Hello! How is everyone? It seemed like I'm updating this story once a month! *chuckles in anxiety* I have been struggling with my mental health for the past 3 months and quarantine: the sequel has been very hard on me mentally. Also, I started watching NCIS trying to catch up and I'm on season 10 and there are 18 seasons in total, having said that I stopped writing the 19th chapter for a while and started writing some fanfictions regarding the NCIS fandom.
I have uploaded one NCIS fanfiction on my account on Ao3 (Archive of our own) and my username is Vicky19 if you want go check it out! On other news, I have been trying to fix my sleeping schedule and I'm proud to say I'm logging out of my computer earlier, eat dinner earlier, I finish my chores earlier and I'm being more active inside the house the past two days! I'm so proud of myself!
Anyways, stay safe everyone! And keep in mind that the following chapters might discuss triggering subjects so beware! I will put on warnings in the beginning of each chapter if it contains anything triggering and before the triggering part.
The funny part is that the Christmas chapters I have been writing for over a year and upload them around Christmas apparently.
Enjoy!
Be Somebody
Chapter 14: Missing Explanations
Nansia looked at Stefanie and Ryan awaiting explanations.
"You need to focus on working on your magic, find your ancestors then you have to return to 2281 because your people need you in Sanctum." Stephanie blurted it out and Ryan whipped his head to look at Stefanie with raised eyebrows and eyes that were huge in shock. He was shocked she revealed something so huge so easy!
"Why? Why would I go back? How do I go back? How do I focus on learning magic? How do I help you? Guys, I'm only one person and I don't know that much about magic! I've been to this universe for a couple of months I don't have a vast knowledge in the supernatural and all of you are pressuring me like this! Can't it wait while I accumulate in this bizarre world you all call home!?" Nansia exclaimed in a panic and Ryan with Stefanie looked at her in pity.
"No one said it would be easy, Nansia or less stressful. You have to step up your game constantly. And I and Stefanie know you can do it because we've seen you do it many times before. I want more than anything to stay here and help you, give all the information you need but as you told me information given on a silver platter is never learned, and you need to learn." Ryan told her in a reassuring manner as he grasps her hands and sat her on the bed while Stefanie dragged a chair and got her burger and sat on the chair nodding with everything Ryan said.
"My grandma used to say that…" Nansia mumbled with a faint smile and Ryan cupped her cheek and made her look at him.
"You can do it!" Ryan told her encouragingly with emphasis in his words and Nansia gulped down nervously.
"Ry, I think we should give her the cheat book. It might help her." Stefanie voiced her thought and Ryan looked at her amazed.
"Cheat book?" Nansia asked confused and Ryan took out the red velvet cover notebook from his jeans' back pocket and gave it to Nansia.
"It's with everything I gathered on Malivore while I was in the present, I wanted to give this to you, to make your life easier…if I do give this to you promise me that you will find every single book I based my research on and double check the facts! It's only for emergencies if you are short on time." Ryan told her with a tone that didn't hide how serious this matter was quite the opposite it showed urgency as he put the book in Nansia's palm and gentle pressed it.
"I agree with Ryan, he's caused a wave in time right now by giving you this and potentially changing our future, use it wisely." Stefanie added from her chair with the same urgency in her tone.
Nansia shook her head positively showing she understood when she felt a shiver run down her spine and she shook a little.
"What was that?" Ryan asked alert and worried.
"Um…I don't know, I need to go…I have so much to do…to think…" Nansia stood up but Ryan stopped her.
"What is it?" Ryan pressed and Nansia looked at him.
"I think someone is trying to track me down and if they do and it's here and see you everything will blow to shit. I need to be far away from here." Nansia exclaimed in a hurry and Stefanie quickly undid her watch.
"Take this…it's a Time Vortex Manipulator, you made them…please don't forget to make them!" Stefanie said urgently yet again as she shoved the vortex into Nansia's hug.
"Alright…thank you both! Stay safe!" Nansia exclaimed as she run out of the hotel room completely forgetting her torn up stitches in her abdomen and back but already felt the tingly sensation of her wolf healing her.
When Nansia left them Ryan looked at Stefanie worried but she gave him a firm and hopeful nod as she continued eating her burger.
The duo ate and rested until the next night as they paid for the room and rode to an empty farm land before Ryan used his Time Vortex and they teleported away to the future. An unknown future.
