Time

Damon

I am still kissing my soon-to-be wife like I would die without her. We are oblivious as to what goes on around us.

“Wow!” my mother exclaims.

Ana asks, “Is this normal?”

“No, but it's beautiful,” Derek says.

We finally pull away and just stare into each other’s eyes. Ana says, “Umm guys you need to see this.” We turn to look at them. Everything is brimming with life or glowing. Doves are flying overhead. Butterflies are dancing around us. Flowers are blooming all over. But the most striking is a shimmering pool that surrounds Misha and me as we stand on its glimmering surface.

“Holy shit!” Misha exclaims. She blushes as she cussed. She is so damn adorable. “How?”

I cup her face. “You. All of this is your soul Misha and how it reacts to mine.” I hold out my other hand and a dove lands on it. I move it close to her face. “This is us. This is the life we just created.”

She pets it and it coos but then it turns into a Phoenix. “Umm.” I smile as the Phoenix takes off and leaves streaks of fire in its wake.

Ana gasps, “Wow!”

My father smiles, “You just created a mythic.”

“They have been extinct for centuries,” Justin explains.

Ana asks, “So things like phoenixes and dragons do exist?”

My father nods, “They did and it appears that they will again.”

“What was lost shall be reborn!” my mother announces.

“Misha, it's okay. No, I will not allow you to second-guess yourself. So what if you create a bad creature? There has to be balance. So don't worry because for every bad there is also a good one.”

“So there could never be all bad?” she asks timidly,

“No, just as there could never be all good. The world needs both. Because we are both.”

I put my hand on her heart and one on her stomach, “Soon our children will be both.”

Her eyes teared up and widened, “But I'm not.”

“Why I said soon.” I cup her face as I see that naughty glint return to her eyes. She bites her bottom lip. I pull her close as my hands tunnel in her hair, I kiss her and she moans. I feel her melt into me. I would marry her right now if I could. I would also fuck her senseless right now too. We break away from our kiss. “Better?” She nods. I take her hand in mine as we walk on water towards our family. We are nearly to them when we encounter a barrier.

“Babe?”

I shake my head no, “I don't like this either.”

“Me neither,” she says as she touches the barrier and it drops. We continue to walk but are pulled back. Then we hear a familiar voice.

Atropos spats vehemently, “Not so fast!” Right now I wish that I had never been involved with Atropos. I should have suspected that she would never let me find my mate.