25 comments/ 34308 views/ 44 favorites Setting Moon By: Bloodwoman She was raised and lived on a ranch in Minnesota. She grew up there taking care of the horses and tending to the farm. Once she was done with her chores she would always go for a ride on her favorite horse, Alley. She would ride until the sun went down and her mom called for dinner. She always talked about her dreams about going to college in some big city. And once she graduated high school she did. She moved to the city and started going to college. Now she always talked about finding a man and falling in love. After two years she fell in love with a strong, sweet, hardworking man named Jerry. And after she graduated they had a child, a beautiful baby boy named Aiden. But on Aiden's first birthday police showed up at her door. They told her that Jerry had been in a horrible accident and died. The next day she would take Aiden home to Minnesota. Late that night she woke to a loud crash and the sound of Aiden crying. She ran to his room but he wasn't there. She ran searching through the entire house but could not find him. Then she heard a car start and she ran outside. She saw a large man wearing a mask put Aiden into the back of a van. She ran towards him jumping onto his back she tried to get her arms around his neck but he over powered her throwing her to the ground. She scrambled to her feet and tried to tackle him as he headed towards the van. But he only stumbled, she grabbed at his clothes trying to pull him down but instead he grabbed a fistful of her hair and pulled her off, and once again threw her to the ground. He headed towards the van again as she got back up and went to hit him. He turned and shot, hitting her in the stomach. She fell from the impact and pain. He stood over her now, "He had a debt to pay and now we have come to collect. Goodbye Katherine." He got in the van and drove away all she could hear was Aiden crying as her world went dark. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ She sat out front the gas station waiting for the one she hunted. Cigarette butts formed a pile outside the driver's side door of her jeep. It was the only thing she had left from her former life known as someone else, well that and the smoking habit she just couldn't shake. She had to change her name and appearance, so he wouldn't find her before she found him. She used to have short dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, tan skin, and looked happy in her everyday life wearing light colored clothing but that had all changed a little over a year ago. Now she still has brown eyes but her hair is long and dark red, her skin is pale from not seeing the sun too often because of her late night stake outs and she was thin but it was a healthy size for her being five foot six. She now wore black jeans with a brown belt that matched her brown knee high boots, a black low cut short sleeved shirt that just barely showed the swell of her breast. Since it was still February she wore a black jacket over top of her clothes. She wears her hair down around her face with a small braid in here and there. She also wears a necklace with an old key on it around her neck. She would never admit that it symbolized anything, but it had been passed down from generation to generation until now it hung around her neck. She sat there waiting, she knew he had to buy smokes at some point and this was her third day waiting. She munched on some chips and sipped on her hazelnut coffee, until one in the morning when she noticed something was off. She looked around and saw an officer walking towards her car and realized that someone must have gotten scared by her sitting here for so many nights in a row. When he came to the passenger side door he looked in through the window before walking around to the driver's side. "There have been reports of this jeep being seen here for the last couple nights.", he paused for a moment looking down at the pile of cigarettes, before beginning, "People are worried that you're going to do something stupid, like try to rob this store." She shook her head no but then realized that probably wasn't enough to get him off of her case, "No officer I'm just trying to meet up with a friend of mine, she said she would be here a couple of nights ago but something keeps coming up before she can actually get here." "Miss, I'm going to need to see your license and registration." he said while grinning obviously at her cleavage falling out of her shirt as she leaned over to grab her information. After handing him her papers, she got a good look at him, he was tall with broad shoulders, and by the look of him he worked out a lot, to the point where she thought that it might be all he does with his spare time. She was jerked out of her thoughts as he started to talk again. "Well Miss Lilly." She cringed slightly, she hated when people called her that, it may not be her true name but all the same she hated when people shorted Lilliana to Lilly. "You're going to have to move along; I can't have you sitting night after night scaring the employee's, no matter what your true intentions might be." "Thank you officer, I would hate to be a bother to you again, you have a nice night." Lilliana said in her sweetest voice possible, she didn't want to provoke him into following her. She started the car and slowly moved out of the parking lot. Lighting a cigarette, she slowly circled the block twice, making sure he was gone before parking in the driveway of a house three doors down from the gas station. She turned off her engine and waited till the light in her van went off before taking another look around to make sure no one noticed what she had done. She looked again at the gas station, but still nothing. She turned her head towards the house frustrated that she had to wait so long for the one she hunted, to leave the safety of his home. "Damn it." she said out loud to her own frustration. This time she had a gun and he wouldn't get away unscathed. She took a drag from her cigarette and tried to stop thinking about it. She then turned her eyes to focus over the house in front of her. She had picked this house because there were no lights on and no car that she could find. But now noticed that no one must have been there for a while, there was dirt caked on the siding and under the garage door. She was happy she chose this house. It was a nice two story with a two car garage and looked as if someone had put a lot of time into it at one point. But now it stood almost as if abandoned. She took another hit off her cigarette and looked back towards the gas station, waiting was the hardest part. She just wanted to hold what she had lost and never let go again, and he was keeping it from her. She took one more drag off her cigarette and threw it out the window. Twenty minutes later a car pulled up behind her, 'Oh shit that fucking cop is back, maybe I'll just tell him this is my friends place, maybe....' She was thrust out of thought, as someone grabbed her arm and jerked her out of the car. She immediately knew this wasn't the cop and that he smelled like wet dog. But she wasn't even able to look at the man before she was forced to look away from him. He had twisted her left arm behind her back forcing her to look away. She instantly knew he was going to hurt her if she didn't do something. She swung with her right elbow connecting with his nose, and felt hot liquid splash onto her back. But he didn't let go of her left arm, if anything he twisted it more. A twinge of pain shot up her arm. She went to throw another elbow when someone else caught it; she grimaced as he squeezed her wrist painfully. But she would not show it, she was too proud after what she had already been through, to give into another man. She was able to see the second man that was squeezing her wrist painfully; he was tall with blue eyes and brown flowing hair that stopped just below his jaw. He was handsome in that I'm going to kill you sort of way, but had a sort of grace to him. Like he would only let you know he was there if he wanted to. She tried to fight the two obviously strong men off but to no avail. The second man now stood in front of her barely inches away, close enough to feel her hardened nipples scrap across his chest. She tried to move away from him, she didn't want him touching any part of her, but was unable to move. "You need let me go before I bloody your nose too." She spat at him. But he only moved closer, whispering in her ear. "You shouldn't fight child, it will only make it worse for you in the end." Then she felt a sharp pain in her neck and before she could scream, everything went black. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ She awoke to the sound of a man laughing as her hands were being strapped above her head. She was then pulled upwards until her feet no longer touched the ground and her wrists throbbed in pain. She cringed as a man came up behind her and grabbed her neck almost chocking her. "I told you it would only make it worse." He said in her ear, when he let go of her throat she threw her head back, hitting him in the face. "Bitch, I was going to take it easy on you but now you'll take my entire wrath." He said walking away "Fuck You." was all she said. Then she felt the slap of a whip on her back and realized she was naked as she screamed out in pain. She clenched her teeth and as a second one hit, she grunted trying not to scream. Not to give them the satisfaction. They hit her again and again; in the end they got what they wanted as she screamed with each new slash. Eventually she passed out from the pain. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The next time she awoke, she was in a dark room, unable to see anything. She couldn't remember what had happened to her, until almost like a dream it came flooding back to her, the house, what she thought at first was to be a cop but turned out to be men trying to hurt her, and the whipping. Shit, why did this happen, did this have to do with that house or just because she was a girl alone at night or were these the people her husband owed, is that why they thought they could do this to her. She then noticed she was cold, and remembered she had been naked, but now wore a set of silk bra and panties. What were they planning on doing to her; tears welled in her eyes, were they going to rape and kill her. 'Fuck, why did this happen, I'm supposed to be the hunter not them. Fuck.' She heard a loud scream from what seemed just a couple of rooms away. She sat up noticing that she wasn't in any pain. She prepared herself for the worse, for when they came for her. While she sat her thoughts drifted to the past year and her dead husband. It had turned out that he had a gambling problem and when he had no more money he bet his family. She couldn't believe she fell for a man like that but he hid it pretty well, the only time she ever saw him betting was during football season but that was only with his friends and she didn't mind. She touched her stomach where she had been shot and felt the scar there. After she had recovered from it she went home to find that he had also lost them the house and now someone new lived there. She hadn't known what to do or where to go. She found out that her jeep that thankfully her parents had bought her, was at the impound but she didn't have any money to get it out. So she went and sold their wedding rings and when talking to the man behind the counter she found out that her husband and some big guy used to hang out there all the time talking about money and what to bet on next. It peaked her interest and she asked where this man usually hung out. He said he was always at that strip club off Hampton Blvd. So she paid for her jeep to get out of impound and followed him until she sat in front of that gas station waiting for him to buy cigarettes. Somewhere in between she met a woman, Ericka Stone. Ericka had taught her how to fight and gave her the strength she had needed to kill this man. Ericka had taught her about things that she only read in books that were actually real. Now she was part of those things and where does she end up, locked in some prison awaiting torture and probably death. It was hours before she found she couldn't keep herself awake a second longer. She laid down on the bed and tried to dream of a happy place far from here with the ones she loved. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ She awoke to yet another scream, she wondered how long she had been here, and she was weak from not having eaten anything in what seemed like days. She felt woozy, and remembered she had been drugged and probably lost a lot of blood from when they whipped her. Had they drugged her again while she slept, she felt like she should have awakened if they opened the door but, then again if she had been drugged maybe she wouldn't. She felt her back and found no wounds, if she had been here long enough for them to heal than she had been here for months. She wondered if she would ever see her son again. She heard a loud noise right outside of the door and the hair on the back of her neck stood on end, she waited for what was to come next bracing herself for the worst. Then the door swung open. A deep evil voice came from the other side, "Finally you're awake. Now the fun can begin." He walked into the room as she jumped off the bed, from the light in the hallway she could tell he was a large man but from the glare couldn't see his face. He carried something with him, the shape made her think of some kind of S and M sex toy, but she couldn't see enough of it to place exactly what it was. She noticed that he smelled horrible but not just bad but like something else she just couldn't place. Suddenly his hands were on her dragging her back to the bed and slamming her down, then his hands were on her touching her breasts, then her mound and ripping the delicate silk underwear and bra from her body, she tried to fight him off. But found he was too strong and with barely a motion pinned her onto the bed. He smacked her across the face and then moved his hand down to finger her dry bruised folds, shoving his fingers into her roughly. She squirmed underneath him and spat in his face. He slapped her again and turned to grab the object he had brought with him letting her go for just a second. But that second was just enough time for her to scramble off the bed, she went running for the door but just before she got there she felt a hand in her hair ripping her backwards. Suddenly the light came on in the room that was her prison and he hit her in the side, hard with his S and M toy that now looked like a small mace she grimaced and he laughed. While he was distracted, she was able to turn around just enough to punch him square in the face, he stumbled backwards letting go of her hair and giving her just enough time to run out the door, locking it behind her trapping him inside. She then looked around, there was no semblance of an exit and she knew they would be coming for her soon. She ran down the hall and found a stairway, there was only one way to go, so she went up, trying to find a window or something that told her how to get out. She went up five flights of stairs before hearing men shouting from below. She doubled her pace, taking the stairs three at a time, lucky for her they hadn't seen the need to bind her hands or feet. But she was still naked and felt scared at what they might do if they caught her. So she ran up three more flights of steps, before finding a door to what looked like a factory. She slipped in looking around to make sure no one would see her, but no one was in sight, so she took off running again trying to find a door to the outside but she couldn't find one. Instead she passed what looked like a locker room; she went inside and found that this was the women's locker room and quickly she went to work trying to find some clothing. She found some jeans and a regular tee shirt and a pair of sneakers close to her size. Then went back to the door and peeked out, there were six men at the far end coming out of the stairway. She then set to finding another way out of the locker room, after a couple of minutes she found another door leading into what looked like the manufacturing part of the factory but again there was no one. Not waiting another second she ran for a door that looked like it might lead to the outside, but before opening it she stood and listened. She couldn't hear anything, so she took the chance and quietly opened the door. 'Shit.' she swore to herself. There were five men waiting for her and she noticed the security monitors along the back wall of the room. She also smelled dog again but why would she... her face widened....werewolves. She quickly turned and ran as fast as she could, but it wasn't enough, one of them was on her in an instant, tackling her to the ground, pinning her to the floor with a loud growl. He flipped her over onto her back letting one of her hands go, wrong move, she swung hard hitting the man in the face with her right arm, and then kneeing him in the groin. She pushed him off of her but by then the rest of them had caught up, she tried to get up but found two of them held her down by her shoulders, she kicked wildly at anyone who came near but it was useless. Then she heard the first man who had attacked her get up and say in a nasally voice "I think that bitch broke my nose." Then looked directly at Lilliana "You're going to pay for that bitch." and started in, claws extended, to beating and tearing her apart, soon the others joined in but only with their night sticks, 'Did I just go through all that shit to get beaten to death just as I was getting close to my freedom.' Just then she felt something deep inside of her awaken, it could just be her organs bursting, but she didn't have much time to think about it because then she felt feet kicking her in her sides and chest, she couldn't breathe, she felt like she was dying. She sent a mental thought to no one who could hear. 'I'm sorry.' Then, something deep inside nagging at her to fight back, suddenly her whole body was jarred upward, and without a thought, she opened her eyes and found that the men who had been beating her were dead, burns covered their bodies and fire licked at their clothes, 'did that come from me?', she couldn't give it second thought as she heard men behind her yelling. She mustered all of the strength she had left in her body and got up and ran. There was a door ahead of her; the sign above it said "EXIT.". When she saw it she tried to run faster but found that she couldn't, her leg was badly injured and she could barely put any weight on it. When she reached the door, she turned to see where the men were, to her advantage they were still gawking in awe at the dead men on the floor. She guessed they were wondering where the fire had come from; she wondered too, but had no time to think about it as she thrust through the door. She found herself on a normal city street, what city and what street she didn't know. All she did know was that those men were probably right behind her, so she moved as fast as she could down the street and around the corner and kept going until her body just wouldn't move another inch, she found herself sitting in front of a bakery. She was so tired, but then she heard someone come up to her, asking "Are you ok?" just before she blacked out completely. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ She awoke to what looked like a hospital room but she couldn't tell completely because for some reason she couldn't open her eyes all the way. She turned her head lazily towards the door and saw a nurse rush in, saying "It's going to be ok, now can you tell me your name or if you are allergic to any drugs." She managed to mumble out "Lilliana Hope, and no but I have.... sensitivity...to...latex....." She trailed off and back into sleep. She had terrifying dreams about being raped and tortured and locked in a dark, cold room. Setting Moon Ch. 02 Three days later: It was early evening when she awoke to the smell of burning cloth, her nightmares had gotten worse. She opened her eyes to find the curtains on fire; she tried to move to put them out but groaned in intense pain instead. A hand was on her shoulder now, "Relax, you don't want to hurt yourself again, do you?" The words made her stiffen and a shiver ran up her spine. Without looking back she jumped out of the bed, and found that her legs wouldn't carry her, and fell to the floor. Struggling to get up, she yelled at him "Who are you people, and what do you want? It's not enough that you did things to me that I can't even remember, but you had to come back and finish the job? Well fine if you want it that way, I'm not going down without a fight?" She felt a hand on her waist bringing her upward and immediately went to swing, but his eyes stopped her. He was beautiful with short auburn hair and green eyes with a hint of silver in them. He was tall standing at around 6'3' and was well built. The smell of him would have knocked her over if he wasn't holding her so tightly, he smelt of vanilla and jasmine heavily coated in the spicy musk of masculinity. She leaned into him using his strength to hold her; she wanted to savor him because she knew soon he would probably be gone. She'd known love but nothing like how she felt when looking into his eyes. But why did she feel this way, she just met this man. Was she crazy? She sighed and tears started to swell in her eyes, as he picked her up and placed her on the side of the bed. He stood in front of her now. It had been years since she even noticed a man, except for the man she hunted and what she had to get back. But she couldn't focus on that, in her condition it would only make her mad and she could barely move, never mind fight someone else. She need to rest, she needed to heal. She felt his hand under her chin bringing it up to face him. Tears streamed down her face, she lifted a hand to wipe them but he wouldn't let her. He kissed her eyes and where the tears had been on her face. Then she remembered the curtains but turned to see no fire, not even a hint that one had been there. She turned back to him without a second thought. As he looked at her, he felt content just being with her, but feared what she must be thinking. He had waited for so long to meet her that he never wanted to let her go. "Its ok now, you are safe with me." He said in a calm soothing voice. She wanted to cling to this man, to lie in his embrace until there were no more tomorrow's. But was snapped out of the thought, she didn't know this man she didn't even know his name all she knew was that he was definitely a werewolf and her kind were told never to trust them, never the less lie with them. She pushed him away slightly, not far enough to break the embrace but enough that she felt she could think clearly again. "Who are you?" she asked in a shaky voice. "My name is Sam Lavash, I heard you scream the other night and came as fast as I could..." she didn't let him finish "You were the one that saved me; otherwise I most certainly would have been dead. Thank you" she said the last part shyly while looking down. He lifted her chin slowly back to his gaze and kissed her softly on her red lips, she grabbed his shirt and pulled him closer as they kissed. After a few long moments, he broke the kiss staring back into her soft brown eyes. "Yes but Lilliana, do you know who those men were, or who they work for?" he asked firmly, his voice filled with concern. "No but, the two that were here, were the same two who kidnapped me, I remember being in a dark cell and somehow I escaped running up eight flights of stairs before finding a door to a factory after that I remember going out a door that said EXIT and found myself on a normal city street and before you ask no I don't know what street it was or what city I'm in for that matter. And how do you know my name?" She looked up at him as anger seemed to burn through his eyes now black in color and she touched his hand in a gentle caress trying to calm him down. It seemed to work as his eyes grew back into their natural green. "I know your name because I read your chart. What happened to you...I'm sorry I couldn't find you sooner." He said sadly. "If you read my chart then you know everything?" Her head lowered. "I don't even remember most of it because they drugged me." She paused "What do you mean find me sooner?" She asked in a low voice. "I have been searching for you for a long time. It hurts that this it what it took for me to finally find you, that you had to go through so much pain. I'm so sorry." He said as a tear rolled down his cheek. She reached up wrapping her hands around his neck drawing him down to her and she kissed his tear away. "You are not the reason I am here or why I was hurt. I was drugged but fine before I escaped. When I was trying to find the way out, I ran into some men, they did this to me and then something happened, I don't know how...?" She stopped looking a bit confused. "And then those men that came here to finish the job, it is not your fault I'm here. It's only for you that I'm even alive. Don't feel bad, I can handle it." She said reassuringly, "But that fire I don't know where it came from or went or anything. It's very frustrating, god my head hurts." She said as she cupped her head in her hands. She lifted her head and breathed him in smelling him. "Why do you smell so good?" she asked pulling him closer. "Your smell just makes my whole body feel better, why is that?" "I don't know but you do the same for me. You smell like...vanilla and lilac. You smell like angels should and when I'm this close to you, breathing you in it's like.... I'm home." He said smiling. "Oh good, now I don't feel like an idiot for telling you that." She added with a small laugh. He started in a quiet voice "I need to know you're ok before I go." She hung her head and started to move back into the bed, she had known this was going to happen. But before she could move too far she felt two strong arms wrap around her waist as he pulled her close. "I will come back; only in death will you ever be alone again." She stared into his deep green eyes, she didn't want to ask but felt she had to "Then why are you leaving?" He took a deep breath "You need more protection than I can provide on my own, I must get help. I will only be gone a couple of days but while I am gone I want you to have something." He handed her a small black bag. She opened it to find a small handgun and several extra clips. "I don't know if this will do much good, it's been awhile since the last time I used one." She grabbed the gun and tried to gage its weight in her hand. "It will protect you while I am gone." His voice sounded weary and on edge. She looked deeply into his eyes and steeled her voice "I understand why you must go, I will be fine." He looked her in the eyes noticing that the brown had gold flecks in it that weren't there before. He was stunned at how beautiful she was even with all the damage done to her body. "What...who are you?" He asked almost in a daze. She started "Now that's a conversation for later and I think I would like to ask you the same. But now is not the time. Go I will see you soon." He then brought his lips down to hers, kissing her gently. He was still holding her by her waist, she arched into him as she pushed to deepen the kiss, she wanted to taste him and he wanted the same. He parted his lips and let her explore him, then he took control. He pushed against her sore body drawing her to a standing position but still supporting her. She started caressing his chest and then moved to his back, he was intoxicating and she couldn't get enough, she wanted all of him deep inside of her. Now. She whimpered as he moved from her lips and started kissing and biting the curve of her neck. His hands caressed her back and stomach, then he moved to the side of her breast. She moaned softly as he rubbed his thumb gently over her nipple. She opened his shirt so she could feel his skin under her fingers. She was caressing his shoulders when he pulled down the side of her hospital gown and took her breast in his mouth. She arched against him pushing her breast further into his mouth. "Sam" She breathed. A tingle shot up his spine hearing Lilliana speak his name that way, pushed him beyond all control. "Lilliana, I need you, please." He pleaded, and she wasn't going to say no, she needed him just as much as he needed her. She pushed away from him striding over to the bathroom; surprisingly she wasn't in any pain. Just outside of the door she turned towards him "I thought I would shower, would you join me?" He was stunned when she walked away but when she said those words he was on her in an instant kissing her with passion he didn't know he possessed. He guided her into the bathroom never breaking their kiss. He shut the door and set to exploring her body, he untied the gown and looked at her body. The bruises and cuts were gone and her whole body glowed. She loved how he looked at her, but wasn't willing to wait another second. She pushed off his shirt and started working on his belt that was concealing his erection. He shoved his hands in her hair pulling her face up to his and kissed her roughly holding nothing back. When his pants fell to settle on the floor she broke from him to start the shower. It was a large shower for a hospital and could easily fit them both. When she turned he pushed his hardness against her ass and continued to caress her, cupping a breast in one hand, as his other slid down her stomach to find her curls and then his fingers caressed her folds finding her button. She was surprised it hadn't hurt and when he pressed her nub she pushed herself into his hard staff and moaned softly. She turned towards him and pushed him into the shower. He pulled her with him never letting go. He then pushed her against the cold wall of the shower and kissed down her body first her neck, breasts, stomach, and then she could feel his hot breath right above her clit and begged him to touch her. Instead he moved to the side of her mound and kissed her thighs before she felt his tongue lash across her folds and then plunge inside exploring and tasting her until he found her clit, licking it mercilessly. She squirmed and moaned against him "Please Sam oh god." She moaned. Sam moved his hand up her leg caressing her thigh until he reached her center, gently fingering past her folds he found her depths and gently pushed in a finger she moaned loudly as he started to work it in and out of her tight passage. She was so close "Please" she begged. But suddenly he stopped; gliding back up her shaking body he kissed her deeply while cupping her ass to pull her up to his throbbing cock. He stroked it against her slit several times before. "Do you want me?" he said almost growling. "Yes, please Sam I need you, all of you please." She moaned in his ear. That was all he needed, he aimed himself and slowly pressed into her tight passage until they were completely connected. She looked at him eyes wide, panting. He was definitely larger than she had been expecting as they just sat connected staring into each other's eyes. Finally after what seemed like forever he slowly started to move. He was trying to be careful not to hurt her but she wanted more. She ground herself into him and begged him to take her deeper. His control was lost as he slammed into her and pressed his lips to hers so when she screamed in pleasure no one heard her but him. Again and again he plunged into her deeply, but all too soon he felt the pressure rising. She was lost to the sensation of him and nothing could bring her back. She came again, again and only wanted more. She felt the build once again as she felt him harden impossibly inside her. They were both close, he thrust over and over until she came again milking his cock throwing him over the edge. He splashed his seed deep inside of her thrusting three more times before he leaned them against the tile wall and laid his head down on her shoulder. She sat, still speared on his now softening member, in his arms just enjoying the feel of him holding her so close. After several moments he slowly looked up at her "I need to go but I can almost guarantee we WILL be doing that again." She agreed as he slowly set her down on the tile floor. He got out of the shower, toweled off and put his clothes back on. Before he left he leaned into the shower and kissed her lovingly. "I will see you soon, I left a phone on the bed for you my number is the first one. If you need me call, I'll get here as fast as I can." He kissed her again before he walked out of the room. She stood in the shower and noticed there were feminine washes, shampoo and conditioner. She started to wash herself down thinking about what had happened today. She couldn't believe she had trusted him so completely. She thought maybe it was the drugs they had her on, she didn't know but she hoped it was real, but at least she got some good sex out of it, if she never saw him again. Then she stopped herself, she couldn't continue to worry about this she had bigger things to do now she was healed. When she was done washing and went to turn off the water, she felt all of her pain come surging back, she fell to the tile floor as she almost screamed at the pain. "What is going on, one minute I'm healed the next I'm not. Then the shit with the curtains and those guys at the factory what is happening to me." She cried. "I can tell you" said a sultry voice from the doorway. She opened the shower door only to see her mentor Ericka Stone. She was shocked "What are you doing here?" Lilliana asked confused. "My girl was in trouble and you didn't think I would come. I will always come if I feel you need me. Now let me help you." Ericka picked Lilliana up after wrapping her in a towel and brought her back to the bed. Quickly Lilliana dried off and Ericka handed her a new gown. "So can you tell me why it smells like wet dog in here?" Ericka asked as she sniffed around the room. "You first, what is happening to me?" Lilliana was confused how did Ericka know but she didn't. "That easy, you're a witch. When I gave you my blood it acted as sort of a key helping you unlock what you already had. It's only come to life now because of the need to protect yourself, you haven't needed it before." Lilliana was confused Ericka is a vampire and had given Lilliana her blood eight months ago so she could hunt and fight better, not to unlock her magic that she didn't even know she had. "What...did you know I was a witch when we met?" She was trying to wrap her head around it. She was a witch, well that would definitely explain what had happened. But why didn't she know that already. "No, I found out when I gave you my blood. Once we shared that bond I was able to feel it hidden within you, just like when I can hear your thoughts when you're angry or hurt. And before you ask, I didn't tell you because if I had you would have pushed too hard and not been able to access it naturally." Ericka looked concerned for her friend hoping she would understand. "Ok, what happens now, do you know how I can control it?" She wanted to know more, like how not to light the curtains on fire after every bad dream. "Nope, not a clue and every time I've come across a witch it wasn't on very good terms. So it's not like I could ask." She said "And now it's my turn, what's with the dog smell and the other smell of what I'm going to say is of a sexy male type. And what happened to you all I got were bits and pieces. I've been searching for you for months." Ericka looked concerned again. Lilliana decided to start with that last question first and set to telling her everything that had happened up until the attack in the hospital. "So the two that attacked me were werewolves, and the sexy male you smell is the one who saved me from them. It seems as if we have a deep connection with each other although I can't explain it yet. And...I need you to calm down before I tell you the rest." Ericka eyes were glowing red, she was pissed that werewolves had done this to her friend. But slowly her eyes went back to their natural deep blue. "Ok I'm calm let me have it." She said slowly. "Well his name is Sam and he's a werewolf too." Lilliana waited for her to yell but it never came. Instead Ericka spoke in a quiet voice, "Then the connection you felt means you may be his mate but..." she hung her head "if he bites you he will know everything that you are. Including what my blood did to you and I don't know what will happen when he finds out. Naturally vampires and werewolves don't get along, so you must tell him before it goes too far and you get hurt." The gun and phone Sam had given her had still been sitting on the bed when she had gotten out of the shower. She had pushed them to the side but now grabbed them pulling both into her lap. She set the phone on the side table and opened the black bag. She gripped the gun pulling it out to inspect it. "Where did you get that?" Ericka walked over to the bed; she had been standing by the window. "Sam gave it to me before he left to protect myself, along with the phone." Ericka examined the gun it was a Bersa Thunder 40 UC Pro it's a tough, reliable, compact sidearm. "If I'm his mate, would he really hurt me?" she was worried, had she found him just for him to hurt her worse than the others had. "I don't know but I will stay with you to make sure he doesn't." She was protective of Lilliana. "I don't know if that's a good idea he said he left to get help with protecting me and I don't want you to get hurt either." She smirked a little, for the first time she felt she could protect Ericka instead. "I'll be fine, if it's too much, with my speed I'll get us both out." Lilliana yawned, Ericka noticed "You should get some rest; I'll be here just in case." With that Lilliana laid back and let herself drift into sleep. She dreamed of Sam and of the wonderful things he did to her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sam left the hospital rather reluctantly; he didn't want to leave her so soon. But he needed to protect her and he needed help. He had left his pack to find his mate. He was the alpha before he left about nine months ago but only after three months of feeling like something was very wrong with his mate. He would have to fight the current alpha for control of the pack. But he always knew he would go back after he found her. He found his car and started the long drive to the mountains. He was only three hours away and the drive went by quickly. As he got close he called his closest friend, when Sam was Alpha he was second in command, "Fin, I've found her and I'm about twenty minutes away. Can you get things ready this has to be done quickly." From the other end came "Yes, I will have everything ready." He hung up the phone and stared back at the road. He prepared himself for what was to come. Fifteen minutes later he pulled up to a huge mansion that housed over three hundred pack members. He made a point to walk through the front doors, when he opened the doors he walked tall and proudly through the main hall. Everyone's eyes were on him and as he moved towards the dining room people started to follow him. He entered the dining room and silence fell as everyone stood up following him though the security hall and out of the back doors. All the pack members knew this day would come. They all walked out to the clearing in the trees, Fin was waiting for him and next to him was the current pack leader, Eric. He walked up to them, he spoke loud and clear "I have come to challenge you for control of the pack." Eric spoke so only they could hear, "I supposed you have found your mate then?" Eric had been his friend and didn't want to fight but the tradition was set in stone. Sam spoke just to Eric "Yes, I have, you knew this day would come old friend." With that Fin moved so he was outside the circle and next to the tree line with the rest of the pack. Setting Moon Ch. 02 Sam and Eric undressed and shifted into their wolves. Sam was a huge, beautiful golden colored wolf and Eric was a slightly smaller but still quite large brown wolf. They circled each other growling; Eric ran towards him and jumped trying to strike, but Sam was too quick he dodged out of the way and moved behind Eric, waiting for the perfect moment. Eric turned to look at Sam and started to move towards him. Sam lunged at Eric biting him in the side and blood fell from the wound. Eric managed to get free and jumped away but still watched Sam as he started to circle him. Sam moved around Eric as if he was a piece of meat just waiting for the right time to strike. But instead Eric jumped at Sam tackling him onto his back and tried to bite at his face and neck. Sam dodged Eric's bites and threw him off by kicking his back legs. Sam quickly got to his feet and ran into Eric hitting him in the side and knocking him into a large stone that was in the center of the field. Sam jumped on top of the rock and howled, and then he looked back down at Eric. Eric now back on his feet leaped upward and rolled Sam onto the ground below. Eric then bit Sam's left front leg slashing at his flesh. Sam bit the side of Eric's face making it easy to pull his leg out of Eric's mouth. Sam was done playing he pushed Eric off of him and got back to his feet. He now moved fast toward Eric who had started to move away, Sam then charged and tackled Eric to the ground biting his neck. Eric howled signaling his defeat. Sam let go and they both shifted back into human form. Once they shifted their wounds were mostly mended at least on the surface so there was no need for bandages. "I yield you are the strongest and most powerful Alpha." Eric said breathing hard. "Good, get dressed we have business to attend to." They both got dressed as Fin came up and congratulated Sam. As they walked back towards the house, better referred to as the den. Sam spoke firmly to Eric and Fin. "My mate is in danger, I need a security team and Eric you will be coming with me while Fin stay's as acting alpha in my stead. Eric you will fill me in on everything that has been going on while I've been gone. I know tradition dictates more celebration but it will just have to wait until we get back. Now get things ready we need to leave, she's at the hospital in Charlotte. But she's exposed." Sam strode through the den proudly as people congratulated him along the way. When he arrived out front there were already three black SUV's being loaded up with weapons and security equipment. A beta led him to one of the SUV's, Sam then turned to Fin as Eric got in the SUV. "I should only be couple of days, maybe less. I assume you've kept up with the goings on." "Yes sir, I've kept a close eye on everything." Fin was happy Sam had come home but wouldn't show it. He didn't want to undermine to seriousness of the situation. "Good, we will be back soon." With that Sam got in the car and they pulled away from the den. Once in the car and on the road, Sam looked at Eric who had gotten in next to him. "Now what's been going on? I've only been gone eight months." He looked back towards the road and waited. "Well, not a lot really, the twins had their babies. I still have not found my mate. Now that I think of it there was an incident about two weeks ago two of our male children were taken" Sam now looked at him with red eyes, "but we found and killed the perpetrators and got them back within four hours of them being taken. Unfortunately we weren't able to question the kidnapers, but they weren't part of the pack. They put up quite a fight and in the end died before we could get any answers. There have been no problems since, but I've still had security on double duty ever since. Sam calmed down and looked back towards the road, "Good, we don't need problems like that now; I think we'll have enough problems from the men hunting my mate." "Where did you find her?" Eric asked. "In the hospital, she had been kidnapped and escaped but was pretty badly hurt. I found her when she was being attacked by the men that had taken her. I heard her scream and came to help, not knowing she was my mate. Once I entered the room I smelled her and killed the two wolves with ease. But she was fading fast from what the men had just done to her. I didn't know if she would come back to me." He now held his head in his hands. "I had to get her more protection, but I had to leave her there alone with only a gun." He sat up looking back at the road. "That's why we need to get back there quickly; I won't let her be hurt again." His voice was stern with determination. "Oh and she doesn't know about my wolf side yet. So keep on the normal side of things until I tell her." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Four hours later they pulled in to hospital parking. It was four in the morning; Ericka sat in a chair against the windows. She was old enough that sunlight didn't bother her anymore. So when the sun comes up she won't have to hide. She had found a male night nurse to quench her hunger, but he was fine, she rarely killed anymore and the young man wouldn't remember a thing. Most of her meals were entranced by her look anyway so usually they enjoyed it, unless she didn't want them to and that was a side of her you never wanted to see. Ericka stood at 5'9' with long model legs; she was thin and had black hair that fell just below her shoulders. Her eyes were a stunning deep blue that matched the oceans depths. Her skin always looked pale in the sun but inside she had a glorious tan. Now she wore blue jeans with black high heel boots over them, coming up to her knees and giving her another three inches in height. She wore a black tank top and carried a black leather jacket to go over it but since she never got cold it was only a formality. She sported some vintage dangle earring, some bangles as bracelets and an Ogham necklace that said protection. She sat there watching Lillian sleep, she was sweating now. Ericka thought it was just the healing taking over but the smell of danger filled the room. She started to pace as she got this strange feeling, like something big was coming. Just then she heard a crowd of voices coming from down the hall. She smelled them and steeled herself against the wolves. Setting Moon Ch. 03 Sam walked down the hall as his security team spread out to do their jobs. As he got closer to Lilliana's he smelled something familiar and it wasn't Lilliana, but couldn't place it. Eric seemed to smell it too and said "Vampire". Sam growled and followed the scent to Lilliana's room. The room filled with growls from both sides, fangs were bared. They were about to attack when light emanated from near Lilliana but before they were able to look the three were unable to move. A loud feminine voice filled the room "You will not harm each other, am I clear." Suddenly the light dissipated and they were able to turn to see Lilliana standing next to the bed. Her eyes filled with pain and tears as she fell to the floor. In an instant Ericka and Sam were by her side helping her back in to the hospital bed. Sam then looked at the vampire, 'was she here to protect Lilliana. But why would she feel she needed protection from me.' Ericka moved to the other side of the bed away from Sam. She noticed the other wolf standing near the door trying to look menacing and she smirked just a little. "Who are you?" Sam said almost growling. But before Ericka could answer Lilliana spoke instead. "This is my friend Ericka, she came when she found out I was in trouble." Lilliana's teeth were on edge, she needed them to get along at least for now until she told him. "And I guess you're Sam; I need to thank you for saving my girl here." Ericka smiled just a little, she had to try and calm the situation down, if the feelings Lilliana had for him were real, she had to try and make this work. Sam motioned towards the man standing in the doorway. "This is Eric; he's a friend of mine." Eric came toward Lilliana and offered his hand completely ignoring Ericka. Lilliana took it with a smile, "Nice to meet you, but you might want to tell the rest of the boys to stand down." And motioned towards to hall way. There were at least five men standing there growling, "Oh, Mr. Lavash?" Sam turned to look at the men, "Yes that's fine; tell them to go back to work." Eric walked into the hall and issued some orders. When he was done he walked back in and stood near the door as if he was guarding it. Sam turned back towards Lilliana "What was that?" He asked. "Well I don't know exactly, but as Ericka has informed me apparently I'm a witch. But I can't control it yet." She spoke a little nervously; she hoped Sam would accept this part of her. Ericka spoke, "She will need time and training before she is able to control it completely. But it looks like she's already doing pretty well." Sam was looking at Ericka while she spoke but now looked back at Lilliana who still looked nervous. He spoke in a calming voice "Relax love, you are part of a rare breed you're the first known witch in the past two hundred years. You can't get rid of me so easily." She wondered if he would say that after she told him about the vampire part of her. "Good, what are you men doing?" she asked looking towards the door curiously. "They're setting a perimeter and putting up some surveillance. Why?" He asked reaching for her hand. "Will Ericka be safe if she walks into the hall? I need to talk to you alone, if that's ok?" she looked pleadingly at Sam. "Yes my men have been ordered to stand down when it comes to her." Then Sam motioned Eric to leave and looked to Ericka. Lilliana looked to Ericka and mouthed please. Ericka nodded and moved towards the door but then turned to look at Sam. "Hey, just know if you hurt her you'll have to deal with me." She then turned and exited the room closing the door behind her. Sam looked into Lilliana's eyes that were amber colored for the moment; he wondered what that meant as he moved to sit next to her on the bed. He leaned down and kissed her lovingly. She loved the way his lips felt against hers and kissed him, trying to show how much she missed him without saying it. Finally he leaned back and in a gentle voice asked "I thought you were healed. What happened?" As he gently touched the cut above her breast, she winced at the pain from where he touched, but loved it at the same time. His touch was like crack to a crack addict, she wanted more but now wasn't the time for it. "After you left I finished showering and just as I was getting out, all of it came back including the pain. I'm guessing it had something to do with my new found magic. But I have no idea how it works." She said as she reached out to hold his hand. He grasped her hand and brought it to his lips, kissing it. "I need to tell you something, I'm sure you noticed from my entrance that something was amiss. I'm a werewolf and not just that but I'm the alpha of my pack." She look knowingly into his eyes, "I know you're a wolf." "How did you know?" he asked looking confused. "I could smell it on you when we first met, just like those men who attacked me were werewolves and so were all those people you brought with you, and also all the men that held me prisoner were wolves and a couple of vampires." "How could you smell it, most humans can't?" he still looked confused. She dropped her head now "Well that's the other thing I have to talk to you about." She took a deep breath and looked into his eyes before continuing. "Ericka isn't just my friend, she....has given me her blood, I'm not like her but with her blood my senses are heightened and my healing should be faster but for some reason it's not working." His eyes seemed to grow and turn a little red. "I understand if you hate me now or worse, but it was my choice. Ericka only did as I asked." She sunk back into the bed and waited for his anger, when it didn't come she looked back into his eyes. He looked as if he was trying to figure something out. Finally he spoke calmly, "Maybe your witch magic is cancelling out the blood magic." "So what will happen now?" She said staring at his beauty. "I don't know but I will find out what will happen to us." He said looking down at her fingers wrapped in his hand. It was quiet for several moments, both wondering what to say or do. But both content just sitting with each other. Until they both heard a growl come from Lilliana's stomach. They both laughed "Are you hungry? Can I get you something to eat? What would you like?" He said smiling. "Yeah, I can't remember the last time I ate something worth eating. I would love anything except hospital food." She exclaimed rubbing her stomach. "Ok I'll be back..." But as he headed towards the door he was stopped by the sound of Lilliana's voice. "Are you going or can we send Ericka and Eric?" She said with a smirk. "Eric and Ericka, but it's the middle of the day?" He said turning to look at Lilliana with a confused look. "Ericka is old enough that the sunlight doesn't bother her anymore. And I thought of them because Ericka knows what I like and Eric is the only werewolf that she's met, and besides they're getting along great." She said nodding towards the door. He still looked confused but went into the hall. Eric and Ericka stood out in the hall guarding Lilliana's door. "You can stop now; I would no sooner hurt Lilliana than I would myself. She means more to me than even she knows." Ericka exclaimed. "You are a vampire, what does one life mean to you when you kill just to survive." He said in an angry but questioning voice. "Long ago, before I was turned I was something else. I had a family and thought I knew love." She said leaning against the wall looking at Eric. Eric turned to look at her. "I was happy, before my life was taken from me. I have fought to keep that part of me alive no matter the cost. She is a part of that and I love her as if she were my own." "Good at least now I can breathe a little easier." He seemed to relax a little bit. "I am sorry." Ericka said in a sad voice. He looked at her a bit confused, "For what?" "I can smell it too. You could hide it from anyone else but me." She sighed and move towards him looking knowingly into his eyes. "It's not what I thought it would be like. But we can't because of what we are. We can never..." She cut him off. She touched his arm gently, "Maybe not but I have been searching for a way to be turned back, and Lilliana may be the key. Her power if I'm right is limited only by her mind she may be able to figure out a way." "And if she can would you have me, I don't know what you've been through or how long you have been this way. My heart is young and so eager to learn but I sense you have been hurt many times. Could you trust me?" He said stepping closer to her. He wiped a tear streaming down her face. She could feel his breath on her cheek "Yes, I could. I would tell you everything, if you would have me. But what I was before..." She stopped and moved away from him. Eric looked sad and confused then Sam opened the door to Lilliana's room. Sam moved in front of Eric as Eric watched another tear fall from Ericka's face. He turned to Sam, stiffened and said "Sir?" Sam looked over his shoulder to Ericka who was now facing away from them and then back to Eric curiously, but then shook it off. "Lilliana is hungry and would like you and Ericka to go and get anything but hospital food." "Yes Sir, but its day time?" Eric asked. "I'll let her answer that question." He motioned to Ericka. She then turned to face Sam, "There are clothes in that bag beside the chair for her." With that he went back into Lilliana's room. Eric looked at her questioningly. But Ericka just laughed. "Come on lover boy I'll be fine, but you've got to protect me from all the big bad monsters between here and there. Ok." She smiled and started walking towards the elevator. