Susan opened the door and was surprised to see Natalie with several men sitting in the dark. The light from a projector was the only light to be seen in the room.

"I am sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt." She moved to close the door, hopeful that she wouldn't get in trouble later for interrupting whatever was going on.

"Come here, Susan." Upon hearing not Natalie's but Mark's voice, she shut the door and walked further into the room. She stopped by the chair he was sitting in.

"Yes, your majesty?" Natalie had told her that she could call him Mark in private, but in the company of others, he was to be addressed as his majesty. She had a few other things that she would have like to have called him when instead of answering her he dragged her onto his lap.

"I haven't seen her before. Is she new, Markus?" Susan didn't recognize the man who spoke, but he must have been on good standing to be able to call Mark by his name.

"Yes, Natalie found her. She's only been with us for a few months."

"Natalie has excellent taste." Oh God, that was the last thing that Susan wanted or needed. She didn't need anyone else interested in her.

"Most excellent taste." Mark moved a piece of Susan's hair behind her ear. "Unfortunately, Susan has an ornery streak in her that we have to work on. Isn't that right, Susan?"

"Yes, sir." She had a feeling now was not the time to be disobedient, but all she wanted was to excuse herself and grab a book out of the library before going back to her room.

"She seems to be well enough behaved." The man smiled at her playfully.

"Susan, this is Aegir. He rules a second island in the Bermuda, but mostly he rules the waters between here and there. One of his men is interested in a young lady, but since their island doesn't have a functional compound he needs not only Aegir's approval but mine as well." Susan didn't want to hear this. She didn't want someone else sharing her misfortunate. "So tell me about this woman."

Everyone turned their attention to the man by the screen at the front of the room. Susan realized that she wasn't going where until Mark was ready to leave. Susan could tell the man at the front of the room was definitely use to being listened to. Probably someone at the top of Aegir's chain of command.

"Catherine Ama Whiteshire. Born to Kairavini Whiteshire, also known as Vini, and Kyle Whiteshire. She is currently in her second year at South Caroline, rather indecisive on her major. She's taken classes in everything from electrical engineering to marine biology. 3.9 GPA. Works part time at Macy's. Volunteers 20 hours a week at various places."

Susan didn't want to hear anymore. Catherine sounded like she had such a bright future ahead of her. Why couldn't they just leave her alone?

"Dad." Susan's attention was drawn to one of the young men addressing Mark.

"What is it, James?" Mark really didn't care who the girl was. As long as she didn't cause any trouble when she came here, he didn't care about her staying.

"I think she might be mine."

"What?"

"I knew Whiteshire when we served together, and the timeline of her birth Vini would have got pregnant right around the time we split up. It's possible that she's mine and not Whiteshire's."

Mark's interest in the girl had just gone way up. Females being born were rare enough, but there than Annie there hadn't been a female raptor born in over two hundred years. If she was James, she would be his first granddaughter.

"I've heard enough. Unless anyone has an objection to her coming, an extraction team can be sent for her when you are ready for her to come."

"Thank you, Sir."

Susan was getting darn sick of this. She wished Aegir and all of his people would leave. Since the night in the library, other than the bathroom, she had not been let out of Natalie or Mark's sight. She didn't understand what the big deal was. Natalie had finally told her that Mark didn't want one of them trying to steal her.

It was ridiculous. She wasn't going with these people. She didn't want to be with them anymore than she wanted to be with Mark and Natalie.

The doors to the dining room opened, and Susan to turned to watch four men walk towards the table. By the looks of the camo pants and the black shirts, she was guessing they were the extraction team. The forming bruises on their face and the one's reset news didn't look good. Susan wondered what sort of trouble they had gotten themselves into.

"Trouble?" Mark sounded a bit amused at the whole situation.

"We were misinformed. We were told that we were simply picking up a 20 year old college student. We were not informed that she had any combat training."

"Sir, I swear I couldn't find anything about this in any of the research I did on her. Nothing in the observations."

"It's perfectly fine. Is she hurt?" Mark wasn't concerned about the extraction team. He was more worried about her accumulating to the island, especially if she was James' child, than one of them getting hurt.

"There may be some bruising, but nothing that won't clear up in a few days." He lifted the file in his hands. "The doctor asked me to give you this."

Mark took it and read the contents once. Then he read it again. The third time he read it very slowly. Surely, it couldn't right. There had to be some sort of mistake.

"What is it, Markus?" Aegir asked, expecting there to be something seriously wrong with the girl. Would they be shipping her back? Despite how hard it was for Aegir to admit, his people and Markus's needed breeders, even if they were human. The fertility rate for both sexes was low among their people.

Mark handed the file over to Aegir and waited for his reaction. Aegir read it repeatedly, finding it just as hard to believe. How was it possible?

"What's wrong, your majesty?" It seemed like the appropriate response at the time. Worse case scenario she got a lecture. Best case she got sent to her room to be alone.

"It would seem that Aegir and I share a common descendent."

"What makes you think that?"

"Everyone who comes here has blood tests ran. DNA has been standard for the past few decades. According to hers, James is her biological father. It also came back with Aegir and me as grandfathers. Aegir, any ideas?"

"What was her maternal grandmother's name?"

"It's Susan Reynolds. She was a Jamison before she got married."

"Ah, Susan. Is she still alive?"

"Yes."

"Sir, I am sorry to interrupt, but Catherine is missing."

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Catherine's feet hit against the ground. She stopped long enough to catch her breath and to listen to her surroundings. An alarm had sounded somewhere. She was guessing it was for her. She had a good thirty minute head start before it had sounded.

What was this place? Who had gone through all this trouble? And what the hell did they want with her?

She started running again when she heard footsteps approaching. She needed somewhere to hide. She couldn't keep going for much longer. Oh why had she quit running every morning with Anja?

She found a tree that provided enough cover, but it didn't look too hard to climb. It wasn't long before two men walked below the tree. She waited until the echo of their footsteps was only a distant memory before she dropped down out of the tree.

She started running and didn't get far before she was surrounded. When they went after her, Catherine reacted by fighting back. The fight seemed to last forever until final something hit her in the back of the head and the world went black.

She awoke to find four men carrying her into a room. Despite all of the spinning the room was doing, she could make out that it was a library. She timed their movements enough to move her leg enough to pull it out of the one man's arm and kick him in the back.

The man uttered out a few curses before trying to grab her leg again. Apparently the curses upset someone enough that they shouted at the men to let Catherine down.

The three men who still had hold on her sit her down gently. The one grabbed her arm and stirred her towards the men that were sitting in chairs next to the fire. Catherine paled before she sat herself in shock.

A/N: Let me know what you think. For those of you reading I'll Wake Up Tomorrow, this is the first chapter of Love is all I want for you. The two stories will occasionally overlap, but each will take its own path.