wrong direction for returning.
"Come in" she said
"Hey girly" said Casey
"Hi" said Siobhan
"So, how did it go?" said Casey
"Well, Warren thinks I am brain washed" said Siobhan
"Oh that is rich" said Casey
"Yeah, that is basically what I told him" said Siobhan
"I am guessing from the lack of his presence that you were unable to convince him" said Casey
"Yep" said Siobhan
"So, are we going to go forward without him?" asked Casey
She looked at her friends red curls and wished that her people had not been in hiding for so long. "Then maybe Warren wouldn't have such a hard time accepting the truth of his descend and our bond"
"Yeah, I guess we will go forward without him" said Siobhan