Husky

Rose

I couldn’t help but wince as I sat up in bed as a sick feeling went through my body which meant I have to go see Damon. You’re probably wondering who Damon is and I’ll tell but I’m going to have to start at the beginning.

As you already probably figured out from my brother that I was born a very sick child. The doctors said that I probably wouldn’t make it for even a month after I was born. I ended up proving them wrong by living past the one-month marker.

My parents were soon allowed to take me home but they were told if I got sick that I would die so my mother shut me off from the whole world. One day I got sick and tired of being locked away I decided to run away. I sneaked out of the house and just started running not caring where I was going. As long as it was far away from the place I just left.

It was early in the morning when I had snuck out and when I finally stopped running it was dark. I was in what I assumed was a park since I’ve never actually been to one since I’m usually locked in that stupid house. My twin sister Red did tell me a few things about the outside world when she was able to corner me.

I usually didn’t listen and used the book I was reading to ignore her. There were a few things that stuck among the years she would try to talk to me. One of them was the different parks mom and dad would take her to and what they look like.

I sat down at the roots of the tree closest to me to rest a little bit when I heard someone crying nearby. I was a curious person so I decided to go and see who was crying. I followed the sound of crying until I got to a very old and huge tree.

Sitting at the base of that tree was a little boy with black hair with his head in his hands. His shoulders shook as he cries and I couldn’t stop myself as I went up to him and wrapped my arms around him. He stiffened against me before looking up into my eyes, his eyes were all black besides the white in his eyes.

" Wwho are youu “?

His voice is raw from all the crying he was just doing and I smiled down at him and answered his question.

" I’m Rose, who are you “?

He gave me a small smile that didn’t even reach his eyes as he said.

" I’m Damon it's nice to meet you “.

I beamed at him ” it’s nice to meet you too D- “.

I fell into one of my coughing fits which caused the boy near me to flinch away.

By the time I had finally finished coughing a very sick feeling was flowing through me. I’m quite surprised my sickness didn’t act up as I was running though I’m kinda glad it didn’t. I felt a hand on my arm and I looked over at the boy.

" Are you ok “?

His voice was more clear now that he has stopped crying.

" Yeah sorry I was born with a sickness and I’m not allowed to do anything really but I decided to run away because I hate being locked in my room “.

" Maybe I can help, I have the ability to heal people “.

He grabbed my hands and I felt something flowing through me and the sickness I felt moments before was gone. He released my hands and went on to explain that he was half Demon and was born after a demon raped his mother. Not only that but everything that would go wrong in his mother’s life since he was born was blamed on him.

As soon as his mother got a new family he was either ignored by his mother or bullied by his stepfamily. The day that I had found him crying was because his step-siblings locked him out of the house.

Refusing to let him back in so he decided to go to his favorite park and sit under one of the trees. We ended up talking some more and I told him a little bit about my life. Then he told me whatever he did to stave off my sickness wouldn’t last forever so I would have to come to see him once a week or my sickness will come back.

Of course, that’s not the only reason I came we actually became best friends at first but then it became something more to me. I actually ended up falling in love with Damon though I have never told him. I didn’t want to ruin our friendship and if I tell him and he doesn’t feel the same then our friendship would never be the same.

When I finally reached the spot where our tree is Damon was leaning against it.

Once I was within a couple of feet he was able to sense I was there and he looked up at me.

For some reason, he didn’t have his usual smile instead his face was completely blank.

" Damon what’s wrong, did something happen with your step-family, " I asked as I rushed forward to hug him.

He held his hand up ” Rose is the only reason you come to me is so you can get healed “?

I blinked in surprise ” of course not why would you even say that “?

You could hear how hurt I was in my voice but Damon didn’t even react as he said.

" Prove it “.

I did the only thing I could think of which is wrapping my arms around his neck and kissing him. He was frozen for a second before he pulled me closer and kissed me back. When we finally pulled back for air I smiled up at him and said lovingly.

" I have always loved you, Damon, always “.

He smiled down at me and rubbed his nose against mine ” and I you “.

Falthen

I just sitting in my brother's office thinking about how I would be able to unbind myself from that demon when someone knocked on my door. I pushed away all thoughts of Demons out of my head as I called out.

" Come in ".

My niece Rose was the one who opened the door, she smiled at me as she said.

" Dad I want you to meet someone ".

