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occultroyals · 3 years ago

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The Portrait

Relevant Families: Velasco, Vatore

“Nanny Tati, I’m boooored” Kiya shifts in her seat. She’s been sitting there for what feels like hours, and wants to do anything else. Even boring edi- edui- proper lessons!

“Tatiana,” Nanny Tatiana replies from behind the painting holder, “Ta- ti- an- a, it’s important to say things properly Kiya, and I know you’re bored but you still have to sit there. Patience is a virtue.”

“What’s a virtue?”

“It’s a type of trait that you want to have.” Kiya is quiet for a few minutes, the only sound in the room is the scratch of the brush. Kiya shifts again, this is soooo boring.

“Can you tell me a story?” Nanny Tatiana pauses for a moment, if Kiya has to sit still then why is Nanny Tatiana making it take longer?

“Of course,” Nanny Tatiana says, resuming her work, “What would you like for the story to be about?”

“Can you tell me about my momma again?” Kiya asks nervously, Grandpa didn’t like talking to her about it, but she really wanted to know. Nanny Tatiana pauses again, this time moving her head to look at Kiya.

“Are you sure you don’t want to hear about something else?”

“I’m sure!” Kiya replies, trying her best to be calm so that Nanny Tatiana will tell her.

“Alright,” Nanny Tatiana returns to the painting, “I never personally met your mother, but I’ve heard that she was very smart, just like you. She was very interested in the world around her and…”

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“You told her about Ayla!” Scott rages, Tatiana stands firm however, sure in her decision.

“I told her that her Mother was smart and loved to learn, she was just going to keep asking questions, and it’s not like I told her about everything else.” Tatiana says, the calm to Scott’s storm, it was this calm that had gotten her through The Great Extinction afterall, she was hardly going to stop now.

“Yes! And now she’ll try to mimic her! I refuse to let Kiya do the same thing that Ayla did!”

“I hardly believe that that will happen, besides Duke Caleb hardly wants a sheltered child as a partner.” While Caleb said that they only wanted Kiya for her magical potential, Tatiana had helped raise him, and she had an inkling that, while it wouldn’t be romantic, Kiya would be his partner more than Scott thought.

“How would you know!?” Scott’s anger making him hasty. Tatiana just stares at him, with cold, cat-like eyes.

“Right…” He trails off, the anger on his face fading, being replaced by something else, “Well, next time, don’t tell her anything about Ayla that I haven’t specifically told you to.” Tatiana nods, giving her consent, her mind already whirring with possibilities. Afterall, while she did work in the Velasco household, it was Caleb who she worked for. She was going to raise a strong young woman, that as a partner, would be a player in his plans, and not just a pawn.

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occultroyals · 3 years ago

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The Kidnapping

Relevant Families: Velasco, Volkov, Vatore

“Hey Dad, I know that you’re probably super busy, but I have work in an hour, Rory’s at a pack meeting, and I can’t find a babysitter! Are you free to help out?” Ayla shifts anxiously foot to foot as she holds the phone to her ear.

“Of course, pup, I haven’t had a chance to meet them yet, so this will be perfect.”

“Thanks so much, you're a lifesaver Dad!”

“It’s no problem, goodbye”

“Bye Dad” Alya hangs up and slides the phone back into her pocket.

“Your Grandpa is gonna come take care of you while Mama’s gone, alright sweet things?” She coos at the babies in the handmade cribs. Rory had received them as a present from her brother, Jacob? Wren? No… that’s not it… Jay! The name comes to her in a flash. Apparently they were the cribs that he and Rory had used as children, and now they were being passed down to the next generation. Kiya lets out a whine and Ayla is pulled out of her train of thought. Picking her up, she rocks her, and when that doesn’t work she sings the lullaby that she had made up for them when they were still in the womb.

“Hush little ones, the moon is rising,

hush little ones the sun is gone,

sweet dreams now my darlings, for the goddess watches over us all”

It was sung to the tune of the song from the tunnels below Moonwood, she hadn’t realized it at first, but it appeared that the song had entangled itself in her head. She layed Kiya back down in her crib and kissed her forehead. The first hints of hair were already starting to grow, it felt like just yesterday that she had held them for the first time, and to think, soon they would be toddlers. She smiles at them, then hears a knock on the front door.

“And that will be your Grandpa sweet ones” She walks out of the nursery and opens the front door, standing on the step is her Dad.

“Thanks for being here on such short notice! Kori and Kiya are in the first room to the left, there are bottles in the kitchen and diapers are stored under the cribs, Rory should be back pretty soon, I’d stay for a bit but I really have to go, do you need anything else?”

“No Pup, I’ll be fine, I did raise you after all!” Ayla lets out a laugh that turns melancholic half-way through, before she can change her mind however, Scott is shooing her out and she’s leaving for work.

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Scott stands in the nursery looking at the two babies, on the left Kori, the elder, and on the right Kiya, the younger. How do you know what someone’s personality will be like when they’re still an infant, which one should he choose? Then as if someone else is choosing for him, Kori starts bawling, while Kiya remains silent and stares with her piercing green eyes. He scoops Kiya up, wrapping the blanket in her crib around her. He’s just about to grab her birth certificate when he picks up the sound of the lock on the front door clicking. He leaves the birth certificate where it is and slides out the back door, fleeing into the night, just as Rory enters the house.

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“This is Kiya” Scott introduces as Duke Caleb stands in the doorway of the pink nursery.

“And she is your grandaughter, correct?”

“Yes, the moon has blessed her as it did my daughter, she has intense magical power.”

“I wonder how she will choose to express that…” Duke Caleb trails off, clearly lost in thought. Scott shifts, trying to hide his nerves, if this marriage goes well then his name will be a part of history forever.

“You know, Lilith and I had a nanny growing up, I think she would be a great help to you, she’ll be live in, of course, help raise Kiya right.”

“Thank you Duke Caleb, is there anything else?”

“Yes, from henceforth, Kiya Velasco will be Lady Kiya Velasco.” And with that, Duke Caleb leaves.

There is a pair of Velascos in the nursery, Scott, awaiting a future that he has carefully planned, and Kiya, awaiting a future that she doesn’t even know exists.

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