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Chapter 3- Awake

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Story Description-Wanda has used you to bring back her brother. She erased your memory. Can Wanda keep this up and end it without anyone getting hurt?

Pietro has woken from his coma, and it's your turn now. What will Wanda do now that you and Pietro are wake?

Even in pain, your eyes find Wanda’s after suddenly being filled with a friendly feeling toward her. You call out Wanda’s name. At first, the name felt foreign in the light tone you used, but it felt more familiar the second time you called out to her. Wanda reaches out to you cautiously unlike Pietro, who was very willing. As you lean forward to hug onto Wanda, she tenses up. It seems as if she’d rather be anywhere else than in your arms, but she simply states, “Y/N, you’re up.” You pull away from Wanda and meet Pietro’s soft and concerned blue spheres and ask, “Whose this?” Wanda and Pietro’s eyes go wide, and Wanda asks, “You don’t remember?” You can only respond with a slow shake of the head before attempting to rise to your feet; however, dizziness embraced you, and you attempted to receive support from Wanda; Instead Wanda shied away forgetting her own script while Pietro happily let's you use him as a wall. He holds out the hand that isn’t supporting you and admits, “It's okay that you don’t remember me. I’m Pietro. We haven’t officially or consciously met yet.” You shake his hand politely. Then, you grab his hand more warmly using both hands now from remembering one statement in your mind and say, “Pietro. That’s right. I must stay here and take care of-” Pietro cuts you off to state, “Don’t push yourself, Y/N. You already healed me...I think." You remove hands from each other, and Wanda strictly says, “We don’t know that for sure.” You feel the slight tension between Wanda and Pietro, so you just utter, “That-right. Sorry I just feel confused is all.” Pietro gives you an empathetic smile and voices, “Do you need anything? Water.” Not having the chance to answer, Pietro races downstairs, causing a draft towards you and Wanda. Even though Pietro didn’t take long to return to your side, the cup now in your hand courtesy of Pietro was empty of its liquid. Instead, he returned to you with an empty cup, a sheepish smile, and wet face and shirt. A dry laugh makes its way past you lips nonetheless a laugh, and Wanda joins in. Pietro wipes his face with his hand. Quickly after, Wanda rolls her eyes and scoffs playfully to say, “You didn’t think to get a bottle.” Pietro licks at his lips in embarrassment and realization and mutters, “Opps.”

“Y/N, meet Pietro, my mess of a brother.”

“Hey! A mess-” Pietro runs off and comes back dry with a new shirt. “What mess? I don’t see one.” He smirks over at Wanda, who responds with a shrug of the shoulder and smiles. “Now, our guest said they were thirsty, so I will be right back. How rude of you, Wanda, to just stand there.” The interaction between the two warms your heart, and Pietro’s willingness to help makes you hold your hand up and follow with the words, “Pietro, it’s okay. I should get it myself. Stretch the good ol’ legs. I appreciate it though.“ You move one leg forward; Immediately, you wobble. However, you focus on the movements and have an easier time. Before you knew it, you had made it downstairs and into the kitchen. You walk over to the glasses and fill it to the brim with water. You slowly take in the water and gradually swig it down. Wanda and Pietro both lean against the counter; suddenly, Pietro grabs a pamphlet off the table and states, "I'm sure you're hungry. I know I was pretty starved when I first woke. Any preferences?"

"No. I'll eat whatever."

"Great. I'll be ordering lots and lots." Wanda begins to utter, "Pietro, stop being excessive-", and Pietro answers, “What I'm being kind. Wouldn’t you agree, Y/N?" The question makes you choke a bit as they both stare you down, but you utter, "Well yeah, but-" Pietro makes his way to the couch while holding the pamphlet and grabs the phone, and he makes his way over to the couch. "See, now, the food isn’t all for them Wanda, mostly for me. Take a seat back. This could take a while." Pietro lets himself fall back onto the couch gracefully, and Wanda sits down seemingly in her own words with her hands fidgeting at her clothes. You call her name, but she only responds the second time with, "Sorry, what did you say?"

"I was just trying to tell you that you don't have to worry anymore."