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When Sam walked into the room Lilliana was stretching, her back arched which made her breast swell against the thin material of the hospital gown. "That gown doesn't do you justice; Ericka said she had brought you some clothes. Would you like to pick something out?" He said as he walked over to a bag Ericka had left next to the chair in the corner of the room. "How about you pick something out for me that way I know you will like it." She said as she watched him move across the room. He chuckled softly as he opened the bag and dug through the clothes. There were two pairs of jeans, a couple tank tops, a pair of brown boots, a leather jacket and some other clothing, but what Sam picked out was a long deep purple spaghetti strap dress. "You should wear this I think it would look gorgeous on you." He said holding it up so Lilliana could see. "That's nice." She said as he walked over to her with the dress in hand, she noticed his growing bulge and grinned. Sam handed her the dress and as Lilliana looked it over she rubbed her neck as if it was sore. Sam notice, "Move forward on the bed." he said as he helped her move. "Why?" She asked a little confused. He moved to sit behind her on the bed and undid the top tie of her gown so that it fell over her shoulders but not over her breast. "What are you...?" But stopped when she felt his strong hands on her neck, rubbing and caressing. He continued to massage her neck, shoulders and back. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now in one of the black SUV's Eric and Ericka drove looking for a place to get food. "So how old are you?" Eric asked "Let's just say I was already alive for a long time before Christ was born." She looked at him with a smile, "Oh...and the vampire that turned you, what happened to him? He asked. "I tried to kill her as soon as she made me but she ran off, I hunted her for a long time but she's hard to find." She stopped "Hey there's one pull over, Lilliana loves fast food." They pulled up to a regular fast food joint and parked. They got out of the car and moved towards the door to the restaurant. Eric opened the first door for Ericka and they walked inside. Eric opened the second door but a family was coming out and in the small space Ericka was pushed up against Eric. She looked into Eric's eyes and saw his need. He wrapped an arm around her and pulled her closer; his breath flirted across her lips and put goose bumps down her arms. She took a deep breath, he smelled of coconut and warm ginger. She wanted him and knew if someone didn't stop them, she would have him. A woman saying thank you brought them out of their closeness. Ericka moved away and through the door, heading for the bathroom. He just stood there for a moment in shock not knowing what to do next. Once in the bathroom, she stood staring into the mirror trying to remove the goose bumps from her arms. She splashed water on her face and said "God what am I thinking, we can't, we just can't." She tried to convince herself, it was all she could do to not go back out there and take him. She paced a little before deciding to wash her hands. She washed and dried her hands and face before staring back into the mirror. Suddenly Eric stormed into the bathroom, pulling her into a stall and pushing her against the wall. Then slowly he placed his hands on her waist and kissed her passionately. She placed her arms around his neck and kissed him back as his hands slipped under her shirt, flirting with her ribs. She pulled up his shirt and started caressing his back. He pushed himself fully against her and she could feel his growing erection. Then he moved from her mouth and started kissing her neck, breathing her in she smelt like honey suckles in bloom. He kissed her shoulder and she let out a small moan as she said "Lock the door." He reached out and locked the door, then moved his hand back to her body pushing her shirt above her breasts and pushed aside her bra. He caressed the tender flesh as he nibbled and kissed her neck. Her nails gently scraped his back and she felt him breathe a soft moan onto her neck. His breath seared her skin and gave her more goose bumps. She clawed him a little harder and his moan became louder but still soft. "If you keep that up, I might not be able to control myself." He breathed into her neck. He leaned down and took her nipple into his mouth sucking and flicking it with his tongue. "I might not be able to either." She breathed out heavily. He stopped looking into her eyes they were amber colored instead of their original deep blue. He knew that if he didn't stop she might bite him that color means she needs to feed. But during passion it can also be arousal but that always leads to feeding with vampires. "I'll take my chances." He said and kissed her deeply feeling her now growing fangs scrap his tongue. His hands moved to her pants unlatching them and pulling them down, taking her boots with them. He ripped the underwear from her skin and started massaging her wet folds with his fingers. She moaned showing her fangs fully grown. "Please" She begged. She reached down unbuttoning his jeans to reveal his now throbbing member, pulling it from the sturdy material she stroked with her hand. Finally he moved her hand aside; pressing against her he grabbed her ass, picking her up. She wrapped her legs around him as he aimed his hardness. He found her hole and slowly impaled her until he was filling her completely. She was so tight as if she was still a virgin. She moaned and dug her nails into his back drawing blood. Then he moaned slowly pulling out and pushing back in. She smelled his blood and couldn't control herself she moved to bite his neck. But his hand was already on her throat holding her back. She tried to fight him but his thrust became fast and hard, sending her into a near frenzy. "Please, I can't." She begged "I need you." She moaned as he thrust into her again. "Say it, and I'll give you what you crave." He panted and stopped thrusting still lodged deep inside her tight passage. She looked deep into his eyes as a tear rolled down her face. "I am yours, until the end." She said as another tear fell onto his chest. "And I am yours, without end." He said as he turned his head and cut a slit in his shoulder. She watched as blood spilled from the slit, she lowered her head and pressed her lips against it. She started to drink as he began to thrust again. After several long sips she licked the wound so it would heal but still scar. She lifted her head turning it so he had full view of her neck, taking his free hand she cut a small slit, he looked at her confused as small line of blood trickled down her shoulder. He stopped moving and licked at the blood spilling from the cut. "Please" she begged. With that he gently put his mouth over the cut and bit down. She moaned and cringed as he began to suck the blood from it. He began to thrust again and she came shaking and moaning, soon after he felt the tightening and pressure build. He sipped again as hot blood splashed across his tongue. He came spilling his seed deep inside of her, howling loudly. He licked her cut closed leaving a scar and laid his head down on her shoulder. They sat there for a couple of minutes before he heard her say 'That was amazing.' He lifted his head looking at her face. Her head leaned to the side her eyes closed. He kissed her neck 'We don't have time to go again although I wish we could.' She said and He smiled, "Yes but I can still kiss you." She opened her eyes and turned to face him; he touched her lips softly with his and pressed into her passionately. She slowly felt him grow inside her, she kissed him deeply as the words entered his mind, 'I told you we can't, they'll be waiting for us.' He broke the kiss, and slipped out her setting her feet back on the ground. He pressed her against the wall pulling her hands above her head and said 'Ah I see now, the sharing of blood lets us do this. Now we can be together even when we can't touch is that it?' he chuckled softly. 'That and this, close your eyes.' She asked, he did as much and saw pictures of Ericka walking in a field, the sun on her face, she wore odd clothing but she was human. 'That's you before you were turned?' He asked. They got dressed as they continued to talk, 'Yes, it was a long time ago.' She paused, 'But we can share memories and thoughts this way. And sometimes even dreams. Or so I've heard.' She looked sad now. 'Don't lie to me, who was it?' He asked with frustration in his voice. "He was my husband, the father of my children. I tried to make it work even with me being what I am. But he wouldn't accept it, he ran from me taking my children.' Tears streamed down her face and Eric pulled her into his arms. 'I am sorry.' She kissed him and wiped away her tears. "We should really be getting back." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sam and Lilliana sat on the bed. "Tell me something about you?" She said as she relaxed under his touch. "What do you want to know?" he said as he kissed her neck while massaging her back. It was then he noticed the scars that looked like whip marks and decided to ask about them later. "Something personal?" She said leaning into his kiss. A long moment passed before he said "I thought I had met my mate once before, but she died a couple of days after we met. Turns out she wasn't my mate. Because it's completely different with you, I know that now I wasn't really meant to be with her." He sighed and continued to massage her back. "But now I've found you and I couldn't be happier." He smiled. "I'm sorry about what happened." She paused "Tell me more about you." She almost moaned from his hands massaging her lower back, her head falling back on his shoulder. "Well my favorite color is forest green, I love to run." He paused "I left my pack about a year ago because I felt my mate needed me. When I left my pack Eric took over as Alpha and when I went to get you more protection. I had to fight him for control over the pack. If I had lost I don't think I would have been able to bring back help. But Eric has always been just a little bit slower than me making me the victor." He undid the other tie for her gown and pressed his naked chest into her back and slipped his arms under her gown and around her body. 'When did he undo his shirt?' She asked herself, but she loved the feel of his skin against hers and pushed herself back against him feeling his growing bulge against her butt. She leaned into him being enveloped by his smell. Setting Moon Ch. 03 His hands gently moved over her bare stomach. He gently grazed the bottom of her left breast sending tingles up her spine. He moved his right hand up tickling her side slightly touching the side of her breast. "Sam" she breathed as she felt wetness start to pool around her thighs. His left hand caressed her stomach but the right one moved down touching just outside of her center caressing her wetness. Sending shivers up her spine as she breathed small moans of pleasure. "Now tell me something about you?" He said into her ear, his breath steaming onto her neck. She shivered slightly before saying. "My favorite color is green, I love to sing and I'm artistic." She paused breathing hard as his fingers gently inserted themselves into her tight pussy and began to stroke her walls. She was hesitant to say what she had to say. "I haven't seen any of my family in over a year because..." But was cut off by Eric and Ericka entering the room with the food and drinks. "Oh good I am so hungry." She turned red and whispered to Sam "Well finish this later, I won't forget." She kissed him lightly on his lips. "Good, neither will I." He said placing a lingering kiss on her lips. "Now what did you bring us?" he said moving off the bed, buttoning his shirt and moving towards Eric and Ericka. Ericka gleamed with pride as she said. "We got burgers, fries, some milk shakes and sodas and....." Ericka then went over to Lilliana and quietly said, "I also got you smokes if you want them but..." she stopped and Lilliana spoke normally while retying her gown, "You know with everything that's happen you would think I would, but I guess it's been so long that I really don't. It's kind of nice that I finally kicked the habit in spite of why." She smiled as Ericka spoke, "Well I guess I will just keep them for myself then." She smiled and handed Lilliana a vanilla milk shake. Lilliana took a sip and set it on the night stand, "Oh and one more thing, I got you your hazelnut coffee." She said handing it to her, Lilliana smiled wide "Oh Ericka you're a god send truly." She took a sip. "Thank you, can you do me a favor and help me to the bathroom?" She said setting the coffee down on the night stand next to her shake. "Sure." Ericka said as she grabbed her arm and helped Lilliana to her feet. Lilliana found it easier to stand and wondered if she was unconsciously using her magic, but she still needed help. She was amazed at the power she had that let her walk like she was only barely hurt. She grabbed the purple dress off the bed as they moved towards the other room. Once in the bathroom Ericka asked if she needed more help but Lilliana said, "No I think I'm ok. Thank you." In the bathroom Lilliana striped off her hospital gown and put on the purple dress that Sam had picked out for her. Once on she admired herself in the mirror, she noted that she really liked it. It's the first piece of clothing she's put on in a long time that wasn't black or brown. It clashed a little with her deep red hair, but kind of gave the look a nice touch as well. Noticing that her hair could use a good brushing she took out her small braids. She used the brush provided by Ericka that sat on the side of the sink. It was then she noticed her necklace was gone. She fumed; she couldn't believe she left it in that place. Ericka must have noticed her anger through their link because then she heard a knock on the door. Lilliana stepped back and opened the door; Ericka stepped into the room and closed the door behind her. "What's wrong?" She asked looking Lilliana over, there didn't seem anything wrong but still why was she so mad? "My necklace they took it from me in that damn prison, I'll probably never see it again, FUCK." She said leaning on the wall behind her. "Once we find out who it was, we will find it. I know what it means to you even though you never told me. Sometimes you think very loudly. I promise you we will get it back and I will be by your side when we do. So relax ok, you look stunning in that dress by the way. He'll probably fall over when he sees you, now come eat before your food gets cold." Lilliana seemed to cool and think things over a bit, "Ok but you better be there." Ericka smiled and gently nudged her towards the door. Ericka went out first and moved to get some food. Even though she's a vampire she can still eat human food for the pleasure of it. She grabbed out a burger, fries and grabbed her drink before sitting down so that she was sitting across from Eric in the corner chair; the bag of clothes had been sitting next to. Lilliana walked out of the bathroom and looked at Sam who was talking to Eric but was stopped short when he saw Lilliana. The dress hugged her curves and swung around her bare feet, her hair flowed as she moved towards him limping slightly. Now that it was down and undone it was full, long and moved with a sweet elegance. He couldn't take his eyes off of her, entranced by her as he slowly rose to his feet. He pulled her close and said, "My god, you are stunning. Are you in any pain?" He brushed some hair off her shoulder which sent tingles down her spine. "Some, may I sit?" She said as she motioned to the seat next to his which had the bags of food on it. He immediately grabbed the bags and moved them to a small table in between Eric and his chairs and offered his seat to her. She sat down as he brought her the drinks she had left on the night stand. She thanked him and got herself out two burgers, a large fry from the bag and took a large gulp from her coffee. She started in on her food and found both Sam and Eric staring at her; Ericka just sat in the corner munching on her fries. Lilliana swallowed her food and asked, "What, do I have food on my face or something?" Sam smiled "No we just wanted to know if you liked the food, that's all." "Yes it's wonderful, thank you." She exclaimed taking another bite of her burger. When she was done she swallowed the last of it and took a drink. "Why is it that when you get fast food in the hospital it always tastes amazing?" She said leaning back in her chair. "When was the last time you were in the hospital?" Asked Sam, "The last time I was in the hospital I was giving birth to my....." She trailed off as she noticed all three of them were looking at her with wide gazes. "You have a child?" Asked Ericka knowingly, Ericka knew she had a son but what she didn't know was where he was. "Yes I have a son." She looked at Sam who seemed in shock. "I was married once before and we had a child." She said looking kind of sad; Sam grabbed her hand as if to reassure her. "What's his name?" She smiled and said, "His name is Aiden, he's almost two now." She looked sad again; Sam squeezed her hand and placed a kiss on her cheek "That's great, where is he?" Sam had a curious look on his face, "Well that's a private conversation that we will have later?" She said looking Sam in the eyes with a serious expression. Sam seemed to understand and dropped the subject for the moment. "What happened to the hospital staff anyway?" Lilliana asked "I haven't seen a nurse in hours." "We kind of scared them off when we showed up." Said Eric. Then they all sat talking for a while. But after a few minutes Lilliana notice that Sam couldn't take is his eyes off her. She thought it was because of their previous conversation and didn't give it much further thought until Sam started to pace around the room trying to keep his thoughts to himself. Lilliana then stood and said "Would you mind giving us the room?" Gesturing to Eric and Ericka, they both got up and left quickly and quietly, she guessed they had noticed the tension coming from Sam. Lilliana then turned to find Sam very close to her; he wrapped his arms around her and guided her over to the bed. He gently picked her up and set her on the side of the bed. "You tease me with every breath, you know that." 'Oh' she thought as she smiled pulling the skirt of her dress up just past her knees and spreading them around him. She wondered if he had forgotten about the conversation about her son completely. He moved closer and brushed hair over her shoulder and gently caressed her back. She was going to ask but when she looked up into his eyes, he closed the distance between them to kiss her firmly. He deepened the kiss to taste her; he wanted to taste all of her. His hands slipped up her back to find her shoulders and the thin straps that lay upon them. He hooked each one with his thumbs, gently pulling them down her arms until they revealed her supple breasts. He looked them over, noticing their hardened peaks. He gently cupped one in each hand and grazed his thumbs over their hard center. She wanted to ask him if he had forgotten but the words caught in her throat as he took the breast in his right hand and brought it up to his mouth, which was now poised right above the needy mound of flesh. He licked and nipped at it tasting each and every inch only stopping to flick his tongue and suck her aching nipple. She squirmed beneath him and arched her back to push her breast further into his mouth. He accepted it gladly and suckled until the skin was flush with need. He then stopped, hearing a whimper escape from Lilliana's lips but it was quickly replaced by a moan as he began to suckle and lick her other mound. He now moved his right hand to rest on her left leg before slowly sliding it up and under her skirt. Caressing her inner thigh, then he found her, he slipped his fingers down into the folds fingering them until he found her throbbing nub. He began rubbing her swollen clit. She moaned as he massaged her clit and licked at her breast. She needed to feel his skin against hers. She quickly unbuttoned his shirt and pushed it off his shoulders. She tried to massage him but she couldn't because suddenly he was pushing her back against the bed. His fingers on her nub slipped through her wet folds to find her center, plunging into her depths, her hands found his back as he kissed her neck. He then slowly kissed down her body until he reached her wetness, his fingers still firmly set deep inside her. He slowly started to move his fingers in and out of her wetness as he lashed out his tongue and licked her clit again and again, her throbbing clit becoming more sensitive with each wave of tantalizing licks. She ran her hands through his hair and he heard her moaning get louder and louder until she was almost screaming, she was about to cum, but then he stood and removed his fingers from her hot center. She almost cursed his name but before she could even open her eyes, she felt his throbbing member sliding up and down her slit. She was dripping wet and it soaked his large cock. "Please" she begged. He then guided himself over her hole and slowly pressed into her tight passage until his rod was completely swallowed. He wrapped his arms around her and brought her up to meet him. Now face to face and his cock unmoving he kissed her roughly. She wrapped her arms around his neck and slid her tongue into his mouth only to taste her sweetness there. Slowly he started to move sliding out of her tight wetness then slamming back into her hard sending her over the edge, her pussy tightened around his large member as she shook and screamed out from the orgasm. He slowly pulled out and slammed back into her again and again until his control slipped and began pumping fast and hard. She came again and again, digging her nails into his back, moaning wildly. All too soon he felt the pull, he looked into Lilliana's eyes they were no longer their original brown but now seared with gold. She looked like a goddess, a goddess that had chosen him. She came again moaning loudly and threw her head back in ecstasy. Her neck exposed, it made his wolf roar to surface and he wanted to bite her, to mate her. He almost couldn't handle the temptation but was she ready? He couldn't chance it as he pushed his wolf down and thrust again. He leaned his head down to her neck and bit her as a human. He came then spilling his seed into her with a low growl in his throat. He then collapsed on top of her using only his elbows to keep him above her. They both panted, covered in sweat. Setting Moon Ch. 04 Eric and Ericka stood in the hall; they seemed just to be guarding the door. But they were talking through their link. 'How old were you when you when you were turned?' He asked turning towards her. 'I was twenty in human years when I was turned. Once my family was taken from me, I tried to kill myself but in the end wasn't able to go through with it. At the time I was afraid of my punishment from god but now I know I was meant for more and that's why I wasn't able to because of my family.' She turned towards him looking down. 'What do you mean?' He asked. She waited a long moment before answering, 'I haven't told her yet but, Lilliana is a direct descendent from me. When I found her all those months ago, I just wanted to be close to her, to be her friend. But when she asked for my blood my heart sank, but I couldn't say no. She needed it to hunt. She needed to find him. And I would tell you who but then she would probably kill me.' 'Well from now on you will always be twenty to me until you are turned back. But you will be my mate either way. I would die if I couldn't have you.' He said as he moved towards her now only inches away. He wanted to touch her and kiss her. But he just stood there staring into her eyes. 'There something I need to tell you,' she paused 'before I was turned I wasn't human, my smell it was like nothing else. It drew her to me from miles away. When she found me I was in Greece and she had been in Rome. I was something else, I was.....' She stopped finding herself holding his hand. She sniffed and looked around him letting go of his hand. "Friends of yours?" She question out loud. Eric turned to look finding all of his men in the hall staring down thirty unfriendly wolves. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After a while Sam started to move kissing Lilliana gently as he went to stand before her he righted his clothes and then helped her do the same. Now both standing in the middle of the room he started "Now about your son what couldn't you tell me and what about that other thing you were going to tell me?" She was a little in shock he had remembered to ask, "Well they're one and the same really. The reason I haven't seen my family in so long is because I have been hunting a man and he..." Suddenly she was stopped by yelling from the hall. "Send that bitch out here." Was all Sam needed to hear and he was headed towards the hall, she walked behind him her bare feet padding along on the hard linoleum floor. Once in the hall Erica and Sam stood on each side of her and Eric stood on the other side of Sam. She looked ahead spotting at least twelve men facing away from her, Sam's men she supposed. In front of them stood at most thirty men all wolf from what she could smell. From the front of their group yelled a man "There's the bitch; you will die slowly for what you did to my men." He was big and looked strong and his voice seemed familiar like it was supposed to be dark and evil. He had an ugly face with a crooked nose and she knew why it was crooked too. She made a step forward and said "Looks like someone messed up your nose job after I broke it. I can see why you would want to rape and beat women with S and M toys in the dark, you ugly bastard." Suddenly a knife came flying through the air aimed at Lilliana's shoulder and before anyone noticed it. Lilliana side stepped it and caught in midair by the blade it cut into her hand and had blood dripping to the floor. She looked at the small, bald man that had thrown the blade, with a smirk on her face. "Bad idea." She said as she flipped the blade around in hand and threw, hitting him in the forehead and slicing into his brain. He fell like a stone as Lilliana looked back at the S and M guy. "It was a bad move coming here, now I will kill you and watch the light drain from your eyes." And with that the fighting started each of Sam's men fought one or two of the ugly man's men. Ericka, Sam and Eric were all fighting tearing the others apart it was no contest. Lilliana watched as the ugly man walked across the room toward her saying "We shall see." over and over. When he got close he spoke "If you don't kill me, I will finish the job I started before. I'll beat and rape that pretty virgin ass of yours and then I'll watch the light drain from you." She thought for a moment, not on what to say but where to hit him first then she found her opening. She cocked an eyebrow and with a grin on her face spoke, "My ass isn't a virgin, asshole." She spun, her leg out, kicking him in the jaw sending it out of place. He steadied himself and snapped his jaw back into place. "You don't think I got to look like this without learning a thing or two did yea." Catching her off guard he swung hitting her square in the ribs, she heard snaps under the force of it and let out a small cry of pain. She didn't want to make the others do this for her or set him on fire and let him off easy. No he would die by her hand and without mercy. She moved quickly as he came at her with a barrage of punches and kicks she dodged them all. It wasn't until he grabbed her arm that he was able to hit her again, punching her in the face and splitting her lip. Blood spilled onto her chin and off onto the floor. She looked up to see Sam watching with rage in his eyes. She smiled "You seem to think you've won. I've just begun toying with you." She grabbed the arm attached to hers and twisted it until she had flipped him onto his back. She looked down at him and noticed a knife attached to his belt. While he was still dazed she grabbed it out of its sheath and tapped it against his nuts to get his attention. "I'm going to make sure that even in death you can't rape anyone ever again." She said making a small hole in his pants and nicking the skin at the base of his dick. "What do you want?" He begged. "Who do you work for?" she demanded. "Solace, Adam Solace, he told us to grab you when we saw you outside of his house." He pointed to Sam as he walked up to stand next to her. "Why?" Sam asked confused. When he didn't answer quick enough she stabbed the knife into his leg. He screamed "He thought you could be his contact for the Lavash pack or at least his girlfriend. But when we got you, the way that you look and half vamp thing he decided to use you for the entertainment when after three months, no one came looking for you." Sam placed a hand on Lilliana's shoulder signifying that he was going to go help with the fighting. She turned back to the man she was questioning but he was swinging punching her again in the face. The knife was still in his leg as he tried to stand. She wiped the blood from her mouth with the back of her hand and moved towards him. She ducked from his swing, he was slowly moving away from her but she wouldn't let him go. She ran towards him and connected a hard punch to his face. He tumbled back through a doorway into an unoccupied hospital room and disappeared. She followed him through the doorway only to be stabbed by the same knife that was in the man's leg. She screamed as he stumbled away from her as she pulled the knife from her shoulder. She then threw the knife stabbing him in the chest; he fell gasping for breath as she moved towards him and pulled the knife from his punctured lung. "Where is the building I escaped from?" She asked gripping his hair and ripping him upwards; she laid the knife upon his open throat and waited for his answer. "It's on.... the corner... of Desert.... and Austin." He gasped trying to get the words out. She slit his throat and blood spilled onto her feet, she watched as his eyes went dark. She stood bent over his body searching through his pockets. Only to find a security card for Solace Inc. and three hundred bucks in cash nothing else. She stood and leaned against the bed suddenly finding it hard to breath. She felt her ribs where he had punched her and found only a couple of cracked ribs but nothing broken or so she thought anyway. Her face would probably bruise and her shoulder was bleeding a lot. She found a nurses stand in the room and got out some tape and gauze and bandaged it the best she could. When she was done she turned around to find the door and instead found a beautiful woman standing a few feet away. "And you are?" Asked Lilliana as she tended to her arm, no answer came, "What do you want?" Still no answer, Lilliana now looked directly at the woman taking a step towards her. "Why are you here?" She said in a stern voice. Then the woman pointed at Lilliana and said one word "You." And as soon as she did a ball a fire was shot at Lilliana, she moved out of the way and watched the woman disappear. She found herself a moment later standing in the middle of a dark hallway, the mysterious woman standing in front of her looked shocked as if Lilliana wasn't supposed to be there. 'But then how did I get here?' No time to ask, Lilliana conjured some fire in her hand and threw it at the woman. It hit the woman in the arm; she screamed and took off running. Lilliana ran after her following her through a large door. When she entered the room she found herself staring at ten women who all looked ready to defend themselves. An older woman from the back yelled "Stop." Before anyone could attack, "She's the one, the one we've been waiting for. She will save us." "Save you, save you from what?" Lilliana asked confused, "Wait, why did she attack me?" There was a pause before a woman answered "She attacked you because she was ordered to by Adam Solace and you are supposed to save us from him and the awaiting darkness." "Okay, one thing at a time. Are you all witches?" Lilliana asked "Yes." Came a voice from the back. "Why haven't you just broken out yourselves?" The older woman spoke "We are not strong enough, you are the strongest out of all witches alive today, and we are in hiding because we cannot protect ourselves from the hunters." "Who is hunting you?" she asked looking around for a chair. Her chest hurt a lot and it was getting harder to breath. "Some of the older witches from the last generation have spells that only work if you have the parts of another witch. So the men wanting these spells hunt us for their own selfish needs." Said another. A young woman brought her a chair, she couldn't have been but fifteen. When the girl stood Lilliana notice this girl was pregnant probably six months along. She looked at the girls face as the girl said "But here they rape and beat us until we get pregnant hoping to create some kind of werewolf-witch but we have been here so long and the only one to get pregnant is me. This baby will be the first, please help us make it the last." Lilliana sat down, her head was spinning now and when she looked at her arm the bandage was soaked with blood. She mumbled "Yes, I will." She leaned her head back in the chair and thought about Sam and Erica, she needed them here. She couldn't save anyone in her condition. She wondered if she could get herself here why she couldn't do the same for them. She took a deep breath and concentrated on Sam then Ericka she focus on the idea of them being by her side. She took another deep breath deciding that didn't work and opened her eyes to see them both standing in front of her. She smiled "It worked." She said quietly, Sam had knelt down by her side and asks one of the other women for a clean piece of cloth one hesitantly gave it to him and stepped back. They were all looking at Lilliana when one of them said "How can you trust them she's a vampire and he's a werewolf?" "Simple they are my friends, I knew both of them before I even found out I was a witch. She is a dear friend of mine and he is my lover. Why shouldn't I trust them?" She asked. "The spells, what about the spells?" said the older one in the back. "Well what she wants no one can give her and he wanted me, so they would never hurt me and always protect me." She said and touched Ericka on the arm that was standing defensively in front of her. "We are safe for now; these women mean us no harm." Sam had cleaned and dressed the stab wound Lilliana had to her shoulder, and was now looking the rest of her over. Her dress was torn in several places, her lips stained with blood, but she looked better than she could have. He tried to help her up but she yelped when he grabbed her ribs. "We need to get you back to the hospital?" He said as he set her back down in the chair and checked her ribs. She cringed as he check them all, "I think at least one is broken the others feel cracked. Are you having trouble breathing?" She squirmed in her seat "Yes." "I believe this is where I was held prisoner, there are women locked in the cells down the hall we have to free them. Erica take a couple of these women and get the prisoners. Sam, you and I will find security and shut them down." Ericka did what she was told and Sam tried to help Lilliana up again but she refused. "I think I can walk fine just need a little help." She smiled and placed a kiss on Sam's lips. She then stood a little wobbly at first but then found her balance. Sam held her arm as they walked out of the room and moved towards the security room. One of the witches had known where it was and led them straight to it. Once inside Sam took out three guards but the girl had said there should be four. Lilliana didn't think about it long and started digging through drawers and cabinets trying to find her key. He checked the guards and found nothing but one was only unconscious, she would question him later. She moved back into the hall looking around to make sure no one was around besides her people, she turned to look at Sam watching the monitors and leaned against the door frame. He had barely any marks from the fight before only his knuckles were bloody and she didn't think it was his blood. "Are you hurt?" She asked Sam. Sam looked at her and spoke, "No, I had no problem with them. You should have let me take care of the ugly fuck that did this to you." "It was my fight; you aren't going to be able to fight all my battles for me you know. And I won't let you either." She smiled "I won't be known as the bitch that hides behind her Alpha." She laughed a little but grabbed her side in pain. "How about no laughing for you until we get those ribs healed." He said a little concerned but with a smile on his face. "Yeah no problem." She paused "You know I think I should....." she stopped her eyes wide staring at Sam. A large knife came up around Lilliana's neck and Sam jumped out of his seat and step towards her. "You can stop right there wolf man. Take another step and she's dead." Said a feminine voice from over Lilliana's shoulder. "And you'll be dead a second later." He growled. She put her lips to Lilliana's ear now but talked in a normal voice. "I need you to deliver a message for me. Tell your vampire friend, Hellana that Firina has your key and that I will have her chest soon enough. Tell her that her time is up and I'm coming for everything she loves." She paused and Sam growled, then she quickly said, "Starting with you." She took the knife and sliced down Lilliana's back. She then pushed Lilliana forward into Sam forcing him to catch her. Sam got a good look at her before she ran off. She had blond hair, tied back and wore a women's business suit. She also had an old key draped around her neck. Sam then turned to Lilliana; the cut down her back was large and deep. He took off his shirt and tried to stop the bleeding. Lilliana turned onto her side and spoke, "You need... to get Ericka...the key...she needs...." She trailed off as one of as one of the witches entered the room. Sam growled "Go get Ericka, the vampire we came with. Now." She looked down at Lilliana and ran to find Ericka moments later Ericka appeared at Lilliana's side. "What happened?" Lilliana opened her eyes. "Firina has the key your time is up." She choked out. Ericka now looked at Sam with red eyes "Where?" She asked. "I think she went up to the roof only a couple minutes ago." He growled. "How is that key going to save her life?" he said through his teeth. "It's not the key it's what it's made of." She said before running for the stairs. "She needs help if only...." Sam said but was cut off by Lilliana "Eric" was all she said and he appeared in the door way. "Go, up the stairs help Ericka she's going to the roof." Sam spouted. Eric ran after Ericka. "You need to save your energy. You're badly hurt and need to rest." Sam said gently to Lilliana. He pulled her close and waited for help. Suddenly the witches started piling into the room, one of them said "We need to go or she will not last long." "But how?" Sam asked "The way you got here is a rare ability but we have two who can, Trisha and Aria, and I believe if Trisha connects with Lilliana. She can tap both their powers without hurting Lilliana and take us where we need to go. Now where is safe?" An older one asked. "The hospital, my men are there and they will protect us." Trisha took Lilliana's hand and closed her eyes. Sweat beaded off her forehead as she struggled. "She must be awake for me to use it." Trisha said. Sam gently caressed Lilliana's face until her eyes opened. She spoke as the earth moved around them, "I love you and I'm sorry." Suddenly they were back at the hospital in Lilliana's room. "Don't you dare, you're going to live and then you can tell me that." He picked her up and placed her on the bed face down and took off her bloodied dress. He pulled a blanket up to her waist as one of the witches handed him bandages and gauze. He removed his shirt from her back and some of the girls gasped as he tried to bandage her up. When he felt he could do no more he asked one of the older witches to keep pressure on it and moved to sit next to Lilliana's face. "Tell Trisha to go back and get Eric and Ericka, without the key..." Lilliana trailed off and the older witch filled in. "Without the key her chances are low that we would be able to heal her. But with the key we can heal her and maybe do a bit more. If I'm right that is." She shifted her stance looking at Sam. His eyes were gold with worry, but she thought he was ready to kill her where she stood. "Send Trisha to get them." He ordered and then he sat quietly for a moment before saying, "This key what is it that makes it so important? And why did Lilliana have it?" "I have no idea why she had it but it is said that she will save us from the coming darkness maybe that's how she does it." She shrugged and continued "The key is said to be made from the arch angel Gabriel's spear, it is said that he had a wife once, Hellana, that was dying and he an angel couldn't save her with all his power. So he went to the other angels and with their combined power. They took the spear and forged it into the key forcing their combined power into it. He then took it to his wife but the power of the key wasn't enough to save her. So he left the key on earth so that it may help others. But then it was lost over the centuries. That is the story that has been passed down to me through the generations." She said and went back to tending Lilliana's wound. 'Hellana, that's what that woman called Ericka.' Sam thought. Setting Moon Ch. 05 Ericka stood on the roof only five feet away from Firina, the woman who turned her into a vampire. "Why now have you come to collect did you feel I was getting close?" Asked Ericka. Firina, who had been looking towards the setting sun, turned to face Ericka. "You know why, you found the girl. I either take her or the key." She said smugly. "We had no such deal; the only deal I made with you was if I ever saw you again, that I will be the one to take your life." Ericka said and started to move towards her. "You know what I speak of, you vowed to kill me. Therefor I vowed to take everything you love, and I started by cutting up that pretty little thing of yours. Why didn't you save her, like you didn't save your children? I killed them slowly as they lay in their beds so close to their families." Firina said with a grin on her face. Ericka lunged towards her tackling her to the ground. Her eyes red, fangs bared she elongated her nails and tore into Firina's chest, Firina returned the favor by tearing into Ericka's back. Ericka was able to get up on her knees and punched Firina in her face with her left arm. Firina swung sinking her nails into Ericka's right side. Ericka fell onto her left hand, but with her right hand she grabbed Firina's right arm piercing her skin with her claws. With the other she grabbed Firina's left shoulder digging in. "You should have never made me or threatened my family. I have always been faster and stronger than you. I told you I would be the one to take your life." Ericka moved her left hand to enclose over Firina's throat, digging her nails into her neck and started to severe her jugular slowly. Firina clawed into Ericka shoulder and side with her free hand but Ericka would not break, she would not let her live. Once her jugular was severed, Ericka slashed at what was left of Firina's remaining neck. Finally she watched as the light left her eyes and her body went limp. Ericka grabbed Firina's lifeless head and moved it away for the body. She then grabbed the key from Firina's dead body with her right hand and looked it over as she lay down on the hard roof. She put the key in her left hand and held her left arm close to her body and waited. Suddenly Eric was by her side, pulling her into his arms. "Are you ok?" "I am much better now that you're here. We've got to get the key to Lilliana she needs it to live. We have to go." She said trying to get up but found that she didn't have the strength. Instead she raised her right arm to touch Eric's face. Eric leaned down and kissed her lovingly. "I'm not healing." She said as a tear rolled down her face. "I can heal the outside, but I don't know how much it will help." He took off her tattered shirt and laid her down. He knelt over her and started to lick her wounds and cleaned up her blood. He stopped for a moment and asked "How does that feel?" "So good, if it wasn't for me being in pain I'd have you already." She exclaimed. He continued to lick her wounds and spoke through their link 'You taste amazing, your skin, your blood it's like a drug I never want to give up.' She smiled. Once he was done licking her wounds. He stood pulling Ericka up with him into a standing position. She cringed at the movement and clung to his body. They stood face to face now, staring into each other's eyes. He kissed her lovingly for several moments before they heard footsteps coming towards them. Eric turned growling but Ericka stopped him "She one of the witch's." He stopped growling and apologized. "I am Trisha, Lilliana sent me to get you." She said nervously as she walked towards them. She walked up to them and asked for their hands. They did as she asked and watched as sweat beaded down her forehead. After a few moments the earth moved beneath them and a second later they found themselves in Lilliana's hospital room. Ericka spoke to the room warily when she said "I have the key." Eric then helped Ericka over to where Sam sat next to Lilliana. The witches gathered around Lilliana as Ericka said to Sam. "If you are holding her hand when she is healed you may lose your wolf." She paused "For this to work Lilliana and I need to be holding the key." Sam then moved letting Ericka take his spot kneeling next to Lilliana. Eric went to move away but Ericka stopped him. "Don't forget to catch me if I fall." She smiled as he moved away to stand next to Sam. Ericka then placed the key into Lilliana's hand and wrapped her own around Lilliana's. She waited for the witches to start because Lilliana had to be awake. When they took each other's hands Ericka leaned up painfully with her left hand and gently caressed Lilliana's cheek but she did not wake. Ericka then laid her arm back down and closed her eyes. She felt Lilliana's thoughts and found her thinking about her son. She then pushed a thought past Lilliana's own 'Wake up.' She yelled. She opened her eyes to find Lilliana staring back at her. The women started to hum, concentrating on pulling Lilliana's power into the fold. Lilliana now spoke weakly to Ericka "You must find him." Was all she said as the magic started to envelope the room and Lilliana started to fade. Ericka talked to her about the life they would live once this was all over, trying to keep her awake. Lilliana smiled but only for a moment as pain started to surge through her body. She cringed, grunting and screaming painfully over and over until light filled the room. Eric had to hold Sam back from returning to Lilliana's side. They had removed Lilliana's bandages before starting and now Sam watched as the long cut on her back started to heal. Eric watched Ericka as she shook in pain and light filled her every pore. She arched her back and screamed. Now Sam had to hold Eric back from reaching Ericka. "I know." Was all Sam said and Eric looked into his eyes. "You know?" He said looking back to Ericka but no longer trying to reach her. "Later." Sam said and turned back to watch Lilliana. Lilliana lay still on the bed, the only part of her that showed life. Was her arm desperately clinging to Ericka trying not to let her go. Ericka was now a beam of light blinding everyone in the room except her and Lilliana. Lilliana moved towards her on the bed, "Stay with me." She said and her voice vibrated through the room. Ericka screamed again and the light started to dissipate. Lilliana watch as Ericka fell to the floor and Eric caught her. Eric looked up to Lilliana "Is it over?" he asked. "Yes" Lilliana said. She felt someone touching her back and turned to find Sam standing next to her. "How are you feeling?" He asked. "Better than I've felt in a long time how do I look?" she smiled as he looked over her body. "You are stunning." Sam smiled. Lilliana went to move and found that she was naked, she looked to Sam and asked "Is it possible for me to get some clothes. And maybe a shower." She pulled her sheets around her as Sam went to find some clothes. She got off the bed next to Eric and Ericka, kneeling down next to them she looked Ericka over. Ericka lay unconscious in Eric's arms; a worried look marred his face. "Put her on the bed." Lilliana said. Eric did as she said and watched as Lilliana grabbed her arm and focused on Ericka. Suddenly she opened her eyes and stared at Eric, "She's...she's no longer a vampire. She has a pulse." She exclaimed. Eric looked shocked and placed a hand on her chest feeling her chest rise and fall and the low thump of her heart beating with in. "She probably needs time to recover, that was a big transition for her." She said and then turned towards the bathroom. Sam had grabbed the bag with her clothes and followed her. Once in the bathroom Sam dropped the bag and closed the door, she then turned towards Sam. "Say it again." he said staring deep into her eyes without touching. She moved closer to him pressing herself against him still looking into his eyes. "I love you." She said pulling the sheets away from her body. "Your turn." She said moving towards the shower and turning on the hot water. He stepped towards her wrapping his arms around her waist and whispered into her ear, "I love you." in a soft sensual voice. He turned her to face him and kissed her deeply for several minutes her arms wrapping around his neck. When they broke the kiss, he spoke, "Unfortunately, I can't join you I have responsibilities to deal with." He kissed her again and left the room but only after grabbing the sheets to bring out for Ericka. Lilliana turned and stepped into the hot stream of water; in the shower she slowly washed the caked blood from her body. She washed her hair and then let the hot water massage her back and neck. After about ten minutes she turned off the water and stepped out of the shower, toweling herself off and she saw the bag that Sam had left on the floor. She finished toweling off and dropped the towel to the floor. She noticed her left hand started to hurt and looked down at it, seared into her hand was a burn mark from the key. She decided to dress it once out of the bathroom and set to finding something to wear. She pulled out a set of lacey underwear with matching bra and then she found a pair of black skinny jeans and black tank top. She put them on before looking back into the bag finding a pair of brown high heeled boots that went over her pants and a matching belt. The belt had a leg holster for her gun and two small bags just big enough to hold two clips each. She put the shoes and belt on and strapped the gun holster to her leg. Once on she dug through the rest of the bag finding two brown leather wrist bands, which she set aside to wear. She also found some metal dangle earring and set them aside with the wrist bands. She also found some other jewelry but left it in the bag. She stood picking up the bands and earring's she placed them on the side of the sink and set to putting them on, she then brushed her hair leaving it down mostly because she had nothing to put it up with. She then picked out a long spaghetti strapped black dress from the bag and walked out of the bathroom. She walked over to the bed where Eric still stood next to Ericka's unconscious body. She reached under the side of the bed and grabbed the bag that contained the gun in it. Ericka must have taped it there while Lilliana slept. The only reason she knew it would be there is because that's where Ericka always keeps her gun. She walked over to the side table and dumped its contents. She found her gun, four extra clips of ammo and her phone. She clipped her gun in its holster and put the extra clips in the bags and placed the phone in her back pocket. She then went back over to the bed. "We should change her clothes and clean her up." Eric agreed and they set to stripping her clothes. "How long do you think she will sleep?" Eric asked as he wiped Ericka's naked body down with wet towel cleaning up the caked up blood. "I don't know I'm going to go talk to the witches in a moment and see what I can do." She said removing the key from Ericka's hand, it was caked with blood and her hand was also burned in the shape of the key. She walked over to the nurse's stand and brought bandages back to the bed. She wrapped Ericka's hand, then her own. She then helped Eric put the dress on Ericka. Once done she went to the bathroom and cleaned the key and chain it was on. She placed it around her neck and headed out of the room to talk to the witches. Everyone had cleared the room after she got in the shower, so now she headed into the hall and found the witches standing in a group the right of the door. She walked up to them "We need to find out what is happening to Ericka now that she is no longer a vampire, what can we do?" she asked. "Well, we've been discussing it and have come to the conclusion that if you can enter her mind with the help of the key you may be able to bring her back. But be aware if you should do this you can get lost in her memories and be trapped there. It's best to do it when you are fully rested physically and mentally." Said one of the women, Lilliana nodded. "Now what are you planning to do now?" Lilliana asked. "Well we hoped to stay with you. We have nowhere else to go and you are the strongest of us. It takes to reason we should stay close to you." The same woman said. "I am planning on going to live with my mate and his pack. I assure you that everyone will be safe there. But it is your decision to make." Lilliana said. All the women nodded in agreement. "Good then I will go make arrangements." Lilliana turn to find Sam and found the other pack members watching her. She strode down the hall proudly with one hand resting on her gun. She found Sam talking to three of his security members, and stopped next to him looking at the men as they finished talking. Sam noticed and once he was done sent the men off to do their work. He turned to Lilliana and smiled, "Do you look stunning all the time or is it just me?" He said as he started to walk slowly back down the hall. Lilliana walked next to him. "Well I guess we'll find out now wont we." She said with a smirk. "I guess that means you'll be coming back with me." He said a little nervously. "I would have it no other way." She said, he smiled wide but waited to speak. "But I need to talk to you about the women." She said pointing towards the witches, who were looking around nervously. "They wish to stay with the pack and I wish it to. They can help me learn all I need to know about the witch's history." "Anything for you, but..." He paused "are you willing to mate with me?" He said stopping in the hall and turning towards her. She stopped next to him with a questioning look on her face. "Yes, if I was given this power to do some great good than it should not be taken from me just because it is challenged by love." She spoke with ease and elegance in her voice, turning towards Sam. "So then you're not afraid that the change will take your magic?" Sam said as Lilliana noticed the witches watching their conversation but still only spoke to Sam. "No, if my wolf takes my magic than I will accept that it was my fate and trust in my mate. I have no doubts about this, but if I'm correct I have nothing to worry about. For example for a vampire, their body dies and therefore the magic would die. The way I figure the wolf will work is that the magic will blend. But it does not matter I will be happy with you either way." She said and moved towards him into his embrace. They kissed each other lovingly, "Good, now how do we wake up Ericka?" Sam asked. "The girls and I have an idea." She said walking towards the room that held Ericka. Sam followed standing behind Lilliana as she went to stand next to the right side of the bed. Eric stood on the other side holding Ericka's hand. "You might want to let go until I'm done." Lilliana said as she pulled the key from her neck and placed it in Ericka's hand. Eric backed away and watched as Lilliana closed her hand over Ericka's with the key in between. "Whatever happens don't let me let go of her hand or we could both be lost." Sam nodded and stood close but without touching. Lilliana then took a deep breath and placed her other hand on Ericka's forehead and closed her eyes. She entered Ericka's mind searching for her friend, "Ericka." she called but no answer after searching for a couple of minutes she entered a memory Ericka was walking through a field towards someone. But she couldn't see who, she called to her but no answer. Now Lilliana stood in the field walking towards her. "Ericka." she called and still she did not turn. An idea came to her and she called again "Hellana.", Ericka turned to see who would be calling her. "Who are you?" Ericka asked. "I am your friend, you are sick and need to wake." Lilliana said. "But I don't feel like I'm sleeping. I am going to go see my children, but I have been walking for a long time." Ericka looked confused. "If I am dreaming, how are you here?" Lilliana thought for a moment, "In the place I come from, I have the magic to help you come home; you are so far from home Hellana, the ones who love you are waiting." Lilliana pleaded. "But I can see them just there," She pointed towards the horizon "Gabriel is calling for me." Ericka said assuring her. "They are not there, if you go to them only death awaits. Give me your hand I will show you something that will show you I speak the truth." Ericka held out her right hand. "I can only show you the truth, if you chose to see it." Ericka nodded and Lilliana took her hand within her own. "Open your hand." Ericka did as she asked and saw the burn mark from the key. Lilliana then opened her own, showing Ericka her own mark. She looked at the mark on their hands "Why didn't I notice this before, shouldn't it hurt?" She asked looking up at Lilliana. "You didn't notice it because this place isn't real, it doesn't hurt because this is a dream. I have to take you home, otherwise we will both die. Hellana, you and I have fought too hard to survive to just let go now. The key can save you, it saved me. Please come home." Sweat was beading off her forehead now she could not stay here much longer. "Will you be there?" Ericka asked. "I will be holding your hand." Ericka nodded and took Lilliana's hand. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sam noticed the sweat forming on Lilliana's forehead and caught her as her knee's started to give in. It had been half an hour and still no sign of progress. Until suddenly Ericka's eyes opened and Lilliana fell against Sam but still held Ericka's hand. Ericka sat up and looked around the room, her eyes stopping on Lilliana. "This is home?" Ericka questioned. "No this is where people get healed, we are going home soon." Lilliana said standing back up. "Do you remember me?" Lilliana asked. "I remember you from the dream but I do not know how you are my friend." Ericka said looking at Sam and Eric. "My name is Lilliana, this is Sam and Eric." Lilliana said motioning to them. "Your name it sounds familiar but I do not know. Have you tricked me, where is Gabriel? You will not have my magic." She said jumping from the bed landing several feet away. When she landed a light blinded them and when they could see again. They all stood in shock, Ericka stood with bright wings expanding eight feet on either side protruding from her back. Eric moved towards her slowly "Ericka, I am yours without end." He said exposing his neck to show her the scar that laid there. She lowered her wings and looked at the man before her. He seemed eager for her to understand. She looked at his scar then he moved towards her, she didn't move just looked at him curiously. He touched the matching scar on her neck and she thought for a moment. Then everything came pouring back to her and she threw her arms around Eric's neck and said "And I am yours until the end." Then they kissed passionately for several long moments until finally Ericka remembered they were not alone. Her wings vanished as if they were never there and after a few moments Lilliana spoke "You're an angel?" Ericka smiled "No, I was an angel for a very long time then I was reborn on earth with instructions to influence the human race in the right direction. While on earth I was to be half angel, half human but then...well you know what happened then." She was standing very close to Eric and he had is arms around Ericka's waist. Eric was staring at Sam waiting for his judgment. "And you two are together now?" Lilliana asked. "Yes" came from Ericka. "Good" Said Sam and Eric relaxed. "Will you mate even though you are finally human again?" asked Sam. Eric looked at Ericka a bit worried. Setting Moon Ch. 05 "Yes, I absolutely want to mate with Eric. I would have it no other way. I love him and would give anything to be with him." Said Ericka seriously looking into Eric's eyes. "Great, then I think it's about time we brought you girls to your new home." Sam said enthusiastically. "That sounds like a great idea but can we stop for food on the way, I am starving." Said Lilliana, Sam laughed. "Ok but not until were like an hour from here I want to enjoy my food in peace." Lilliana agreed and they all started getting ready to leave. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two hours later they were walking out of a steak house and getting back in the SUV's. Sam ended up having to buy a large van to fit all the witches in. In the SUV, Eric drove and Ericka sat on the passenger side while Sam and Lilliana sat in the back seat. It was then that Sam finally asked Lilliana to tell him the rest of the story of the kidnapping. So she started at the house with her jeep and told him everything up to when he saved her. Once she was finished Sam pulled her into his embrace and said sadly "I am so sorry." Lilliana buried her head into Sam's neck and earnestly said "I love you." Lilliana raised her head to look into Sam's eyes as Sam sincerely said "I love you." It was then he kissed her deeply pulling her into his lap so that she straddled him, his hands massaged her back over her shirt while they kissed and her hands fingered through his hair. His hands moved under her shirt to caress the skin of her back. The farther up he went the more he felt her scars he traced them with his fingers and Lilliana trembled under his fingertips. She broke their kiss to say, "That is so not fair, I don't know where any of your buttons are." He laughed and outlined another scar watching her shudder over him, "I think I will enjoy you trying to find them." He said with a smirk. She then set to caressing his arms and back. While he fingered more of her scars, she moaned slightly. Her hands reached his neck and she gently touched the curve of it and saw him bite his lip. "Aha so there's one right here." And she bent down and tasted the warm flesh feeling Sam squirm a little underneath her. She kissed and licked at his neck as he explored the tender flesh on her back. He stroked another scar and felt Lilliana shake and then bite into his neck hard. He panted from the tingles of pleasure he felt as her teeth dug into his flesh. Then he threw her onto her back on the seat beside him, growling. He loomed over her gripping her hips as she saw a flash of gold run threw his eyes. "That is not something you want to do to me in a car, or while you're not wearing a skirt." He said looking down at her hips and legs covered by her jeans. He wanted to rip them off and mate her right here and now. In the werewolf world biting on the neck or shoulder signifies the mating and ownership or dominance which can send an unmated wolf like Sam into frenzy, specifically with a wolf that has found their mate but is not yet mated to them. It took a lot of self-control for Sam not to take her in the moment. "But if you keep that up, I will have to lay claim to you here and now." Lilliana grinned and sat up slightly, "You can lay claim to me whenever you wish, but it would probably be nicer at home in a large soft bed. Where we can properly claim each other as many times as we want." She said with a grin. If Sam had been in wolf form he would have wagged his tail as is he simply smiled and said, "Good, well be home in an hour." He sat back up and pulled Lilliana to sit next to him. She gripped his inner thigh and stared out the window, smiling. Sam stared at Lilliana and smelled her hair. He couldn't tell what she was thinking but at least she was smiling. Eric and Ericka sat in the front seats quietly holding hands. They were talking through there link 'I wish I would have changed, I hate wearing dresses especially when meeting new people.' said Ericka looking down at her dress and heels. 'Well if you don't mind getting undressed in front of Sam and Lilliana your bag of clothes is in the back. Ericka turned to look at Lilliana "Can you hand me the bag from the back. Please." Asked Ericka, Lilliana nodded then got up and bent over the seat grabbing the bag. Ericka noticed Sam staring at Lilliana's ass and smiled. Lilliana then turned putting her ass right in Sam's face and handed Ericka the bag. Lilliana sat back down and smiled at Sam knowingly. Ericka turned to face the road and started riffling through the bag she pulled out her brown high heeled boots, some blue skinny jeans to go under her knee high boots, a bra since she wasn't wearing one, and a corseted black shirt. She also pulled out a brush and some of Lilliana's jewelry. And her belt with holster and gun. Then Ericka put the bag aside and began to get dressed. Lilliana stared at Sam as her friend dressed but his eyes did not veer they stayed glued to Lilliana. Sam smiled "Don't worry; I will never look at another woman like I look at you. You are the only one for me." Lilliana smiled and placed a chaste kiss on his lips, she said, "Good. You don't want to know what I would do if that actually happened." She said turning back towards the front of the car. Sam just smiled and sat quietly with his arm wrapped around her. While Ericka was getting dressed she couldn't help but notice Eric taking sideways glances at her. "Keep your eyes on the road lover boy; you'll get plenty of this once we get home if you don't get us into an accident." She said and smiled as she put her shirt on and started to brush her hair. She then put on some dangle earrings, her Scottish thistle ring. She decided that was enough and made sure she was still wearing her Ogham necklace. She smiled as she touched it and Eric asked "What's that?" She smiled again "Its Ogham meaning protection." She said. "Ogham?" he asked with a curious look on his face. She was putting on her belt and gun as she said "It's an ancient Scottish language that was made of lines and carved in stone. When I was in Scotland last, I was hurt pretty badly and a healer found me and took care of my wounds. He was surprised I didn't try to eat him when I woke up." She paused smiling, "He gave me this necklace for protection and told me that one day I might get what I most desire. And here I am human and with you, could life get any better." She smiled and stroked Eric's arm lovingly, until she was holding his hand. He brought her hand up to his lips and kissed it. Then rested his arm, still holding her hand. Twenty minutes later they drove up to a large mansion. Setting Moon Ch. 06 The three SUV's and a large van pulled up to the front door of the Den. As people started to flood out of the vehicles one of the witch's came up to Lilliana, she looked about twenty or so and like the rest of them was very pretty. "Where will we be staying?" She asked. Lilliana looked at Sam who was now standing next to her. "You and the other women will be staying in the singles hall since you are also not mated. When you find mates you will live with them, if you elect to take them." Sam said reassuring her. "What is your name?" Lilliana asked. "Aria, my name is Aria, I am sorry for attacking you before. But if I hadn't done as they ordered they would have killed one of us." Aria said and hung her head. "I understand you were trying to protect your family. I would do the same if I had to." Lilliana said encouragingly. With that they started to head inside. Once inside the witches were directed to go with an older woman named Lisa and they headed to what Lilliana assumed to be the singles hall. But before Aria left her side she said, "Come see me later, I want to talk to you about that ability you and I share." Aria looked at her confused at first but then understood. "Yes, whenever you ready. ma'am." "Please don't call me that, call me Lilliana until I tell you otherwise alright." Lilliana pleaded. "Ok." was all Aria said and she ran off to join the other women. Sam lead Lilliana though the man hall, then the dining room. Everyone they passed bowed and then stared at Lilliana. She walked proudly next to Sam; as they walked out of the dining room into a large hallway Sam stopped in front of a winding stair case. "Our rooms are just up this staircase." Sam said and motioned her forward. She started to walk up the steps with Sam behind her. Eric and Ericka had followed them this far but left them when they reached the stairs walking farther down the hall. Now walking up the stairs Lilliana started to wonder when they would end. But just then she saw the stairs level out into a hall way and noticed a big set of double doors on one side. She stopped just outside them and waited for Sam. He stepped in front her and opened the door. Once in the room Lilliana stood in awe, the room they had walked into was a living room with study. Everything was beautiful and expensive, Sam lead her through another set of double doors on right into a bedroom. The bed was a huge four post bed with a tall canopy and gossamer drapes. She walked over to the bed and touched the sheets; they were the softest, fluffiest blankets she had ever felt. She could wait to lie on them and claim Sam on them. She smiled and looked around the room. She found Sam behind the bed in what seemed to be a closet. She walked over and watched Sam as he undressed and put on new clothes. "And why are you getting dressed." She asked. She looked him over while she waited for an answer. He now wears black slacks and a blue button down dress shirt, and a pair of dress shoes. "I have to go to a meeting with the council but I shouldn't be long." He turned and looked a Lilliana. "What will I do while you gone?" She asked sarcastically, but then realized she really doesn't know what she would do. Sam seemed to notice and said "You can take a bath or walk out in the gardens or go see the witches or Ericka. Whatever you want to do, oh and I have a surprise for you." He smiled and headed out of the closet, he opened another door and ushered Lilliana inside. Inside, Lilliana found long rows of women's clothing, and shoes, bags, basically everything she could ever need as far as apparel went. Then she hear from the door way "Or you could find something to wear to dinner." She turned smiling "And what should I wear?" She ask taking of her shoes. "Whatever you want, you know I think you're stunning in anything." He said as she started to remove her shirt. Sam stared with a smirk on his face as she removed her belt, holster and pants. She then got close to him, "You sure you can't take a bath with me." She said pressing her body against his, his arms now rested on her hips and he sunk his head into her neck breathing her in. He kissed the skin there tasting her flesh. She moved to run a finger over his neck and he shuddered. "You are very persuasive but I must go. You should take a long bath and don't bother getting dressed, I wouldn't want to tear up your new clothes." He said looking into her eyes, she kissed him passionately and he wrapped his arms around her, picking her up and carrying her over to the bed. He sat her down on the side of the bed and undid her bra letting it fall to the floor. He leaned down and licked at her hard nipple. She arched against him as her fingers found his neck again. A tingle went down his spine and he pushed her back onto the bed. "I will be back, don't you dare go anywhere." Sam said and stormed out of the room. Lilliana lay giggling on the bed for a moment before getting up and heading back towards her closet. She loved that she could rile him up. She picked out a pair of sexy purple bra and underwear and set to finding the bathroom. Which she found next to her closet and opened the door to find a huge bathroom with a large shower and Jacuzzi tub. She found towels in a small closet in the bathroom and turned the water on in the tub. Steam filled the room as hot water filled the bath; she found some feminine washes on the counter and used them in the tub. Once full she waded into the hot water and turned on the jets. She sunk in and relaxed her whole body letting all her recent problems float away. It had been three and a half months since she sat at the gas station. Now she would use Sam's resources to get her son back and would never have to worry about it again. Tears rolled down the side of her face as she thought of her son. She wiped the tears from her face as she heard someone come into the room. She stiffened Sam should not be back this quick who could this be. She then heard a small voice from the other side of the bathroom door, but couldn't quite hear what they were saying. "I can't hear you; you can open the door." she said looking down to make sure she was covered by bubbles. The door opened and Aria walked into the room, but shyly turned her head as she saw Lilliana in the tub. "Please don't be shy, I'm not. Come pull up a chair and talk to me, unless you would rather I find a robe and we can go sit in the living room." Lilliana said smiling. "No, this is fine I just didn't want to be rude." She said pulling a chair over from the wall to sit near Lilliana's head. "Good now tell me about your teleporting ability, how do you control it?" Lilliana asked. "Manly I just think about who or where I want to go and concentrate on it and then I'm there. But you magic is insane, when I tapped into your power to get us all back to the hospital. I felt overwhelmed to the point that after words I passed out. With my magic now that I understand it its easy, your mind controls it and with your power, your mind may be the only thing that holds you back, especially since you have the key. The way I came to understand it, is as energy that flows through the body and when you focus it to do a specific thing it clusters and makes that thing happen and then goes back to circulating through you." Aria said knowledgeably. "That makes sense now tell me what else there is to know about magic." Lilliana said, and Aria went on to tell her about the different types of magic and the different types of witches that use it. And that witches were descendants of angel's and that's where the magic comes from. Magic is made up of the four elements earth, wind, water and fire and then there was dark magic that was usually only used by descendants of demons or no origin witches. This means they just picked up the magic through incantation and potions. Lilliana has the potential of all types of magic and that she had to resist the pull from the dark magic. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Forty-five minutes later: Lilliana had gotten out of the bath, dried off and threw on a robe. She talked with Aria a little more as they walked into living area, Lilliana noticed Sam talking to another large man in the middle of the room and stopped with Aria next to the doors. "Now I will see you at dinner and tell the other's to relax they are perfectly safe. And I will talk to them all very soon." Lilliana looked up to see the two men smiling in her direction and walked over to them. Sam began "Lilliana this is Fin he's my second in command." Lilliana shook his hand and then found him looking at Aria. "This is Aria." Lilliana said and Aria put out her hand to shake his but instead he brought it to his lips placing a small kiss there. He put it back down and asked "Would you mind if I walked with you?" "I would love that." Aria said and started walking towards the door, Fin turned and bowed to Sam and Lilliana before turning to join her. Once they were gone Lilliana turned stroking Sam's arm before heading back into the bedroom. Sam grabbed her hand and pulled her to him kissing her passionately. Sam undid Lilliana's robe and slid it off her shoulders and Lilliana started unbuttoning his shirt. "So you didn't forget, did you think about me through your entire meeting?" Lilliana asked pushing off his shirt and began working on his pants and belt. "Yes, but Lilliana you understand that once we start I won't be able to stop, I will be yours forever. Is this what you want?" Sam asked bringing her eyes up to his. "Yes Sam, I am yours." Lilliana said softly and with that he picked her up and carried her over to the bed setting her down. Lilliana finished undoing his pants and let them drop to the floor. She pushed him back so he was leaning against the bed and started kissing down his body until she reached his long shaft. She gripped it in her hand and licked it base to head and heard a quiet groan escape Sam's lips. She started licking again tasting every inch of him and he moaned louder. When she felt she had licked all of him he positioned her mouth over the head and slowly sucked it into her mouth until she could fit no more. Sam moaned again and she started to slowly suck him in and out of her mouth, gaging as his cock entered her throat again and again. Sam started to moan loudly and placed his hand on her head and Lilliana push him further into her throat. Sam moaned and then Lilliana heard a small growl and Sam yanked her upward throwing her onto the bed. "You drive me insane woman." Sam panted. And he immediately buried his face in between her legs and began licking and fingering her. She sat wide eyed for a moment before relaxing to enjoy herself. She moaned loudly as Sam began thrusting his tongue in and out of her core and began rubbing her clit with his thumb. She squirmed and moaned underneath him and he wrapped his arms around her thighs so she could not move. Her hands combed through his hair as he nipped at her swollen nub and then began to lick again; he wanted to taste her cum and flicked it furiously with his tongue. She started panting out moans and Sam finally tasted her sweet juice flow into his mouth. He sat there for a moment licking up the excess and then moved up positioning himself between her legs. Lilliana stared up at him his eyes sparked green and his hair looked muddled. She looked down and admired his gloriously toned body. He looked at her, now her fiery hair splayed across the bed, arms above her head just waiting to be taken, waiting to be claimed. He leaned down and as he kissed her, he pressed his throbbing member into her awaiting slit. She raised her hips up to take him deeper and Sam slowly began stroking her tight walls, his arm now gripping her back that pinned it to the mattress. Her legs wrapped around his thighs as he found a steady pace and drove deep into her. He started to kiss her neck and shoulders as she breathed heavy moans into his ear. "Sam, oh god" She whimpered but still he kept his steady pace. He didn't want to just fuck her; he wanted to make love to her so that she would always remember their mating. She reached an arm down and caressed his back leaving small scratch mark behind. Sam moaned, kissed her passionately and started to quicken his pace. But Lilliana decided it was her turn, she flipped him over onto his back and then stood up. She motioned for him to sit up against wooden frame and straddled him. She guided his shaft back into her tight pussy. His arms wrapped around her back and she gripped the wooden base board and slowly began to ride him. She kept a slow pace just like he had done but when her nails started to dig into the wood as she came close again. Sam noticed and brought her hands to rest on his shoulders and Sam moaned she dug in, she stopped riding him and started grinding against him finding her sweet spot with his head and rubbed them together. Sam had started to massage her scars again and she nearly screamed she was so close. She touched that sensitive spot on his neck and he groaned. "Please Lilliana." Lilliana now nipped at his neck and shoulder panting and moaning, Sam grabbed Lilliana's hips then and slammed into her, Lilliana screamed as an orgasm ripped through her body, she bit down hard on Sam's neck and Sam howled in pleasure. Lilliana bit down harder and skin broke under the pressure, she tasted his blood as it seeped from the wounds but Sam only seemed to enjoy it more. She broke from his shoulder to look into his eyes and saw that they were silver. Suddenly Sam flipped her onto her back threw her legs over one of his shoulders and pounded her hard. Lilliana screamed as she came four more times before she felt him tighten and grow inside of her. Sam laid her legs down on either side of him and leaned down breathing heavy over her left shoulder. He pounded her still but seemed to be waiting for something; Lilliana moved her hair aside and exposed her neck to him and Sam growled and bit down with sharpened teeth. Lilliana felt a twinge of pain but then was over whelmed as she came again, Sam dug his teeth in deeper and she came again, screaming as she felt Sam thrust three more times before spilling his seed deep inside of her. Sam removed his teeth from Lilliana's shoulder and licked the wound closed but it still scared. He moved Lilliana's leg to lay next to her other one and rolled onto his side still buried deep inside of her. "Oh my god Sam, that was..." Lilliana said but couldn't finish. As Sam said, "Amazing." Lilliana turned to look into his eyes and kissed him lovingly. She tried to turn more so she could look at his shoulder where she bit him but found she wasn't able to. 'Why can't I move?' She thought. Then heard Sam say 'It's my knot we will be stuck this way for a while.' Lilliana had been looking right at his mouth but he had not parted his lips. Sam then continued 'Through the mating we have formed a connection that will now allow us to talk like this,' Sam was smiling now, 'and my knot comes from my wolf it is used to ensure pregnancy at the proper time, it's used to hold the sperm deep inside. But you shouldn't get pregnant now until winter." Lilliana smiled and rolled back over so that he was holding her and relaxed. It wasn't until thirty minutes later that she felt Sam move away from her and off of the bed, she stretched and felt their juices start to slid down the inside of her leg. She got up and headed to the bathroom but heard Sam from his closet, "Don't even think about taking a shower." Lilliana smiled as said "Why do you think I bathed beforehand." She heard Sam laugh and then proceeded to the bathroom once she was done cleaning up she walked over to his closet as he was putting on his shirt she saw her teeth marks bore into his neck and shoulder. "Does it hurt?" she asked walking over to him and kissing it gently. Sam shivered and said "No but when you touch it like that...do you want to make it to dinner?" Lilliana smiled but then shivered herself as Sam leaned down and kissed her shoulder where he had bit her. "No I don't think we need to go anywhere." Lilliana said and stood on her toes to kiss him. Sam backed her into a dresser and kissed her deeply but then he stopped grabbing onto the sided of the drawers and hung his head. "I deeply regret that we must go to dinner, my love. It will be my first night back and your first night here, and we must follow tradition." He sighed. She lifted his head and kissed him before saying, "I understand, now what should I wear because I think my gun is a little much for dinner." Sam laughed and said "Wear something nice but not fancy, I want you to feel confident while being comfortable." Lilliana smiled and left his closet to go to her own. She looked through the long lines of dresses, shirts, skirts and pants. She couldn't really find something she wanted to wear for a first impression; she was so used to wearing jeans and a gun that she wasn't used to this type of thing anymore. So she started with shoes, she always loved heels and it seemed like a good place to start. She walked back near the entrance of her closet and went right into a decent sized room completely filled with shoes and there was a whole section for boots. She got giddy and started to search the room for a pair she wanted to wear tonight. There were sneakers, and slip-on's, short boots and tall boots and heels lot and lots of heels this is the section she focused on for tonight. But she couldn't chose, Sam now stood in the door way staring at her. He then walked over to the boots and pulled out a pair of brown knee high heeled military boots with a small holster attached to the side of one. He handed them to her smiling and said "If you aren't comfortable and being yourself my people will think something's up. Relax you are beautiful in everything and I love you." She smiled and then asked "So where's the gun?" He walked over to a wall and flipped a switch and a panel of shoes opened like double doors displaying an entire wall of guns. Sam smiled and left the room as Lilliana went over and started looking for the gun that fit in the shoe. She loved that he had this for her. But couldn't dwell on it dinner was in twenty minutes and she had to get dressed. She brought her new boots and gun out to the main closet and set them down, she found some lacy underwear and bra and put them on. She then looked finding a pair of black tight fitting dress pants and her brown belt but left off the holster. Once on she put the boots on over the pants and put the gun in its holster. Now she had to find a shirt, she looked through her collection and stopped at a silk silver shirt that had one side off the shoulder and it tucked in at the waist with short floating sleeves. She put it on and looked in the mirror, she didn't look too shabby and she was comfortable and confident. She then headed to the bathroom to brush her hair and put on her jewelry but she wasn't able to find her key. She walked out of the bathroom to find Sam waiting for her on the couch in the living room. "Have you seen my key?" Lilliana asked. "Yes I put it in my safe because I was hoping you would where this instead." Sam said holding up a small necklace. It was a Jade pendant that sat on an old chain. He walked over and placed it on her neck, "It was my mothers, she died when I was young but I think she would want you to have it." Sam said fixing Lilliana's hair. "What's this?" Sam asked looking at what seemed to be a tattoo on the back of Lilliana's neck. "Do you remember Ericka talking about Ogham in the car on the way here?" Lilliana said. "Yes, its ancient Scottish I think is what she said." Sam said a little confused. "Well this tattoo is Ogham, meaning strength I got it when I was young but it has stayed true to me." Lilliana explained. Setting Moon Ch. 06 Sam turned her around and kissed her, "I'm never going to be able to keep you out of the action am I." Sam asked knowingly. "Nope, not a chance." Lilliana said. "We've got a couple more minutes; I would like to ask you a question." He paused. "Where did these marks come from?" Sam said bringing a hand to rest on the whip marks on her back. Lilliana spoke in a grave voice "Oh" she paused leaning against the couch, "When I was kidnapped, I fought to free myself. I broke one guy's nose before they took me and then smashed the other guys face after. He had told me I would just make things worse for myself so the next time I awoke, I was being tied up by my hands and they hosted my up so I was dangling and began whipping me I fought as long as I could not to give in, but in the end the pain was too much. I guess I forgot to tell you before. I just..." Tears had started to fall and Sam pulled her into his embrace. "But their dead now, you killed them just before meeting me, so that makes me feel much better." She said trying to smile as Sam wiped the tears from her face. "Good I hate to see you sad. This reminds me we have a conversation about your son to finish after dinner with no interruptions." Sam said definitively. With that they left their room heading down the stairs holding hands and walked into the dining room. As soon as they entered everyone went quiet and remained that way as they made their way to the head of the table. Once there Sam remained standing and said "I have found my mate, Lilliana." Everyone cheered and clapped as they sat down in their chairs. Once the cheering stopped Lilliana looked around and found Ericka sitting next to Eric. She smiled as their eyes met and talked through their link 'Have you mated with Eric yet?' asked Lilliana. 'No I asked him to give me the day so we are going to tonight. And I guess you already have?' Ericka said. 'Yes, but how would you know that?' Lilliana looked confused. 'Sam's bleeding through his shirt, it's just a tiny bit but if you spent as long as I have looking for it then you would spot it easy too.' Ericka smirked as Lilliana tried to look at his opposite shoulder. 'It's fine Lilliana and thank you Ericka for letting me know.' Sam said through the link and reached over taking Lilliana's hand in his. 'How can you...' Lilliana seemed a little in shock. 'You don't know how to block your thoughts from me yet meaning I can hear you and Ericka's conversation, which is probably something you should have told me already.' Sam scolded. 'There are a great many things I need to tell you love but maybe they can wait until after dinner and I'm sure there are things you have yet to tell me as well.' Lilliana said leaning over and kissing him. Everyone had been sitting and talking waiting for the food but when Lilliana kissed Sam, howls came from the pack and one said "You call that a kiss?" Lilliana and Sam laughed "Come on plant one on her." Came from another, with that Sam stood up bringing Lilliana with him. He placed his hands on Lilliana's hips as she put her arms around his neck purposefully grazing the bite mark on his shoulder. He took that as a challenge and turned back towards the pack bringing his hand up to rest on her bite mark. Her knees almost gave in when he gripped her mark and said "Should I kiss her?" and howls ran through the pack as he turned grabbing her waist again and kissed her passionately for several moments, but was interrupted when the food started to come out. The howls were heard again as they sat down and watched as they brought out steaks mounded on silver platter's, with bread, potatoes and vegetables. Lilliana looked in awe at all the food that they brought out. "Traditionally the pack will wait for the Alpha's to eat first." Sam said quietly. "Oh" said Lilliana and then she and Sam both reached for a steak and other various items as did everyone else but once they were done getting their food the hall went quiet and all eyes were on them. Lilliana then cut into her steak and took a bite, then Sam did the same and they both nodded. Then everyone else started to eat, Lilliana ate her food and watch the pack, she noticed that the witches sat down at the far end, but Aria sat next to Fin who sat on the other side of Sam. She took another bite of her steak and looked around the room again seeing two women staring at her while they ate, it was a bit weird but Lilliana went on eating her steak and looked around the room some more. When she was finished eating she turned to Sam she wanted to ask if it would be weird for her to walk down to the witches while people were eating, but he was talking with Fin and some other men. So she wiped her mouth before standing and walked around the tables and down to the witches. As soon as she stood all eyes were on her including Sam's, but she didn't look back she strode over to the table and started talking to the women. She made sure they were all comfortable with their rooms and felt safe. She turned to one of the older women and asked if she could talk to her tomorrow, she agreed and said her name was Jenny. Lilliana then went and sat back down to Sam and sipped some of her wine, she never really liked wine she always seemed to like beer better and hoped she could get one later. She noticed Sam looking at her and he said, "So you like beer, that's good to know." He paused "Your thoughts are very easy for me to read." Lilliana smiled but with an under tone of sadness, "I have the same problem with Ericka, I guess I'll have to work on that." Sam then asked, "What's the matter, you know I can't read all of your thoughts." He said trying to make her feel better. "We can talk about it later." She stopped, thinking for a moment, "I'm going to go get some air. Can someone show me how to get outside?" Lilliana asked getting up; suddenly a young woman was standing next to her bowing. Lilliana looked at her and said "Yes." sounding a bit confused. "Madam Alpha I can show you the way, if it pleases you." The woman said. Lilliana looked at Sam and he nodded, she turned back to the young woman and said "Yes, thank you." She turned and kissed Sam and then followed the woman, within moments she was outside in a large garden, Lilliana thanked the woman and she left. Lilliana walked through the garden admiring the beauty of it until she saw a bench. She sat down and took off her shoes so that now she was barefoot and then stood, walking towards the large field of grass just beyond the garden. Once her feet were on the grass she breathed deep inhaling her surroundings. She could smell the forest and water from a nearby lake or river. She stood there for a while just feeling the wind blow through her hair and kiss at her skin. It was warm outside since it was now June; she hated how long it had been since she had truly been able to breathe freely. She looked to the horizon, watching the sunset letting the warmth from it sink into her skin. She then walked for a couple for minutes, working her way towards the woods and away from the den. She found a good spot and sat down on her knees in the grass. She then stretched into the grass and rolled over lying on her back. She gazed up at the fading sky and felt the rumble of the earth underneath her. She laid there a long time before Sam appeared over her holding a pair of beers. She smiled as Sam handed her one and sat down beside her. She looked at him now in the failing light and said "Lilliana was not the name I was born with. Before I got shot my name was Katherine." She said pulling up her shirt to touch her scar as she still looked up at the sky. Sam leaned over and touched it; he leaned back and asked "Why did you get shot?" sounding concerned. "It was Aiden's first birthday and I was waiting for Jerry, my husband, to get home from work so we could celebrate. But as the hours past and he didn't show, I didn't know why until the police knocked at my door. They told me that Jerry had been in a terrible accident and had died. Later I found out he was a compulsive gambler and he was killed for it and had lost me many other things. After the cops had left, I put Aiden to bed and decided that we would go home to my parents the next day. But later that night I awoke to a loud crash and Aiden crying. When I searched the house I couldn't find him, I heard a car start and ran outside. Just as a large man was putting Aiden into the back of a van, I tried to attack the man several times; I just wanted to get to Aiden, to protect him. But in the end I was weak and he grew tired of me, he shot me and then told me that Jerry owed him a debt and now they had come to collect. Jerry had bet his family to save himself but it caused me more pain than I have ever..." She stopped; tears flooded her eyes and streamed down the side of her face as she now looked up at the stars. Sam sat in shock he hadn't known what she needed to tell him but he never expected this. He wanted to do something about it now. But found Lilliana unmoving, so he grabbed her hand but she didn't look at him. Then she started again "I found out where he hung out and followed him until one night, I guess I parked to close to a bar he had gone to and some his men came out to hurt me. I didn't know how to fight so I was an easy target, I guess and then Ericka showed up, killed them and took me under her wing. She traveled with me teaching me how to fight and all about her world. One day I asked her to give me her blood because this is something I need to do with my own two hands." She looked at Sam now as if trying to press that fact. "The next day Ericka was gone and I had the strength and skill to kill him. But I still had to follow him until he was with my son." She stopped for a moment and more tears came, "I had found him and was waiting for him to come out of the house when I was taken. And well you know the rest. But the person I have become," she paused "I can't be whole without him, it's like a piece of my soul has been ripped out of me." She sat up finding it hard to breath. "Where was he when you were taken?" Sam said in a serious voice. Lilliana looked at him, she saw his eyes were red and said "Charleston." She looked at Sam with hope in her eyes. "Good that's only about a five hour drive from here. I will send a pair of my hunters to track him down. Then you and I will bring Aiden home." He said firmly. It became quiet as they just listened to the darkness. Lilliana laid her head down in Sam's lap and looked up at the stars. "I wish I could show you what he looks like." Lilliana said. "You can if you want, just picture him in your mind and then share it with me through our link." Sam said and so Lilliana thought of Aiden when they were happy and shared it with Sam, but all too quickly her memory's turned to the night he was taken. She replayed the whole seen in her head and said "I should have known, maybe I could have..." But Sam didn't let her finish, "There's nothing you could have done and he almost killed you for trying." Lilliana sat up, looking at Sam, "He was mine to protect and I failed, my life should be forfeit if I cannot protect my own family." She said desperately. "You were outmatched in strength and size; in your human form nothing else could have been done." Sam said assuredly. "How would you know that?" she asked picking at some grass. "You showed me, just now when you were thinking about it. It was transferred through our link. It was as if I was there looking through your eyes, feeling what you felt." Sam said. "It just keeps playing over and over, that's why I need to be the one kill him." Lilliana said and Sam nodded. A few moments later Lilliana said "Damn it, can you please distract me?" Lilliana asked. Sam then grabbed her hand and pulled her close. She leaned against his chest and suddenly felt warm all over as if fire was filling her soul, it felt like it was coming from Sam. "Sam, what is that?" Lilliana breathed. "That is the love I have for you, I thought it would be a good distraction." Sam smiled as Lilliana looked up at him. She sunk into him and let it take hold of her and without realizing it she did the same to Sam. They sat there quietly for a couple of moments, until Sam moved so that he was now lying next to Lilliana. She moved to lie next to him and slid a hand underneath his shirt and over his stomach. From their still open connection she could feel the pleasure he felt from it. She moved closer and unbuttoned his shirt and started rubbing his chest until she reached his shoulder and the mark she had put there. The pleasure from it was immense and Sam pulled her close so now she was lying on top of him. Sam looked into her eyes now and said "Just let it go Lilliana, if you give yourself over to me. I will never hurt you." Then Lilliana kissed Sam passionately, and let it all flow into him all of it, the pain and love, bad and the good. She felt relief and then the burning passion and love they both shared. Sam slipped her shirt over her head and pulled her into another kiss. Caressing her sides and back then unsnapped her bra and pulled it from her body. He massaged her back as she kissed his neck and shoulders, and when she would kiss his mark, he would kiss on hers. Sam flipped her over onto her back, the cool grass molding into her, and unbuttoned her pants slipping his hand in under her panties and began stroking her folds. Sam closed his eyes and said "So that's what it feels like." Lilliana chuckled and reached down stroking Sam's member, "So that's what that feels like, you know I've always wondered." She snickered but it quickly turned into a moan as Sam found his way inside her with his fingers. She unzipped his pants and pulled his throbbing cock from the fabric and fondled it with her hand. With her other hand she grabbed his neck and pulled him down into a deep kiss. When they came up for air Sam said "If you don't take off your pants I'm going to rip them off." He said breathing hard. Lilliana reached down and slowly pushed off her pants which just teased Sam more. Lilliana then flipped Sam onto his back and shimmied his pants down off his body. She then climbed on top of him settling just over is erection. "You forgot about your underwear." Sam said growling a little. "Oh did I, I guess you'll just have to rip them off then." She said grinning. Sam grinned back at her and showed her his extending claws; he then reached down grabbing the thin material roughly and tore it from her body. His hands landed on her hips as she slowly settled down on to his pole. She slid down on it as her tight walls stretched to receive him and they moaned when they felt both sides of the tension. Sam then went to start but she stopped him pinning his arms to the ground above his head. "I want to hear you moan so leave your hands up here." She said tying his hands with some large blades of grass, "Consider these your bonds of self-control, I want to see how long you can last." She said with a small grin. She then sat back up and began moving slowly, her wet pussy slipping up and down on him. Lilliana saw Sam bite his lip and she moaned at the feeling of him and her. She moved against him again and his dick massaged her walls. Sam bit his lip again and held back a moan. "Don't hide it from me Sam, I crave it and if you won't give in to me willingly I will take it from you." She said sliding her hand up to graze his mark with her nails. Sam then moaned and then said, "Whatever you wish." with a smirk. She now grinded against him, the head of him finding her sweet spot. She moaned loudly as Sam said "Oh my god that feels amazing. It that your g-spot." Sam moaned again as she hit the spot again. "Yes" she breathed, her hands now rested on Sam's chest and he noticed they were getting kind of hot. He saw sweat beading off her forehead and her mind was strained as if she was trying to hold something back. "Let it go." Sam said as she continued to grind on top of him. "I can't, it's too much, and I'll hurt you." She said panting and moaning. "You won't hurt me just let it go." Sam said moaning a little. "No." she cried through a moan. Sam then broke the blades of grass around his wrists and flipped her onto her back, he slammed into her now and her moans almost became screams. He slammed into her again and growled "Do it or I will." "Please Sam, I can't." she moaned. He growled again and flipped her roughly onto her stomach then grabbed her hips and brought her up to meet him. He found her hole again and pounded her until she was screaming out his name. Then suddenly Sam's member got bigger and she heard a loud growl behind her, then his arm was around her bringing her back up to meet his chest. She noticed that when she put a hand on his leg he felt hairy and then his hand was on her throat as he continued to pound her from behind. 'Last chance.' entered her mind from Sam. "Sam please, oh god Sam." She screamed as she heard Sam growl again and bit down into her mark she screamed again, flinging her arms out on either side of her and suddenly a ring of fire surrounded them but Sam didn't stop. He slammed into her again as he bit down harder on her mark piercing the skin with his teeth, she screamed again begging, 'Please just a little more.' into his thoughts. He quickened his pace and bit into her mark just a little more. With that they both came, Sam growling as he spilled his seed deep inside of her and Lilliana screaming as waves of orgasms over took her again. After a moment Sam rolled them onto their sides, collapsing onto the soft but now worn grass. They stayed entwined as they relaxed and the fire slowly died down. But their connection stayed open as they felt each other's contentment. Sam then felt power surge through Lilliana and the ground move underneath them, he opened his eyes to find them lying on their bed in their room. He was a little shocked but pulled the blanket over them and laid his head back down. 'I wanted to be in our bed so we wouldn't have to move again.' She said into his mind, 'What were you?' Lilliana asked. 