Flashback to two days ago:
Penelope return to her room after spending the following two nights at Kaleb's and MG's and she was not ready to sleep by herself so along with her was MG who had been told what Bonnie and Nansia agreed upon.
They wanted to make a sleepover out of it and they waited of Nansia to return from her night shift at the Grill. So that MG can take the first shift on stay awake while the girls slept. And around 4 am MG and Nansia would switch so can MG get some hours of sleep before the school days started.
Penelope and MG were waiting, they watched a movie, they waited and they watched another movie when MG and Penelope fell asleep and the alarm that signaled the beginning of the new school day rang. And none of the two teens had seen Nansia.
Her bed was made like it was the night before. They hadn't heard her come in either.
They prepared themselves and went to breakfast waiting to see Nansia there but didn't see her. Hope and Lizzie asked about her during their breakfast but the two of them said they hadn't seen her.
Rafael was asked by Jed too if he had seen her but it the answer was negative.
Then Lunch rolled over and she was nowhere again! Hope and Lizzie with Penelope tried to do a locator's spell but it didn't work, they hair from her hair brush didn't burst into flames like it was meant to.
Then a secret meeting was called in the Old Mill where Lizzie, Josie, Jed, Kelab, Rafael, Landon, Penelope and MG were there and all spread out to look for her in town and in the woods to no avail.
They met up again in the Old Mill and agreed to cover for her with teachers, Jeremy and Alaric.
Penelope said to teachers that she had period cramps, Hope told Emma the same excuse. Josie said the same thing to Bonnie when she called her to her office saying how Nansia hadn't appeared in any of her classes.
Landon and Rafael with Jed and the other two boys said that Nansia was in bed with lady cramps to Jeremy during PE when he asked because Bonnie and Emma with Dorian let him know that Nansia was ditching again.
Lizzie lied too to her dad during their calming session.
And just like that no one from the adults and the wider student population noticed Nansia was missing on the first day.
On the second day, Team Super tried to keep up the façade but a concern Jeremy brought period pads and chocolate to Nansia only not to find her in her dorm during school hours!
He went straight to Alaric and Alaric checked in with every teacher Nansia would have under her regular schedule and they all gave the same answer;
"No, they kids say she's feels under the weather."
And like that an emergency school meeting was ensured and groups of people started scouring the area of the school and town.
Yet again, to no avail…
Nansia was missing.
Everyone started to think that maybe she dimensionally time jumped again without her consent so when in the early hours of the next morning a defeated Penelope and a worried Jeremy walked into Penelope's dorm to see Nansia sleeping they grew furious!
End of Flashback.
The weirdest thing happened, the moment she wore the Time Vortex Manipulator she knew how to use it…like the memory of it was hidden in her brain and suddenly remerged. She used it and teleported just a mile away from the school campus by just thinking about it then she limped back to the school campus making small breaks in between.
Then she started to get super dizzy and didn't manage to inside the Old Mill. That was when she collapsed her body hiding the time vortex and the small red velvet notebook.
She was found by Rafael, Landon and Jed when they saw her in her state they were so terrified that they called the big guns aka the teachers when Emma and Bonnie rushed to bring a gurney they had in the Nurse's Office for emergencies only!
They checked her injuries yet the objects she was holding were never found by the students or teachers.
She spent the entire Friday and weekend in a medical induced coma when her wolf finally was done healing, having wolfsbane in her system slowed even more the slow healing factor of her werewolf side which was a topic not fully studied.
When she woke up she found Jeremy and Lizzie sitting by her side.
"Hey guys…" She said with a very dry tone which scared Lizzie and she jumped before reaching for water.
After that day when Nansia was forced to say what had happened to her she laid exhausted in her bed making mental notes and planners when she had to pee.
She slowly lifted herself off the bed and walked to the bathroom, she peed and then went back to her room.
She remained one more day in bed before finally returning to classes, Jeremy had called Mystic Grill and told them what happened. She told them that she was jumped while waiting for the bus and she was kidnapped and beat up after being mugged and left for dead and that she was in a coma for four days so she had one more week before she returned to the normal schedule.
In Nansia's mind she was taking it one at a time, learn about magic and the ancestors and apparently find them, then focus on your werewolf side and then Malivore and Ryan.
She started slowly by catching up with school work, then with Emma which was challenging because she didn't want to be angry at Ryan because in her mind she was proud how much future Ryan had changed but her current Ryan was a monster or at least someone doing monstrous things under a monster's orders that needs to be freed.
