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C.T grinned at Esther as the girl struggled to keep her voice down, having to bit into her lip to keep herself from laughing aloud at the girl. "Well... Who's to say the knight is saving the princess from the castle tower she is locked in, maybe she likes it up there, and maybe the knight has to steal her away from her chamber so she could see how much greener the grass is on the other side." C.T argued, totally full of s**t now, but she couldn't bend now, she had come to far.

But it seemed Esther had a better out for the both of them, she grabbed Connie and kissed her. Couldn't argue with those results, Connie accepted the kiss happily and reciprocated. "And I'd be honored if you allowed me to be your knight." C.T returned once Esther had released her lips, and she was going to lean back in and kiss Esther again but a throat being cleared in the doorway let her know that they were no longer alone

"Ahem. If you two are done flirting, mom wants to know if you will be coming down to help clean." Kia spoke up, giving them a playful smirk that said 'I know what you two do behind closed doors' "She reminds me of Mag." Connie mused, mostly to Esther.

"Who?" Kia asked, curious, C.T just shook her head. "We're coming down."

C.T instantly glared at her father, she didn't know that the switch for how she felt about him could be slipped so fast, but she guessed it was because she was very protective of Esther. They joked about it all the time, about who wore the pants in the relationship, and about who was who's protector, but just like how Esther had chin checked, that guy who had bad mouthed C.T, Connie was now ready to defend her girlfriends name against her own father.

Alexei sensed this, hell he even saw the shift in C.T's entire visage, her milky brown eyes darkening to a dangerous black, and her legs spreading slightly, steadying her base. She saw the girls fist clench, and knew that he should tread lightly. "I'm not saying that's she lied to you, or that she is a liar." Alexei said, raising his hands in surrender, hoping to placate his daughter. He knew his wife would absolutely kill him if he somehow ran her away so fast. "What are you saying." C.T asked, crossing her arms. The stance she took now calmed Alexei, with her arms crossed she appeared a bit less threatening, well.. not really, but she couldn't hit him with her arms crossed. "I'm saying that some people go their whole lives without realizing that they share our gift, I know it seems weird to think like that because we are so attuned with ours, but some people just never figure it out." Alexei said, slowly lowering his hands.

"And you think Esther is one of these people?" C.T asked. "Not think, I know. I can feel the power in her, and she's got a lot of it." C.T's eyes glazed over a bit as she pondered this, she couldn't think of Esther as a supernatural, it just didn't register to her, that reality didn't make sense to her. She could just picture how Esther would have been treated if the public knew... if her father knew... Did he know? C.T shook her head not wanting to over think it, until she had fully accepted it. "Okay, now what?" C.T asked her father, who stepped forward and placed a hand on her shoulder. "You decide, if you are going to tell her, or if you are going to leave her in the dark, I'm sure you two will be happy together either way." Her father said, stepping away from her and heading back into the kitchen.

C.T stood by herself for a moment thinking on what she should do. But honestly there wasn't much thought to be put into this. She had kept a secret from Esther before, when she had went after Jacob by herself, and it had hurt Esther. She wouldn't make the same mistake twice. She'd tell Esther later tonight, when they were alone.

With that thought in mind, C.T pushed it all out of her mind, walked into the kitchen with a smile on her face, to help her family clean up.

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Time Skip
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Thanks to the conversation C.T had been able to push all these crazy thoughts about Esther and her powers out of her mind. She'd even been able to join in on the laughter, something that she had been experiencing a lot more of since her time with Esther. But as the other slowly starting filtering out, heading to bed C.T became reminded of the conversation she would need to have with Esther, and then it started to eat at her, and as her mother kissed her and left with her husband to sleep, C.T knew that she couldn't push it off any further.

But as Esther stood and stretched cutely, smiling at her in that warm welcome way that only Esther could manage, C.T felt she could try and ignore it for just a bit longer, as she smiled back at Esther, reaching out and taking her hand and pulling Esther along with her towards the stairs. "Yea, I'm ready."

