Fantasy Descendants of the Curse

[EvelienLocalArtist]

(Mary is coven healer Gaston and Malcolm still have to deal with her.)

"I wish I could but my family....." Phiona tried to inform Malcolm but he left before she could finish. Then sighed gathering her self back up together. "Don't worry, you'll soon find out that no one listens to a word you say, for you are just a pretty little flower in the large hands of a Forticoven." Mary said gently bringing her hand up chuckling as Phiona flinched, "I'm not going to hurt you." She said gently noticing the young girl was practically biting her own lip off. Mary raised a glowing blue finger and wiped away the cut on Phiona's cheek like it was a dirt smear on a young child's face.

"Thank-" Phiona started but was once more interupted now by Mary putting her hand over Phiona's mouth. At first she was about to slap Mary's hand away but realized that Mary was healing her lip that she had bitten till it bled.

"You're welcome." Mary said with a gentle smile and walked away in search of her son, leaving Phiona alone in the room.

"Thank you..." Phiona sighed and looked at the clock, there was still a few classes left in the day so she went back to class to finish off the day then take care of her business later.

 

[EvelienLocalArtist]

"You really need to work on your pick up lines." Donahue chuckled watching her lower herself down all the while trying to clean the dirt off himself along with the twigs and moss in his hair. "Mutt isn't exactly the most enticing of words, plus I would like to think that hygiene is quite the pressing matter." He said then dunked his head under the water to wash his hair.

 

[Valjean24601]

"I don't believe it," Sabella scoffed,"you, worried about hygiene? By the way you smell most of the time I'd say it was the least of your worries."
Sabella rubbed at the body paint that covered her neck and shoulders, the hues of red and brown and orange coming off quite easily in the water.
"And if I do recall from the other evening you don't even bother with pick up lines, you quite literally pick women up."

 

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"It worked didn't it?" He asked popping back out of the water his smirk growing more devious. Wiping murky water from his eyes he looked up at her. Then splashed her gently with water.

 

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"No, I don't believe it did!" Sabella splashes water back at him, narrowing her eyes playfully and sinking lower in the water, swimming slowly towards him in an almost feline fashion.

 

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"That so?!" He chuckled heartily then slid closer to her meeting her in the middle, his hands wrapping around her waist and sinking down to her level. "Well then I suppose I should try harder then, huh?" He purred kissing her wet ear. "You look cold. Want to use me as a blanket?" He asked deciding to teach this young pup a few pick up lines himself.

 

[Valjean24601]

Sabella enjoyed his embrace for a moment before laughing outright at his sorry attempt to woo her with a such a silly thing to say.
"Use you as a blanket? You slippery, wet, great, fleshy fish you?"
The shewolf retorted with a grin and then brought her hands up on his mop of wet hair and shoved him playfully beneath the water before dashing away, pushing against the current.

 

[EvelienLocalArtist]

After spending hours worrying if Gaston was going to be alright the bell finally chimed signaling school was out so Phiona gathered all her belongings and followed the rest of the students out looking around briefly for Xander. He wasn't exactly clear in where to meet him so she walked around the mansion's campus searching then turned a corner and was suddenly pulled into a decorative archway that was shrouded in shadows. Before she could scream she was silenced by a pair of lips locked onto hers. In such shock she couldn't react right away which seemed to be an invitation to her assailant to deepen the kiss. The taste of their lips and tongue against her's ignited an anger inside her and she bit down on their tongue as hard as she could tasting blood in her mouth as they cried out and released her. "Who do you think you are?!" She demanded a fiery ball of electricity exploding from her hands illuminating the archway and she could see it was Xander. Her eyes got wide with shock and her anger only boiled inside more. That was her first kiss, one she had been saving only to have it be stolen by this arrogant pig! "Why did you do that?!" Xander demanded his voice less audible as he was holding his bleeding tongue. "Why did I do that?!" She exclaimed "How dare you!" and without a second thought slapped him across the face forgetting the high voltage sparks of electricity that covered her hands and accidentally sent them all into his head. There was several loud crackling and sizzling sounds then Xander collapsed out of the shadows and into the brightly lit lawn where everyone could see him suddenly having violent seizures. His eyes rolled to the back of his head as his body moved uncontrollably a hand shaped burn clear as day on his cheek as Phiona screamed realizing the gravity of what she had just done.

 

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"Rude!" Donahue gasped poping back up out of the water and wiping his eyes to see her. "So that's how you're gonna play is it?!" He called quickly diving after her. Easily cutting through the current to get to her then mercilessly grabbed her hand and tugged her towards him. "Revenge!" He howlered before dunking her under too.

