Once Upon a Dream

Chapter 13

Hello all, sorry for the late update but recently there have been some health issues with a member of my family that is someone very special to me, however, she recently was diagnosed cancer-free so I finally felt the need to write again! I know you all were waiting on this update and it may not be the best one I've written but I promise you it all leads up to the big picture! Thank you all for your love and support on OUAD, you've kept me sane these last few weeks! I would also like to ask you guys to chime in on a familiar for Morticia! I would love to hear your thoughts on who she should adopt as her furry companion!

Best wishes to all and as usual, enjoy!

Previously on OUAD:

Walking closer to her, Fauna gave her a serious look that made Morticia's blood run cold.

"That would be all fine and dandy, dear, except for just...one...thing..."

She finally came close enough to Morticia's side to lean in and whisper in her ear.

"You aren't human."

Morticia POV:

Morticia stared at Fauna in disbelief.

"Not human?! What the fuck do you mean I'm not human?! I've been human for nearly 21 years thank you very much !"

Fauna just smiled at her but said nothing, which irritated the fuck out of her.

"Don't sit there being all-knowing and give me that bullshit smile! Alright then, go on and tell me. If I'm not human then what the fuck am I?!"

Fauna circled her slowly.

"You haven't reached maturity so of course, your powers haven't fully manifested yet...I wonder..." Fauna murmured as she came to face Morticia.

"What do you mean' Manifested my powers..' what powers?"

The tiny brunette raised an eyebrow, "I heard from my 'cousin' that you had a little accident. She said it was an animal attack but knowing the history of this town and the fact that you haven't fled from your vampires... I can assume you ran into something with wicked claws, a wolf perhaps. Odd, isn't it that I see no wound?" 

Fauna's voice took a more crisp tone with a British dialect as she stared knowingly at Morticia's supposed injured shoulder.  'That's not creepy at all...'

"I'll bet that you had a nasty few days after that... but did your wound miraculously heal...almost as if it were never there in the first place?" 

Her words made Morticia's spine straighten and her eyes turn cold.

"How the fuck do you know all of that?! Have you been spying on me?" 

This was all becoming way too creepy for her taste. Vampires and werewolves, those she could handle, but mysterious creepy girls with British accents- nuh-uh, she'd pass on that. 

"Morticia dear, I've been watching you your entire life. From the day you were born, I tasked myself with your care."

"But...why? What am I to you?"

Fauna took a deep breath before taking a moment to find her thoughts.

"I think to understand, I might as well just tell you."

Morticia grew increasingly frustrated at the other girl's evasion. 

"Tell me what?! What the hell is so secretive that you have to send me creepy-ass dreams every night?! Does it have to do with me being 'not human?' Whatever the fuck that means..."

The other girl stared at Morticia for a very long time before she spoke.

"I wasn't lying when I said that you weren't human, Morticia. In fact, you are far from it. The reason I was placed to take over your care was that, well, when you were born it was during a terrible war. A war that took the lives of many of our own, including your parents. The monsters that slaughtered our brothers and sisters would stop at nothing to see our entire race eradicated so that they may gain more power. There was a prophecy, however, that spoke of a babe born out of love so powerful that she would have the power to make things right. I was the only one who believed it- everyone else thought that I was crazy. Your parents entrusted me with you in the event that anything should happen. You could call me your godmother of sorts. I knew that moment your mother put you in my arms that you would be the babe to save us- that you held the power, So to protect you, I sent you away- to another dimension where our kind was nothing but a fairy tale, to keep you safe, but then I knew I had to bring you back when you were ready."