Nansia also tried to caught up with work at the Mystic Grill and kept an eye out for Ryan Clarke, she had an idea of talking to him.
She was washing the dishes when she saw Mike, Isabella and Ethan.
"Hey guys?" She asked confused as she tried her hands.
"Mrs. Lynwood-Fell told us what happened, that you were jumped when you waited for the bus after shift. And your dad…sorry Jeremy told her that you were kidnapped and missing for two days!" Isabella started to ramble worried as she walked towards her but Mike sighed and stopped Isabella as she walked towards Nansia.
"What she's trying to say is, are you okay?" Mike asked her worried.
"I'm good." Nansia said with a sigh and a firm nod.
"And I had this idea that whenever we were all together in the night shift that we wait all together the bus and since the bus stops near all of our houses to take the bus all together and get down one by one." Ethan said as they all watched Nansia who sighed.
"Look, guys, I appreciate…" She was about to finish her sentence when an idea popped in her head. If she refused them she would be alienated and they were trying to be good and she needed to keep working with them so, she had to play good.
"That's right, I really appreciate it but my stop is the last one meaning that I would be on my own either way, you can help me by staying with me while waiting for the bus." She said with a tired sigh and everyone nodded.
"Then we wait for the bus together and walk each other home." Mike announced and everyone nodded then Isabella hugged Nansia tight.
"I'm glad you're okay and safe!" Isabella said and Nansia hugged her back as her eyes watered.
She couldn't believe what she was going through and she's been avoiding really thinking about it. She was trying to complete tasks like she was in a video game, devoted of any emotion. There was no time for emotions only actions.
Once she had free time when she wasn't surrounded by her friends she rushed to the Old Mill to look for the Vortex Manipulator and the notebook. And she did found them right where she fell that was when she realized that they were spelled so none other than Petrova blood relatives were allowed to see and touch. She was thankful for that.
And like that she dived right in into learning more about magic, more about werewolves and combat with Jeremy…not that she needed it…
It was a whole month later when as Nansia was cleaning a table the sound of door opening and closing when she saw him, Ryan Clarke walking towards…more like marching up to her.
She gulped anxiously and turned around her to see if she was alone or somebody else was with her, she feared for them not just for her.
Nansia saw him sit at a booth and Nansia walked up to him pretending that she didn't remember him;
"What can I get you today, sir?" Nansia asked cheery and Ryan looked at her and tilted his head but soon looked at the menu.
"Yeah, I'd have a burger with fries." Ryan said as he aimed the thing he wanted and as she ducked to see which brought her ear near his mouth and Ryan whispered the next words;
"Bring me my order and then sit down with me. Take your break….and something to eat because it would look weird if you don't. If you warn anyone I'll kill them and you. I just want to talk." Ryan whispered threateningly as he held her hand in his iron grip. The air coming out his mouth made the strands of her hair move and tickle her cheek as she tried to calm her breathing.
His voice was angry. Nansia was suddenly was let free and Nansia nodded.
"I'll be right back, sir." She said as she nodded and rushed away.
Fifteen minutes later Nansia returned with two burgers and a plate of fries and she sat down.
"What do you want?" Nansia asked as bravely as she could.
"An apology maybe? Dying sucks!" Ryan asked sarcastically.
"No, you caused me pain. I defended myself." Nansia said as she took a bite out of her burger. Ryan studied her and then said;
"Your burger has onions…why?"
"I like onions." Nansia shrugged and Ryan nodded as he took a bite out of his.
"It's delicious!" Ryan exclaimed and Nansia nodded as she continued eating.
"My break is ending in twenty minutes so speak fast." Nansia reminded him.
"How did you survive your injuries? What are you? And where are you coming from? The truth this time because what language you spoke doesn't exist!" Ryan whispered exclaimed and his tone wasn't angry anymore more like fascinated.
"If I tell you will you promise me one thing?" Nansia asked him challengingly and Ryan nodded.
"Please, for your own good, leave your father. He doesn't care for you! He only cares about power and he will gladly kill you and Landon once you stop being of use! Trust me I know this type of people." Nansia told him seriously and her eyes were staring Ryan in his eyes dead straight. While she spoke she reached and grabbed his hand and squeezed it.
"I'll help you as much as I can!" Nansia added quickly and reassuringly.