 

[Valjean24601]

Gaston had slept soundly for hours. Medicines and drafts had soothed his pain and the sorneness in the back of his head as well as ice that had been applied to lesson the swelling of the large bump caused by his falling on the floor.
He now lay awake in his bedroom which was far emptier now that Mary's bed and belongings had been moved out and away to the infirmary wing.
No maids or nurses attended him now as he had asked to be alone, even his father had left him in complete silence.

 

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Sabella sputtered as she popped up above the water, her eyes wide in outrage.
"This is not playing man, this is war!"
Sabella cried out and pounced at him, wrapping her arms squarely around his shoulders.

 

[EvelienLocalArtist]

Within seconds people swarmed the two with so many questions flying around Phiona could barely think.

"What happened?!" "Why is his bleeding?" "What's wrong with him?!" "Did you do this?!" "Why is there blood on your lips?" "What were you two doing?!" It all got to be too much for the poor girl she started crying.

"It was an accident...he- he just came at me!...what was I supposed to do?!" She whimpered wondering if she would stand trial for this. She could tell from the murmers around her that the rumor mill this school was was already crafting up terrible lies and spreading them like wild fire. Some were that he tried to rape her, others were that she was jealous and attacked him, and one was that she had lost control of her powers in the heat of the moment. But before she could protest any of them teachers and other staff members had Xander suspended in mid air to keep him from hurting himself or others and were quickly levitating him to the infirmery with Gaston's substitute dragging her by the arm behind them.

"What happened?" Her ancient charms teacher asked her as they raced down the halls past all the rooms.

"He-He forced himself on me!" She stammered and the witch that was levitating Xander spun around his hands glowing like the northern lights. "He violated you?!"

"Yes-! I mean no! He forced me to kiss him!" She sputtered on the verge of crying even more.

"So you try killing him?!" Another demands.

"No! I just-! I don't know what happened!" She tried to explain tears welling up in her eyes as they dragged her the infirmery doors. All of her teachers immediately concerning themself with Xander, with Mary pushing through to take over quickly shoo-ing out those unneeded.

"Phiona what in Hera's name are you doing here?" She asked but then interupted herself. "Never mind that, are you hurt?" She asked as Xander was lowered to a medical bed.

"N-No." Phiona replied her voice cracking as she wiped the blood from her lips and watched as Mary began drawing her magic out of Xander's body as other were using green and blue pastes and balms to draw small symbols on his body to stop the seizures and help to reverse some of the damage.

"If that's true then I need you to leave." Mary said focused on Xander and without another word from anyone Phiona was pushed out of the room and into the hall. Leaving alone with her worries, at first she thought to just wait outside but then she didn't want to deal with her angry teachers and she couldn't go home as all of her rumor spreading schoolmates were blocking the exit. So instead she made her way to the only person she could seek solace in. Walking up to their door she knocked. "Gaston?" She asked her voice sounding so fragile and weak it seemed like it could break into a thousand pieces at any moment.

 

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"Ahh!!" Donahue yelped as he almost fell but the water was helping to keep him afloat. "If it's war you want tis war you shall have!" He cheered and grabbed onto her tightly before diving down so they were both underwater.

 

[Valjean24601]

Gaston yawned and sat up slowly, pulling himself into a reclined sitting position. He was rather annoyed with the fact that someone would disturb him when he as asked to be alone and the mere knocking at the door had caused a small and dull throb to return.
"Come in!"
He brought his blankets higher up around his shoulders in order not to expose his bare torso.

 

[Valjean24601]

Sabella thrashed beneath the water as she playfully pushed him about beneath the water which tossed and bubbled as the two of them played like pups together.
When she finally broke the surface again, she tossed her hair back as she laughed and spat out water. It stung her nose and her throat but she hardly cared.
Sabella loved this- this care free feeling that he gave to her, that being away from the pack had given her. She was happy, more healthy than ever and had a full belly that she didn't feel guilty about.
She had wanted this for so long and now it was all in her grasp.

 

[EvelienLocalArtist]

Her eyes red and tear stained she walked into his room and closed the door behind her. "How are you feeling?" She said trying to gather herself together. Her voice trembling as tears rolled down her cheeks, dried blood still smeared across her lips. She was glad to see he was at least looking better but she was still in shock from what happened.

 

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Donahue laughed the sputtered having inhaled some water then shook out his dark hair and cut through the water quickly wrapping his arms around her and kissing her cheek. "Got'cha!" He snickered holding her bare form close to his in the water. He hadn't had this much fun in as long as he could remember.

