Found - Anaya Phoenix (e book reader .txt) 📗

The moment I saw her eyes change from green to pink, my heart almost stopped. Michael’s mouth opened and he closed her nose together. Her eyes turned from pink to black, well at least that could pass as her original color. He took his hand off of her nose and put her in my arms, he leaned closer to me.
“What just happened?” I’m too stunned to say anything so I just shrug. She looks up at me with green eyes, her face is so perfect. Her cheeks puffy and pink, her lips full and cracked. She doesn’t look like she’s about to cry, but I still rock her in my arms. Her eyes seem to close, but she’s just looking around. Her eyes settle on Michael and she gives a sniff. Her face scrunches up and a piercing sound escapes from her. The doctors take her away from me and put her in a plastic little cubby.
“Congratulations Mrs. Greene, do you have a name?” the doctor asks. I still don’t know his name until I look at his name tag. It says Wilson, I nod and me and Michael say together
“Elizabeth”. I look up at him to see him looking at Elizabeth in her cubby, she looks at him and for a small second I can see a toothless gummy smile. Before they start cleaning her off, as soon as the water touches her she starts to cry. Hmm, that’s weird, if she’s half sprite she should welcome water. Maybe she’s an earth sprite. I look to Michael and tap his arm, he looks down at me and I signal him to lean closer. When his ear is next to my mouth
“go outside and get some dirt by the tree’s come back in and give it to me” he doesn’t question, just gives me a light peck on the forehead and a nod. Before he leaves out he stops by Elizabeth, her eyes focus on him and he kisses her forehead too. She coo’s and he races out the doorway, there’s pinching on my stomach and I assume their sewing me up. I turn my head and look at Elizabeth, she looks at me and I smile. Her eyes are back to green and slowly the lids drop. ‘Goodnight sweetie’ I whisper before they fully close. Before I turn my head back I can swear I hear a faint
‘Goodnight mommy’.


Dirt? Why would she want dirt? True Elizabeth nearly popped a blood vessel when the water hit her but what does dirt has anything to do with that? She smells funny too, she has my scent but she also has that earthy, dew smell. It’s very confusing, I walk out to the tree’s and grab a handful of dirt where the trunk has hidden under the earth. I put it in my pocket and wipe my hands on my jeans. I don’t waste any time dilly-dallying around and just walk back in the hospital. I go to room 303 to find them both there, alexis holds elizbaeth in her arms and smiles. She see’s me and relief floods over her face,
“thank goodness, you took long enough”
“I tired to be quick” that was really fast. She takes my hand and puts in on elizabeths’ head, it’s burning. I look to Elizabeth in horror, is she going to die
“relax, just give me the dirt” alexis says flippantly. I take it out from my pocket slowly and put it into her hand. She takes it in her palm and holds it for a few seconds. She opens her palm and dabs her thumb with dirt, she wipes it on elizabeth’s forehead and cheeks” some of the redness goes out of elizabeths’ face and alex exhales. She looks up to me and I must have looked confused because she sighed,
“she’s an earth sprite, when the water hit her she didn’t like it because her natural element is earth.” She explained slowly I nod and she dumps the rest of the dirt into the trash can. She looks back up to me and smiles, she extends her arms to me, giving Elizabeth to me. I look into her calm brown eyes and cock my brow. She nods and extends them further, I tuck my hands under the baby’s arms and slowly lift her up. I hold her in the air for a minute and her eyes snap open, the green locks me in place, she sniffs and smiles, well what I think is a smile it’s all gummy and small. I bend my arm and put her head in the crook of it, she still looks at me with those green eyes, her little hands wave out in front of her until she reaches my face. She grips it and tries to pull, it doesn’t work but she has some razor sharp nails.
“hey, stop that” I say in the softest voice I can, she looks into my eyes and they turn clear blue. Her face scrunches up and she starts that screeching noise.
“dammit Michael” alex says, she holds out her hands and I give Elizabeth back, she looks at her
“it’s ok little one, he didn’t mean to scare you, he’s sorry” the crying stopped and her eyes turn back to green. I’m not going to be good at this, she’s going to cry every time I speak to her or hold her or feed her! Alex must have seen my worried expression
“hey I bet your tired, go ahead and lay down. We’ll still be here by the time you wake up” she says clamly. I nod and go to the cot in the room, I lay down, but keep my eyes on them. Slowly my eyelids get heavy and I dose off to sleep.


