A/N: They kissed! They KISSED! And Jazmine didn't even run away! Awww she must actually like him or something....maybe. Leave the love and feedback in the comments! Let me hear your thoughts!

Catijan Language key:

Evela'tu [Eh-vay-lah-too] I love you 

Litani [Lee-tah-née] Keeper of my heart (female) 

Sesan [Say-sahn] - Sorry/ I'm sorry

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"Evela'tu, litani." He whispered against my lips, pulling away from me looking into my dazed eyes.

"Darius, I-I still don't know what to say to that." I whispered, my cheeks burning while my heart tingled in my chest. That damn door we opened creaked open a bit more at the feel of his affection for me.

"One day you will and I'll wait forever until you do." He smiled kissing my head and I laughed.

"It might take centuries, dejaino." I smirked and he grinned.

"I've already waited centuries to find you, what's a few more, evela me?" He asked and I smiled kissing his cheek.

"I want to meet your family." I said and his eyes grew wide.

"Really? You're surprising me litani. First, you don't want to have anything to do with me and now you want to meet my family. I thought I would have to drag you to meet them." He chuckled as I blushed.

"I know, I'm not sure what's going on with me. But after meeting Byron and Meilyn, I feel kind of drawn to your family." I said as he kissed my forehead.

"You probably feel that way because you've got a little ancient blood in you somewhere."

"I can't have ancient blood in me. Both my parents are too young to be ancients." I said shaking my head and he looked at me puzzled.

"Do you ever wonder why you're so much younger than your sisters?" He asked and my heart clenched.

"Y-yes, but I just figured I was a miracle baby." I shrugged. Does he always have to ask such deep questions?

"You know that isn't possible, Mercatijan women have children during a certain span of time and once it's over they can't have anymore. Are you adopted?" He asked as I pushed out of his arms, clenching my fists and stood.

"No! I'm not adopted!" I said pacing back and forth. I always wondered if I was an orphan, I asked my parents if I was but they told me I wasn't and that I was just a miracle. I was a surprise, but it would explain why I never felt like I completely belong with my family.

Sol's words echoed in my mind, maybe that's why he's looking for me, maybe I do belong to him.

"Relax, sesti, I was just asking." He said taking my hand pulling me back down to the couch. I don't want to talk about this with him; he is bringing up fears in me that I pushed away a long time ago and now they are coupled with thoughts of Sol.

"I want to go home." I said standing up again.

"Jazmine, I'm sorry I won't bring it up again. Please don't go." He pleaded standing up in front of me. I crossed my arms over my chest shaking my head.

"Why would you ask me if I was adopted?" I asked.

"Do you really want me to answer?" He asked as I nodded.

"Will you stay even if you don't like what I have to say?" He asked and I sighed sitting down him following me.

"Yes." I mumbled.

"Alright," he sighed taking my hand, "well for one you don't look like anyone in your family." He said twirling my long straight jet-black hair around his finger. All of my sisters and my mother have wavy brown hair like, even my father's hair isn't as black as mine.

"You have the oddest color eyes. I've never seen anyone with violet eyes like yours." He said which is true, no one has violet eyes, I thought it was a birth defect. My dad has brown eyes; my mom has hazel eyes so naturally my sisters have brown or hazel eyes.

"You're a lot stronger than anyone in your family. I've never felt a young Mercatija with powers as vast as yours and the clincher in all of this is Gaia still speaks to you. You're way too young for Gaia to speak to you. You have to have ancient blood in you or I really don't know where you come from, Jazmine. I've been around a very long time and you don't make any sense to me." He finished and I let out a sob. Fuck, here I go again!

But he's right. I've always known it, I've always known I wasn't really my parents' daughter but I just thought maybe I was making it up. And if he really is right where do I come from? Why does Gaia still speak to me? Why does Sol think I belong to him?

