Random Feysand scenes and one shots

Attack on Velaris

Panic
Shocked I focused on the feeling coming through the bond and shifted my awareness from the meeting I was currently in towards my mate at home. For a second I saw Velaris through her eyes.

 Cassian with glowing siphons, people screaming and running for cover. And then I spied the reason for it in the skies.

Attors, an army made of their bony, winged bodies, searing down to attack my defenseless people. 

Rage rose in my veins. The people of Velaris were innocent, had never done anything to harm Hybern. I needed to get there, immediately. 

"We will continue this meeting at another point in time, I'll reach out to you", I said to my emissionary of day court and the next thing I knew, was racing towards home.

Where are you? I spoke into Feyres mind, frantically needing to know she was all right.  No response. In my panic I started shouting.

WHERE ARE YOU? I readied to ask a third time, when I received an answer.

I'm exactly where I need to be, and then she slammed up her shields, shutting me out. The panic in me took over and had me shouting and clawing at the walls made out of solid black stone. While doing so, I neared the city and now could make out the figures in the sky and streets, just like I did when seeing through Feyres eyes. 

Anger and determination to protect rushed throughout me at the sight of the Attors in front of me and I unleashed my powers, darkness fogging the entire city, searching every corner of the cobblestone streets and crushing the intruders to dust. Leaving the people in their wake unharmed. All of me itched to destroy them altogether with bare hands. 

Suddenly my power sensed the familiarity of my mate and in an instant I steered towards her. My boots made a crunching sound as they met the stone and I rushed to her. Lifted her face up and checked for her wellbeing. So far, there were no injuries to be detected and I pressed my forehead to hers. I was still slightly out of breath from the excess of power I had just used. Gently I joined our lips, to show her that I was there. 

"Feyre Cursebreaker, the Defender of the Rainbow", I murmured. A sob escaped her lips and she threw her arms around my torso, hiding her face in my chest. My wings embraced us and for a moment it was just two mates, holding each other in the aftermath of the stress of the fight. 

In that very moment I wanted to never ever emerge again into the real world. I wanted to be just a citizen of Velaris and take my mate home, hold her close forever and not be the damned high lord of night court with a target on our heads, a billion duties to tend to and a war in need of preparation. But for a second I would just clutch her close until we had to again face this blood-drenched world.  

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After I had spent hours rebuilding the wards around the city and triple checking them, we had all returned to the townhouse with our family gathering in the living room. Mor handed out tall glasses of liquor to everyone and even that did not help much. The siphons each Azriel and Cassian held, were dull with utter exhaustion and the other part of my family too lay limp and coated in blood and dirt on the couch. 

Each of us was drained of power and energy, we needed to recharge and rest before planning anything else. 

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Even in the dark hours of night I couldn't bear to go to bed. My family had gone to bed, but I was incapable to do so. Not yet, maybe not at all tonight. I had so many things to sort out and think about. 

Cassian let me in his head earlier and showed me what happened in those initial first minutes. My self-hatred grew with every picture I saw. How could I have let this happen? Why did my wards not hold? 

A tug on the bond interrupted my train of thought and seconds later I inhaled the scent of my mate approaching. She slid into my lap and snuggled into me, my hands pulling her closer by instinct. 

"So few light. So few lights left tonight", it had shocked me when I first came up here to not see the familiar sea of glittering lights, but dark streets and rarely a lit window. My heart tightened. 

What if this had all gone wrong? How could I sell out my home and people for this war?
I was a monster. 

"It's not your fault", Feyre repudiated my thought. 

"Isn't it? I handed this city over to them. I said I would be willing to risk it, but... I don't know who I hate more: those queens, or myself", I voiced my doubt. Feyre shook her head and brushed her fingers across my face. 

"You shut me out. You shielded against me. Completely. I couldn't finde a way in."

She apologized. But why in hell would she? I should be proud of her, in a way I was. It was an astonishing achievement, nonetheless I wouldn't forget the panic I had experienced then for a long while. 

"You could have been killed", I mumbled and buried my face in her neck, just breathing her in, making sure she's still there and well. 

"Are you going to scold me for it?" Were these thoughts still curtesy of the way Tamlin had mistreated my wonderful and so very precious mate? 

"How could I scold you for defending my people? I want to throttle you, yes, for not going back to the town house, but...", I thought of all that I had seen in Cassians thoughts, all Feyre had shown me herself. The way she had protected my people... so fierce and brave. And I was impressed how her control of her powers had increased in the short period of time already. 

"You chose to fight for them. For Velaris. I don't deserve you", I had known it always. She was too good to be with a monster like me, deserved better. All she had received in Prythian so far, was pain; Amarantha's trials, Tamlin locking her up and letting her waste away and now myself, claiming her. Feyre deserved a world to her feet. But she said, "we deserve each other. And we deserve to be happy." 

A tear slipped my eye and all I could do was reach for her lips. Reach for her and make love to her under the stars and the few lights of Velaris. 

Feyre was my salvation. My beautiful, strong, giving mate...