Chapter 31
“She’s a Phoenix” Jameson shouts.
“Well congratulations, that you got that right I guess this will make the next conversation a little quicker. “Nix mutters as everyone snaps their eyes to me.
“What the fuck, how did you do that? i..is it a phoenix thing?” Tennessee half whispers and half mutters to me. I can’t help rolling my eyes because sometimes I am blown away with how stupid Tennessee can be sometimes.
I watch as Tito, London and Jameson reach over and smack Tennessee.
“Ow! What was that for” Tennessee yells rubbing each spot that he just got hit.
“Is Little One, ok?” Jameson asks. I am not surprised that Jameson asks first regarding Hennessy, He has always had deep affection for her and he has always treated her like a princess. The others have as well but there has always been something about Jameson and Hennessy’s relationship that I wished I had as well.
“Are you ok?” London says beside me. I turn and look at her with shocked eyes no one apart from Hennessy asked me if I was ok. For a Dark witch to ask makes me feel nervous and unsure what does she want? Does she want to know my weaknesses? What is her angle?
“Fine, I am fine” I snap at her. I don’t mean to get angry but I can’t help it.
“I am sorry I didn’t…. what is your name?” London asks while looking at me with concern.
“Hennessy calls me Nix. It is a name that we picked together” I mutter at London.
I hear tinkling bells as London laughs beside me. I hear a couple of deep rumbles of laughter as well.
“That’s our girl always making sure that she is treating everyone with care” Tito says while looking at me with a raise eyebrow.
“You have done a great job at looking after Hennessy for all these years. As well as making sure that your mother and the twit didn’t hurt her too bad from when she was four onwards.” I say making sure that I look each and everyone in the eye so that they can tell that I am sincere.
“Yeah! But Hennessy was easy to raise she never fussed and she loved being around us which made it easy to be around her. She fit into every environment that we took her too which was an added bonus” Tito says.
“Mm, but there were many times that she didn’t want to do anything that you all suggested and still did it anyway, did it never occur to you that she was trying to please you all, all the time because she was terrified that you would get sick of her and give her to the Royal family. Hennessy didn’t want to make your lives difficult so she did things that would make her uncomfortable just for you” I snap. I didn’t mean to say that I didn’t want to out Hennessy like that but it still annoys me that no one ever considered what Hennessy wanted just like me. I expect that she will do the right thing because I need this to be my last life. But that isn’t what she wants, Hennessy has never wanted to cause trouble she is good. She is everything that we are supposed to be and I want her to do something that isn’t in her nature. Just the thought of that makes me sick to my stomach.
“She never complained” Tennessee says with a shrug of his shoulders. I hear London hiss something under her breath before Tennessee jumps from his chair with his butt on fire. I giggle as I watch Tennessee dance around before he finally manages to put the fire out. Jameson, Tito and London are looking at me with sad eyes.
“Why are you here and not Little one” Jameson says, never taking his eyes from mine.
“I have just come from Hennessy; I have informed her of everything that she is meant to know in a few months when she turns Twenty-three. I have told her the prophecy and her and my fates and she now has twenty-four hours to decide if she will accept me or not” I say calmly.
“What happens if she doesn’t accept you?” London asks.
“We will die at the stroke of midnight in a couple of months on her Twenty-third birthday.” I reply.
“What”
“Bullshit
“OK”
“You selfish bitch”
I listen to all the comments and watch as there are various degrees of anger and upset. But what surprises me is London. There is no anger, no upset just acceptance.
“What not going to come up with a plan to make her do what she has too? Dark witches from memory are always concocting different schemes and potions.” I snap at London.
“I know all about your history Nix, I know what you have been through and what needs to be done. But here is something that you don’t know. I was the one that killed your sixth others mother on my thirteenth birthday. I overheard what the elder had done and how she believed that the little girl next door was you and started giving her potion to change and hide from her super. I lost control as it was just after Essy was poisoned and I knew that she had the wrong girl. I always suspected that Essy was special but her little gifts never added up to what a Phoenix was. But because the little girl died a few months later I was mad and lost control” London says simply.
“You protected Hennessy even know you had a small thought that she was special that she could have been a phoenix” I say.
“Yes” London replies.
“Why?” I can’t help but answer
“Because Essy is family, she is special and she is our little sister” London replies simply
“The twit is your little sister as well?” I say
“No, the twit as you call her stopped being my sister when she tried to poison Essy at one” London replies
“Also, the twit was never like us, she was power hungry” Tito says
“Plus, she took after our mother” Tennessee says.
“She was never kind” Jameson mutters.
“Your mother was murdered” I blurt out. They all nod like it was no shock.
“She was murdered by the King and Queen” I mutter. I watch as they all show different degrees of shock.
“She was pregnant with the Kings baby” I whisper.