Love within war

Secrets

It had been two weeks since the police had come to the house, Maia still hadn't been told how her mother had died. She already knew Luke knew how it had happened; and they both knew it would be best not to tell her for a while. When her farther had been killed it took over three months before her mother would even talk, let alone talk about her farther at all, and Maia had a feeling she may be he same.

Maia already knew that the body was found in the New Forest by a dog walker. But the question was as to why. Her mother loathed the country, always staying near the city as much as possible. She had worked as a fashion designer for a big brand name in London. The day she was found she was meant to have been at a walk through of her latest work. It all just didn't fit the time, the place, and most of all her outfit.

You see, unlike Maia, her mother loathed dark clothes, always preferring bright summery colours. But she was found in a black floor length dress, a black hooded cloak and a pair of knee high black leather boots. The dress was velvet, as was the cloak but where the cloak was tied a pendent was sewn. A blue pendent with a silver dragon cast in the middle, clutching a blue gem in its tail; it was the same dragon as was cast one the knife that killed her farther.

Luke and Maia were asked to come to the police station to identify the body. After the identifications was over they asked whether they recognised the clothing she was found in. The answer was of course no, but to Maia it did look as though Luke recognised the pendent; secretly they both did. Soon the inspector in charge began to tell them how it happened. However slightly to Maia's dismay, Luke asked her to leave the room before the officer could tell them anything.

Returning home she quickly excused herself too her room. Luke feeling rather concerned about his new ward decided he would check up on her in a while, knowing that like her mom she had a tendency to hurt herself. So as Maia walked in to the room she quietly closed the door, then slowly walking towards the bed she fell to the floor in a heap. Her mom was dead, from the looks of it she had been murderd, Luke was her only support now other than her only friend Leah, who she hadn't spoken too since her mother dissapered. But he was keeping secrets from her, he told her not to tell them about the emblem, why? What did this all mean?

Ever since her farther had died strange things began happening. Luke moved in when she went back to her mom. Her mom had moved them into a different house, and became more closed off to everything. All Maia wanted was to go back to the times when her mom and dad would read her story's of vampires werewolves and pixies that played tricks and magical creatures that would help you when you were in trouble. But those days were now a blissful memory; forever shrouded by unfortunate events , funerals and painfully months trying to heal her wounds.

Curling up on her carpet her mind wondered to the painful memory's of the day she had just had. The blood splattered clothes, the lifeless face of her mother and that damn emblem. What was it? What did it mean? Then it struck her. The knife. It was sitting under her bed right now, hidden perfectly in the box she had found it in when her mother was at a counselling session. It had been hidden in her mothers room, but Maia wanted something more to remember her father by; so she had taken the box and hidden it under her bed. And there it remained for the years she had spent with out her farther.

And so shuffling to the edge of the bed Maia pulled out a few of the other boxes, until finally her fingers laches on to the leather of the knife box. Pulling it out slowly Maia's hand ran over the black leather stretched over the surface, feeling the small indentations of the material. Then her fingers stopped at the emblem adorning the front. The silver dragon, the blue gem. Why did her mother put it in this box, was it that important. Ignoring the thoughts Maia ran her fingers over the emblem, but quickly realised that unlike the rest of the box it was warm. And not just a little, she could feel the metal warming under her fingers. Soon the rising heat became to much and Maia had to remove her fingers from its surface. If this version of the emblem got this hot did the one on her mothers dress hurt her.