The scene was so perfectly set for the girls to arrive that they all forgot about the mission for a while. There was a band of very small people with white blonde hair and very pale skin. They had large, beautifully slanted eyes and the same cute ears that Becky had. In fact, Becky could be their bigger cousin or something.
The band was assembled underneath of one of the lighted trees. They were playing a light, mellow tune on some very strange looking instruments. It was a mesmerizing scene. Justin and Pearl were standing in the dark, just out of sight, awaiting the arrival of all of the guests. Justin still couldn't take his eyes off of Pearl and she still couldn't stop blushing.
The carriage was driven past the gala grounds and around to the back of the village of forest rooms. It finally came to a complete stop, and once again the footman came to the door. He informed them that their things had been moved and that this would be th
Joy was watching Mister intently as he accepted his congratulations and all of his happy greetings. He knew it, but he acted like he straight did not give a damn. He was hoping to intimidate her and keep her quiet, at least for the moment. He finally took a moment to look back at Joy. He smiled at her sweetly and said, "I hope you approve of this marriage. I want nothing more than to be your son in law and to make you and your daughter as happy as you ever wanted to be." Joy smiled back just as sweetly and she opened her mouth to burn him, but the band once again, was alerting everyone that an important carriage was arriving. The horns blew and the drums beat harder than they ever had before. Everyone crisply snapped to attention and moved to each side of the carriage stop. It was as if whoever was coming next was to be completely respected and received in a very specific kind of way. Joy shrugged her shoulders and her and Georgio were sudd
Della's heart sank when she heard what the old queen was requesting. She was not at all prepared to have this conversation with her mother at the moment and she really didn't think that anyone else knew about it. Joy stepped forward to save face for her daughter. She took Della in her arms and said, "Baby, whatever it is, I love you. I will never leave you again. Please believe me." Della and Joy both started crying. Caine just couldn't take it anymore and he started to climb down from his perch in the trees. "Where are you going?" Josh asked him. "To get my girl," Caine simply said as he shimmied down the tree to the ground and started to quickly make his way to where Della was standing with her mother. "Caine, NO! They will kill you, are you crazy?" Josh shouted to his brother as he hurried down the tree and after Caine. "I don't care Josh, I'm done playing games. I came here to get my girl and that's exactly what I'm going to do,"
Mister went back the castle and he walked in to a total disaster. It was just a disgusting mess. There was unfinished party decorations and dead sprites everywhere. He went back to his rooms and called Zeek's phone but he got no answer. "Shit!" Mister shouted as he threw the phone on his bed and went to change his clothes. He came back to the phone and tried again. This time the phone was answered but it seemed to be accidental because he could hear Hallie laughing in the background and saying, "let his punk ass figure it out for himself this time." Then Zeek laughed, too, and then the sounds of them passionately touching and kissing each other could be heard until someone rolled over on the phone and muffled the sounds. Mister just stared at the phone with a shocked look on his face. Was he really hearing this shit? And especially right now?? Mister was so mad that he threw his phone against the wall, shattering it all over the place. He began t
Cat sighed heavily at the interruption and she got up and opened the door. It was Deena. "Thank God, get in here," Cat told her as she grabbed Deena by the wrist and pulled her inside, shutting the door behind her. "What is your deal girl?" Deena asked her as she was being dragged through the already closing door. "Girl, Della has a big problem and I think she needs our help," Cat explained. "Oh, well spill it chica. What do you need us to do?" Deena asked the still crying Della. "I don't know if there's anything that you can do," Della sobbed to her friends. "Well definitely not if you don't tell us." Deena told her in an irritated tone. Della took a couple of deep breaths and then she just said it...."Girls, I'm pregnant and I'm not sure that the baby is Caine's." She told them as she started to bawl again. Deena and Cat just stood there staring at each other in complete shock while Della cried her heart out in the bath tub. Finally
It had gotten into the wee hours of the morning by the time Della got checked out and everyone got settled in. As hard as he tried, though, Caine just could not sleep. It had been two long weeks without Della and all he wanted to do was hold her. He understood that she had been traumatized, but he also knew first hand how much that they loved each other. Caine's anxiety finally got the best of him, so he quietly crept out of his bed and he tip toed as lightly as he could across the room and out of the bedroom door. He cautiously looked left and right before he crept across the hall and up to Della's bedroom door. He wanted nothing more than to lay next to her and to feel her breathe. He placed his hand on the doorknob and gently began to turn it. Just then Caine heard a voice behind him and he almost jumped completely out of his skin. "Excuse me?" Joy said from behind him in the dark. "What exactly are you doing son?" She asked him with a li