“Worry?” Wanda glances toward Pietro and lowers her voice slightly to say. "Why would I be?" You notice the tone and match it to answer, “Because I'm awake now, it’s not dangerous for either of us now.” Wanda silently gasps. You put a reassuring hand on hers and add, “I’m here to stay, to help you take care of Pietro, and to be here for you.” You lean forward and hug Wanda. She tenses up, but your genuine nature gives her a sense of warmth, which causes her to react in reciprocation. The warm feeling fleeing for Wanda after she repeats your uttered words and realizes she does need someone in all of this, and you weren’t doing this out of her control but as you the person. Tears flee her eyes. She pulls off and mutters, “I’ll be right back.”

She rushes upstairs to her room and closes the door. Her hands rake at her hair. She walks over to sit on her bed and pulls out her phone. As soon as she turns her phone on, her eyes land on a news article on a mass power outage. She whispers when she reads out, “Cities, towns, and states are still recovering from the mysterious power outage that occurred 2 weeks from tod-” She covers her mouth with the realization. Her mind wondered how she got here; which came with a memory.

Wanda seethed as she paced in her room with tears in her eyes. She’d lost her brother, the only loved one left. She’d not been outside of her room in weeks, and she couldn’t stop grieving. She heard a knock at the door and wiped her eyes as best she could.

“Come in.” She answered and sat down and turned on her tv. Vision walked through the door with a small smile on his face.

“I’ve made some food for you to try.”

“Thank you, Vision. I’ll be right out in a minute.”

“Also, I do need to inform you that Captain Rodgers, Natasha Romanoff, and Nick Fury are here.” She sat up a bit and asked, “Really? What for?”

“I don’t exactly know the reason for their presence; nonetheless, they are here.”

“Thank you, Vision.” He nodded and phased out the door. Wanda took a deep breath and headed out to the kitchen.

“Hello, Ms. Maximoff.” Fury greeted me. Natasha gave her a small smile, and Steve asked, “How are you?”

“Fine. Hello.” Wanda answered. They all sat down to eat without much else to do. After Wanda had a few bites and commemorated Vision's cooking skills, she was blunt and said, “What do you want?” Fury let out a chuckle and answered, “When you feel up to it, I’d like you to be a part of making the world keep spinning and really be an avenger.” Wanda swallowed hard. Steve held a tentative hand in the air and added, “I know it’s easier said than done. I-We all are really sorry about what happened in...Sokovia. I understand that doesn’t change anything. Just if you can find it in yourself to join us, so we can help others that’d be great. If you don’t want to, I’d also understand. Just give it some thought.” They all rose from the table. Fury and Steve heading out the door with Vision them; however, Natasha stayed behind. You gave her narrowed eyes while she gave a smile and said, “Listen, kid-Wanda. If you need anything and decide to join us, let me know.”

“No offense, but you do not seem the type to be so-so...Nice for no reason.” Natasha's face softens.

“Look, I understand you're at loss. Also...your brother saved my best friend, so-"

"You want to pay it back or something?" Wand answers a bit roughly. Natasha doesn't take the words to heart and just says, "I’m just letting you know. See ya around.” Natasha walks off with a wave and leaves Wanda with her thoughts, which include that Wanda couldn’t completely immerse herself in the idea of going back out as an Avenger, and she couldn't stand doing nothing with only her thoughts to haunt her.

Wanda ended up taking up the job to be a part of shield and help the avengers. In the process, she learned that Fury had a system and lots of records of people with special gifts. She came across a few of them. In her fascination, she looked at so many and fell into the restricted and locked candidates. She had asked Natasha to help her in desperation to finally find something interesting in the past few weeks. Natasha resisted initially, but she obliged. The 1st unlocked person she found had the powers of energy manipulation and absorption, the file read, your name was Y/N L/N, and your powers were energy manipulation. Wanda found a small video of you with a small little bird. The bird had died falling from the sky. A young you, comes up crying. Before Wanda knows it, you begin to glow, and the bird suddenly flaps a wing. It isn’t long until the bird flies out of your hand and into the sky. Wanda’s eyes go wide, and she asks Natasha to replay it.

“That’s very very interesting.” Wanda stated.

“I’d have to agree.” As Wanda begins to struggle with her thought, she calls Vision's attention, and he responds, “Yes?”

“I think you were right. We shouldn’t be looking at this. Thank you.”

That night, she’s packing when Vision catches her.

“Where are you off to?” Vision asks. Wanda puts a hand on his arm.

