It seemed honest like no time at all, even if I had grown a lot in the time between. and Yet I still had so much growing to do. Not two days after my father died I went to the factories and began begging on their doorsteps for work, anything at all Most of them had no interest in a begging boy. Until I reached a Fabric factory, I begged at the doorstep as I did with everyone he didn't seem convinced. But He took pity on me especially when he realized as I was less than half the age of the rest of his staff he could pay me less than half of everyone else and he agreed to give me a job. So I had been working every single day of my life from the crack of dawn to twilight, I couldn't afford the house so I simply moved into a room in that stone Temple so I could take better care of Y/n. I sighed finishing my work. the dust thick on my clothes and skin, the factory dark and dangerous. The noise began to slow as people shut there machines down, I stood powering down the machines and cleaning up where I had been working waiting for the whistle that we could all head home.

"Hey, Luke ya comin' down the pub tonight?" Alex yelled as he cleaned up his machine just beside my own,

"Maybe, that's if the Mrs lets me out" He laughed back to him

"Oh really come on Luke, Just get home lay her down on the table, fuck her pretty little pussy and say, I'm goin' out with the guys tonight babe and I'll fuck ya again when I get back" he laughed

"Sure Alex" luke laughed

"What about you tom? Ya coming out tonight?" he asked as he turned to me

"Sorry, I'm busy" I answered not really waiting to hold much of a conversation with him

"Ohh come on your not stayin' home with ya Mrs too?" He laughed

"Really? Tommy? Luke get real he's a rid" Luke laughed

"Good point, have your balls even dropped yet kid?" Alex laughed at me

"Yeah, very funny guys" I sighed concentrating on my work

"Your fairly lucky thomas," harry says from the other side of the machines

"How so?" I asked

"I've seen you" he laughs "I've seen you sneaking out into the woods. If you where any sort of man I'd tell you to be careful"

"what are you talking about?" I asked

"The Enchantress'" They all whispered

"The Enchantress' live in that woods. They Howl like wolves and Feed Like Vampires" Luke laughed

"They Prey on horny men desperate for the touch of a lady" Harry laughed

"They'll appear all beautiful and flash there pretty little tits at ya! Before ya know it she's ridin' on ya full cowgirl and as soon as ya cum she'll eat ya alive!" Alex laughed

"Don't worry thomas, They only eat after sex so as long as your balls haven't dropped they won't bother you" Luke laughed

"Come on guys Enchantress' are just a myth" I lied Just as the whistle went so I grabbed my bag and almost ran through the factory and through the little town. I tried my best to avoid people as I headed out into the woods the path thats been formed from me walking backwards and forwards every day for years. I saw the stone temple and I checked knowone was following me and I smiled a little. "Y/n?" I called but nothing "Y/n? where are you?" I asked walking up the stairs and opened the heavy wooden door "Y/n? Hello?" I called walking slowly through the rooms of the temple seeing my room, her room and all the other rooms but she wasn't there. I left again looking around the garden behind the temple "Y/n? Hello? Y/n!" I yelled looking around the garden at the hedges and flowers I was about to call her again.

But I saw her kneeled on the grass her head in the bush her little blue dress almost exposing her little butt. I blushed a little but snuck up and tickled her waist

"Aaaahhhh!" Nooooooo!" she giggled as I pulled her out as she kicked and laughed as she laid on the grass "Thomas stop!" she giggled

She laid on the grass on her back, her little blue dress hung off her like a robe, her hair cut short as she hated having it too long, her pretty Y/E/C eyes looking up at the sky open squeezing shut where I was tickling her, her little smooth legs trying to playfully kick me as I tickled her

"Okay okay, I'm sorry" I laugh stopping tickling her "Hi"

"Hi" she giggled

"were you hiding from me?" I asked

"Noooo" she whines "I was looking for bunsybun" she complains

"Where'd you lose him today?" I sighed

"Under the bushes," she says I went to move to look but she stopped me

"what?"

"I missed you" she smiled

"I missed you too" I blushed as she rested her forehead against my own rubbing her nose against mine I did it too giving her a little cuddle "Come on y/n lets go find Bunsybun," I told her getting up and helping her up too, we looked around the garden for a while till she found her little bunny plush so we sat on the steps cleaning it up

"Thomas?" she asks

"What is it y/n?" I asked her

"Practice?" she asks

"Okay" I smiled taking her Plush "Close your eyes" I laughed covering her eyes with my hand she did shut them so I got up and began looking for a place to hide her plush but I saw her eye open "Hey! No peaking thats cheating" I warn her she shut her eyes again so I hid her plush in one of the tall trees and went back sitting with her "Okay, go find him" I told her and she giggled jumping down the step her hands turning to her claws as she ran through the garden skulking a while till she found the tree I hid it in, she jumped up grabbing it with her fangs and running back to me "Good girl" I smiled fixing her hair for her

"Again?" she asks

"Alright" I laughed taking it from her "No peaking" I warn

I sat looking out across the woods looking at the smoke coming from the chimneys in town, the sky turning dark, the sound of the wind whistling through the high tree's as I sat on the cold stone, I heard steps behind me and I heard her sit with me.