"I can't…" Ryan stuttered and Nansia held his hand tighter.
"Bullshit! I know you can! I'll help! I have started doing research on your case and through Christmas I'll ask my ancestors for more knowledge if they have any more knowledge to be exact." Nansia said urgently and Ryan looked at her in shock.
"Why you care?" Ryan asked her growing defensive, he felt naked in front of her.
"Because what I told you about my parents and my mum is true. I am a survivor and so are you! Hell even more than me since you survived a millennium if not more of that type of abuse." Nansia whispered exclaimed and Ryan shrank in his position.
"What are you? Why should I trust you? I hurt you!" Ryan whispered exclaimed too and Nansia sighed;
"I'm a hybrid, part werewolf and part witch. I come from a different dimension from the year 2019 yet when I was fifteen I time-traveled to my dimension's future, 2149, to be exact and I stayed there for twelve years before I had to be cryogenically frozen for 125 years and when I woke up again I returned to the past and I lived the same day again…I was yet again a fifteen year old when I was put in cryogenic sleep I was 28 years old but when I woke up I was 156 years old biologically. It happened again couple months ago and I appeared here. The language I spoke it's called Trigedasleng…a mixture of English, Arabic, Gaelic and Greek." Nansia whispered the answer and he looked shocked at her.
"You expect me to believe this?" Ryan exclaimed and Nansia nodded.
"Yes, I do because it's the truth." Nansia said to him in all honesty.
Just then Ryan saw the disbelief in him and decided to do the same thing Ryan had done when she grabbed his hand and brought all the memories of everything forth and thought she wanted him to see.
Ryan saw everything!
Everything about her life.
It was done just as fast and Nansia withdrawal her hand and she looked at him with a look of expectation.
"Believe me now?" Nansia asked him and he was breathing hard and tears tickled down his eyes.
"I do…" Ryan said as he tried to wiped his eyes and Nansia smiled apologetically.
"Now, here's my phone number…give me yours and we will be in touch, I'll help you get out of this situation but I won't help you hurt my friends…I help you destroy him and if you betray me…well…your future hangs in a thread so please accept the helping hand that is being given to you." Nansia said seriously as she made a move to stand up since her break was done. Ryan quickly used the pen Nansia used to write her number on a napkin to write his number also and Nansia tore the napkin apart and exchanged numbers that way.
Then she left, leaving him alone with his thoughts.
Nansia felt as if she was finally getting somewhere!
It was two days later when Nansia was tidying up her side of her dorm when she found the red notebook, the cheat book, she was tempted to look but future Ryan's voice echoed in her ears.
Decisively she grabbed it and went to the library and started searching for things about Malivore.
She grabbed a piece of paper and a pen from the reception of the library and she started to write down everything that sounded remotely interesting.
Nansia's behavior hadn't gone unnoticed and Hope the others had tried to make contact with her but she was shut them down or ignored them.
As she was in her research mode that she didn't see Hope and Lizzie approaching her until it was too late and chairs were being dragged.
"Hey, girl!" Hope tried to start a conversation only to receive a glare by Nansia and a WTF look by Lizzie.
Nansia just kept glaring at Hope and then at Lizzie before she let out a sigh as she stored whatever paper she had used inside the books and started closing them too then she said;
"Girls, I'm busy." Her tone was empty of any friendliness as she grabbed the books close to her chest and stood up and started walking away.
"You can't take those books out of the library without a membership card!" Lizzie exclaimed and Nansia turned to look at her as she whipped out a card from her jeans' back pocket.
"I know we have libraries back home too, you know…" Nansia said sarcastically as she walked away from them.
She got those books signed out and she went to her dorm then as she was peeing she shot a text to Ryan asking if they could meet.
She was overwhelmed the past month and four days everything was happening too quickly for her liking!
They agreed to meet at the bus stop before her usual bus stop where it was a kiosk in the middle of a meadow-like place with a view of the deep forest surrounding Mystic Falls and the highway.
She put everything including the Cheat book in the biggest backpack she could find and owned. She made up her mind, she would tell Ryan everything but the future romance/marriage thing and his upcoming betrayal. She would tell him that she wants to help him free him from Malivore's grasp but in return, he has to teach her everything he knows about the supernatural including helping her catch up with school.
And just as she planned she told him everything from what she knew before meeting him, about who saved her and what she learned from Future Ryan minus the romance and Stefanie's involvement.
