Twice Blessed ~ Matthew’s Story

Matthew’s POV ~

We made it down to breakfast.. everyone congratulating us before we could reach our seats. Ella gripped my hand tightly.. rubbing her head. I sat down, pulling her into my lap.

“Baby? What’s wrong? You’re pale.. shaking. What’s going on?” She whispered “Thinking thoughts. I hear them. I hear them all. Please. Make them stop thinking thoughts.”

I look helplessly at my mom.. and she says “Ella? Ella.. Can you read what everyone is thinking?” She nods and again whispered “It’s like they are talking to my brain. I don’t know how to stop it. What is happening?”

We agreed to move into the smaller family dining room. That helped a bit. But every now and then, Ella would giggle. I raised my eyebrow at her and she shrugged “People think the strangest things. Mom, why do you have one pink panther sock and one grinch sock on?”

Mom laughed and said “I got dressed in the dark.. I was just hoping no one would notice. But thanks for pointing it out.” Dad cracked up. “This is going to be fun. Nobody’s thoughts are safe.”

Ella shook her head “Matthew’s are. I can’t hear his.” I swallowed my bite of food and asked “Why?” Shrugging, she replied “It’s probably because you are my mate. Like our future is shielded, your thoughts are, too? I’m not sure. But someone came to me in my sleep.. telling me they will be here soon to train my gifts? Again.. I don’t know.”

Then she said “No, Calvin. You can’t. It is physically impossible to lick your own elbow. You may as well go on and pay Ryan the hundred he bet you! Stop taking sucker bets!” Making me laugh… when Calvin said “Fuck a duck, dude! That’s going to be annoying as hell!”

Ella went back to our room after breakfast. The cacophony of thoughts in her head had caused a migraine. Mom and Maverick were scouring the library, trying to find any books that might help us understand how to help her.

Dad hangs up his phone saying “Damien doesn’t have a clue how to train her.. but Lynette said she will run through her book of spells and see if she can come up with something that may help.” Just as I nodded my head and went to respond, a booming sound.. nearly the decibel of a sonic boom sounded in the front yard.

All of us took off running.. falling over each other, the get out there and figure out what the hell was going on.

Standing on the front lawn… Three men.. identical in face and stature.. stood solemnly. In one voice, they said “We are Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos… Oracles of Fate. We are here for our daughter, Ella.”

I said “What? All three of you are saying you’re her father?” Again, collectively, they responded “Yes. Our DNA is identical. Regardless of which of us implanted the seed.. the result is the same. She is our daughter.”

I mind linked Ella to come out front.. and as soon as she arrived, I realized that all of them had the same eyes. She walked into my arms.. whimpering. I feel so fucking helpless. I don’t know how to help her.

The trio said “Fear not, young Matthew. That is why we have arrived.” Maverick groaned “That’s freaky as fuck! Do they all have to talk at the same time?” They responded “Yes.” And it struck me funny.

I looked at Ella and told her what the oracles had said. She replied “I don’t give a flying fuck if they are demons, at this point. If they can train me to control this.. then, bring it on.”

The trio walked over to Ella.. together, they said “Child, your gifts have awakened. We are so pleased. The first truth seer in nearly three thousand years!” Ella looked at them.. and back at me.. then she told them “I suppose it’s too much to ask to have only one of you talk? Here’s a question, do any of you have an original thought? How do you have conversations amongst yourselves?”

They all smiled “It is never necessary. We always know what we each will say. There is no need for expending needless energy wasting words.” She mumbles “This freaky shit is going to get old fast so teaching me better not take too long.”

They responded “We should have brought you to us before your awakening. Which would have happened naturally on your sixteenth birthday, if we had known the human incubator was actually a wolf. A slight miscalculation on our part.”

Ella lost it.. she snarled “What the fuck? So one of you decided to impregnate my mother, and planned on taking me at birth?”

They replied “Not one of us. All of us. Once we realized you would be wolf, we had to wait until you were marked and mated. Now you can come back to Delphi and train.”

She growled “I am not about to go anywhere. The way I see it.. you will teach me how to control the thoughts I am hearing then return to wherever you came from. I sure as fuck am not leaving with you!”

I had wrapped my arm around her waist and was holding her tight against me. No way in hell were these jackoffs taking my mate. What happens of you kill an oracle? Can you even kill an oracle?

They almost smiled and said “Matthew, killing an oracle seals the end of the world. We can be killed, of course. But at the cost of your soul. You have both passed your tests. Ella was tested on her reaolve. You were tested on your strength. She refuses to leave your side. You will kill to prevent her being taken.”

I told them “I would gladly surrender my soul to keep Ella safe. That is hardly a test.” She snuggled into my arms and said “I have a family. For the first time in my life. There is no way I would willingly leave those I love.”

They said “Exactly. Shall we begin?” And walked inside the house. Dad said “Have we been dismissed? It feels like we’ve been dismissed. In our own home.”

I laughed and said “Let’s get this over with.. and get these strange beings on their way!” Ella laughs “Providing we can locate them again. That weird mist that floats around them creeps me out!”

Maverick laughs “It’s the all talking in sync that does my head in. That is too bizarre!