little witchling

part 5

"You're a 17 year old mercenary?" Derek asks
"......omg I'm literally looking at a real life black widow" stiles mumbles as she SMIRKS

"Why?" Lydia asks, confused on why someone would do these things for money.
"For survival of course"
As everyone looks at her in question she asks realising that they don't know why
"....you know my name but not my story??, you only know we share blood and you are willing to warn me and not the others on this list, why?"
As Lydia just looks at her dumbfounded, Melina continues

"My...mamma, she was a gorgeous woman, not only at appearance, but in heart and soul.....she apparently left beacon hills because witch hunters were on her trail and coming for her......she left because she had too many people she cared about in this town, and she didn't want to risk them getting hurt, and so she fled to her mother's home land, and later found out she was pregnant with me, and so she raised me, taught me about my abilities, taught me to fight and survive, to protect myself, gave me an education, she was my hero...my best friend and one fatal night, I awoke to her shaking me.

"Starlight, starlight!, awake my child"
"Mamma?" Melina groggily replies as she rubs the sleep from her eyes
"They have come for us"
And at this time Melina is now wide awake and bolts out of bed and grabs her coat and Juno, her familiar, just as her mother grabs the getaway bag,
"Come Melina we need to run, NOW!!" She shout-whispers

They run through the snow as fast as they can, finding themselves in the woods, trying to get away from the approaching lights, they stop behind a tree to catch their breaths
"Melina, Melina my love look at me, you need to run"
"What mamma, nooo" she replies as tears run down her face
"Listen, listen you Are so strong, you can do it, my darling you are my heart, soul, you...you are my whole life  you are my saving grace, the light to my darkness, you are my starlight and I love you so, so much, but you NEED to run, please, get away, get to safety and find Claudia, find you godmother do you understand me, now go" she hastily says as she holds her beautiful daughter in her arms for the last time
"I love you"
*Cries* " I love you too mamma"
"Now go! I will hold them off,
don't stop!"
And she doesn't, she doesn't stop, not even when her body yearns her to, not when she can barely breath and not even when she hears her mother's dying screams as she's burned at the stake.

"They didn't think to come after me, no one knew of my existence, except Claudia and by the time I had finally gotten to America years later, looking for my godmother, Claudia had succumbed to her illness, and I even went to the hale house but there had been a fire and so I went back to Russia and did jobs like stealing, or fighting in illegal fighting rings, just for money and later someone came and offered me a bunch of money if I did a few things for them and that is how I got thrusted into being a mercenary.... that is my story.......I only came back a few weeks ago because I had finally found all of my mother's ashes and buried her here, just like she had always wished, and I visited Natalie to tell her where she could find the grave and asked her for anything of my mother's"
"....Wait Claudia?" Stiles asks after hearing his mother's name
"Yes, Claudia stillinski, she was my godmother and my mother's parapatai"
"What's that" Lydia asks
".....It is like a chosen soulmate, and no, I don't mean romantic, a parabatai is when a witch comes across someone that she trusts with her life, her greatest ally and friend, her platonic soulmate, her other half, so when a witch asks someone to be their parabatai, they mark each other and have a supernatural bond that amplified their connection. That is what parabatai is to a witch and that is who Claudia was to my mother...they were sisters in a way"
"...she knew?"
"About the supernatural? Of course. my mother trusted her with everything and never told anyone of their bond, so Claudia wouldn't be used as collateral. Claudia was the only person alive who knew of my existence, she was the only person my mother contacted through the years before their deaths"
".......Annie died" Peter softly whispered but everyone heard and turned their heads towards him
"How old were you?"
"I had just turned 9 before she passed"
".......I'm so sorry" scott whispered
"It is in the past (she wiped a stray tear) like I said these assassins who are going after the Deadpool, haven't been the first and they won't be the last to come for me but, the last time I checked....I am the only one who survived"
"The witch hunters are all gone"

"Of course, they were my first kills"