Anastasia

I'm a what?

"Wait here" one man said as they left, shutting the door behind them, there was a desk in the room, on one side was a normal wooden chair, probably meant for me, on the other side was a wooden chair with red velvet like fabric covering the seat and back, it could be a throne, there were books on the desk as well as a green lamp.

A man appeared behind me, and made me jump,

"Oh, I do apologise child, didn't mean to startle you" the man was wearing a Severus Snape like robe, only the underside was red, and the outside was black, he had brown hair, gelled down.

"Its fine" I assured him, he sat down and signalled me to do the same, I did,

"My name is Robert, Robert Leatherman, and you are?..."

"Anastasia Webb" I introduced myself, he nodded, crossing his hands together on the desk he began to speak again.

"There is a talk going around the realm, that a new face has entered, no one knows where you come from, who you are, so tell me, do you come from a different coven?"

"Coven?, realm?, what are you talking about?, I came from my house, from the cave" I was so confused

"Cave? What cave?, start at the beginning, how did you get here?" With a nod I told him how my dad gave me the key that revealed the stairs leading to the cave like underground.

"The wall was rough, as my hand rubbed on it I cut my finger" I went to show him my finger but when I looked down at my finger it was healed

"Healed finger?" He nodded knowingly, I hid my hand and finished telling him how the cave wall opened to reveal the 'realm' he nodded, "Your healed finger is proof that you are not a mere mortal" I heard a bang behind me, I turned to see a man walk in, he was wearing a black suit with a black tie on a white shirt, he walked passed me and sat on the chair in front of me at the desk, the same chair that had been occupied by Mr Leatherman, but Robert was nowhere to be seen, my mouth opened to say something but closed at a lack of what to say.

The man in front looked at me, his eyes seemed to pierce my soul

"Which coven are you from, what are you doing here?" He asked in a monotone voice, if Mr Leatherman looked like Severus Snape, this man sounded like him

" I'm Anastasia" I told him, he raised an eye brow,

"Tell him you're from the midnight coven" I jumped as I heard Mr Leatherman speak next to me.

"Why did you jump?" The man in front of me asked, sounding bored, it seemed the man in front of me couldn't see Robert

"um nothing" I assured, Robert nodded to tell him what he had said " I'm from the, the midnight coven" I looked to Robert who just nodded

"Hmmm, and what are you doing here?"

"Tell him you were kicked out, for helping a mortal" I repeated what Robert told me, although I wasn't sounding too convincing, but this man, it seemed, didnt really care

"Well then" he stood, and so did I, he stuck out his hand for me to shake "I am head of council Thomas Birch, Welcome to the uni- taur coven, meet me here tomorrow for your initiation" he let go of my hand and without a word dismissed me out of his office.

"Let's take you back to the cave, and I shall explain everything" Robert told me, his hand on my upper arm, I walked outside

"Who was that?" I asked referring to mr Birch

"Shhh, dont speak, just walk" people, I noticed were looking at us, at me, I put it down to me being new

"Yeah but...."

"Shhh, I am not here, do you understand? I'm. Not. Here" I shutted right up then, we got to where the cave wall had opened, I crossed my arms across my chest as I saw the side of a mountain, once more the mountain wall opened and the two of us walked in, the cave wall closed behind us

"I want coffee, do you want coffee?, we should get coffee" Robert asked, now it was my turn to raise an eyebrow he looked down in shame, "you may speak now, I'm sorry" I rolled my eyes. Robert sat down against the cave wall, and I followed suit, he gave me a side smile and began his tale " My name is Robert, and I'm a spirit, I died in 1980, I was burned" I stood up and threw my arms in the air angrily.

"Why can't you just speak the truth?" I shouted

"I am" he assured as he, too, stood for emphasis, he reminded me how mr Birch couldn't see him, and all the people outside couldn't see him either, I thought for a moment and started to believe him. "I would like to meet your father now, find out what immortal he is" we started to walk back home, I shook my head

"You can't, he's dead" I hugged myself as Robert stopped walking

"Oh dear, well, how did he die?"

"Three bullets to the chest"

"Silver bullets?"

"No, I don't think so"

"Hmmm not a werewolf then?" He was thinking hard

"My father is dead," I screamed "I don't care if he was immortal" we were now at the stone steps that led to my house, I sat on the bottom step, he sat next to me and apologised I accepted his apology by nodding.

