A COURT OF PAIN AND SORROW (ACOTAR FANFIC)

Echos past

"Where are you going?" Echo asked a small smile on her face.

"The woods." Verna replied.

Even she smiled back to the siren. It was already Sunday. The last few days Echo had been going a lot for Verna, teaching her how to hide her scent and how to make it so her father did not pick up the signs of early pregnancy. Verna did not even know what happened, but her and Echo were getting closer. Something even her father picked up on and seemed happy about.

"Are you going to—"

"Not yet." Verna whispered. "Not yet."

"I understand." She then took Vernas hand in hers. "Just be carful, my sisters in the night court sing that something has happened."

"You can hear them?"

"Not well," Echo said. "Not anymore. They say that something has happened and that Rhysand is pissed, when I sing back they only laughed."

"Why?"

"Because I am the youngest of my sisters." She said. "That I will not allow my child to be one of them, tail or not. My mother was a fool in thinking I would ever be like them."

"Was she a fool?"

"In that yes," Echo sighed. "In others. . .there is a reason me and the siren queen do not get along."

"Are you her daughter or something?" Verna joked.

"No." Echo said her lips twitching into a smirk. "Heavens no. I feel sorry for whatever daughter she shall carry. My mother was her sister, she ran away with a pirate, she was meant to kill.  So either way the ocean calls to me."

"Why did the ocean queen what the pirate dead?"

"It's a very long story. But. . ." She sighed. "He stole something from her, I was never told what. But it was something important. Something that helped her rule her queendom." She laughed. "Though, she needs more then that to help her. I grew up with my mother telling me stories about her sister, and they where never good. Sirens are deadly. We are hungry. They. . . We eat anything we can get our hands on. Once, about six hundred years ago, it was said that the females would fuck human males just to get pregnant and because the offspring was not seen as a true born siren. . . They ate them. They did it because they were so hungry." Echo whispered. "Cruel, I know. They eat their own children. Anyway, once I was born, the queen put money on my head. When I was eighteen I was brought to her. She wanted my head, I told her to fuck off. She has hated me ever since."

"Why did she not kill you?"

"Who knows." She laughs. "I'm her sisters daughter."

"Your name is not really Echo, is it?" Verna whispred. "It was not the name you were born with."

"No, it's not." She said smiling sweetly. "But I can echo inside people's minds, that's why I picked that name."

***

"My mate!" Nyx said running over to Verna as soon as he saw her. Verna throw her arms around him and pulled him into a deep hug. "It's only been two todays and so much has happened."

"I know," Verna laughed. "There is something I need to tell you."

"About Echo?" He sighed. "I feared the worse. What did she say?"

"She was not clear in her words." Spoke Verna. "However, She said that 'Death is a friend to both your family's, and death will make her mark''"

"What did she mean by that?"

"That death will find us," Verna smiled as he took me in his arms.

"I won't allow that Verna." He kissed her forehead softly. "I will never allow anything to take you away from me."