Chapter 50 Dancing with pixies

• They stayed with Katariina for a little while before saying their goodbyes and heading for Pixieland. Joana, although happy, still found it hard to believe that her quest would be over soon. Finding these ingredients were no easy feat but she never would have done it without the help of the coven, as Dana had told her that Marylin took a much longer time to find them on her own, even though she was a powerful vampire. She thought of them as they neared Pixieland, very soon this would all be over; she would be back home with grandma Jen and would be getting ready to wed at the altar with Andrew, and she wouldn’t have to worry about becoming a vampire again on her wedding day. She would miss her friends, Dana, Derick, Edmund and Hillary very much, she wished that there was a way not to cut off from them forever but there was nothing she could do. She had to choose which one of the lives she would live as she couldn’t live both; and she chose her human life because she knew that was where she belonged.
• By the time they reached Pixieland, it was already morning but they were protected through the shades of the mighty trees of the forest. They went to see the queen first, who had never forgotten their help in saving Pixieland and welcomed them with a little pixie celebration by her dancers. They watched as the pixies danced around them and celebrate their saviors with music. Joana stood up to dance with the little pixies, being careful so as not to step on them or blow them off course. Derick watched her, mesmerized by her smile. When they were coming here, he slipped into her thoughts and realized that they were almost done with her quest, as soon as she gathered all these ingredients and presented them to the supreme council, she would become human and would have to return home. He felt bad, but he didn’t want Joana to see the disappointed look on his face. The worst part about all he felt for her was that they weren’t just feelings anymore; he had fallen in love with her, but it wasn’t from what he felt from Marylin, they were for Joana herself, the 200th descendant, who alongside Dana and the others, he had watched over since she was a baby, waiting for when she would join them. As he watched her grow, he realized that there was always a special part of his heart that raced for her. He couldn’t describe the feeling at first, but now that he had gotten to know her in person, now that he had spent time with her, now that he had made love to her, he realized that he loved this woman, even more than he had ever loved Marylin. It was much easier to let Marylin go, after her betrayal and everything she had done just to get with John, but whenever he thought of Joana leaving, a part of him just wanted to scream as loud as he could until she could hear them and decide not to go. Of course, he knew that wasn’t possible.
• Joana then walked over to where Derick sat and yanked him out of his thoughts.