The Pixie's Warrior Wolf (Completed)

Parents Make Mistakes

Beginning with being asked what their biggest grievances with their child were, Elder Solar sat with David first.

His underlings Nova and Bramsen were both laying down after their close encounters with Katherine, but they weren’t alone. Eva, standing in silence as her beautiful bright brown eyes glowed as she stared at David closely. “And what has been going on with you and your daughter’s relationship David? She was full of turmoil and rage towards you especially.”

Flinching as he looked down ashamed, David hated to say it but he confessed, “I wasn’t supportive when she was insulted by Josie Carlin for her intimacy with her mate. I understood more where Josie was coming from than Katherine’s childish infatuation.”

Silence stretching out as Elder Solar processed this, before asking, “But what else has excited your anger towards her? Something she’s done has upset your heart my brother I can feel it.” Touching over David’s heart, the Elder hummed, “You feel more than worry over her personal choices. You’re genuinely angry at her. Why?”

David’s jaw clicked as he finally omitted, “She left and went to the human cities and didn’t contact me or her mother. We worried for over two years, and it wasn’t fair to us that she just showed up out of the blue.” A somewhat valid argument that Elder Solar tried to understand, the two men were both left humbled.

Eva’s words came ringing out in the hut as she questioned with grave anger, “So when your daughter was slut shamed for being a teenager and liking boys, you didn’t defend her? And yet, you wonder why she didn’t write you for two years? That’s some fresh audacity you can’t bake sir.”

Elder Solar started to tell the empath to be cool headed but the aqua eyes swirling with power and pain spoke up as he snapped, “I didn’t shame my daughter, know she was just being a dumb kid and maybe I should have done more but no father wants to hear anything in regards to their daughters…activities.”

So he’d turned away and sent his wife to handle the sensitive matter. Only for it to somehow get worse and their daughter decide to leave.

So, he became angrier and held a grudge against her for everything. Elder Solar remembered David going from sad at the mention of Katherine to dismissively brushing her off. To the point he didn’t want her brought up and people allowed it to become a non-topic.

“And where are you in all this mama?” Eloise looked at Eva who knowingly deduced, “You’re a lovely woman, having been kind to Camille who was technically an unmated woman when she conceived her son. You showed her compassion and no judgement for her being a sexually active and happy woman. Why no understanding for your own?”

Eloise sighed before helplessly admitting, “I did understand her. I still do. Now even more so.” She rubbed her face, “Yes, we were ill prepared for a child, even though we always wanted one, we just…it was different than we imagined and then we had a teenager.”

One who woke up one day and decided her life and herself needed to be different.

“Katherine was growing up, she was sick of being the village sweet heart and she wanted an identity of her own.” Eloise looked back at the time, “I don’t know…well actually I do now know, she adored Dorian Grey the Beta of the Heart Cove pack and she was the only person at one point who gave Nostradamus Valik the Warden a fair chance. She was there for them in whatever way they needed her to be and it was because she was a good girl who saw them suffering she tried to help them. We, and everyone else made it into something negative. As a proof of her-.”

Eva’s blood pressure rose up a degree, “So she stayed out late a few times and you decide she doesn’t deserve you defending her?” Eloise’s heart fell into her ass but she was honest, “I was unprepared to have hard talks with Katherine. We’d had the s*x talk when we had it she’d told me she wanted a man who loved her like her father loved me. I was sure that she’d stuck that, but I still worried that a bored teenager would become just that. Bored. I didn’t want her living with regrets but I didn’t judge her if she had done anything. It wasn’t that.”

Eva looked at her shocked, “Then what was it Eloise?” Eloise shook her head, “When I asked her if she had, she didn’t answer me. For the first couple of weeks when we’d talk about it, she’d lash out and be defensive. When she finally said she hadn’t, it felt like she was lying. But-.”

Eva shook her head disgusted, “But it didn’t matter if she had or hadn’t, that wasn’t the point.”

Both were shamed as Eva reminded them, “Grown adults were sitting around gossiping about your teenage daughters s*x life. That was not okay. It was your responsibility to make that very f*****g known. You didn’t. You failed her.”

David tried to speak but couldn’t find the words. And as Eloise choked on hers, Eva sighed as she admitted, “I’ve talked to patients like your daughter before. Daughters, women, abused to conform to archaic and barbaric standards to please others.”

The parents tried to say that wasn’t the case, but Eva was cut throat and merciless as she informed them, “Those women usually leave their families for the exact reason. Because at end of the day, she was your child. And whether or not she’d made a choice for herself that wasn’t your cup of tea? You owed it to her to at least grow yo past that choice. And now, here you are, still holding on to the matter like you were the victims of it. You weren’t. And if you can’t understand that, maybe you should let her go. She’ll be happy with her mate, and they’ll move on. Start their family without your negativity. Sound good to you two?”

David wilted hearing that as did Eloise who whispered, “We don’t want to lose our daughter. We never have.” Eva looked at her seriously, “Then you need to start acting like it mama.”

Elder Solar looked at his friend knowingly as the interactions with the wolf flashed through his mind, “Why are you trying to come between them David? You don’t want them to finish their mating?”

About to protest, the old man knew he was caught when Elder Solar’s gaze commanded the truth and suddenly deflated as he admitted his fears. “If she’s mated then she’s not thinking of her future. It’s already happening.” David breathed out in pain, “That wolf is the proof of that, and they’ll want to think about places to settle. Where to have babies-.” He choked as he held his face down, “she told me she doesn’t want us around. She’s already said that she won’t raise her children to know of me. Meaning they won’t know me. I’ll never know them.”

Eva felt for the man as his genuine devastation at the idea of it, couldn’t be faked and it made her mumble, “She maybe didn’t mean it.” Elder Solar nodded thankful she hadn’t killed him with the harshness Katherine most likely had meant every word said at the time. But David needed comfort as Elders Solar quickly agreed she wasn’t in her right mind state.

Wiping his face, David whispered, “I know I’m going to have to apologize to him. He’s going to be my son-in-law, the father of my grandchildren. I can’t stomach the idea of us being at odds, and him resenting me as I give him my only child to love and protect. I’ll have to trust him too. Eventually.”

Because not yet.

“With us fighting, if he takes her right now we’ll never see her until we were about to go in the ground. We can’t miss out on any more time with her.”

Eva looked down and then whispered, “You three can have more time. Starting with an apology to not her mate, but to her first and then her mate.” Nodding in agreement at the correction, David was silent and then the Elder suddenly asked, “And to swing back around to your earlier statement…you really believe Katherine truthfully had not sent you any correspondence?”

David and Eloise both becoming demur was the answer as David whispered, “We got nothing. For two years.”

Shaking his head finding that hard to believe, Elder Solar rubbed a hand over his paper like skin as his crystal eyes shined not rainbows but like diamonds. Comfortable in his robe as he sat back, the powerful man huffed, “She may have been angry, but I find it hard to believe she’d have not contacted you. Even if it was angry letters she’d gotten back, she’d have not gone two years doing such a thing.” Eloise was saying how they may have simply gotten lost since neither of them knew how to do it properly or discussed it before she left, the elder was making plans to investigate the matter.