The Pixie's Warrior Wolf (Completed)

Pushed II

It was silent.

Too silent.

You could hear a mouse piss on cotton.

And then every window in the house exploded.

Eyes wide, Camille looked around and whispered, “Katherine-.” But the pixie was unnatural in her calm state as she admitted, “I didn’t leave because my reputation was dragged through the mud for kindergarten hand holding and second grade kissing. To be honest I kind of came to the realization I only got attacked because of some over possessive housewife who got insecure. That wasn’t what was bad.”

Even though it had sucked. It was the after that was worse.

“You two willingly turned a blind eye to me, my pain, and were so disappointed in the lies, you couldn’t hear me when I said the truth. And even worse? My own parents didn’t say a thing when everyone seemed to have forgotten, I was still a kid! And yet adults, women and men, all were suddenly comfortable and felt it was okay to have an opinion on my s*x life. And neither of you thought say shut the f**k up about it!”

Both fell silent as the truth was like a slap.

Trembling Katherine shook her head disgusted, “Fine, you didn’t want me to be perfect, but you two kind of f*****g sucked as parents’ when I needed you to be. And honestly? I’m good right now on having any.” Standing and about to leave, her dad stood to, “Katherine, if you can understand Josie’s plight, then understand ours. How could we defend you-.”

Katherine suddenly exploded. “I’m your daughter!” Flinching, David was surprised as his child cried, “You were supposed to defend me! Say it happened before they were together, it no longer mattered and no one was to speak ill of your child! You didn’t! You didn’t because you needed me to say, I’m a virgin, I’m not having s*x, and I’m as pure as snow, but would it have made you love me less if I wasn’t!?”

David knew the answer was no, hell no. But Katherine didn’t believe him.

“Well considering I hid in your house for a year getting the side eye from hell as you speculated about how many boys I’d let get on top of me, I’m going to have to call bullshit David.”

Camille tried to tell her to come outside and get some air. But she snatched from her and yelled, “Don’t you have your own kid to raise instead of getting in family business that doesn’t concern you?” Flinching back, Camille held up a finger, “I know you’re upset. But watch it.”

Katherine rolled her eyes and as Camille fell back sensing Katherine was going to get more upset if she got involved again, David gave his daughter a look for going at Camille. But considering she looked ready to go after him with a machete, he sighed and confessed, “I shouldn’t have gotten caught up in the rumors and embarrassment. But your reaction and lack of answers made everything seem worse and like you were lying. And then you left, and I could only assume it was because-.”

Her stomach twisted, “You all wanted me to call myself a harlot and hide away in shame. Then take a stroll so these bored cunts can throw peanuts at me like I’m some kind of zoo attraction? I refuse.” Gasping in horror, Eloise looked at her daughter mortified, “Katherine.” She whispered scandalized, but Katherine stared at her empty, “You think I didn’t reach out to you mom?”

Having heard that from Camille, she looked at them both as her father sighed, “I went to the post office. Nothing was there.” Then she didn’t know what happened.

“I didn’t embed the crystals into the phone. Didn’t know to do that then…but I sent letters, presents, I did and I tried to reach out. I tried to tell you where I was, where I was going, where I might go, and how long I’d be gone. But you both shut me out. And I couldn’t talk to you then. Just like I couldn’t talk to you when I got home and I suddenly had a sister, I couldn’t compare to. She’s perfect right? Like you two always wanted. Filled the space, and she and your new grandbaby are going to take those empty spots where my pictures use to be?”

Denying that, Katherine refused to respond as Eloise whispered, “This has been an adjustment-.”

Katherine disagreed, “No…this was a mistake.” David looked at Katherine and then asked, “Where to now? Back to the human cities you love so much?” Katherine looked at him and then burst into tears, “Loved!? You think I loved living there!?”

