"I'm sorry miss but he's going to have to stay here for the next week."

"What?!" I exclaim, "a whole week!"

"Yes miss, you see his injuries are terrible so he needs to stay for longer than we first anticipated."

I groan in frustration. "Fine, just make sure he's okay and being treated well."

She nods her head and leaves.

If you haven't realised I was just getting mad at a nurse because she was telling me that Lucas needs to stay in the hospital for another week.

I know it's not her fault but I'm worried. Even though I think Lucas's mother is dead she might not be and I don't know a thing about his father. He could come after him, I need to get him somewhere same as soon as possible.

"Luna you're not helping anyone by worrying," Solis said from behind me.

"Yeah yeah I know, I'm just stressed. Can we do something to keep my mind off of him?"

"Of course I have the perfect place in mind."

"Where?"

"You'll see, lets go around the back of the hospital, no one can see us teleporting."

Fuck sake. I hate teleporting with a passion. It makes me very queasy and nauseous. She knows this, yet she's still making me do it. Why?!

I don't reply and begrudgingly follow her to the back of the building.

"Don't get pouty with me. I know you don't like to travel this way but how else do you suppose we get to the magical realm?"

My eyes widen in fear. I can't go back there. What if we're attacked again?

As if reading my thoughts she says "don't worry I'm taking us somewhere safe. They won't be able to get to us."

I gulp but nod my head as I grab onto her hands.

~*~*~

I finally open my eyes after Solis yelling at me for two minutes to do so. I'm sorry if it was the only way to stop me from throwing up, jeez. Once I open them, however, she's nowhere to be seen.

I'm in someone's living room, strange why would she bring me to someone's house.

"Luna?" I hear a woman gasp from somewhere behind me.

"Row what's wrong?" I hear a mans voice call from slightly further away.

"Arthur it's Luna," the woman, Row, says her voice barely above a whisper.

Hold on a second Row as in Rowena and Arthur? Holy shit it can't be.

As I turn around I see a man and a woman in their late forties, who look strikingly similar to two people from my past, with shocked expressions on their faces.

I visibly gulp. Is it? It couldn't be. I'm going to kill Solis later.

"Mum? Dad?"

Before either of them could respond I felt my knees start to go weak and the room was starting to darken.

I fainted.

~*~*~

I hear murmurs around me but I can't make out what's being said. My eyelids feel droopy but I force them open regardless. I'm met by blinding lights so to spare my vision I squint before opening them fully.

As I start to sit up I, my vision adjusting, I see two figures come over to me hastily.

"Luna dear are you alright?" The woman in front of me asks, her voice laced with concern.

That's when it hits me and my memories just before fainting come crashing into my head at full force. I jump away from her and keep a moderate distance between us. The woman, who I refuse to call mother, frowns at this, causing her forehead to become riddled with lines.

The man, who I refuse to call father, puts a comforting hand on her shoulder and she visibly relaxes, the frown on her lips leaving instantly at his touch.

They must really love each other, having a dimidum must be such a special thing, I can only hope it works out that way for Lucas and I.

"Luna," the man speaks "please don't resent us, your causing your mother distress, you have every right to be hurt but don't act this way after us not seeing you for just over eight years."

I can feel my anger rise at that. Blaze is rubbing off on me more than I thought. "She's not my mother," I say harshly, meaning every word as a hurt look crosses her face "she's merely the woman who gave birth to me, nothing more. And you're not my father. You only have connections to me biologically not emotionally and neither of you ever will!" I practically scream at them, my temper rising more by the second.

"Luna-" she begins but I cut her off.

"Don't. Nothing either of you say will change how I feel. Look at this from my perspective. My so called parents resent me as a child for not having powers. They let horrid creatures perform all sorts of tricks on me to try and change me to be what they wanted, ignoring or just not caring about all the pain it caused me. When it didn't go the way they wanted they just abandoned me in some random forest in the human realm to spare themselves the embarrassment.

"Neither of you ever cared for me. Actions speak louder than words and you both made your feeling pretty clear through they way you behaved. And now here you both are eight years later asking me not to resent you, to care about you even and you wonder why I'm mad." I'm glowering at them, exaggerating my distaste further.

Surprisingly their expressions are calm, sympathetic even and that only enraged me further.

