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Catherine's POV

One thing about my parents that is different from my friend's parents is that they are always smiling, holding hands and kissing but it wasn't always like that. When daddy died, it took mommy a long time to smile again and when she did start smiling it wasn't the same smile that she had when daddy was alive. I knew that she missed him. I know that I missed him. I missed hearing him call me chipmunk, I missed how he used to tickle me until I was laughing so hard I almost peed my pants, I missed how he used to read me my bedtime stories and make different voices for the different people in the story, I missed how he kissed my head and I missed his cold hugs. When I hug mommy she is always warm but whenever I hug or touch daddy he is always so cold. I want to keep hugging him until he warms up but he said that will never happen because he is a vampire, whatever that is.

Mommy started smiling again when Jacob started coming around, but it wasn't the same smile that she always had. It wasn't as big. Jacob was always nice to me and Chase but he wasn't daddy. One night after I supposed to be in bed, I snuck out of my room and I saw mommy and Jacob on the couch kissing, like she used to kiss daddy. I was so mad at her because she stopped loving daddy and started loving Jacob instead. I decided right then and there that I wouldn't love Jacob ever because he wasn't my daddy. He was nice enough and he bought us presents and took us out for ice cream but I still missed daddy.

When Jacob kidnapped me and Chase I knew that I had to be brave like my dad and Chase was really scared cause he was just a kid and I was his big sister and it's my job to protect him. I knew that I was strong like daddy was so I decided that I would surprise him and kick him really hard then Chase and I could get away from him until mommy found us. When Jacob came back in the room I kicked him and I kicked him hard and it was so awesome. He actually went flying across the room. I was so mad that he saying lies about my dad that I kept kicking him until mommy and Connor came in. She was crying and scared but I told her that we were brave then the best thing ever happened. My daddy came in the room. I was surprised at first and then so happy. I had missed him so much. Chase was afraid of him but I knew that Jacob was a liar.

When we got home mommy and daddy sat us down and gave us a talk. They told us about good demons, bad demons and I finally learned what a vampire was. He told us that a really long time ago he used to be a very bad man who drank people's blood, ewww, that's just gross, but he told us that he was a good man who helped people. Chase finally wasn't scared anymore and we all were a happy family once again.

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"Wake up birthday girl." My dad was always so stinking happy in the mornings.

"Go away." I mumbled."

"Come on chipmunk. It's your traditional birthday breakfast, your favorite chocolate chip pancakes." Dad said. Every year for as long as I can remember dad has brought me chocolate chip pancakes in bed on my birthday. I just never had the heart to tell him that pancakes weren't my favorite anymore.

"Morning daddy." I said as I sat up yawning. He leaned down and kissed me.

"Happy birthday sweetheart."

"Thanks." He sat down on the bed next to me.

"I can't believe that my little girl is eleven." He said the same thing every year, he just changes the age.

"Me too." I ate in silence for a few minutes waiting for him to give me my gift from him, same as he does every year.

"Are your pancakes good?" I nodded cause my mouth was full. "Good. I'm glad." He handed me a small box. Probably jewelry like every year. He was so predictable but I loved that about him. "I hope you like it chipmunk." I quickly opened the box and found a small pair of stud earrings. "You can get your ears double pierced."

"Really? Mom said yes?"

"She did. She's going to take you later today to get them done."

"Thank you, thank you thank you." I said happily as I wrapped my arms around my dad's neck. "I love you so much."

"I love you too chipmunk. Happy Birthday."

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Later that afternoon mom and I went to the mall to get my ears pierced. I was so excited.

"Mom they are so pretty. Thanks for picking them out."

"How did you know that I picked them out?"

"Daddy has no taste in jewelry." Mom started laughing and walked into a lingerie store. "Moooom, I hate this store."

"Sweetheart, we are here for you." I could feel my face turning red.

"No way. Not happening."

"Sweetheart, you are getting breasts and you need to start wearing a bra."

"Mom." I whined.

"You're growing up and becoming a woman."

"Will mine be big like yours?'

"It's a possibility."

"Great." I groaned and mom laughed.

Two hours later we walked out of the store with a few bags of new bra's and underwear for both me and mom. I'll never understand why she has to have so many. When we got home I changed into my outfit and new bra (which I hated) for my birthday party at the hotel where my parents work.

"Catherine, let's go." Chase yelled

"I'm coming." I came downstairs and Chase was waiting impatiently in the living room.

"It's about time." Chase muttered

"Shut up you little twerp."

"You're a twerp."

"Am not."

"Am too"

"Knock it off you two." Dad said as he came into the room.

"She called me a twerp." Chase whined.

"Catherine what do you say to your brother?"

"Sorry." I mumbled.

"Let's go." Mom said as she came into the living room holding my cake.

We drove over to the hotel, mom and dad talking and Chase and I sulking. He always got me in trouble. When we walked in all of my aunts, uncles and cousins wished me happy birthday. I love my family but I really wanted a party with my friends from school but because of all the weird stuff that tends to happen to my family, I was only allowed to have my best friend come and stay the night.

The lights were off in the hotel and I had just finished blowing out the eleven candles on my cake when it happened. Something came up behind me and grabbed me. I screamed and the lights came back on and I was face to face with a vampire. Because he grabbed me by surprise and had my arms pinned to my side there was nothing that I could do.

"Happy Birthday." He growled before he sunk his teeth into my neck.

"Catherine." Mom screamed. I started to get really tired when I felt my dad grabbing me and handing me off to my brother, Connor, who ran me over to my mom.

My mom shoved something against my neck and held it real tight. All of my cousins were behind the desk and even though I was really tired and wanted to sleep I kept my eyes open and watched Daddy, Connor, Uncle Gunn and Uncle Wes stake all of the vampires. There had to be at least ten of them in the lobby. They were all dust within minutes.