“I’m...I’m going on a small trip.”

“A trip?”

“Yes.”

“Do you want me to accompany you?”

“No, I need to go alone, but thank you.”

“Haven’t you spent enough time alone? I’ve been reading a lot and-”

“I’ll be fine.”

“Where are you going?”

“No where.”

“Oklahoma.”

“Not literally, Vision, I-” Wanda removed her arm from him and quickly finished packing. She gave him another look and added, “I have to do this. I’ll see you, Vision.” She feels her heart flutter a little bit at how Vision’s eyes don’t leave her until she’s out of sight. Thoughts occupied all her headspace; Before she knows it, she’s booking herself to transport to your house and knocking on your door.

Wanda held onto her feeling of losing her parents and her brother. She nodded her head in the small comfort. She’d done right by Pietro she thought over and over as she made her way downstairs. Wanda was quick to recollect herself as she saw Pietro and you barely beginning to eat. Wanda gave a small smile after seeing a classic rom com playing on screen. Wanda propped herself out of her seat and skipped over to the couch.

Towards the end of your feasting, Pietro asked you, “Have you ever watched any sit-coms before? Do you have a favorite?” You try to think, but you can’t come up with a response. You wrack your brain for a response that you feel you know the answer to, but you have a wall blocking it; thus, you answer, “I-I don’t know-can’t remember...”

“Well, Wanda loves them-You should know that by now being best friends and all...You didn’t know?” Wanda cuts off your chance to respond and respond, “Me and her didn’t have a lot of chances to watch much tv before this. We were focused on your treatments and getting to know each other for other things.”

“Speaking of treatment-” Pietro darts his eyes at you sharply. “When does my treatment end? I mean I feel great as if nothing happened.” You think about your abilities and state, “Time will tell. Honestly, my abilities can’t be so obvious. I need more time before I really know how to take care of you.”

“Really?” He says softly.

“Yes.”

“Fine.” He perks up and moves his attention back to Wanda. “Wanda, when are we leaving this place.”

“Leaving? Why are you-”

“I mean this place is great and all but-”

“Pietro, you just heard Y/N. We have to be careful with your recovery. Moving probably isn’t the best thing-Also, we have a good set up here, now. Why change it?”

“It’s just-”

“It’s just you love giving me a headache.” Wanda holds her head as it aches. You can feel the negative energy radiating off of both of them literally and speak, “That’s enough of that today. There’s a lot to unpack...uhm...lots of uncertainty. We can’t figure it all out in one day, so why don’t we just not talk about any of that. At least for today?” Wanda and Pietro come to a silent agreement and nod to you. You watch the tv for a while longer until Wanda stands and says, "I need to turn in early tonight. I feel very tired. Let me just talk to you for a second, Y/N.” She hugs Pietro and waves you over. You respond with, “I’ll be right up. Just need to throw this away.”

“Alright.” Wanda heads upstairs. As you get everything together, Pietro changes his position and sits a little closer to you. He runs all the trash to the garbage.

“Thanks.” He answers, “No problem, also, I hope you don’t mind if we watch something else. He grabs the remote and continues, “I love Wanda, and sitcoms are nostalgic-Just hours of it is a bit much and boring sometimes. I want to watch something more exciting.” You shrug at him and go upstairs.

You knock on the door softly, and Wanda opens it up with a, “What?” She sees your face and adds, “Sorry...I thought you were Pietro...so…”

“You told me you wanted to talk.”

“That’s right.” Wanda hold her hand to her temple and closes her eyes.

“Are you okay?”

“No. Okay!...” Wanda walks into her room, and you follow. Quickly, she closes the door. Wanda clears her throat and brings up, “You know, Pietro is very curious.”

“I can tell.”

“Well, he’s going to want to get to know you, so-” She ghosts her hand on your head. Red eyes emerge and Wanda continues to say, “You will do your best to not let Pietro find out the truth. You will lie if you have to. You can’t tell him facts that may lead him to find out what happened to you.” Wanda removes her hand.

“I will do as you say.” You state. Wanda sighs in relief and moves her hands away. “Sorry. What were you saying Wanda?”

“Just glad you're awake now. Good Night.” You nod and leave. Wanda is quick to head to bed after.

You head downstairs to see Pietro, standing up and stretching. Pietro turns off the tv, which makes you give him a confused look. Suddenly, Pietro asks, “Want to get out of here? I could use some fresh air?”

