C3 A New City

Astrid:

She woke up in the back of the car, she didn’t know when she fell asleep or how she got into the car, and the last thing she remembered was her mom trying to convince her to go with them.

“Oh Astrid, you are up.” Her mom said, looking at her from the front seat.

“Where are we going?” She rubbed her eyes groggily.

“Well dear, we are moving to your dad’s old town, Greendale.” She sounded so excited which annoyed Astrid.

“What do you mean moving I never agreed to move with you!” The drowsiness disappeared instantly, Astrid said angry with her, she looked out the window, they were on the highway and from the looks of it far from her home. “I want to go back! I am not leaving with you!”

“Come on Astrid, we have to be over this, this is what’s best for you right now.” Her father said, looking at her from the rearview mirror.

“You don’t understand! I can’t just go like that, griffin was buried there why are you doing this to me? Why are you trying to separate me from him.” She had tears in her eyes as she looked at her parents.

“Astrid, no one is separating you from him, he will forever and ever be a part of our lives but you are grieving wrongly honey, you can’t just give up your life and sit at his grave every day.” Her father tried to reason with her

“Yeah, I can! I can!” She yelled at them both crying.

“Astrid.” Her father parked the car on the side of the road turning to face her. “Losing Griffin has not been easy for any of us, your mom and I miss him terribly but still we have to live our lives that is the best thing we can do for your brother.” He said in a very calm tone but instead of it making her feel better it only fueled the madness in her heart.

“No Dad! This is you and Mom moving on and trying to completely erase him from our lives!”

Her father reached for her hand from the front of the car, making him look a bit uncomfortable as he was quite a huge man. “Honey we can never erase your brother from our lives, that is impossible, but we need to move on, and Greendale is what’s best for you, if your brother were alive he would..”

“Do not ever talk about my brother in that manner Father! He is alive!”

“You know what I have had it with your attitude young lady, and that’s finally we are going to Riverdale and you can come along either awake or asleep your choice!” Her mom said glaring at her.

“You would not Mother!”

“Oh, young lady try me I will!”

Astrid glared at her not ready to back down, but what she saw in her mother's eyes made her rethink her decision.

“Fine, Greendale it is.” She said glaring as her father started the ignition instantly. Sulking, she started to look out the window.

It couldn’t get any worse anyway, it was probably a day's drive from their town there, and she’d just have to spend a day on the road.

~~~~~

That same night at Greendale,

Luna Claire was not having it, she and her husband were in a heated argument in the study, no one knew what they were arguing about but from the sounds coming from the study, it was serious.

Ezra and Asher looking all battered walked into the house,

“Oh my boys, what happened to you?” The butler asked them. Ezra looked at Asher first before he replied.

“Trainer Jones is in town, what of dad and mom?”

The butler looked away from their eyes suspiciously before he looked back at them.

“Better let’s get you guys cleaned up first, you don’t want the alpha and the Luna to see you this way, especially after what went down with you two today.” He said, leading them to the other side of the house where their rooms were.

In the alpha study room.

“I will not let you ship off my boys to some human high school, they are just kids Ethan!” Ever since she found out the outcome of their meeting, she had been on Ethan’s neck trying to get him to reverse the decisions.

“Claire you heard it, the seers saw it, the moon goddess decided it, there is nothing I can do it about, my hands are tired!” He tried to reason with her, half-heartedly, he wasn’t against getting the boys out to the real world perhaps if they left their care they’d understand the duty they carry and stop mopping around the house the way they did.

“The moon goddess? And need I remind you how this same court of yours manipulated the story of the seer when we were to wed? If your mother had not insisted then, they wanted to sacrifice me to the moon goddess saying she demanded it, it was all a ruse! Then and now!”

Ethan ruffled his hair and got up from his chair walking around the table to stand right before her, he gently placed his hand on her shoulders, rubbing her arms up and down.

“Claire, maybe this is good for them. I mean the boys, they have never really had any good contact with the outside world, they are always here cooked up inside the house. Maybe this is good for them.”

“So you are in support of this?” Her voice is low but threatening, he could feel it, and she won’t budge. “You know what, I won’t let you or your council take my boys away from me, tell them to bring their seer here and when she sees the vision herself, then I would agree with them.”

She got out of his hold and walked out of his study room with her head high, Ethan rubbed his forehead, he could feel it, Claire would be trouble in this decision, but she had a point too.