Voice cracking as it went up a pitch, Katherine shrieked, “I wasn’t partying and drinking, and getting f****d for your information David! I was trying to grow the f**k up and grow out of the spoiled shell of the dumb ass little girl, who didn’t know how to pay a bill on her own!”

She’d never had to before, and it was because she’d left? She’d learned.

“I had nothing, I had no experience, I didn’t know how to really cook because mama always did it for me. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, I was spoiled, and I would have been lost if I tried to mate and have a family, I wouldn’t have been ready!” realizing what their daughter was saying, Eloise felt awful, “Sweetie-.”

Not letting her mom touch her, her skin feeling like a porcupine had already hugged her, Katherine impatiently huffed, “No, because you got to figure yourself out! You got to listen to your body and your heart and become a woman and grow into yourself long before I came along and I needed that time to. To grow up and feel like if you two were gone, in a setting, maybe even one harder than one I knew, one where I didn’t have magic or a community that supported me, could I make it? I did. I made it.”

Only at what cost?

“Things were happening before I left, and I tried to talk to you about them mom. I tried to reach out to you, to talk to you about them after, and to tell you what was going on with me then. But when I came home, and you didn’t seem to know, I hoped I could finally talk to you, but I couldn’t.”

Eloise looked at her heartbroken, “Darling, I’m sorry, you came so suddenly and it was a shock, I was happy but surprised…I was scared I wasn’t going to see you again. And when you came home, it didn’t feel real.” David looked at her closely and suddenly asked, “What happened? What made you come home finally?”

Katherine didn’t answer as her heart raced making David’s race as his fear spiked as he paled, “Katherine? Look at me, tell me what happened…did something happened when you were in the human cities. Before you left?” Camille’s heart broke this time when she saw the answer on the girl’s face but her mouth refused to answer.

Not trusting the people listening, even though they’d been the people she’d run to for comfort, Katherine dubbed that a mistake too. Not looking at her dad, she whispered to his feet instead, “I don’t need any more judgement from you David Tomsen. You didn’t protect me…so I protected myself. I always do in the end.”

A father’s heart shattering as his daughter refused to look at him, Katherine looked to her mom. But Eloise felt Katherine was more looking through her as she decided, “I’m done with you, I’m done with your husband, I’m done with your f*****g shiny new daughter, and I’m done with the air you all breathe. I’m leaving.”

David stood stiff as Eloise fell back into her chair, finally feeling her legs giving out watching their daughter go to back door. “Can we not fix this Katherine, please let’s just all calm down and talk.” Katherine didn’t look at him, “You seem to care about what people think about me more than me as a person David. So how about you just stick with the daughter who can make you proud? It’s better than us both being disappointed with each other forever.”

Face going slack, Katherine wasn’t taking it back when Camille tried to approach.

Hissing in a high pitch making the wolf flinch as her ears hurt from the sound, Katherine exhaled as the three watched her seem to pull it together for a moment.

Thinking she could talk to her; Camille was at the door when it slammed in her face. “Sis, come out, let’s all talk about this.”

No. The time for talking had passed and Camille felt it as the helplessness slammed into her. Feeling the pain in her heart take over, Katherine felt her dad approaching too. And it was the sound of his voice that drove her over the edge as she roared, “JUST GO THE f**k AWAY!”

A shout followed by magic flowing from every inch of her, Katherine looked at her cottage as she pleaded to her only source of comfort, “PROTECT ME!”

And it did.

Every window and door slammed shut as large vines grew wildly all over the cottage, they draped over the little home like armor. Protecting her from the outside and keeping the inside unharmed.

Only, it had already been harmed enough by the outside. Her sobs proof of that as Camille, Eloise, David, and even Ms. Colson had come out to see what had happened. And as the pain radiated through the grounds, it was as the three tried and failed to get inside, they finally left her alone.

Alone, where Katherine was stuck for days, she heard the voices and attempts to get in, but as the cottage protected her, she could simply just roll over and ignore it.

Something she did for a while as the dark closed in.