It was an hour later when Nansia showed him what she had managed to find on Malivore but Ryan didn't spare them a glance.
"I wrote those passages, Nansia, didn't you find anything more? And what did future me meant that there are more of your family here? Aren't you from a different dimension?" Ryan asked defeated and confused.
"I don't know where else to look or what future you meant, Ryan, I told you everything I know…will you help me in return?" Nansia asked him desperately and Ryan nodded.
"Okay, we meet every day after school hours…" Ryan started to say but Nansia cut him.
"I can't I have the shift at the Grill."
"Alright, how about every weekend?" Ryan asked hopeful and Nansia nodded accepting.
"Okay, how do we do this?" Nansia asked uncomfortable after a moment of silence when both individuals looked around them marveling the scenery.
"First, I apologize for what I did to you. How are you healing?" Said Ryan with a hesitant yet truthful tone.
"Um…I still have some scars but I wear and undershirt underneath this one as to not become itchy or aggravate my back's skin with the shirt or bags I carry. I…I need time to forgive you…but I will." Nansia said as she tried to move away from Ryan who when he asked the question had moved a little closer.
"Understandable. I'm truly sorry…I thought you were with them, you know…" Ryan said hesitantly.
"I'm not in any teams, Ryan, I just want to help you get away from an abusive and toxic parent. I'm not with or against anyone because I don't know what is going on! From the moment I came here stuff has been happening one after the other! Professor Bonnie wants me to contact the dead and Future You have told me I have more family here which those things might be connected, Elena and Damon want to have some sort of family relationship, I have to pretend to be Jeremy's child and obey his rules because CPS might make things harder for me and I have my job and now this! How am I supposed to catch up with school and everything else? How am I supposed to understand why and how am I here? And don't get me started on discovering my wolf heritage when I can barely understand my witch heritage! Oh god! Oh god!" Nansia rambled in a fit of nerves and anxiety as she started to try to wipe some hair off her face as wind picked up and ended up pulling her hair instead of pushing them aside.
Ryan watched her have her meltdown and I understood the wind was her, her magic to be exact, mirroring her distress so he just did what he felt was right, he hugged her the shock from the action was enough to make her stop and focus on the body contact.
"You'll figure it out. I can help." Ryan told her sincerely and they locked eyes for a moment.
Nansia quickly squirmed away from him and tried to compose herself and so did Ryan.
"Thanks…sorry about the melt down…" She said hesitant and ashamed of herself.
"No, need to apologize. So, since we can't find anything new on Malivore, let's start with telling me what you researched besides Malivore." Ryan asked her with a soft tone.
"I had this idea…what if we researched why you look like this? I mean you chose to wear that face? Or you saw someone looking like you and you decided to adopt his face? No offense by the way." Nansia suddenly seemed to change from a distressed little girl to a strong intelligent woman with a snap of a finger.
He marveled that.
"Um…that was the first face I saw on the lake after my father created me from the mud." Ryan said uncomfortably.
Just then Nansia snapped a picture of him and she quickly with a few clicks she did a reverse image search.
"Hey! What are you doing?!" Ryan exclaimed alarmed as he saw and heard the flash and rushed to her. The speed and strength of his moments pushed Nansia who was standing and pacing in the kiosk to be pushed and sat by force on the surrounding benches. Her hand that held the phone instantly was extended upwards and her leg opened to use some sort of momentum but instead Ryan's knee was trapped in between her legs and his body was stretched over hers trying to reach the phone. Nansia groaned in pain as her scars pressed roughly on the bench and tried to extend her in order to keep her phone safe from Ryan's wanting hands.
"Give it to me! What are you trying to do?" Ryan groaned in effort to reach the phone only for him knee to press on her crotch causing Nansia to grow alarm try to use her free hand to push him off her panicking since scenes of herself as 12-year-old trying to keep herself from being raped flashed before her eyes.
"Stop! I was try to reverse image search! Stop!" Nansia exclaimed as she started hitting him with her free fist against his ribcage causing Ryan to realize their position and he lowered his head to look at her, he then forcefully grabbed her free fist-formed hand and immobilized it in his own fist holding it pressed against his ribcage.
Their eyes were stuck looking at each other as Nansia breathing slowed from panicky to mirror Ryan's slow but steady breathing.
There was this tension between them that made Ryan's throat dry as he licked his lips and that moment broke whatever spell there was between them and Nansia shoved her phone to him.