'We call it the hybrid, its half man, half wolf. Much more effective for biting stubborn mates.' He said and she felt a warm chuckle come through their link. "Oh so you think I'm stubborn, huh. Just wait till tomorrow.' Lilliana said. Sam chuckled again and they drifted off to sleep. Setting Moon Ch. 07 Eric and Ericka sat eating dinner quietly, when they were finished Eric asked, "Where did Sam go?" "He went to join Lilliana for some fresh air. I was hoping to get some alone time with you, not that I didn't enjoy meeting all your friends and family earlier but I do believe we have some things to attend to with each other." Ericka said grinning. Eric turned to her smiling and said, "Then I think we should retire to our room and attend to such matters." With that they got up and walked back to their room. Eric opened the door for her and she stepped into their nice sized apartment. Ericka sat down in a chair and took off her boots and Eric did the same. They sat there as Eric asked "Before you remembered me, you said the name Gabriel, who was that?" Ericka sighed and sat back in her chair. "When I was an angel, before being reborn on earth he was my husband since before humans had even learned how to talk. But when we were reborn on earth we found each other again and had two children." She said sadly. "What happened after...?" He asked. "When I was turned into a vampire, Gabriel tried to save me by making the key, but even the power of the angels couldn't save me from my fate. When he couldn't turn me back he took my children, he thought I would hurt them. He abandoned me when I needed him most and he still couldn't protect our children from Firina." She said as a tear rolled down her cheek. "You know I would never..." He said walking over to her. "Yes, I know you wouldn't. You were ready to sacrifice everything for me when I was a vampire. Luckily we don't have to deal with that now." She said as Eric pulled her up out of the chair and into his arms. "I will give you as many children as you want. But you must tell Lilliana about your relation." Ericka smiled and placed a small kiss on his lips. "Of course I will and soon, but I have to tell her at the right moment. She's been through so much and I don't want to hurt her just by not having told her sooner." Ericka said. "Good then is there anything you would like to do or ask me maybe?" Eric said. "There is something I must warn you about." Ericka said turning away from him and out of his embrace. Eric looked at her curiously, "I'm sure whatever it is we can handle it, together." Eric said the last word with emphasis as he reached out and touched Ericka's arm. "It's about Gabriel, you asked who he was, since he's an angel I'm certain he's still alive. If he finds out I've been turned back, he may come for me. I'm afraid he'll...hurt you. As an angel he is stronger than any force on earth and..." She paused for a moment turning to look at him. "I don't love him anymore and when I tell him that. Well he may just kill us all because he can, but then in death I fear you and I wouldn't be together. I would become an angel again and it wouldn't be allowed no matter where you went." Ericka paused again sitting down on the edge of her seat, Eric just stood staring at her. She looked down at her hands and continued, "Most angels are compassionate, merciful, nonviolent creatures, but Gabriel is a warrior he is unmoving in his resolve of anything he undertakes. If he wants me back he will move the earth to do it. He would kill you without a second thought just to spite me and then if I fought him, I would die too and be forced to live eternity alone or be with him." She stopped as tears started to fall onto her hands. Eric knelt down beside her; he put a hand under her chin and raised her head so that he could look into her eyes. "We will find a way. We will not give up hope just because death stares us in the face. I love you and because of that I would fight anyone who gets in our way including the ark angel Gabriel." Ericka looked directly in his eyes now. "How did you know he was an ark angel?" She asked. "I was told the story as a child, I didn't know if it was really true until now. But it doesn't matter what he is we will not let him win, not after everything we have been through just to find each other." He said and kissed her lightly. "Yes well." She chuckled and sat up wiping the tears from her face. "Anyone I have to worry about from your past?" Eric stood and scratched his head, "No one I can think of but I'm sure once your wolf manifest you're going to be a handful without worrying about them." Eric said and Ericka laughed. "Good, I would like to take a shower and think about more questions I would like to ask you. Would you like to join me?" Ericka said with a smirk moving towards the bathroom as she slowly unbuttoned her shirt. Eric watched as her breasts started to show and then walked towards her. "Yes I think I would." He said with a grin. Eric stripped his clothes on the way to the bathroom and when he walked in her found Ericka already naked and starting the water. He walked up behind her and brushing her hair aside, he gently kissed the back of her neck and shoulders. Ericka turned towards him and said "I haven't been with very many people sexually." Eric seemed confused, "What do you mean, you were a vampire for a very long time you had to of had many partners." Eric said. "No, I have only slept with two other men besides you and Gabriel. One was a vampire that I dated for a good three-hundred years, which was a very dark part of my life. And the other was a human that I dated for about twenty years before the vampire ex-boyfriend found me and killed him. I dated a couple of girls here and there but it's not really the same. I've spent the last five-hundred years alone. Waiting for something real, for someone who actually loved me for me and you, you did." She kissed him and waited for his reply. "I am three-hundred and twenty-nine years old and I have never had a mate. I have taken many women into my bed. But I have never felt this way about any of them." Eric said feeling a little ashamed. "I don't care how many women you've been with, what matters is this." She said smiling and moved into the shower. Eric moved in behind her and said "I love you." As he placed his hands on her waist. "Good, now please don't talk about those other women again, I don't want you to have to protect them from me." She said with a chuckle. Eric then spun her around and said "And?" Ericka smiled and said "I love you." In a sensual voice, whispering it into his ear. She then turned back around and began washing her hair. When she lifted her hair off her neck Eric noticed several scars on her back and then started looking at her arms and legs. Kissing his way so that Ericka wouldn't notice what he was doing. She had scars over a lot of her body and Eric wondered why he hadn't seen them earlier when he was changing her and cleaning her up in the hospital. Ericka turned around to face him and he saw a large cut mark across her face. But he ignored it and kissed her. He didn't care if this was how she would look, at least he had her. "It's different for an angel when one says they love a person, it bares their soul and everything they are. These are the scars I have gotten since I was reborn on earth; it's good that they don't bother you. But I can keep them hidden and that's the way I prefer it." Then suddenly the scars where gone and her skin was perfect again. He touched her face were the scar had been and said "How did you get it?" Ericka had begun washing her body. "It was a long time ago and you probably won't like the answer." She paused. "There was a great war once between the two sides, vampires and werewolves. I was drafted among many to defend the vampire's. There were hundreds of thousands of vampires then and the same for the werewolves. The war spread over three years and the fighting only stopped during the day because of respect for the ancient family. I lived and many died under my hand but it did not leave me unmarked." Ericka said sadly stepping under the water. Eric was quiet for a moment and then asked "What ancient family?" "That is a very long story that I will tell you later, when I don't have other things on my mind." She said turning around and pressing him against the wall. She kissed him as Eric saw passion burn through her eyes. Once they separated Ericka said "Now I will be waiting for you so hurry up." She said stepping out of the shower and grabbing a towel. Ericka dried off and walked naked into their bedroom, there was a balcony on the far end, she walked over and stood in the door way, leaning against the frame feeling the warm night air brush through her hair and blow across her skin. She looked up at the moon and lost herself in thought. She thought about all the battles she had been in and scars she had gotten from them over the years. Five thousand years and yet sometimes she still acted like a twenty year old. She had seen gods come and go, kings rise and fall, empires crumble beneath her feet, the beginning and end of so many things and now she was mortal. She smiled at the thought, 'Mortal, whatever will I do with myself now? I've been waiting for so long to be able to start over...will I even remember how?' She put a hand on her chest and felt her heart beat under her fingers. She breathed deep feeling air fill her lungs. Her skin was warm and no longer pale, it showed now of life as blood coursed just underneath the surface. She hadn't taken the time to get acquainted with herself again until now. She closed her eyes and felt human once again after so long. But she wasn't just human was she; with her angel side she felt an ornate connection with all living things and some that she shouldn't even consider. She was always connected to the faith, the faith was what she called the angels and demons, and if she wanted to she could talk to any of them just as she talks to Eric through their connection. She could talk to Gabriel right now if she wanted to, but then he would know that she was human once again and she didn't want him to come for her. She even could contact the dead if she wanted to and her children who were killed so long ago. She shook her head and put the thought aside she opened her eyes and felt her angel, she was strong and thrived now. She was able to heal others when she wanted and come daylight she planned on going to the clinic they had there in the Den. And she also had the ability to influence people, a single whisper and she could suggest anything and more likely than not they would do it. She also had power buried deep inside, like the witches power but she couldn't use it all the time. Only when a situation called for divine intervention could she call her power but when she did it drained her for several days. She had always liked her wings, white with silver tips, she pulled them out now and felt there weight and span. Suddenly there was a hand on her shoulder but she knew it was Eric finally done with his shower. She closed her wings but left them out and turned to face him. "May I?" Eric asked motioning to her wings. Ericka nodded and watched as Eric slowly stroked the edge of her feathers. Gently she expanded it so that he could see it all and watched again as he stared in awe and gently touched it. "Can you fly?" Eric asked curiously. "Yes, if I wish to I can." Ericka said. "Did it hurt?" Eric asked. "Did what hurt?" Ericka now looked confused. "When you fell from heaven?" Eric now looked at her smiling. "Wow, how long have you been waiting to use that line." Ericka said with a chuckle and shook her head. Her wings disappeared as he pulled her into his arms. "Since about half way home in the SUV." He laughed and brushed some hair out of her face while gently stroking her cheek. He still had a towel wrapped around his waist and pressed his body into hers, his now growing bulge pressing into her. He kissed her lovingly and then placed his thumb under her chin and lifted it so he could see her neck. Gently he kissed down it and onto her shoulder. He gently bit her and a small moan escaped her lips as his hands caressed her sides and stomach. One of his hands moved up to her breast and cupped it. It was large enough that it filled his hand but didn't overflow. He massaged it and pinched her nipple as he kissed his way down to her other breast, kissing and nipping at the tender flesh he found there. Another moan escaped her lips as he pressed her back against the glass door for the balcony and moved his free hand down to her mound and caressed her folds. He then brought his head back up to kiss her, and then said "I want to see you lying on our bed." And then a second later Eric had moved them so they were next to the bed. He gently pushed her onto the bed and now stood between her legs. He leaned down so that his face was between her thighs and she moaned softly as she felt his hot breath touch her skin. Slowly he brought an arm up underneath each thigh and wrapped his arms around them so that now she could not move away from him. He then dipped his head and licked her wet folds, like everything else about her, this part of her tasted amazing too. He licked again but when he reached her clit he slowed and flicked it with his tongue. She moaned and squirmed a little but she couldn't move. He began licking it fast and with a hard tongue and she moaned and thrashed her head from side to side. He stopped then and moved his head lower licking down to her center, he darted his tongue inside and licked at her walls, she moaned and then even louder as he brought a finger up to massage her swollen nub. He then start darting his tongue in and out of her passage, his tongue was long and licked deep inside of her. She wrapped her legs around his head and moaned, "Please, Eric, I need you please." She begged. "Not until you cum." He said teasingly and set back to licking the inside of her pussy. Moments later she screamed and he tasted her sweet juices spill into his mouth. He licked her clean before moving up her body and kissing her passionately. He grinned and then turned her over onto her stomach; he then laid on her back, his towel now gone his hardened shaft lay between her cheeks. He then moved her hair aside and nibbled at her neck. He then whispered in her ear, "Are you sure you're ready?" Suddenly Ericka flipping Eric onto his back and then quickly she moved so she was straddling him. She grinned sat down so that she was rubbing his shaft through her folds. "How did you do that so quickly?" Eric said confused. "The reason I was always stronger and faster than Firina, was because I was already quite strong and fast before she turned me." She said stroking his pole through her now wet folds. Eric moaned softly and said, "And I thought I might actually have a chance at over powering you now." Ericka chuckled a little and then positioned his hardness just outside her center and gently pushed him inside her tight passage until she enveloped all of him. He stretched her walls greatly and Eric asked with a moan, "Doesn't that hurt?" Ericka moaned and slowly started to move up and down on him, "Yes." She breathed and continued to ride him. Her hair tickle his thighs as she arched her back and her head looked up to the ceiling. "But then..." Eric said but was stopped by Ericka. "Shhh, later." She said with a moan and sunk down so that he was buried deep inside her once again. Eric sat up and put his arms around her, he started kissing her breast and arms when she put them around his neck. Slowly they started moving together, moaning together. Her hips ground against his as he thrust deep into her. He then grabbed her hips and started to grind her hips against him. She moaned loudly "Oh god, Eric. Please, don't stop." She breathed heavy as he started to move her hips quickly against his. She clung to him, gently scratching at his back her moans coming in pants. Then she screamed cumming again. He then rolled her over onto her back, still deep inside of her he started to stroke in and out of her tight pussy pushing in as deep as he would go. She pleaded with him through a moan, "Please." Eric then sat up on his knees, grabbing her ass and bringing her up to meet him. He began pounding deep into her tightness. She screamed as she came again and again. He panted over her but stopped abruptly. He looked deep into her eyes which were glassed over with passion, "Are you sure?" He said in heavy breaths. "Yes, I am yours forever." She breathed. He then leaned down and kissed her passionately. Then started pounding her again, she moaned as she flipped her hair out from around her so that now it was splayed behind her on the bed. Her shoulders now completely exposed. She heard a growl come from Eric when he saw her willingness. Her body shuddered as she came close to orgasm again and she could feel him grow inside of her. He growled again and she could see his now sharp teeth lengthen. She moved her head to the side showing her neck to him and he growled again and quickly leaned down and bit into her shoulder, she moaned as his teeth sunk deep into her skin. He thrust several more times before she screamed cumming again as she felt his seed spill deep inside of her. He then moved her leg to the other side of him and rolled them onto their sides and relaxed. Eric then started to explain that she wouldn't be able to move but she interrupted him, "I know, I didn't get to be five thousand two hundred and thirty six years old without learning a thing or two." Ericka said. "But how, werewolves have always tried to keep our ways a secret especially from vampires." Eric said a little confused. Ericka then said, "That vampire I dated for three hundred years, his name was Farid, his brother was a werewolf." Setting Moon Ch. 08 In ancient Egypt the pharaoh of the time believed that he had found to elixir to immortality. He had his most trusted servant instill it into his private stocks of wine. He drank it but yet nothing ever happened to him. He still felt mortal, he still bled like a mortal and he aged like one as well. But still he drank hoping that one day it would take effect, but never told his servants that he was still mortal. They thought of him as a god, never to be trifled with. The servants he chose were man and wife, they had two boys, Farid was thirteen and the other Hamid was eleven. Farid was always getting into trouble and since Homid followed him everywhere he got into trouble too. But they had never caught the attention of the pharaoh or his guards. Until one day their parents brought them to the palace to keep them out of trouble. Their mother worked in the kitchen where Farid was told to stay and their father worked with the pharaoh's wine where Hamid was keeping him company. "Farid, get out of the food. You will be whipped if someone caught you." Called his mother. "Yes mother." Farid called back with annoyance in his voice and walked over to where she was standing cutting up some food for the next meal. "You must behave or you may get us all whipped or worse beheaded. You are almost a man and you need to learn how to act like one. Now bring this food to your father and brother, and then come right back unless your father says otherwise." She said handing him some food wrapped in cloth. "Yes mother." He said and ran out of the kitchen and down the hall, a couple minutes later he reached the wine room and slowed to a walk. His father would scold him for running in the palace. Farid walked into the room to find Hamid sitting on a barrel and his father mixing some wine. "Father, I brought you both some food from the kitchen. Mother sent me with it." His father turned to look at Farid and smiled. "Good, come sit with us while we eat." He said, and finished what he was doing, then they all walked to the back of the room and behind several rows of barrels they sat at a small table. "Are you being good for your mother?" His father asked. "Yes, father but mother says I have to learn how to act like a man." Farid said. "Yes, you do. The responsibilities of a man are great and since you are almost one, you need to learn how to be one. But not today, well start that tomorrow." His father said with a smile and patted Farid on the shoulder. He then turned to Hamid and Hamid asked "When I become a man, can I drink wine?" "Yes, but only when all the work is done." Said his father, Farid had been looking at a small alcove in the wall filled with flasks of what he thought was wine. "Whose wine is that father?" Farid asked pointing at the wall. "That is the pharaoh's special wine; you need to stay away from it. They come and count them to make sure no one has taken any." His father said in a stern voice, he then got up and went back to work. Leaving Hamid and Farid sitting at the table eating some bread, Farid still stared at the wall full of wine. "I know what you're thinking; we'll get in so much trouble." Hamid sad quietly to Farid. "Whose going to find out it's just one flask, I'm sure they'll just think they miss counted them." Farid said standing up and walking over to the wall. "What if they don't? We'll get in a lot of trouble." Hamid said pleading to his brother. "It's fine, no one will know." Farid said picking up a flask and tucking it into his shirt. "Now come on we'll ask Father if we can walk to the kitchen to help mother." Hamid smiled and walked with his brother to where his father stood and asked him if they could go see their mother. He said yes not noticing the wine tucked in Farid's shirt and they left the room and headed towards the kitchen. "What are you going to do with the wine?" Asked Hamid. "We are going to drink it, once we are out of the palace and away from mother and father." Said Farid. "How are we going to get out of the palace?" Hamid asked. "I don't know but I'll figure it out. Don't worry brother, I always have a plan right." Farid said patting Hamid on the shoulder but Hamid looked worried. Once they entered the kitchen they saw their mother was very busy making food for the pharaoh. They walked over to their mother and Farid asked, "Mother, may we have some bread." Their mother quickly handed them some bread and then said "Now I'm very busy, please stay out of the way." "But mother we are very bored, there must be something we can do." Farid asked. "Fine go into the pantry and bring me more bread." So Farid and Hamid tucked the bread into their shirts and went into the pantry. They found the bread and went to carry several loafs to their mother. But then their mother appeared in the walk way for the pantry. Quietly she said, "Stay here and be quiet, if I tell you to run you run, then you run as fast and far as you can away from this place and the guards. Always remember that your father and I love you." She then went back out and it sounded as if she had gone back to cooking. Hamid was confused and it showed on his face when Farid looked at him. Farid then broke some bread and started shoving it into Hamid's shirt. But Hamid still looked confused, Farid then whispered in his ear, "You were right, were in a lot of trouble. Just be quiet and do as I say. If mother tells us to run we have to run." He looked at his brother with a serious look on his face. Then Farid went back to stuffing their shirts with bread. Suddenly they heard from the other room, "Where are your sons? They have stolen something very important to the pharaoh. Tell us where they are or you will pay for you insolence just as your husband did." A guard said. "I don't know where they are they must have run home. Where is my husband? What have you done to him?" She cried but Farid had heard the word run and so they did. Farid took his brother's hand and they ran as fast as they could out the back door of the pantry. Half way down the hall they heard their mother scream and then there was silence. Hamid tried to stop but Farid pulled him forward. "We must keep going." Farid exclaimed and pulled his brother back into a run. They ducked a couple of guards who were talking about them. And managed to make their way out of the palace and onto the regular dusty streets but they did not stop running. When they reached their house, Hamid tried to stop but Farid said "We cannot go home they will look for us there." "But what about mother and father, they will be looking for us too." Hamid said. "Don't you get it, mother and father are probably dead and we will be too if we don't leave this place." Farid said. "I told you not to take it; I told you we would get in a lot of trouble." Hamid cried. "I know but we can't dwell on that now. We have to do as mother said we have to go." Farid said They ran and ran until their legs could run no more and when they finally stopped and looked around it was night time and they were lost in middle of the desert. They looked around and saw nothing but desert and small mountains. "What do we do now?" Hamid asked. "We make a fire, we will be cold soon and with nothing to warm us we will need the heat." So the set to finding wood and created a fire in a nearby cave. Once Farid had started a fire they sat around it and hoped it would give them warmth. "I'm hungry." said Hamid and pulled some bread out of his shirt and began to eat it. "Good idea, the food will give us warmth and so will the wine." Then Farid took some bread and the flask of wine, he ate some bread and took a swig of the wine. He then passed the wine to his brother, who took a swig and then scrunched up his face. "I know it's bitter, but it's all we have to drink. And father always said that the more wine you drink the faster you will warm up." So Hamid took a big gulp and handed the flask back to Farid. They ate until they were full and shared the rest of the wine. Then deciding they were tired they both laid down on the hard dirt ground and went to sleep. They both dreamt of strange things, things they had never seen and places they had never been. Knowledge filled their heads that they could not have possibly known before. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In the morning Hamid awoke first as sunlight filled the cave. His head filled with thoughts not of his own. He scratched his head and noticed his hair was longer; he scratched his face and felt scratchy hair there. He then stood and hit his head on a low lying stone hanging from the ceiling, last night he hadn't noticed it. He then looked over at Farid, he looked older and hairier and taller. "Farid, get up." Hamid called and watched as Farid came to his feet and hit his head. "Hamid? What happened to you?" Farid asked. "I don't know, but it happened to you as well." Hamid said and then watched as Farid looked himself over. Farid then looked at Hamid "You look about thirty, I guess I look the same as you, but how or why did this happen?" Farid asked. Hamid went to the edge of the cave and looked out, he then said "That wine, father said it was the pharaoh's special wine. I overheard mother and father talking a while ago, about this elixir that the pharaoh had found, it was for immortality and the pharaoh made them put it in the wine. Maybe that flask was filled with that wine, maybe that's why were older. It made us grow up so we wouldn't be children forever." He looked at Farid now, "That's why were smarter as well an immortal can't be stupid, I guess." Hamid said. "Well that's amazing, we'll be young forever and with our new knowledge we will be able to concur all." Farid said with a smile. "Yes but at what cost, Mother and Father are dead because you decided to steal some wine and now we have no place to go and no way to make a new life. The only reason we should be happy right now is because were alive and that mother always gave us father's old clothing, otherwise we wouldn't have anything to wear either." Homid said and then adjusted his clothing. "But then what price should it have taken brother, for immortality I'd say we got off pretty cheap. They took our mother and father so we could live a life that they could never have dreamed of. The pharaoh is not worthy of this power and therefore does not have it. But we do." Farid said trying to convince him. "We are not worthy of it either, all we have done our whole lives is bring dishonor to our family. What makes you think we deserve this great gift?" Hamid said. "We are young, we can change. We are men now and can make the right decisions." Farid said. "We are not men; we are boys that look like men. To be a man we need to take responsibility for what we have done. We need to go back to the palace and receive the bodies of our parents. Apologize for what we did and offer our lives in penance." Hamid said. "We couldn't offer our lives, we are immortal. We should go back and kill the ones who killed our parents; they should pay for what they have done. We should go show them what true immortals do to those who need to be punished and kill their false god." Farid said angrily. "So all you wish for is power, after what we have been given. You may be right, but that doesn't make it the right thing to do. We were the ones who caused their death; if you had listened to me they would still be alive. I will always value family over power no matter what happens to me. You should heed my words brother or you will live in darkness all your life. Will it mean nothing to you to take life for the wrong reasons? Will the blood of the innocents stain your hands for eternity or will you be wise and take a better path?" Hamid said looking into his brothers eyes. "I don't know what I will do but I have eternity to figure it out. You may want to have family, but how will you keep them if you are immortal and they die after only one life time. Where will it end and you don't even know if you can have children now. How many women will you take as your bride and how many will die before they know what you truly are. They will grow old and you will stay young forever. Wouldn't that bother you to see their pain?" Farid said. "I will find a woman that I am meant to be with and stay with them for as long as I can. And she will know what I truly am and what will happen if we are to be together. I will not lie to her over such important things; she will know her fate as long as she is with me. But as long as I have known you, I have been your only confidant. I fear you will lie to everyone and never let anyone close, I fear you will live and die alone brother. I do not wish that fate for you. How do you now with all this knowledge only crave death?" Hamid asked. "You are wise brother, but think you are blind to the world. The pharaoh would just as soon cut your throat as I would his. There is death everywhere and anyone would kill you or me just for a loaf of bread. A year ago I saw that very thing happen just outside our window. Mortals are weak and crave anything they do not have. The pharaoh would drink your blood just at the chance to have what we have now and you would have me beg for forgiveness at his feet. I think not, I will never bow to a false god." Farid said firmly. "How do you think we got this gift? A true god must have given us this power to do good in this world and you would seek to only create more evil." Hamid said with anger in his voice. "If a true god gave us this power than I will use it to kill the pharaoh and destroy his evil. Is that not doing well? He has done far worse to the people under his rein." Farid asked. "Yes to destroy that evil may be the right thing to do. But to kill his guards may not, most are only doing as ordered and to kill them would be to leave their families fatherless. And for what purpose, they are only doing as they are told and if they didn't they would be put to death as well. To kill them in cold blood would be to create even more evil. I will not have their blood on my hands, unless they ask for that fate." Hamid said warily. "Then you would come with me to kill the pharaoh?" Farid asked. "Yes, but only to get the bodies of mother and father. They should be burned so that no one can defile their bodies. It will be a royal funeral, for a poor family. Then we will leave and never return. But we will not kill any innocents, agreed?" Hamid asked firmly. "Agreed, shall we go then?" Farid asked. Hamid nodded and they set back in the direction that had come just the night before. Several hours later they reached the town they called home. When walking through the streets no one seemed to notice them not even the guards that patrolled the town. Except for a young girl or two that fancied them, but still they walked on until they reached their home. They stepped inside and looked around. Everything looked so much smaller to them, but they searched the small home for clothing and shoes. Once they had changed into clothing that actually fit, Hamid took a knife and shave the hair on his face and then cut his long hair. Then Farid did the same and they looked each other over to make sure they did a good job and they had. "We should take the money they had been saving with us to help us start over." Hamid said. "Yes and maybe some from the pharaoh when we meet him." Farid said. "Maybe." Was all Hamid said as he removed a board from the floor and pulled out something wrapped in cloth. He opened it to find coins, then wrapped it back and stuffed it into a bag he planned to take with him. They both found some warmer clothes and stuffed them into their bags and food as well. Hamid then said, "We will act like simpletons to get into the palace and in front of the pharaoh. We will not strike until the moment is right or the guards may just cut right through us and immortal or not I don't see how we can survive have our heads cut off." Hamid said seriously. "Father's sword will do us no good; we won't even get it past the front gate with it." Farid said. "Leave the bags, we will go now." Hamid said and walked out of the door. Farid followed him and they walked peacefully towards the palace. Once they reached the palace they were stopped by the guards, "What is your business here?" said a guard. "We have word on those boys who stole the pharaoh's wine; I believe he will be very interested in what we have to say. Do you think he will offer a reward?" Hamid said nudging his brother with his arm. "Give me the message and I will tell him myself." The guard said. "We will say nothing unless we talk to the pharaoh himself." Farid said. Hamid put a hand on Farid's shoulder and said, "What my brother meant to say was that, wouldn't the pharaoh like to hear this good news himself instead of from a guard. Especially if he does not think it is good news at all?" Hamid said squeezing his brother shoulder. "Good point, come with me." Said the guard and he turned and walked towards the main palace. Hamid and Farid followed him until they walked into the pharaoh's main hall. The guard stopped them and then went and told another guard why they were there. He then went and told the pharaoh. After several moments the second guard brought them forward and motioned for them to bow. Farid seemed a bit hesitant to bow but did anyway and so did Hamid. "Stand and tell me what news you have of the thieves who stole my wine." Said the pharaoh his voice sounding rot with age, he was an older man in his fifties and wore beautiful clothing and jewelry. "The wine that was stolen was of your special stock. The immortal wine was drunk completely and the boys are no more." Hamid said and then watched as the pharaoh stood and walked over to stand in front of them. "Where are their bodies, how do I know they are dead if you bring me no proof." Said the pharaoh, his guards had backed off when he came close and now Hamid had his chance. "I didn't say they were dead. I said they were gone and we are standing here as proof. We wish to know where their parent's bodies are." Hamid said. "If they are gone why did you come here and waste my time, I have killed for less. And the bodies of the traitors are in my dungeon where I will put their traitorous sons when I find them. Take them away." The pharaoh said. "That is not all we have come to say." Said Farid and Hamid looked at him and nodded. "The boys are gone because we are now men, your wine is gone because we drank it. And we know that you are not what you seem, you are not an immortal god. Because you were not worthy of that gift, we have come to put you in your rightful place. I hope in death you will find the peace you could not find in life." Farid said and walked toward the pharaoh. Hamid then looked at the guards and said, "If you value your lives you will leave this place and never return." Several left but two remained. "Cowards." One yelled at them and then focused his attention on Hamid, "They will pay for their insolence when I'm done with you." The guard said then swung at Hamid with his sword, Hamid dodged and moved to the guard's side taking a knife from the man's belt he grabbed his neck and slit his throat. As the man fell to the floor he walked over to the other guard who was just staring at him. "Do you wish to flee as your companions did?" Hamid asked. The guard then focused his gaze on Hamid and said seriously, "I will not run like a coward." He then started to run towards Hamid. Hamid dodged his first swing and cut the man's arm with his knife. The guard swung again and Hamid dodged and swung cutting the man's face. "You are foolish to fight when you have no chance of winning." Hamid said and then ducked as the man swung at his head, Hamid then sliced the guard's leg and stood behind him. "I am toying with you, leave this place and return to your family while you still can." Hamid said, the guard fell to rest on one knee, Hamid then walked around to look at the man who now looked scared. "I would think no less of you and your family would be thankful you're alive. Nothing else matters." Hamid said as the man tried to stand, "This is your last chance." Hamid said sternly. Setting Moon Ch. 08 "My son will not think of me as a deserter. I will fight with honor, so that one day he may fight the same." The guard said trying to steady his stance. "I admire your courage, but that alone will not protect you." Hamid said, then the guard swung at him, Hamid grabbed his arm with the sword in it and pushed it aside, and then with his other hand he stabbed the man in the chest. As the man sunk to the floor Hamid held him close. "Your son would be proud of your bravery." Hamid said and then laid him on the floor. From behind him he heard, "You are stupid for thinking you were the only one who knew of this power and that you were good enough for it." Hamid turned around to see his brother standing over the pharaoh; he started to walk over to them and noticed the pharaoh's blood seeping onto the floor. "You have dishonored yourself and when the people find your body they will know the truth. That you are not an immortal or a god, just a sheep hidden in the clothing of a wolf." Farid said. "Brother, it is enough, we are finished here." Hamid said touching his brother on the shoulder. "No brother, he must pay for what he has done." Farid said grabbing the pharaoh and pulling him up to his feet. "He will pay with his life and in his death, he will not go unpunished. Slit his throat and be done with it." Hamid said handing Farid the knife. Farid looked at his brother as anger seared through his eyes. "Yes he will suffer in death, but in life he was a false king. Should he not suffer now in the eyes of his people? As he has done with all those which he deemed traitors?" Farid said trying to sound calm. "In the eyes of what people brother, we will be the only ones to see it. Even if we wanted to show the people we couldn't, we must not show our faces because we are immortal. No one must know who we are. We need to leave; more guards may show up soon." Hamid said sounding irritated. "Fine, then I will watch you die for them." Farid said and stabbed the pharaoh in the chest. The pharaoh's eyes widened and then went dark. Farid then dropped his body and turned towards his brother. But as he was turning he heard a noise like a door opening. He turned to look and ducked as he saw a dozen large bats fly out from an opening behind the pharaoh's chair. He swung at one and then another latched onto his shoulder biting him. He yanked his off of him and flung it to the ground the impact killing it. A moment later the bats where gone, Hamid looked at his brother, "Are you hurt?" He asked seeing the blood on Farid's shoulder. "I'm fine just a scratch lets go." Farid said. They then left going down a hallway and a small staircase they found themselves in the dungeon. A guard was leaning against a wall when they entered but now stood up right staring at the two. "Open the cell with the bodies in them." Hamid said firmly. "Who are you?" The guard asked. "Open the cell or you won't live to regret it." Farid said grabbing the man's throat. "But the pharaoh..." The guard began to say in a struggled voice. "The pharaoh is dead, now open the cell." Hamid said calmly. Farid let go of the guard and he scrambled to the first cell door, he fumbled with the keys but finally got the door open. Once the door was open Hamid walked into the cell and saw the bodies of his mother and father just thrown on the floor. He went over and carefully picked up his mother and carried her out of the cell and then Farid did the same with their father. As they went to leave Hamid stopped next to the guard and without looking at him said, "You should leave while you can." And then Hamid walked up the stairs to find Farid waiting for him. They both then walked out of the palace heading back towards their home. Once home they laid their parents down on their bed and then left to make the funeral pyre just outside of town, once they were done they came back to their home, grabbed their bags and then the bodies of their mother and father. When they reached the pyre they laid their mother and father down next to each other upon it and set them on fire. They both stood watching as the fire burned; it was hours before it was done. But they stood the entire time just watching without saying a word. When it was done they walked away from the town and back towards the cave they had slept in the night before. In the cave they were silent, as they made a fire and ate their bread. Until Farid said, "I should clean this wound, so it doesn't get infected." But they hadn't brought any water, "Wait here I will see if there is any water deeper in the cave." Hamid said then grabbed a large stick out of the fire, the flask that held the wine and started walking down into the caves depths. After several minutes he found some water dripping from the ceiling he uncorked the flask and held it up to the dripping water, after a while he felt it was full enough and corked it shut, it was then he heard some small whimpers come from in front of him. Curious he walked forward trying to use the fire to see farther but he couldn't see anything until he came upon several wolf cubs huddled together for warmth. Hamid then realized that he was in a wolf's den and now the mother would see him as a threat to her children. He looked around quickly moving his fire as to scare the mother into not attacking him. But then suddenly he heard a growl and then she was on him tearing and biting into his side. Hamid managed to fling her off and then started running for the front of the cave when he got to the fire where Farid sat; he fell to his knees and said panting "Watch out for the wolf." Farid looked shocked and then saw the blood on his side, he then stood and took the flame from Hamid and held it towards the back of the cave. Hamid opened his shirt to find huge teeth marks imbedded into his side. Farid then came up beside him and helped his brother take off his shirt and poured water onto the wound. He then ripped Hamid's shirt into long strips and wrapped them around Hamid's stomach and over his wound. "Thank you brother, she was protecting her young. It's not her fault." Hamid said. "You are too forgiving." Farid said and dug into Hamid's bag finding another shirt he handed it to him. "Here Farid." Hamid said handing his brother the flask filled with water and then put on his new shirt. Farid grabbed the flask from him and tended to his own wound. When the blood was gone Farid noticed the small bite marks where gone as well. "Hamid look the bite marks are gone, maybe we heal faster now too." Farid said. "We'll see, you know even with my new found knowledge, I can't remember what kind of wolf that was. I just can't seem to place it." Hamid said touching his side. He had sat back down next to the fire across from Farid and now leaned against a large rock but they were still inside the cave. After sitting a while there in silence, Farid asked, "How's your side?" "I'll live, guess this means even though were immortal we can still get hurt and even die if injured bad enough." Hamid said. "Should we find another place to sleep; do you think the wolf will come after you?" Farid asked looking back into the darkness of the cave. "I think we'll be fine, like I said she was protecting her young. I don't think she would be willing to leave them. We should be alright to sleep here tonight but tomorrow we should move on." Hamid said and then yawned. "Where will we go?" Farid asked lying down. "I don't know, but away from the pharaoh's city, I know that much." Hamid yawned again and then cringed as he lied down on some blankets. In the morning Hamid was feeling well enough to pack his things and move on. Farid and Hamid walked as far as they could the next day, until Farid said "I don't feel very well brother we should stop for the night." They managed to find an oasis with water and rabbits to eat. Once fed, they sat around a warm fire and talked for a while. "How do you feel, Farid? Are you sick or is it something else?" Hamid asked. "I think I may have been poisoned by the bat that bit me. It would make sense that the pharaoh would have poisonous bats. I feel like I may be dying, I am sorry brother that I have put you in this situation." Farid said. Hamid now noticed that Farid looked pale and sweat beaded off his forehead even though it was cold in the desert at night. His eyes were blood shot and he was shaking. Hamid walked over and put a blanket around his brother. "You're going to be fine, you said yourself that we heal faster now. It will probably just have to work its way out of your body. Here drink this water." Hamid said handing Farid the flask of water. Farid took a couple of big gulps of the water, then asked "How are you Hamid, is your side healed?" Hamid opened his shirt to look at the bite. It was red and puffy but didn't look like it was healing any faster that a normal mans would. "It was worse than yours was, maybe it will just take longer to heal." Hamid said trying to sound convincing. "I feel strange as if something is happening to my body I can't quite understand. I know what death is supposed to feel like, but this feels different." Farid said looking a little confused. "It's probably like I said; you will be fine your body just needs time to heal. Just like mine does." Hamid said closing his shirt and putting a blanket around himself. "Sleep now brother, it will help. Hopefully in the morning we will both feel better." Hamid said moving back to the other side of the fire and lying down on his blankets. "Will you burn me as we did with mother and father? I would hate to be buried in the ground where the sunlight would never find me again." Farid said as he lay down. "Yes brother if it comes to that I will. But it will not. Go to sleep, we must be rested for the walk tomorrow." Hamid said knowing that he may be lying to his brother; bat poison could kill a normal man in hours. But he did not know what it would do to Farid. Hamid now looked up at the moon, it was almost full and something deep inside of him was drawn to it. He tried to shake off the feeling as he fell asleep. The next morning Farid awoke first, he sat up and tried to look around but the light hurt his eyes. He still felt sick and could barely get up but he managed to move over to where Hamid was sleeping and shook him awake. Hamid awoke growling at the sudden presence of someone at his side, but stopped when he realized it was Farid. "Sorry Farid, guess I was having a dream. What's wrong?" Hamid asked. "The light it hurts my eyes and it hurts to move." Farid said slouching over a little. "We need to get moving, there a town not too far from here. We can find a healer there and find a way to get you better." Hamid said as he got up and packed his things, and then he set to packing Farid's blankets. "A healer? Isn't that a bad idea considering what we are?" Farid said sounding strained. Hamid then stopped and squatted down in front of Farid, he looked into Farid's eyes before he began talking. "You are the only other person that will ever understand what it's like to be what we are. To actually feel it instead of be told," he paused for a moment, "an eternity without someone who understands who you truly are would be immensely lonely. So yes brother we will go find a healer even though it's probably a bad idea." Hamid said helping his brother to his feet. Hamid also grabbed the two bags and Farid leaned on him heavily as they started walking towards the town. But Hamid did not stop he was determined to save his brother and the town and a healer was his only chance. They reached the town as the sun was setting in the east, red and orange waves light lit up the sky and then melded into the black of the night. Wind had blown sand onto their clothing as they walked, so that now they looked as if only dusty travelers. Hamid walked into town carrying Farid, he had fallen into the sands not too long ago and didn't have the strength to move. So Hamid carried him the rest of the way. Once in the town Hamid stopped at the nearest house with light in their windows, and ask where he might find shelter and a healer for Farid. They pointed him in the direction of the center of the town and said that the healer's door had a large red mark upon it. So Hamid carried his brother to the healer's door and knocked, but no one answered, he knocked again and looked around seeing a light in the window. He then called out, "Please, my brother is sick. You must help him." Then the door opened, "Who are you?" said a woman from inside the house with a strange accent. Hamid shifted his gaze to look at a beautiful woman standing in the door way. She had short blond hair as if someone had cut it off and tan skin. Her eyes were a glorious blue that almost made Hamid weak when he looked into them. He had been quiet for too long and she looked as if she was going to shut the door when he said, "I am Hamid this is my brother Farid, he is sick and needs help. I fear he may be dying. Are you the healer?" "No I am not the healer, I just live in his household and do as he wishes." She said as her head sunk to look at the floor, then from a room deeper in the home they heard. "Who is it witch someone come to save you, at last?" Came from an older man walking into the main room of the home, he could see the men in the door way and then said in a serious voice. "Come in and lay him down on the bed." Hamid ducked through the doorway and gently moved past the woman, but she just moved aside, still looking at the floor. He felt sadness for her and wished he could do something to make her happy. But he had to tend to his brother, Hamid laid his brother down on the bed and then the healer asked him. "What's wrong then?" Hamid looked at the man and then said, "He was bitten by a poisonous bat, the wound healed quickly but the poison didn't take effect until yesterday. He is dying, can you save him?" Hamid listened as the old man muttered some things then he asked how many suns and moons have passed since he was bitten. Hamid was almost confused for a moment today would have been the third day since Farid was bitten but the old man wouldn't understand what he meant by days. He had to speak the language the people were used to, "It has been three suns and two moons since he was bitten." Hamid said. "Ah, then it was the pharaoh's poisonous bats who bit your brother. I may be able to help him, if you can promise me that no one is still after him and for the right price." The old man said with a slight smile on his face. "No one is still after him and I have plenty of money, if you can save him I shall pay you whatever the price." Hamid said staring at the old man. "Fine, I shall try." Said the old man and then poured some kind of medicine into Farid's open mouth. He then ordered the young woman the wipe Farid down with some cold water to keep his temperature down. She then walked over to a corner of the room and grabbed a bucket of water and some strips of cloth. The old man then turned to Hamid and said, "And you why are you bleeding?" Hamid looked down at his side and saw that blood had seeped through his bandages and the shirt. He must have ripped it open when he was carrying Farid. "I am fine; he is the one who needs help." Hamid said pointing to Farid. "There is nothing we can do for him now until the medicine starts to work." He then turned to the young woman and said. "When you are done with him, clean the other ones wound so I can deal with it as well." The old man then turned and walked into the back room from where he first emerged. When the woman was done wiping down Farid she turned to Hamid and stood there waiting silently. Until Hamid stood and removed his shirt, she didn't hesitate once she saw the bandages and she immediately set to carefully removing them. When she saw the wound she stared at it with wide eyes before walking over to the fire and grabbing a pail of warm water and some more strips of cloth. She walked back over to him and set down the pail and dipped a strip of cloth into it. She then tried to gently touch the cloth to the wound but when she did he growled a little at the pain. She then stopped and put a hand on his chest, "I'm sorry, what bit you?" She said in a quiet voice. Her hand was warm and he put his hand on hers and lifted her head with the other on her chin. "It's alright; I was bitten by a wolf." He paused as he saw the shyness in her eyes, "What is your name?" She looked into his eyes now and saw they were gentle and the color of amber. "They call me witch, because of the color of my hair." She said. "But that is not your name, please tell me what your true name is." He said. "My name is Vilaria." She said as she started to clean his wound. "Where did you come from?" Hamid asked. "I was born a very long way from here in the cold mountains. I had gotten lost and walked for a very long time before the healer found me. He brought me here to be his slave, but when we got here many thought me a witch because of my long light colored hair. So they hacked it off and I have not been able to live peacefully since. Why are you being so nice to me? Do you not think of as a witch?" Vilaria asked. "If you were a witch why would you live here with him instead of leave this place?" Hamid asked. "That's why they cut my hair, they believe for a witch to be able to use her power she needs to have her long hair and so they cut mine. Would it bother you if I was?" Vilaria asked. "No there are many things in this world that many don't understand so they are afraid. I understand more than most and still I know that the unknown should not be feared but accepted, until something is done to change that view. I know you are a witch, I can feel it within my soul. What would it take to set you truly free?" Hamid asked. She looked down and went back to cleaning his wound. "If I say it won't be true and if it's not true it will never free me. It took me so long to remember even that small part of me. I've been here for two years and yet my hair has not grown. Without it I fear I will never remember." A tear fell down her face as she said it and Hamid wiped it away. They were silent for a while as Vilaria finished cleaning his wound, when she was done she went to move away from him but he gently grabbed her arm and pulled her into his embrace. She felt his warm body against hers and clung to him as if it was the first kindness she had ever been shown. Hamid then whispered into her ear, "Would you allow me to take you away from this place? I would ask nothing of you and never bring you harm." Vilaria then looked at him longingly and nodded her head. "I will have a word with the healer once he is done." Hamid said quietly. She then went off and got the healer. When she came back the healer walked into the room before her. "Now let's see that side of yours." The healer bent down in front of Hamid and looked at the bite mark. "It looks like its healing fine, better than fine really it looks like its healing before my eyes. What witchery is this? I this you're doing witch?" He said looking at Vilaria. "No, it is not her doing. It is mine; I haven't been very honest with you. My brother and I are more than powerful. I came because I need help for my brother. You don't need to know more. Now tend to my brother." Hamid said angrily with a growl. The healer scared turned to Farid who look like he was fading fast. "Your brother is dying." The healer said shaking. "Help him." Hamid almost shouted. "It is too late he is already dead." The healer said, Hamid pushed him aside and knelt down next to his brother checking his pulse. He knelt there for a moment before standing and looking at the healer. Setting Moon Ch. 08 "I will leave my brother here while I make him a pyre. You will not touch him or move him or you will be as dead as he is." Hamid now looked at him with fire in his eyes and a low growl emitted from his throat. "Vilaria will you help me?" Hamid asked. "Wait you cannot take the witch, she is..." The healer said but was stopped but the look on Hamid's face. Hamid and Vilaria exited the home and walked towards the edge of town. Moments after they left; the healer threw a blanket over the seemingly dead body of Farid. He walked around the home wondering what he should do about Hamid and the witch. He then decided he would call on the guard and left the home to find them. Half an hour later he returned home with four strong men from the guard and they would wait for Hamid to return. They sat their talking for a while about what would happen once Hamid returned. "If he threatened the healer he will threaten anyone, he must be stopped." One of the guards said. "Well then should we put him in jail or just kill him and the witch?" Another asked. "I say we just kill them." Another said. Farid still lay dead on the cot in the corner; the healer came over to his body and said quietly. "I don't see what's so powerful about you." Just then Farid took a gasping breath and screamed as he sat up. He looked at the healer and gasped as he tried to breath, he then grabbed the healers cloths and pulled him close and said, "Hamid, where...is...he?" As he tried to steady his breathing. "He's preparing to burn your body." The healer said with in a shocked voice, he looked into Farid's eyes and saw they were red and when Farid talked he could see two long sharp teeth. "I died then?" Farid asked. The healer said "Yes." As he tried to sink to the floor, Farid let go of his clothes and moved so that he was now sitting on the side of the bed. The healer sunk away from Farid and backed into the wall. The four guards just sat staring at him; Farid now looked up at them and said, "So you plan on killing my brother, well I will not allow that." Farid then stood and watched as the guards scrambled to their feet and drew their swords. Farid moved quicker than he thought possible and found himself now standing behind them. Before they figured out what had happened Farid realized his teeth and how odd they were and then how hungry he felt, but not just hungry he felt like he was starving. He looked up at the men looking around in front of him and saw in the man standing closest to him that his neck throbbed from where his heart beat pulsed through the man's vain. Farid was drawn to it and grabbed the man and bit down on his neck, he then started to drink his blood and the man only struggled for a moment before giving in and soon death followed. He did this with the other three men as well and the more blood he drank the better he felt, once all the guards were dead he turned his attention towards the healer and bent down in front of him. "Now where did my brother and the girl go? And where are her things?" Farid asked wiping his face off on the healers clothing. "He went to the edge of town to make you a pyre with the witch, please don't kill me. She has a bag under my bed its green." The healer begged. "Why would I let you live, you wanted my brother dead as well, just for taking some girl. You never should have threatened him with those guards; he would have killed you too. I'm just glad I am the one that will end your life, because I'm so hungry and blood is what I seem to crave." Farid said and then grabbed the healer and bit into his neck, as his teeth sunk into the man flesh, he felt blood pour out of the wound and onto his shoulder, and Farid sucked the blood out of his veins and felt stronger with each and every sip. Farid thought this was strange, maybe his brother was right, maybe he was blood thirsty after all. When he had drunk all of his blood Farid dropped his body to the floor. Farid then went into the back room which turned out to be the healer's bedroom and looked around. He found the bed in the far left corner and went over to it. He flipped the bed out of the way and looked down at what was under it. There was a green bag but also there was another bag, he picked that one up first and opened it, he pulled out what looked to be a beautiful long medieval gown and further into the bag he found the healers stash of riches. He put the gown back in the bag and closed it. He now grabbed both bags and went back into the main room that was now filled with dead bodies. "Don't want Hamid coming back to this, he'll be pissed." Farid said to himself. He then grabbed their original two bags and then left the healer's house and headed towards the edge of town. He searched the edges of the town with lightning speed, but he finally found them, they had starting to make a pyre at one edge of the town. They had gathered a lot of wood and pilled it next to where Hamid seemed to be building the structure. The woman was standing next to the pile of wood trying to help but just didn't have the strength to lift most of the wood. Farid watch and listened as Hamid stopped building for a moment and stood in front of the woman talking. He was close enough to hear but still hidden in the shadows so that they could not see him. "I sorry about your brother." The woman said as a tear rolled down her face, Farid was confused why this woman would cry for him when she didn't even know him. Hamid spoke next, "He was the only family I had