The Blessing (Rewritten)

Feelings

Corrie POV

I had been sitting in this room all night unable to sleep. The room was lavish and very different from what I was used to. The room was decorated in bright lovey colors. Yellow walls and blue trims and baseboards. It felt so off being here under different circumstances. Once upon a time, I would have loved being here, but now it is not in Alexander's warm, comforting embrace.

I once was Alexander's love and now, I was a stranger on a job. He had asked me about what happened 3 years ago, but the damage had been done. He was engaged and happy and I will not mess that up. Covering myself up, I wore a simple black nightgown. I did not own much at all, and I really did not need much to be happy. I laughed at the thought of me stealing his ring. I would not be struggling if I had. It had been taken from me by his mother, she had refused to run me off without me handing it over. I had though to turning the b***h into a frog, but it would have caused more issues than it was worth. I snuggled into the thick plush bed. I could not shake the feeling that I did not belong here. I found myself looking forward to going home. I just needed to finish this job as fast as I could and get back to my Quinn. Darkness came shortly after, and I fell asleep.

Darkness surrounds me and I am not sure where I am. I am outside, I know that much, and I am lost, cold and scared. I had wondered too far from the village. No, I was lured out. I didn't wonder at all. The promises of fun and toys that my parents could not possibly afford. Wouldn't they be so happy if I could return home with everything, they ever wanted to give me, but couldn't. Now I was lost and alone. I looked down at my tiny ragged handmade shoes my mother made for me, and I tried to get back on my own and couldn't. Growls sounded all around me and the wind blew, making me shiver; or was that the growling sound all around me. Something was outside in the wild wanting and waiting to get me. I turn around as the growl gets louder and I scream as sharp teeth and black fur attack.

I sat up and I was drenched in sweat and panting so hard I could not catch my breath. That seemed so real. No, it did not seem real; it was real. I just had a vision, and a frightening one at that. I knew it had to be a child, and a small one at that, and I really needed to tell someone. I jumped out of bed and ran out of my room. I ran straight to Alexander's room. I did not care about the hour or how late it was. Before I could blink, I was knocking on his door a little too hard. I was scared shitless.

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Alexander POV

She's here, she's here and just down the hallway from him and he was not sure how to act now in front of her. He should be okay with how he has been acting.

They had been so happy, and he had thought everything was okay and then she just disappeared. His mother had told him her family had left; she had left him. Witches were evil heartless creatures. He was so confused about what to think of the gorgeous witch that came into his home. How were these feelings still alive? He was supposed to be getting married, so why was he thinking about Corrie? Feelings for her would not change his future and he knew it. A witch could never be more than hired help for issues they could not solve without help from the paranormal.

Beating at his door came and the hour was so terribly late. "This had better be important for you to disturb me at this hour!" He was not pleased at all. Even if he had not been sleeping, he was thinking and did not want to be bothered. He seemed to get like that when he thought of her.

He flung the door open, and his heart soared to see Corrie at his door, but he quickly sobered up when he saw how panicked she was. "Is there something I can help you with, Miss Stone?"

She nods. " I am so sorry for bothering you at such God-awful hour, but I fear something bad may have happened and, with all goodness I could not just tell you. You see, with my many gifts, I also have visions. I do not always have them, and they are random. Only when I have a strong connection with something, like the village I was born in.” It did not go unnoticed by Alexander that she purposely left out she had felt like this kingdom was hers, she cared for the people even if they did not feel the same about her; at least he had thought she did until she disappeared. “I had the most terrible vision Ale-." She had almost called him by his name, and it did not go unnoticed, but she had caught herself. "Your majesty. I had dreamt of a small child in the forests beyond your village; he was lost and scared. I could feel his emotions like my own. He was lured out there by something. A beast of some sort."

Alexander's face got serious. “You better not be lying, Corrie. I know these people did not treat you like they should have, but they are mine and it is my job to protect them.”

“You are a right bastard! Why on earth would I lie about this. I came to protect them, besides a child is completely innocent and I would never.” She turned around to leave. “You may have some sick twisted image that I am evil, but I can assure you I as well as most other witches your family and people have already charge of the evil in the world, we are not evil, nasty beings you see us as. Being afraid of what you don’t understand is what humans do best. Be better for the next generation so any children I have do not go through what I do.” She stormed off, but all he could think of is that she said something about her future children, and he could not help but wonder who it is she may have children with. Was he jealous over a man he did not even know, there is no proof that she is with someone at all. He wanted to be the one she had children with, he has issues coming to terms that he still loved her even after she left him all he wanted to do was love her and give her everything she ever wanted.