The Locket

Chapter 27- Family Reunion

We all walked to the castle, adn into the hall where a lot of injured people were wrapping bandages around themselves and others. Uncle was helping someone, when he saw us and came running towards us.

"You're okay!" he said "Did you get hurt? Everyone okay?"

"We're fine, Uncle," I chuckled "The Voice is gone for good."

Uncle looked at us in awe "How?"

"She smashed a jar of Eternal Sunshine on it." Nathan said.

"Ah," Uncle said "but I thought that the only jar was kept at the castle-"

"But it was stolen, wasn't it?" Nathan said.

"It was indeed, it was indeed." He replied, and looked at Nathan with a curious look. "Who are you?" 

"This is your nephew, uncle," I said, smiling "Nathaniel."

Uncle looked at Nathan as if he were having a hallucination.

"I can't believe it," he said "It's really you!"

He hugged Nathan and Nathan hugged him back, and a few moments later, they pulled away.

"Where's Ansley?" Uncle questioned.

At that moment, a woman came stumbling into the hall. 

She was thin, with long black hair. She looked incredibly tired, but beautiful nevertheless.

She saw Nathan, and a look of great relief spread out on her face. She ran as fast as she could to him.

"Nathan, you're safe!" she said, pulling him in tightly for a hug.

"Mom!" he hugged her tightly, too. "You're okay! I thought-" he cut off.

"A-Ansley?" Uncle said. Ansley pulled away from Nathan and hugged her brother.

"It's me, Erik," she said "the superior sibling."

Uncle chuckled and started sobbing. 

"I thought you were gone."

"You weren't getting rid of me that easily." she said, wiping away her brother's eyes.

"You must be my beautiful niece, Alexandra," she said, turn ng to me.

"Yep, it's me," I chuckled.

"You must be Lucy," she said, turning to Lucy. Lucy looked alarmed at this sudden introduction, but smiled. 

 "Nathan has told me amazing things about you," she chuckled "You're just as pretty as he says you are."

At this, Lucy blushed and Nathan grinned. "It's true," he said.

"Then you're Oliver," she said to Oliver "thank you for being a great companion to my son for all these years when he most needed it."

She turned to everyone. "The Voice possessed me for a long time, and I became weak. I am grateful that my boy is safe with all of you, and I'm so glad we were able to re-unite this family."

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After the events that happened today, uncle insisted we all had a family dinner. Lucy and Oliver hesitated, but were told that they, too, were part of the family, and they happily joined us. After dinner, me and Oliver took a walk outside. We went a little away from the castle, into the woods.

"Today was quite the day, huh?" Oliver said.

"It was," I said.

"Thanks for saving me, Ollie." I said softly.