left and I will miss him more than I could ever explain. I think he would have liked you." Hamid said warily. "I would not think it weak of you to morn your brother. I would think that a man's strength can only last if sometimes they accept weakness as a sign of strength and use it to their advantage." The woman said. Farid had let his brother suffer enough he now walked towards them when he got close and they still hadn't noticed him, he said loudly, "There will be no need to show weakness. Since I am alive that is." Hamid looked around his brother walking towards them; he then had a huge smile on his face. Farid was then at his side and dropped the bags as Hamid pulled him into a strong hug. "I have never been so happy to see you or anyone in my whole life." Hamid said as he looked at his brother. "How are you alive?" Hamid asked. "I don't know, one minute I was dead and the next well here I am, and who is this lovely creature?" Farid asked looking at the woman who looked a bit shocked. "This is Vilaria; she was being used as a slave by the healer. So I decided to bring her with us and then you died." Hamid said the last part a bit sad. "Cheer up brother, I am alive and we have a long was to travel. Here are your bags." And Farid handed Vilaria her green bag and Hamid his bag. "Where did you find it?" Vilaria asked "Once I heard you were with my brother, I assumed that you would want your things and made the healer tell me where they were." Farid said. "And how did you make him?" Hamid asked looking seriously at Farid. "Relax brother; he only got what he deserved. He had brought some guards back to his home and were waiting for you to return. So when I awoke they tried to kill me as well. They were all evil men and died knowing so." Farid said as he started to walk away from the city. "Do you still want to come with us Vilaria? I'm not that bad really." Farid said. "Yes I have nowhere else to go and rather enjoy Hamid's company; I would hope to come to enjoy your company as well." Vilaria said with her head low. Farid looked at her now, "Lift your head Vilaria, with us you will bow to no man or woman ever again. Now come, we have to find food for the night and I don't think we will find it here." Farid said. Hamid then put a hand on Vilaria's back and gently pushed her forward. They both then caught up to Farid and walked beside him. Several hours later they reached the oasis that Farid and Hamid had stayed the night before. Hamid started a fire while Farid caught some rabbits and got water to drink. They cooked and ate the rabbits, but Farid did not feel satisfied. He still hungered for more blood and the only two around were his brother and Vilaria. Deciding that was not an option he said, "I'll be back I'm still hungry." And Farid walked back into the seemingly small woods. He found some more rabbits and drank their blood, but it just wasn't enough. He found some slightly larger game and drank their blood. He seemed to be satisfied for the moment and walked back to their camp. When he arrived he found Vilaria and Hamid sitting next to each other talking. "Have you told her yet brother? She would understand, I think being what she is." Farid said going to sit down across the fire from them. "No I haven't, what happened to keeping it a secret. And where is the food you were going to bring back and the blood on your hands?" Hamid said. "Oh, I could only find one rabbit. I got my hands on it and thought I had him but he got away. And I just figured she would understand if you were to tell her." Farid said motioning towards Vilaria, who just sat looking between them confused. "If you were to tell me, I would gladly listen and I have no one to tell. But that is your choice and I will leave it up to you." Vilaria said. Hamid nodded but the Farid said, "You speak very well for a commoner and with that color of hair. I would definitely say you were royalty at one point. Why are you so far from home?" "I don't remember where my home is. Or who I am or was for that matter. When they cut my hair...the healer told me that when they did, I forgot who I was. I would give anything just to know that my name really is my name. The healer told me it was Vilaria, but then called me witch." Vilaria said. "Our parents were killed by the pharaoh and we went back to get their bodies, that's how Farid was poisoned." Hamid said. "The pharaoh had thought he had found the elixir of immortality, but it never worked in him. Hamid and I drank the wine he had it distilled in unknowingly. We are younger than you would think." Farid said calmly. "So then you both are immortal, but then how were you both hurt?" Vilaria asked. "We are still able to be hurt but we heal quicker than a normal person." Farid said. "So that would be why you healed right in front of the healer?" Vilaria looked at Hamid and asked. "Yes, that is why." Hamid said. "So you finally did heal. Good to know, are you alright Hamid? You're sweating, you don't look very well." Farid asked. "I'm fine; I just need to rest for a while. Please continue, while I do." Hamid said as he laid down on the cold ground. They hadn't laid the blankets down yet and Hamid didn't really seem to need them. So Farid and Vilaria continued talking. "When we drank the wine we both gained an immense knowledge for all things known to exist. But some things are still new even to us. Please come sit next to me so we don't bother Hamid." Farid said with a slight grin. Vilaria then moved to the other side of the fire to sit next to Farid. "Do you think he'll be alright?" Vilaria asked. "I think he will be fine, just look at me. I was dead and yet I now breathe the cool night air. Hamid will heal just as I did." Farid said. "But he was bitten by a wolf, there was no poison. Should he not then be already healed?" Vilaria asked. "He may take on some of the wolf. I know now that I seem to enjoy the night more than I did before I was bitten by the bat. That might be what he is going through." Farid said. They then sat quietly for a while, Vilaria staring at Hamid and Farid staring a Vilaria. Farid then noticed the throbbing vein in Vilaria's neck. He forced himself to focus on other things, but in the end found he was staring back at her neck. He licked his lips and then noticed Vilaria staring at him. "Do you even know if you've ever lied with a man Vilaria?" Farid said trying to cover from looking at her neck. "I don't done know, I think I'm a least twenty years of age. So I would think that I would have but I just don't know." She said as a tear rolled down her cheek. Farid pulled her into a hug to console her but it just brought him closer to her neck. He could smell her blood coursing through her veins. He tried to fight the urge to bite her but it was too strong. He told himself, 'Just a sip, and I will release her." Gently he bent down and kissed her neck then he put his open mouth on her shoulder and slowly sank his teeth into her skin. She tried to move away from him, but his hold was to strong. She begged "Please stop." But the words fell on deaf ears, all Farid could hear was the beat of her heart. Suddenly Hamid grabbed Farid and yanked him away from Vilaria. Hamid pinned Farid against a tree, "Why brother, why would you hurt an innocent woman?" "I cannot control my hunger brother, I need the blood. When I died I was reborn something else and this is why I hunger so." Farid said trying to overpower his brother. "I told you that your hunger for blood would leave you only alone and in darkness. Yet you persist." Hamid put him down and looked into his eyes. "I need the blood brother; to live it is the only thing that sedates my hunger." Farid said looking back at Vilaria, "I did not choose this fate but I will embrace it." Farid said trying to lunge at Vilaria. But Hamid caught him and pinned him back against the tree. With a loud growl he said, "You will control yourself, or I will do it for you." Suddenly Hamid growled again as he grew taller and hair grew out of his entire body. He fell to his knees as magic seemed to surround him. His nose grew out and his arms molded into front legs. Then his legs turned into wolf legs and a tail was there now too. In the blink of an eye Hamid at transformed into a very large black wolf. The wolf stood on all fours and stared Farid in the eyes and growled, with his now sharp teeth bared. Farid stood almost in shock, "Brother you are a wolf, a very large wolf." Farid exclaimed but Hamid just growled at him. "Fine I will leave the woman alone." Farid said. So Hamid moved away slightly and Farid moved towards his bag slowly. But once Hamid had let down his guard he went to attack Vilaria again. Hamid then bit Farid on the shoulder and slung him out into the desert. He did the same with Farid's bag as well. "Fine brother, choose her over me. We shall see who prevails in the end." Farid said, Hamid looked at him and let out a loud and long growl. Farid then got up and walked away from the oasis. Hamid, still in wolf form kicked out the fire and grabbed two of the bags in his mouth. He then nudged Vilaria with his nose. Vilaria had been trying to look at her wound when she realized the wolf nudging her. She quickly scrambled to her feet and looked at the wolf. "Hamid is that really you?" She asked and watched as the wolf seemed to nod his head. Hamid then grabbed the third bag in his mouth and started to walk further into the forest. He stopped next to the trees and looked back at Vilaria. Who then slowly walked up next to him and then they continued to walk into the small forest. As they walked Vilaria slowly got up the courage and gently touched the wolf's side, Hamid just tilted his head and looked at her, then back at the path. Deciding that Hamid or the wolf didn't mind she gently stroked her fingers through his hair as they walked. They walked like that for a long time until they came to a waterfall. Then Hamid put down the bags and gathered sticks for the fire. Hamid didn't know if he would be able to transform back into a human so he went on with doing the regular things he would do, so that Vilaria would not worry. Once he had brought enough sticks for the fire he tried to dig in his bag to get some flint but he could not open it. Vilaria came to his side and gently pulled the bag in front of her she open the bag and watched as Hamid used his paw to point out what he wanted. Vilaria then grabbed the flint and moved next to the sticks and struck a fire. Then Hamid grabbed one of the bags with his mouth and brought his over to Vilaria. She opened it to find the gorgeous medieval gown and decided that she would bath and then wear the dress. "This must have been what I was wearing when the healer found me." She said to Hamid. Hamid smelled the dress and then nodded. She then opened one of the other bags and pulled out some blankets and laid them across the ground next to the fire. Hamid then laid down on one of the blankets and watched as Vilaria walked over to the water's edge and started to strip her clothing. Hamid tried not to watch but it would be the first time he ever saw a real woman naked. He watched as she took off her shoes, then stood and untied her apron, then slipped the dress off of her shoulders. She was the most gorgeous creature he had ever seen and he watched as she glided into the water and slightly turned as she poured water out of her hands and onto her neck. He watched as water trickled down the side of her firm breast and then further down her side and over her hips. He desperately wanted to touch her caress her, but in this form he could do nothing but watch. She sunk down into the water and submerged her head, she swam under the water for a moment before she came up for air. Water flowed down her body and trickled off her voluptuous bottom. He stood now tempted to join her in the water, but he didn't want to scare her. He looked away from her and the water and looked out into the woods making sure Farid hadn't followed them. Suddenly he was human again and stood naked looking out into the forest. Then he felt a wet hand on his shoulder and turned to find Vilaria standing naked before him. She took his hand and pulled him into the water. Hamid thought that she would be afraid of him now but she seemed more confident than she had before. Once in the water she let go of his hand and turned to look at him. "Why did you save me, first from the healer and then from your brother?" She asked. "I saved you from the healer because it was the right thing to do, and I saved you from my brother because he will not stop until someone puts him in his place and also because..." He paused and looked at Vilaria. "You need the love of a good honest man. Is that not why you came with me to free yourself?" Hamid finished. They were silent for a moment so Hamid dunked his head under the water and rinsed the sweat from his body. When he resurfaced she was standing close to him. "I was not trying to use you. I just..." She stopped looking down into the water. He brought his hands up and put one on her shoulder while the other lifted her chin. He then slowly leaned down and kissed her gently on the lips. She pressed into his kiss and when the separated she asked, "How many women have you been with?" Hamid didn't say anything for a moment; he had the knowledge of women and what happens during intimacy but he had never done it himself. He looked up at the moon and said, "I have never been with a woman, you are the first person I've ever kissed." Hamid said and looked back down into her eyes. "Does that bother you?" Hamid asked. "No, it doesn't bother me, if it doesn't bother you that I don't remember if I have or not." Vilaria said and then Hamid leaned down and kissed her again, he pulled her close to him and she pressed her body into his. His hands roamed her back and she touched his chest with hers. Slowly he started to kiss her neck and shoulder, but when he came to Farid's bite marks he stopped and kissed them. Then instinctually he licked them and then watched as they healed under his touch. He kissed the spot again and then continued on to kiss her chest. She arched against his so he could kiss further down her body. Setting Moon Ch. 09 Lilliana awoke abruptly the next morning as she shot straight up. Tears streamed down her face as she remembered her dreams. She put her head in her hands and tried to rid herself of the horrible feeling that they would all soon be dead. She felt a hand on her shoulder and turned swinging. But before she struck she realized it was Sam and fell into his arms. Sam was a bit shocked, but still pulled her in close. Once he felt she was calm Sam said, "What's the matter?" Lilliana looked up into his eyes and said, "I fear we will all soon be dead, the first vampire is coming for me and Ericka. He can smell her and now we need help. Do you know the first werewolf?" Lilliana asked. "I do not think he would make himself widely known. But we do have an eldest that comes and checks in about every six months. Maybe he would know, I will find out when he is coming next and set a meeting up for us. Alright now cheer up, no one is dying today, I promise." Sam said. Just then there was a knock at the door, Sam then loudly said "Enter." A man entered and walked towards them until he was only paces from the bed, "My Alpha, I apologize if I woke you but the council is requesting your presence immediately." The man said. "Fine, tell them I am coming." Sam said. "Apologizes my Alpha, but they are requesting to see both of you, in the large council room." The man said bowing. Sam then looked at Lilliana who then nodded her head. "We will both be there soon. Now go." Sam said. "Thank you." The man said bowing again and then he left their rooms. "Unfortunately, it seems we must get dressed my love." Sam said sweetly. She pushed her face into Sam chest and then said, "Fine." She then lifted her head and said, "But I'm wearing a gun." She finished as she rolled out of bed. "You have all that power and yet you still feel the need to carry a gun." Sam said as he rolled off the other side of the bed. They walk towards their closets and Lilliana said, "I am only still learning about my magic, there could be times when I can't access it and then what would I do." Sam just smiled and walked into his closet as Lilliana walked into hers. "Does it matter what I wear?" Lilliana called to Sam. "Nice but comfortable as always love." Sam called back. Lilliana began looking through her clothes and then Sam appeared in the doorway wearing only pants and said, "Now that I think of it, we will be having a ball soon and all the old ones will come." Lilliana looked at him strangely, "A ball really?" She questioned. "Yes and I think I have something you would love to wear to it." He said pulling silver gown from behind his back. It was long and a halter style top and backless. Lilliana walked over to him a smiled as she took it. "You will look gorgeous in it as you should." "It's beautiful, thank you." She said kissing him. "Now get dressed they are waiting for us." Sam said and retreated back to his own closet. Lilliana hung the dress up and then set to finding something to wear. She found that she liked the black dress pants she had worn the night before and found another pair hanging in the closet. She pulled them out and set them on an ottoman sitting in the middle of the room. She then looked at the shirts and found a blue low backed one with short sleeves that was mostly loose except where it cinched in at the bottom. She then found some lacy under wear and backless bra to put on and set to putting on her clothes, once dressed she enter her shoe room and looked at them all. She the settled her eyes on a pair of black stiletto heels with a silver toe piece and silver at the tip of the heel as well. She put them on and then opened her gun storage, she found a gun that would fit in her holster and the closed the gun doors and went back into her regular closet. She found her brown belt and holster hanging up above a dresser and then saw that Sam had placed several of the same design there in different colors. She found a black one with silver tips like her shoes and put it on and placed her new gun in the holster. She then walked out of her closet and into the bathroom where she brushed her hair, put on her new necklace and earrings and looked at her clothes. She liked the way she looked until she saw her back, covered in scars. Just then Sam walked into the bathroom and saw what she was doing. He then said "No one will notice and if they do, they will only think you stronger for it. Wear it like a badge of honor and my people will respect you for it. And if any don't just punch them square in the face that will help." Lilliana chuckled and then said, "Thanks, it makes me feel better about wearing that dress as well." She said looking back in the mirror then turning towards Sam. "Now what do you think?" "I think I was right, you look stunning in everything." He said smiling and then said. "And me how do I look?" Lilliana looked him over. He was wearing a black suit with a green button up underneath, showing just a little of his chest and black dress shoes. "Stunning as always." Lilliana said with a smile. "Alright let's get going if you're ready that is?" Sam asked and Lilliana looked at herself once more in the mirror and then walked with Sam out of their rooms and into the hall. They went down their flight of stair and then ran into Eric and Ericka. "Where are you off to?" Ericka asked. "Some council meeting, why where are you going?" Lilliana asked. "Same meeting I think." Ericka said looking a bit worried. "Don't worry, everything will be fine." Lilliana said as they enter the dining room and saw the witches being brought into an opposite hallway. 'What is going on Sam?' Lilliana said through their link. 'I don't know but relax, everything will sort itself out. I promise.' Sam said through the link. They then walked into the same hallway as the witches did and watched as they all walked into a room on the left. When Lilliana and her group reached the door they were motioned to walk in as well. Lilliana felt a little relieved that they would all be in the same room, but when she walked in she found the room was huge and it looked like the whole pack was there. There were stadium seats around a large open center where a long wooden table sat. Around it sat nine older men and left four open seats near the door. The four of them were motioned to sit at the table and Lilliana looked up as she walked over to it and saw that the witches were scared. She wanted to tell them it would be alright but she couldn't. Then a man came up at her side and said, "Please sit here on the end, so we can all see you clearly." "Thank you." Lilliana said sitting and then turned to find Sam seated on her left and Ericka seated on her right. Then a man at the other end of the table stood and spoke loudly, "We are all here today to deal with a disturbing matter that our own Alpha and former Alpha have brought into our house. We seek to find the truth of these matters and deal with them appropriately." He sat back down and then said quieter but so the whole table could hear him. "My name is Demos and I am head of the council when the Alpha is not." He said this looking at Lilliana. "This," he said motioning to his right, "Is Cyrillus, Drest, Eadric and Erwin." He then motioned to his left and said "This is Euphemios, Faelan, Felix, and Dagger. The nine of us will make any decisions that need to be made today." Lilliana had been sitting back in her seat but now sat up and looked Demos in the eyes. "Are we on trial for something?" Lilliana asked. "You are on trial for the use of witchcraft and your friends," He said motioning to Ericka, Eric, Sam and the witches. "are here because they all lied to the pack about you and that is what they will stand trial for." Demos said. Lilliana then spoke loudly, "We have lied to no one, we simply refrained from telling because we did not know what the packs reaction to the truth would be. In doing so we were protecting the pack from themselves." Lilliana said looking out over the pack. "We will decide that for everyone and no one will question our decision." Demos said and looked down at some papers in front of him. "Now late last night someone saw you and our Alpha having sex. They went to walk away but then saw fire burst out of nowhere. Do you deny that you were the cause of this fire?" Demos asked. Lilliana then stood; Sam looked as if her was going to stop her but decided not to. Then Lilliana said as loud as the last time, "And what does the real answer matter, you seem to have made up your mind already and what will you do?" Lilliana pause and started to move around the table. "Burn me at the stake or drown me in the river and for what, if I burn or drown I wasn't a witch, but if I live I am one and you kill me anyway for it. We are not in Salem these are not the old days even though some of you may have been there does not make it right." Then a man came up to her and tried to move her back to her seat, Lilliana growled and said, "Do not touch me, I know where my seat is and I left it on purpose. Now be gone." She said in a stern voice. "Move back to your seat witch or we will move you." Felix said. Lilliana looked at Sam who looked a bit shocked and then the same man as before grabbed her arm, Lilliana smiled at Sam and then turned and punched the man square in the face. The man fell to the floor and Lilliana then turned and walked coolly to stand behind Sam's seat. 'I love you.' He paused, 'it will not matter what they say we will be together either way and so will our people.' Sam said through their link. Lilliana then looked at Felix and said, "My name is not witch, it's Lilliana and that is what you will call me." Demos then stole her attention when he began to speak, "You still have not answered the question. Are you a witch?" Lilliana then put her hand on Sam's shoulder as if to reassure him and moved to stand at the end of the table. "Yes I am a witch and I would choose to be it even if it ends my life. The ability to protect my family and friends is a far greater honor than anyone could bestow upon me." "Then you would choose not to mate with the Alpha and become one of us?" Eadric asked. Lilliana looked at Sam and Sam nodded. She then pulled at the side of her shirt so that her mating mark showed. "I already have, my fate is set in stone and if becoming a werewolf and being with the one I love takes my magic then so be it. I will still protect my family and friends with my life. When I was only human I tried as much but I was not strong enough." Lilliana said hanging her head, but then looked up and said, "But I am much stronger now and nothing will stop me from protecting them." Lilliana then sat down in her seat and Sam leaned over and held her hand. "How long have you been a witch?" Drest asked. "I did not find out that I was a witch until after I met Sam. Before then I unknowingly used my power, not knowing what it was or where it came from." Lilliana said looking at Sam. "How did you find out?" Drest asked again. Ericka spoke now, "I told her she was." "And how did you know?" Faelan asked. Ericka first turned to Lilliana and said, "I am sorry for not telling you sooner what I am about to say." Ericka then turned to the council and said, "A true witches power comes from the angels, Lilliana is a direct descendent of one." She stopped. "That did not answer our question." Felix said. "I am the angel she is descendent from. That is how I know." Ericka said looking at Lilliana, "I am sorry, I didn't tell you." Lilliana looked shock and so did Sam. Lilliana then said, "It's fine at least I know that I have some family I can talk to." Ericka smiled and then looked back at the council as Dagger began to talk, "How do we know you are telling the truth?" he asked. Ericka then stood and moved to stand behind Lilliana's chair. Ericka then closed her eyes and accessed her angel side, she the opened them and her wings appeared on her back, she then extended them. Making sure than everyone could see them. "How do we know you are not a witch as well and are using this as trickery?" Dagger asked. "Anyone who was at the hospital will tell you I was not human before we were attacked." Ericka said. Then a man came up beside her and said, "May I speak to the council?" He asked and they nodded, he then looked to Ericka and said "Would it please you, if I spoke of your trials." Ericka nodded. Then the man moved to the side of the table and said. "Many of you know me, for those of you who don't my name is Gealeian. I was witness to almost everything that happened at the hospital. When we arrived we smelled a vampire. We found out that Ericka was that vampire. Later she was badly injured; Lilliana was dying and the women," He said motioning to the witches. "saved them with a key and their combined power. But it did not only save Ericka it turned her human again." Gealeian said. "Wait so all these women are witches and where is this key for proof?" Erwin asked. Sam then stood and dug in his pocket, he then pulled out Lilliana's necklace with the key on it and handed it Lilliana. "This is the key." Ericka said as Lilliana held it up. "And what proof do you have that it holds such magic?" Erwin asked. Lilliana looked up at Ericka and then Ericka said loudly, "Is anyone here sick or injured in some way?" Ericka looked around the room but no one answered. "Lilliana set the key down on the table and stand over here with me." Ericka said and again she asked, "Is no one sick or injured, or is no one brave enough to come into our presence?" Suddenly two men stood up and helped lift a man that was sitting in between them to his feet; slowly they made their way down to the table. Once next to the table one of the men said, "This is Godric. He was attacked by another pack only a few nights ago. He made us bring him here today. He is badly injured." "Please place the key in his hand. We will do nothing and he will be healed." Lilliana said. The man who spoke grabbed the key and placed it in Godric's hand. Then light expelled from his hand and then his body was enveloped in light. When the light dissipated, Godric stood healthy and strong, no longer needing the support of the other two men. He walked over to Lilliana and Ericka, held out the key and said, "Thank you, I was nearly dead and you helped save me. My mate will be so happy she may claim you as her own." He said smiling; Lilliana then took the key from his hand and place it around her neck. She smiled and said "I already consider you family, if you would have us." Godric nodded and then turned and went back to his seat. Lilliana and Ericka then moved back to their seats and Ericka put away her wings. "Ericka you were a vampire correct? For how long?" Cyrillus asked. "I was a vampire for over five thousand years." Ericka said. "Then you must have been there for the three year war?" Cyrillus asked. "Yes I was there." Ericka said hanging her head. Eric now grabbed her hand and kissed it. "How many of our kind did you kill?" Cyrillus asked. Ericka still hung her head and Eric watched as tears rolled down her face. "I killed thousands with my own hands." Ericka said so only the table could hear but did not raise her head. "You killed thousands of us with your own hands and you would want us to accept you willingly into our home. And there's not a mark on you." Demos said with a chuckle. Ericka then stood and walked over to Demos, a man tried to stop her but she just pushed him out of the way, he hit the wall and crumpled to the floor. She then grabbed Demos out of his chair and pulled him into the standing position. She then showed him her true self, her scars shown deeply. "You do not know me or what I have been through the past five thousand years; I never wanted to kill anyone. I was forced to by ones older than I. A council made the decisions then too and look where it got us." Ericka said in a loud voice and then turned to face the rest of the pack. "If we had decided on our own fate there would be hundreds of thousands still alive on both sides and we would dominate the earth instead of living in the shadows." "When I was born on earth, I had a family and children with the arch angel Gabriel. We were sent to earth to do good and then a vampire found me and took my whole life from me. All I wanted even as a vampire was to be with my children and husband; I never would have hurt them. But some thought otherwise and so they were taken from me. I even tried to kill myself but I had a purpose that even the almighty would not let me escape." She said looking a Lilliana, "The same vampire who turned me later killed my children in cold blood as they slept next their families. I fought so I would live to one day be reunited with my family." She said walking over and placing a hand on Lilliana's shoulder. "I only killed so I would survive. After that war, the only men I have killed I did so to protect Lilliana. Her fate and life mean more to me than my own and I would give it up right now to ensure her safety." Ericka then sat back down and Lilliana watched as her scars disappeared. "Good now that is settled, we still haven't seen Lilliana prove she's a witch and whether she is good or evil." Euphemios said and then looked at Lilliana, but Lilliana had her head in her hands looking down into her lap. "Lilliana, what's wrong?" Sam asked her. She looked up at him and said "Nothing." But through their link she said, 'Don't show it, but my whole body aches for something that I do not know what is. Help me to my feet please, but be graceful I do not what them to think I'm weak.' Sam and Lilliana then rose from their chairs. Lilliana then used the table to stabilize her as Sam moved behind her and held her by her hips. She then said to Ericka quietly, "Tell them to remove there things from the table." Lilliana then closed her eyes and used Sam as her support leaning against him. Ericka then said loudly. "Please remove your things and body's from the table. If you want to keep them that is." Eric and Ericka then pushed their chairs away from the table. And then the council member's did the same and grabbed their papers as they did. "They are ready." Sam whispered into her ear. Lilliana then opened her eyes and put her hands out in front of her so that her palms were facing each other. The council members watched as Lilliana's eyes changed their color to silver and then magic began to fly through her fingertips. White light flowed from her and collected between her hands, she then slammed her hands down onto the table and suddenly the room grew cold, the table went white and ice started to form upon it. Cold winds started to blow through the room and then Sam said into her ear. "I think that's enough for them to tell you're the real thing." But Lilliana didn't stop; she didn't even acknowledge that Sam had said anything. "Lilliana?" Sam question and moved to face her. Cold wind slapped at his face as he turned to Ericka, "What's happening?" Sam asked her. But Ericka could not answer she was too cold to move her lips. "He turned back to Lilliana and shook her, but still he got no response. He moved behind her and grabbed her mating mark but again nothing. He then realized what he must do he lifted up her shirt and gently touched the scar from where she had been shot. Instantly the room became warm again and the ice disappeared. Lilliana then leaned against him again and asked "What happened?" "You nearly froze us all to death. You brought a winter storm into the room." Ericka said now standing at her side. "I am sorry, I am still learning how to control my power." Lilliana said loudly and the said only to Ericka and Sam, "Ice? I was trying to create fire. Ericka can you explain the good and bad witches to the council?" Setting Moon Ch. 09 "Yes, you just relax and don't try anymore magic for a while." Ericka said with a smile. 'Are you alright?' Sam asked through their connection, 'First your wolf is already showing her presence and this, you haven't had that much practice with magic, but still you have never been that uncontrolled before, I had to touch the scar on your stomach just to bring you out of it.' 'I just need to rest, help me sit down. Once this is over we will go and figure it out.' Lilliana said sounding weak even through their link. Sam helped her sit down and then took his own chair. He then pulled his chair to sit in front of hers next to the table and held her hands in his own. Lilliana sat back in her chair and closed her eyes. She listened as Ericka explained the different types of witches to the council and how it proved that she and all the other witches were good and would cause the pack no harm. Then Lilliana heard Demos say "Alright, then there is only one other thing we have to attend to. What is this business about Lilliana's son?" Lilliana's eyes shot open and she stood up, "What about my son?" "I was told that we sent men to search for him, what we want to know is once he is found. If you are willing to have the Alpha change him?" Demos asked. Lilliana then sat back down and looked into Sam's eyes, "Can you do that? Would it hurt him?" Lilliana asked. "For a young child, it's very simple and would only have to prick his finger. The change for him would not be painful and it would be as if he was born with the gift and when he becomes old enough he would change naturally." Sam said. Then Demos asked again, "Now that you know what it entails, will you have him changed?" Lilliana still looked at Sam, "It will not change him as a person or any gifts he may receive from you. He will be stronger and get sick less often." Sam said. Lilliana then looked at Demos and nodded her head. "Good, then I think we are all in agreement that you and your friends are not guilty of being disloyal to the pack and are free to stay, all in favor say I." Demos said. Suddenly the entire room filled with "I's" and Lilliana smiled as the council members looked around, "I guess that settles it, you are here to stay." Demos said and stood, he walked over to Sam and shook his hand saying, "That's one strong woman you've got there, she will be a great Alpha bitch." Lilliana then stood and looked Demos in the eyes, Demos then said "I am sorry for how this happened but we can't take chances with in the family. We had to know what was going on." He then held out his hand and Lilliana shook it. "Nice right hook by the way." He said with a smile and then moved around the table to talk to Eric. "Can we go now?" Lilliana asked Sam. "Yes love we can go now." Sam said and followed as Lilliana started to walk towards the door. Lilliana then heard a voice say, "You must stop." She looked around but saw no one close enough to have said it except Sam but I wasn't his voice. The suddenly her head screamed in pain and she fell to her knees and screamed out loud. Her hands now placed on either side of her head and her hair draped over one shoulder. Sam moved quickly to Lilliana's side and then Ericka was on the other side. Sam looked at Lilliana's back that was now showing. Sam heard a woman gasp and noticed that the scars from the whips were bright red he touched them and felt as if he burned his hand. Then he heard Lilliana beg, "Please don't touch it again, it burns." She paused "Sam I need water, please Sam." Sam then grabbed Lilliana's arm and Ericka did the same on the other side. They led her out of the room and up the stairs to their room were Ericka started a cold shower as Sam stripped Lilliana's clothing and then his own. They then helped Lilliana into the shower and Sam held her under the cold water. Ericka then left the bathroom and went back to Eric who was waiting in the Alpha's living room. Lilliana leaned against Sam as she let the cold water stream over her back. She then said quietly into Sam's ear, "I'm sorry, I'm such a hassle all the time." "You are not a hassle, love. You are just getting adjusted and that will take time. I was very proud of you today, you really showed them what you were made of and the pack now respects you." Sam said. Lilliana just stood there quietly until, "I think I'm cold enough now can we go warm up in bed, please?" She asked. Sam then reached over and turned off the water. They both stepped out of the shower and Sam wrapped a large towel around Lilliana and them himself. They both dried off and then Sam picked her up and carried her over to the bed and sat her down on it. Quickly she scooted up the bed and slipped under the covers and wrapped them around her. Sam the slid into the bed, under the blankets and wrapped his body around Lilliana's. "God I love how warm you are." Lilliana said and felt more than heard Sam chuckle. After several moments of silence Sam looked down and saw that Lilliana had fallen asleep. It was about an hour and a half from lunch. But he really didn't want to wake her, so he stayed for a few more minutes and the quietly slipped out of the bed. He heard Lilliana whimper as he left and he immediately wanted to lay back down with her but he couldn't he had duty's he had to attend to. He got back dress and left the room. An hour later Lilliana awoke stretching and saw Sam was no longer there. She then heard a noise from behind the bed and sat up looking around. Not seeing anyone she noticed her clothes and shoes lying at the bottom of the bed and then got up, she got dressed and then heard another noise which seemed to be coming from her closet. She decided to leave off her shoes and went to inspect the noise. She walked into her closet and heard the noise again it sounded like someone was in her guns. She then peaked into her shoe room and saw Ericka playing with her guns. Lilliana walked into the room and said, "Well I see you found my collection of toys." Ericka turned her head and looked at Lilliana, "I see you're feeling better, I came in here and was jealous of all your clothes but then I came into this room and tried to turn on the light but I guess I pressed the wrong button because then this opened up. It's amazing that Sam knows you this well already." Ericka said putting down the gun in her hand and then walked over to Lilliana. "Yeah, it amazed me too." Lilliana said smiling and then she pressed the button to close the gun doors, she turned off the light and they walking back into the bedroom. Lilliana walk back to the side of the bed and put her shoes back on. "So were related, why didn't you tell me sooner?" Lilliana asked. "I was going to but then you asked me for my blood and it nearly broke my heart." Ericka said. "And then once I found you at the hospital, well it just hasn't seemed like a very good time to tell you." Lilliana nodded and then they walked out into the living room, "I understand, thank you for being there for me when I had no one else. Oh and you may be my great, great something grandmother but I still look at you like a sister." Ericka smiled and said, "I like that, besides what would you call me anyway." and laughed a little. "Good now where did Sam go?" Lilliana asked. "He said he had some business to attend to and he wanted me to watch over you to make sure you were alright. Lunch starts in about twenty minutes. Oh and a woman came up with some clothes and shoes of yours and Sam's. She said they were in the field outside, I guessing that's where someone saw you using your magic last night." Ericka said. "Yeah now when I have sex, I need the release in every way, Sam noticed when we opened ourselves up to each other last night and made me release it even though I thought I would hurt him. He helped me feel the relief I truly needed." Lilliana said blushing a little. "What do you want to do until lunch?" Ericka asked. "Actually I forgot to brush my hair. Give me a second will you." Lilliana said walking back into the other room. A couple of moment later Lilliana walked back into the living room, "Ok let's go see how the pack looks at us now huh." She said grabbing Ericka and pulling her towards the door. "Oh goody, I am so not looking forward to this." Ericka said as the descended the stairs. Once at the bottom they walked down the hallway and into the dining room. When they entered everyone stopped and stared for a moment but then went back to talking. Lilliana then noticed the witches sitting at the same table as the day before. She then pulled Ericka with her as she went to talk to them. Once at the witches table, Lilliana asked, "Is everyone alright? Sorry about this morning, I didn't know until moments before we went into the meeting. And then I still didn't know why we were there until Demos told me." Then Jenny said, "Were all fine, we wanted to make sure you were ok, with that spell and then what happened while you were leaving. We were worried to say the least." "Yeah I don't know exactly what happened with that yet. I'm alright now, but if you come up with any theory's I would love to hear them." Lilliana said. "So far the only thing we can come up with is that your witch magic and your wolf magic are fighting for space. Just take it easy the next couple of days and we'll see where it goes from there." Jenny said Lilliana then turned to see Sam standing next to their table, she then said. "Will do, I guess I will see you sometime after lunch." She said her good byes and then turned and noticed Ericka was no longer at her side; she was now sitting at her table next to Eric. Lilliana then walked around the tables to stand next to Sam who was talking to Felix from the council. When Lilliana walked up Felix turned to her and said "I'm glad you are feeling better, I hope it stays that way too." He then turned and walked over to his chair. Sam then turned to Lilliana and said "So you are feeling better then?" and Lilliana nodded. "Good." He said and then leaned down and kissed her longingly. She pressed her body into his and then heard the howls again. But neither of them broke their kiss after several long moments, they separated lips and Sam said, "I love you, but don't scare me like that again." "No promises there mate as long as I can't control it. I don't know what will happen. I love you too you know." Lilliana said and kissed him again. They then both sat down and waited for the food to be brought out. Sam seemed overly attentive, but Lilliana just enjoyed it. They talked for a while about nothing really and then dinner was placed on the tables. Sam and Lilliana ate first again and then everyone else started in on their own plates. "So steak again, do you eat anything else?" Lilliana said quietly so only Sam could hear. "Once you become a werewolf all you will want is steak, trust me." Sam said. "Oh don't get me wrong, I love steak. I was just curious." Lilliana said with a smile. "Good, I think you will need the protein anyway." Sam said with a smile. Lilliana then noticed there was a beer for her drink instead of wine. She took a drink from it and that said, "Thank you for the beer I think I need it after this morning." "Anything for you." Sam said and returned to eating his food. They both finished eating and then Sam talked with some men from the council. Lilliana stood up and walked over to Ericka who was also finished eating and noticed Eric was no longer sitting next to her, so she sat in his seat. "What are you doing after this?" Lilliana asked. "Taking care of you some more, why?" Ericka asked teasingly. "I have a better idea; I have all this pent up energy for some reason. I was wondering if you were up for a workout." Lilliana said. Ericka smiled and said, "My kind of workouts or your kind of workouts?" "I think I'm up for something a bit more invigorating." Lilliana said and noticed Sam was looking at her. "Good meet me in the hallway in five minutes." Ericka said standing up. Lilliana stood up as well and said, "Better give me ten, Sam looks like he needs to talk to me first." Ericka nodded and then left the dining hall and went back to her room. Lilliana then walked over to Sam and sat back in her chair. "And what are you up to?" Sam asked. "Just a little workout with Ericka, it always seems to center me and help me relax. Why did you have something else planned?" Lilliana asked. Sam smiled and looked down for a moment; he looked back up and said. "That sounds like a great idea, actually. I'll see you in a bit then." Sam said still smiling and then gave Lilliana a kiss. Lilliana gave him a strange look but then got up and went to go get dressed. Ten minutes later she met Ericka in the hall and they walked outside, passed the garden into the field. They had both brought towels and water which they sat down on the ground. Lilliana now wore sneakers and a black tank top with black stretchy capris pants. Her hair was now tied back in a high pony tail but it still hung to her lower back. Ericka's hair was the same but hung just passed her butt, she also wore sneakers and a purple tank top, but she wore long yoga pants. "I guess we'll start with the basics and work our way up." Lilliana said and waited for Ericka's to reply. "Yes that sounds good but with a little change. You will incorporate your magic into your basics. Just let it flow through you, then later it will be easier for you to use your magic when fighting without struggling for control." Ericka said and then started to stretch, Lilliana didn't know how that would work but began stretching anyway she figured Ericka would tell her how to do it. After they stretched they began slowly going through the basics of fighting as they always did. But after a couple of minutes Ericka stopped and said, "Now try to used you magic, but only a little we don't want another episode today." She said but didn't smile like Lilliana thought she would. Then Ericka said, "You seem to be most in touch with the fire element so try that first, then we will work with the others after." Lilliana then conjured a bit of fire in her hand but Ericka then said, "Stop, do not just make fire. Imagine the heat from the fire flowing through you as you move." "How do you know all this now but you didn't know it back at the hospital?" Lilliana asked moving back into her stance. "You're not the only one that's been talking to the witches. Not everything you can learn through words. But with my already vast knowledge it was easy for me to pick up. Now go ahead and try it." Ericka said. Lilliana then starting going through the motions again and closed her eyes feeling the heat of the fire flow through her, when she opened them again heat seemed to radiate off of her. She then forced the heat onto the outside and a red wave appeared to flow through her arms and into the motions. She did this for a couple of minutes then when she felt comfortable with it. She pushed it back down and tried to access the water element with the same motions and saw water come up from ground and form around her arms. She then pushed it around her body and then forced it into a ball and threw it away from her and into a tree. The tree snapped and fell to the ground. "Good now try wind and earth." Ericka said startling her. Lilliana quickly regained her focus and reached for wind but it did not come. "Concentrate." Ericka said, "You have all this power and you can't create a bit of wind. Don't try to bring it out of you use your surroundings." Lilliana then felt the air in her lungs and realized what Ericka was talking about; she could make fire because it was her first element. But with water, wind and earth it would be harder she would need the elements on the outside to use that magic. She then quickened her motions and wind gathered around her, moved with her, after a few moments she released it and it gently dissipated. Then she focused on earth and small granules of dirt started to float around her, she then forced it into a spiral and moved it around her body. Then she let it go and the dirt fell to the ground. "Good, now try ice, you seem to be natural at that as well." Ericka said and Lilliana gave her a sideways glance. But she tried it anyway. She searched her soul, found the ice and pushed it outward. The air around her became cold and Ericka watched as her eyes went silver. The cold air spiraled around her and Lilliana breathed in deeply and when she breathed out ice formed between her hands and then the cold air was blown away as heat surrounded her and the ice melted. Lilliana then looked at Ericka and took a fighting stance. "I assume I did well otherwise you would be telling me different." Ericka then took a fighting stance as well and said, "Yes you did well, but can you use it without hurting your opponent?" "We shall see." Lilliana said and then went to strike, Ericka dodged and threw a punch but Lilliana ducked and move to the side. "I think now I can keep up with you." Lilliana said with a grin and then did a sweep kick, Ericka jumped and landed her own kick on Lilliana's shoulder. Lilliana then stuck her own kick on Ericka's side and dipped as Ericka spun a kick over her head. Lilliana then threw a punch hitting Ericka in the chest. Ericka stumbled back and then recovered with her own punch to Lilliana's chest but Lilliana stepped out of the way and kneed Ericka in the leg. Ericka then did a sweep kick and Lilliana tumbled to the ground. Ericka then stepped back and said "Now try to incorporate wind into your attacks." Lilliana got up and then suddenly wind flowed around her as she went to throw a punch and was too far away. But watched as Ericka's head flew back, then Lilliana did a spinning kick and without touching her, Ericka was thrown to the ground. "That's enough." Ericka said, "That was very good, wind will prove useful for you in future fights." Lilliana then helped Ericka up and they bowed to each other. "If you do that much damage with wind I hate to see what you can do with the other elements." Ericka said. Lilliana then noticed they were being watched and looked over to see Sam, Eric and twenty other pack members standing there staring at them. "I guess we put on quite a show." Lilliana said. Sam then walked over and Lilliana noticed he was wearing some workout gear of his own. He bent down and grabbed their waters and threw them to Ericka and Lilliana. Then he said, "That was very good but I think I have more speed that you now Ericka. How would you feel about letting me give it a shot?" "Be my guest." Ericka said and took a sip of water and then started to walk over to where Eric was standing. "Good luck." She called back to Sam. "Are you sure you want to do this?" Lilliana asked. "I think it will prove to show the pack you are not weak and I also think it will be some well-deserved exercise for us. Why do you not think you can beat me?" Sam asked. "I just don't want to see you get hurt is all." She said with a smile and took the fighting stance again. "I don't think it will be a problem." Sam said as he also took a fighting stance. "Do you want magic or no?" Lilliana asked. "Do whatever you feel is good for you." Sam said and then moved to throw a punch towards Lilliana's face but Lilliana dodged and landed her own punch in his side. Then she said "Don't take it easy on me just because I'm your woman." "Wouldn't dream of it." He said lunging at her and tackling her to the ground, she tried to push him off of her but he was trying to pin her arms. She then drew on the power of wind, as it started to swirl around them it picked Sam up and threw him off of her moving him several yards away. She then quickly stood up and let the wind die down, she then braced herself as she saw Sam running towards her when he got close he lunged again but Lilliana moved out of the way and chopped him in the back. Setting Moon Ch. 09 "You're getting slow in your old age dear." Lilliana said with a smile. "Actually most wolves' get faster as they age, dear." He said getting up. "If I wanted to I could end this fight now. But I want to see what you can do physically and mentally." "Your wish is my command." Lilliana said bowing and then the wind picked up again. Lilliana then through several punches and kicks but Sam blocked them all until she aimed right for his head, she didn't hit him but her wind did. His head flew back and then he came back with a punch to her side. She then moved away from him and widened her stance; suddenly a big puff of wind blew Sam right onto his back then Lilliana jumped on top of him and said, "I think you like losing to me so you don't have to be the dominate one for once." She said with a giggle. Sam then tossed her off of him, stood and then watched a Lilliana did the same. "I guess it's time to put you in your place then." Sam said and then grabbed Lilliana's arm as she swung and pinned it behind her back. It reminded Lilliana of the day she was taken and she quickly spun before he could tighten his grip and punched him square in the face. She then turned and Sam grabbed her shoulder, she grabbed his hand twisted it and flipped him over onto his back. She then bent down a whispered into his ear, "Some moves just piss me off and you should never do them again." She then stood and moved a couple of yards away from him and waited for him to get up. "It would seem then that you are just toying with me." Sam said getting up. Lilliana took off her shoes and socks and sunk her feet into the grass and dirt. She closed her eyes and felt the shift of the earth and then she looked at Sam and ran towards him. A couple of feet away she did a flip which landed her thighs around his head and then used her weight to flip him sideways. When they landed on their sides they both groaned in pain and Lilliana moved away from Sam but stayed on the ground. She then watched as Sam got up and transformed into his full wolf, he stood gloriously before her and Lilliana's mouth gapped in awe at her mate. Then she heard though their link, 'Do you submit mate?' "No" she said, then Sam moved to stand over her and she laid back onto the ground. He walked up further and looked into her eyes as she looked into the eyes of the wolf, 'Do you submit mate?' Sam asked again. "Yes mate I submit." Lilliana said and turned her head to the side showing her neck to him. What he didn't see was the tear that rolled down her cheek. He moved off of her and turned to face the rather large crowd that had gathered and howled long and loud. Lilliana slowly got up and walked away from the mansion as she heard howls from the pack behind her. Then as the crowd went back to what they were doing she heard a growl behind her but did not turn and then felt Sam still in wolf form nudge her arm. She then lifted her arm and Sam come up beside her. She felt his soft auburn hair course through her fingertips and then she heard 'What's wrong?' come from Sam. "Nothing." She said but still did not look at him. 