Three Shells Paradise

Paradise Regained or Lost?

Ma can I have another cookie, please? Roff passed him the jar just as his mom was about to protest.
Roff: How can you ask for cookies after so much has happened, won't you do something?

Gibbs: Na, that can wait. I haven't had mom's cookies in ages,let me at least eat my fill before Roffy finishes the jar.

Sia returned with the baby and a huge grin on her face.

Orla: Sia, you knew didn't you?

Sia: Yes ma. This was the first visions I had. I brushed it off as a silly dream. Now I know dreams come true.

Gibbs picked up the baby and looked at Orla. "May I please be his Godfather? Please, I will do anything to be a part of his life. Put me in prison forever, feed me once a week I won't complain. I need your pardon, your forgiveness. Please let me be his Godfather. I'll I'll set everything right."..

Everybody in the room had tears in their eyes. Orla looked at Roff and then they nodded in consent. Roff's father brought in what remained of his clan and their supporters but was a bit amazed that the soldiers were sitting on the ground and talking about some baby. He was in for a big surprise to find the enemy sitting and having cookies and hot chocolate with his family.

Oh so a baby changed everything just as predicted.

No one could have guessed that the change the baby was foretold to bring was this. They named the baby Vajra, just as Orla had wanted to.

Roff then asked Gibbs to get back to 3Shells and set everything in order. I'll come with you in case...

No Roffy, I need to do this alone.

On his way out, he asked some of the soldiers to leave as well.

Sia told them that the baby was asleep and they shouldn't make any noise. They left rather reluctantly.

Now that Gibbs had left, Roff asked Orla, were you prego even before we got married?

Gina: men will be men.
Roff: ma you knew?
Gina: Of course I knew, after the pre wedding accident I asked Orla if she would still marry you. I can never forget what she said. I won't marry anyone else. Would you ask me this question if the wedding had already taken place? Then why ask me now? If it were me in the hospital would Roff think twice? I asked her if she wanted to marry him for any other reason like pregnancy or anything else.
She then told me, that wanted to raise a family with him and no other. She told me about her being Hira and Shyla's child. I was more than happy that she was not just a true blood but was the daughter of such well known academicians.
Roff: That's why you always support her.
Gina: Yes, I do. She always kept her word. Unlike you who wronged her so many times.

Roff: So now you sympathize with her. Mom she lied to me this whole time.
Gina: No she didn't. If she had intended to she wouldn't have told me anything.
Roff: In all these years Orla you never found a single moment when you could tell me the truth?

Orla: Well you never asked. It was always only about you. Even now you never asked me how I landed here, how I delivered the baby. Nor if I could forgive your best friend for having killed my parents right in front of my very eyes. I forgave him for disfiguring you Roff, as your friend, not my parents murderer. For that he still has to pay the price.

A few days later, Gibbs reached 3Shell's.

How dare you set foot in my Royal Chambers bellowed Rial.

She looked gracious, decked out in a beautiful evening gown and a delicate yet powerful looking crown on her head. She had let her hair down in loose locks and they made her look rather pretty.
This was quite too much for Gibbs to take in. He had never seen her dressed like this. She always wore armors or suits that kept her war ready.

Gibbs: Wow! You are so beautiful.

Rial: And you so stupid.

Gibbs: You are right. I was always crazy about you but didn't think about you and didn't realize but I always wanted to be with you.

Rial: Do you even know what you are saying? You make no sense. You've become just like them.

Gibbs turned away from her, he realized that if he saw her he would be so distracted he might not be able to say what he wanted to.

Rial: Face me dammit! Oh are you sooo smitten by me? So now your friend taught you to act so he can escape death? Is that how it's going to be now huh?

With these words she thrust her little dagger in his throat ever so lightly that it drew a tiny trickle of blood from his neck.

[For what happens next, wait for the next chapter.]