You think about how Wanda is very worried about Pietro and answer, “I don’t know.”

“Don’t tell me Wanda has gotten to you already. We are just taking a walk. The wind is just right. How’s it sound?”

“It does sound nice.”

“Join me on the dark side.” He holds his hand out to you, and you can't help feel a butterfly orbit you hear and stomach at his look. You playfully shake your head but walk forward anyway. “Yes!”

“Shh!” His mouth goes wide. He covers his mouth. He removes her hand and says, “Oh right. Wanda.” His face scrunches, which makes you smile.

When you make it outside, Pietro takes a deep sigh while you admire the few twinkles of light above. The sight losing your focus when Pietro questions, “Shall we?” He holds out his arm to you in a gentleman's manner, which you accepted. You both stroll forward in comfortable silence until Pietro calls your name.

“Yes?” You answered.

“Where are you from exactly? I don’t want to assume anything, so I’m just asking.”

“Well…” Your talk with Wanda still lingering in your mind you respond, “It doesn't really matter where I’m from.”

“Why’s that?”

“I-I-Well-”

“Sorry for the prying. If that’s how you feel, I’ll respect that. A better question that you can answer is what are your abilities exactly? I mean can you just heal me?”

“Not exactly originally my powers are energy related. Energy manipulation to be exact.”

“I have no idea what that means…” He scratches his head. You snicker at the gesture and tell him, “Honestly, it can mean a lot of things. I’ve learned to use it in many ways. Mostly, I just can't take energy into myself to store it, or I can put the energy back into things too. “

“What does that have to do with healing?”

“I can take away pain and heal because when you get hurt all a lot of energy is rushed to the area to deal with whatever issue accorded, so I just take the negative made energy and can heal. Not too sure about the how, but I can do it.”

“That’s crazy and amazing.”

“Wouldn't you say that’s how you feel about your powers?”

“I guess I used to feel that way...I don’t know it’s just a part of me like any normal thing now so-”

“You embraced it?”

“You could say that. I mean I gained my powers in experiments, not sure if Wanda told you.”

“No, she didn’t mention it.”

“Me and Wanda were in a bad crowd and wanted revenge, so we volunteered for experiments that gave us our abilities.”

“Wow, that must have been hard to do. I mean to be that upset-I’m sure the experiments weren't easy. Something could have happened to you guys.”

“I know...We didn’t think about it like that then. How did you get your abilities?”

“Born with a little too much or too little cells.”

“A mutation?”

“That’s the only way I can explain it.”

“What about you siblings-if you have any-”

“Well, I don’t really have much to say about my life before this…”

“Before this?”

“Meeting you and Wanda.” Pietro seemed to want to ask more, but he resisted and saw an open park bench. He walked over and sat, and you followed. “You never felt a pang of sickness or something from running and eating?”

“No. The only effect is probably the tiredness I feel when I keep using it. Especially on an empty stomach.”

“A gut of steel? I can definitely see that. You ate more than I've ever seen anyone eat well ever.” You both laugh a little and Pietro asks, “Ever use your powers for fun?”

“There isn’t much fun to do with my powers, but there is one thing.” You look around for cameras or passerby's. Not seeing any, you hold up your hands. Your eyes glowing iridescent. Your hands show the rays of the rainbow in swirls and just like a tiny sky.

”That’s beautiful.” Pietro says in complete awe. His eyes appear darker than before as his pupils dilate. You can’t help stare at Pietro. You can’t help revealing his attractiveness. His generous and curious nature only makes you feel even warmer looking at him. You start to glow a little too bright, which breaks both of your focuses.

“Sorry.” You mumble to him.”

“No, it’s alright. That was really nice. Ever made shapes and such?”

“Well, I’ve tried, but it takes some time.”

“Wish I could give you something cooler than me running...Hey, how about you come with me?”

“What?” You finish up your ice cream and throw away the rest. Pietro stood to answer, “I could take you on my back or in my arms and run. I’m sure you’ve never felt yourself going that fast before.”

“I don’t know.”

“I’ll slow down and ask the best I can.”

“Pietro-”

“I know you want to.”

“I-Okay.” You get up. He picks you up effortlessly, and you yelp in surprise. “I didn’t expect you to get right to it.”