'Don't lie to me. What's wrong?' Sam said again with a low growl, then he felt Lilliana open their link further, he felt the pain she was feeling and then he viewed glimpses of memories from Lilliana. She showed him the night she was taken and how the men took her, she then showed him her testimony to herself that she would never submit to a man again. She then showed him like a flip book every man who had ever dominated her mentally or physically. "That is what is wrong." She said as a tear rolled down her face. Sam had transformed back into his human form and now stood naked next to Lilliana. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into his embrace. Her head sunk into his chest and she breathed him in deeply. Slowly she started to feel better then she said, "I'm sorry I know you are not them and submission is just part of your world. But it hurts me deeply to admit to it." "It's fine Lilliana, I should have thought about what it would mean to you. It's really my fault in the first place. There is still much we don't know about each other." Sam said, they just stood there for a while until Sam said, "They are all waiting for us, do you want to go back now?" "Why are they waiting for us?" Lilliana asked looking up at him. "Everyone is very proud that they have a strong Alpha and Alpha bitch to lead them. They want to show us their happiness." Sam said looking down into Lilliana's eyes. "Ok but you need clothes. I do not want everyone looking at you naked even if they have seen it before." Lilliana said. Sam laughed a little and then said, "I have a suit sitting over in the garden." Then they both walked back to the garden and Sam got dressed in his suit. They then walked inside, down the hall and into the dining area. Where at least half the pack was waiting for them, when they walked in they all cheered for Lilliana and Sam loudly. Lilliana smiled and then bowed as she did to Ericka after their fight and Sam followed suit. The pack cheered even louder then. Sam then grabbed Lilliana's arm and spun her to stand in front of him, he then leaned down and kissed her while slowly dipping her. The crowd let loose some howls as Sam lifted Lilliana up so that her was carrying her and went back down the hallway they came and up their stairs to the room. Once at the doors to their bedroom, Sam set Lilliana down and opened the doors. He then picked Lilliana up again and walked into the room, but then suddenly put her back down again. "Mother, Father I was not expecting you for another two days. Why have you come so soon?" Sam said and then Lilliana noticed two people standing by the fire place and two others on the couch. She assumed they were werewolves because of what Sam had said. "Yes, well your mother wanted to come early. You know how impatient she gets. And who is this?" A man standing next to the fire asked Lilliana assumed it was Sam's father. Sam smiled wide and said, "This is my mate, Lilliana." "Oh thank Luna; I thought you would never find her. She is just as gorgeous as I thought she would be." The woman on the couch said. "Lilliana this is my mother and father." He said motioning to the two that had already spoke. "This is my sister Anna and my brother Glen." He said motioning to the other woman on the couch and the other man standing by the fireplace. "We saw you fight outside; very impressive for a witch to decide to mate with a werewolf. Are you not afraid?" Anna said as she stood up and walked towards Lilliana. She was a tall slender woman with auburn hair. Lilliana looked her directly in the eyes and said, "No one should ever be scared to be with the one they love." Anna looked shocked at the comment and then said, "But what about you magic are you not scared to lose it?" Lilliana looked at Sam and then back at Anna, "For true love, I would give up almost anything including my magic." "Almost anything?" Anna asked looking curious. Sam then interjected, "Sorry Lilliana, Anna can be a bit pushy at times." "It's fine Sam really, were already on that path there is no harm telling her." Lilliana said and then looked at Anna again, "My son, his safety is worth more to me than happiness or true love. Now if you'll excuse me for a moment I would like to go get dressed. Sam can tell you anything you want to know." Lilliana said, walking into the bedroom and shut the doors. She walked over to the bed where she left her clothes, she stripped her workout gear and redressed in her clothes and heels. She then went to the bathroom and took her hair out of it pony tail and brushed it. Then tears started to fall down her face and she threw the brush onto the counter, then she said to herself, "God, why am I so emotional today?" then she thought to herself, 'I feel like such a weakling crying all the time, and that shit this morning. I guess it's just the change taking over, messing with my head.' 'Yes love that's exactly what's happening. The change messes with you entire body physically and mentally which is why so many fear you will lose you magic. I believe in you and you will never look weak to me.' Sam said through the link. 'I love you; you know exactly what to say to make me feel better. I'll be back out there in a minute love.' Lilliana said back. Lilliana then finished brushing her hair and walked back out into the bedroom but then had a thought, 'I thought you said you mother died when you were young.' 'Yes this is my step mother, but she has raised me as her own as long as her and Father have been together.' Sam said. 'Oh sorry didn't mean to sound rude, I was just curious.' Lilliana said entering the living room again. "It's alright love." Sam said aloud so everyone heard and then ushered her close to him. He then placed a kiss on her lips and lingered there for several moments before looking back at his family. "Now what would you all like to do since dinner is still a couple hours away and I'm sure your rooms have already been set up and you've unpacked." Sam said. "I think we would all like to get to know Lilliana a bit more. Your hair is just beautiful Lilliana." Sam's step-mother said. "Thank you, would anyone like something to drink?" Lilliana said walking over to the bar they had in the corner of the room and grabbing out two beers. She tossed one to Sam and he caught it. Then she heard his father say, "Yeah toss me one of those." Lilliana then tossed his the bottle and watched as he caught it as well. "We'll take some wine if you've got it." Anna said. Lilliana then got out two wine glassed and asked, "Red or white?" "Red." They both said and then Lilliana poured the wine and handed them their glasses. She then went back over to the bar and out two more beers she then walked over to the fireplace and touched Glen on the shoulder, he turned towards her and Lilliana offered him a beer. He took it from her and nodded his head in thanks. Then Lilliana went back and stood next to Sam. She took a sip of her beer and then heard Anna ask, "Can we see you do some magic?" Lilliana smiled, then held out her free hand and fire appeared in it. Anna then walked over and put her hand close to it. "Wow that's really fire, I'm very impressed." Anna then returned to her place leaning on the back of the couch. Lilliana then pushed the fire back down and the fire in her hand disappeared. "Can you do other types of magic as well?" Glen asked turning around so Lilliana could see his face for the first time. He had a very long cut across his face that made one eye look like he was blind in it. Lilliana didn't let it bother her and said, "What other kinds of magic did you have in mind?" "Healing perhaps, I've had this cut for about three years and it won't heal." He said the first part sarcastically but the rest was sincere. Lilliana walked back over to him and placed her beer down on the coffee table. She looked at his scar then took of her key necklace and handed it to him. Looking a bit confused he took it from her as soon as he grabbed it the light appeared and soon after his face was healed. She took back her necklace and put it back on and grabbed her beer. She then sat down on the sofa, next to where Sam had just moved to. Glen looked shock as he felt his face and realized he could now see out of both eyes again. Lilliana then looked at Sam and said, "Wow so much has happened today and it's still not over. Let's hope dinner in uneventful." "No such luck there I'm afraid," Anna said, "Mila has come with us. She's down stairs now, but I don't think she knows you've mated yet or that you're a witch. She's probably in her room she didn't want anyone telling you she was here." "Who's Mila?" Lilliana asked and looked at Sam who now had his hand covering his face. "She's an old girlfriend that is very persistent. Every time she visits she thinks she's the Alpha bitch and shit gets all messed up. She even sat next to me at the table as to enforce her position. She a real bitch." Sam said looking at Lilliana. "Well sounds like I finally get to have some fun." Lilliana said with a grin, "Trust me I'll put her in her rightful place when the time comes." "Be careful Lilliana, if she challenges you, you must accept or the pack will think less of you. The challenge is usually done in wolf form but I think you will be fine, after seeing those moves today." Sam's father said. Lilliana smiled and took another swig from her beer and then noticed she was missing her belt and gun. Lilliana the said, "I seem to have forgotten something, Anna will you help me get it?" Lilliana asked as she walked towards her bedroom. Anna set down her wine and followed Lilliana, closing the doors behind her. Lilliana found her gun and belt sitting on the bed and set to putting them on. "Now what's going on with that?" Lilliana said pointing to Anna's belly, "And why haven't you told Sam yet?" Lilliana asked. "How did you know?" Anna asked. "A mother always knows, now cough it up." Lilliana said. "Well he's Sam's best friend from his childhood but they had some big fight and haven't talked since. I brought him with us but I'm pretty sure it's hopeless. I'm almost two months along and if I don't tell him now he will find out the hard way when he sees my belly grow." Anna said. "What's the guy's name? I will try and find out if Sam's still mad and why, maybe then we can work on trying to fix it." Lilliana said. "Ben Ambrose, why are you helping me?" Anna asked. "Because family is all that matters and we have a large enough one to keep us busy. We don't need any more fighting." Lilliana said, "And besides were practically sisters now and what are sisters for right." Anna smiled and then looked down at Lilliana's gun, "Are you going to wear that to dinner?" "I'm so used to wearing one that I just wear it all the time. I've only just become a witch and don't know if one day I'll need the extra protection." Lilliana said walking back towards the living room and then Anna followed her. "What did you forget?" Glen asked. "Just my belt and other accessories, that's all." Lilliana said and watched as the three looked down at her gun. She then walked back over to the couch and sat down on the arm of the chair next to Sam. Then Sam said, "Lilliana seems to have thing for guns." Lilliana leaned over Sam to grab her beer that she left on the coffee table, which made her hair fall to the side and Sam, kissed her back. Lilliana shivered a little and said, "We have company that is not very respectful." As a smile grew on her face. Sam chuckled and said, "Most wolves including my family, respect it when two mates are able to turn each other on. Which is why we don't have a problem with nudity or having sex in front of others, it's just natural to us. You will come to understand once the full moon comes and you become a werewolf." "If I make it to the full moon." Lilliana said quietly and took a gulp of her beer. "Yes well I was going to talk to my father later about that, but seeing as were all here anyway and have time to kill." Sam said. "Talk to me about what Sam?" His father asked. "Well we only mated yesterday just before dinner and this morning her wolf was already showing her presence. Have you ever heard of that?" Sam asked. "In a human never but the first werewolf, father to us all, his mate was a witch and I have been told her wolf fully manifested after only five day's and it was a full week and a half before the full moon." Sam's father said. "Have you ever met him? The first werewolf, that is?" Lilliana asked. "Yes once long ago, but I haven't seen him since. By the way my name is Wayland and my wife's name is Sarah. I don't think Sam told you them earlier." Wayland said. "Oh yes thank you, do you know if he is still alive?" Lilliana asked. "No, but I think we would find out fast if he did die. You seem to be very interested in him, why do you ask?" Wayland said. "Last night, I had a dream about his brother. The first vampire and well, I just think..." She paused, "Well if anyone could stop Farid it would be Hamid, right." Lilliana said. "How do you know their names, Lilliana?" Sarah asked. "Well a friend of mine, once knew Farid years ago and he told her the story of how they were made and then she told me." Lilliana said. "A friend of yours? No human or werewolf could get close enough to him for that. I have heard his lust for blood is unstoppable. Was you friend a vampire?" Anna asked. "At the time yes she was a vampire but she is no longer." Lilliana said. "Oh so she's dead now, good thing she might have killed you." Sarah said. "No she..." Lilliana started but Sam put his hand on her leg to stop her. "Ericka is no longer a vampire because Lilliana turned her human again; she lives with us here and is with Eric. Turns out, Lilliana is a great descendant of hers. I met her when she was still a vampire and her only concern was and still is Lilliana's safety. She has no ill wards against werewolves and is not tied to Farid or any vampire in any way. She told us the last time she killed was only to protect Lilliana and before that she hadn't killed anyone in over five hundred years. She had searched her whole life for a way to become human again, the key and Lilliana were the way to do it, though I don't think she knew that at the time." Sam said and then looked at Lilliana reassuringly. Lilliana and Sam then looked at his family members, who all had a look of shock on their faces. "Oh and yes the pack knows all of that and that there are ten more witches staying here with us. And also Ericka was part angel before she died so when she was turned back human she is now one again. I think her and Eric have already mated as well so soon she will be werewolf right Lilliana." Sam said. "Yes she and Eric mated last night, I believe, so on the next full moon she will be a wolf. That is unless her wolf manifest early like mine apparently will." Lilliana said and smiled. Sam's family was still in shock. "Oh and did you tell them about my son?" Lilliana asked Sam. "No I hadn't quite got to that yet." Sam said. "My son was kidnapped by humans and when Sam's men find him again. We will be the ones to save him. Right after I rip out the man's throat who took him." Lilliana said and then looked at Sam and said, "You know it's nice to be able to unburden myself of all our craziness." And then she smiled. Sam smiled back at her and said, "Yes it is nice. Would you mind handing me another beer?" Lilliana stood up and walked over to the bar again and pulled out two beers and then said, "Anyone else?" She then heard them all say at once, "Yes." She grabbed two more beers and walked over to Sam and handed him one, she then threw one to Wayland and Glen. They both caught them and then Lilliana asked, "Glen how's that eye of yours doing?" She then set down her beer on a side table and took Sarah and Anna's wine glasses and refilled them. "It's...great I can see perfectly now, Thank you." Glen said stumbling over his words a little. Lilliana handed Sarah and Anna their wine glasses back, now filled and grabbed her beer. She then said, "Look I know it's a lot to take in but our pack has accepted us with all of that and we couldn't be happier. Please don't think bad of me or my friends for what may have happened in the past. It's now that matters and if you can't accept that well, you know how to get home I assume." She then leaned down and kissed Sam. Then they heard Anna speak, "Ok, obviously you all have been through a lot and who doesn't have some craziness going on in their lives right. Some more extreme than others but still, I thank you, for being honest with us when you could have easily lied and we wouldn't have known the difference. You have earned my respect and that is not very easy to do." Anna said and then they watched as the rest agreed and nodded their heads. Setting Moon Ch. 10 "Lilliana...Lilliana...focus woman. Lilliana come on get up, I didn't hit you that hard." Lilliana tried to look around as her vision became less blurry. She sat up and rubbed her face where Kalla had just hit her. "Wow, you definitely can throw a good punch." Lilliana said grabbing Kalla's outstretched hand and used it to help her get to her feet. "Hey that's not my fault, you asked for it." Kalla said with a chuckle. Lilliana looked around to see all ten of the witches and Ericka staring at her smiling and laughing. They had decided to do some more sparing today but had asked the witches to come help with Lilliana's magical training. But right now it just seemed like Lilliana was getting her butt kicked. "Hey I don't see you standing here taking punches." She called to Ericka with a smile. "Yeah and you won't ever, I'm not going to stand in one spot so I can get pummeled." Ericka said smiling. "Hey you told me I needed to learn how to take a hit, but you don't even employ that method." Lilliana said irritated. "Yes it is better not to get hit if you are quick enough or see it coming beforehand. But that will not always happen, I need to know and I'm sure Sam needs to know that you're not going to get hit and pass out like a sissy. Now get up and actually try to fight Kalla." Ericka said sounding like a teacher as always. Lilliana rolled her eyes and then turned her attention back to Kalla. She watched as Kalla pulled back her fist and punched her in the right side of the face. Lilliana turned her head but otherwise did not move. She spit on the ground and then grabbed Kalla's arm and flipped her over onto her back. She stopped for a moment and then leaned down to look Kalla in the eyes. "You all right?" Lilliana asked Kalla. "Yeah I'm good." Kalla said trying to get up. "Alright Ericka." Lilliana said turning around to look at her friend. "We've been at this for hours I think I'm done for the day." Ericka looked at her and said, "Why do you have somewhere more important to be?" "Actually, smartass, I do. Sam and I are going somewhere after lunch and I still need to shower and get dressed. Besides does anyone know what time it is?" Lilliana asked. "You should train as long as you can its eleven fifteen now. You can stop twenty minutes before lunch. I have to go meet Eric now; I will see you at lunch. By the way I will know if you stop before then. So don't try to fool me alright." Ericka said will a smile and watched Lilliana roll her eyes again. Ericka then walked off back towards the Den. On the balcony in there room stood Sam and Eric, they watched over the sparing as they talked. "So she showed you all that from a dream? And you're just supposed to sit back and do nothing while she gets beaten around for what four days. She doesn't want you to do anything?" Eric asked. "Yeah." Was all Sam said as he watched Lilliana take a punch to the face. "Sounds like a shit idea if you ask me." Fin said walking out onto the balcony. "Trust me I wasn't quiet about how I felt about the situation. But the way she sees it, it's the only way." Sam said calmly. "How can you sit there and be calm right now. If it was Ericka I would be fighting her tooth and nail to find a different way to getting her son back." Eric said sound angry. "Don't you think I want to, it's tearing me apart just knowing what will happen? To actually be there and watch her go..." Sam said angrily but then stopped. "You definitely chose a strong, hard headed woman just like yourself." Fin said looking down at Lilliana as she went to start fighting again. "I just hope Aria isn't this stubborn." He said with a chuckle. "Isn't there anything we can do?" Eric said sounding defeated. "Yes, there is." Came from Ericka as she walked through the bedroom. Sam turned to look at her and said, "And what can we do?" "You can let her do what she feels must be done." Ericka said leaning against the door to the balcony. "That isn't really a plan love." Eric said as he looked at her. Sweat was beading off her forehead and down the side of her face. "No it isn't but what I will say next is. If she feels that doing it this way will be best then let her, but..." Ericka said with a smile. "You said you know the guy from the vision not Farid but Adam Solace. I say we go there after you have secured her son safely and get her back and I'm sure you will want to have more than words with Mr. Solace." Ericka finished still smiling. "Yeah that's a great plan but we don't know where his mansion is, we've looking for it ever since we found out who kidnapped her in the first place. How are we supposed to find it with only a day left?" Eric said sounding defeated again. "That's easy; I've been there before with Farid. But it was his father that was running things then." Ericka said walking over to the balcony to watch Lilliana. "What did he want to do there?" Fin asked looking confused. "About two hundred years ago Farid tried to force me to be his again. He told me that he always kept a lush room at the Solace Den because the family owed him some sort of debt that had been yet to be repaid. It would make sense with him being the one to retrieve her after all." Ericka said cursing quietly at the way Lilliana was fighting. "Damn that girl, does she not listen to a thing I say?" She spouted and moved back towards the door with her hand on her head. "Good idea Ericka, go tell the security teams the plan. We will leave tomorrow night after I get back with Aiden and not a word of this leaks to Lilliana." Sam said now with confidence in his voice. Fin and Eric swiftly left the Alpha's rooms to go set the plan in motion. Ericka then moved to stand beside Sam and place her arms on the railing. "I must warn you before we are able to save her you may see things that no man should ever have to see there woman go through. I need to know you will not rush in and do something stupid." Ericka said and then looked into his eyes. "I have been the leader of this pack for four hundred years; this is not the first time I will have to go into battle." Sam said. "But it is the first time your mate will be the catalyst of the situation. I have seen many good men die all because then did not stick to the plans they had created." Ericka said wisely. "I will stick to the plans I have created anything I see will just be more fuel for my anger when I finally get my hands on Adam Solace. He will pay for everything he has done and everything he will do to my mate." Sam as anger spit off of every word. "Good, now cheer up Lilliana is coming and you don't want her final day before the shit hits the fan to be a bad one." Ericka said with a smile. "No I definitely don't, I got her something would you look at it for me?" Sam said turning towards her and digging into his pocket. "Sure what is it?" Ericka asked curiously. He pulled a ring box from his pocket and opened it; it held a large beautiful diamond ring with a black band inside. "I'm taking her somewhere special today and thought I would ask her to marry me." Sam said with a huge smile across his face. "She'll love it, but I thought..." Ericka stopped as she heard Lilliana open the door to the living room. "She's coming, well finish this conversation later." Ericka said and ducked out a side entrance to their room before Lilliana opened the bedroom doors. Lilliana walked through the room stripping her clothes, she didn't seem to notice Sam watching her intently but maybe she did and was putting on a small show for him. She slowly removed her shirt and her breast gently fell away from the cloth. She moved further then stopped and placed her hands on the top of her pants and slowly guided them over the curves of her hips and perfectly shaped ass and down her long beautiful legs. She began walking again and she took the tie out of her hair and gently swirled it around her shoulders. She stopped a few feet from the bathroom door and placed her hands on both sides of her head into her hair, and then slowly she moved them down her body, over her breast stopping only for a second to gently pinch the nipple between the knuckles of two fingers then down over her well-toned stomach. She then guided them over the curve of her hips and onto her thighs and then around to touch her inner thigh. Sam was rock hard and started moving towards her. Lilliana smiled when she saw him moving towards her and stopped what she had been doing. "Oh, I didn't see you there." Lilliana said teasing. When Sam reached her he placed a hand on her hip and the other on the side of her face and kissed her deeply. He pushed her against the cold wall and pressed his body against hers as he teased her with his tongue. Lilliana then went to unbutton Sam's shirt but Sam grabbed her hands and pinned then against the wall. He then said, "We don't have time and besides I want to save it for your surprise later." Sam said with a smile, he let Lilliana go and she stepped away from the wall. But then she smiled and said, "Fine I will control myself until then." She then walked into the bathroom and started the shower. Sam pulled out the ring again and looked at with a smile. Then he heard a sound come from the door and turned around to see no one there. He closed the box and placed it back in his pocket and looked around some more. Then he heard in a feminine voice, "So you're going to ask for her hand in marriage, how human of you." Sam then turned towards the balcony and saw Mila standing there. "What are you doing here, you need to leave or I may hurt you before Lilliana can." Sam said grinding his teeth. "Oh I'm not really here, I've been sent with a message from Farid. He say's let the girl come alone or the boy dies." Mila said trying to sound threatening. "I suppose then your new Alpha is Adam Solace." Sam said with a grin. "How do you know that, he said you didn't know anything?" Mila said nervously. "I know what I have too..." Sudden a ball of fire flew past Sam's head and into Mila and Mila disappeared. "So it would seem they have a witch on their side as well." Lilliana said breathing heavy. Sam ran over and caught her as she started to fall to her knees. "Are you alright?" Sam asked. "Yeah I think working with Ericka and the witches this morning just took it out of me." Lilliana said trying to steady her breath. "I guess I just need a break." Sam looked at her now she had disregarded the need for a towel and water slowly dripped off her delicate, soft skin and out of her hair. "How did you know?" Sam finally asked. "I felt your anger when I was in the shower and figured I would check it out. I didn't expect that bitch to be here but it would figure she would go try to find some way of getting revenge for the embarrassment we caused her." Lilliana said as her breathing became regular again. "Yeah I guess, are you sure you're alright?" Sam asked again. "Yes my love I am alright. Don't worry so much everything will be alright in the end." Lilliana said as she tried to wipe away the worry marks from his face. "You're right; soon everything will be as it should. Now go dry off that sexy ass of yours and get dressed were going to be late for lunch, and they literally can't eat without us." Sam said and watched as Lilliana walked back into the bathroom with a smile on her face. "Oh and wear comfortable shoes well be doing quite a bit of walking after lunch." "Oh really and the plot thickens, will we be driving anywhere first? Or just walking?" Lilliana asked curiously. "Just walking, straight out the back doors and through the trees and there's more but I'm not telling you. It's supposed to be a surprise so stop guessing and get dressed; you've got less than five minutes." Sam said trying to rush her. Lilliana then walked out of the bathroom naked but dry and through a fake glare at Sam as she walked into her closet. When she walked back out of it a couple of minutes later she was wearing jeans and sneakers with a regular V neck tee-shirt on, she had left her guns and belt in the closet and went and brushed her hair, she then walked into the living room where Sam was waiting for her. "You know we are already late right." Sam said as he opened the door leading into the hall. Lilliana walked through it and they proceeded to lunch. An hour later they were walking out of the back doors and into the woods. "So why were you so uptight about getting to lunch on time, no one seemed to care?" Lilliana asked as she stepped over a fallen branch. "It's all about tradition; if an Alpha and/or his mate aka the Alpha Bitch or Madam Alpha, are in the Den then they are expected to be there on time. Anyone else it would be acceptable for them to be late but we are supposed to set the standard for everyone else." Sam said moving around a tree. "Oh alright, so then what am I supposed to be doing as the Alpha Bitch.?" Lilliana asked with a smile. "You know we can talk about all of that next week, I would rather get to know you better." Sam said. "Yes I guess we could, I would like to know you better as well. But I guess that's not something that has to happen first in the werewolf world." Lilliana said. They walked for a couple of minutes in silence and then Lilliana said, "I used to love climbing trees when I was a kid, I guess it would be easier now that I'm a more agile fighter." Lilliana said stopping and looking up at a very large tree, "We had this one large oak tree back home it was an odd shape and the branches wrapped around each other until some of them laid on the ground, when I would climb it I thought I could see the whole world. I felt like no one could hurt me and nothing could touch me when I was up there." "When I first transformed into a werewolf and took my first run, I felt the same way. I became the packs fastest runner and remain to be so to this day." Sam said proudly. "You better watch it in a couple of days you're going to have more competition." Lilliana said as she began walking again. "Oh really, that sounds like a challenge to me." Sam said grinning from ear to ear. "Yes it certainly does, I don't know if it will be very fair though. You know with you being an old man and me being young and vibrant. I think there's no chance you would win." Lilliana said teasing him. "Oh, well you better start running then, you'll need a pretty good head start to beat me." Sam said with a laugh. "I don't know if you could catch me now especially while you're in human form." Lilliana said. "Well there's only one way to find out." Sam said and Lilliana saw the excitement in his eyes. "And my head start?" Lilliana asked. "You have one minute." Sam said and leaned against a tree. He then watched as Lilliana took off in the direction they had been walking. Lilliana jumped over a downed branch and kept running. She knew Sam would be able to smell where ever she went but maybe she could trick him just a little. Lilliana had been counting down the minute in her head since she didn't own a watch and left her phone in the room. She had ten seconds left and turned around, she found a large tree and climbed it until she didn't think Sam would be able to see her if he looked up. Sam had lost sight of her about twenty seconds in and now that her minute was over he began running after her smelling her path in the wind and on the grass. He kept running until her scent was just gone he looked up into the trees but saw nothing. He then turned around and slowly walked looking around and up into the trees for any sign of her. He found one tree and sniffed it her scent covered this side of it. He began climbing, about half way up the tree he heard, "Oh no you don't." Come from Lilliana he then watched as Lilliana jumped out of the tree, swung on one of the lower branches and landed on the ground. Lilliana gave him a mischievous grin and took off running again. Sam jumped out of the tree and said, "I will catch you." He then quickly transformed into the hybrid before he chased after her. In this form he was much faster and his senses were even further heightened. He hadn't lost sight of Lilliana as she ran and caught up with her easily, he was right behind her, all he needed to do was put out a hand and grab her arm. But he was waiting for them to run into the field that was just ahead. When they broke through the trees and ran into the field. Sam grabbed her arm and gently tossed her onto a soft bed of tall grass and dandelion's. He stood over her now standing in the way of the sun; he cast a large shadow over her. She looked up at him, his hair was long and shaggy and his sideburns came down to his chin. Long hair grew out of his chest where before there was almost none, his arm hair was longer too and he had hair growing out of his hands. His teeth were long and sharp but his face didn't protrude like she thought it would have. His nails were long and sharp; he could tear her apart if he wanted to. He stared at her now her long hair spread out and tangled in the grass, she looked happy as she smiled up at him. He bent down now and sniffed at her legs, then up her thighs and stopped when he reached the spot where her legs connected to her hips. He breathed deep and then moved up to her stomach were he sniffed again and then he transformed back into his human form. Sam had a puzzled look on his face as he sat down next to her. "What's wrong?" Lilliana asked. "Um, nothing I thought I smelled something but I think it's just the dandelions messing with my nose." Sam said shaking his original thought away. "Are you tired we could rest for a minute if you would like." Sam asked. "How much further?" Lilliana asked. "About fifteen minutes or so I think." Sam said. "I that case no, I don't need to rest unless you do?" Lilliana asked. "No us werewolves have great endurance we can run for hours and still not be tired." Sam said getting up and then helped Lilliana to her feet. As they walked through the field Lilliana ran her fingers along the tops of the tall grass until her fingers started to itch then they walked into the forest beyond. "Sam how is it with family? I mean in the books I've read about werewolves when a person joins a pack they can never see their birth family again." Lilliana asked. "It's very important to keep our way of life separate from the rest of the world. It would be dangerous for people to know and for their families as well. We live dangerous lives and if someone were to find the human families of a werewolf then they would be in danger. Most when they figure that out don't want to take that risk. This is why most change their names after joining a pack, so they can't be traced back to them." Sam said. "Oh, well it doesn't really matter anyway. I haven't seen them in almost six years now and only talked to my mom and dad over the phone. But I haven't talked to them since I got shot and was in the hospital. They probably think I'm dead anyway." Lilliana said sadly. "Hey stop thinking like that it will ruin your surprise. I don't want you to be sad today we can talk about it more later, ok." Sam said. "Ok but you have to promise." Lilliana said as a smile returned to her face. "I promise." He paused looking at her. "Luna I love it when you smile." Sam said happily. Lilliana smiled again as they walked for a couple of minutes in silence. "Alright close your eyes." Sam said. She closed her eyes and let Sam lead her forward; she felt leaves brush her arms and the wind kiss at the sweat on her neck. After a couple of minutes Sam stopped her and said, "Alright you can open your eyes now." Lilliana slowly opened her eyes and looked around; purple flowers surrounded her and Sam leaving only a small circle where people could lay down in the center. Lilliana gasped as she took it all in, it was beautiful. Setting Moon Ch. 10 Sam then said, "A long time ago our pack moved here from Scotland and we brought this flower with us." He leaned over and motioned to a particularly large bush of the flowers. "It's called Heather and it should never have survived in this climate but with all odds stacked against it, it flourish and now we stand in a whole field of them. My mother brought me here before she died and now every time I come back here it just reminds me of how things just seem to work out and how in the face of uncertainty you must not be afraid." He paused and then said in a sincere voice, "Lilliana I love you and want to be with you forever." Sam then got down on one knee. Lilliana didn't know what to think and placed her hands onto her chest. Sam then pulled the ring box from his pocket and asked, "Lilliana, will you marry me?" He opened the box and watched as her face was struck with surprise. She the smiled wide and said, "Yes, Sam I am your forever. I love you." and jumped into his arms as he stood up. Sam then took the ring out of the box and placed it onto her finger. "Wow it's gorgeous. But I thought with us there was no need with the mating and all." She said but the smile never left her. "There isn't, I want to marry you because I love you. I want to be with you in every way possible." Sam said honestly. "Please tell me all this was my surprise." Lilliana said excited. "Yes my love, this was your surprise." Sam said smiling. Lilliana then pulled him down to lie on the ground and kissed him with all the love in her heart. Sam rolled her so she was lying on the soft grass and loomed over her; he brushed a strand of red hair out of her face and leaned down slowly. He hovered a fraction of an inch away from her lips before he parted them slightly and pressed into her. Lilliana let out a small moan as she pressed herself back against him. She kicked off her shoes and dug her toes into the grass as she placed her hand on the back of his head and started playing with his hair. Sam had placed his hand on her stomach underneath her shirt and gently rubbed his thumb against her soft skin. When Sam pulled away she whimpered a little as the wind cooled her hot skin where he had just been. He looked down into her eyes loosing himself in there gold-ish brown coloring. He felt like he could look into her very soul, he then said, "You are so beautiful, sometimes I wonder how I got so lucky. You are my goddess in human form and I am the happiest wolf alive, a peasant under your magnificent gaze. I would swear you were Athena reincarnate if I did not know your name. Lilliana I love you more than I could ever begin to explain, I would move the moon and the stars if it would only please you." He waited for a moment, then leaned back down and kissed her longingly. He never wanted to let her go, he never wanted her to be hurt, he only wanted her to be his forever and she had said yes, twice. Her heart was pounding and her wolf howled with in her, sounding her approval. She then moved her hand under him to unbutton his shirt. Under it she moved the shirt off his shoulder and started rubbing his skin there. He then removed her shirt and started kissing her neck as his hand went back to caressing her stomach and side. She arched her neck to give him a better view and softly moaned at the sensation of his lips on her neck. His hand moved down her body to unbutton her jeans, he then moved to sit on his knees in between her legs and slowly pulled her pants down her long legs and off her body. He took her leg in his hands and lightly kissed her ankle then kissed up to her knee and then down to her hip. Lilliana moaned softly and was almost disappointed when he moved to do the same to her other leg but this time when he reached her center he kissed her folds over her thin panties. He could feel her wetness through them and removed them from her. She could see his hardness pressing the seam of his pants; if it got any larger she just knew he would be walking home pants less. She smiled down at him as he lowered his head and delved his tongue into her sweetness. She moaned and took note of every detail, the way his tongue felt on her, the tingles that shot through her body and the surge of pleasure she felt from it. She moaned again and heard Sam growl a little, the sound of her enjoyment please both him and the wolf. It only made him want to hear more, he delved even deeper down into her core and licked at her walls. She moaned again and grabbed at the grass, she didn't want to ask him for what she desperately needed. She wanted this moment, his love to last forever to remain in her memory even when she couldn't feel him beside her. She opened her self completely to him through their connection; she let her love flow into him. She then felt Sam start to breathe heavy over her hot flesh and he breathed, "Lilliana." Just before she felt his love pouring into her until it completely consumed her. She breathed heavy moans and bit her lip, and arched her back as Sam began lashing his tongue onto her swollen nub. "Sam." She breathed, Sam looked up at her too see the need in her eyes just before she closed them. He could feel what she felt; her need wasn't just sexual it was mental as well. He knew what she wanted and he would never deny her his love in any form. He kissed up her body until he stared at her, she reached down and undid his pants and pushed them down over his hips. She then pushed them off of his legs with her feet and pulled his open shirt from his arms. He leaned into her and pressed himself into her needy slit, instantly her eyes burn gold. Then he thrust deep into her and he watched as her eyes were consumed by fire and then as it subsided her eyes glowed silver. It was as if she had the moon in her eyes, it called to his wolf begging him to take her but suddenly he was rolled over onto his back and Lilliana was on top of him she pulled him up to her and began slowly moving up and down on his stiffened member. As she placed her arms around his neck, she leaned down slightly and kissed him passionately. He knew she wanted to go slow but his wolf wanted to take what was his; he sensed her wolf there lurking just under the surface but unable to reach her. It irritated his wolf and made him restless. Lilliana could feel his discomfort and growled loudly, it seemed to calm his wolf for the moment. She then resumed her slow movements and moaned softly as Sam wrapped his arms around her, he kissed at her neck and over her mark. She shivered at the touch and her wolf begged her for the bite but she pushed her thought aside. All her life she had wanted this man and now she had him and he was begging for more and she wouldn't disappoint. She began grinding against him and moaned loudly. Sam laid back down and even more of him plunged inside of her, she had to hold back a scream as she felt the extra length. His hands then landed on her hips and he helped her grind against him. She screamed now as the orgasm shook through her, he then rolled her onto her back and started plunging into her depths over and over until she screamed cuming again. Sam lost all control as he heard her scream out again and again. He moved her from under him and she leaned on her hands and knees as he positioned himself behind her. He found her wet hole again and began ruthlessly pounding her over and over as she moaned her enjoyment. Her slick hole received him gratefully and her lower muscles clung to him when he tried to pull out just to slam back into her again. Suddenly he felt his wolf rising as he hardened impossibly inside her, he slammed back into her hard and fast as she shook and screamed as the next orgasm over took her. He pushed deep into her once more and spilled his seed deep inside her letting his knot form and keep them pinned together. He rolled them onto their sides and breathed heavily into Lilliana's ear. "I love you, my goddess." "And I love you, my wolf." Lilliana whispered. She felt his wolf rumble his approval through Sam's chest as Sam lightly kissed her neck and shoulder before reconciling his exhaustion. He lied on the ground holding his woman, his mate, his love and felt content with just lying there for eternity. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sam looked down at his mate tiredly it was ten in the morning but they hadn't gotten back until three am. He brushed a fiery strand of hair out of her face before lightly kissing her as he gently removed himself from their bed. He then watched as Lilliana stretched out to where he had just been lying and groaned. "Sam?" Lilliana said sleepily without opening her eyes. "I'm sorry my love I did not mean to wake you please go back to sleep." Sam said in a gentle and quiet voice. She then whispered, "I love you." and drifted back to sleep. "I love you." Sam said mostly to himself but then watched as a slight smile creased her face. Sam then set to getting dressed in some jeans and a blue button down shirt and some sneakers. Considering later he would be hunting he figured he better be comfortable. He then walked out of the bedroom to find Fin already waiting for him. "What's our status? Are the men ready?" Sam asked, he seemed determined and then wiped his face trying to remove the tiredness from it. "Yes we are ready, I sent twenty men ahead to where Ericka said he lived to scout the premises but strictly ordered them to stay hidden and not to engage any of Solace's people. They will remain that way until you give an order stating otherwise. His Den is about a day from here but I don't know where you will be going with Lilliana so I don't know how long it will take us to get there after." Fin said stiffly Sam had not given him the order to send the men ahead but he felt it was a good call and hoped his Alpha approved. "Good, I want you to get the word out to all our fighters who will be there. No one is to touch Farid unless he attacks first. As for Adam Solace, he is mine no one is to engage him except to neutralize him if they can but I would prefer to do this my way. Once we save Lilliana we retreat, we are not there for a war unless we are given no other choice. The men probably won't understand but at the meeting later with just our fighters to explain everything in further detail." Sam said and headed for the door. On the other side he turned to look at the guard posted there, "No one is to wake her unless they have explicit orders from me." Sam said forcefully. "Yes sir." The guard said and Sam began walking down the stairs with Fin shortly behind him. "We must be ready for vamps and wolves so make sure the men's equipment is up to speed, we can't afford any slipups on this one." Sam said as he reached the bottom of the stairs and looked over to see Eric and Ericka ready and waiting for him. "I have an idea two of the other witches have Lilliana's teleportation power I say we bring one with us so that she can bring Aiden home while we trail up the mountains to the Solace Den. Unfortunately they won't be able to give us a ride there because they have never been there and its not like we can just show them a picture and they would know." Ericka said. "So I guess you couldn't talk this one out of coming Eric?" Fin asked. "Nope not a chance in hell is what I believe she told me. Right baby?" Eric said referring to his mate. "Yeah, that's my only family and I will not just stand by as you boys have all the fun. But don't think I will slow you down, I'm just as fast as I was before, I'm just more powerful now." She said with a chuckle and moved past Sam and Fin to walk towards the dining room. Eric now stood next to the two other men and sighed, "That woman's going to kill me I swear it, but I'd be damned if I didn't love her so." He then began walking in the same direction Ericka had. Sam and Fin moved to walk with him as they moved through the dining room and down a smaller hallway to the right. Sam moved to the first door on the left and opened it; it was a large office and had a desk sitting at the far end of it. Ericka plopped down on a large couch sitting on one side of the office while her mate and Fin remained standing. Sam sat at his desk and looked at the papers in front of him. "Fin." He said sharply. "Aria she is your mate then, she is one of the two who have the ability. I understand if you wish not to take her but it is your choice." "I will send for them both, if she wishes to help it will be her choice." Fin then stepped out of the room and then back in quickly. "I don't want her to be hurt but she needs the freedom to choose for herself just as Ericka and Lilliana have." Sam growled low in his chest bringing the forth coming events back to his focus. "The meeting with the fighters will be held in an hour we need a firm battle plan before then. Ericka I would value your opinion greatly on this subject since you have the experience. Although I feel you would have given it without asking." "I would be proud to help and your right I would have even if you didn't ask for it. I assume you already have men on their way to scout the property?" Ericka asked but already knew the answer before Sam open his mouth; it was the way is eyes looked. As if he had already done what he could in advance to help his mate. "Yes Fin has informed me of that just this morning they are on their way there now. But we can't just go charging in we need a plan of attack." Sam said wearily rubbing his hand over his face again. Ericka stood up abruptly and walked out of the office a moment later she walked back in and said, "Look I don't know if Farid will join the fight or not but if he wants your mates help then I assume he will stay out of it. As for once we get there I don't know what kind of shape Lilliana will be in but if I can see her then I will be able to help her by giving her extra strength, it may be all she needs to free herself. Now that I think of it we may need to bring both of the witches after all. If I can see Lilliana I will be able to get to her no matter the height but none of you will the other witch who stays with us will be able to transport you into whatever room she's in, giving her much needed protection I would assume. But before we do that you would need to create a distraction." "Like send men to attack the front of the Den as we slip in the side so to speak." Eric said. "Yes that could work but then how do we get everyone out safety?" Fin asked and then a knock came from the door. "Enter." Sam called. A woman who worked in the kitchen then walked in with a tray of mugs, she walked over to the Alpha first and bowed slightly trying not to spill the tray of drinks. She then placed a mug in front of him and said, "Coffee just the way you like it Alpha." "Thank you." Sam said and picked up the mug as the woman then walked around the room and passed out the other three mugs. She then moved toward the door turning at the last second and bowing formally at the Alpha then quickly left the room. "Thank you Ericka, Lilliana and I didn't get back until three this morning." Sam said graciously. "You're welcome; your face was showing signs of not enough rest. Now as far as getting everyone out safely I would suggest that you order them to only hold the main hall unless ordered otherwise. Like in case we need back up before we can get her protected and unattached from any bonds they may have on her. The only two problems I'm seeing is Sam's very great desire to rip Solace to shreds and Lilliana's wolf, it should be rising tomorrow night if I'm correct and as soon as they figure that out they will silver her immediately. But once we remove them I don't think we can stop the change and I definitely don't think it will be very good timing. No matter when we rescue her, something else has been nagging at me also." Ericka said and stopped looking as if she was mulling something over. "You mean the fact that she can't use her magic while she's there except to send Aiden to me." Ericka nodded at Sam's words. "That's been bothering me as well which reminds me we have another problem. Mila appeared to me yesterday baring a warning from Farid but it wasn't what she said that has me worried. It was what happened when Lilliana threw magic at her. She disappeared and Lilliana thinks and so do I that they have their own witch." Sam said. "Their own witch, well then I know why she won't be able to use her magic. Their witch is going to bind her somehow but the only way to have it in her system by tonight would be if he already had something slipped to her. This means we have a traitor in the Den." Ericka said the last part heatedly. Sam seemed to be having the same feeling as he growled again. "How would they get it to her?" Sam asked trying to sound calm. "It could be in anything from what she eats or drinks to what she uses in the bathroom it would take only five minutes of contact with the substance if not ingested and then her power would slowly get harder to use, but it would take a couple of days to sink in and take full effect." Ericka said now sounding worried. Sam's whole body tensed and he stood and started pacing in front of his desk. "Shit." Sam said under his breath. "What?" Fin asked tentatively. "She already has, yesterday when she threw her power at Mila. She became quickly out of breath and almost collapsed to the floor. And then when we make love she usually has to release her power during and when we did yesterday she didn't and we had sex several times and no magical release. She didn't have to hold it back because she didn't need too, her power is fading and there is nothing we can do about it. God damn it, Ericka I need you to talk with the witches and see if they can fix this somehow. She needs to be able to protect herself while we can't." Sam roared, his wolf was close to the surface. He needed to calm down so he could talk to the witches but he just couldn't push his wolf back down. 'Baby, what's wrong? I can feel your anger from our bed. Don't make me come down there and straighten whatever it is out.' Lilliana said still sounding tired through there connection. Sam immediately relaxed and said, 'Luna I love you just the sound of your voice calms me down. Go back to sleep I will fill you in later.' 'Good, we should share our love more often. I love you.' Lilliana said. 'Anytime you ask it is yours.' Sam said and smiled outwardly. 