Sonia's POV

Ody walked me out of the Castle looking Mansion and teleported us both straight back to the Disneyland Executive Suite. He used to his Powers to auto-fill the tub and added bubbles. He hugged me gently and whispered in my ear "I'm sorry they took you away. I hope he didn't hurt you. Are you ok? After your bath, is there anything I can do for you to help make you feel better?" he asked sincerely.

I leaned into his body and sighed, "I think some dinner and sleep is all I can handle for tonight. But I don't know if I want to sleep here. I don't feel safe." I shuddered.

Ody helped me undress, and step into the four-person spa bath, and my body instantly relaxed in the heat of the water. I could feel all my muscles slowly letting go after all the stress. I honestly only thought it had been ten or so minutes, but it must have been longer because the next thing you know - I was dreaming. 

It was so incredibly intense and vivid, it honestly felt as though I had been teleported. But if I pause and think about it, I can feel the hot water still encasing my body. I look around this dream-land, to see tropical beaches with crystal-clear blue water and if I looked behind me, I could both see and hear a tropical jungle. I looked down, wanting to confirm I wasn't naked - which I wasn't (thank goodness!) I was wearing a beautiful teal colored one-piece that was a halter neck and had a bright toucan print on it.

When I looked over to the water again, there was a petite woman in my way. "Uh hi?" I said.

She looked me up and down and I could have sworn I saw her chocolate eyes mist with tears. She took three tentative steps towards me and I automatically took one large one back without thinking. "Who are you?" I asked her.

"You don't remember me?" she called out softly.

I must have looked at her with a puzzled expression or cocked my head to the side like a confused puppy. I scanned her face, each crevice, every freckle, every strand of hair on her head. A flash of memory hit my brain like a flash of lightning.

**TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE**

The same face looked down at me, smiling - "Sonia, wake up! It's breakfast time beautiful!" Her arms reached out for me, and both tickled me as she picked me up like I was made of air. 

"Stop it, Mummy! Stop it!" my young voice squealed unconvincingly. She placed me down at the dining table and placed a kiss on the top of my head. 

"What do you want for brekky this morning? I'll make it while you go to the bathroom, ok?" she asked me.

"Oohhh weetbix with honey please Mummy! Haha! That rhymed!" I clapped my hands as I laughed. "I'm gonna go to the tawlet. Back in a minute." I said as I skipped out of the kitchen towards the bathroom. 

**END OF TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE**

"You're my... Mum?" I asked for clarification. The woman, whose name I still didn't know, took another two tentative steps towards me again, and this time I remained still.

"Yes, my darling child. I can't believe it took until the day of my death to locate you. I'm so sorry I couldn't protect you. Your powers were bound, in order to prevent your sperm donor from ever being able to find you... but someone broke that seal. You were with me until you were five years old, and then you just disappeared!" she said.

"What is your name?" I asked her. 

"My name is Marnie, my sweet petal," Marnie answered me with no hesitation. She was looking me over - almost as if comparing me to the five-year-old child in her memory. "You are such a beautiful woman. I wish I had gotten the chance to know you. But I am proud of who you have become."

This was all it took to break my facade. 

"Mum! How could I have just disappeared? I didn't even know of you... or remember you until just now... This honestly isn't fair!!" I cried out and stamped my foot like a child having a temper-tantrum.

Marnie walked over to me and grasped my shoulders firmly. She gazed into my eyes and said "I know you will be ok and you will get through this - Just as you have gotten through the last twenty-odd years without me. But I wanted to gaze my eyes upon you one more time and possibly give you a hug?" she asked me.

I simply nodded my head, rendered mute by the situation. It felt like a ten-tonne rock was lodged in my throat and in trying to blink away the tears, to commit every moment of this brief union to memory, my eyeballs felt as though they were burning. 

My mother held me in an embrace and whispered the words every daughter wants to hear if you've been separated for some time. 

It wasn't until I started wheezing, choking, and coughing up water that Mum pulled back and said "Why are you all wet?"

Amid a rough coughing fit, I spat out "I fell asleep in the bath... I must have finally fallen under the water. I need to wake up. Now!"