“Hold on.” He moves forward and you freak a little, which alerts your power causing a small glimmer of light between you two that slightly shocks you both. Pietro fumbles in shock. His grip and yours loosening, which causes him to drop you. You are launched into the air and see the ground, your left elbow and forearm making contact with the ground and scraping. Quickly after the first sensation of pain, you put up a forcefield of energy and end up floating above the ground with your back to the sky. Gently, you lower yourself onto the ground. You lift yourself into a seating position with your good arm. Pietro rushes over to you and kneels with the added exclamation of, “I’m so sorry!” His hand immediately finds your arm and hand to lift you injury without actually touching it as blood gushes.

“It’s just a scratch, but-” You pull slowly from his hold and use your hand on your good arm to take hold of his hands. You look at his hand and paw at it with yours in curiosity. “I’m more concerned about that weird thing that just happened between us. Did you feel that?”

“I did. It’s not happening now.”

“Should we be worried about whatever that was?”

“A spark.”

“What?”

“It was a spark between us. I mean I was using my powers. Maybe you reacted to me somehow? Does that make sense?”

“I was using my powers too. Well, they were getting there. Sometimes my emotions fuel my powers. We must’ve been using our abilities at the same time.”

“Only one way to find out.” He holds his hand up, and you connect yours to his. “On the count of three?”

“On the count of three.”

“One.”

“Two.”

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itsfunnierin-enochian · 7 years ago

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If They Only Knew

Pairing: Rob Benedict x Reader

Chapter Summary: You always managed to hide your feelings for Rob but a simple action puts your world upside down.

Written By: @gettingbywithalittlehelp96 & @itsfunnierin-enochian

Title: "Love Isn't Fair"

Throughout your life you had many friends, but you really only had one best friend. Rob. The secret you were keeping however, was that you were actually in love with your best friend. You knew nothing would ever happen between the two of you, but yet, you still couldn’t stop yourself from falling for him more and more, every day.

You and Rob first met back in high school, and even though he was a grade older than you, your paths would cross often. Sometimes you would even find yourselves hanging out with the same group of friends and before you knew it a friendship had been created.

The two of you lost touch during your senior year, when he had gone off to college, only to be brought back together a year later when, as luck would have it, you started at the same school he was attending. That was when your friendship really started to grow. You started out only having a class or two together, but with every passing semester the number of classes you shared grew. Not too long after that, you started hanging out after classes, also starting to notice at all the interests you shared at the same time. You both liked the same music, the same movies and by the time your second and third years started, you were even sharing a dorm.

As Rob finished school, the two of stayed close and when it was your turn to graduate, life once again put you and Rob together, when you found an apartment building in L.A close to your new job, that Rob had just happened to pick for the same reason.

By this time, you were the best of friends, spending all but the time you were at work or sleeping, together. In the mornings, whoever was up first had the job of going to that little coffee shop around the corner and bringing the other coffee and in the evenings the same rule applied. The one who got off work first, had to pick up dinner from a new take out place to try.

You didn’t know why, but you and Rob had a unique connection, and while others came and went from your life, Rob was the one person who always remained. He was sweet and shy, with a touch of awkwardness. He was also, the most loyal person you had ever met and for as long as you had known him, none of those things ever changed. It might have taken you a long time to realize exactly why he was always in your life, but you had always known that you wouldn't've had it any other way.

For years, you tried to talk yourself out of what you were feeling, but one day shortly after your thirtieth birthday, you knew you wouldn’t be able to keep it to yourself any longer.

It was the night of Rob’s first Louden Swain show and you were over at his apartment, helping him get ready. He asked you to pick out an outfit that you thought he would look good in and while he was in the shower you rummaged through his closet, eventually deciding on a white short sleeve shirt, a black tie and a pair of jeans. His dream was always to become a rockstar, and have a band that he could go on tour with and now that it was all starting to come true, you were so happy for him that you didn’t mind playing his stylist for the evening.

“Did you find something?” he yelled from behind the closed bathroom door.

“Nope! It’s a lost cause Robbie. You just don’t have anything fit for a rockstar.”

Opening the bathroom door, he came out with nothing but a towel on. “You just can’t help but to be a smartass, can you?”