After a while we made our way up we were able to find a switch that opened the floor that led into the study, Robert looked around the study, went through books and notes and files, whilst I just sat at the desk, I took my phone from the desk and put it into my pocket.

*After about an hour*

"Well after studying, and looking at everything in this room I conclude your parents were human, but you are not" my shoulders sagged, I had watched enough movies to know that if my parents were human and I am not it means they weren't my real parents, so obviously I was going to argue with him

"How could you possibly know this?", hmm seemed like a good question, he pulled out a photo album

"How old did you say you were?"

"Eighteen?" I answered a little worried

"You were born in 2001?"

"Yes?, in November" I was very worried now, he opened the photo album to a picture of my parents, they looked happy, drinking beer

"The picture was taken on Halloween, look at your mother, look at her stomach", I looked and realised she wasn't pregnant in the picture, if I was born in November, shouldn't she have a big belly in this picture?

"Maybe the pictures were mixed up" I concluded "from a different year"

"Look through the whole album, there isn't one picture of your mother pregnant". He was right, so maybe my mother was too shy to have her picture taken during pregnancy but even I knew that was a long shot. "We could check the library in the other realm, do research on your parents, what about your mother, I take it she died too?" I nodded, "How?"

"Car accident"

"Your mother was definitely human, immortals cannot die in a car accident, its impossible" he shrugged.

We made our way back down to the other realm, my blood wasn't needed to open the portal again as the cave wall 'recognized' me, as Robert said.

Once in the other realm he took me in a different direction, to the library, once there I saw thousands of shelves filled with thousands of books, I could get lost and be happy here, it was amazing.

"First, I need to know your fathers name?"

"Steven, Steven Webb" I nodded as we walked towards a computer. I sat down at the desk and started my research, Robert talked me through what to do, but when I typed Steven Webb it pulled up no results, this was complete proof that my parents were not human, but we were sure I was immortal, so the question arose, what am I?

"We need to find out who your real parents are" Robert concluded, I already knew this

"How?, I never even knew my parents weren't my real parents, they never even mentioned anything" even with his final breath my dad just said desk, nothing about him not being my real dad, I didn't know what upset me more, the fact that they weren't my real parents, or the fact that they never told me, not even with their last breath.

"Well there is a way, a human way, but effective" I raised an eyebrow as if to say 'yes?' "A DNA test" I scoffed at Roberts suggestion "it will be effective, and it's instant in this realm" Robert said quickly, he then pointed at a man and told me to ask him to do the test. I huffed but obliged.

"Excuse me" I whispered after walking to the man Robert had pointed out

"Yes?" The man turned to me, he had blue eyes and his ears were pointy, he had light brown hair.

"I would like to have a DNA test done please" I said politely

"On?" He asked, sounding bored

"Myself" I told him as I rocked on my feet back and forth, he looked me up and down then walked me back to the computer I had been using.

"Sit" he instructed, I did, but the chair now faced him, so I was no longer facing the computer, but him "hold your hands out, palms facing up" I did as he said, he then held his hands above mine palms facing down, not touching my hands but hovering above them, I was looking at him as he closed his eyes. There were sparks between our hands, not painful but cold, the sparks flew towards the computer screen and I looked at the screen to read but one name

Edward Long

"That is your father" the man told me, then walked away

"Thank you" I called after him, he just gave me a wave without even a backward glance.

"Wait, I've heard of him, this man was killed by the council" Robert announced

"Great" I said sarcastically, my father was a wanted man, a criminal, by the sound of it.

"Type his name in the search bar" Robert seemed excited, I searched the man, he was married to Maria, and after they got married a prophecy was revealed to them, it was revealed that their first born child would rule, not just the coven but the realm, it also said that the couple were killed by the council, before they had any children, they were killed because they revealed their secret of being witches to a couple of mortals, this was a big no no, it also said that the council, instead of killing the mortals, erased the memory of the mortals in question, as the couple had a child, and the council didn't want to make the child an orphan, the names of the mortal couple was also mentioned, I'll give you three guesses as to who the couple were, yes you guessed it Steven, and Caroline Webb. I sat back in the chair to get my head around this new information, there were so many holes in this story.

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