Chapter 5 - Revelation

I don't think I have ever felt more love for such a tiny human being than for my son, Jasper Bird. I had originally settled on more common name but when I looked at his perfect little face I knew he needed something different. The birth was long and gruelling, but I would go through it again ten thousand times for this little guy. Dayvid had wanted to be with me for the birth but I asked the doctors to tell him to leave. Apparently he hung around outside the hospital for a while before a member of staff told him to go away. I felt more calm about being with him since the night he apologised to me, but giving birth on a hospital bed was neither the time nor the place for reunions.

I went into the bedroom and placed Jasper in the cot. I stroked his infant face with my fingers. He was surprisingly quiet for a baby. He had a very fine layer of dark, fuzzy hair on his head and soft, almost silvery skin. He took after his father. I sighed and kissed his forehead, standing back to admire this work of art that was my baby boy.

 All of a sudden, the strange, maddening feeling the full moon had brought out in me gripped my body. I was unable to move. I panicked as I began to hunch over and felt a tingling sensation crawl up my back.

Okay. You got me. I'm a werewolf. I'd been hiding it well, huh! I had been needing to change the whole night but I was unable to whilst pregnant. I really wanted to keep it a secret for as long as possible but I supposed that I should embrace it. I was a mother now, after all.

I gave Jass a quick snuggle to make sure he knew it was still his mummy! I wanted to bring him up accepting of all supernatural types. After all, his father was a vampire, his mother was a werewolf and he lived in Moonlight Falls!

I slept so well that night!

Accepting as I was, I still transformed as soon as I woke up.

I made a note to clean up the hair on the floor.

I gave Jasper a quick feed and then did a few chores around the house.

Whilst paying the bills I discovered a strange package in the mail.

I retrieved the box and read the note attached.

'Dearest Elizabeth,

I know you must be getting pretty near your time now, or perhaps you've even had your baby, so Bernie and I have made this doll for you. Its name is Hatty. A local witch placed an enchantment on it. Your child should play with it and build a relationship. If they devote enough time to it, something magical will happen. I so hope that you are okay and that you've found a happy home in Moonlight Falls, we would love to come and visit you when the baby is older.

Yours lovingly, Adeline x

I placed the doll in Jasper's cot.

I made a few calls that morning. I rang Katie's mobile since I didn't really fancy speaking to my parents. She was thrilled at the news that she had a nephew and said that she would tell Mum and Dad. She was living in Sunset Valley then with her boyfriend, Brett. I made her promise to come and visit us some time. I also thanked Aunt Adeline for the doll and told her about Jass. She was planning on moving back to Moonlight Falls with her kids soon and I was really looking forward to having a few friendly faces around the place! I had always wanted a house full of children, but at the moment I wanted to concentrate on my beautiful baby. I also wanted to get into a stable relationship and climb up the career ladder a bit first so I could get a bigger house. It wasn't going to be long before Jasper outgrew his baby cot and started needing his own bedroom.

Full moons came and went and I even met some other werewolves whilst taking Jasper for a stroll in the park. I met the Wolff family who were an entire pack in their own right! The mother, Erica, gave me some newborn tips. I really liked Erica and we formed a  pack together. Added to that was her teenage son and a man who ran the elixir store. We also found a young werewolf woman with gorgeous red hair named Ophelia and a good-looking man with particularly pointy teeth called Briar. They were all really lovely and welcoming and I was becoming really good friends with them all. Especially Briar... Sometimes they all came round for some steak - I was getting to be quite the chef. It was so nice to finally have my own pack of werewolf friends! However, there was still something missing. A big hole of indeterminable shape in my life. I had a beautiful son, lovely friends and a stable job. But I needed someone really special to share it with.

One night I was putting Jasper to bad when I looked into his big dark eyes.
'Oh my, you don't half look like your father.' I exclaimed.
That made me think. I looked at my little baby and all I could see was Dayvid. From his curly black hair to his tiny, silver-skinned toes.

I knew what I had to do.

Shaking with nerves and the excitement of what I was about to do, I pulled out my mobile and slowly dialled the number of the one person I finally knew I needed above all others. Of whom I'd always known I'd needed. Of whom I'd always wanted. Of whom I had loved with all my heart since the moment I'd set eyes on him.

'Dayvid?'