Chapter 80 CASSIAN'S RETURN
CHAPTER 080: CASSIAN'S RETURN
I found out I was pregnant six months after the Covenant was sealed. I was in the bathroom staring at the test, when Kieran found me. He saw the test. Just stopped moving. "Is that..." he started to say. I told him it was positive. We just looked at each other for a while.
Kieran said, "But you're human now. You do not have any abilities. How is this possible?" I did not know. Sofia had told me I was a baseline human with no fertility or anything like that. Kieran thought maybe the test was wrong. I had taken four tests and they all said the same thing.
We were silent for a bit. Then Kieran started laughing. I asked him what was so funny. He said it was just that we had saved the world. I had become human and we were trying to have a normal life.. Now I was pregnant. He said it was just perfect. He pulled me into a hug. Said, "Of course you are pregnant. Of course."
The day Sofia confirmed that I was pregnant. She said I was six weeks pregnant based on my hormone levels. I asked her how this was possible since I was human now. She said that when the fragments dissolved they did not completely disappear. There were still traces of them like memory and genetic echoes. These echoes were not enough to give me powers. They could affect my biology.
Sofia said that this pregnancy was going to be unusual. The baby might have some traits. I asked her what kind of traits. She said we would not know until the baby was born. It could be something or it could be something significant. Kieran squeezed my hand. Said we would handle whatever came.
The pregnancy was hard. I had morning sickness all day. I was more tired than I had ever been. There were also symptoms that Sofia could not explain. Sometimes my belly would glow silver and sometimes it would be warm enough that Kieran could feel it through my shirt. Sofia said it was definitely not a pregnancy.
In the month Sofia said that the babys heartbeat was strong and the growth was normal.. The energy signature was strange. It was like there was than one baby. I asked her if I was having twins. She said it might be something else. Maybe the baby was carrying genetic echoes. She said it was unprecedented. She did not know what to expect.
In the month Sofia gave me some surprising news. I was lying on the examination table when she went still. I asked her what was wrong. She said nothing was wrong. It was just unexpected. She turned the monitor so I could see and there were two forms. Two heartbeats. I was having twins.
Sofia said that one of the twins had a different energy signature than the other. It was like they were opposites. I asked her what that meant. She said she did not know yet. We would have to monitor them
In the month Oracle Mira visited me. I was huge and exhausted. I just wanted the pregnancy to be over. Mira sat across from me her white eyes unfocused. She said that the twins were special that they carried echoes of the fragments. Pieces of what Alaric, Cassian, Zev and the wolf were.
I put my hands on my belly protecting the twins. I asked her if they were the fragments reborn. She said no they were my children.. They carried genetic memory, soul imprints. They would be powerful. I asked her how powerful. She just said that one would bring doom and the other would bring survival. They were balance
Mira touched my forehead. I was pulled into a vision. I saw two children, a boy and a girl. The boy was surrounded by darkness and things would break when he was upset. The girl was surrounded by light and things would grow when she was happy. They were opposites, bound together by their bond. Neither good nor evil just forces.
I gasped back to reality. Mira was still sitting across from me. I asked her if the twins were going to be dangerous. She said they were going to be necessary. The world needed balance. They were that balance.
In the month I could barely move. The twins were huge. They were always fighting each other for space. One side of my belly was always cold. The other side was always warm. I would touch each side saying "Doom and Survival." Kieran would find me like that talking to the twins.
He would ask me if I was scared and I would say I was terrified. He would say he was scared too but excited. We were going to be parents, all. Parents to forces bound in human form. He would joke that it was more challenging than normal parenting.
In the month I was ready. I was so ready. The twins were too I could feel it. That night I had a dream. I was in a space and four figures were waiting for me. Alaric, Cassian, Zev and the wolf in form. They said they wanted to see me before the twins were born that their echoes lived in the twins. Part of them continued through my children.
I said I did not understand. The wolf-man spoke up. He said that they had given everything to save me to save the world. But love did not end it transformed. They transformed through the twins. I said they were not reincarnations just echoes. Genetic memory, soul imprints.. It was enough.
Alaric touched my belly. Said that the boy had his intensity. Zev said that the boy had his otherworldliness. Cassian said that the girl had his warmth, his hope. The wolf-man said that both twins had his protection. I asked them if the twins would be okay. They said they would be extraordinary.. Powerful and necessary just like their mother.
I was. I said I missed them every day. They said they knew. They were still with me. In the stars in the echoes in the twins. Never truly gone. They started to fade. I said wait.. They just said to love the twins to keep them safe to teach them balance and to protect them.
I woke up to contractions. It was time. Kieran was with me holding my hand. Labor was brutal, eighteen hours of fighting my body and the twins. They did not want to cooperate. They were fighting even before they were born.
Finally after twenty hours the first twin was born. It was the boy. He did not cry. He just looked around with eyes that shifted colors. Silver to black to crimson to amber. Ancient awareness in a face. I said his name was Dorian.
Ten minutes later his sister was born. Seraphina. She had copper- hair like Cassian and golden eyes that glowed softly. When she cried flowers bloomed. Actual flowers growing from cracks in the floor. Sofia. Said it was not possible.
I held both twins on my chest. They stopped fussing immediately. They turned to look at each other. Their tiny hands reached out to touch each other. Balance. Kieran was beside us touching each baby carefully. He said they were perfect. I said they were terrifying.. He just said they were ours.
Seraphina, doom and survival. Born from echoes of fragments that sacrificed everything. Carrying pieces of loves I lost. My impossible children. I held them close. I felt it. Not the fragments themselves. Their essence. Alarics intensity in Dorians gaze Zevs otherworldliness in how Dorian saw through things. Cassians warmth, in Seraphinas smile the wolfs protection radiating from both.
They were not reincarnations just echoes. Genetic memory, soul imprints.. It was enough. I looked at Kieran. He was crying, holding all three of us. He said we did it we survived.. I said we did.
Outside the window seven constellations shine really bright.
The Covenant is sealed forever.
Somewhere in those stars I like to think that the four souls are watching us.
I feel proud of them.
I am happy for them.
They are, at peace now.
The four souls are. The four souls will never truly be lost to me.