Spellbound [COMPLETED]

Chapter 26 I See Fire

World War I: U.S.A. 1919

"Mommy? Where did Daddy go?" Nicholas asked. He was too young to understand, but I didn't know how to tell him.

"Daddy's away fighting off the bad guys," I said to him.

"What bad guys?"

"The ones who want to come after us and our country."

"Like a superhero?"

I smiled, amused by his five-year-old imagination.

"Yes dear, like a superhero."

I picked him up and carried him in my arms to our living room. He had a beautiful smile, rosy cheeks, and his father's white skin. But he had my brown eyes and I had a feeling he'd become more like me. I just hoped the kids at school wouldn't look at him funny when they found out I was colored. But freedom had a cost, and sadly, it was one that my family and I had to pay.

"Mommy! Mommy!" Elizabeth called. "Something's wrong!"

I set Nick down and rushed to her bedroom. I found her on her bed soaking wet beneath a rain cloud that was pouring down on her.

"What in the world!?" I exclaimed.

"Help me Mommy! Help me!" She yelled. "Make it stop!"

"Sweetie, I don't know how! Come here, get out from under there."

She ran towards me and I rushed her to the bathroom to get her dry.

"Angel, what did you do in your room to make that . . . That cloud appear?"

"I was playing with my glass of water," she said nonchalantly.

"H-how exactly?"

"Like this," she said, showing me her hand that was covered in drops of water. The drops moved to the center of her palm and formed a puddle, then evaporated into a small cloud.
I gasped.

"Oh God. They warned me about this."

• • •

Thank God! I'm so glad I found you, Taryn thought.

Who are you exactly? Ana thought back, still sharing their telepathic connection.

I'm your aunt Kate's daughter.

That's impossible. Aunt Kate's daughter died from cancer when she was ten. I went to her funeral and everything. And besides, her name was Sarah.

That was all fake. I never died. As soon as mom and I found out what I was, she trained me in as many fields of magic as she could. Then a year later, I used my powers to make myself ill. About a month before I turned eleven, mom thought it was time I go on the run so I could be safe. And so we faked my death, my funeral, everything. And we falsified all of my documents and changed my identity.

Why? Why would you do that to us?

You really need me to tell you? You know we're seen as a threat to the Exaudi. I saw what they did to you.

How did you see me?

I was visiting a friend at the hospital the night of your accident. You were in pretty bad shape. That reminds me, I came to warn you about Alec.

Why? What about Alec?

Listen to me. Alec almost never makes a personal appearance. He hasn't been seen since World War Two. But I saw him here. In town. Out in the open.