ɪ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ꜱᴏ ★ Acotar

Cₕₐₚₜₑᵣ ₂₉

𝔾𝕝𝕠𝕓𝕖 & 𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕝

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After Kallista's shocking reveal Helion was quiet at first not really believing that his innocent friend was carrying a baby in her, but as he processed it the high lord smiled at her and comforted her throughout the night, after he said that if everything goes bad he would always protect her.

Helion somehow convinced the High Lord to let Kallista out of her room claiming that she needed to go out or she was going to go crazy, which wasn't entirely untrue. 

Kallista being so the master of plans - metaphorically- designed another with Helion, must of the steps were easy, but not the one where Kallista had to tell her brother of her situation. In her defense, it was Alara's idea when she told Helion. It was easy, tell him, then get him to convincee father to let her go to the meeting, see Azriel.

She was now walking through the halls towards Kallias drawing room, but he didn't like that name because he said it was too feminine for him so he just calls it his study. She stood in front of the white doors, her fist raised to knock on it.

When she finally got the courage to knock when a voice startled her from behind.

"What are you doing?" he questioned, she turned around and found her brother with a raised brow.

"I was coming to see you" Kallista said with a straight face even though she was panicking inside.

"Come in" He opened his door for her, and closed it when they were both inside. The room had even more parchment than it had before showing how much the prince has been working and studying, and some plates and cups on tables and sofas. "Sorry for the mess, am I finally forgiven?" he said bitterly.

"Well if you keep talking like that, no" Kallista muttered, he heard him sigh and she sat in one of the sofa's.

"Look I'm sorry that you got locked up, okay? but I'm not sorry for trying to protect you" Kallias said from his desk.

"Don't you understand I didn't only got locked away, I was separated from him-"

"He was bad for you, that's what you have to understand"

"Bad for me or bad for the court?"

"Dammit Kallista why are you so stubborn?" He passed a hand through his hair in frustration.

"You haven't answered my question" She interwined her hands.

"for both" He stood up from his desk and sat besides Kallista in the sofa. "Did you just came here to fight with me?"

"No" Kallista answered and looked at him for a second noticing the bags under his eyes before looking away "I came here to tell you something"

He stood up and went back to his desk starting to fumble with parchments "Go on with it, I have a lot to do, father asked me to find the records of-"

"I'm pregnant"

There was a crash from when Kallias dropped a snow globe accidentaly that was in his desk. He had wide eyes and the parchment in his left hand was now wrinkled from his tight grip. "What?"

"I'm-"

"I heard you" He sighed and dropped on his leather chair "Fuck"

"Indeed" She swallowed harshly.

"So what are you going to do?" Kallias questioned. Now it was time for the plan.

"I need your help Kallias, please" The princess stood up and walked towards him. He opened his mouth to say something "And before you say something I still haven't forgiven you, so you better listen" He shut his mouth "The only thing I need from you is to convince father-" She waved her hand slightly and a blue mist appeared in her hand "To let me go to the meeting please"

The mist cleared and in her hand sat the snow globe perfectly intact, the globe was a gift of winter solstice from Kallista to him when she was little.

"Please" She whispered one last time. Putting her hand out with the globe for him to take.

After a moment of hesitation he sighed deeply and took the globe from her hand a small smile rising in Kallista 

"Fine, but what are you going to really do with your child?" Kallias questioned and Kallista's breath hitched on her throath. Everytime she wanted to say child or babe, she got overwhelming fear at the tips of her fingers, like it was a forbidden word that she wasn't supposed to say.

"I don't know, I haven't thought about it" She lied, she has thought about what she was going to do. She was obviously keeping her baby, it was not always that a high fae got pregnant, it was very difficult for some and very easy for others, so it could be her only chance, then it got were she had to tell Azriel and she hoped that he will accept it and not live her stranded but that's the only thing she had now. Hope, Hope for a future.

And then maybe live a life far from danger and far from unhappiness. She imagined a white haired child running barefoot with leather wings hanging from their back, maybe in a green camp with a cabin on the side where she would live with her growing family. So she could only hope.

But she was sure that if she said to Kallias that she was planning on leaving he would lock her in her room just like her father did.

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Kallias had succesfully managed to persuade their father to let her go to the meeting, How? She has no idea but she was grateful he could and she informed him that he was forgiven once he gave her the news.

The day of the meeing finally arrived and the only thing that could ruin her plan was if Azriel decided not to go to the meeting which will really suck.

Thankfully Kallista wasn't showing yet and she could use a light dress for the hot weather on the summer court. A beautiful white dress that Helion brought all the way from the day court to her claiming that it would be a perfect fit and it was- barely.

Waiting in the throne room for her father to arrive, besides Kallias and Helion she was nervous to confront her father, she hadn't talk to him since the day in this same room, where the air flowed harshly just like the words from his mouth.

The big door opened presenting her father stoic but with a hint of regret flowing of his eyes. The High Lord regretted how he treated his daughter, he recognized that he was harsher than what he should have been.

He stopped in front of them "Ready? We are winnowing to the summer court" The high lord turned around and he was gone the next second leaving blue mist behind, She took Helion's hand and winnowed to the summer court with him.