"See for yourself, idiot!" She growled before she tried to shove him off her only to have both of her hands trapped against his body.
"Ask me first next time, I would have gladly allowed you to take my picture, idiot." He said with a low voice because the tension was still in the air for him.
Nansia squirmed some more and Ryan let her go at last. She didn't like what she saw in his eyes as they stare at her, she had read enough erotic novels to recognize the "darken eyes from desire" gaze but what the fuck? The desire for what? Her? It's too soon! He doesn't know her! And most definitely she's not some model drools dripping model to say that her body causes men to feel hot and bothered.
She shook her head and tried to focus on the matter. Ryan tried to calm down by what happened by looking at Nansia's phone and the image results.
"Um…what?" Ryan asked confused and showed Nansia her phone screen.
"No results found." Nansia read out loud and rushed to get her phone from him. She checked for signal and data and she had all of them.
"This can't be happening…so it's your own face…what if we try to make you human? Somehow reverse engineer your DNA and mix it with a human's DNA?" Nansia asked him hopeful and confused.
"What are you trying to say?" Ryan asked her equally confused.
"I'm trying to say what if you get reborn? You keep your body but you serve no connection to Malivore?" Nansia asked him with a wide smile and just then Ryan smiled too.
"I have seen a spell in this book back at school about transferring the mind and soul in another body, we can use this spell to trap your soul and body in another while we try to either re-create a similar body like yours or we make yours human with another spell. But I need to ask someone for help those spells are very strong and I'm not strong." Nansia said hopeful and in a calculative tone.
"Bring it on Saturday and we will look through it, I will search for any strong witches willing to help us! I can't believe I haven't thought of that!" Ryan exclaimed hopeful and Nansia smiled proudly.
Just then Ryan turned to her and hugged her tight thanking her.
The next days until the weekend Ryan asked around for a witch but found none but he did found a procedure to reverse engineer one's DNA from a different species to human. But as he was looking through it he saw a green and golden book glimmering under the public libraries' lights and he went to check it out.
Just then a shadowy figure was waiting for him at the end of the hallway.
"Who are you?" Ryan asked at the figure dressed in a deep green dress clearly from the 1500s.
"I'm Thalia, Nansia's ancestor and her protector, if your intentions for her are pure then I trust you with the book you're holding, it's a spellbook a very powerful witch named Martha Bennett had written only to get stolen in the 1770s, inside on page 143 there is a spell about transforming a husk of a body into a living and breathing body using only light magic. It will need Nansia's magic and then some around three other strong witches. Then you will be a witch too but no more Malivore's minion…but there is a price." Thalia said seriously and Ryan listen every word.
"The price is that in order for the spell to work you have to finish whatever you were created to do otherwise it won't work…which means betraying Nansia and helping Malivore till the end since this was the reason you were created. You can work on forgiveness." Thalia said with the same tone but her eyes showed warning.
"NO! I won't help my father! There must be another way!" Ryan exclaimed loudly.
"There isn't, child! Take it or leave it!" Thalia said as she held the book out for him and Ryan grabbed it.
"Fine! But I will warn Nansia to warn her friends, I'll try to minimize the death toll at least!" Ryan said determined and Thalia smiled.
"You love her already huh?" Thalia asked him with a smirk.
"No! I just…she doesn't deserve more pain…" Ryan said as he tried to hide the blush on his cheek by lowering his head.
After the incident in the kiosk, he couldn't stop thinking about what would have happened if instead of talking to her he had grabbed her and kissed her.
Thalia smiled and then wished him good luck before she disappeared. Ryan remained in the hallway holding the book.
He found Nansia on the same day during her shift and when she approached she wore a confused expression since they met at the back alley of the Grill.
"What's up?" Nansia asked concerned then she noticed the book.
Ryan didn't waste time and explained only for Nansia to sigh.
"This is what Future You meant by betrayals…I forgive you! I already forgive you! And I will talk to the others on your behalf, they'll understand." Nansia said determinedly and Ryan smiled relieved.
He then kissed her cheek and Nansia froze and looked at him.
"As thanks for not giving up on me. We are still on for Saturday though, I'm helping you learn more about your werewolf side because I will have finished my research on it and bring your history book and a notebook. I'm teaching you actual history, girl!" Ryan said excited and Nansia smiled and nodded as she hugged him and then they returned back to the shop where he orders a burger and fries to go.
