The Return Of Time

Chapter 3: Repeated History Being Erased

For a moment, Gaia is so dumbstruck that she absentmindedly says, "What?"

Biana cringes at the thirteen-year-old's evident shock. The teal-eyed-woman gazes down at her feet, avoiding the stare of disbelief Gaia's giving her. Although she's not moving her lips, Gaia hears Biana's voice comment, How the heck did Fitz manage to ever tell Sophie this when we were kids? It's so hard...

"Then don't tell me," Gaia snaps before she can stop herself. When Biana looks up at her again, Gaia crosses her arms over her chest. "My parents love me. I can't do that." Seeds of doubt enter her thoughts as the silence progresses, What was Biana even saying? Was she seriously telling her that she needed to leave her family... forever..?

"How did you-" Biana starts, her face unnaturally pale. Sighing, the teal-eyed woman facepalms herself. "Of course... Sophie's genes..."

Gaia ignores her slip-up. "Can we get back to the main topic?" she asks, anger mixing into her shock. "You know, the fact that you're telling me to leave my family? I can't do that!" Shaking her head, Gaia turns away from Biana. "Did you hear yourself? Unless you've done this before, you can't even FATHOM just how unbelievable your words are. I-" She pauses, her voice suddenly muting, yet her lips still moving. "I... I..." At a loss for words, Gaia decides to turn around and glare in Biana's teal eyes.

"Gaia..." Biana coos softly before kneeling down so they'd both be at the same eye level. "I know it's hard-"

"Did you leave your family?" the thirteen-year-old comments bitterly, straightening upwards and narrowing her eyes. "Forever? Do you really know, Biana?" Before the teal-eyed woman can wrap her arms around the conflicted teenager, Gaia steps back, glaring daggers.

"No, I didn't have to leave my family forever, but I did have to leave them at one point in my life," she says softly, standing up. "I know someone who had to also leave her family, but..." Biana looks away, sighing. After a moment of tense silence between the two, the brunette brushes a strand of hair out of her face. "Anyways, I know that you don't want to. But we can't have you living with humans while you know fully well that you're not like them."

Gaia frowns at the emphasis on "humans". "What do you mean by that?" Gaia asks, narrowing her eyes. "Those are my biological parents you're insulting here, Biana." 

Biana can't help but scoff. "Those are just the parents that gave birth to you," she says. "Your biological parents are also elves. That's why you're an elf, and why you can understand the Enlightened Language, which I told you before."

"You're so... so..." Gaia presses her lips together to stop herself from losing her self-control in front of a stranger. Did Biana really just say that? That was so... out of character... Then again, she didn't know Biana that much.

Gaia clenches her fists together tightly. For all she knew, something was going to happen to her parents, no matter what she'd say!

Biana's expression softens considerably. Did Sophie act like this when Fitz had to tell her? Or-

"Stop thinking about me!" Gaia shouts. "I don't know how, but I can hear you! So stop..!"

Taken aback, Biana opens her mouth to explain, but decides against it in the end. Instead, she says, "We need to bring you back to your house-"

"Not anymore," Gaia grumbles under her breath.

"So we need someone else to bring you back home until you learn," Biana finishes, ignoring Gaia's previous remark. Sighing, she tucks some of her perfect brown hair behind her ear. "I'll just do that, since I didn't really prepare for this..."