Chapter one is up too! I would read that before you read this.
Chapter two
Snow
My days were blended together, but they were good. And they were mostly of her.
She was even more beautiful and kinder then the rumors I have heard. She was like… Everything. Funny, kind; to her friends and to strangers, and she was even pretty strong. She could probably defend herself if it was needed.
But boy when she walked out of her room as we made our way to the ball I thought I was going to faint.
She was wearing a beautiful blue dress, that made her skin twinkle in the light. Her hair was slick and ran all the way to her hips. I couldn’t get over how amazing she looked.
Her green eyes locked on mine, and then she smile. “Well are you ready to escort me to the ball? Or just stand there all day?”
I couldn’t help but smile, then I followed her down to the castle’s ballroom.
I stayed close to her all night, even when she dances with other men, I always hung close. She asked me to dance more then a couple times, but I wasn’t a dancer, I would probably just embarrass myself.
“So how is it working with the beautiful Vivvian?” Davan asked as I watched her dance with a older man.
“You gave me a pretty easy job here Davan” I said coolly trying watching as the old man started at Vivvian's cleavage. It made me nervous, angry actually that he was doing that to Vivvian. But I couldn’t over react.
“Oh common Snow, come have a drink, lighten up a bit. Vivvian is just fine.” Davan clasped a hand over my shoulder and pulled me over to the bar at the end of the room. “Trust me! That girl can take care of herself when needed”
The bartender poured me a sweet nectar that was spiked with white liquor. It was okay, a little to sweet for me but I drank it all the same. Davan talked to me mostly about the issues on the border of Fae, how Mabbians were making there way here, and no matter what the Fae army did, they couldn’t push them back. He told me to prepare for war, maybe in the next couple weeks I could be dressing for battle.
That excited me.
Once my second drink was down I stood up and looked for Vivvian, who had gone missing. Frantically I ran around the ballroom, asking anyone if they had seen them. Olivia was the only one who could offer a good piece of information.
“Oh no!” She said once I had told her that Vivvian was missing. “It’s probably that creep Skilton! You know I saw him eying her just moment ago.”
“What? Who is Skilton?”
“He’s after her, Vivvian, you know.” She led me to the exit. “He’s obsessed with her, I bet he followed her back to her room.”
Before Olivia could say anything else I was running full force up to her room. Once I got onto her floor I heard her yelling.
“You’re not going to get away with this you nasty creature!” She screamed. Her voice full of fear.
I turned the corner and my stomach fell. This ugly pale thing, had her pressed up against the wall. A dagger was inserted in her wing while she was stuck on the wall. He was touching her, touching her body in a disgusting way that made vile collect in my throat.
“HEY!” I screamed and charged for the thing.
I pounced on him from behind, took him down to the floor. A silver sharp dagger pointed at me. I heard Vivvian scream but didn’t quite see what she was doing, I was too busy wrestling away Skilton. Then I heard him grunt, and looked up to see Vivvian holding a dagger to his throat. It dripping with her blood.
“Get up!” She ordered. “Get up or I’ll slit your throat!”
Skilton called her a name, a name that made me want to vomit. I couldn’t help but punch him in the face.
Skilton got up reluclalty and Vivvian pushed him to the wall and stuck a dagger in his grey lifeless wings. He swore loudly and winced.
Wings were fragile on a fairy, they were sensitive and hurt more than pulling teeth.
“Snow! Are you okay” Vivvian ran to me, kneeling over me.
“I’m fine, what about you?” I winced, my stomach had a huge gash on it.
“You’re bleeding!” Her eyes were intense.
I protested, Telling her I was fine and not to worry. But it was already to late, she ripped the skin open on her palm with the dagger on the ground and shoved her bleeding palm in my open mouth. Letting me taste her blood.
Fairy blood is the strongest medicine. It takes away pain while it helps wounds heal. But it also made fairies really sensual if drunken. You feel what the fairy who gave you blood feels, you have a connection until all the blood is gone out of your system.
I moaned as her hot blood touched my tongue and slid down my throat. I closed my eyes letting the warmth fill my body and take away all the pain. I could feel what she was feeling, fear, pain in her left wing, and also a warm feeling. The kind of feeling I get when she smiles at me.