I could sense Marnie's panic moreso than feel it. Mentally, I called out to Ody - using my connection - and sent him an image of me, asleep under the water.

I reached out and gave my Mum one, final, back-breaking hug. "I love you, Mum. I hope you get to keep an eye on me." *Cough, Gag, Spit* "I hope I mature to be even half as elegant as you," *Gag, Spit, Cough*

And with that, I woke up to Ody giving me mouth-to-mouth, and a servant or hotel worker giving me CPR...?

Phew! That was close.

Ody's POV

I had already ordered Sonia's food and was packing up her stuff so we could teleport to our sleeping location when I was slammed with intense pressure in my brain, so-much-so my vision was cut off, again. All of a sudden, I got an image of Sonia drowning in the bathtub! Underwater, unconscious, and not breathing by the look of it. "How am I supposed to help her with no fucking vision?" I thought to myself.

I felt my way over to the phone that came with the room, somehow managing to kick each and every piece of furniture in the room with my shins. As soon as I picked up the phone, a receptionist answered!! "Hello!" I barked angrily "I need someone to help me, ASAP. I'm the rep from Bubble Corp and I need a man to come up and help me with moving furniture. It's urgent."

"Not a problem sir, someone will be there in less than two minutes. Is there anything else I can do?" she continued on.

"No!" I barked back at her stupid question.

"Well then, thank you for your call and I hope you enj-"

I cut her off by hanging up.

I closed my eyes, took three deep, cleansing breathes, as Sonia had been showing me how to do, and when I opened my eyes I could see blurry shapes... enough that I felt confident making my way to the bathroom.

I kicked the door in, and sure enough, Sonia was exactly where she showed me she would be. I grabbed her and wrestled her from out of the water... only she didn't breathe. I felt for a pulse and it was weak and thready. My own heart rate spiked as I started to panic even more.

There was a knock on the door. I went and opened it to find the staff member I had requested. I pulled him inside and said "Follow me! Quickly, please!"

We both entered the bathroom, and thank goodness I had had the forethought to cover her with a towel, he was oogling her pretty hardcore.

I was starting to see nothing but red. Through gritted teeth, I said "Keep your eyes in your head and help me save her life. She was so exhausted, she fell asleep in the bath. I need to give her mouth-to-mouth, and I will need you to help with compressions - her pulse is thready."

The man - if I could call him that - was shitting himself. He was sweating and shaking and clearly not the man for the job, but I didn't have time to find anyone else, or Sonia would die!!! I grabbed his hands, showed him how to hold them, and then showed him where to place them. I also then explained the timing of the compressions so we could start.

I grabbed Sonia's head, checked her airways were clear, tilted her chin all the way up, blocked her nose, and began breathing for her.

It took almost two solid minutes from starting mouth-to-mouth and CPR to get her to vomit up the water that was in her lungs and have her look at me thankfully. "I won't be having a bath so close to bedtime again in the near future!" she said to me, once the hotel worker had retreated from the bathroom. "Although on the plus side, I met my mother. I got to hug my mother before her soul passed." Sonia said with happiness.

I know from our discussions that Sonia didn't know nor remember her birth mother - and this was a fact that broke her heart. So I'm glad she got a few minutes with her - even if I nearly lost her.

I squeezed Sonia's curves to me. "I'm so incredibly glad you're safe," I told her "But those visions you send me... they put so much pressure on my brain and kill my vision for minutes at a time... It's legit hard to get to you to help you if I can't see." I explained. "You worry me, Sonia. I honestly think I love you. So when you nearly die, I actually get scared!"

Sonia chuckled, "Ooohhhhhh, the Almighty Asmodeus gets scared... Just. Like. A. Human. Pfffffft! How mundane!" She laughed at me with a twinkle in her eye.

There was a knock on the bathroom door. "Sir, the food you ordered has arrived." The man that helped me with Sonia called through the door. 

"Give me sixty seconds? I'll be right there." I called back.

Sonia pouted, "All my clothes are out there. I don't want him to see me naked." she said.

"That's true," I chuckled back "But there is one of those brand new bathrobes in the cupboard over there if you wanna grab one. I'll sign for food, and work out how to keep him quiet."

"Ok baby, thank you." Sonia blew me a kiss as I shut the bathroom door.