I was just starting to get used to this mother thing when she started crying again, her eyes were still green so I had no idea what was wrong. A nurse came in and took one look at the baby,
“she’s hungry, you’ll to feed her”
“oh so wheres the bottle?” I ask relieved, until she raised an eyebrow in amusement.
“you’ll have to breastfeed” she says, my mouth dries up
“I’m sorry, I have no idea how to do that, so if you could just get me a bottle I would really-“
“nope she has to be breast fed,” she walks over to me and lowers the neckline of my paper dress. She pushed my arms closer until elizabeths face was on my breast. My face was flaming,
“she’ll open her mouth and do the rest” she says simply before leaving. I look down and see Elizabeth looking up at me,
“well, if your hungry eat” I say to her. She opens her motuh and starts sucking, it feels so weird, I cant even describe it. If it isn’t embarrassing enough cora and john come in with balloons and teddy bears.
“well if it isn’t the little mommy,” cora says, her green eyes bright. She looks at the baby feeding and makes a puppy dog frown
“aww, so cute”
“yeah cute” I mumble, john puts down his balloons and tries to look everywhere but me. Michael stirs and I motion with one finger for them to shush.
“can we see her?” cora asks, I nod then slowly pull Elizabeth off of my breast, she looks like she wants to kill me but then she sniffs and her eyes turn raspberry,
“theres no need to feel threatened these are your family members,” slowly her eyes turn green again. I nod and smile, I motion for cora to come over, she does and holds her hands out, I give Elizabeth to her and fix my dress,
“you can look now” I tell john. He does and smiles at cora, then at me, I smile back and look pointedly toward Michael
“thanks for bringing him, he must have been a pain in the butt though
“you have no idea” he sighs out. Cora goes still and her body goes rigid
“why are her eyes pink now?” she asks, I feel my cheeks flame so I try johns tactic. I look everywhere but cora and elixabeth,
“alex?” she warns
“she’s half sprite” I say fast. Cora’s mouth opens and john gaps, I look at Elizabeth in cora’s arms and extend my hands back out. Cora gives her back to me as if she were a cold. I narrow my eyes,
“don’t take it out on her for my stupid actions,” I say to her. My heart beat has finally returned to its normal pace and it beats thunderously in my chest. Why wont Michael wake up and deal with them, I’m too tired.


Well I fell really refreshed, or at least I did, I wake up to find cora in a defensive stance john with his mouth open and alex, who looks extremely tired, holding a pink eyed Elizabeth. It doesn’t take a genius to find out what happened, alex snaps her eyes to me
“can you please handle this?” she asks sounded defeated, and tired and a little edgy. I nod and she gives me a small thank ful smile, she puts Elizabeth in her plastic cubby and sinks down further into the bed. She turns around carefully trying not to jostle her stitches and in an instant I hear snoring. I look at cora who has her fists clenched and her breathing heavy,
“outside now” I say short and clipped. She narrows her eyes on me but stomps outside, john right after her. I walk around to the plastic cubby and kiss the now green eyed Elizabeth on the forehead. I carefully exit the room and close it quietly, I go to the waiting room to see cora pacing her fist under her chin. ‘her wolf is out of conrtol’ my wolf tells me ‘she wants blood, or sex, I don’t see either one a possibility so your going to have to fix it. Before she hurts what is ours’. I mentally scoff thanks for that captain obvious. She looks at me and narrows he reyes
“you’ve known all along haven’t you?” her voice is hoarse, I’m no longer talking to cora, but to her wolf. I let my wolf out,
“of course we have, there is nothing wrong with Elizabeth” we say simply, she growls and her fists clench
“everything is wrong with that alpha, that child is an abomination-“
“to who, to you or to me. To me that child is a beautiful innocent creature, she has the beauty of her mother but the mind of a wolf” we take a breath “you will not judge her for what she is, do you understand”. The wolf takes a breath and bows her head
“as you wish it alpha, it shall be done” I call my wolf back in and so does cora,
“sorry” she mutters,
“it’s ok, she just smells weird, that’s probably why your wolf doesn’t like her” I say simply. In the distance I can hear that screeching sound and give a small smile,
“now I would appreciate it if you could show me how to calm her down without scaring the crap out of her” I hold out my hand. She smiles and takes it, she jets down the hall to the elevator
“sure” she says brightly.


Can I at least get 10 minutes of sleep? Apparently not! She’s like an alarm with no snooze button, her cry shakes the walls of my inner ears, its not like