My eyes opened and she was beaming down at me. My body was relaxed and I didn’t feel as uptight. “I need to stitch your wound up.” She whispered in this sweet voice.
Her voice was music to my ears.
“Common, I’ll take you to your room and then ill call down and get someone up here to take care of him” She nodded to Skilton who had fainted from pain.
I let her lead me to my room, even though this was against all of my training. I should be taking care of her, not vice versa. It didn’t work that was. But it just felt so good to have her taking care of me, so I let it happen.
Before laying me down on my bed she stripped off my blood shirt and threw it on the ground. Then she took a knife that was sitting on my dresser and opened her wings, before peeling away a small thread of her wing fiber.
Another thing fairies are good at, healing, our blood heals, and so does the fiber of our wings. Even though its quite painful taking a fiber of your wing, it makes good thread to stitch someone out and it was a great aphrodisiacs which I didn’t need right now. Not with her sitting beside me looking so beautiful.
It didn’t hurt as she stitched me up, I was pretty much out of it the whole time. I just gazed up at her while she hummed to herself and took care of me. After I was stitched and bandaged she put the thin white sheet over me and kissed my forehead.
I wasn’t sure how long she was there, lightly stroking my hair, but she left soon after that.
I dreamed of her.
And I think maybe she dreamed of me that night as well.
Chapter three
Vivvian
“I can’t believe you gave him some of your blood Vivvi! That’s just, so romantic” Olivia was milling around in my closet wearing nothing but her underwear. She picked up one of my dresses and stepped through the straps. “Can I borrow this one for my date? Or hey maybe that red one without the straps.”
I chucked and sat down on my bed. My thoughts were on Snow, he was still sleeping of his wound, poor guy. It was already noon the next day.
“You know Vivvi, I really think you two should go on a date” She tore off dress and picked up the red one she just threw on the floor and started putting it back on.
“Ha” I chuckled “Snow doesn’t seem like the type of guy to ‘date’. He takes his job to seriously”
“Ya well you’re the princess, you could just order him to go on a date with you”
“It doesn’t work that way” I stretched out on my bed
“Aw darn, I was going to have you order Jericho to marry me if things didn’t turn out you know?” Olivia spun around in a circle.
“You know I can feel what he feels. I thought only he would be able to feel what I feel, but we can feel each other.” I sighed. “I didn’t think giving blood worked that way.”
“It doesn’t” Olivia turned to face me “But you are half human so you might be different.”
I opened my mouth to ask what she meant when a loud knock came from the door. I danced over and opened it to see Snow standing there. His skin was bright, and he looked healthier then I’d ever seen him. I smiled, happy that my blood was able to help him.
“Snow! You look great!” I opened the door, letting him in.
“Thanks to you” He looked up at Olivia then back at me “Can I have a word?”
There was a moment of silence followed by Olivia shuffling to the door. “I was just leaving! She’s all yours”
Snow sidestepped to let Olivia pass who was still wearing my red dress then stepped in after her.
I danced back around my room and sat down at the plush sofa that sat against the window. Then I looked back at him, he was still standing at the door, looking awkward.
“You can come in you know?” I smiled at him and patted the space beside me.
He made his way through my room and sat down beside me. His body faced me, but his head hung down, he felt shame. “I’m so sorry about last night. I didn’t take care of you, and I let you get hurt. And even when it was all over, you were the one who had to take care of me, I was so”
I put my finger on his lips, blocking out the sound. I felt the heat between us ignite and saw goose bumps prickle on his skin. I felt it to, intimacy.
“Shh” I crooned “You don’t have to apologize, I took care of you because I wanted to.”
He stampeded and started to stand up, but I pulled him down in a abrupt motion. I started in his blue eyes even though they were almost miles away. “You can be yourself around me, you know that right Snow?” I whispered.
He shook his head “Its just hard to separate a relationship between work”
“You can always be yourself around me”
He blinked and nodded which made me break out my smile.
“Good!” I punched him playfully in the arm. “I’m going out to the gardens did you want to join me?”
He smiled which made my heart break into a million pieces. He had such a great smile. “Do you have to ask?”
