Witch of Two Hearts

5. Keelan’s Home

Earlier that day:

The morning after the big party, Keelan got up and dressed. He headed down to the kitchen where he knew he’d find Morgana.

When he quietly approached the kitchen from the hallway, Morgana felt his presence. She wasn’t surprised, she felt his presence when he arrived last night. She’d been wondering when he’d make his appearance.

Stopping him in his place she asked in a low and quiet voice, “What are you doing here?”

Initially stunned, Keelan stopped walking, then that normal feeling of being unwanted came right back at the sound of her voice.

“Well yeah, hi mom. How are you? Nice to see you too. You look well.” He said in the most sarcastic tone he could.

Morgana stirred the cream in her coffee, sighed and then turned toward Keelan. She’s never told him before, but he was her favorite son, always has been.

“Don’t give me that Keelan. When you decided to leave I warned you not to come back.” She said as she raised her cup to her lips to drink.

Keelan laughed, “You know, the funniest thing happened while I was away.”

Given the tone of his voice, she knew exactly what he was going to say.

“You see, I was celebrating my 21st birthday in Las Vegas, like any normal guy who’s family hates him, when I started having this crazy acid trip!” He started.

“Only, I didn’t take any acid mom!” He said, beginning to lose his cool.

He stopped himself and took a deep breath.

“I know what happened Keelan. That’s why I told you not to leave.” She said with a very matter of fact tone like it was his own fault.

That made Keelan even more upset than he already was.

“Are you ever going to tell me? Tell us? Does Alaric know?” He started shooting questions one right after the other.

Morgana held her hand up, “Stop son. I will explain.”

She turned and poured him a cup of coffee and walked it over to a couple bar stools and told him to sit down.

Over the course of the next couple of hours she explained to him how just over 300 years ago her and her best friend Sera Ashvale had fallen madly in love with the same man.

This man decided he would toy them both along, so he would meet up with each of them in secret. He would tell them both the same lies about how his parents didn’t want him seeing anyone so he couldn’t make their relationship known.

Therefore, neither of the girls knew that the man they were with was one in the same.

That is, until Sera decided to try to surprise him one night on her 21st birthday and caught him in bed with Morgana. She wasted no time and confronted him right then, making it known to Morgana that she was also sleeping with him.

When they realized that he’d been just using the two of them they grew angry. Morgana made a deal with Sera that he needed to pay for what he did to them, so they killed him.

The man’s mother heard all the commotion and went to check on her son and found the two witches standing over her son’s body. She knew they’d killed him.

She put a curse on the two women that they’d each live an immortal life getting pregnant over and over again watching their child grow and die.

Unfortunately for both these women, they were unaware of this curse. The women didn’t remain friends after that night.

A few years later they both married and gave birth to twins. Sera has girls and Morgana has boys. A war broke out and both of their husbands went off and died in battle.

When one twin died, so did the other. Then the mother would miraculously end up pregnant again before her babies were in the ground, regardless of whether or not they had s*x.

When Morgana and Sera learned of the curse upon them Sera left town. Somehow every time they had their babies they’d find each other. It never seemed to matter how far Sera would travel. Neither of them understood why, it wasn’t a part of the curse. Morgana and Sera both assumed it had to be related to the curse somehow because they could never stop it from happening.

“Do you think that gives you the right to hide our magic from us? To hide anything from us?” Keelan asked.

“As long as you stay in the boundaries of our town you would never know of your abilities, and you generally live longer. I do what I can to protect you boys.” She answered him.

“No, you do what you can to protect yourself.” He said. Then he stood up to walk away.

“Are you going to tell your brother?” She asked before he walked out.

“No, lucky for you it would seem it benefits me that he doesn’t know the truth.” He said before he walked out of the house.

Now, Keelan needed to establish himself in this town. First thing he needed to do was get a job. Keelan learned that his magic was best with machinery. In every life he’s learned about he did something that has to do with machines. He invented some, he fixed some, he even destroyed some.

So, he headed out to the mechanic shop in town.