CVII ||| What Can a Mirror Do? || Oliver-Sean pov

We were mapping a way to get Hel fully with us, when I felt it.

Anger. Overwhelming sadness. Desperation. Pain.

So strong and alive that I, who was standing up, fell down to my knees, everything taking me by surprise. "Oli!" They all screamed in horror as I fell, then came to me.

"Brother, what the hell is happening?" River cried.

"Hell…" I whispered. But if I'm being hit by her emotions like this, she has to be near. However, how would she get near if we are in the secret chamber. "She's… not okay."

Rio and Dimitry helped me up, "What do you mean?"

I closed my eyes, feeling everything hurt, "I can… I can feel all she feels. Same goes for her," I whispered. "And right now, I feel everything and none of it is good."

"What do you mean you feel what she feels?" Kalisha and Elsa, both who are mated, asked in confusion.

But my body fell weak again and the boys held me tighter, "It's an affect of our mating bond," I breathed with difficulty. "All different and all because she's a winged serpent. We don't understand it yet, but we can… we can share way more than our emotions, and we have no control over it yet, so, it's been overwhelming."

"Goddesses above," Yumi groaned.

"She's here," I forced myself to stay up.

Their eyes widened, "What do you mean here?" Savannah gasped.

Sigh, "I mean. She must be either in the highway or in the office. But she's fucking here. I have no idea how. We can only feel each other's emotions when we are close, and she has to be bloody close for me to be this overwhelmed," I cursed, putting my shite together after being caught by surprise. "I have to go to her, I can't… I need to help her."

"We'll go with you," all my kids from the Circle exclaimed.

"We all will!" Kalisha added and the others nodded.

"Whatever," I growled. "I just need to get to her."

Then we heard a high-pitched scream coming from the highway, and it was a very, very, very bloody familiar high-pitched scream. "Felix!" We all said together.

"What is he doing here?" Igor asked Henrihk.

"I don't know. He said he was going to sleep!" The hawk gasped.

"And Hel said she was going to spend the night reading," I scoffed.

"She might have come to the office to read," Priya suggested.

"Then gotten curious with the mirror and found the entrance!"

We all stared at Danielle, because that's bullshite.

"Hel?" I asked incredulous. "Curious with a mirror? I don't think so. And I doubt she would stay in the office with a mirror that huge. I know my mate, and the answer is, absolutely bloody fucking hell no. If she came here, she came knowing what to do to cross inside the secret chamber, and she must have woken Felix up to make him come with her."

Igor and Henrihk nodded, "Sounds more true," Igor exclaimed.

But then came a insanely strong earthquake that would have made me fall to the ground if I hadn't hold onto the wall.

Ignoring them and feeling more in control of myself, I ran out of the chamber first, entering the insanely long and eerie highway. As I faded through it in a blink of a second, I found Felix freaking out, Jack freaking out, and my mate laying on air, scarily static.

"What the fuck happened to her?" I growled and both Felix and Jack let out a scared scream when I popped out of nowhere. Ignoring their reactions, I went to her, all of her emotions overflowing through me, and her skin was glowing softly in a emerald glow. "What. Happened?" I glared at them as I found her unconscious and frozen like in the day with Lydia.

["It… it must have been the mirror!"]

"S-s-she pushed us through and said that she would come right after us," Felix blabbered still freaking out. "B-b-b-but then we felt the earth shaking and when she passed through it, she passed like this."

I saw red, "How is this fucking possible?" I turned my eyes to my love again, and when I touched her, a wave of shock ran through my body. "What the fuck?" I gasped, touched her again, and it happened again. "How is this happening? Why is she like she was the day with the gargoyle?" I glared at Jack. "This is just a fucking magical mirror."

["I… I don't know!"]

When the others came, Felix squeaked again, and when he saw his boyfriends, he gasped, "What the… what is happening? How are you all in here? Why are you all in here?"

"Why are you here, babe?" Igor asked as he and Henrihk got to him.

"How are you here, Lix?" Henrihk caressed Felix's hair.

The dragon gulped, bright red and pointed to Hel, "She invaded my lair and messed with me until I accepted to come with her. Saying that if I came with her to this secret place, I would be able to get in here before any of you, or Oliver," he side-glared me. "I was easily won on that."

"Too fucking bad then," I growled at him, then I turned to Jack. "How did she know about this place, Jack?"

["Cosmos told her about it. She couldn't help coming here. But she was… she was scared of having to face the magical mirror. We got through Ivy, after Hel found a way to deal with the witch, and then when we came here, Felix covered up for her on the mirror, to help her with the fear, but she pushed him and me inside it, saying she didn't want us to see her."]

I can totally see this stubborn arse doing that. "And then?"

["Then we crossed and waited. She didn't come. We grew restless and waited a bit more, because there's no way she would just leave us here. She would cross this mirror even if she had to beat her fear to it."]

"But when she did it, she was already unconscious," Felix cried.

"Fuck," I growled and ignoring the shocking waves, I held her in my arms, putting her arms over my shoulders, then I turned to Igor. "Bring him and Jack with you!" With that, I faded inside the hidden chamber with my unconscious mate in my arms.

I passed through the round table with the twenty-six seats, and went to the biggest of the six red wine leather couches, where I laid her down. Taking of my dark red cloak of our secret society, I covered her body with it, since she's using a pair of shorts and she also rolled up my the sleeves of the Valentino black shirt she took from my wardrobe. And I couldn't help the grin when I looked at her red fox fluffy slippers that are just a total different vibe to her look.

Kneeling at her side, I caressed her face softly, feeling my heart clench by the emotions I was still feeling through her. I kissed her forehead and kept playing with her hair, waiting for her to wake up. For her to gasp and freak out because I didn't told her I'm the leader of a secret society. To tell me what the hell is happening right now, because I'm freaking the fuck out. "Babe," I whispered, clenching my jaw.

Closing my eyes, I tried to channel all of my good emotions, most of which come from spending so much time with her now, and I held onto them, knowing that if I managed to concentrate stronger emotions than the ones she's feeling, it would pass to her and she would feel better.

I felt the kids all behind me, but giving me enough space not to get in the way of what I'm doing. They kept silent, which I'm thankful for, because I know Felix must be dying to know what we are doing here, how we got here, and a whole lot of stuff. But he held it, more worried with my mate than with the circumstances.

"Come back to me," I whispered, sending all the good feeling I have in me to her. "Please, beautiful, open your eyes."

Slowly, she began to feel more scared than anything. Scaring me!

"Hel," I gulped. "I'm here with you, my love. I'm here. I'm here."