You tried to form the words to answer him, but nothing came out. It was not a new concept, that he was an attractive man, only getting better the older he got, but nothing could’ve prepared you for how he looked still wet from his shower, with nothing but a towel covering his muscular frame and boy, did he have some of the best arms, you had ever seen on a man.

“Are you okay?” he asked startling you.

“Yeah,” you replied, with a nervous chuckle. “I guess I just zoned out there for a second.”

Shaking his head, he reached down and grabbed the clothes off the bed. “I told you it was a mistake staying up so late last night.”

Before you could try and protest, he had taken his clothes into the bathroom and shut the door behind him and you cursed yourself for not stopping him and coming clean right then and there.

A couple minutes later, the bathroom door flew open again, and Rob walked out, completely dressed with the black tie hanging loosely around his neck. “So how do you I look?”

Walking over, placed yourself in front of him and began to work on straightening out his tie. “You look adorable, but yet sexy all at the same time. As a matter of fact you look so handsome that I’m sure you could absolutely suck at singing and no one would care.”

“You think I suck at singing?” he asked with a pout.

“I didn’t say that. I said you were so handsome it didn’t matter,” you teased, as you finished tying his tie.

As he turned to examine himself in the mirror you could tell he was still pained by what you had said.

“Awe, Rob come on!” you exclaimed. “I was joking! You are an amazing singer and I know the second you get out on that stage you are going to turn into the rock God that we both know you are! Besides there are three other guys in the band, if they don’t like you they are bound to like one of them.”

“Alright!” he growled, turning towards you and raising a finger to scold you. “You’re not helping!”

You couldn’t help but start laughing. He always looked so cute when he was trying to act angry.

“Okay, Rob,” you said, bringing your hands u opp to the side of his face. “Take deep breaths. Everything is going to be just fine. You are amazing, the guys are amazing, and people are going to love you. All of you!”

He gave you a smile and you continued. “Wait a minute! why am I the one comforting you? The minute you get all hot and famous, you’re going to forget all about little old me.”

He shook his head. “Nope, never going to happen. Our relationship is the only thing good in this world and we can’t let anything change that.”

“Yeah, that's what you say now anyways.”

Instead of saying anything, he just wrapped his arms tightly around you, pulling you in close. Once again, another moment came and went that you could’ve told him but didn’t, and you hated yourself for it.

“You are my best friend,” he said pulling back. “Nothing is ever going to change that.”

Placing a quick peck on your cheek he reached down and grabbed his guitar. “Plus I have to keep you around, now that I know you can dress me up and make me look so hot, I’m going to use your skills to help me find a hot date.”

You forced out a laugh.”Well you will definitely get some girls looking like this.”

This is why you could never tell him. You were his best friend and the fact that he just told he wanted to use you to get a hot girlfriend only meant that he didn’t see you as anything more than that.

As you grabbed your bag and followed him down the hallway, you saw how confident he was. All of his awkwardness and shyness seemed to have completely faded away, even if just for the moment and you realized that you had to push your feelings aside. He loved you, as a friend, and you knew if you were going to keep him in your life you were going to have to get use to just being his friend.

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3ternalove-blog1 · 8 years ago

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Chapter 7

Half way walking towards Ye Hua with A-Li tagging along, I suddenly halt my steps. Are you getting jealous that he’s having a private meeting with another woman, Bai Qian? I asked myself.

“Mother, why are your eyes red?”

Red? “Oh, it’s because of the dampness at this Crystal Palace that I’m not used to”

A-Li tugged my hand. “Mother, let’s quickly go find Father then”

“A-Li, I think it’s best not to disturb your Father. Let him settle the princess problem by himself”

A-Li got upset. “Mother, if you don’t go now, then Father will be stolen by that Princess Miao Qing!”

“Stolen?”

“Although she saved me once, but I have already properly thank her. But she now thought she would be different in Father’s eyes and wouldn’t want to leave Mount Junji. She foolishly stayed by Father. She’s really annoying” - A-Li complained.

“Stayed by your Father?”

“She knows that Father has a wife but she still came to bother Father. She came to lived in Mother’s hut and used Mother’s cookware. Now she want’s to steal Mother’s husband too!”

Oh, he’s talking about that 10 days in Mount Junji?

“Mother, you looked like you aren’t concerned at all!” - A-Li started to wail. “Is it because you already loved someone else and don’t want me and Father anymore?”