"WHY ARE YOU BOTH JUST STANDING THERE SO CALMLY?! NO EXPLANATIONS?! NO NOTHING?! Do you both know I'm right and that there's no way to justify yourselves because you were both terrible parents?!"

At the last two words he snapped and finally shouted back at me. "DON'T YOU DARE SAY WE WERE BAD PARENTS! WE DID EVERYTHING WITH YOUR BEST INTERESTS AT HEART, IT MAY NOT SEEM THAT WAY TO YOU BUT IT'S THE TRUTH. SO DON'T EVER SAY OTHERWISE!"

"Arthur calm down," Rowena whispered to her husband soothingly, her hand now on his shoulder, comforting him.

His eyes softened at her touch but he was still visibly mad.

He might have calmed down but I sure as hell hadn't. "You have no right to shout at me and in what way did you do anything for me? Enlighten me."

This time Rowena spoke. "Luna why don't we all sit down. I think it's finally time that you learnt the truth."

It's about fucking time. "Alright but no chitchat. I don't want to be here longer than absolutely necessary." I know I was being mean and hostile but to be completely honest I don't care at all. They're lucky I'm even talking to them.

We all sat down and they both took calming breaths. "Before we begin, how did you find us Luna?" Arthur asks.

"You have Solis to thank for that," I grumble but they both hear me loud and clear.

"You've been speaking with Solis?" She asks her eyes lighting up. I nod. "How is she?"

"She's fine," I reply stiffly, not bothering to elaborate. They both notice my discomfort in conversing with them so drop the subject.

"Anyway," Arthur says, clearing his throat "I'm sure you're wondering why we did all the things we did when you were a child." I nod so he continues. "We were protecting you, as strange as that may seem that was our soul motive."

"From what?" I ask, very confused. Do they consider neglect and hatred a form of protection?

This time it's Rowena who speaks. "I think by now you must have a rough idea. Considering that you've recently turned eighteen our concealment charms will have worn off."

"Concealment from what?"

"We had to hide a part of you Luna. We hid your magic from you when you were just a baby."

Magic? I had magic? And they hid it from me. Why?

"You see you started showing signs of magic after only being alive for about two weeks. Now that's very rare, in fact it's only ever happened to one other person and that was over a millennia ago. This person was very special just like you. They were what the magical community calls an ordinary.

"An ordinary is a witch or wizard who's capabilities lie far beyond the average. They possess the most powerful magic and are not restricted to specific skills. Their magic is limitless and knows no bounds.

"Since they are so powerful they would be hunted to no ends so their abilities could be exploited. So to protect you from a lifetime of endlessly running and hiding we cloaked your abilities.

"Because you Luna Krystal Praecantatio are an ordinary. The second one to have ever existed."

So they're saying that I'm not powerless, I'm in fact the most powerful creature in existence?

"That doesn't explain why you ignored me growing up or why you tried to have me turned into a creature of dark magic or why you abandoned me in the human world," I say anger rising in my voice from all the horrid memories.

Arthur sighed and spoke, "Luna that was all a part of how we protected you. We knew almost immediately what you were. After six months your magic was too strong to be normal so we checked it out and turns out we were right.

"By this point we were scared, terrified even. Our child was going to be hunted and wouldn't be able to have a life she would want.

"We distance ourselves and most people from you so they wouldn't find out about what you were. If we pretended to hate you most would think that you just didn't have magic and not the complete opposite. It was cruel we know but at the time we didn't see another way.

"We though there might be some way to take the magic out of you and replace it with dark magic. It was selfish to do that without asking, we know, but we just wanted what was best for you. If there was some way, any way to prevent you from running your whole life we would have taken it. As you know it didn't work out. Your magic could not be replaced so we were forced into even more drastic measures.

"The only other option was sending you away. We destroyed all records of your existence and wiped many people's memories. We gave you the necklace so you'd be able to hide your identity if necessary. There was one thing we didn't tell you about the it though, you had to be a Praecantatio with magic for it to work so seeing as you were able to use it only proves your magic further.

"Then we had to be quick, it was difficult to leave the realm undetected. That's why we left you in the woods, it just so happened to be where we were transported.

