I laughed as I watched Annie, Frank, and Xavier. I smiled as I watched them play. "Guys careful!" I said as they ran around the pond.
"Sorry." Annie said as she pulled them with her.
"It's okay I just don't want anyone getting hurt if you slipped and fell into the pond." I tell her.
"Right!" Xavier said as he moved away from it. I smiled as I pulled out my flute.
"Oh!" Annie said as she and Frank came to sit next to me.
"You can play the flute?" Xavier asked me.
"Yup." I said with a laugh as I started playing it. The soft melody I played had them humming along with me.
"I haven't heard that song in forever." I looked up at Logan.
"Logan!" Annie said as she gets up and hugs him as I keep playing Logan sits beside me as he pulls Frank into his lap. I finish playing the song as he rests his head against my shoulder. I continued to play for them.
"Xavier?!" I hear Mother yell as I finish a song.
"Aww does this mean you have to leave?" Annie asked him.
"I don't know." He said.
"Over here Mother." I called out to her.
"Oh there you guys are!" She said as she walked up to us as Logan sat upright.
"What can we do for you mom?" Xavier asked her.
"I need to reapply the spell on you." She tells us.
"Okay." He said as he slipped off the bench and stood in front of her.
"Okay spell applied." Mother said.
"Okay so it's time to meet the rest of the pages." I said standing up as Annie and Frank slid off the bench and grabbed Xavier's hand.
"We will go with you guys." Annie said softly.
"That sounds fine." I laughed as I stood.
"I need to head to the office. I have more paperwork to finish." Logan sighed before he kissed my hand.
"Okay." I said nodding and as I grinned down at the twins. "You guys want to pull a prank on the others?"
"YES!"
"Now I know where my Pages get their pranks." Logan sighed.
I smiled at him. "Maybe." I giggle at him.
Logan sighs as he walks away. "So what are we doing?" Frank asked me.
I hummed as I spun my flute. "Good question." I said softly. "Or maybe instead of a prank we do a line?" I asked them.
"A Line?" Xavier asked.
"Yea I would play my flute and we would all move in time if I stop playing we freeze." I explained to him.
"So I mix of following the leader and red light green light." Xavier said after a moment.
"I think that would be fun and the others can join." Annie said as I smiled.
"Okay but Xavier is behind me so I can keep him safe." I tell him.
"Okay!" They said as we headed to the page's wing.
"This will be fun!" I said. I started playing a marching toon and they started following me in line.
"Oh Death." Nora groaned as I stopped playing the music and looked at her. "Keep moving darn it! I am not a painting!" I started playing as the kids giggled at her. I opened the door and led them inside as the others looked up and a few grinned and ran to join us. I love the fact they were always up for games and pranks. We circled the hall a few times before I stopped and turned on them. Making everyone giggle.
"Alrighty!" I said.
"So who is the new guy?" Alice asked.
I grinned at them. "Guys this is my younger brother Xavier. We figured out a spell that would silence the heart beats sounds so we can get you out of here. I know mom is working to get it on everyone, sadly it does wear off after a few hours so we will need to be careful." I said looking at them.
"YAY!" came the cheers from everyone.
"Alright what is going on here!" The Keeper snaps making all the kids flinch and a few of the younger ones pale.
"Keeper." I growled at her. "Please don't push your luck." I hiss at her.
She pulled a fake smile and bowed to me. "My Lady what can we do for you?" She asked me with an over sickly sweet voice.
"I am just letting them know that they will soon be able to leave their wing. My Mother figured out how to hide their heart beats. I was introducing them to my brother who I am sure would like to make some new friends." I said with a smile.
The sour look in her eyes as she looked at Xavier almost had me growling again. "Of course My Lady."
"Annie Frank, why don't you take Xavier and show him your rooms." I said knowing their rooms were the farthest down the hall. "Everyone else please go to your rooms for the next few minutes."
They looked at me then each other and scattered like leaves. "What the hell is your problem?"
"I am not sure I know what you mean." She snips.
"Oh you know what I mean Keeper." I spat at her. "The attitude, I have never seen such an attitude from a keeper before. Most are mothering to a fault but you seem to find it more of a hassle. I am aware it is almost time for the Keeper switch but so help me if I find out that you have done something to the Children you will wish we sent you to death when I get done with you." I said stepping into her space. "I will not have someone who is cold about the fact she can not have children belittle the future of our clan! Get out now pack your things and leave the castle you have until sunrise tomorrow to be out."
"YOU HAVE NO RIGHT!" She screamed. I grabbed her by the back of the head with a fist full of hair and dragged her out of the area.
"Nora takes over the Page's wing!" I yelled through the halls.
"YES DIANA!" I hear the woman tried to get out of my grip but she can't. I slam the office door open and throw her into a chair.
"What did the keeper do?" Logan asked me.
"I am removing her earily." I said. "She is bitter about her infertility and she lets it effect her job."
"I am not letting…" She started.
"Then what the hell is with your attitude towards the younger children?" I snapped at her. She did not speak.
"Your Lady asked you a question Keeper." Logan said.
"Everyone is soft on them someone needs to be the firm hand." She snarls.
"There's firm then theres rude and cruel." I snarled at her.
"I have no idea what the children have told you they do like to make tall tails."
"I am aware of this I help them some time." I tell her. "But never have I had them flinch away from a keeper when they speak up!" I snarl at her.
She tensed as Logan glared at her. "Speak!" He snarled.
"I was simply disciplinethem." She hissed.
"How?" I asked her.
"That does not matter." She growls.
"Oh but it does you work with the kids they should never feel unsafe in your care." Logan snarled.
She said nothing again. "Please don't make us ask the kids." I said to her.
Her head whipped to me. "Those brats need to learn that they will not be catered to."
"Your job is to cater to them. It is the teachers jobs to discipline them and if that discipline moves past the classes then it does then fall to you to keep the discipline in line but you are ment to be there encouragement." Logan snaps at her.
"I will do no such thing." She snaps.
"Oh for the love of Death." I groaned as I moved to the door and stuck my head out and yanked Oliver into the office. "Take the keeper to her room help her pack and then escort the now Ex-keeper from the castle."
"My King!" She said standing up.
"She right if you can't do the job then you can't be here in the position." He said.
Oliver moved to her and removed her from the office. "What happened."
"Every single page flinched like I would when I was first turned." I tell him. "I won't have them going though what I did where I was scared of my own shadow with the keeper."
He closed his eyes and rubbed his face. "We need a temporary keeper." He said. "The change over isn't for another 6 months." He reminded me.
"I know I know Nora has been training for the position she could use the hands on experience." I remind him.
"Not without a lot of overwatch."
"What about Reene? They could tag team it." I suggested.
"She was a teacher and keeper back in the day." He agreed.