“Who said I don’t want you?”

“Excuses! Father will marry a stepmother and Mother will marry a stepfather! A-Li will have to lived up to my name! I don’t deserved to have a happy family! I will have to be alone! No one wants A-Li anymore!” - he started crying.

My heart shattered into pieces. I hugged him tight.

“All right, all right. Don’t cry ok? I did not say I don’t want you” - I tried to comfort him. “Everything will be alright. Don’t cry”

“But.. you don’t want Father. If you don’t want Father, then he will marry that Miao Qing. If he marries her, then they will have another baby and don’t want A-Li anymore..”

“Ah, you don’t cry anymore huh? I.. I.. since I’m your Mother, who said I don’t want your Father? Your father is my sweetheart, my darling, my precious honey” - I assured him.

Opps. What did I just say?

“Really?” - A-Li asked, happy.

“More real then real gold”. Oh well, since I started it, might as well just end it the same way. It’s between the both of us only anyways.

“Then come follow me, Mother”. Now it’s A-Li’s turn to drag me. Like Father like son.

We stopped a distance away. Ye Hua has his back to Princess Miao Qing without saying anything. The air feels so awkward that it feels weird.

“Mother, it’s time for you to make your appearance” - A-Li said.

“Erm.. let me think.. how I’m suppose to walk in”

I guess A-Li has his father’s traits of not taking excuses for an answer. He dragged me towards them.

“A-Li greets Father” - he bow. Ye Hua smiled at him like a proud father he is.

Somehow our eyes met. Without saying anything, I know that he’s glad I was there. It’s something both of us understands each other before.

“Little riceball” - I help him up.

Princess Miao Qing stared at us.

‘Jie jie (Elder sister), you are..” - she asked.

Time to play my part. Hey, it’s actually my original position. “This child address me as Mother” - I told her. Ye Hua gave a huge smile. I tried hard not to roll my eyes.

Miao Qing did not say anything. She just gave a look like she don’t believed that I’m A-Li’s mother.

Let’s be a little nasty. See if she gets it. “With this scene in front of me, I can’t help it but to compose a poem” - I took a sit.. like a boss.

“Don’t you agree, mei mei (little sister)?” - I asked her. Ye Hua kept smiling.

Miao Qing just kept her silence. Hmm.. this lady really don’t get it does she? No wonder even Little Riceball is annoyed with her.

“Among the vast sky and the boundless earth, a red apricot tree is on the verge of straying past it’s boundry..”

Ye Hua looked away to hide his laugh. I smiled widely at her. If she still don’t get this, I really don’t know what else to say.

“Mei mei, do you find it fitting?”

Miao Qing finally got it’s meaning. She quickly kneeled down.

“Your Highness, please don’t be angry. I didn’t know Your Highness has arrived” - she bowed.

I looked at Ye Hua. Your Highness?

Still looking down she continued. “I would never dare to be Your Highness’s mei mei. I only have respect for His Highness. I do not ask that His Highness promise me anything”

I shared another look with Ye Hua again. This is getting more interesting.

“My brother wants to marry me off to the West Sea. The 2nd Prince of West Sea is a hideous man. I truly had no other choice but to dance to request a meeting with His Highness”

“Oh?”

“Miao Qing only wishes to follow His Highness for eternity and served him as a maid. I wish for nothing more. Please grant me this wish, Your Highness”

“Ye Hua.. do you think this is something I should interfere?” - I asked him.

Before he could respond, A-Li spoke up.

“Mother, you just said Father is your sweetheart, your darling, your precious honey”

Oh.My.God. Did he just repeated every word I said?!

“Someone is here to steal Father and you're just going to let her? You did not mean what you said!”

Ye Hua advanced forward towards me and caught me for missing my steps backwards.

“You said.. I’m your sweetheart.. your darling.. your precious honey..?” - he leaned forward for a kiss..

Oh Yes? Bai Qian! Oh no.

I looked away. “Su Su” - he whispered. “Are you pretending to be ignorant or have you truly forgotten about me?

Errr.. both? But with you being so close now, how can I forget?!

Then I remembered about Miao Qing.

“You.. You clearly already know.. yet you tricked me into saying it..? You’re terrible”. I took the advantage to run away. This time, Ye Hua didn’t stop me.