'Then when I ask you better not leave me hanging.' Lilliana said as sleep over took her again. "And what was that about?" Ericka asked. "Apparently, I need to control my anger or Lilliana's going to come down and straighten whatever it is out." Sam said as he turned towards her and smiled. A small chuckle left his lips as he remembered what he was doing. "Feisty one that girl, I'm proud to call her one of my own. And I know you do as well. But back to the task at hand, do we think that is a sound battle plan or at least sound enough to tell the troops anyway?" Ericka asked trying to think if she forgot anything. "Yes that's great now we just need to talk to the witches and find out what they can do. Are the other two women waiting?" Sam asked. "Yes my mate and the other girl are just outside." Fin said. "You may let them in." Sam said with authority in his voice. When the two women came in he said, "Trisha, Aria please came in and sit down. You are completely safe in fact I actually have some information to share with you and a question to ask you both." Sam said trying to act as jovial as possible. They both nodded and then Sam began telling them of Lilliana's vision and her son and there plan to rescue her after her son was safe. When he was done they both stared up at him wide eyed and in shock. "So what I'm asking is can I count of you when the time comes? It's alright if you say no, you will not be persecuted in anyway. But we need your help so I'm asking." Sam said. Setting Moon Ch. 10 Aria stood and walked over to Fin and spoke to him quietly for a moment before turning back towards Sam. "It would be my honor to help the pack and Lilliana." Trisha suddenly came to the realization that the most powerful witch was the one about to be attacked; Lilliana was the only one who could save them from the darkness ahead. Suddenly she stood, "It would be my honor as well. I am the stronger when it comes to teleportation, no offence Aria so I feel it would be best if I came with you to the Solace Den and Aria took the child. If that's alright with you that is?" Trish said suddenly realizing she just threw around a semi order in front of the man who would be her Alpha and quickly she sat back down. "That sounds good to me unless Aria has any qualms about it." He looked at Aria now and she shook her head no. "Alright then, Ericka, go speak with all the witches and find out what you can about what we talked about." Sam said as more of an order then something she expected a please with. She stood and motioned for Aria and Trisha to follow her out, once they were gone Sam looked at his watch, "We have about fifteen minutes left, can either of you think of anything we missed or anything we can do better?" Sam asked as he tapped his watch in time with it. "No I think we're good. Eric, how about you?" Fin said. "No I think this is a good plan." Eric said. "Good make sure everyone involved except Lilliana is gathering in the large council room. She doesn't need to know about this she will only say it's a bad idea and beg me not to fearing for my life. But I will not stand by and do nothing; you both know it isn't in my nature to roll over and wait to die or in this case for my mate to. My only regret will be not being able to avoid this in the first place." Sam said frustrated and slammed his hand down on the desk as he got up from his seat. "Meet me in the council room I'm going to see what Ericka found out and see if we can't do more." He said and walked out of his office. Fin and Eric stood in shock for a moment before looking at each other. "I can honestly say I have never seen him like this." Eric said. "He's fighting a losing battle with himself, wanting to protect his mate and respect her decision at the same time must be rough I hope I never have to make that decision myself." Fin said and walked towards the door. "You know if he sees her the way he described, his wolf will take over and he will throw the plan right out the window. We need to make sure we can control him when the time comes." Eric said. "We are both strong wolves together I think we can hold him back at least long enough to get his priorities in check. It will work out in the end." Fin said and walked out of the Alpha's office with Eric just behind him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sam walked up behind Ericka as she talked with the witches. They had convened in Fin's room since Aria had apparently been spending her nights there and his room was much larger than the ones in the singles hall. Ericka slightly turned her head to acknowledge Sam's presence and then began talking. "Just in time I just finished telling the girls the situation, they were just talking it over to see if they could think of a way to help." A moment later the women focused their attention back to Ericka and onto Sam. "Ok we have a spell that could counter the effects but it I think it would take too long to accomplish." Jenny said. "But I think there may be another way." Said a girl from the back of the group. "Please step forward and tell us your name." Sam said in a gentle voice. She stepped to the front and said, "My name is Verra, I think that love could break the spell." "How so?" Ericka asked brushing some hair off of her shoulder. "Well with the witch that became the first werewolf's mate. When they met the people had cut her hair and she was no longer able to remember or use her magic until," She paused, "She made love to Hamid for the first time correct. I think this would be similar. I don't know how you would achieve it but it could be possible. The only reason I would think it hasn't worked already is because it hasn't taken full effect yet, she would have to receive your love after her power is completely taken from her." Verra said. "That sounds like an idea but we have to figure out how to accomplish it, how long would it take for you to finish the spell and would you have to be near her to use it?" Ericka asked. "It will take two days to get done and no we don't have to be near her to use it we can get it done here and send it her way before the enemy knows what hit them." Jenny said confidently. "Good get started on it right away, Aria and Trisha we will be needing your presence at the meeting which we are due to be there right about now." Sam said and headed for the door. "Take whatever space and supplies you need to get it done." He said as he walked into the hall, Ericka, Aria and Trisha follow shortly behind him. When they walked into the large council room at least a hundred and fifty men stood around waiting for the Alpha and the meeting to start. Sam walked over to the end of the large wooden table and pushed the chair there out of the way. He then looked up as all his men they were ready to fight, ready to die just so his mate and their families will be safe. He then spoke loudly so everyone in the large room could hear, "I am not going to sugar coat the situation. If we go through with this plan we may end up in the middle of a war, but make no mistake we did not start this but we will finish it." The troops cheered and once they quieted down Sam began talking. "Lilliana and I and security team one will be coming with us to the warehouse, we are to kill anyone we find but do now engage Farid. He is more powerful than any of us and I don't want to see anyone get killed out of stupidity. Once I have her son Aria is going to bring him back here and then we will head up to the Adam Solace Den. The men who don't accompany us to the city will immediately leave to follow the men Fin sent there last night. No one is to engage any enemy no matter the circumstance except if they discover us then silence them quickly and pray no one misses the bastard. Once myself and the rest of us get on site we wait for word from the witches, who will be staying here, for when Lilliana's magic will be restored or I order otherwise. Ericka has been in his Den before and has agreed to give us some insight on the layout of the building and where we will most likely find Lilliana." He then moved aside and let Ericka take the floor but stopped her for a moment and said, "Once we enter to Solace Den do not attack Farid unless unavoidable and leave Adam Solace to me. Also not a word of this leaks to Lilliana." All of the people then stared at Sam wide eyed and their mouths dropped. "A little too late for that for that I think." Lilliana said moving away from the door. "How long have you been standing there?" Sam asked in shock. "I walked in just behind Ericka and waited for the information." Lilliana said walking to stand at his side. He looked at her now she wore her brown military boots with gun holster and it was loaded. She wore blue jeans with a holster on each hip with appropriate guns in them and a small bag attached to her hip which he assumed was filled with clips pre filled. She also wore and regular short sleeved black V-neck shirt and her hair was pulled back into a ponytail. "How did you know?" Sam asked still a bit unsettled. "I can see the future Sam did you really think the vision wouldn't change when you started making preparations to rescue me." Lilliana said with a bit of attitude. "So then are you here to tell me to back off because that is not going to happen." Sam said smiling and crossing his arms across his chest. "No I am not going to tell you to back off; I just need to make one change to the plan. Turns out everything that needs to happen will and I will only have to be there half the time originally expected. And I guess you already figured out that my magic will be bound which is why you have the witches working on a spell as we speak." Lilliana said knowingly. "So then what's the change you want to make?" Ericka asked over her shoulder. "I will not be kept in the dungeon like you would think. I will only be held there for a short period of time after I speak with Farid. Then I will be strapped to some kind harness in the very room of Adam Solace. I suggest someone bring some kind of heavy cutting tools to remove them from me. Because without the key it's pretty much useless to try and get them off. Or so it seems through my vision. Make sure that when you enter to room that he is there or that I have already freed myself otherwise he will run and hide and we will never be able to find him." She now looked at Fin, Eric and Ericka. "If I should die, disappear or disobey a direct order." Lilliana said the last bit with enfaces looking at Sam. "Then it will be the three of yours job to get Sam to leave. I will be home before you guys get back and I am counting on you to keep Sam in line." She then heard Sam laugh and she looked in his direction. "You think anyone but you can keep me in line. If anyone but you was doing this I would have said no in a heartbeat and there would be no more discussing the issue." "I love that you are strong, intelligent Alpha but sometimes I think you can become thick headed especially when it comes to me. If I say leave it is for the best." Lilliana said convincingly. Sam then spoke, "Oh I am so screwed you are going to make a fine Alpha bitch when all this is over." Sam said as he ran a hand over his face, he knew he was defeated and there was no way out of it. "I have never lost a battle or argument with anyone, but you know just what to say to sway me." "Yeah I know." Lilliana said smugly and leaned up to kiss Sam lightly. "Now back to the situation at hand, Ericka I believe you were about to go over the layout. I would like to know it myself so I know what's going on in case something unlikely changes." Ericka then went about the layout of the place and specified how best to get in and what the weak spots were. She also said that there was a cliff less than a mile outside of Solaces room where they could look from and see what was going on. After she was done they all headed out of the room to lunch. At lunch Lilliana ate more than her fill and drank a beer or two. She then looked at Sam and said, "We have about an hour before the call, I was hoping to talk to you about some things before then." "Sure you want to take a walk, I'll grab us a couple of beers alright?" Sam said more then asked. "Yeah that sounds great." Lilliana said and finished the one she had. Sam had gotten up and walked to the kitchen when he came back he had two beers and held out his free hand to help Lilliana out of her chair. A minute or two later they were in the field behind the Den and were walking towards the river. "Sam it may disturb you what I'm about to say and ask but I need to know." Lilliana said sounding worried. "Tomorrow night they will strap me to that harness I was talking about. The harness is made of silver, what I need to know is how that feels and how my wolf will react to it?" Lilliana said with pain in her voice. Sam growled in disapproval and then said, "The actual contact to your skin burns but how your wolf react to it well the last time I was silvered it felt like someone was holding me down but only part of me, like when in a fight and someone grabs your leg so you can't get up. It feels similar except you feel it all over and your wolf will howl its disapproval." "Ok sounds simple enough, so there is something small that I wanted you to know so it doesn't bug you in a crucial moment. My hair will be brown instead of red when you come to get me. It's because red is the color my witch chose and since I won't have my magic my original genetics will take over. Look Sam," She said as she stopped walking and looked at him, "It's not the things that happen in the Solace Den that have me worried, it's what will happen after. There are fussy bits of a vision that I keep getting but I can't make any of it out. I know something is going to happen that will make you mad and then shortly after you will regret your decision. And then there is something else, something about Farid and the place where you proposed but I just don't know what it is or how to figure it out." Lilliana said sounding a bit desperate and then the wind picked up and gently blew her hair over her shoulders. "Whatever it is I'm sure we'll figure it out ok, let's just deal with one thing at a time." Sam said moving closer to her. Lilliana then took off her key necklace and handed it to him and then slowly took off her ring and handed them to him as well. Sam gave her a confused look before Lilliana said, "Solace will only take them and have them destroyed I don't want that. So I am leaving them with you so that doesn't happen." Sam took them and placed them in his pocket before he pulled her close and kissed her deeply. "Is there anything else?" Sam asked. "Only one, I need you to promise me that no matter what happens to me. That you will take care of Aiden as if he was your own." Lilliana said firmly. "I already do, but nothing is going to happen to you, I will make sure of it." Sam said and smiled. He then leaned down and kissed her longingly, desperately trying to savor her and all that she was because he knew there was a chance that she would never come home again. Suddenly the phone in his pocket rang and he hoped Lilliana hadn't heard it. But she had and dug it out of his pocket and handed it to him. He separated only slightly from Lilliana and said into the phone, "Graves report." From the other end Lilliana heard mumbled voices and then Sam barked into the phone, "Find out where he went and call me back. We will be there soon." Sam then hung up the phone and dialed another number, "Fin, get the men out back now we are leaving." He said and then hung up the phone. "Did you forget anything?" Sam then asked Lilliana. "Um, no I don't think so except my jacket but then I think someone will bring one for me so no need. I do want something first though." Lilliana said and Sam looked at her confused. "Oh and what's that?" Sam said. "You said all I had to do was ask right?" Lilliana said smiling. "Yes that is what I said." Sam said smiling again. "Well," Lilliana said pressing her body against him, "I'm asking." Suddenly she felt Sam's love flow into her and try to take over her soul. Then she returned the favor in kind sharing her love with him. They stood wobbly for a moment before kissing desperately. Then Sam heard someone running towards them and separated his lips from hers. He looked over to see one of his betas panting next to him. "What is it Jason?" Sam Barked. "The men are coming sir but they were wondering how we are getting there." Jason said bowing to the Alpha. "I already have cars waiting for us near the warehouse and as for how we are getting there we have three witches that can take us there. Now tell them to get there asses in gear and get out here." Sam barked again he then turned to look into Lilliana's eyes and smiled at the look of happiness there. "Sam the next time I ask, I won't have the strength to explain why. And even now I don't know why I will ask but when I do..." Lilliana said and then was cut off by Sam. "I won't let you down, my love that is the last thing in the world I would want to do." Sam said rubbing her arms. He then looked over and saw the men walking out of the back door of the Den, Ericka and Fin walked with them, he had sent Eric with the men heading to the mountains. There stood sixteen people in all without Sam and Lilliana included. Once they reached where they were the phone rang in Sam's pocket again. "Great timing." He said and flipped open his phone. "Report and address." Sam said into the device a moment later he hung up. "Ok we have and address everyone hold onto each other." Lilliana said. She then watched as they formed a circle and held hands. Lilliana prodded Sam's mind to find out where they were going and then tried to bring them there but found herself a bit short on the ability. She then looked at Aria and Trisha and nodded her head and they fed their combined power through the group and then suddenly they were standing in front of the warehouse with an SUV on one side Sam quickly turned and knocked on the window, the two men inside stunned at the sudden appearance of their Alpha. They both got out of the vehicle and moved to stand in front of him and bowed low. "My Alpha we didn't expect to see you so soon. Excuse us for asking but how did you get here so fast, weren't you just at the Den." One of the men asked, Lilliana would soon learn his name was Chris. "Men I would like to meet my mate, Lilliana." He said pulling her close. "Lilliana this is Chris and Greg they are my best hunters." "Nice to meet you." She paused and thought like an Alpha should. "Now where is the target?" She asked standing up straight. "He's in the warehouse just ahead but unfortunately we did not see the boy with him." Greg said. "It's fine I know where my son is. Ericka will fill you both in on what is going on and I don't want to hear any argument's after. Am I clear?" Lilliana said with an authoritative tone in her voice. Sam looked at her proudly, she knew how to take charge of the situation when needed and that made him gleam with respect for his woman. Ericka walked over to the men and started filling them in as Sam and Lilliana walked over to the other men. "We need a base for our actions. What's the plan boss?" Fin asked. "Well they are already waiting for us but that doesn't mean we have to lose the element of surprise. I think the best way in is through our beautiful new friends." Sam said looking at Aria and Trisha, who now looked surprised. Then Aria stiffened her face and said, "Anything we can do to help, sir." Sam then looked at Trisha and she nodded her head. "Good, I have come to understand that you each have different types of magic, I would ask what they are." He asked. Aria answered for them both, "Mine is fire like Lilliana and Trisha can use fire but her own is wind. We are very practiced at using them in combat and I feel we can at least protect ourselves." "Good then I don't have to worry about you. Now this is what I'm thinking, they are expecting Lilliana. But they aren't expecting the rest of us, I say Lilliana walks right through the front door and then she will signal me when she finds the men. They won't hurt her because they want her alive. When she does Aria and Trisha one of you will take eight and the other will take seven men and we will surface around the enemy and crush them. Now in order for us to get the result we need, if anyone sees Farid get away from his as fast as you can there is no need for anyone to die by his hand if we can avoid it." Sam ordered. "Yes sir." Came from all the men. "Are we ready then?" Lilliana asked moving to stand in front of Sam. "Anytime you are." Sam said. 'Kiss me.' Lilliana said to Sam through the link. Sam then leaned down and kissed her deeply trying to show her how much he would miss her and how much he missed her already. When they separated after several long moments, Lilliana look up into his eyes and said, "I love you. Oh and try to contain your wolf the next time you see me, stick to the plan. I will be fine I promise." "I love you too." He said smiling and gently brushed his lips against hers before she had to leave him. Sam then watched as Lilliana walk towards the warehouse in question both of her hands already on her guns as they swayed on her thighs. When she got close she drew them and held them defensively as she looked around for the enemy. It made her a bit nervous not being able to use her magic but she had learned how to use a gun and pretty well if she said so herself. She knew Sam was worried for her too but she put on a brave face so he wouldn't worry as much. She braced herself for what was to come because since her vision had changed she didn't know if this would too. Setting Moon Ch. 11 "You will scream for me Katherine, one way or another. Stop holding them back and I will let you rest for a while, once I have had my fun of course. Make this easier on yourself and give into the pain." Solace said. "How about you go fuck yourself." Lilliana said tiredly and spat in his face it had been almost two days since she fought Felix and won. Solace had striped her of her clothing and had beat her ever since but it drained her of her strength. Her skin burned now where the silver had been placed and her wolf howled deep within her. But it only made her wolf angry and when she was free from the silver her wolf would tear apart any enemy in her path. "Fine have it your way I will get what I want in the end." Solace said and wiped the spit away from his face. He walked around her and his contraption and said, "Give me the other one, it will make her scream. I haven't even broken skin yet, but this," He said grabbing the weapon, "will tear her flesh from bone. She will scream for me now." Solace said and then then swung with the huge whip he now held in his hand. Lilliana screamed as what felt like razor blades tore into her back and still ripped flesh as they left her body. She then laughed a little and Solace heard her, "You think this is funny?" he asked walking around to look at her face. "No, this is not funny, but what he's going to do to you. I find that hilarious, rip flesh from bone isn't that what you said. He's going to rip your bones from your flesh. And if I die he will follow you to the end of the universe to find you and will still happily kill you as slowly and painfully as possible. There is no down side for me really. But either way equals death for you and I find that to be the funniest thing in the world." Lilliana said laughter on every word she looked up and tried to make her wrists more comfortable, the contraption she was attached to had two large metal polls on each side and from the tops and the bottoms of them ran chains that led to her ankles and wrists. The end of the chains bore large silver disks with a hole in the center which was wrapped around her wrist and ankles. It burned a great deal more than the small bands he had placed on her when she gotten there but Lilliana blocked out the pain from them just by thinking about Sam and Aiden being happy and safe, it had gotten her through most of the pain from the whipping and other abuse as well. She looked down at the whip still in his hand, it had one handle but three whips came out of the end imbedded in them were razor blades as she had thought but also sharp shells and what looked like shark teeth. "You want to laugh; here I'll tell you a joke. What did the defiant bitch say when she was whipped. Why don't you help me with the answer?" He said furiously and moved back behind her and slashed the whip across her back again. Lilliana screamed as the pain was no longer just in her back but now resonated in her chest and arms as well. She thought he might have nicked something important. "I just love to hear the punch line, why don't we hear it again." Solace said maliciously and Lilliana scream as it flayed her flesh. "Use the silver to seal her wounds, I will be back to finish the job later." Solace said angrily. "Why don't you boys show her a good time while I'm gone." Solace said and walked out of the room. Lilliana screamed as they placed a silver band onto her back several times. Burning her wounds closed. Then the men began touching her roughly grabbing her breast and fondling her mound. She tried to move away from their touches but was unable to. There were two men in front of her and one man behind her. One of them walked away and her chains were release just enough so her feet planted on the ground but still held her up. He came back and began groping her again; the three men had their hands all over her scratching her already sore skin as their claws began to lengthen. She noticed that the chains on her legs were very loose now and she seemed to have more strength now that she wasn't bleeding heavily. Quickly she lifted herself up by her arms making the silver sear deeply into her skin. She wrapped her legs around one of the necks of the men standing in from of her and snapped his neck. The other two stood in shock as their friends lifeless body fell to the marble floor. She then did the same with the other man standing in front of her while he was still distracted. The one behind her had moved away slightly, he then said "You are going to pay for killing them." He said with a growl. And a moment later her chains had been tightened again but her feet still remained on the ground. The man was behind her again roughly shoving a finger inside of her tight asshole. Lilliana groaned as the man said, "I'm going to rape your tight little ass until you bleed, bitch." Suddenly his dick was forcefully pushed inside her ass and he began fucking it hard and painfully. Lilliana cried, as she couldn't stop the man who was raping her. After a few minutes she felt her power vibrate through her screaming at her to use it. Her whole body was then consumed by the flames that leapt from her soul and the man screamed and fell to the ground as it burned his flesh. She felt her shackles melt underneath the heat of her magic and she fell to the ground. She lied there trying to find the strength to move, the strength to protect herself, but it did not come. The men from before now lay dead next to her and she reached over slightly and took the gun from one of their belts. She noticed that the small bands of silver had not melted and when she tried the silver still remained. It would figure the witch had put some sort of spell on them. She heard the door open behind her and turned pointing her gun at Solace. She fired three rounds at him but he dodged all of them and then was at her side grabbing her by the hair and slinging her across the room. Lilliana whimpered as she hit some furniture and then hit the wall with a loud thud. 'Sam, its time.' She said weakly through there link. 'Are you alright?' Sam said. 'I'm fine, get down here.' She said back to him impatiently. Lilliana looked up as Solace began walking towards her and she forced herself to her knees and used her wind to slam him against the wall and keep him there. Lilliana managed to get to her feet wobbly and walked over to where Solace had left her clothes in a pile on the floor. She slumped down next to them and began putting her pants and shirt on but decided that the bra would only hurt her more and left it on the floor. She used a nearby chair to steady her as she stood up. Leaving her boots lay on the floor as they would probably just push the silver into her skin more than it already was. She started walking over to Solace and said, "Now how do I get the silver off?" "I don't know. Hank is the only one who does." Solace said trying to judge the situation. "And where is he?" Lilliana said and leaned on the back of a nearby chair; she still felt weak but did not want Solace to see her pain. At least until Sam got there and took care of Solace for her. "I haven't seen him since you sent him to the clinic remember, two days ago. But if I did know where he was I wouldn't tell you." Solace said trying to sound confident. Then from behind her she heard the door open but didn't have to turn to see who it was. She could smell Farid coming towards her. "Farid take care of this bitch for me." Solace said sounding angry and somewhat relieved. Farid looked at Solace pinned against the wall as the invisible wind swung through the air and sounded loudly against his words. "No I don't think I shall, if this obviously hurt and tired woman can overpower you. Then why should I stay loyal to your family, at least your father was able to die with dignity even if it was before he repaid his debt to me. No I think I shall help her instead." Farid said and then bent down in front of Lilliana and raised her pant legs looking at the silver bands there. He placed his hands on them and they started to cinch around her ankle. He grabbed them firmly before they got to tight and ripped them from her legs. Lilliana quickly removed the bracelets and dropped them to the ground. She felt her wolf growl at the anticipation, she waited until Farid had moved away from her and she removed her clothes again. Then wrapped her hand around the necklace and tore it from her body. For a moment nothing happened until she looked over and saw Sam standing next to the contraption she had been chained to only a couple of minutes before. His face looked pained as he looked at his mates bruised and torn body. It was then that her wolf howled and pushed to the surface. Suddenly magic spun around her distorting her features. She heard and painfully felt her bones crack through her entire body. She grunted in pain and watched as hair slowly sprouted through the now visible pores on her hands and the bones in her fingers cracked and split, curling into long furry toes with claws that extended from them. She was distracted from her hands as her knees buckled, popping and contorting themselves to now work opposite of humans. She was forced onto all fours as she felt her ribs reshape themselves and protrude from her chest making her much larger than a normal wolf. Finally she felt her face begin to reform itself as her nose and mouth were elongated, the sides of her mouth split to create a larger one and her teeth grew to become sharp fangs. She felt her eyes separate and widen until she could see almost everything around her. Her ears grew as well and moved themselves further up her head and a tail formed itself and sprouted from her behind. Then as suddenly as it had begun it was over and she stood there, her wolf growling as her body healed from its previous wounds. She watched as Sam walked over to her with wide eyes. When he came close she realized she stood almost eye to eye with him. 'Lilliana you're beautiful.' Sam said as he placed his hand on her back and ran his fingers through her deep red hair. She growled low in her chest and said, 'I got you a present.' And she motioned her head towards Solace. Sam glanced at Solace and then back to Lilliana. Her fur was the same deep color as her human hair and her eyes glowed gold. She stood at what he thought was about five nine compared to him. He had wanted this moment to be in a better place where he could properly greet her wolf with his, but now was not the time. He had a man to kill and then he would take Lilliana home to her son. Lilliana stood proudly in front of the men Sam had brought with him as Sam moved away from her to stand in front of Solace. She released Solace from her magic and he slumped to the ground. She moved her new animal body trying to get used to her and the way she felt. But something felt wrong as she moved a large pain grew in her chest. Instantly she transformed back into human state. She grabbed her clothes and walked over to Ericka, the pain still growing in her chest. It had started to make her breath heavy and she sat down slowly in a chair near her friend. "What's wrong?" Ericka asked concerned. Lilliana had put her pants on and sat back down, the pain making it intensely hard to breath. "There's a pain in my chest, I felt it earlier I just don't know what's causing it." She said gasping with every word. Ericka knelt down in front of her and watched as her breasts rose heavily and dropped sharply. She then placed a hand on Lilliana's chest and closed her eyes. With her angel she searched to heal the internal wound but found a piece of silver drifting dangerously close to her heart. "Shit." Ericka said cursing the piece of metal. She then got up and looked at Lilliana's back, trying to find a good point of entry. It was now healed but Ericka could see the scars that were newly formed. "Lilliana this is going to hurt a lot. You have a piece of silver near your heart if I don't get it out you could die." Ericka said sounding tormented by what she had to do. "Fine, do what you have to." She said painfully as she found it even harder to breath. Ericka took out a knife and moved kneel in front of her. Pushing her back against the chair and pressed the knife slowly into her stomach just below where her heart should be and tried not to cut anything else. Lilliana grunted and nearly screamed at the sudden new pain as she extended her claws and ripped into the arms of her chair. Ericka had to cut deep enough that she could grab the offending object and when she did. She gently pushed her hand through the now bleeding slit. Blood poured out of the wound and on to her hand, slowly dripping down her arm. She stopped for a moment letting her angel sense where the silver was and then she pushed upward towards her heart. Ericka could feel the pulse of her heart next to her hand as she wrapped her fingers around the small piece of silver. Slowly she pulled it out of Lilliana's body as gently as possible. Ericka threw the metal onto the floor and looked at Lilliana her eyes were closed and she breathed slowly. Ericka placed her hand over the new wound and used her power to heal it. She watched as the blood quickly seeped back into Lilliana's body and the skin fused back together healing any damage Ericka had done. Lilliana opened her eyes and said, "Thanks, but next time let's try to avoid the silver. Now how's Sam doing?" And she sat up and put her shirt on. "Hand me my boots and bra will you." Ericka grabbed her bra and boots and handed them to her and watched as she put them on. Lilliana looked over once she was done and saw Sam punch Solace in the side and duck a punch to his face. She got up and looked around now seeing about thirty people standing there looking guarded and ready for action. She decide she would act now, her mate would just have to understand that she was an Alpha too and while he ripped Solace's throat out she would go get her family. "Ericka and Trisha come with me and grab ten of our warriors; we have some business to take care of. Fin, you and Aria stay here with the other men and Sam. We will be back shortly I need to take care of something before we leave." Lilliana said taking charge of the situation and turned heading for the door. "Lilliana." Sam growled loudly after throwing Solace into a wall. "Sam, my family is being held prisoner by this asshole. I must go get them, they will not trust any wolves that are sent and I made them a promise. I have all the protection I need." Lilliana said after she turned towards his voice, with a low growl in her chest. Sam walked over to her quickly and kissed her roughly while placing something in her hand. "Never take it off again." He whispered in her ear and then barked an order to the men, "Keep her safe." She smiled at him as she placed the ring on her finger. "Let's go." She said as she walked out of the room. A moment later she stopped in front of the room that held Aiden only three days before. "Stay here, I need to grab something." Lilliana ordered and walked into the room a moment later she returned with her guns strapped back in there holsters. "All that power and you still feel the need to carry a gun." Ericka said with a laugh. Lilliana laughed as they started moving down the hall at a quick pace. Six men had been guarding the stairs and as they walked up to them they pointed their guns timidly at her and the men. Lilliana then pulled her gun quickly and killed all but two of them before they could fire a single shot. She walked past the other two as they shook with fear and ignored them as she descended the stairs. Lilliana heard a gun cock behind her as she reached the bottom of the steps suddenly the men were screaming in pain as they went up in flames. Lilliana didn't stop to look back and kept with her fast pace. Lilliana saw three more men coming down the hall, she reached back and grabbed Ericka's knife from her belt. When they came close she attacked the one in front grabbing his gun from him and twisting his arm behind his back. Lilliana then slit his throat from behind and quickly shot the other two. "Are you sure you needed our help, you're doing pretty well all by yourself." Ericka said but didn't slow her steps. "I have a lot of pent up aggression from the last two days." Lilliana said with an evil smile. A couple minutes later they were walking down the dark hallway to the dungeon when Lilliana smelled Farid hiding in the darkness. "Farid, I had wondered where you ran off to." "Had to take care of something first, figured you wouldn't mind since your friends showed up." Farid said moving so they could all see him. "Hello Ericka, been a long time." He said smugly. "Farid." She said crossly. "I assume you're not here for the pleasant conversation, so will you help?" Lilliana said with a little edge to her voice. "Yes ma'am I will help, my Alpha." Farid said mockingly with a slight bow as a smile switched at his lips. "You joke now just wait one day. I guarantee you will say that and mean it." Lilliana said with a chuckle and moved towards the large double doors to the dungeon. "Where are the light switches?" Lilliana asked as Farid came to stand at her side. "In the security room on the other side of the building." Farid said. "Fine we don't need them anyway." Lilliana said opening the door. She walked in and set a fire in the middle of the room. But as soon as she did she was met with the pissed off growls of about twenty wolves, her family stood on the opposite side of them looking worried. "Spread out, kill as many as you can. Out priority are the humans behind them, protect each other there should be no reason to die at the hands of these wolves." Lilliana ordered and moved towards wolves. She pulled her gun as one came near shooting it several times before he went down. She decided that her guns wouldn't get the job done quickly enough and turned to her magic. Her eyes glowed gold as she opened up the earth in front of her and half the wolves were consumed by the earth. She then looked over and saw her men and the two women fighting the rest of the wolves and turned to her family. Jordan looked up stunned as a fire was started in the middle of the room. He looked towards the door and saw what he thought was his sister and then she and her men walked towards the wolves that were in the center of the room and began fighting them. He looked at her now; she wore jeans, a black shirt and some brown boots. But she was carrying guns and her hair now flowed red in color. She looked as if nothing had happened to her over the past couple of days, but she also looked as if she had great power hidden in her depths and the way she moved gave little to that effect. He watched her kill one wolves with her gun and then suddenly she stopped, he heard loud growl and then she raise her hands and the room started to hum and shake. Suddenly the ground came up around the wolves and swallowed half of them into the depths of the earth. Lilliana ran over to her family and said urgently, "Come on we have to go." "Alright, I knew you would come back." Her sister said. "Always, let's go Sam will be waiting but I have to find Solaces witch first he needs to be controlled." Lilliana said as they walked towards the doors. Lilliana whistled and her men were running back to stand by her side. She made sure she had all nine of the prisoners, before she turned and stepped towards the Solaces wolves and held her hand up slight towards the ceiling. The room began to shake and rumble as the roof of the cave came crashing down on them, crushing what was left of his troops. Soon they were walking through what Lilliana would have said was Solaces dining room. There was fighting going on all around them as they walked to the other side of the room but no one attacked them. They walked past a hallway and Lilliana suddenly had a tingle creep up her spine, she stopped and walked down the hallway. Setting Moon Ch. 11 "Check all of these rooms we are looking for a man with white hair but be careful he's a witch." Lilliana ordered and the men set to searching. But she saw a door in front of her that hadn't been opened yet and moved towards it, she felt Trisha come up beside her and then her brother and sister too. She opened the door and the small man tumbled out of it and onto the floor. "I guess you're not so tough without your potions and spells huh." Lilliana mocked. "Bring him with us we don't have time to deal with him properly right now." Lilliana ordered to her men and they ran over and picked him up. "Don't even think about doing something stupid or I will kill you before you can regret the decision." She said and turned walking away from him. Several minutes later they returned to Solaces room. Sam had already killed Solace but when she walked in he was standing over his still warm but lifeless body. "I guess we are done here then." Lilliana called to him. "Yes we are." Sam said in a low tone. "Good I will take us home then. Aria and Trisha come here; I think I might need your help with this." Lilliana said and Aria and Trisha came to stand next to her. She took their hands and closed her eyes; she focused all of their magic. Sam watched as sweat beaded off the three women's foreheads and a look of pain marred Lilliana's face. He wanted to help her but didn't know how. Suddenly the building began to shake violently and then people began to scream from down the hall, the earth moved beneath them as Lilliana worked the magic. When the shaking stopped they and all of their men were standing behind their own den and most looked around in shock. Lilliana collapsed instantly the force of what she had done taking its toll on her mind and body. "Sam." She whispered. "I've got you, Lilliana." Sam said and picked her up to cradle her in his arms and started walking towards the Den. "Ericka bring her family and Farid, we have much to discuss." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fifteen minutes later Sam walked out of his bedroom to find Lilliana's family along with Ericka, Eric and Fin waiting for him in his living room. Farid had come as well; Sam hadn't known if he would, considering what he is and where they were. "Beers?" Sam questioned as he headed for the bar. Having his mate home and lying in their bed made all of his anger and worry float away. He then began passing out beers to everyone in the room. Once done he sat down on the couch and looked around the room. Lilliana's mother, father and sister sat on the other couch. Farid leaned against a table near the back of the room and Lilliana's brother stood near the fireplace. Ericka and Eric stood near the door to his bedroom cuddling in each other's arms and Fin sat on the other arm of the same couch he was on. "Now I believe introductions are in order. I am Sam your daughter's fiancé; this is Fin my right hand as it were. These two love birds are Eric and Ericka and I believe you already know Farid." Sam said trying to be as open as he could be. He didn't want to scare them with what they were before he knew what Lilliana had told them. "So your Katherine's mate, I had thought so when you picked her up outside. My name is Martha and this is my husband Frank, Katherine's younger sister Katalina and her older brother Jordan. Katherine told us about you and your pack." Lilliana's mother said pleasantly. "I see my mate has been telling you things she really shouldn't but since you already know it will make our conversations and you being here a bit easier. Yes what she told you was correct, I am the Alpha of our pack and so is your daughter although she is still learning; we only met a couple of weeks ago. But she is already shinning to the role quicker than most, if I do say so myself." He said with a bit of a laugh and a smile creasing his handsome features. "I guess she hasn't told you about us yet." Jordan said seriously. "No we haven't had the chance to talk, but I would hope that you would come to trust me. I will love and protect your sister if it means losing my own life. And by proxy anything or anyone she loves as well. I assume she said that you would be safe here, everyone here is family and there is no need to hide who you truly are." Sam said assuredly. Jordan then looked over at Katalina who nodded her head in answer to an unasked question, "Katalina and I are witches even though our parents are not. We have only just learned of our magic, but apparently it was about the same time Katherine learned of hers. We were also bound by Solaces witch and apparently won't be able to use it for another week." Jordan said as matter of fact. "We can help you on that part." Ericka said and opened the door to talk to the guard and then came back into the room. "Sam do you think it would be alright if I told them the story." Ericka said leaning on the back of the couch next to Sam. "They are your family, I don't really see what harm it could do telling them now." Sam said encouragingly. "What story and how are you part of our family?" Katalina asked. "Please, let me tell you in order. Now do you know where the power of a true witch comes from?" she watched as they shook their heads no, "The power of a true witch including both of you and your sister comes from the power of angels. Specifically being the descendant of one, not every generation gets the power but the ones who do are always meant for some higher purpose." Ericka said. Sam listened as Ericka continued to talk about the connection between angels and witches. But his mind wandered to his sleeping mate, he probed her mind making sure she hadn't been mentally scarred by Solace. He was glad his Lilliana was home safe and couldn't wait until he could crawl into bed next to her. He was tempted to do that very thing now, but Lilliana's family was still in need of information and bedrooms were still being set up for them. He hoped Lilliana could wait another hour for it to be done. It was already the middle of the night and he knew she would want him soon; she had always woken up in the middle of the night just to make sure he was still there so she could snuggle back up to him. His wolf growled at him now, he knew what he wanted but couldn't give it to him now. His wolf wanted to go lie with his mate just as much as he did. Sam got up and walked through the doors to his bedroom. He walked over to their bed and bent down next to her; he looked at her beautiful face and brushed some hair away from her cheek. Then leaned forward and gently brushed his lips against hers sending small tingles down his spine. "Sam." Lilliana said sleepily. "Yes my love, I am here." He said in a sweetly. "Once you're done with my family, please come to bed. You duties can wait till tomorrow for your attention, I need you more than it does." Lilliana yawned as her word dug into his heart. "Yes baby as soon as I'm done with your family, I am all yours." He said and leaned over her now naked body and kissed her lovingly. He pulled the blanket over her as he went to leave. Lilliana grabbed his hand as it slid over the sheets and pulled him back to her. "Please come back soon." Was all she said as she fell back to sleep. Sam kissed her on the cheek and left the room. Ericka was just getting to the part where she was their family when he walked back in and sat down next to her. "So the main reason I am telling you all this is because, I am the angel you are descendant of. My name used to be Hellana and Gabriel was my husband." Lilliana's family sat looking a bit in shock for a moment until Jordan said, "But you look human, why is that." "Well when Hellana died I became Ericka, I was turned into a vampire like Farid over five thousand years ago. Your sister changed me back, now I am half angel again and soon my human side will no longer be human. I will be a werewolf like my mate Eric." Ericka said. "But how did she turn you back?" Farid said speaking for the first time since he entered the room. "Her magic is only confined by her mind, if she believes she can do it. I'm pretty sure she will be able to. In my case she also had the key I was talking about, combined with her magic and the other witches they turned me back. It was extremely painful but I believe it was worth it." Ericka said wondering why Farid wanted to know. Sam noticed that Farid was staring at Katalina and wondered if he was hungry. If he tried to drink her blood he would have to stop him but he didn't know if he and the two other wolves in the room could take him and live. He hoped it wouldn't come to that but he had heard rumors of Farid's insatiable lust for blood. Sam couldn't control the low growl that forced its way to the surface as he stared at Farid. Everyone in the room was now staring at him as Farid said, "Relax, we'll talk about it later." Sam relaxed a little but still kept an eye on Farid as he said, "We have made up rooms for you in the guest hall just below the stairs. There will be clothing and food waiting for you there and if you need anything there will be guards posted in the hall. Breakfast is at nine am but I doubt your daughter and I will be there. Anytime you want to see her just come and ask the guards posted outside our door to find out where we are or when we will be available. We will most likely be at lunch but if not we will most definitely be at dinner. I know you must all be incredibly tired so I will have Eric and Fin show you to your rooms. Ericka please stay for a moment." Sam said standing and motioning towards the door. Lilliana's family stood and moved towards the door but Jordan stopped beside Sam and said, "I haven't heard you use Katherine's name once why is that?" "The woman you call Katherine, your sister, has been through a lot and when she was searching for Aiden she changed her name. The pack and I only call her by the name she has chosen, I know of her other name because she has told me but we all call her Lilliana. She prefers it that way and I did not want to disrespect her or her family by stating otherwise." Sam said earnestly. "If that is the name she has chosen then I will respect it as well." Jordan said and walk out of the room. Sam looked over to see Farid settling down on the couch as he lit himself a cigarette. "I hope you don't mind I'm a bit stress out at the moment." Farid said motioning to Sam. "No I don't mind, as long as you're not thinking about hurting Katalina or anyone else here for that matter." Sam said trying to sound calm. "No, I don't intend to hurt anyone in your pack or anyone else here. My interest in Katalina has nothing to do with my hunger." Farid trying not to let the pain show in is voice. "What interest do you have in her then?" Sam asked non-defensively. "What I say never leaves this room. The help that I need from you mate is the same help Ericka needed from her. I tire of the fighting that is constantly associated with vampires; my brother once told me that I will live in the dark all my life if all I have is blood on my hands. I have come to realize that he was truly right after all these years; I wish to wash the blood from my hands. Your mate told me that if I become a wolf after she has changed me back that Katalina would be my mate. I realize I could never make up for the things I've done but I will change my life for the better." Farid said his expression guarded. Sam and Ericka looked at him in shock, Ericka had never thought that would have been the reason he would need Lilliana's help. "Oh, well why didn't you just say so. And to think I thought you wanted to have her for dinner." Sam said warmly with a laugh. "Yeah Farid, when I knew you. You weren't as controlled as you seem now. What happened?" Ericka said a bit more cautious. "I guess the years just finally caught up with me. The words Hamid said the day we became immortal really didn't bother me at the time but as the years have passed I have thought about them more and more. All I wish now is to ask for his forgiveness for not heeding his words that day and hope he has it in his heart to forgive me." Farid said placing his head in his hands as his arms rested on his knees. "We have already set up a meeting with our eldest to see if we can find any information on where your brother is and if he would be willing to meet with us." Sam said. "Good then it's only a matter of time and trust me I have plenty." Farid said lightening up a bit. "Alright then is there anything that you need. If not we have a room set up for you downstairs with Lilliana's family." Sam said standing. "No, and don't worry I won't need to feed for several days. Hopefully Lilliana can find a way to change me back before then and if she can't we'll figure that out then." Farid said as he got up and walked through the door. Ericka fell in behind him as he descended the stairs and said, "Are you truly being honest Farid?" "Yes Ericka for the first time in a long time I actually want to be a good person. Why can't you believe that? I believed you when you wanted that, although I didn't take it very well." Farid said convincingly. "Fine but if I see the blood lust take over, I will end you myself." Ericka said and walked towards the door to her room. "Yeah, I would hope so." Farid said with a chuckle and walked down the hall trying to find his room. After a moment he opened the door to a room and walked inside. Instantly his senses were assaulted by the smell of honey. He turned to see Katalina staring at him with wide eyes; she was only wearing her bra and panties. Embarrassed he quickly turned away from her and said, "I'm sorry Katalina I didn't mean to barge in on you and I thought this was my room." Farid went to leave but was stopped by the beautiful sound of her voice. "Wait Farid, it's alright. I wanted to talk to you anyway, let me just throw something on." Katalina said as she moving towards him. Farid stood still for a moment before he heard her walk into her closet. He then turned and moved further into the room. When she walked back into the room she was wearing a short tank top dress which showed every curve on her body. The swell of her breasts peeking out from the top of the garment and her long slender legs seemed to go on forever. "Farid are you alright?" Katalina asked walking over to him only stopping just out his reach. "Yes I'm fine, why do you ask?" Farid said. Katalina looked at his face now; he looked like he was struggling with something and her heart tugged at her to find out what it was. She didn't know why she cared for this man but she wouldn't fight the feeling in any case. "Don't lie I can see it written across you face. You want to say something but think it's a bad idea. Tell me I won't think less of you for being honest." Katalina said trying to judge his response. "Your smell is very intoxicating for me. Please don't worry I don't want to hurt you. I just..." He said moving towards her smelling her deeply. He was very close to her now, he thought she would fear him but instead a sense of arousal crept into the air. She was staring at his lips now and he fought the desperate need to kiss her and said, "I want you Katalina and I won't pretend otherwise. But I understand if I don't want to be with me." Katalina slowly leaned forward and brushed her lips across his sending bolts of electricity shooting through his body. "Farid, I want you." Her words breathless as she pressed her body into him. Farid moved his head to smell the skin at the side of her neck and she shivered slightly against him. "Why do you want me Katalina?" Farid ask trying to keep his growing