THE MOON CHILD

Chapter 12 - Past connects the Present

" So tell me, sweetheart, what brought you here," she asked me while serving us all with hot lemon tea.

The aroma of the tea was amazing, amongst all the chaos the tea really felt relaxing. I guess when u have lived for that long, you do have few tricks under your sleeves.

" Mam, can you help us find about the moon child," sam asked before anyone of us could say anything.

" and why do you want to know about the moon child, my dear," the lady said while making herself comfortable on the armchair beside me.

" Actually, we came across writing, in our territory and thought all the killing happening in our lands were related to it and hence we wanted to know about it, being the leaders, it is their responsibility and being second in line it's ours too," Jasper said placing his cup on the center glass table, kind of leaving an unspoken message for all of us about not telling the lady about me being the moon child.

" And that is the only reason you all came to see a vampire, nothing else"

" My people are my utmost priority mam, and above them, I see no human, werewolf, and may I put it moderately ' blood-sucking vampire'. " Sam said getting up from the chair he was seated in to come and sit beside me.

He gave me a look that said ' I will never let anything happen to you' and held my hands firmly.

" He surely is in love with you head to toe, my child, "the lady said looking at me.

Before I could say anything she got up from her seat and went behind the desk and pressed some button, the painting on the wall behind the desk moved aside and we all could now see the hidden locker behind it.

"I know this is difficult and confusing for you all, I know you all are scared about the things happening, worried for your people, confused about what to do and how to move forward and angry about the killings that happened in your land" the lady continued talking while opening the locker and took out a leather diary from the locker.

She took a pause before taking a deep breath and came and sat near me.

"I don't know how you will fight this battle, I don't know how you will win this battle, I know I tried to save something I loved, someone I deeply cared about but I couldn't, and I have no idea how I can be of help for you but I promise you to try my best, she said this time looking directly into my eyes " my moon child".

I was shocked on what she said, we all were shocked, we all got up from our seats, Sam moved in front of me and stood there in a protective stance " what are you talking about, why the f**k will you call her a moon child" Sam questioned and I could feel the underlying anger in his voice

" If you don't tell us what is going on here immediately I will not think twice about slitting your throat ", Adam said moving behind the lady, placing a knife on her throat",

" Why the f**k did you call her a moon child," Sam growled.

" Because she is the moonchild, isn't she ", the lady said maintaining her extremely calm demeanor.

" How will you know that," Jasper said moving close to her " are you one of them ", he asked her in a strong voice.

"I am not a threat, and you asking me questions while holding a knife to my throat is not going to give you any kind of answers," said the lady.

"It's okay, she will not do anything, let us sit and talk like adults," I tried to intervene between my boys.

" We are not taking chances," Sam growled

" neither will you get any answers like this," the lady said still being awfully calm.

" You will answer our questions if u want to live," adam said,

"I am 1200 years old if you think I fear death you are highly mistaken my children, and if you think you can kill me then you cannot be more wrong than this," she said smiling.

Before anyone of us could reply to her comment she continued to speak " Samuel I am not what you think I am, I understand what you are going through when I said I lost someone I cared about and understand the fear you are holding right now trust me on that,"

I moved forward to say something but she vanished into thin air before I could utter a word.

"I can answer all your questions but you have to sit down and listen to what I say calmly and quietly." the voice came from the direction of the library desk counter and we all turned to look into that direction. She was standing behind the counter.

"I promise you that no one amongst us will do anything stupid, but you promise us to tell us everything you know about this moon child thing" I tried to be reasonable with her.

Sam took my hands into his and stood beside me keeping a firm grip on my hand.

 The lady gave us all a smile," you kids do not understand that even if you think you can take down a vampire you don't understand that I am 1200years old, and you have no idea about the strength and power I possess," she said while placing her self comfortably on the sofa opposite me.

"I am sorry about how they behaved and I promise I will make sure they don't behave this way again but we need to know about the moonchild ma'am", I said my placing my self on the chair I was originally seated on making sam sit beside me, Adam took a deep breath before crashing on his seat followed by jasper.

"I know you all are being protective towards her, I know you are scared for her, and I understand because I went through the same thing with my mate when I came to know about him being the moonchild",

her statement made us all jump out of our seats in utter confusion.

" YOUR MATE WAS A MOONCHILD," I said in utter confusion.

" YOU HAD A MATE, EVEN WHEN YOU ARE A VAMPIRE?" jasper pointed out the fact I completely missed somehow.

" yes, I am a vampire who had a mate, a werewolf mate, who was apparently the moonchild", she said signaling us all to sit down