Saturday came and Nansia arrived at the kiosk first and listened to music while taking pictures of her surrounding while music was blaring from her headphones.
She didn't realize Ryan was standing behind her admiring her as she tried to capture the image of a butterfly on a blue flower as the afternoon sun was hitting the camera.
Ryan wondered how the hell did he go from torturing her to falling fast in love with her. Something made him trust her and soothed him…she felt at home whenever he would hug her.
Nansia turned satisfied with the picture and jumped at Ryan's presence.
"Μαλάκα, γαμώ! (Shit, fuck!) Warn next time! I'm too young for a heart attack!" Nansia exclaimed half in Greek and half in English.
Ryan just laughed at her and Nansia playfully punched him. She then saw the bags of taking out and flashlights.
"Sorry, I was late, I was bringing reinforcements." Ryan said with a relaxed tone and Nansia smiled.
They started restlessly the lesson and when the sun seemed to set they did a small break and had dinner. Nansia told him more about her life in her dimension and Ryan asked more questions about the way of life there.
It was well past 11 pm when Nansia's phone rang and interrupted Ryan's explanation on some historic battle that was won thanks to witches.
"Hey, Jeremy! Oh! I was out doing some landscaping photography! Yeah, I'm aware in an hour it's a curfew, I'm waiting for the bus as we speak." Nansia lied casually and Ryan studied how she didn't even seem to lie not even her tone of voice didn't betray anything until he saw it, the tick, Nansia's shaky wrist was a clear indicator she was lying.
He grasped it and held it as Nansia looked at him confused and he just smiles.
She bid her goodbye to Jeremy and then questionably she eyes their united hands.
"When you lie, your left wrist twitches." Ryan said with a shrug and Nansia chuckled.
"I have to go, curfew and all that… Tomorrow I have to meet with Bonnie can we do it after 8 pm?" Nansia asked him as she and Ryan started to pack up their things.
"Sure!" Ryan said smiling. He waited for her at the bus stop and climbed the same one only sitting way back so prying eyes didn't see anything.
That routine will continue for the next month but during the weekdays Ryan and she would spend time in between her school and shifts taking silly photos and reinforcing their blossoming friendship.
Soon, Nansia had learned everything there was about her pack, the Macedon Arcadia and what Klaus did, and how Finn and Sage had helped protect Thalia circling back to the knowledge Thalia had told her.
Ryan also taught her some more history and all of this helped her have some progress with Bonnie.
She found Rafael one morning and asked if he and Jed could help her after Christmas break come more into contact with her wolf and they had gladly agreed.
Soon she found herself saying goodbye to Penelope as she left for Belgium for Christmas and she had her room to herself after that.
It was packing day when she walked into hers and Penelope's bathroom with her makeup bag planning to put her stuff in it when she heard the window above her bed squeak open. Nansia instantly went into battle mode and grabbed Penelope's hairspray and was ready to whack anyone who was intruding only to hit Ryan in the head causing him to fall down on her bed and her to straddle him preparing to hit him the last killing shot.
"NANSIA!" Ryan exclaimed in pain as he held his head and looked at her.
"Oh! Shit! Sorry!" Nansia apologized horrified as she tried to get off him before things got weird again.
Ryan sat up and saw how her room looked like a clothes tornado hit.
"Atlanta, huh?" He asked trying to hide his disappointment. He didn't want her to leave now they had established their friendship.
"Yeah, a lot to do and see there too. Why are you here? If anyone finds out…" Nansia said anxiously as she flipped her hair back and put her hands on her waist looking at the mess around her with a disapproving glare.
"They won't. I came to say goodbye and give you an early Christmas present." Ryan said seriously with sad undertones in his voice.
Then he extended a bag. Nansia eyed it shocked for a moment before grabbing it and opening it.
She saw a painting picture of Saint Vasilios. In fact, it was an exact copy of Saint Vasilios she had hanging above her heater and used to pray to every night as a child and as a teen, she used to look at and wonder why her faith had slowly faded away.
"In case you felt homesick." Ryan said with a small smile and Nansia's eyes teared up as she was hit with the realization that it was nearing Christmas and she had months to see her little sister and that she missed everyone including her abusive mother and her friends weren't really her friends in hindsight.
She missed home.
