New World [Gay Chandler Riggs/1D fusion fanfic]

Chapter 14

We helped Jordan and his family settle in, well Dad, Uncle Liam and I did; Chandler was going through all of their stuff and taking any weapons he found. Uncle Zayn was with the baby, changing her diaper or so he said, but everyone knew knew he was still upset about Pop's decision.

"So this is Katelyn, my fiancee, her sister Aurora and this is my brother Enrique, Eric for short" Jordan introduced them. Aurora was curvy like her sister but lacked the blonde streaks her sister had as well as her hair was longer, other than that they looked nearly identical. Aurora, Katelyn and Jordan were roughly the same age, early to mid twenties. Eric, Enrique had darker skin than any of them, or us for that matter "He's adopted, he's my cousin technically" Jordan explained, probably seeing my confused face.

"His father was Mexican and his mother was my mom's cousin, when he was born blind his parents couldn't care for him so my mom adopted him" Jordan said as he ruffled Eric's hair. "He was born blind?" Dad asked and Jordan nodded "Every single person in my family has eye problems, genetics I guess; Eric was the first that was totally blind though. I'm actually completely colorblind" he explained.

Dad nodded "I'm Harry that's my husband Louis, our son Cole, that's Liam and his husband Zayn is with their baby daughter Faith". I looked at Dad, surprised that he called Faith Uncle Liam and Uncle Zayn's daughter. Uncle Zayn and Uncle Liam did take care of the baby more than either of my parents did but I don't remember anyone deciding that Faith would be "theirs"; Uncle Liam didn't seem to complain though, his friendly smile was still on his face. "And that's Chandler Cole's....uhh, friend" Dad finished awkwardly, not knowing what to call him; I shared a look with Chandler and a small smile appeared on his lips.

"That's cool, family is super important these days" Jordan said as Uncle Zayn finally came out with Faith who was chewing on her fist. "Aww" I heard Katelyn softly exclaim. Uncle Zayn tried his best to avoid these people for as long as possible, he even did Faith's hair and put it into pigtails to buy extra time.

"How old is she?" Katelyn asked and she wiggled her finger to Faith who only placed her head on Uncle Zayn's chest and sucked on her thumb in response. "Six months" Uncle Liam answered "She was born the day this all happened" he said as he motioned to the door and the world outside. Katelyn and Jordan only nodded and I was thankful they didn't ask where the mother was.

We looked over as Katelyn's sister yelped, clutching her hand as Fenris glared at her, "Oh yeah" I said "My dogs don't like people, sorry I should I have said something sooner, did she bite you?" Aurora shook her head " No, she just surprised me is all; they're beautiful dogs" I smiled "Thanks, I really like them too; that's Fenris and she's Shylo. They're sisters as well". Eric finally spoke up "Fenris, that's an interesting name, did you name her that?" He asked as he turned to my direction.

"No, they were already named when I got them" I answered. "The ancient Norse had a divine wolf-beast named Fenrir who was a harbinger/messenger/bringer of Ragnarok, the end times for the Norse. Fenris merely means little Fenrir or Fenrir's child" Eric said. "I didn't know that, that's cool" I said slightly tilting my head, this kid was smart.

I looked back to Katelyn who was still trying to get Faith to smile, but Faith just stared at her like she was completely bananas; "Can I hold her?" Katelyn asked. "Uhh, yeah" Uncle Zayn said as he started to offer Faith to her but the baby grabbed Uncle Zayn's shirt tightly with both tiny fists and wouldn't let go. Katelyn just chuckled and let her hands fall to her sides again when Faith refused to go with her.

"So shall we eat?" Dad said since he was cooking the entire time on the small gas stove we had; he heated up some ravioli from some cans and tried to make it more edible by adding some spices. Dad spooned some of the pasta into a bowl before offering to Eric, well he tried to until he remembered Eric was blind. Jordan took the bowl with an understanding smile before he grabbed the spoon Dad also offered and put in Eric's hand, before setting the bowl on the table and guiding the spoon into the pasta.

"Thank you, it smells great" Eric said before eating a spoonful "You're welcome" Dad said as he started serving the rest of us. We all grabbed food before sitting around the table, Chandler sat in the chair between Jordan and I; Jordan smiled as Chandler sat down, thinking Chandler was trying to be friendly, but Jordan's smile faded and he looked down to his bowl again as Chandler didn't return the smile and was actually, very slightly, hostile towards him. Chandler didn't scowl or show any outward hostility but his vibes aren't friendly at all.

It was like we were having an stereotypical Thanksgiving dinner, like in the movies and tv where you were forced together with family you didn't know all that well or even liked. Chandler and Uncle Zayn's vibes completely suppressed all attempts at conversation, and it didn't help that Pops didn't seem to care one way or the other. Dad and Uncle Liam tried to be friendly but it was difficult to say the least.

"I like your wedding rings" Katelyn said to Dad, looking at his gold wedding band. Dad wiggled it off his finger and show it to her "Oh, there's a sapphire inside" she said as she showed Jordan the ring also before asking "Why is the stone inside the ring and not on the outside?" Dad held out his hand to Pops who placed his wedding ring in Dad's palm before Dad offered it to Katelyn who nodded when she saw the emerald.

"Harry wrote and sang a song at our wedding" Pops explained "Harry bought both wedding rings to match his song, the chorus went "For your eyes only, I show you my heart; for when you're lonely and forget who you are. I'm missing half of me when we're apart; now you know me, for your eyes only" so Harry got us stones, for our eyes only. Harry's ring has sapphire because of my blue eyes and Harry has green eyes so my ring as the emerald".

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Jordan's POV

"I like these people" I said as I took off my shirt to get ready to sleep "I think we finally found a group that'll stick together, considering they're a giant family". "That kid though, the one with the long hair, I don't like how he looks at us" Aurora said as she put on fresh socks to sleep "like he's just waiting for one of us to pull a gun on them or something". "If you ask me that's a good thing, he's careful of new people" I countered "I would be worried if these people just accepted everyone with flowers and smiles".

"I think we should stay here for a couple of days, make a plan and then be on our way" Aurora pressed, "I'm tired of walking" Eric said softly "Sis, just because someone is looking at you sideways you want to walk away from probably the biggest break we've had in months?" Katelyn asked "I think we should at least try with these people, they seem friendly enough...or at the very least won't hurt us".

"Tomorrow we should try our best to make friends here, cause Katelyn is right; stumbling across these people might be the best luck we had in a long time" I said "And even if you and Chandler don't get along please just try Aurora; look around you, tonight is the first night none of us have to taken turns sleeping to make sure the freaks won't eat us". "We should also try to be helpful in anyway we can" Katelyn nodded. Aurora scoffed but didn't say anything.