 

[Valjean24601]

Gaston smiled softly at first, thinking at first that her tears were nothing more than relief and worry-
Then he noticed the blood, and the extent of her crying and the sickly green and white colour that coated her complexion as if it were a mask.
"Phiona? Phiona, I'm alright darling."
He pulled his blankets aside, frowning deeply now and slowly walked across the room to her, his bare chest and rumpled cotton trousers the least of his worries now. He rested his hands on her shoulders, which seemed so small now that they quaked and shook beneath his palms and felt as though they were ice.
"Phiona what's happened?"
He whispered, his finger running across her lip and wiping the tears from her cheeks.
He lead her across the bedroom quickly and sat her at his dressing table, pouring luke warm water from a picture and into a porcelain basin. He dunked a soft cloth into the water and then carefully wiped blood and tears from her lips and cheeks as well as the cool sweat that gathered on the back of her neck and on her chest.
"Tell me, what's happened?"

 

[Valjean24601]

"No," Sabella laughed and pressed her forehead against his,"I've got you."
She pushed her still smiling lips against his and wrapped her arms tightly around his shoulders and her fingers twisted into his sopping wet hair. Her legs followed, and her ankles locked around his hips.
She wondered then if her parents had ever felt this way, ever acted this way with one another. She wondered if she was the only one in the world, if they were the only ones in the world, to feel like this, to love like-
No. Not yet, you can't possibly love him yet-
And yet everything pointed in that direction and to a path she thought she could not go or walk with another
And yet here she was with him, completely entangled with him and completely and utterly his, wether she would admit it or not.

 

[EvelienLocalArtist]

Phiona closed her eyes as he wiped off her face. "X-Xander..." She whimpered trying not to cry anymore. "He-...and then I-..." She heaved covering her face in her hands as she sobbed. "I didn't meant to, he just-just came at me, what else was I to do?!" She croaked feeling guilty yet victimized. Today had just been such an emotional roller coaster and it was all coming out now as she hugged herself close to Gaston, too distraught to notice that he was shirtless. "He forced me to kiss him... It was so vile and unwanted I panicked and slapped him, but-but.... I shocked him instead and h-he started shaking on the ground and-and..." She started crying even more for fear of what will happen to her because of what she did. "It was an accident! I didn't mean to hurt him!" She sobbed into his chest. "I just wanted him to leave me alone...."

 

[EvelienLocalArtist]

Donahue grinned kissing her back enjoying the taste of her warm wet lips on his own. His hands wandered down her torso and playfully pitching her rear as they moved. If there was ever a time in his life that he was trully happy with someone it would be now. The thought of making her his mate right here and now but then remembering what they were surrounded by triggered an old memory of his and he suddenly burst out laughing so loudly it caused the flick of birds in the trees to fly off.

 

[Valjean24601]

As she spoke and crumpled into his chest he felt rage, much like a bile, rise up in his throat and contort his gut and heart. He tried to remember and put a face to the name... Xander... Xander...
An image of a boy- mousy brown hair and square shoulders, tall- was conjured up in his mind, a boy much larger than Phiona, someone Phiona could've never defended herself against without magic.
"He meant to hurt you."
Gaston growled lowly as he dropped the cloth in the basin and wrapped his arms tightly around her quivering form. He scooped her up and brought her to his bed, resting her upon his sheet and then pulling a quilt up around her shaking shoulders. She was in shock, mentally and physically, this was clear on account of her body temperature, her demenor, all of this pointed to trauma and shock. His mother had taught him very few things about healing, this however was one of the things she had. He had to warm her and quickly, soothe her and calm her.
Gaston added another blanket to the first and then sat up on the bed behind her, pulling her back towards him and in between his legs, then rested her head on his chest.
"You did what you had to, you are not wrong on any count, Phiona. No coven law demands punishment for you protecting yourself against assault. The boy however- where is he?"

 

[Valjean24601]

A delicious heat rose in her belly as she pressed against him, which he promptly interupted as he laughed loudly quite literally in her face.
"What?"
Sabella grumbled, taken aback by his sudden laughter.
"What have I done?"

 

[EvelienLocalArtist]

Phiona watched him as he tended to her wondering why he was going to such great pains just to warm her up. But it didn't help as Gaston's words of 'He meant to hurt you.' Repeated over and over in her mind sending chills of terror down her spine for fear of what else Xander might have tried had she not acted. "H-He's in the infirmery." Phiona sniffled curling up into a ball as her body quivered. "I think I killed him..." She whispered looking up at Gaston tears welling up in her eyes. The moment where she watched that wild ball of electricity arching into Xander's temple replaying in her minds eye only making her feel worse.

 

[EvelienLocalArtist]

"Not you, an old friend of mine." He smiled down at her still chunkling. "He and his mate decided make their bond official in a river much like this, but during their mating all the water around them created a sort of suction inside his mate, and so when the deed was done they were stuck together and the more he pulled the more stuck he became. So the two had to walk all the way pack to the den that way unable to put their clothes back on and try to have a elder help them." He started laughing again at the memory. "The poor fools finally were unstuck unfortunately for them it was only after the entire pack saw." He snickered shaking his head.