I need to get away from him. I am not ready to face the feelings and thoughts I have pushed away for years. I pushed away from him running fast toward the forest where I can be alone.

I ignored Darius' frantic calls behind me, my body tingled as my power engulfed me, I smashed through the wave of air and walls of earth he tried to stop me with.

I felt him running up behind me and I growled, my power bursting around me in a wave.

"Jazmine!" Darius roared his fingers just grazing my shoulder before he was catapulted across the sky.

I ran even faster into the dark forest. I created a cocoon of trees and boulders and dirt around me. Making it impossible for him to penetrate the forest.

I ran until my lungs felt like they were going to burst. I tripped over a thick root in my path falling against a broken tree. I let out my sobs and cried.

I've always known I didn't belong to my family, but they let me believe I was so I just pushed my fears aside. Darius is right Mercatijan women only have children during a certain period and once it's over there are no surprises. I couldn't have come almost hundred years after my sisters it's impossible, but where the hell do I come from? How did I end up here, who are my real parents? Are they alive? Did they mean to give me away?

I sat against the tree shaking and holding myself together. Darius is breaking me and I'm not ready for these feelings to come to the surface again. I was fine without him and now he thinks he can come into my life break down my walls and bring these feelings to the surface that I locked away a long fucking time ago! I hate him; I hate him for doing this to me.

I felt a sickly shift in the Earth and I touched my hand to the ground but it was already silent. I stood and walked to a rooted tree to see if I can feel its torment.

"RUN!" Its terrified scream vibrated through my veins. I jumped back from the tree and stumbled over the root again falling into the center of the stream behind me.

Then I heard the cackling screams of de'mujos fill the air around me.

Fuck.

This is why Darius doesn't trust these forests.

I quickly stood turning in a circle as a hoard of de'mujos emerged from the trees and I realized I am the midnight snack for these thirsty demons.

"All alone Mer.Ca.Ti.Ja." One hissed as it slowly stalked towards me. It's enlarged fangs dripping with drool and rolling down its disfigured chin.

"I'm only one Mercatija I'm not enough to feed all of you." I said scanning the forest trying to find my exit.

"We can sssmell your power, you are perfect..." One cackled behind me sniffing my hair.

I quickly moved away from it, snatching my hair out of its disgusting claws. The one time I run from Darius, de'mujos are attacking me and I blocked myself in the forest with these hungry beasts.

I heard one of them give a guttural growl as they pounced on me. I screamed lifting a fallen tree and swinging it into them. I ran putting up countless walls of dirt and brush behind me.

I looked back to see how far away they were and I crashed into a stone hard body. I fell back looking up at a giant de'mujo. Since when did they grow that big?!

I tried to scramble away from it but it grabbed me by my hair lifting me off the ground. Its touch draining my power.

I tried to no avail to lift anything from the ground to hit it with but I am just too weak. I can hear the other infected monsters cackling and laughing as they circled the giant and me.

"You are nothing." I growled spitting in its face. It let out a grunt opening its gigantic mouth exposing its blood stained razor sharp teeth. I watched in horror as that mouth bit down on my neck.

I let out a blood curdling scream, choking on my blood as the other de'mujos latched their teeth into my body to feed on me.

I feel numb and helpless as life drained out of me.

"No! Jazmine No! Don't let go!" I heard Gaia's muffled yell. She sounds far away.

A burst of power surrounded me making the de'mujos scream in pain as they detached themselves from me, but the giant held on continuing to drain me.

"Call him Jazmine. Call him NOW!" She roared and I felt a burst of energy course through me.

"DARIUS!" I screamed with every fiber of my being, the ground shook dangerously around me and I can hear the de'mujos squealing in pain as air and fire and the power of Gaia enveloped them. The giant finally released me and I fell to the ground with a thud.

"Oh God, Jazmine, stay with me. Sesan, sesan." I heard Darius' frantic pleas as he gathered my broken body from the ground and I fell into a sweet darkness.