Hidden in the Shadows(Ezio Auditore )

The first born of the Phoenix

*Adelina POV- Nine months later*

   I sat in the chair in front of the fireplace, feeling its heat on my skin as it crackled slightly, placing my hand on my very swollen stomach. I could have sworn everyday I had gotten bigger but Aunt Greta and Madeleine insisted it was just hormones and that I was perfectly normal. Each day the love for my child grew but I had grown more restless and each day my heart ached for Ezio but he was gone. Last I heard he was headed to Spain with the Maria and Claudia but he had been in Monteriggioni with his uncle for the time being. It hurt to have this distance but it wasn't me who created it. Before I had even gained my stomach I had headed to Germany to help Fritz and the others with Ruthenburg's war only for it to end not even a month later, and though the war ended Ruthenburg had slipped away in the chaos. After that I had come back here and taken care of half the men involved with my father's death, some still floating around the city, but I would get to them. Even if I had to wait. I helped Demetrio as best as he could as he supplied a steady stream of information on Ludwig and his new warehouses and plans for them, but I had mostly been thankful that the pope denied him access to the catacombs.

     Once I had gotten my stomach in Madeleine and Greta hadn't left my side once as they helped me whenever they could to make things easy for me, even going to the markets for me for food or to get new books. I didn't leave the Orphanage much due to the fact that anytime I did or tried I was harassed or called names and the guards tried to keep an eye on me. Tried. So, if I had gone out I did it at night and covered completely. It didn't help that some of the more rambunctious and De'Pazzi supporters had thrown things at the Orphanage, some trying to break in only to get their asses kicked by Greta or myself. Anubis also helped me find the Griffin, a being like me, but not a piece of Eden like me. The griffin had just been created during the later periods of the Greek empire. Its job had been to keep me safe, and he had also helped me find out who it was. Madeleine. My best friend had been the Griffin and now everything she did and said had made so much more sense. She was over protective of me and worried for my safety- especially now. I was due any day and this would be the first child ever born of the Phoenix and I could feel the gods begin to get excited, feeling them stir around. I appreciated all she did for me, especially being here when she should have been with her husband, Milo. I was happy when I found out they had gotten together, truth be told they had been perfect for each other, and to know they were now married was great news. It wasnt hard to see they were madly in love with each other. As much as I was happy for them I had also wanted what they had true love. I thought I had that with Ezio, but I had been wrong. With the way things were going and how my life was I hardly doubt that I would ever find true love or even have one. Maybe love wasn't for me or cut out for what I did, maybe I was just meant to be alone like this so I could perform my duties as a Phoenix. Since I had been away from him, the more I thought about what was going on between us the more I thought that maybe the only reason we had happened was because this baby needed to be born, that he was only needed for me to get pregnant. That's what had made the most since to me, and even though Anubis said that Ezio would be my true mate if this baby was born I doubted that what we had in this time was really real. Sure, I had seen us in the future and I knew we were married in the future but that hadn't applied to now. Maybe this hadn't been our time and thinking that... it hurt. 

     "Der Mond ist aufgegangen,
Die goldnen Sternlein prangen
Am Himmel hell und klar;
Der Wald steht schwarz und schweiget,
Und aus den Wiesen steiget
Der weiße Nebel wunderbar.

Wie ist die Welt so stille,
Und in der Dämmrung Hülle
So traulich und so hold!
Als eine stille Kammer,
Wo ihr des Tages Jammer
Verschlafen und vergessen sollt.

Seht ihr den Mond dort stehen?
Er ist nur halb zu sehen,
Und ist doch rund und schön!
So sind wohl manche Sachen,
Die wir getrost belachen,
Weil unsere Augen sie nicht sehn.