She hugged him tightly and as he rubbed soothing circles around her back feeling the scars underneath causing guilt to rise in his stomach and hold her tighter.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you cry." Ryan mumbled guiltily and Nansia shook her head no.
"You didn't…I just realized how long it's been since I was back home…thank you for the present. It was so kind of you…I don't have anything to give you yet…" Nansia mumbled hesitantly in his embrace and Ryan hugged her tighter.
"It's okay."
"No, I promise I'll get you something from my trip!" Nansia said as she wiped her tears and ended the embrace.
"Need help packing?" Ryan asked with a small smile trying to blink tears away and Nansia nodded.
They started to pack and an hour later they were sitting at her door exhausted.
"When do you leave?" Ryan asked her as he twirled around in her desk chair.
"Tomorrow after the remaining classes. Sorry, I'm going to miss our hang out." Nansia said as she finished picking her hair up in a ponytail.
Ryan nodded and silence took over them.
"I have to go, now, have a safe trip! If you get bored text me!" Ryan said as he started to climb back up the window again after ten minutes of awkward silence.
"You too! Text me when you're bored." Nansia said as she helped him up and as he jumped he started to run out of the campus. Once he was out he turned and waved quickly and Nansia waved back.
She had a shower and started watching a movie Penelope had suggested she watch as her hair dried. Before she went to bed she grabbed the painted picture and safely put it inside her suitcase before smiling briefly.
She fell asleep as her head hit the pillow.
The next day classes weren't really classes it was a goodbye sort of party where everyone was doing their thing either packing themselves or helping others to pack. Nansia walked aimlessly around the campus missing Ryan when Jed run after her.
"Hey, some of the other wolves are meeting at the Old Mill as a goodbye sent off, want to come?" Jed asked her as he smiled and Nansia nodded offering a tight-lipped smile herself.
She got to the Old Mill and Jed introduced her to some of the wolves she hadn't met yet.
They were welcoming and she got to hear so many new stories that Ryan had escarped her mind at last.
Hope appeared sometime later asking for Nansia to come and help her pack and Nansia waved goodbye to her new friends.
"Look, I'm sorry for how I reacted, alright? For a whole month, we are not speaking and it has been boring without you! Friends?" Hope said in a defeated tone as they walked to her room and Nansia nodded.
"I'm sorry I acted that way too! I felt like I was being left behind. Will you explain what is Malivore?" Nansia admitted in a small guilty tone.
Hope spent the next hour explaining to Nansia what Malivore is and what has been going on before she came and after a while Nansia helped her pack.
Then she sent an apology video message to both Lizzie and Josie who they answered back instantly with a "you're forgiven" group voice message and then Nansia was exhausted and retired to her dorm. Having the last shower and going to bed to have a quick nap.
Around 7 pm Jeremy knocked on her door telling her they were leaving in an hour and to get ready.
Before she knew it she was buckling up in the back seat of Bonnie's car-van thing and looking excited at Hope who was smiling back at her.
She mentally said goodbye to the wind meaning Ryan as she tried to fall asleep again in order to continue a very interesting dream she had during her nap.
Couple Hours Ago: Lizzie's and Josie's Dorm:
The twin girls were going all over the place trying to assemble their suitcases and not miss anything important when Lizzie looked at her sister who had a piece of paper and was ticking off items she had added to her suitcase.
"Do you think mum loves us?" Lizzie asked her twin hesitantly and Josie looked at her surprised by the question.
"Of course she does! Why would she try to be with us every holiday and birthdays?" Josie asked her rhetorically with a hopeful tone.
Josie too hoped that their mum truly loved them. She had her doubts too at times.
"You know Jo, mums shouldn't try to make it to their daughters' birthdays and see them on holidays if there's not a divorce or something…they should always be there." Lizzie said with a sad and disappointed tone.
"I'm…Lizzie…just pack your stuff so we can be ready, we fly at 6 am and I want to sleep at least an hour before we rush to the airport! What's gotten into you and you are being so insecure? Do you feel another episode coming?" Josie asked worried and a little tired of her sister.
"No and no. I just wished mum was here more maybe she would have defused some situations more quickly." Lizzie mumbled self-consciously as continued preparing her suitcase.
Josie sighed disappointed but didn't say anything she continued packing.
It was an hour later that there were lights out and both twins were fast asleep.
Lizzie saw bleak Christmas ahead while her twin saw hard ones. Either way….
Christmas here we come!
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