Carpe Noctum

Bonnie had started to get Jamie ready for when AJ came back down. Standing near the front door she was helping Jamie into her jacket. "Arthur, did you remember your dagger? Just as a precaution, not that I expect anything to go down or anything," she asked and briefly looked at him before she crouched down before Jamie and zipped the girl's jacket up followed by a kiss on the cheek. Of course she didn't expect anything to happen, but when they went out on these things, she wanted to be sure that AJ had at least one weapon on him. Bonnie had given him a sword the first Christmas they spent together and then she had given him a dagger the following birthday of his. You could say it was a High Priestess' presents to her keeper, he couldn't use his abilities alone, especially when other people seemed to have weapons. Not that he had had real reason to use them as such, then they were nice to have. Another thing was the names she used. She called him AJ on a daily basis, but when she used his first name it meant that she was serious and what she said was important, maybe it was a nice way to set things straight and that way AJ knew when he had to be serious as well.

Bonnie had opened the door and Jamie had already run over to the black Audi they bought four years ago. "Ready," she said when he returned, giving him a smile. The fact that they knew each other so well had its advantages when they were out on penta duties. Of course she knew it wasn't always the most exciting job to be a keeper, but she made sure that he was well rewarded afterwards and she was planning on doing the same later when Jamie was in bed and they had adult time.

After they had dropped Jamie off at Cassie's place they headed out to the forest. But reaching a clearing, she realised they had to walk the last of the way. So after they had gotten out of the car, she took AJ's hand and lead the way, at least in the direction she figured the witch was living in. After a few minutes walk she finally spotted a small cottage. "That must be it," she said and briefly looked to AJ, sending him a smile before they reached the front door where she knocked, waiting for someone to open.

When the door opened an a woman with wild red hair opened, Bonnie wasn't quite sure what she had expected. Although the hair did make her think of a wild woman. But she couldn't help but have this feeling that she knew the woman. As Aine bowed her head in the usual greeting, Bonnie did the same. "Blessed be," she said and stepped inside, when Aine finally managed to invite them in. Bonnie looked around from where she stood, a typical forest cottage and then again it wasn't. This was the home of a witch, Bonnie could see it right away. The crystals, the posters of rare herbs on the walls.

As Aine started to babble about the fire, Bonnie chuckled and shook her head a little. "Don't worry, Reira has already filled me in. Besides I think she and I did a pretty good job at restoring the forest, with a little help from the Energies of course," she said and sent Aine a smile. The red haired witch gestured for them to follow her. Reaching a small living room, Bonnie took a seat on the couch. "This is my husband and keeper, Arthur and you can call me Bonnie," she said as she introduced AJ and herself to Aine.

Bonnie shook her head, when Aine mention the social call. "No it's not. The thing is, Reira told me about your curse and that you are affected in a negative way during the full moon. And with that coming tomorrow, then I wanted to make sure that nothing like what happened last month will happen again," she said as she kept her gaze on Aine, who nodded. Bonnie could hear the voices from the Energies, but they weren't aggressive as they usually were if she was around dark witches or warlocks, this was different. "I hope you don't mind me asking, but how exactly do you keep yourself locked up, I mean it is pretty hard to restrain a witch or a warlock for that matter," she said. After all if you didn't have the abilities, then if you knew the spell you could pretty much do anything.

Bonnie couldn't believe her own eyes or ears. The fact that Aine did that during each full moon, it simply stunned Bonnie. As they headed back to the living room and Bonnie took a seat on the couch again, she looked over at Aine with a baffled look, she shook her head a little. "I'm sorry, I just can't believe that you willingly will go through that pain during each full moon. I mean, I've only heard how being in direct contact with mandrake is. I've always been extremely careful and now that I have a daughter I won't even have the root in my garden in fear she will touch it by accident," she said and shook her head again. "I have to give it to you, I've never met a woman quite like you....You don't know if you can have the moon curse lifted or something. I expect it's happened centuries ago, but there has to be some descendants to who ever put the curse on your family," she asked and looked curiously at Aine. She definitely wanted to get to know this woman a little better.

Bonnie looked up to AJ when she heard him speak and then her gaze moved back to Aine, but Bonnie had to disappoint everyone, cause she didn't know. "I might be High Prietess, but the Energies don't tell me everything. Reira knew that there would be a test for her and she did call for me, but the Energies stopped me before I reached her. Not sure how long I ended up floating in mid-air before Reira came to me, after you had vanished," she said and briefly looked up at AJ. Then letting out a slight sigh before she looked back at Aine. "But I do know that you are not a dark witch. At it's only the day of the full moon where you loose it, but I think it would be wise to keep an eye on you, so I will send one out tomorrow, who can keep an eye on you," she said. With Reira in Paris, it would have to be someone else, maybe Nick or Cassie, even Lilly could be sent out if it was.

Then Bonnie got back on her feet and placed her right hand over her heart. "Blessed be Sister and take care. Arthur and I will leave you now," she said and gave Aine a warm smile, before she took AJ's hand and headed for the door and moved outside. Looking around a little, she did feel something wasn't quite right, like the birds had stopped their singing.

Bonnie looked around, her eyes moving to the house, but before she or Aine could move she pulled in AJ's sleeve. "Werewolves," she said, as one came around the corner of the house, cutting off their route to the door, then she saw another one come around the other corner and as she turned and looked to the clearing she saw several other werewolves appear. "Don't worry about me, they can't touch me, just make sure that nothing happens to Aine," she said in a hushed voice to AJ. She was wearing her protection bag, so the werewolves couldn't touch her. Still standing behind AJ. She grabbed for the dagger he had put there. ♥The next thing she had telematerialized AJ's sword and handed it to him instead.♥ She handed the dagger to Aine. It wouldn't hurt her, as long she didn't use it against Bonnie or AJ or for evil for that matter. "Take this," she said to Aine. Her heart was already racing and all the wolves were doing was grouping up on them, circling them in. This was so not good.

Bonnie hated being outnumbered, and when AJ handed her his protection bag that just made everything much worse. Last time he fought a werewolf he got hurt, sure she managed to heal him, but what she feared the most was if he got bitten. She turned and gave the protection bag to Aine, at least it would keep her safe. "Take this, the werewolves won't be able to attack you," she said, before she turned her gaze to a werewolf who slowly started to sneak up on them. Bonnie backed away, but she couldn't help but notice the werewolf's stare at Aine, who she was pushing backwards as well. "I think they want Aine," she said. The werewolves closing in on them, as they started to growl, just waiting for the right moment.

The attack was inevitable. They came from all sides, but those trying to attack Bonnie and Aine were cast away, which only made them agitated or at least more agitated than they already were. Bonnie turned her head and saw the werewolves that came for AJ and what exactly happened she wasn't sure, it was like a bubble emerged from inside her and moved out from her until it had AJ, Bonnie and Aine safely in the middle. Bonnie looked around confused, while the werewolves barked madly outside the bubble trying to get in, but in vain. "Arthur was that you?" she asked and looked confused over at AJ, but she couldn't help but look down to the baby bump. This couldn't be, she couldn't make a force field and neither should their children be able to do this. This was AJ's ability and last she checked his abilities couldn't be transferred to their children.