"Hi thomas" she smiled

"Hi y/n" I smiled back she rested her head on my shoulder and I smiled a little moving my head so she had a little more space "You okay?" I asked

"Umm... It's quiet tonight" she says

"it is, to quiet" I warned her

"You always say that," she smiled "Thomas... what are you scared off? thats out there?"

"People" I sighed

"People?" she asks

"Every day they get closer, close to finding this place, I don't know what'll happen if someone finds you," I told her

"You'll look after me" she smiled moving so her forehead was on mine

"what if I'm not here?" I asked her "Or... I can't protect you?"

"Then I'll protect you," she says rubbing my nose with her own

"Y/n, We just need to be careful," I told her

"I know, but I feel safe with you" she smiled resting on my shoulder again

"I feel safe with you too y/n" I smiled wrapping an arm around her

"Thomas can I ask you something?" she asks

"Sure Y/n" I smiled

"Can I ask a favour?" she asks

"Aww, of course, anything you want"

"Can I hunt?" she asks

"Y/n" I sighed holding her hands "You know you can't go hunting"

"but thomas" she whines

"Y/n I know you're hungry, I know you want to go out and hunt like your mother but your not old enough to hunt yet" I explain to her

"Please thomas, I want to hunt" she begs

"Look I'll let you hunt. On your next birthday," I told her

"You Promise?" she asks

"Of course I promise y/n" I smiled

"Okay, Come on bedtime" she smiled

"A little longer, you get to bed. I'll stay up in case something happens"

"Come to bed thomas," she says

"I'm not tired," I tell her

"Did ask if you were tired?" she asks

"No" I laughed

"what did I say?" she asks

"Bedtime" I smiled

"Alright come on then sleepy time," she giggled tugging my hand pulling me back to my room.

I sat looking out at the rain from my window, The ash from the town grows higher everyday, the woods shink every week and my fear grew worse that someone would find us here. The rain battered everything for miles, the green of the woods turned a murky grey by the dark sky and the mud. The garden began to fade and inside me grew a fear that I was struggling to repress. My age. The unstoppable force of my own ageing was being to worry me, as did hers. soon enough she would be hunting and I don't know if after that she will need me to protect her. Soon she will change and become like her mother, a seductive man-killing monster, and soon I was to be a man. I was unsure how much longer I could stay here with her. I didn't want to leave her, But if I didn't would I be forever looking over my shoulder for fear of her Enchanting spells to purely turn me into one of her victims if I wouldn't be the first. I heard my door and I turned to see y/n in her usual blue dress she looked like she had been crying,"what's wrong?"

"I can't sleep" she answered "I wanted to talk to you about something"

"yeah... I did too" I told her "You first" I insisted as she sat on the window ledge the other side of me

"Your mother? what was she like?" she asks

"I don't know... I Never knew her" I admit "what about you? What was your mother like?"

"I don't know" she sighed "she was away a lot, getting food for me. working and such"

"I knew your mother" I smiled

"what was she like?"

"she was sweet, always kind to me, and she was very beautiful," I told her

"she sounds nice... I hate to say it But I don't remember much about her, Most of my time with her was her teaching me from books" she explained

"what do you remember about her?" I asked

"I remember her spells, I remember her work. She always used to say the purpose of a Moon daughter was to raise a daughter of her own, Thats all we know. she used to teach me all the little tricks she had for pretty boys," she laughed "I never knew my father, she ate him"

"at least you have that"

"What happened to your mother?" she asks

"She died... It's a long story" I sighed she smiled moving closer and looking at me hugging her bunny

"So Tell it"

"My mother... was In a way kinda like yours, she was a whore. She used to sell her body on street corners for change in mens pockets they would use her and throw her aside. One night a man came to visit her, and the next thing she knew she was pregnant, She never saw him again. So she married someone before she began to show he was horrible to her but she had little choice when I was born. It ripped her apart she couldn't survive, so My stepfather looked after me he wasn't very nice to me but in a way I cared about him, he was the only family I've ever known" I explained "And then... I met your mother, she was sweet to me but, she killed my stepdad and he stabbed her." I explained "I followed her here, and I killed her... she asked me too, I'm sorry y/n"

"I know Thomas, I know you killed her. I don't blame you" she says holding my hand "She went peacefully, having killed her last prey. She was happy rather than being in pain" she explained

"I promised her I'd take care of you... But y/n Now I need to do something"

"what is it?" she asks

"I have to leave you."

"why? I'm almost old enough to hunt" she asks

"and thats why I have to leave. Because if you're old enough to hunt... I'm old enough to be hunted"

"But I wouldn't hunt you thomas" she reassured

"I know you wouldn't, not intentionally but... what if I get caught in a spell, what if by accident it happens. what will do you?"

"Thomas I-"

"what will you do y/n? Kill me? Eat me? Or watch me suffer?"

"Do you have to go?" she asks

"I do, Until your old enough to fully control your Enchantment," I told her

"You promise you'll come back?"

"I promise" I smiled resting my forehead on hers.