*********************

I arrived at 4th Brother’s residence in the Far North after a brief encounter with Ghost Lord Li Jing. Yun Sheng, 4th Brother’s helper was sitting at the door step.

He ran over to greet me. “Aunt, you have not come by for many years!” - Yun Sheng exclaims. “You’ve come at the wrong time. Bi Fang ran away from home. 4th Uncle went to look for him yesterday. If you don’t mind, allow me to provide you my hospitality” - he said excitedly.

“What a hobby he has. He’s always chasing after a bird”

“Err.. I’m already used to it. Aunt, let’s hurry inside” - Yun Sheng pulled my sleeves.

“Wait. You seems to be acting strangely. Could it be that my 2nd Brother is here?” - I asked.

Yun Sheng gave a loud sigh. “Aunt, that is really a good guess. 2nd Uncle came here early in the morning. He’s in a bad mood. Didn’t you see me sitting outside?” he asked. “I don’t dare to go in”

“I should get going”. I really didn’t want to meet 2nd Brother when he’s in a bad mood. But I got caught.

“Little fox” - 2nd Brother called. “Come in”

I turned back. “2nd Brother” - I pretended. “Let’s go” - I told Yun Sheng.

We sat at 4th Brother’s study. I could literally feel 2nd Brother boiling with anger. Yun Sheng walked in with 2 cups of tea, hands shaking while serving.

“Oh yes! Aunt, you just arrived. You must not have breakfast yet. I.. I’ll go prepare breakfast for you” - he made an excuse to leave the room.

I didn’t stop him. Poor boy so afraid of this 2nd Uncle.

2nd Brother broke the silence. “Where is Xiao Jiu?” - he asked.

“Ah.. a few days ago, she was still cooking in my Fox Den”. Actually, I’m not too sure.

“She has done many shameful things for Dong Hua’s sake. When she returned to my manor 300 years ago, I had to hang her up and spank her twice for her to become well behaved. If she’s in your residence, then keep a good eye on her”. It wasn’t a request. It was more like a command.

“Rest assured, 2nd Brother. I’ll surely keep her confined in the Fox Den. She won’t go outside to be a disgrace”

He nodded in agreement. “The life debt to Dong Hua Dijun..”

“2nd brother, don’t you worry” - I cut him off. “Qing Qiu will take on the debt that Xiao Jiu owes to Dong Hua Dijun. As her aunt, I’ll take in her stead”

He took a sip of his tea. “Hmm. Good”

Phew. That was close. I should give Xiao Jiu a good lecture when I get back.

“By the way, why did you suddenly came to the Far North?”

“The Water King’s son just turned one month old. He send an invitation to Qing Qiu. Mother and Father went traveling. I had nothing much to do, so I came for a visit”

“The Eastern Sea is in the east. If you are returning to Qing Qiu, you should be traveling east”

Crap. I got caught, AGAIN.

“Oh, I forgot to mention, 4th Brother had me to bring two jars of wine from Zhe Yan’s. So I came over to deliver along the way”. Thank god I had the wine as an excuse.

“What a trouble” - 2nd brother shake in disapproval.

“I better take them to the kitchen” - I suggested. Ran from one, now have to run from another. What a trip!

Outside the study, Yun Sheng was eavesdropping. I signaled him to follow me.

“Aunt, do you not want breakfast anymore?” - he asked.

“I’m leaving. These are the jars of peach blossom wine that 4th Brother wanted” - I handed him the jars.

“Oh. By the way Aunt, I heard just now that you attended the banquet at the Eastern Sea?”

“I did”

“I heard that the Crown Prince is there as well. Did you see him?”

“I did”

“Back when the Crown Prince came to the Far North to pacify the rebellions, I had the good fortune to deliver a map to His Highness. I’ll never forget Crown Prince’s grace”

“You were merely a young child 300 years ago. How could you remember so clearly?

“To be honest, I love hearing others speak of the Crown Prince. Aunt, did you know that in all the battles of the past 30,000 years, whenever the Crown Prince made a stand, he suppressed all resistance?”

How can I not know? He also did a very stupid move while fighting with the Mermaid Clan.

“Should you marry the Crown Prince in the future, you must not forget to bring me along”

“I’ll take my leave. Take care to attend the one inside the study” - I told Yun Sheng.

#eternal love #fanfic #Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms #three lives three worlds

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