Mister and Zeek were toe to toe and nose to nose. Zeek had never been more angry at Mister in all of the years that he had been with him. He just couldn't believe the audacity of this guy to actually track him down and interrupt his personal time in such a disrespectful and childish way. There were few lines that Mister hadn't crossed already, but this one just took the cake. "Don't f*cking look at her that way, in fact...don't f*cking look at her at ALL!" Zeek screamed in Mister's face. Mister just laughed and said, "it's nothing new, I've seen it all before...been all up in it before too," Hallie thought Zeek was going to actually go mad at this point. He looked as though he was on the complete brink of insanity when Mister said that shit out of his mouth. Zeek's eyes turned stone grey and his face was beet red. He suddenly looked up at Mister in the strangest way. He held Mister's stare and he seemed to be changing on the inside somehow. Miste
Everyone at Georgio's compound was enjoying a beautiful breakfast together. They all ate and drank while they laughed and talked. Della sat very close to Deena and Cat. She smiled and interacted some, but Joy could tell that her daughter was still not quite herself. She was still so distant and she looked so sad. Her face was smiling, but her eyes just were not. She was also not eating very well and her face was really flushed. Joy started to suspect that her daughter had something to hide. She watched her look up at Caine like she had really missed him, and then look back down again really fast. It was as though she wanted to go to him, but there was something stopping her. "Della, would you like some toast?" Her mother asked her nonchalantly. "Sure mom," Della said as she took the plate from Joy and sat it down in front of her on the table. Joy continued to watch Della try to hide the fact that she didn't feel well. Joy started to t
Pearl and Justin were hiding under the hay wagon behind the stables. They thought that they were completely alone, and that was exactly the way they wanted it. Justin had snatched a silk tablecloth and loaded a quick basket of goodies and a bottle of champagne while the two queens were having words at the gala. He figured that if everyone was running away anyhow, that nobody would miss them, so he loaded his bounty up and grabbed Pearl by the wrist. He didn't even give her a chance to ask any questions. Luckily she trusted him and she went along for the adventure. They ran together hand and hand, giggling like a couple of school kids. They came to the stables and looked for the best possible spot and wound up there, under the wagon. They spread their cloth out and got comfortable with their alchohol. It took a while for everything to die down and everyone to leave but they had a great time getting drunk and people watching until then. Pearl
Della and Queen Rebecca were having wine together privately in the Queen's rooms. Della tried to cheer her sister up, but she wasn't exactly sure yet about why she was so sad at the moment. Della was mid-sentence when a knock came at the door. She stopped what she was saying and got up to answer it. It was Caine, he didn't really say anything as he handed her the note that Cat had left for her, and he walked away. Della looked a little confused as she read the note silently to herself, and then she looked up at her sister with big, sad, knowing eyes. Queen Rebecca couldn't hold it in anymore and her tears started to fall all on their own, as she stared at the floor in silence. Della didn't say a word as she quickly crossed the room and took her sister in her arms. She just held her and rocked her gently as she cried. When she was finished crying, Della wiped her sister's tears away and told her to smile anyways. Even though it hurt to the bone, she still
Cat was in a wonderfully happy mood when she entered her and Josh's rooms and found him on the phone talking to someone feverishly. Cat stood quietly in the doorway with a glass of afternoon wine in her hand, and she listened as she tried to figure out just what in the heck the problem was. Josh hung the phone up and he turned to greet her. "Everything okay?" She asked him in a concerned manner. "Not really, I think I'm going to have to go home and deal with some things at the club. It probably wouldn't hurt for you to go look after your record store, too," Josh explained to her cooly. He had been pretending not to notice how close her and Queen Rebecca had been becoming lately, but there was no real way that anyone could be that blind. Their relationship had been cooling off quite a bit because of it. Cat tried to look like it didn't bother her to leave the castle and the queen, but Josh could see right through it. He didn't say much, just that
Joy had beaten Georgio's men to Uncle Benny's disgusting ass compound by at least fifteen minutes, so by the time that anyone made it there to stop her, she had already hung Uncle Benny from the ceiling by his wrists on a large pair of hooks that she had brought in her bag. She was calmly singing her song and unpacking her torture bag neatly onto a nearby table. The dirty little man was crying and begging for her to stop. Little did he know, that was just making things even worse for him. She heard the helicopter coming in and landing outside. The one that she thought was carrying Georgio's men, but she never waivered. She heard the men rush the house and discover all of the bad guys that she had just swept out, room by room, but she kept right on singing and preparing her tools. She never even missed a beat. She heard the men commenting and remarking on the sheer savageness of what they were seeing. That made her smile. She knew that they would
