"Remember King Clovis mentioned that I would gain powers as soon as I gave birth?" Noelle whispered. "I guess he wasn't kidding."
"That's an understatement," Raine pointed out. "What else changed?" He was curious to see the extent of her powers, being only half pixie. She already had the wings...meaning she was royalty or something to that extent.
"Well," Noelle said, drawing the word out, "I glitter." When Raine gave her an odd look, she held out her hand, showing him a palm full of silver dust that glittered in the light.
"Pixie dust," he whispered in awe. Pixie dust was highly powerful stuff. If used correctly, Noelle could cast a sort of spell on her victims making them see or feel things that weren't real. "You better be careful with that. I'd suggest talking to Violet about your new found powers."
Noelle nodded, examining the dust carefully. "I want to try something, okay? Do you trust me?" Raine nodded slowly, praying that whatever she was trying out wouldn't backfire. She narrowed her eyes and lifted her hand up to her mouth, blowing lightly so that the dust swirled towards Raine, drifting onto his skin. Concentrating, Noelle pictured a sort of glamour on herself, hoping that her dust would enable her to disguise her image.
Raine blinked when the dust settled on his face. He waited a few seconds before brushing it out of his eyes and looking at Noelle. Instead of his wife standing in front of him though, he saw a very plain looking girl standing there. "Noelle?" he asked suspiciously.
The girl bit her bottom lip and looked at him with large brown eyes. "Yah, it's me. What do I look like?"
Shock colored his face as he realized that she really was Noelle. "Wow. You look very...plain. Almost like you could blend into the crowd and no one would look twice at you. Brown hair, brown eyes, average height, no remarkable features...basically average."
The girl flashed him a grin, "Perfect!" When he gave her a curious look she sighed and said patiently, "If I can hide my real image and blend in, then enemies can't attack me. I wonder if I can hide other people's images." She pursed her lips and thought about it. If it was possible to hide her children's images then that would ensure their safety until they grew old enough to protect themselves. Their struggles were far from over. Now that her children had been born, not child, the paranormal world was scrambling for an answer. Some didn't really care about why, they just wanted to get their hands on her children because of the power. Either way, Noelle would stop at nothing to protect her babies.
"We can test out your theory later," Raine said. "For now, can you 'unglamourize' yourself and help me clean up our room? I'll let you shower with me if you do." He winked suggestively and waited for Noelle to change back to her normal self.
She licked her lips before blowing another wave of pixie dust at him. When he opened his eyes, she was standing right in front of him, back in her original form. "Better?" she asked huskily.
"Much better," he growled, leaning down to kiss her fiercely. She moaned and wrapped her arms around him, still not tired of his intoxicating taste. A shiver raced down her spine when his fingers brushed against her wings.
They broke apart regretfully, kissing one last time before giving the room a disgusted look. Noelle sighed and grabbed a towel from the bathroom, getting it wet in the sink. "Sorry about the mess," she said. It would be hard to get the blood out of the sheets, but the floor was wood and the bathroom floor was tile, so that was easy enough to clean.
Raine shrugged and gathered up the sheets. "No worries, they can easily be replaced." He placed them outside the room and started helping her clean up the rest of the splattered blood.
There was a knock on the door a couple minutes later. "Do you know how to retract your wings?" he whispered to Noelle. She scrunched her brow, concentrating on the foreign action, yet she was eventually able to pull them back through the slits in her back, effectively hiding them from whoever was at the door.
"Come in," Raine called, after Noelle was done. They had gotten most of the blood cleaned up so that all that was left was on Noelle's arms and back. She went to the bathroom while Raine dealt with whoever it was and washed the blood off as best she could.
"Welcome back!" Raine smiled when he saw that it was Ryder waiting outside his door.
"Thank you," Ryder grinned. He and Clover had left a couple days ago for the Pixie Court to be married. Everyone had traveled with them for the ceremony, but left the next day. Ryder and Clover had stayed a couple extra days to pay respect to the pixies.
"How was the honeymoon?" Raine asked, leaning against the doorjamb.
Ryder gave him a very male grin, "Perfect." His mind was instantly drawn away from his original task and back to Clover. Normally he would think that it was odd to be so consumed with one person, but with Clover it felt so natural. He loved her so much, sometimes it scared him, but the fact that she loved him back always calmed him down again. But that was something to think about later. Right now he needed to deliver a message to Raine.
"I have something for you," he said, holding out a sealed envelope. "It's from King Clovis, I have no idea what it says."
Raine took it from him and quickly tore it open, curious as to what Clovis had to say. Maybe he knew something about Noelle's new powers and was congratulating her. He resisted the urge to snort at that thought. The day King Clovis praised someone would be an odd day indeed.
Scanning the contents Raine felt all of the blood drain out of his face. "Noelle," he rasped hoarsely.
She was at his side seconds later, "What? What is it?" He wordlessly handed her the letter. She took it from his shaking hand and read the words. "Oh my god," she gasped, absolutely horrified. "It can't be true. It just can't." Her voice sounded hollow to her ears, as if she was speaking from a tunnel. With wide eyes she looked up at Raine, wordless asking what they were going to do. On the paper was written one sentence. "One child will be good and one will be evil."
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alright, now before y'all get excited and shit a brick, i'm not going to be updating this very often and the chapters will be skipping years. So the next chapter the kids will probably be a bit older, probably 2 or 3. I'm only writing this for fun, it's not really a sequel, just little glimpses into their lives from where KHC left off. Plus, I'm focusing on my new story more than this one, and the my other story that I update whenever I feel like it...which is almost never. Woops. :P
Ok? now you can tell me how awesome I am for neglecting my homework to give you another chapter :)
xoxo nichole
KHC Sequel [Chapter 1]
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