The walk to her room hadn't taken as long as she wanted to, and as she closed the door to the room behind her, C.T couldn't help but let out a heavy sigh, she had to tell her.

"Esther." C.T said, before pausing for a moment, struggling for the words. "If someone knew something about you, that you didn't know, would you want them to tell you? Even if you were happy not knowing?"

Well Esther wasn't dying. Maybe what C.T had to tell her wasn't so bad.

She had to clear up the confusion now anyway, she had acted so shifty that now Esther thought it was something wrong with C.T that had her worried, but that wasn't the case. Not that she thought that Esther not being human meant something was wrong with her. It just wasn't what she was used to. "No, he didn't tell me anything about myself. But," C,T paused, thinking over what her father said, shaking her head. "But he said something about you." C.T admitted wincing a bit, not sure how Esther would take it.

"Have you ever.... I don't know, felt different from other humans?"

C.T shook her head "no" but she didn't know, really if Esther should or should not have felt differently, her powers were a mystery to her and maybe that was a good thing, after what C.T and most everyone else like her had been through, it was probably better for Esther that she didn't know.

Though it did hurt her heart knowing that even without knowing that she wasn't human, C.T moved closer to Esther and put a hand over her shoulder, offering the girl a smile, though it was a bit weak, knowing that what she had to tell her probably wouldn't be so easy to swallow. Esther seemed to feel that was the case because the tone in which she asked Connie what she was getting at showed her worry. C.T thought it better to not keep her waiting any longer. "My father, he told us before that he can detect abilities within people, and he's told me that he senses power within you." C.T said letting it all out without hesitation. "Basically, your one of us."

"He said that sometimes people can go their entire lives without ever finding out that they are not human." C.T said softly, Esther's reaction hadn't been as bad as she expected. The girl was shocked, obviously so, but she didn't seem too distraught. Just confused.

"Most supernaturals that I know, only found out about their powers because they were told they had them, or an accident happened, that caused them to manifest." C.T said, these accidents were mostly stress driven, in moments of pure despair and helplessness, where divine intervention would be needed for survival.

"Maybe..." C.T swallowed, hoping not to overstep her bounds when she said this. "Maybe, one of your parents didn't tell you the whole truth." If this were the case, C.T had a very good idea which parent it was that lied. "And maybe your father's stance against our kind, helped to push any thoughts of you possible being supernatural so far out of your mind that your body repressed your abilities." C.T offered fishing for an explanation.

"You're right, maybe he is wrong, he could have just been a little excited today, and read you wrong or something." C.T said, softly, grabbing Esther by the elbows and just holding the girl in front of her. She could see that this was taking a turn for the worst and that Esther was starting to lose her cool. C.T didn't want the girl to panic.

"It's just a misunderstanding, we can leave it at that. We don't have to talk about this anymore, you don't have to worry." C.T soothed. placing a hand on Esther's cheek.

"Let's just go to sleep ok? Get some rest and forget about this whole thing."

"I wouldn't believe you even if you said you did find it disgusting, you've shown that you are nothing but open minded." C.T reassured, rubbing Esther's arm with the hand that she had left on the girls elbow, smiling at her.

"And I know why this can be hard to accept as fact." C.T added. "It's like when I found out I had parents. I almost didn't want to believe it. I had gone so long thinking that they were gone, that they no longer existed, and suddenly I find out that they are out there. It makes you question everything you've ever known." C.T said, before pursing her lips trying to find an answer to Esther's other question. "I don't know, I can't remember a time where I didn't know how to use my powers." C.T said, raising her hands, her bloods rushing through her skin, and gathering in her palms, pooling up. "It's just natural, like an extension of my body. I know this doesn't help you, but it's like. An extra muscle, one that you have to force into action." C.T said, though she felt that it might confuse Esther.

Right now she was like that person who could wiggle her ears, and was trying to teach others how to do it. Sure to C.T it was simple, not thought needed to be put into it. But Esther didn't even know how to force the muscles in her ears to life. "Maybe if you start searching for it now, since you know it's a possibility, your gift will become clear to you." C.T said, wishing she could be more helpful.