Black Sheep of Faery: Books 1-2 by Harley Gordon

Author:Harley Gordon [Gordon, Harley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-25T23:00:00+00:00

Hatter and Bo

DWELL

A Bo and Hatter Short Story

Keep reading to find out how they met!

DWELL

Music, magic, and marijuana smoke swirl around the rooftops. Hatter closes his eyes as Get Back reaches the crescendo, his mouth framing the lyrics, his fingers tapping out the notes Billy Preston plays on the keyboard against his purple trousers.

The lingering effects of his nightmares float away into the chilled, winter air. For the moment, he forgets. Forgets the death and violence and horror of the war. The piles of remains, the stench of rotting flesh. The memories haunting him every night disappear as he’s wrapped in the enchantment of McCartney’s words.

The hair on the back of his neck rises, gooseflesh prickling along his skin.

There’s a Fae here.

He scans the crowd caught in worship for the rock gods beneath the brim of his hat and lowered lashes.

There.

A woman bundled in a emerald green jacket and lavender scarf, auburn curls tumbling around her face. Her pale, elfin face is slack with rapture, her eyes flashing with awe fixed on the neighboring roof. She pays no attention to the celebrating fans around her, she’s completely focused on the music.

He inches closer, his stomach tightening.

Something about her calls to him. Maybe it’s the loneliness she’s shrouded in, a match to his own. Maybe he recognizes a kindred spirit in her flashy colored clothes. Maybe it’s her Fae nature. Maybe it’s something else, something soul deep and as magical as the music enveloping them.

This is why he came back to London, begging for a job as a Librarian instead of his work taking him away from his fellow Fae, his fellow Wonderland characters. He craves a family again. Love. Friendship. His ability to recognize Fae made him an asset traveling the world, searching for newly born Fae.

But he’s had enough. He wants to return home. Belle was gracious enough to give him the Librarian job and send out replacements for him.

He was reacquainting himself with his city when the music drew him here. His fingers itch to skip across piano keys, but even with his gifts of persuasion, he doesn’t think he’ll get close enough to join them.

The woman turns an he catches her eye. Hers widen as she recognizes his nature, then narrows in suspicion. Hatter fights a grin, not wanting to scare her off.

His eyes rove up and down the length of her, trying to place her story. The red color of her hair isn’t natural. She isn’t one of the Fae who embraces their stories. She’s trying everything she can to be someone else, someone new.

Lots of Fae do that, their stories too dark or heartbreaking to embrace. Or the ones who try to live their stories here on Earth and find themselves disappointed in reality. Life rarely works out as well as fiction. The heroes aren’t paragons of virtue who always defeat the villains. Most of the time, villains win.

Hatter ran from his story at first too, not wanting to be the madman. But after the war, he grew tired of darkness.

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