As I entered the lounge room slash dining room outside the bedroom, there was a trolley covered in silver dishes, but no man. "Dammit, I hope he didn't just go tell his boss," I said out loud. I looked around, taking in the half-packed suitcase, my shoes sitting by the door, my suit jacket- draped over an armchair... but something felt off.... wrong...

I sent out a few small blasts of power - and I identified not one, but two unidentified people in my room. I felt Sonia heading towards the bathroom door - so I locked it and prevented her from opening it.

I cast a spell -"Quidquid latet revelare!" (reveal all that is hidden!) And threw a hit of power behind it and Pearl showed up behind the couch. I looked a little closer around the room and noticed a thin blue line of electricity floating around the room. It was attached to Pearl... but I couldn't see where it ended. 

I cast the same spell again, but to show me Peter - A demon - specifically "Revelare daemonium et illud est occultatum" (Reveal the demon that is hidden) because although I never told Sonia... I knew who Peter was and why he was targeting her. 

As soon as the power behind the spell circled the room - I could see where Peter was sitting - and as I had assumed, the thin coil of electricity coming from Pearl was connected to Peter. He was sucking the life out of his own mother. 

I threw a fireball at Pearl (as opposed to Peter) because if I destroy her, he'll have no energy to siphon. The fireball skimmed Pearl's ribs on her right as she dived to avoid being hit. "Peter!" she shrieked "Do something! Don't let him kill me! I'm your mother!"

I prepared another fireball, this one had human seekers in it. I allowed energy to pool in my hands, and the power there grew stronger and stronger until it was almost burning my fingertips. I faked a throw to the left, making Pearl dive to the right - and I then threw the fireball at her where she landed. Peter jumped up from his seat screaming "NO!" And it was then I realised that I could hear Sonia still banging and screaming to be let out.

Peter's ears almost perked up at the sound, and he turned to me... "You still have her. Why?"

I stepped up to his apparition so we were toe-to-toe. "Because we're in love and she is to be my betrothed," I answered simply. 

He narrowed his eyes at me "And do you have the family's consent?" he ground out between clenched teeth.

I smirked down at him. "Of course I do. As you may know, Sonia was adopted at age 6. I approached the family that raised her all those years, and they not only approve of me but have agreed to let me marry her." I smiled down at him, "It's too late." I bragged, "Sperm Donor." I added under my breath.

"What did you just call me?" Peter snapped.

"You heard me." I bit back.

Peter went to lunge at me and pulled up as he heard the bathroom door open.

Sonia came out in the bathrobe I told her about - grumbling about the bathroom door and the lock and people not listening to her. 

As she looked up and latched her eyes on Peter - her body locked in terror.

I headed over towards her with my hands in the air "Baby, I tried to get rid of him. I managed to be rid of Pearl, but Peter was proving to be a tad bit more challenging. I'm sorry. I only locked the door because I didn't want him to frighten you."

Sonia's eyes didn't move from Peter, but from the static electricity I could feel building in the air, she was preparing to teleport. 

"I want you to either leave me alone or die!" Sonia screamed and pointed her hands at Peter. Before I could blink, two long streams of her blue electricity had burst from her hands, and Peter was gone. 

I grasped Sonia around the waist and hugged her as tightly as I could. "Are you alright? Where do you want to go from here?" I asked her.

She turned in my arms, wrapped her arms around my neck, and buried her ear against my chest, listening to my heartbeat. "Anywhere but here Ody," she whispered tiredly against me. So I teleported us to her place - thinking she might appreciate a decent night's sleep in her own bed.

After Sonia realised where I had taken her, she beamed at me. "Thank you so very much Ody!" she laughed and danced in circles. "I feel so free and happy! Thank you!"

I grasped her hands in mine, and we spun in circles and laughed until we collapsed in a dizzy, hysterical pile on the floor.

A/N 

Well! Peter is finally dead! Pearl (the nasty cow)  has been dealt with...

What's next for Sonia and Ody?

Who is Sonia's True Father...? and will she ever find out the truth...?

Now that Peter and Pearl are dead, will Ody stay with Sonia?

Will Sonia want Ody to stick around...?

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