The Deception

Chapter 11

James and Katana found them in the observatory having tea and small finger sandwiches with Tilly. Their soft chatter faded as Evie saw them near, she narrowed her eyes at them and sat upright her body going rigid. James rolled her eyes.

"Calm down Vega we come in peace, snakes honor" Billy snorted and scooted down the large couch to allow both James and Katana room on her side.

"What do you want? Have you come to crush more of my dreams or are you here only to wound me further?" James sighed internally and took a moment to regain her emotions, one thing her siblings definitely had in common was their quick temper and ability to urk one another without even trying. But mostly on purpose.

"Take a calming draught you shrewd, we've only come to talk so I suggest you reach behind you and get whose ever wand you have shoved so far up your-" James cut Katana off by placing a silencing charm on her.

"Well as Katana has so eloquently put it, we've come to talk, I've made a mistake of sorts earlier and I've come baring news that I'm sure will please you immensely" Evie raised a sharp brow at her and pursed her lips, without trying James could already see the streams of thoughts running like a bloody novel in her head.

"And what is it? Are you finally admitting you've done something that was incredibly over even your humongous, egotistical, selfish head perhaps?" she smirks and takes a long sip of her tea, her eyes shinning with vicious glee. James taps her fingers impatiently against her leg and counts to ten in Latin to keep her self from leaping over the small round table and physically choking that smirk off her sisters face.

"Actually its about your ability to have a child, but if we are going to sit around and be catty witches than I guess I'll go seeing as out of the four us I actually have important things to do" She rises half way before she's stopped.

"Wait, are you being honest James?" She looks at her youngest sister and the desperate look in Evie's eyes almost makes her feel guilty. Almost.

"Obviously or I wouldn't have bothered to come here otherwise" She smooths and tucks the back of her dark emerald robes and sits back down deciding not to torture her sister any longer even though she does so wish to relish it just a second or even a month longer. "With the help Tom we have come to the amazing revelation that you are able to have a child"

"But I though tha-" James held up her hand to stop Evie's question so she could fully explain.

"You can't have another mans child but you can have death's child-"

"Erebus" Katana casual said as she ate a strawberry and cream sandwich.

"What?" James sat back and turned her head toward Katana, Billy lowering the tea cup that had been paused just inches from her lips looked up towards her and Evie with a piece of bread slightly hanging out of her mouth turned wide confused eyes to her sister.

"That's his name, it isn't Death, that's just his job title you could say" Katana shrugged taking large and very unladylike gulps of her now cold tea and helped herself to more strawberry and cream sandwiches. Her sisters shared looks of both befuddlement and amazement. Amazement at how much information Katana was able to get with a seemingly short introduction and visit with Death or Erebus that apparently lead to more than just a tantalizing conversation between the two of them and befuddlement at how casually and freely she was giving away such information.

"Ok? You could have Erebus's child and then-"

"Not whilst I'm alive she couldn't" James quirked an eyebrow at Katana and brushed off the breadcrumbs she had just accidently sprayed onto her shoulder. Katana swallowed the rest of her food before clarifying. "Sorry but I'm not sharing my new bed warmer especially now that I know how very talented he really is"

James, Billy and Evie all made faces at the insinuation Katana was making and Evie sighed looking at her sisters, they say when wanting to know how your child is going to act just look around you, children tend to take on the mannerisms, attitude and the personality of those around them, did she really want mini temperamental versions of her siblings who wouldn't be able to control their magic, if they even had any, for the first eight-nine years of their lives? She shuddered the originals where enough already and she had spent the better part of four centuries with them. Maybe she just needed a pet or another hobby?

"Hello anyone home?" Evie snapped back to reality.\

"What did I miss?"

"Billy telling Katana how selfish hoarding the only sperm donor able to impregnate you and her is" James took a slow sip of her tea noticing how her sisters looked at her in a calculating way probably wondering if she would ever consider having children. The answer to that would be a big fat no, James had no desire of having to spend the rest of her days being responsible for another being after taking a similar role with her siblings. "Are you ok Evie? You look out of it"

"I'm fine this is all just a lot to take in at once, I think I need to lay down for a bit" Evie stood and left the observatory and headed to her room where Loki was already waiting for her. He knew she didn't want to talk and just sat on her bed reading as she slept knowing having him near helped her more than any pretty words and over the top gestures would.

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"Do you ever wonder ever exactly what our children get up too when we aren't with them?" Nickolas put down his new herbology book and looked curiously over at his wife who stood at the balcony watching as Castor, Tom and Reagan raced on griffins across the property. "I sometimes feel like they have a whole different world they go to at times, or maybe I'm just feeling sentimental because they are all so grown up and have been for such a long time I can hardly remember when any of them except Tom where children"

Perenelle sighed deeply and sat down next to her husband resting her head on his shoulder. She closed her eyes and tried to picture her eldest children as kids and found it hard, they preferred the bodies of seventeen year olds which she technically couldn't blame them for as she herself preferred appearing has a 30-year-old, she frowned a bit, what role did she actually have with her children? They where by all means adults though they still lived in the castle with her and Nick, would they stay here forever? Would she want that? Was it what was best for them? Those questions plagued Perenelle through dinner and into bed, the various ideas and scenarios played through her mind as she began to formulate a plan to coordinate with the visions her mother given her before the birth of her children, visions she used to cherish but now despised as the new visions unlocked in her mind and she saw what was to come for her family.