A Kingdom of Sins

Chapter Nine

I found Mason exactly where I thought I would. I walked into the graveyard and took a deep breath. By this point it had started down pouring down rain.

"If you get a cold I'm going to get in trouble," I sit down next to him and untie my cloak and lay it over his back. A statue of The Queen stands in the middle of the graveyard with her body laying under it. It had surprised me that instead of going to a royal graveyard he went to an old Fae graveyard, yet somehow I knew he would be here. "She was a great Queen," I said in a soft tone, trying to be as comforting as possible, "she was a great mother and a great aunt," I whispered under my breath.

"You knew my mom?" Mason asked wiping the tires out of his eyes.

"Yes, I was there when she married your father, and I was the first one to hold you," and to add to our already confusing day I let that slip.

"Wait, aren't I older than you," well in human terms he was right but Faes age a lot slower than humans.

"It's complicated," I said recalling the Fae biology class I took 6th grade year.

"Is everything complicated?" Mason asked with his tears departing to show his gleaming, swerling eyes.

"Yes. But she would be so proud of you," I said with tears crowding in the corners of my eyes.

"You knew her well, I assume," He guessed correctly.

"Everyone from Torchwood knew her well I just had the delight of being her niece," I said with the tears and the memories clawing up from inside me. I brought my knees to my face to hide my past.

"We're cuisines," He said almost like it was a question.

"Yah, I never thought about that.Well, umm, sort of, but not really. It's well complicated," he rolled his eyes "I don't think so we're different, you're human and I'm Fae" or at least I hope.

"Yes," Mason said under his voice as I pricked my finger on a thorn. I got off the wooden bench to see a small rose bush and sile. I kneeled down and grasped 5 roses not caring about the thorns piercing my skin.

"What are you doing ," Mason asked but I couldn't hear him through the sound of tears rushing down my face. I walked around the statue with Mason fallowing me out of curiosity. There were 6 stone graves Alice Kelly, Ashford Kelly, Noah Kelly, Celice Stone and Eric Stone, laying a rose down on each. I looked down at my grave, Kaitlin Stone and I could not help but smile through the tears, with all that The King had done he failed because the Stone and Kelly families were still here. I could tell by the curiosity and anger in Masons teary eye that he got it.

"I'm sorry Ash, I'm so so sorry," I whispered under my breath as I sat down and Mason sat besides me. I lay my head on Mason's broad shoulders and cry. I just sat there and cried myself to sleep.

You can always run. Run from your problems, your past, your failures, you enemies, your broken promises, and that one night. But it won't help. Nothing will help. They will always be faster than you. They will always bet you to the light at the end of the tunnel. So stop running it will never help. Face it.

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I woke up with my cloak around both of us. Mason had fallen asleep on me but I shake him awake. "What?" Mason asks with a yawn and a stretch. The rain had stopped and it had grown very quiet.

"We should probably get back to the palace," I said forgetting if we had a meeting or something his evening.

As we stood up and started heading back he asked, "do you still think I'm a jerk," I laughed as he said this. That was really what he was thinking about. Mason's complicated, but so is everything in our life that we cherish.

I rolled my eyes, "I don't know," I replied as we both laugh walking into the dyeing sun.

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I don't know how long it took to walk back to the palace time had just seemed to fly bye. We reached my room and went in. "Thank you for the date," Mason said bowing as I laughed.

"Not a date," I said. I yawned and turned around and fell down on my bed. As it hit the mattress I was filled with darkness. "Oh no," I said before going into deep. This darkness felt different, like it wasn't something new but something that had already happened in this reality. I was just glad that it was Mason in the room and not anybody else, so if fell deeper.

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No, no I will not relieve this, I thought to myself as I sat up in my old bed to the noises of people screaming. "No, no, no," I whispered to myself over and over again. I knew what was going to happen this was not new. I ran out into the marble halls. I looked out the window and was thrown into my mind set from 10 years ago.