Roselyn took a deep breath, she was waiting for him to ask, she mentally already had a solution, a risk she was willing to take to protect her daughter, "I will link with him."


    "Link? Rose that''s too risky." John knitted his eyebrows and shook his head in disapprobation.


    In case her father was dead, that would mean linking with the deads. Linking with someone dead meant linking with the underworld, he heard many banshees trying to do so when they found out they could link with their dead rtives and they got stuck in that dimension forever.


    "I have to try," Roselyn said, but John kept shaking his head.


    "Roselyn, I have heard about the risks. You also haven''t been practicing for years, I won''t let you take such a risk. We can find safer ways to protect our daughter." John said looking at her as she curved her eyebrows down begging for her to give up on her drastic silly solution. He knew she hardly changed her mind but he was as obstinate as her.


    "I feel like he can help me. I feel like he has something to tell me." Roselyn finally said, confessing the reason why she had mentioned her father. She had never told John but she had dreamed of him frequently. What if he was trying to tell her about Felicity''s nature?


    She always had many questions and doubts in his father''s regards, maybe it was finally time for her to answer those doubts once and for all.


    "Roselyn." John swallowed down. She took his hand and intervened before John would try to change her mind, "please." she whispered, "trust me."


    John shook his head, still unconvinced about her demand.


    "Please wait before doing anything too risky. We can ask our sons not to talk to anyone about Felicity''s nature. I am sure we can keep her nature secret for a while and meantime you can train and get stronger." John said, attempting to postpone her solution.


    She nodded, "and when I will be strong enough I can link with him." She continued deducing where John''s reasoning was heading to.


    Roselyn sighed, "alright. I will do as you say then."


    Hearing her giving up to his request, John smiled reassured, and embraced her tightly.


    "Thank you." He whispered, "I''d hate to think of you in danger."


    "Please stop!" Elijahined while Felicity covered her eyes with her tiny hands.


    "Stop kissing in front of us! Bleah!" Elijah stuck out his tongue to express his disgust making John and Rose explode inughs. They forgot they were in the same room as their sons.


    ***


    The next day John and Roselyn had exined to their sons about the secret they had to keep. They told them that they shouldn''t say anything to anyone, not even rtives or close trusted people, Elijah and Felicity both nodded in sync.


    When William and Sebastian visited them Elijah kept the secret, his investigation about Sebastian''s rtives kept him distracted and busy enough during the day that he almost forgot about practice.


    Sebastian was so d to have a trusted friend like Elijah who helped him to find his rtives so he decided he wanted to return the favor.


    He had done much research in the private library in the castle about vampires and had gathered tons of papers about vampires and their growth.


    If Elijah helped him with his parents he wanted to help him to get stronger than the other vampires as well.


    "Look," Sebastian pointed at handwritten papers, "here, they talk about a vampire whose growth was slower than the other vampires, then as he grew he kept up with the other vampires and ended up being even stronger than them."


    His finger skimmed through the papers as if he was summing up what he had read.


    "You know how to read?" Elijah asked surprised.


    "Mhh mhh," Sebastian nodded, "William and the maids taught me how to read and to write."


    Elijah smiled before he leaned closer to read better.


    Then Sebastian''s finger tapped on the next paper, "here, instead, they say a vampire''s growth is also based on the diet. You should eat lots of eggnts."


    Elijah''s widened his eyes, he had never liked eggnts before. Maybe that was the reason behind his bted growth.


    "Eggnts, they will be my favorite food from now on." He whispered, then Sebastian unfolded the third paper.


    "Lastly, here. They said ..." His eyes skimmed through it and he paused to shake his head.


    "Nevermind, eat more eggnts," Sebastian said.


    Elijah''s learned to read what he was keeping from him but Sebastian stood up and put it in his pocket before he could read it.


    "I want to read it," Elijahined, stretching his hand.


    A knock on the door made the two of them jolt.


    "Wait!" They screamed simultaneously, they quickly cleared the floor and got rid of the papers Sebastian brought there by hiding those under the pillows and behind some books.


    Roselyn walked him right in time and folded her arms recognizing the suspicious silence.


    "What''s going on here?" She raised her eyebrows, in that second she wished she could trade one of her powers with the capability to read minds.


    They both shook their heads and shrugged.


    "What were you doing?" She asked traveling her gaze through the room.


    "We were drawing."


    "We were ying snakes anddders."


    They both replied in the chorus but said two things differently which only confirmed Roselyn they were keeping something from her. She bit her inner cheek at the sight of their funny gaze as soon as they realized they gave two different versions exposing themselves.


    "We were ying snakes anddders."


    "We were drawing."


    Both of them changed their versions but ended upplicating the situation even more.


    Elijah pped his forehead, acknowledging maybe they both had to take some sses of lying because they werecking skills there.


    Roselyn giggled, unable to refrain from theughs anymore.


    "Lunch is ready," she said before she walked out and closed the door.


    They breathed out in relief and then chuckled as well