A Court Of Family and fire

you're my mate- Mor/Celeste(OC)

Mor pov.

I was walking aimlessly through the streets of velaris when I smelt the most wondrous pastries I have ever smelt. I let my nose lead me towards the heart of the smell. As I am walking towards the heavenly smell my thoughts drift to what Fayre's child showed me. They had shown me the truth about how I had treated Azriel over the years. They told me that they understand that I don't want to come out to them but I should be honest about my feelings about azriel. I honestly agreed with the child. I always knew i had to tell azriel about my feelings eventually but i just didn't want to ruin our friendship. But now that i saw it from an outsider point of view i felt really bad and so i decided to come out to them all tonight. But to Azriel first. That's actually why I was walking around velairs. Working up the nerve.

When I finally look up I see a new bakery. I have walked around this part of town so many times but i have never seen this bakery. Curiosity takes over and I walk into the shop. I see a little girl standing behind the counter, she is the most beautiful little girl i have ever seen. She has light medium brown hair that falls below her hips, her eyes as blue as the ocean and golden skin. Her lips were round and pink with perfect white teeth. When she smiled at me her eyes lit up like the sun on a hot summer day. She came around the counter to speak with me and I saw her long hair to swing at her back beautifully framing her dainty figure.

"Hello morrigan" she greets, voice like honey "my name is isla" (pronounced eye-luh) "and my sister owns this bakery, would you like me to show you around." she looks up at me with large sweet eyes and i just cant say no

"Yes please isla that would be lovely" she takes my hand and starts to lead me around, showing me the different breads and pastries and tarts and cakes

"But please" i ask her "call me Mor"

"Really!" she asks happily, those eyes widening

"Of course" i insist, i bend down next to her ear and whisper "all my friends call me mor"

She gives a little squeal of delight and continues showing me around

About twenty minutes later I have a little tray full of pastries and her little button nose is covered in powdered sugar. I am just about to go to the coundter to pay when a woman who I assume is her older sister comes out from the back kitchen. She is walking backwards with 3 trays of fresh pastries and I rush over to help her. When I grab the tray she thanks me and isla shows me where to put it.

" thank you so much" isla's sister says " im Celeste, Celeste daybreak. And it seems you have already met my sister" she affectionately scruffs islas hair and they both giggle.

Celeste is even more beautiful than isla. Her light brown skin, alluring blue eyes (just like islas) that seem to hold all the answers i could ever need. Her long brown hair that has light blond streaks which seem to be going from spending long days in the sun. her beautiful feminine figure makes her plump lips stand out and she looked so adorable with her apron and flour all over her face. I'm lost for words

"Im Morrigan" i say nervously "but-but um call me Mor or whatever you want umm " i don't know what to say so i just stick my hand out to shake her hand.

When she takes my hand in hers it snaps. It feels like a piece of my heart , my mind and my very soul was missing and now it was returned. It felt like everything finally made sense. That that part of me that felt like was missing was finally returned. That she was the person missing from my life. And by the look in her eyes I knew she could feel it too, she's my mate. The realisation hits me so hard my head gets light and the floor rushes to meet me.

Celeste pov.

I pace around my living room. Isla and I live in a little house above the bakery. We have since my parents died in the war. I was of age so I became Isla's guardian. I had already been saving to open my own bakery and so when my parents died the high lord and lady were very kind and gave me enough funds to open the bakery and take care of isla and i until the bakery took off. They tried to give me more but i refused, they had already been so generous by giving me isla and not giving her to my awful aunt and uncle in the summer court. I also wanted to support myself and isla on my own, I needed to prove to myself that I could do that, that isla and I would be ok on our own.

But holy cauldron. My mate, my partner, my equal in every way possible. Was unconscious in my bedroom, HOLY SHIT SHE WAS IN MY BED. I run a hand through my hair and I don't know what to do. My mate is Morrigan THE MORRIGAN. Before i can spiral any deeper into panic isla runs up to me.

"She is awake" isla says simply, SIMPLY, like my life wasn't just turned upside down.

As soon as i saw her i had an undeniable crush on her, i thought she may come into the bakery sometimes or i would cater for her once and i could see her but, MY MATE. isla shakes me.

"C'mon C-C" islas nickname for me is C-C. I walk over to the door and stop. Should I knock? Do I need to? It is my room but it seems like I should knock either way? Before I can think about it anymore, Isla sighs and shoves me into the room and I fall right into Mor who seemed to be about to walk out. When I turned round to ask Isla what she was thinking she was gone, she probably ran down to the millsterns house to play with her friend, sneaky bugger. I turn to look at mor and when I look in her eyes I feel like I know her, every bit of her, the things she loves, the things she fears, her strengths and her weaknesses.

When the awkward silence finally breaks we just have an awkward conversation. Out of curiosity I reached towards her mind, I am daemati after all so why not use my skills. When I reach her mind I find a red silk curtain, soft as velvet but as strong as steel. When I move to push the curtain to the side I see her flinch.

"Oh my gosh" I start to apologise " I shouldn't have done that." I move my hands frantically as I try to apologize. " i was just curio-"

"Hey" she says softly, grabbing my hand to calm me "it's alright"

When I go to leave the entrance to her mind I see the curtain open. I enter her mind. It is beautiful, it has unconditional love , curiosity and creativity, but also guilt and pain and darkness. I see how she escaped her betrothed and then how he brutalized her body. I see how her family abandoned her and how her cousin and his friends saved her. I saw her fighting in wars besides her chosen family and how she protected them each with her life. I saw how terrible she felt for not telling her friend her true feelings and unintentionally stringing him along, i saw how her cousin found his mate and how they became fast friends how her cousins mate was taken and how much she worried for her, how her 2 illyrian friends were mauled and almost killed trying to save pyrithian. I saw how she met isla just half an hour ago and how being around her made her happy, and when she met me s-she felt something before the mating bond even fell in place. Once I see her life I show her mine.

I showed her my life. How happy i was with my entire family before the war, how i used to babysit isla and we would bake together, how i mourned when my parents died , how i had to stay strong for isla, how i fought for isla to keep her in velaris, how awful my uncle and aunt was and how i saved her from them, how happy i feel when i bake and finally how i felt when i met her.

When i finnish showing her my life i see a single tear rolling down her cheek, i reach up to wipe it away. With my hand caressing her face I leaned in and kissed her. The kiss is soft and gentle but also loving and passionate. When i finally pull away and look her in the eyes i feel like i know exactly what she is thinking, so i voice it

"Your my mate" i breath

And when i lean in to kiss her again i hear isla downstairs "yess!!" she says and i hear her jump up and down, we laugh together and then we hear a loud crash. We stare at each other and are shocked and then we rush down to make sure isla is ok. When we get to the bakery we see isla in a pile of pastries, one in her mouth. We all start laughing and mor and I kneel in front of her and we all embrace laughing and crying happy tears.

" welcome to the family Morsie" isla says innocently.

We burst out laughing. And then i look at her lovingly

"Welcome to the family" she kisses me and I whisper to her "morsie" we burst out laughing and isla looks at us faking annoyed but soon she cant help but laugh with us.

~eeeppp. i loved this so much and i cant wait to write more of isla and celeste. i might even do a spinnoff~

pronounciation :

isla- eye-luh

celeste- cell-est

millstens- mill-sterns

also this is my longest word count at 1742 words!!!!