need in check. She moved away from him slightly and looked into his eyes, "My heart pulls me to you. Truly does yours not feel the same?" She said placing her hand on Farid's chest. He looked down at her hand and then back into her eyes, "I have never known love, but the way I feel...my heart calls to you. I wanted to know you before..." Farid said with desperation marring his words. "We can know each other tomorrow. I want to show you the power of true love, tonight." Katalina said and kissed Farid urgently. Farid wrapped his arms around her and kissed her back just as urgently as she had. He pressed his body against her and moved her back towards the bed as she pulled his shirt over his head. He then stripped her of her nightgown and gently pushed her onto the bed. He moved over top of her pushing her further onto the bed and then sank his body down onto her soft delicate skin. Her concealed breast pressing into his chest as he kissed her neck and she caressed his back. He moved to suckle her breast over the soft material of her bra and then removed the material completely. He kissed and sucked at her tender nipple; he nipped at it gently and tasted her blood for the first time. He licked the small wound, her blood tasting like honey gliding across his tongue. Suddenly he realized what he was doing and quickly sealed the wound. Katalina felt him tense over her and stop moving. She looked down at him, his look telling her he was ashamed of something he had done. "Farid what happened, why did you stop?" Katalina asked frustrated. "I took your blood without your consent; I didn't want to scare you like I have so many others." Farid said trying to move away from her. She grabbed his hands and pulled him back to her and said, "You do not scare me Farid and if it is consent you need then you have it. I trust that you know what your boundaries are and know when you need to stop." She kissed him deeply and moaned as he kissed back down her body to her breasts. She trusted him with her life, but why they had only just met? Was their connection really that strong that she would let him take whatever he wanted from her? He was used to getting what he wanted by manipulating and controlling people but not once had a woman given herself to him so willingly. He nipped at her breast again and let small drops of blood flow from the wound before he licked it. He did the same with the other and fought the urge to bite deep into her skin and sip long slow draws from her. He removed his pants and her underwear without her so much as noticing. He moved back up her body and pressed his hard body against her, his hardness just barely touching her warm center. Her body ached for him to be inside her and she lifted her hips to give him better access. "Please, Farid." She begged and he pressed himself into her deeply. Enjoying how every inch of her felt around his large member as he slowly pushed inside of her. He pressed his lips against hers, creating a long slow elaborate kiss. He groaned against her lips as he slid out of her; just too slowly plunge into her again. She lifted her hips and ground them into his member forcing him to go deeper than he had before. He growled and pressed into her harder and faster, he wrapped an arm around her back and brought her chest up to meet him. Licking and caressed her breast with his mouth before he extended his fangs and sunk them deep into the soft tissue of her breast. As he fucked her he took long deep sips from her, letting the warm liquid splash across his tongue and fill his mouth. Katalina moaned loudly as the pain and pleasure ripped through her body. Scratching at his back and bucking with her hips letting him know she wanted more. Gently he removed his fangs from her soft skin and healed the wound. He then flipped her over and pushed her towards the head board. He lifted her so she could place her hands on top of the firm piece of wood and reentered her from behind. He pounded her with persistent determination as she pressed herself into him. He felt her muscles tighten and her body quivered as her orgasm screamed through her body and she screamed with it. He placed his hands next to hers, gripping the head board harder than he should have and it splinted and cracked as he pounded her. Her body tensed as another orgasm ripped through her body and he couldn't hold back as he spilled his seed deep inside of her and grunted at his own release. Setting Moon Ch. 11 He kissed her back for a moment before moving to lie on the bed; she lay down next to him and draped her warm body over his. The feeling of contentment consuming both of their bodies as they drifted off to sleep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sam spoke with his guards for a moment about their new guests and then went to his bedroom. Lilliana was peacefully sleeping as he walked over to the bed; he removed his clothes and climbed in next to her pulling her close. He desperately wanted to talk to her; he wanted to show her how much he missed her, how much he loved her. But for now he was happy she was home and in his arms. He opened up his mind and sent her all his love hoping it would seep into her dreams and make her forget about the last couple of days. "Sam." She breathed, "I love you too." She said with a smile not opening her eyes. "I didn't mean to wake you." Sam said as he brushed some hair from her face. "It was a very nice way to wake up." Lilliana said and kissed him tenderly. "I wanted to be strong for you, but all I could think about was what you were going through. I missed you so much." Sam said the pain showing through in his voice. She buried her head in his chest and said sadly, "You and Aiden are all that kept me going, all that kept me sane. The things that they...I never want to be separated from you again." He felt her tears splash against his chest as he held her close "Is there anything I can do?" Sam spoke as though the words had been ripped from his soul. "Yes, you can stay here with me and show me the love I have missed so much." Lilliana said almost more of a question than a statement. Sam just nodded his head and kissed her desperately. Setting Moon Ch. 12 The next morning Sam awoke and stretched across the bed smelling his mate but not feeling her. His eyes shot open and he searched the room for Lilliana but did not find her. He quickly got dressed and spoke to the guards outside of his room. "Where did Lilliana go?" Sam asked anxiously. "She headed down stairs about an hour ago. She didn't say where or what she was doing. I'm sorry I could give you more information my Alpha." The guard said bowing. Sam hurried down the stairs and into the dining room, when he didn't find her there. He moved to search the living room, as soon as he entered the room he heard Lilliana's beautiful laugh. She was sitting on the floor surrounded by children, one of them being Aiden. He noticed Lilliana's family and Ericka standing to the side watching her with smiles on each of their faces. "I should have known she would want to see him as soon as she could." Sam said to Ericka. "Yeah I have never heard her laugh and smile so much as when she is with that boy." Ericka said cheerfully. He watched her for a moment until she looked at him a huge smile creasing her beautiful face. But her eyes were dark, her natural brown almost looking black. Some memory haunted her and she was hiding it very well only those who truly knew her would even notice the pain that flickered across her face before she was laughing and smiling again. "Sam come here I want to properly introduce you." Lilliana gleamed. Sam walked over and sat down next to her, wrapping an arm around her back to make her feel safe and comfortable. "Aiden come here baby." Lilliana said and watched as Aiden ran over and jumped into her lap. "Aiden, do you know who this is?" Lilliana asked. "Daddy." Aiden yelled and jumped into Sam's lap. "Yes son I am your Daddy, right Mommy?" Sam asked with a chuckle trying to contain the bouncy child in his lap. "Yes my love, that's right. I never could have dreamed that I would find a man right for the job, but here you are." Lilliana said and watched as Aiden ran back off to play. Sam smiled but then it grew back into a frown as she looked up at him with those dark eyes. "Lilliana we should talk about what happened." Sam said worried. "Yes we should but not here and not now. I just love to watch him play and run with the other children. Sit with me for a while and then we will go talk, alright my love." Lilliana said placing a hand on his knee and looking into his eyes. She would have looked like she was going to cry if it weren't for the smile plastered across her face. "Anything to make you smile." He said and gave her chaste kiss. "Well maybe after we talk I can give you better one." Lilliana said quietly. An hour later Sam and Lilliana were sitting by the river behind the den, Lilliana splashed her naked feet into the water stealing a moment of peace for herself before Sam began gently rubbing her back and she cringed at the slight pain she felt. "What's wrong?" Sam said concerned. "It's nothing we can't deal with after our talk." Lilliana said tensing a bit. "I killed him, the man who took my son and killed Jerry. Solace was arrogant enough to pit me against him in a fair fight. But it wasn't fair, even without my magic and my wolf not yet fully formed. I killed him with ease and won my family's safety. You should have seen their faces when I almost ripped his throat out, my mother was terrified. Seeing them there watching me, made me realize how much I have truly changed. Before I was weak and innocent, not knowing what pain the world could really cause. Now I can kill a man and feel absolutely no remorse, no guilt." Lilliana said her anguish showing through in her words. "He got what he deserved; there is no reason to feel guilt or remorse for him." Sam said kissing the top of her shoulder. "You know what hurt me most; it was not the rack, the silver, the beatings, the rapes or the whips. He came to me when I was in the most pain and whispered in my ear almost as if a secret. That you and Aiden were dead and then he told me how his men ripped apart your bodies piece by piece until there were nothing left but shattered corpses. His words tore into my heart stealing my breath and claiming my strength as he abused my body further. I knew he could be lying but in the state I was in, I couldn't help but hear his words and think the worst." Tears had started falling down her face as she spoke. Sam pulled her close and let her cry against his chest. "It's ok now Lilliana, we are all safe and alive." Lilliana sat up and looked into his eyes, "When I felt you near and heard your voice, I almost thought I was dreaming or imagining it, to somehow heal my soul when I needed it most. When I took off the last piece of silver my wolf hesitated because she thought you were lost, when I saw you, that's when she sprang to life. Knowing you were alive was all I had needed..." she stopped hoping he would know what she was going to say. "When a wolf's mate die's most go through a sort of madness and some don't ever return. Some die from the shock of losing part of their soul. If I would have truly died you would have known the instant it happened. You fought even though you could have given up, the entire pack knows of your sacrifice. Fin was right you are as stubborn headed as I am." Sam said and Lilliana laughed a little. Her smile shining true, with nothing hiding behind her golden brown colored eyes. "Now can you dig this shit out of my back please?" Lilliana said removing her shirt and pulling her red hair aside. Sam looked at her back, several small objects protruded from her scarred skin. He gently pulled out the ones he could but others were in too deep. He had to extend his claws and dig into her flesh to remove them. Lilliana cringed and grunted at the pain and then Sam growled slightly as he went to grab another piece from her back. "Lilliana you still have silver embedded in your skin you should not have been able to transform into your wolf with it still in there. Yet again I am amazed at the power you hold in any form." He growled again as he pulled the silver from her and then another. He pulled another piece of something from her back and then sat down next to her again. "That's all I saw, maybe Ericka can find them better." Sam said holding out his hand that was filled with the same pieces that were on the whip. There were several pieces of shell and sharks teeth and what she now knew were silver razor blades. She grabbed her shoe and wiped the pieces into it and then looked at Sam's hand the silver had already started to burn his hand. Instinctually she licked the burns and watched as they healed almost instantly. Sam then smiled and used the same hand to dig in his pocket and pull Lilliana's key necklace from it. She hadn't planned on using it to heal herself but the moment she grabbed it the light bent around her healing any wounds she may or may not have known she had. When the light was gone, Sam looked at her back it looked much better than it had a moment before and then into her eyes. They shown a deep gold now and seemed like they weren't in any hurry to change back. "No I think you got them all out, I feel much better now. Thank you." Lilliana said putting her shirt back on. "It's almost lunch time do you want to head back or stay here?" Sam asked. "No, I want to head back, I think my family will be very interested to see how the pack treats their Alpha's." Lilliana said standing up with a smile and grabbing her boots. They started to walk and Sam said, "After an event such as this, specifically when a mother gets her child back. The mother usually says or recites something, or even sings. I don't expect you to do any of that if you don't want to but we have an old Irish lullaby that the women will probably want to sing for you if you don't sing one yourself. But I don't even know if you can sing." Sam said scratching his head and looking curiously at Lilliana. "You have no idea; well I guess you will find out soon enough. Will this be before or after lunch?" Lilliana asked her face beaming. "Before, you're just loving this aren't you?" Sam said with a laugh. "I love the fact that I can keep surprising you even after all we have been through. I told you I was an artist; I am an artist of all kinds. Except instruments, I am just horrible on the flute or any other instrument for that matter." Lilliana said. "Yeah, I'm not much of an artist in any sense of the word. But I am a pretty good cook if I do say so myself. Not that I get much chance to cook." Sam said. "I will forward to that." Lilliana said and walked through the double doors to their Den, soon they were standing in front of their table in the great dining hall waiting for everyone to take their seats. After a moment they had and Sam spoke first and loud enough that everyone could hear him, "We have been honored with some new family members on this wonderful day. First may I introduce," He paused as a woman came over and handed Aiden over to Lilliana, "Our son Aiden, only a woman such as Lilliana could produce me a son in only a few short weeks. It must be a miracle." He said and laughed as everyone else laughed as well. Sam walked around the table to stand behind Lilliana's family now, "And these fine folk are Jordan and Katalina, Lilliana's brother and sister, these are Martha and Frank, Lilliana's mother and Father." He said and moved to stand behind Farid who sat next to Katalina "Jordan and Katalina are also witches like my mate. And as most of you have probably noticed there is a vampire in our Den. But not just any vampire, this is Farid the first vampire. There is no need to be afraid of him; he is not here to harm anyone." Sam said and moved back to stand in front of his seat. "Now I believe your madam Alpha had something she would like to say as well." Sam said and placed his hand on her back to let her know that it was time for her to sing if she wanted to. Lilliana looked at her son and said aloud for everyone to hear, "This is our son, after so long I finally have him back in my arms and now he looks so tired. I do not know what the packs traditional lullaby is, but my mother sang me one when I was but a child that has been passed down through the generations." She opened her mouth and began to sing the Irish tune of her forefathers: "Sleep, O babe, for the red bee hums the silent twilight's fall. Eeval from the grey rock comes to wrap the world in thrall. A lyan van o, my child, my joy, my love and heart's desire. The crickets sing you lullaby beside the dying fire. Dusk is drawn and the Green Man's thorn is wreathed in rings of fog. Sheevra sails his boat 'til morn upon the starry bog. A lyan van o, the paly moon hath brimm'd her cusp in dew. And weeps to hear the sad, sleep tune I sing, my love, to you. Sleep, O babe, for the red bee hums the silent twilight's fall. Eeval from the grey rock comes to wrap the world in thrall. A lyan van o, my child, my joy, my love and heart's desire. The crickets sing you lullaby beside the dying fire." She looked at Aiden now fast asleep and the same woman from before came and gently took him from her and brought him to his bed. Once Aiden was out of the room all of the women stood and began singing the same song she had. Sam then said, "Your song is the same we sing and you have the most beautiful voice I have ever heard. You cease to amaze me." "I think your bias but I love it anyway." Lilliana said and kissed Sam lovingly. When the women were done singing they all sat down and the food was brought out. As they began eating Lilliana felt a bit strange, she felt like her family was complete. It made her so happy she began to laugh out loud. "Yes, what is so funny?" Sam said smiling at her. "I'm just so happy, I didn't know if it would ever be possible again but here I am. You have made me the happiest woman in the world." Lilliana said wiping happy tears from her face. "I'll make you even happier when we are married and you have my children growing inside you. That will make me the happiest man in the world." Sam said and Lilliana smiled but then she realized something. She had been feeling strange and now that she thought of it she had felt a bit nauseous last night, but she had just thought that is was from the magic she had done and she hadn't had her period in a while. She straightened and said, "And when might this wedding be taking place?" "Well I was thinking the night of the ball, you already have a beautiful dress and all of our families will be there. It just sounded perfect, what do you think?" Sam said hoping she would approve. Lilliana smiled widely and almost jumped into his lap she was so happy. "When is the ball?" Lilliana asked barely containing her excitement. "In about a week and a half and don't worry you will have plenty of help planning and organizing everything. When do you want to announce it to everyone?" Sam asked already knowing the answer. "Would now be a good time?" Lilliana asked. Sam smiled as he stood and suddenly all eyes were on him, he brought Lilliana up to stand beside him and announced, "I have took it upon myself to ask Lilliana to marry me and she said yes." The pack cheered there congratulations and then quieted again, "The wedding will be held the day of the ball. I know it will be hard work with all the preparations but I know with everyone pitching in we can do it." The pack cheered again as they sat back down in their seats. Lilliana finished her food quickly and then looked over at Sam, "I need to talk to Ericka about the wedding and what not would you mind terribly if I left you here for a bit?" Lilliana said hopefully. "Yes my love it is fine, but meet me in the field behind the house in a half an hour. We have to introduce your wolf to the pack as soon as possible." Sam said, Lilliana quickly kissed him and ran over to Ericka pulling her away from her mate and then grabbed Katalina too. She pulled Ericka close and said, "I need you to take me to the clinic, don't worry I'm fine but I have to find something out." Ericka nodded and led them to the clinic. The doctor was fiddling around with some charts and looked up when they entered the room, "Ah if it's not the woman who stole all my patients. Ericka so nice to see you again and you must be the new Alpha." He said and bowed, "My name is Alfred I am the doctor here in our little clinic, and what is your name might I ask?" "Lilliana and this is my sister Katalina. I was wondering if I might bother you for a favor." Lilliana asked. "Anything I can do for you would be an honor." Alfred said. "I think I might be pregnant and before I go around telling people that I would like to be sure." Lilliana said and felt Katalina and Ericka staring at her but she didn't look away from the doctor. "Yes please right this way. I can have a pregnancy test done and back to you by the end of the day." The doctor said and sat her down at his desk, he then began taking a vial of blood. "Can you make sure that Sam doesn't find out, I want to be the one to tell him if I am? I think it would make a great wedding present don't you think? But I won't be disappointed if I'm not Sam said I wouldn't get pregnant until winter because of me being a wolf now." Lilliana said. "But you're not just a wolf are you, you manifested after what a week. Who says what your body will do compared to the regular werewolf? And yes I think it would make a wonderful wedding present, so no I won't tell the Alpha if you are. But you must come and talk to me about any questions you may have and besides if you are pregnant then I am sure it will not be a normal one considering all that you are. I bet your wondering if you would be showing by the wedding date, when is it?" Alfred asked. "You are very wise Alfred; the wedding is set for the day of the ball in a week and a half. Sam got me the most beautiful dress and I don't want to look...well you know." Lilliana said. "Yes I know." Alfred said with a laugh, "No you wouldn't be showing yet, but soon after I would think, a werewolf's pregnancy only last six months." Alfred said finishing up the test. "Are you coming to the unveiling of my wolf?" Lilliana asked. "Yes I will be there, oh and I will tell Ericka to tell you the results of the test that way the Alpha doesn't get suspicious. Now go you're going to be late." Alfred said. "Thank you for your help Alfred I hope to be talking with you again very soon." Lilliana said smiling and walked out of the room with Ericka and Katalina. "When did you start thinking you were pregnant?" Katalina asked as they walked down the hall. "A couple of minutes ago at lunch, I was just sitting there and suddenly I felt strange like my family was finally complete. It was very odd really but then again I felt the same way when I got pregnant with Aiden, even before we went to the doctor." Lilliana said. "Now I have a question, when did your eyes turn that wonderful shade of violet?" "Oh, soon after I started using my magic and probably for the same reason yours turned that deep shade of gold. I imagine Jordan's are still brown because his element is earth." Katalina said. "Ok stop why did you go to the doctor instead of coming to me. You know I could tell you right now and how many there are." Ericka asked stepping in front of Lilliana. "Actually I didn't know that, but in any case I am about to reveal my wolf to the entire pack I don't really need to be all giddy or sad right before hand, now do I. Now you may check it out for yourself but you may not show me any sign of a yes or no until after, and no telling Sam I want it to be a surprise." Lilliana said stubbornly but then her tone grew serious and sad. "But can you tell me if Sam would be the father." Ericka looked at her a bit in shock but she knew why she had asked, she was afraid that it could have been the cause of being raped when she was held prisoner by Solace for the second time. Ericka nodded her head and placed her hand over Lilliana's stomach. After a moment Ericka removed her hand and said, "You have nothing to worry about." And she started walking down the hall. "Wait what is that supposed to mean?" Katalina said frustrated. "It means that if I am pregnant then they are Sam's children and if I'm not well then I have nothing to worry about." Lilliana said and began walking down the hall. "Oh ok then there is a reason to be happy?" Katalina said. "Yes it means I can go show my wolf proudly to the pack and not be stressed out about the, what ifs." Lilliana said. A couple of minutes later they were walking out onto the field, the entire pack was present. Lilliana walked to the top of the hill and stood next to Sam who quickly wrapped his arm around her and kissed her passionately. "You're not going to fuck me in front of the entire pack are you?" Lilliana asked. He laughed and said, "No I'm just very excited to finally meet your wolf and then we will run together as a pack. And tonight we will feast on the meat that you will hunt and kill with the other women. After that is when I will make love to you and if the pack sees who cares." "You know most women might be freaked out by having to hunt their dinner. But for some reason I kind of find the thought of it exhilarating, is that a wolf thing?" Lilliana said. "No my love thats an animal versus predator thing which wolves are very fond of. Now the people are waiting to see that beautiful wolf of yours. Don't be shy about getting naked in front of the pack no one is modest here." Sam said. "It's not the pack I'm worried about, my parents are here too. If I turn my back will that be ok?" Lilliana asked. "Yes dear, oh and you can leave your necklace and ring on they will not be bothered by the transformation." Sam said with only a tiny bit of sarcasm in his voice. Setting Moon Ch. 12 Lilliana then deciding that it really didn't matter if she turned or not, stripped her clothes and a moment later she stood there as a huge red wolf. She howled long and loud, and then she felt Sam come up beside her in wolf form. He rubbed against her side, his auburn hair mixing in with her red. He rubbed his snout against hers and then turned towards the pack and howled as well and Lilliana joined him. Soon everyone was stripping their clothes and changing into their wolves. Sam nudged her to turn and follow him and soon the entire pack was following them. 'The plains are long here and when you are a wolf, well most love to run. We will run until the sun starts to set and then the men will run back while the women hunt. Usually it's the other way around but since it is you that is finally join the pack in full, it is the women that will hunt tonight.' Sam said through their link. 'I still think you won't be able to catch me.' Lilliana said with a cocky tone in her voice. 'Oh really, if that is what you think. I think you are about to get schooled.' Sam said. 'Come on then teach me o wise professor.' Lilliana said and rubbed herself against him. 'Keep that up and I will fuck you in front of the whole pack.' Sam said and a chuckle vibrated through their link. 'Well there's only one way to settle the matter.' Came a strong feminine voice, Lilliana turned her head to see a large black wolf standing beside her. 'Ericka? Damn I just knew you would turn early like I did.' Lilliana said happily. 'Lilliana you have to start the run my love.' Sam said drawing her attention back to him. 'I guess that means I get my head start.' Lilliana laughed and took off running into the field; she fell in love instantly with her wolf and the run. She felt the wind rush through her hair the ground shift under the weight of her paws. The fresh air seep into her pores as she ran, she ran fast and strong like she was born to be a wolf. Like this is what her life was meant to be, she was meant to be here, meant to love her mate with her son by her side. Meant to be a wolf and a witch and to protect all she loves and holds dear against any enemy. Enemy, she thought it reminded her of the visions she had of Farid and them disappearing in the field of Heather, she now knew the reason they were there together was because that is where she had taken him to try and release him of his vampire form, but she still didn't know why she would take him there of all places. That was her and Sam's place why would she even think about taking him there. Her thoughts flew back to the day she had met with the council to fight for her presence there in the pack as well as the other witches and Ericka, right before her back started to burn, she heard a voice say, 'You must stop.' Who was that and why did they say it, did they cause her back to burn or were they trying to help her. She looked back to find most of the pack far behind except for Sam and Ericka who were starting to catch up. She growled and pushed herself harder to run faster. Then it happened again but different this time, "Don't stop, I must speak with you." It sounded as if a person in human form was standing next to her talking and she looked around but found no one. "Don't speak; I will come to you tonight so not deny me I have important things to discuss with you. It is about Farid and what has to happen for him to become human once again. Be alone when I come, no one must know my presence but I mean you no harm. Please heed my words." And then it was gone as if nothing had happened, the feminine voice leaving but a whisper in her ear of what was to come. Lilliana ran harder and faster than she ever thought she could, she growled loudly at the idea of having to live through another nightmare such as Solace. She was sure that was why the woman wanted to talk to her, to tell her of some new impending danger to her and her pack. And she was just supposed to keep it to herself, why, what would that achieve to keep her mate in the dark. 'Dear god Lilliana, you've got to slow down you're making me look bad.' Sam said to her. Lilliana stopped dead in her tracks and shook her head wildly, trying to remove the thoughts from her head. But it was no use, her words ingrained and her worries ever present the hardest part but to come as she had to try and hide it all from Sam. 'Too much for you old man?' Lilliana said forcing a happy tone and a small laugh. 'I have never submitted to anyone in my life as Alpha, but Lilliana I submit you are the fastest runner.' Sam said as he finally caught up to her and rubbed his side against hers. Some of her stress melted away with his touch, but his submission to her had her roaring her approval loudly. 'I hope you never forget that because I won't.' Lilliana roared again. 'Trust me I won't, now come let's run as a pack.' Sam said happily. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Several hours later the moon hung over head, as Lilliana and the other pack women dragged their kills back towards the den. When they left the trees and walked into the open field behind the Den, cheers and howls were heard from all the men, they would feast on the many deer they killed that night and the men were proud of their women for it. Lilliana dragged her contribution over to the fire pit and set it down, she noticed the fire hadn't been started yet and looked around to find a man walking around with a torch lighting them all. Lilliana shook her head and then roared loudly fire shooting out of her mouth and lighting the pit in front of her. Everyone had stopped what they were doing and turned to look, all staring in awe so Lilliana walked over to the next unlit pit and did it again and everyone started to cheer loudly. "Neat trick." Jordan said from beside her. Lilliana nodded her head in his direction and growled softly. Jordan followed her as she went to find her clothes. When she found them she shifted and got dressed quickly. She then turned to face her brother and said, "It's not a trick and you know it." "Actually I haven't seen you use your fire magic yet so how do I know that? I have seen you use earth and that teleportation thing you did. Can you teach me how to use earth magic like you did?" Jordan asked. "Wow um yeah of course I can." Lilliana said surprised. "Yeah I just figured if I was going to learn from someone it might as well be you." Jordan said. "I would be happy to teach you. I can teach you a little before the wedding but I will be able to give it more attention after." Lilliana said as she started to walk back towards the fires. Jordan stepped in beside her, "Well right now all I can do is throw rocks around; you seem to have a lot more control over it." Lilliana stopped walking and turned to look at him, "It's all about what you feel and what you concentrate on. For instance if you concentrate on a rock then you will be able to move it, if you concentrate on something smaller say dirt." Lilliana raised a hand beside her and small granules of dirt rose around her. "Then you should be able to move them. Don't think force when using your magic think more along the lines of dance, like ballet. Every intricate movement is a part of you." Then the granules of dirt started to slowly swirl around them. "The earth is a part of who you are; act as if it is another appendage. Take your arm, lift it and think only about the earth and what you want to move." Lilliana said dropping the dirt. "Give it a try." Jordan did as she said and lifted his arm as he thought about the granules of dirt. Suddenly the air around them was filled with the small pieces of dirt. "Very good now try to move them around slowly." Lilliana said smiling. Jordan slowly swirled one of his fingers and the dirt started to spin around them. "You're a quick learner with magic; good you can drop them now if you want." Lilliana said beaming with pride for her brother's skill. Suddenly a rush of water came from the side of them and Lilliana instinctually put up her hand and used her power to stop it and push it backwards. "You're not stronger than me Katalina." Lilliana said and threw the water over her and Jordan and down onto the field. "I know, I was just curious to see you use water magic." Katalina said walking towards them; Jordan dropped the dirt and smiled widely. "Ah, I see and I suppose next you want to see me use my fire magic then." Lilliana said smiling. "You know it." Katalina smiled and moved to stand next to Jordan and waited for the fire. "Alright but don't complain when it gets hot." Lilliana teased and then felt the fire in her soul and projected the heat around her, red waves vibrated from her as she pushed it even further and her body was consumed by fire. She pulled the fire from her and into her hands as her brother and sister stared in awe. "Now you know you can't hold Aiden when you playing with fire." Sam said smiling as he walked up to them. Lilliana push the fire back down and reached for Aiden as he reached for her. "My baby boy." She said lovingly. "Fire." Aiden said. Lilliana smiled down at him and said, "Yes baby fire." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Several hours later Aiden was asleep, Sam and her had gone to bed hours ago but Lilliana was awake and slowly slid from the bed as not to wake him. She threw on a free flowing dress and left their rooms heading out the back doors and into the field, Ericka had told her during the feast that she wasn't pregnant, so Lilliana felt relieved that what she was doing was only endangering her life instead of her children's. She ran out to the spot where she had heard the woman's voice before and waited. She knew the longer she was gone the more likely Sam was to wake up and find her missing. After a few moments she turned to go back when she heard a noise behind her, swiftly she turned to find what had made the noise and found a woman standing there dressed in silver armor and large white wings protruding from her back. The woman had long brown hair and deep blue eyes that stared down at Lilliana. "Good you came alone." The woman said. "Of course I came alone; I don't know what you want and didn't want to endanger my people." Lilliana said irritated. "I meant what I said Lilliana I mean you no harm, I wish only to speak with you." The woman said. "If that is true I will listen to what you have to say." Lilliana said. "My name is Isabel, I am an angel and Gabriel sent me to tell you of what was to come." The woman said. "Gabriel but I thought he hated us." Lilliana said. "He did once but now he has a new mate and has reconciled his past feelings about it. The only way Farid can become human again is if and angel makes him so. But he will have to come to my world for it to work and you are the only one who can bring him there." Isabel said. "Your world and how long will we have to be there?" Lilliana asked worried. "It must happen the night before your wedding and you will be back before you are to be betrothed. Gabriel also wishes to speak with you about Ericka or Helena as she used to be. I don't know why but he does. But you must bring Farid to the field of Heather because there is a gateway there to my world and it will make it easier on your power the closer you are to it." Isabel said. "Why did you ask me not to tell anyone?" Lilliana asked. "If you had told anyone they would be worried for you and since you just got back. People will be incredibly sensitive to your needs. I didn't think you would want that and besides I used to be just as bad as Gabriel and if Ericka had found out she would have come with you. I have no wish to speak with her on matters that do not concern her. I can promise you that Gabriel and I will never hurt you or anyone in your pack, we only wish to help." Isabel said sincerely. "Are those your only instructions?" Lilliana said realizing she really needed to get back to Sam. "Yes be there on that night and I will help you through the transition." Isabel said and turned to leave but then turned back for a moment. "Ericka's wrong you know, you are pregnant, four baby's by my count, two boys and two girls with both of your lineage. They should make for interesting children." Isabel said and then disappeared. Lilliana gasped and clutched her stomach, four children but why did Ericka not see them. She turned and started walking back towards the Den, she couldn't help but smile widely. She was pregnant and the pack wasn't in danger, Lilliana couldn't be happier if she tried in that moment. She had everything she could ever want and more, the only question was could she keep it from Sam, did she want to keep it from him. Surely he would be able to smell it on her before too long but the wedding was only a week and a half away. She laughed out loud, of course she couldn't keep it from him, she would be mad to think she could even for a moment. She began to run towards the back doors, she could barely think she was so happy. When she walked into her room she noticed Sam wasn't in bed and looked around to find him standing on the balcony. "Sam." She called to him happily. Sam turned a deep frown marring his handsome features, "Who were you talking to?" Sam asked trying to keep the edge out of his voice. "An angel, she told me something very interesting." She said walking over to him. "Let me guess some new and exciting impending doom that we hurtling towards?" Sam said suspiciously. "No she said nothing of the sort, now why can't you see the good in this." Lilliana said stopping just two feet from him. Sam suddenly noticed her smile and the way she looked as if she was almost glowing, her dress just made her more beautiful and her hair was almost a little curly as its fiery color contrasted with her creamy skin. She looked so happy, so beautiful in this moment and he had almost missed it. "Please my goddess; show me the error of my ways." He said bowing slightly and smiling at her. "She told me how to turn Farid human." Lilliana said and waited for a moment before she said the rest. "That's all she said you seem way too happy for that to have been it." Sam said moving towards her slowly. "She might have said one other little thing about me being...pregnant." Lilliana couldn't hold herself in check a moment longer she beamed happily and laughed. "Pregnant? Are you serious?" Sam said as he stood in shock. "Yes, four babies." Lilliana said holding up four fingers. "Four, my god Lilliana that's amazing." He said picking her up and twirling her around before he kissed her deeply. "Of all the things I thought you were going to say. I wonder..." Sam said thinking. "Two boys, two girls no need to wonder." Lilliana said with a laugh. "She told you all that?" Sam said as he was surprised even further. "That and they will have both of our traits, the wolf and the witch." Lilliana smiled widely. "Lilliana you have given me everything a man could ever want, I love you so much." Sam said kissing her deeply and picked her up to carry her over to the bed. "The only funny thing about this whole thing is that neither the doctor's test nor Ericka could see them but it doesn't matter. I am so happy I could burst." Lilliana said. Sam placed her gently on the bed and lay down next to her. "Luna, you are so beautiful." Sam said looking at her with clear adoration. Lilliana leaned towards him and kissed him passionately, his hands caressing her back as they took each other's breath away. "You are wearing way too much clothing for this." Sam said smiling as he pressing his hardness against her thigh. "I guess we will have to rectify that." Lilliana said and started removing her dress. Sam kissed every piece of skin she revealed as she slowly took off her dress, loving the feel of his lips on every part of her. When she pulled the material away from her stomach he pushed her back down onto the bed and kissed her skin there tenderly, loving his woman for giving him the greatest gift he could ever receive. Lilliana moaned softly as he slowly finished removing her dress and kissed down to her soft folds. He lightly kissed the outside of them and then slid his tongue between them tasting her sweetness for the first time since she had returned home. She moaned as he rubbed his tongue over her nub several times before dipping lower to delve inside of her and lick at her velvety walls. She moaned again as she gently pressed her hips up to greet the wonderful invasion to her body. His tongue so warm and slick against her soft insides she pressed her warmth into him, covering his face in her juices. Sam growled softly loving the taste and complete wantonness of his woman. Licking back up to her clit, he flicked it hard against his teeth and she thrashed and moaned underneath him, until he had to wrap his arms around her legs to keep her anchored to him. "Sam, oh god." She screamed as her body tensed and she came, her sweet nectar flowing into Sam's awaiting mouth as he gentled his touch and coaxed her down from her climax. He drank all she had to offer and then slowly moved up her body kissing along the way until he settled between her legs kissing her passionately, letting her, taste her sweetness on his tongue. He slid upward slightly to press into her entrance and pushed further, she moaned as he slowly filled her completely and Sam began gliding in and out of her at a tantalizingly restrained pace. She bucked her hips up to meet him as he curled his legs to kneel under hers and pin her in place. Lilliana reached up and wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled herself up to him as he wrapped an arm around her waist to hold her in place and she straddled him and began slowly sliding up and down on his throbbing member. She was so beautiful his woman, one hand gripping his shoulder as the other grip his thigh, her breast gently bouncing as she slipped up and down on his hard length. His eyes trailed upward to her neck and beautiful face, her lips parted and swollen from his kisses, sweet deep moans being breathed out harshly, her eyes closed, her cheeks flush and her head slightly thrown back in ecstasy. He could feel her hair tickling his thighs and felt the sudden overwhelming need to be claimed by his precious wolf. "Sam." she breathed as she looked into his eyes and saw his deep need. She knew what he wanted he hadn't been bitten by her with her wolf and he wanted it badly by the look she saw in his eyes. "Please." Sam whispered desperately through ragged breath. His plea had her desperately needing to give him what he wanted, what they both wanted. She elongated her teeth as she kissed his neck where she had marked when she was human. Sam trembled under her light caresses and held her tightly when her teeth gently scraped along his skin. He groaned, slowly grinding her hips against him as she teased him until he was sure he was going to end up insane. Then her teeth slowly sank into his soft flesh, his hot blood splashing across her tongue and down her throat. Her whole body throbbed at the taste of his blood, her blood boiled in her veins and her heart pounded in her chest. Colors around her became brighter, the subtle light from the candles became blinding, she shut her eyes tightly as her head started to spin and her body began to tremble as she reached her peak and soared higher than she ever had before. She clung to Sam tightly as she felt like an earthquake tumbled through the room, her teeth separating from his shoulder as she threw her head back and screamed loudly with each wave after wave of extreme bliss that ripped through her. Sam growled deeply as he watched his woman cum again and again, bringing him close to his own completion. He didn't want her to come down from her bliss as he took what he needed from her. Setting Moon Ch. 12 Lilliana was slowly coming down from her climax as she felt Sam sink his teeth deep in her shoulder and her climax came back stronger than ever. She screamed harshly as she came again and felt his thick seed spill out deep inside of her. Their husky moans filled the room as they both came down from the heavens, both of their bodies trembling with the aftershocks of their lovemaking as Sam slowly sunk them down onto the pillows, their bodies never separating as they kissed each other lightly. "Thank you my love." Sam said quietly, Lilliana laid quiet her breathing ragged; Sam opened his eyes and looked at her flush face. "Are you alright?" Sam asked. "I feel wonderful." Lilliana breathed. Sam smiled and quietly said, "I thought you might have been shaken by the earthquake." Lilliana's eyes shot open, her body tensing slightly, "There was an actual earthquake, I thought that was just in my head. "No and by how you looked when it happened I would have to say it came from you. Magic was literally vibrating off of you." Sam said. "Biting you was a very intense and very pleasurable experience." Lilliana said relaxing and closing her eyes again. "It was for me too." Sam said. "I would like to let you feel something." Lilliana said and Sam nodded his head and then felt Lilliana open their link and pour her love through it. He returned her love with his own but then felt something else. He could feel the lives of his children growing inside of her, he could hear their heartbeats flutter softly. "Oh my god." Sam said quietly. "What should we name them Sam?" Lilliana asked. "I have always liked Ben and Ally." "I think I like Bliss and Keverne." Sam said. "Perfect." Lilliana yawned and started to drift off to sleep. "I love you." "I love you." Sam said and started to fall into sleep as well. Setting Moon She woke, thrusting herself upward fearing she was still locked in that cell, but then screamed as her whole body throbbed and seared in pain. Quickly she laid back down, as she saw nurses and doctors rush in to make sure she was ok. Her vision blurred from tears that swelled there as pain surged through her body. She wiped at her eyes to clear her vision, there was a doctor standing next to her and after he checked her wounds, he stole her attention as she heard his gentle voice "Seems like you popped a couple of stitches, were going to have to put a couple new ones in, but how are you feeling?" The pain had died down a bit. "I feel.....like I got ran over by a truck. How bad is it? What did I need stiches for?" She said looking down at herself curiously. He was putting the new stiches in and she cringed as he pressed down on her stomach. "You had some internal bleeding, but we rushed you into surgery and were able to stop the bleeding. You have a lot of internal and external bruising and had a concussion, but tests show that your brain activity is back to normal and you should recover with minimal nerve damage. But for now you will need plenty of rest." He went to turn for the door, but stopped, turning slightly to look back at Lilliana, "Oh and the police are here to take your statement, but I think you should get some rest so I will tell them to come back later." "Thank you.", was all she could say as the doctor left and a nurse came in carrying a tray of food. "Oh, thank you, I'm starving; do you know how long I was out?" The nurse looked at Lilliana as if she was confused; Lilliana guessed that she was thinking that was something the doctor should have told her. But she smiled "You were out for about five days including the surgery. I was worried that you weren't going to wake up, you know with that big bruise on the back of your head, but the doctor says your fine now, so nothing to worry about." She was a vibrant young girl with a bounce in her step. Lilliana was confused as she reached up to feel the back of her head and got an instant headache just from barely touching it, going back to her plate of chicken, mashed potatoes and corn, she just couldn't remember getting hit on the head, but she was in so much pain she couldn't remember everything, right. She gobbled up her food as the nurse watched contently, making sure she ate all of it. When she was done the nurse took the tray and disappeared out of the room, so that she could sleep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two days later, she awoke around one in the morning because of the pain, she'd had another nightmare about that cold dark cell and the rape and torture that happened there, but she couldn't remember being raped so maybe it was just her own imagination toying with her. She was starting to get used to them so this time she didn't jolt out of bed as she woke. Thankfully, she didn't want to rip any more stiches out. She was looking around her bed for the call button just when a nurse walked in. "Oh, hi and how are we doing?" called from the nurse as she walked towards the right side of Lilliana's bed. She was an older woman who looked like she had worked the night shift for way to long. "Better I guess but I'm in a bit of pain right now, is there anything you can do for that?" She was trying to sit up more in bed but the shooting pain in her right side stopped her. She wasn't a big fan of pills but if there was a time to take them it was now. "Um yes, just give me a second, I'll be right back." The nurse quickly left the room and just as quickly was back at her side. "Now this shouldn't make you sleepy so if it does you just press the button for me, ok." She said in a very enthusiastic voice handing her some pills and water. Then she quickly left the room. Moments later Lilliana was feeling better and was able to move just enough to reach her chart sitting at the end of the bed. She was very curious to see exactly what was wrong with her. As she flipped through the pages she found a report about her physical they had done after dealing with any major damages. It read: Multiple concussions, three broken ribs, and three fractured ribs, two broken toes and abrasions to the legs, arms, back, abdomen, chest, and back of the head, slight burns on the right and left hands. And multiple cuts, scrapes and bruising found when using the rape kit. Also what seem to be bite marks on the neck from what seems to have been a large dog of some sort? 'What..., ok so I was raped, but bite marks, had the wolves bit me, I just don't see how or why they would, could...." She was so confused she couldn't even finish the thought. She put it aside and was skimming over the rest of the material when she noticed a woman with blond hair in a business suit staring at her through the window, the woman quickly turned on her heels and walked away. She hadn't recognized the woman "Why would she be staring at me?" she said out loud to no one but herself. She started to look for the remote to the TV, but was interrupted by the nurse entering the room again, asking "Do you feel well enough to talk to the police now?" "Yes, of course, please send them in." the nurse left sending the cops in to take Lilliana's statement. She noticed as soon as they entered that something felt familiar about them but she just couldn't place it. "So where do you want to start?" Lilliana said as the cops walked over to the bed one standing on each side. 'This is weird, why aren't they saying anything?' she thought as they looked her over. After a moment, from the cop on the left came "Well miss, how about we start with, how you got out of that cell?" "Well I just got lucky I guess, but wait how did you know about that you're the first ones I'm telling it to?" suddenly goose bumps were up her arms and down her back. "Well, when you first came in you were mumbling about it while they fixed you up in the ER." Came from the cop on the right. That sounded reasonable but she felt like she couldn't trust them, like they were making it up as they went along. From the cop on the left came "Yeah you were talking about the cell, and being drugged and raped." 'Wait I just found out about the rape even in that state I wouldn't have been talking about it, shit.' She was then certain that they were from that prison/factory that she had escaped from, just come to find out what she knows and probably kill her after just to make sure. She reached for the call button but felt her wrist being crushed under the strength of a big hand. She then remembered why they were familiar, these were the two who grabbed her from her jeep and brought her to that prison. She tried to remove her hand from his grip, but he was just too strong, and if he gripped any tighter she just knew he would break her wrist. She relaxed it as to not cause herself any more pain, but as soon as she did she felt the other man hitting her in the stomach, she screamed as the old pain melded with the new making it all the worse. "You know I can't tell you how much we enjoyed beating and raping you while you were all drugged up." Came from the man who had punched her in the gut, he was the one she had head butt just before he whipped her. The other man being the one she elbowed in the face as they were trying to take her. She couldn't breathe as she felt blood dripping down her side; he had a knife and had cut her right above her right breast, he leaned down to lap at the blood with a tongue that seemed way to long for a human but then he wasn't human they were werewolves. He then threw her covers, pulled up her gown and started slicing at her legs laughing all the while, then moved up towards her center spreading her legs with strength that she couldn't muster. Soon she felt the cold metal right above her clit. "It's just too bad they sent us to kill you, but we figured we would have some fun first." From the right and then from the left came, "If that's alright with you?" He laughed and she knew she had to do something but she was losing blood fast and felt too weak. She tried to grab at him, tried to fight, but then felt the sharp knife plunge deep into the thigh of her left leg. She screamed but no one came, she knew she was going to die she pleaded to them "Stop, please, stop." But they ignored her quiet plea. Tears fell down her face as she awaited her death and whatever else they had planned. Suddenly someone entered the room, but she couldn't see them through the tears swelling in her eyes. She was released from the men's grasp, just as she heard one blood curdling scream and then another. She was fading fast as a man ran to her side all she could hear was "Its ok you're safe now, with me. I'm going to get some help....Wait, stay with me; you can't go I've only just found you."