Disclaimer: I don't own any of Sherri's characters featured in this, I'm just borrowing them for a bit.

Eve sighed in relief as her and her family pulled into New Orleans, and it was only a short time till they reached Sanctuary. The group of bikers pulled up outside of the club, each turning their roaring engines off. Silence filled Eve's ears as she too turned off her own bike, a black custom built Ducati with blue ghost flames. She removed her helmet and let her long brown locks fall down over her shoulders. She looked over to her right and smiled at her younger sister Kelly. They were here with their Uncle Kenny who was brining them to live with the Peltiers who owned Sanctuary. Their parents and younger brother had been killed, leaving them with no family and no protection. So their mother's brother, who had shown up and helped Eve to dispel the Daimons, brought them to New Orleans. The Peltiers were good friends of his, Eve remembered them from when she was younger. She used to play with some of the older boys, meaning wrestling around in the house.

The youngest two were only a few years older than Kelly, giving her some potential friends in her age group. The good thing was they were all bears; Kelly took after their mother and was Katagarian, but Eve took after her father. Eve was Arcadian; she had a human heart instead of an animal one. That fact was always something that stuck between her and her sister, it has only been a few years since Kelly has been able to take human form. Eve was about a hundred and ten years old, while her sister was only twenty four years old. She sometimes wondered if she were a mistake, since she was born so long before her siblings. But her mother and father had loved her with all their hearts, especially her father. She has always been his pride and joy, a little Arcadian girl that was the spitting image of him. She had to hold back a few tears as she thought of her parents, she felt so empty inside without them.

Eve climbed off her bike and placed her helmet on the back of it, then took her sisters hand as they walked together behind their Uncle. Kelly was all she had left and she would die before she let anyone hurt her. So she always kept her sister close to her, only trusting a few people to guard Kelly when she couldn't. They walked through the saloon type doors into the club, one of Mama Lo's many sons was sitting next to the door. He was looking down at some papers so she couldn't get a clear look at his face but she thought she recognized him.

"Alain?" She asked softly, seeing her uncle talking to Papa Peltier out of the corner of her eye. The man at the look up at her and gave her a cross look, like she had 

interrupted something very important. But as recognition sparked in his eyes, a warm smile spread across his face.

"Eve? I that really you? Damn you grew up girl, you look good." He said to her as he stood up and wrapped his arms around her shoulders, giving her a brotherly hug.

"Thanks Alain." She tried to him a bright smile but all she could manage was a small sad one. "I just wish I was here under better circumstances."

Alain looked down at her with a sympathetic smile before giving her another firm hug. When he let her go she looked over to see Mama Lo and Papa Bear making their way over to her. Along with the rest of their sons and their one daughter, she recognized Zar and the quads but all the rest were new to her eyes. She knew the quads were only a few years older than her, for they were both in their late twenties when they last saw each other.

She pulled away from Alain when Mama Lo approached her, stepping right into the woman's open arms. Kelly was still clinging to her one hand so she could only put one arm around Mama. She let loose her hold on Mama to turn he heard towards Kelly, pulling the girl closer to them.

"Mama this is my younger sister, Kelly. She's about the same age as your youngest sons, which is why you never met her before." Eve said, letting go of Kelly's hand and wrapping her arm around the girl's shoulders.

"I remember your mother telling me about her and your brother a few years back. Where is the little one?" Mama asked, she knew that her friends had died but not of what happened to the young cub.

A small sob escaped Kelly's lips as she buried her head into Eve's shoulder. Eve held her tighter as she too fought to hold back tears. She would not let herself cry, she had to be strong for Kelly. She looked at Mama with sad eyes, but no tears. "The Daimons got him too, I couldn't save him. I tried but they just swarmed around us and they tore him from my arms. He was so little, for the gods' sake he was only a few months old." She put her face in Kelly's hair, feeling the girl shaking uncontrollably.

"Let's get them into the house." She heard Papa Bear say, before Alain began to lead them towards the entrance through the kitchen. Once they were inside of the house, they were lead to the living room. "Please take a seat girls, I know you have to be tired as 

well as shaken. Eve sat down the couch while Kelly sat down beside her, she put her head on Eve's shoulder.

Eve looked up at Mama, "Could you please take Kelly somewhere to lie down? She didn't sleep at all last night due to having nightmares."

"Sure sweetie, Aimee can take her up to the room we had prepared for her." Mama said, gesturing to her daughter.

"Thank you." Eve said as she watched Aimee lead Kelly away, knowing that the best thing for her right now was rest. She trusted the Peltiers with her life and her sister's; she knew they would never betray them.

"Eve I would like for you to meet the rest of my sons, that were born after you and your parents had moved on." Mama said gesturing to each of her sons and saying their names. "There's Griffe, Serre, Etienne, Cody, and Kyle." Each of them nodded at her as their name was said. She heard the door to the house open and heavy footsteps on the wooden floor. In walked the only other Arcadian male bear that she knew, besides her father.

"Of course you know Colt my dear." Mama Lo said, looking fondly at her adopted son.

"Yeah, I remember him." She couldn't help but fell her cheeks redden slightly, Colt had tried to hard to earn her affection when they were younger. But she was the ever coy one and never returned his feelings. In fact she made him rather jealous because it was one of his brothers that had earned her affection instead. She face got even redder at that thought, and she to her left to see Dev with a small smile giving her a wink. Dev was the first man that she had ever liked in more than a friends way, he was her first kiss. Though there was never relationship between them because she had moved on with her parents shortly after.

She looked back over at Colt and couldn't help but check him out, he had definitely grew up since the last time she saw him. He was all rippling muscles and one hundred percent male. Thinking about that only brought a small stray thought to the forefront of her brain; she would be in heat in just a week or two. She almost groaned at the thought but swallowed it; she didn't need everyone knowing that small fact. Maybe she could lock herself in her room when it came; she definitely didn't want the boys to know that she was over a hundred years old and still a virgin. Her father made sure of that fact, chasing away any and all would be suitors.


"So Colt, how ya been?" She asked him, still not feeling like her normal self which wasn't chipper not definitely was not this depressed. It had been four months since the attack and she was still feeling as empty as a drum inside.

"Better than you I bet, how come you didn't call us when it happened? We could have helped." He said, the anger over not being the Sentinel he was suppose to be in his voice.

"Because there was nothing you could have done, there was just too many of them. They swarmed all over us, if my Uncle hadn't shown up when he had they would have most likely gotten Kelly as well. I'm still healing some of the damage I took protecting her."

Okay, there's what I have to far because it's late and I'm tired. But I'm still deciding who Eve's hero should be, it will be one of the boys at Sanctuary though. Give me some ideas of who you would like to help me along. Thanx -Poyson