"We know some of our decisions were poor but we're not perfect, everyone makes mistakes. We loved you so much Luna and we still do but we had to send you away even if it broke us."

Wow. So it wasn't because they hated me. I actually have a slight amount of respect for them after that but I by no means forgive them. Sure they had their reasons and their intentions may have been good but it doesn't mean that their actions didn't scar me physically and mentally.

"Okay," I say "I understand. That doesn't mean that you are both forgiven by any standard but I don't hate you both anymore." That was the best they were getting out of me.

They nodded and smiled at me. I gave them a very small one back.

Okay so now I know about dimidums, my family and being an ordinary. All that's left is Lucas's parents.

"One more thing, before I came here I was kidnapped by the Pollienta family. They were trying to steal my magic and take over the realm or something, they didn't say their whole plan."

They both look at me with serious faces. "Yes we heard a few rumours about their preposterous ideas. It's also been reported that they are both dead, their bodies were even found as proof."

I give them both a confused look. "From what we've been able to gather one of them was killed and that caused the other to die because it's next to impossible to survive if your dimidum dies."

Wait. Did I kill Lucas's mother and in doing so his father to?

"So you're saying that the realm is now safe?" They both nod. "What about all the damage?"

"We're going to take care of that. We actually look after the realm now and have been for about five years. Everything is going to be fine Luna."

I nod. So the realm is safe. "Does that mean I can go back home?"

They both frown at me. "Luna this is your home. Your safe now, please stay," Rowena says.

I shake my head. "As much as you might want it to be this is not my home. My home resides in London in the human realm."

The looked sad but seem to understand my point. "Alright. We understand but will you at least come and visit?"

"How, I thought you couldn't travel between realms?"

"How do you think Solis does it? We gave her a bracelet that lets her have access between the realms, your necklace does the same thing."

She walked over to me and explained how it worked. I tried a few times, just teleporting across the living room, after three tries I got it. I still hate teleporting with a passion but I don't feel as queasy when I do it myself.

"I'll see you soon I guess," I say. I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to say in this situation so I've gotten really awkward which is rare for me.

"One more thing. I know about Solis and Incaendium but what ever happened to Callidus?"

They expressions both turn grave. "He was killed a few months ago."

My brother was killed? "How?" my voice came out as a shaky whisper.

"By the Pollientas. They attacked our home but Arthur and I weren't home. They killed Callidus on the spot," I almost couldn't hear her, she was speaking so quietly. "We moved locations after that, we were no longer safe and now Callidus is gone." I can hear the hurt and pain in her voice, it must be heartbreaking to lose a child. I should probably be more upset than I am but I barely know him, I haven't spoken to him in eight years and even when I was little Callidus was the one I spoke to least. Don't get me wrong I'm still upset but just not as much as Arthur and Rowena.

That's everything then. I know the full story. The realm is safe. I guess it's time to move on with my life. Once Lucas is healed we'll carry on with school and then go to university.

It all feels a bit anticlimactic. I finally know what I should have years ago yet I feel empty inside. Like nothing has changed about me. Sure I have magic now but I probably won't use it much.

This may sound stupid but all I really want is a normal life, away from magic. I want to do medicine and help those around me. I want an ordinary life.

Ordinary. I never thought the word could have so many meanings. I guess it just goes to show that no one is normal, everyone has exceptional qualities even if they think of themselves as ordinary.

Sorry I don't mean to be all philosophical but I guess it just came out.

I can now live my life the way I want and that's all that maters. No more kidnapping and spells, it's crazy what can happen in the span of a few months. If you had told me six months ago that I'd have powers,  not hate my parents and that I'd found my dimidum I would have laughed in your face, I guess you're the one who's laughing.

All jokes aside it's time to get my life together. I'm closing this chapter, sure it was full of adventure and fun while it lasted but all good things must come to an end. Besides it's not like I won't have any fun in the future. Life is full of ups and downs and my journey is no where near over.

I mean who knows what's going to happen fifteen years from now? Only the future knows, maybe I'll see you there.

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Okay so this was the last chapter before the epilogue. Gahhhh I can't believe it's almost over. I hope you're ready. ☺️☺️

One a brighter note here are some gifs of Joseph Morgan:

Caroline and Klaus forever 😻

Anyway, byeeeee.