It had been two weeks since the funeral for Mister, Pearl, and Queen Esmeralda. Caine and the others had stood guard over, and reorganized everything. It had all been running like a well oiled machine, except for the fact that nobody had seen Justin the whole time. It was the common assumption that he had just left after Pearl's death. Caine had people search for him, but there was no trace of him anywhere, so he assumed what everyone else did, and they gave up. Joy had appointed a new head chef under the advisement of Kate and Sadie and everyone just moved on. It had actually been a completely blissful two weeks for everyone, it almost felt like a real vacation. They spent a lot of time together and made a ton of great memories. They ate to much and drank way, way to much, and they became way to comfortable in the castle life, but like all good things...it was about time for it all to come to an end. Joy's father had called her and demanded a me
It had been three days since they had lost Mister and Pearl, and four days since the loss of Queen Esmeralda. The air was thick with sadness as they prepared to say goodbye to them all. The castle and it's grounds were all decorated in black and silver, shrouded in a thick layer of despair, and coated with the bitter sweet feeling of definate change. Kate and Sadie had been appointed head housekeepers but their duties were suspended for a few days, in light of them being directly related to one of the deceased. Della, Cat and Joy tried their best to cover for them, but in the end Kate decided that she wanted her and Sadie to be the one's to coordinate it all because they knew Pearl best and they had been there the longest, so they wanted everything perfect. Everyone was gathered on the gala grounds, dressed in their most dramatic garb. It was a perfectly dreary day for it to. It was grey and overcast, and there was a light sleet hang
"Missing?!" The queen looked up and asked Caine in confusion, "what do you mean...missing?" She cried in despair. "I mean exactly what I said, my queen," Caine started to explain to her, "Josh and I went out into the hall and they were not laying where you left them, so we started looking for them and trying to follow their trail. We found bloody drag marks along with some huge wolf prints, and we followed them as far as they went," Caine said in a suspicious tone. The queen didn't say anything for a few seconds. She kind of just stared at him blankly. After a moment she finally blinked her eyes and asked him sarcastically, "well where did they end?" Caine got a far away look on his face and then he said, "well that's the strange part. They ended at the edge of the cliff over the ocean side of the mountain. It's almost like they jumped off of the cliff or something." Queen Rebecca sat up straight and her eyes got wide. "There's no way they
Mister and Pearl were both so pissed off that it was damn near impossible to hide it. Pearl took a deep breath and she tried to maintain her composure. She thought carefully about her words before she opened her mouth to speak. "My queen," Pearl started to speak, "I have been a loyal and faithful employee of this castle for more than twenty years now. I will admit that I am not always perfect, however, I beg you to understand that everything that I have ever done was with the best interest of Mister and this castle in mind," Pearl said eloquently as she batted her thick eyelashes. Queen Rebecca looked Pearl up and down for a moment thoughtfully and then she turned her attention to Mister. "And you?" She said to him in an authoritative manner. Mister looked as though he was about to actually explode right there on the spot. Queen Rebecca wanted to laugh at him so bad, but she fought the urge, and she swallowed the laughter back. He stood the
Mister and Pearl became panicked when they saw the weather changing like that. They transformed immediately when they stepped out into the raging wind. "It's happening!" Pearl cried out. The two wolves began to howl and wail, which made the other animals in the stables start up too. The wolves paced back and forth, following the force field, looking for a way out. Any way out at all. The two of them became so desperate to escape that they began ramming their bodies against the invisible force field as hard as they could, slamming themselves so hard that they were actually bouncing off of it and landing on their sides a few feet away. They did this over and over again until the wind stopped blowing and the trees had finally come to a rest. Pearl was so broken hearted at the moment, that she didn't even bother to get up the last time she hit the wall. She just laid there and whimpered for a while. Mister crawled over and he laid on top of her, in a
The queen hugged her great grandson while she tried to explain, but he just didn't want to hear it, so he pulled away making her cry even harder. "So you're telling me that now you have to die because I lost the duel?" He asked her in total disbelief and anger. "No, Mister, I'm not exactly going to die, just change forms one last time," she tried to comfort the already crying man, but he could not be comforted. "My spirit will be in the wind, and the snow, and the rain, the sunshine and every single flower you will ever see," the queen told him tenderly as she wiped the tears from his chin with her ancient, snow white hand. Mister and Pearl wailed and howled and begged her to stay, but no matter what, they could not change fate. They asked her what would become of them after she was gone and she told them that was up to Princess Rebecca now. They were even more distraught after they heard that answer. The queen hugged them one last time and told them that she l