She pulled someone into the room and as soon as I saw the nearly completely black eyes I jolted up out of my seat.

" YOU BROUGHT A DEMON INTO THE HEADQUARTERS, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU "!

Rose flinched " he's only a half-demon dad and um were dating ".

I fell back down into my seat " we're in a war with demons and your dating one, I'm not quite sure what to think of that "?

Rose looked like she wanted to say something but the boy did before she could.

" Sir as you know your daughter was born with a sickness but she was healed, I am the one that has been healing her she comes to me once a week, and I heal her if I wanted to hurt her I would have not healed her ".

I sighed " I'm guessing you want me to allow this boy to stay ".

She nodded and I turned to study the boy he had short black hair, black eyes, a crooked nose, sun-kissed skin, he was at least an inch or two taller than Rose, he has something about him that makes him seem guarded, his body was muscular and thin, and his clothes looked like they barely fit him.

I frowned at both of them " I'll think about it, for now, get him a room to shower in and a pair of clothes that fit's ".

Rose grinned at me as if already knew I would say yes before pulling the boy out of the room.

I let out a breath of relief before I got up and started looking through the books on the shelves. Once I reached the book titled Hidden Passages I pulled it back. The bookshelf to the right slid back then to the side revealing a secret passage.

Once I stepped past the entryway of the bookshelf it slid into place. I walked down the hallway until I got to the door of the storage area. I pushed it opened and made my way to my brother's cell in the back. I stopped right outside his cell and waited for a second before I said.

" Your daughter Rose brought home a boy who's half-demon claiming he's her boyfriend ".

My brother's face appeared in the window " what "!

I nodded " She came into your office today to ask if he could stay here I came to ask you what you thought ".

He shook his head " no way in hell is that happening ".

I nodded " is that because he's half-demon or because they're dating "?

Thalton glared at me making me chuckle.

" So it's because they're dating and not because he's half demon ".

He sighed " ok yes I'm not ready for one of my daughters to start dating ".

" Would it make it better if I tell you that he is the one that has been healing her sickness, she's been going to him once a week ".

He was quiet for a second before I heard the sound of a fist punching stone.

" She has been going to see that boy for years and I never knew ".

" I think it is better to let him stay ".

He was quiet for a second before he growled out " fine ".

Red

I watched as Rose pulled a boy out of dad's office their fingers were laced together.

Rose laughed " that was better than expected ".

The boy looked at her amused " really you expected worse "?

She shrugged " not sure I never expected I would be telling that I had a half-demon boyfriend ".

He chuckled " it's not what most girls would be doing ".

" Yeah, I guess your right at least he didn't try to kill you though ".

" I thought he would have after he saw my eye and I'm surprised he didn't start yelling again after you asked if I could stay here, why did you ask if I could stay "?

Rose wrapped him in a hug " because I want to get you away from your stepfamily, I don't want them to be able to hurt you anymore ".

He hugged her back " I can take care of myself besides my stepfamily hasn't touched me in while ".

Rose was about to argue some more when I stepped forward and asked.

" Umm who are you "?

Rose turned towards me and grinned actually grinned a real grin which is rare for my sister.

" Red this is Damon we're dating ".

Damon grinned at me " hey I've heard a lot about you ".

I nodded " mhm and I've never heard about you ".

He looked at Rose amused " yeah I'm figuring that out ".

She threw her hands up in the air " what did you want me to say, that I met a boy in a park who was half-demon who I was in love with ".

Damon grinned at her " I love you too ".

Rose shook her head " we should get you to one of the spare rooms so you can shower and I need to get you some clothes that fit ".

He nodded " yeah a shower would feel great though I think my clothes are fine ".

Rose frowned " your clothes barely even fit you, Damon ".

Damon opened his mouth to argue but Rose pressed her lips to his.

" No arguing your getting clothes ".

He chuckled " fine ".

She was probably about to pull Damon down the hallway to a guest room to take a shower when dad walked out of his office.

" I'm allowing him to stay but you two better behave ".

Rose rolled her eyes " Damon would never do that dad ".

Damon nodded in agreement " thank you Mr. Lorsin ".

Rose pulled Damon down the hallway, once they were out of sight Red turned towards her dad.

" Are you sure this is a good idea "?

He sighed " I don't know but since he is the one healing Rose we should keep him close ".

