Another Short Story!

This is the year 2019 magic has been retuned to the world after the last magical creature was released from captivity by humans. In return the Fae gave back magic to the world turning one third of the worlds population into mythical creatures. Robin finished skimming her story with a yawn, history was her worst subject and she found it so boring. She went back to reading. This gave way to the rise of super hero’s and the creatures they fight on behalf of the world. Robin stopped reading again and rubbed her eyes she looked at the clock next to her laptop it read 1:37am. She had to be up in a few hours she vaguely remembered. Rising from her desk chair she made her way to her bed and laid down on top of the covers falling asleep almost instantly. She awoke to her alarm at 7am. Grumbling Robin slapped the button on the top of the annoying little machine. Getting up she felt the stiffness in her muscles from sleeping in the cold all night. She walked to her bathroom and used the toilet then washed her hands looking up she looked right into the mirror over the bathroom sink and froze. Her eyes. Shock and fear coursed through her, and she let out a scream. One of her eyes had turned pure white while the other was yellow. She heard her dad burst in the room. “Robin! Are you okay?” He said in a frantic voice coming to the bathroom door.

Robin turned flinging open the door “Dad there’s something wrong with my eyes we need to go to the hospital!” She said this all very fast starting to cry.

“Oh honey” Her dad said enveloping her in a warm hug. “There’s nothing wrong but I think its time we had a talk. Let me get your mother, you go sit on your bed.” He let go of her walking out the room.

Robin dared another glance at the mirror and saw that the yellow eye had turned blue, she let out a little whimper and walked to her bed sitting down. Her dad came back a few moments later her mom in tow. She took one look and Robin and burst out in tears going over to hug Robin. Robin was so shocked by this she didn’t know what to do she had never seen her mother cry, she was a very strong woman. Robin patted her mom’s back awkwardly. Her dad gently pulled her mom off her saying “Come on Tracie enough of that.” Her mom sat on the bed next to Robin whipping her eyes.
“I’m sorry Robin I didn’t mean to burst like that” Her mom said when she composed herself. Robins dad grabbed her desk chair pulling it over to the bed sitting down.

“Now Robin you know your mother and I love you very much.” Her dad started “and we hoped this would never happen to you but we have to tell you something.” He opened his mouth to say something but no words came out then he took a deep shuddering breath and tried again this time the words came “Your not fully human Robin. In fact we don’t know if your even a little human.”

Dead silence greeted these words. Robin tried to grasp what they where saying then she managed to find her words “What do you mean I’m not human I’m your child!”

“Yes you are and you always will be but the way you came to be was not by the… normal way.” Her dad replied more than a little awkwardly.

“How did I come to be then?” Robin said more than a little concerned.

“Well your mother and I wanted a child but we couldn’t conceive naturally, one day as I was working I came across this homeless woman on my patrol. I asked her if she needed help and she said she just needed some money for a bus ticket. I pulled out my wallet and gave her all the money I had on me at the time, the woman seemed surprised and then asked me if I could have one wish what it would be and I told her me and my wife wanted a child more than anything. She said you will have a child and vanished into thin air. I was startled but thought nothing of it, when I got home that night your mother told me she was pregnant. I was so delighted I told her of the woman and we celebrated we never thought you wouldn’t be human like us.”

Robin was silent trying to process the information she had just been given.

Her mother spoke up first “Are you mad at up for not telling you?”

Robin shook her head “No I could never be mad at you I’m just surprised.” Another thought came to Robin “Dose this mean I have to go to a school for mythic’s?”

Both her parents looked at each other and smiled.