I frowned " healing her "?

He nodded " he heals her illness has been doing it for years that's why Rose became mysteriously better ".

" So Rose could die without him "?

" It's a possibility".

Sapphire

We slowly made our way to the address trying not to draw any attention to us. I of course didn't want to leave my friends but they were in good hands with Pink. The houses and stores we passed while walking didn't look familiar.

Though I guess even if one of them was a foster home I lived in I wouldn't remember because I've been to so many. The people around me felt tense though that was mostly Key's and the other boy Andrew.

You could see the history between them just by watching how they are with each other.

Zane on the other hand seemed to be tense for a completely different reason. I speed up until I was walking right beside him and touched his arm.

" Are you ok "?

He jolted " yeah I guess ".

I frowned at him " you guess, in my book that usually means no ".

He sighed " it just doesn't make sense ".

" What doesn't make sense "?

" The way my father is acting, I mean just after you left he yelled at us and my dad doesn't yell ".

I shrugged " maybe he's stressed because of the war ".

" Yeah maybe ".

He didn't look very convinced so I said: " if you think something is wrong Zane you should look into it, I don't know your dad like you do I just met him a couple of days ago ".

He shook his head at me causing me to frown " what "?

He grinned "you're actually quite nice despite being you ".

I stared at him " what the h**l does that even mean "?

" Nothing I guess I just expected you to be full of yourself since you were the chosen one ".

I rolled my eyes " nice to know what you think about me, you take judging people you don't know to the next level ".

He shrugged " would it help if I said sorry "?

" Depends, would you mean it "?

He put his hand over his heart and said mockingly.

" I solemnly swear I am actually sorry ".

I couldn't help the laugh that slid past my lips and I saw his lips twitch a little as he tried not to smile. We were so into our conversation that we didn't notice we were about to walk past the house until Andrew said.

" Hey love birds I hate to interrupt our lovely conversation but you nearly walked past our destination ".

He had put his arms over both of our shoulders and was guiding us to a house. It was only one story high but it was still pretty nice compared to the rest of the neighborhood. Somehow we walked full of houses that looked like they needed a new everything.

The house we were in front of though looked like it was newly painted and nothing was broken. The lawn was green unlike the brown of the other lawns. It was quite plain though, I guess I was expecting something more.

Andrew whistled " wow this place has seen better days ".

I frowned at him " what do you mean it looks brand new "?

Andrew shook his head and was about to argue when Zane said " it's a glamor ".

He had his head tilted to where he was looking at the house from the corner of his eye. Andrew did the same thing before nodding.

" Make sense a house like that in a neighborhood like this would look suspicious, the question is why can she see through the glamor "?

Zane shrugged but didn't say a thing as he walked up to the front door. I followed nearly right behind him I wanted to make sure I was there when he knocked on the door. When the door opened I saw someone I hadn't seen in a year.

" Husky "!?

Zane

I watch as Sapphire seemed to recognize the girl that had opened the door.

" Husky " she exclaimed.

The girl I now know as Husky had a look of surprise on her face before she smiled.

" Sapphire it's been so long ".

Sapphire opened her mouth to say something before her eyes widened " wait your a witch "?

The girl nodded slowly " we should continue this conversation inside away from prying ears and eyes ".

She pulled the door opened more and stepped aside to let us through. Once we were all inside she shut the door and locked it, there were quite a few locks on the door. When I looked around expecting all these different types of exotic stuff but it looked normal.

We were in the living room and there was just a tv, a tv stand, a couch, and two chairs. It looked completely normal which is not what I expected. I may have expected it to look a lot like Mrs. Lilac's hut or something like that.

" Not what you expected huh, " Husky asked from behind us.

Before we could answer her question she gestured for us to sit, the couch could only fit three so Key's took one of the chairs. Husky took the other chair in the room.

" This is the house I'm using to hide from the council so I try not to let myself get attached, once a witch gets attached to a place they want to stay ".

I frowned " what did you do "?

She shook her head " it wasn't what I did it's what I didn't do ".

" Alright what didn't you do "?

" I didn't join one of the five main powers ".

I nodded I didn't really care as long as it didn't bring the council down on us but I was curious. I'm told that not joining one of the five main powers is a serious crime to the council.

Sapphire cleared her throat " anyways were because I need you to unlock my powers ".