"Are you okay chipmunk?" Daddy asked me and I started crying. He picked me up and held me while I sobbed into his chest. Mommy rubbed my back until I calmed down. I don't know why I was crying. It just felt like the thing to do. When mommy tired to take the towel off of my neck I flinched and buried my face in my dad's neck.

"Baby, let me see." She begged

"No it's hurts." I whined.

"I'll be gentle. I promise. I just need to put some medicine on it. "

"No, leave me alone."

"Catherine, honey look at me." I did as I was asked. "Whenever I get hurt and you know that I get a lot, I always let mommy take care of me and put medicine on and I always feel better and besides if you don't let mommy put medicine on your bite, do you know what will happen?"

"My head will fall off?" I guessed and daddy laughed.

"Nothing that bad chipmunk. What will happen is it will get infected then you will have to go to the doctor and get a shot. You don't want to get a shot do you?"

"I hate shots." I hiccupped.

"I know you do, so why don't you let mommy take care of your bite okay?"

"It will hurt." I started to cry again.

"It probably will but only for a minute. Can you be brave for daddy huh? I know that you are brave and I'll hold your hand."

"Okay." Daddy nodded to mommy and took my hand.

"When it hurts squeeze my hand as hard as you can and remember that you can't hurt me." Mommy came over, took the towel off of my neck, and began cleaning the blood off. It hurt a little and I squeezed daddy's hand. After it was all clean she put the medicine on.

"Owwww." I cried because it stung and burned really bad.

"Squeeze my hand baby." I did but it still hurts.

"It hurts." I laid my head on his chest and with the hand that I wasn't squeezing he rubbed my back.

"I know sweetheart, I know."

"There, all done." Mommy said as she taped the bandage on my neck. "You were very brave." She kissed my head.

"Mommy I want some cake and ice cream." Chase said.

"Are you okay baby?" Mom asked and I nodded. "Do you want some ice cream and cake? It's chocolate, your favorite."

"No. I'm not hungry."

"Are you sure?" Daddy asked

"Yeah."

"Is it okay if we cut your cake?" I nodded. "I love you baby girl."

"I love you too mommy."

"You do know that Brianna won't be able to come over don't you?" Daddy asked

"Why?"

"Chipmunk, you were bitten by a vampire and you lost a lot of blood. You need to rest tonight. She can come over next weekend."

"This isn't fair. It's my birthday and I want Brianna to come over."

"Chipmunk, you're right it's not fair but you need to rest and get better. You'll have more fun next weekend when you feel better."

"No, I don't want to wait until next weekend." I yelled.

"Catherine Suzanne, you do not yell at me." I couldn't think of a response.

"Arrrgh." I groaned and pulled myself out of his lap and attempted to stomp away from him but I didn't get very far because I got dizzy and I would have fallen but of course daddy was right behind me catching me, as he always did.

"This is what I was trying to say Catherine. So you understand why Brianna can't come over now?"

"Yes, but I still hate it." I mumbled.

"Now, how about some birthday cake?"

"Maybe a little piece."

"That's my girl." Mom must have known that I would have changed my mind because she walked over with my piece of cake and ice cream. After I finished my cake and ice cream I called Brianna and told her I got sick and she couldn't come over. We planned for her to come over next weekend. An hour later, we packed up my presents, daddy carried me to the car and I fell asleep on the way home only waking briefly when I mommy and daddy kissed me and told me that they loved me.

"Love you too." I mumbled and quickly fell back asleep.

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Angel's POV

I stood in the doorway of Catherine's room, staring at her, not wanting to let that precious creature out of my sight. I should have protected her, I'm her father and it's my job to protect her from everything, especially vampires. I should have smelled them; I should have sensed their presence. When the lights came back on and I saw that monster drinking from my little girl, I was so scared and angry. I thought that I might lose her and I couldn't lose her, not my sweet baby. When I got her away from that vampire, I seriously considered torturing him for a long while, but since the kids were there I decided to just simply stake him and be done with it. I wiped a tear that had fallen when I felt Cordy's arms around my waist and her head on my shoulder.

"Baby, stop with the guilt trip." She whispered.

"I can't help it. I shouldn't of him bite her."

"It wasn't your fault. We were celebrating our daughter's birthday giving all of our attention to her, as it should be. She got bit, it shouldn't have happened but it did and she is going to be okay and right now, that's all that matters. Now come on, let's go to bed." She was right, she was always right but that didn't mean that I wouldn't continue to feel guilty and brood about it because hell, it's what I do best. I walked over to kiss her again, making sure that she was really there and once I was satisfied that she was I headed off to my room.

Cordy was in the bathroom when I got to the room so I stripped down to my boxers and climbed into bed. She joined me a few minutes later and laid her head on my chest. I immediately snaked my arm around her.

"I can't believe that it's been eleven years." Cordy whispered.

"Time goes so fast and that's saying a lot since I've been around almost three hundred years."

"Geez you're getting old."

"Very funny."

"I thought so." She said smugly and I leaned down and kissed that smug look right off of her face.

"Please tell me I'm wrong, but when I was hugging Catherine, I think I felt a bra."

"You did. She is eleven after all. She is becoming a woman. Probably within the next year she will be starting her period."

"Oh, God, please stop. Don't talk like that."

"Face it. Our girl is growing up." I grimaced. I wish that she would stay young and innocent forever.

"You are cruel woman, very cruel."

"But you love me."

"Damn straight baby. I do love you." She rolled herself on top of me and kissed me hard and it only took me a matter of seconds to get turned on, as it always does. God, I love having a permanent soul. If we made love every day for twenty four hours a day it wouldn't be enough. I quickly flipped her on her back and took control of the situation. Every time I was inside of her, I was perfectly happy, something I no longer had to fear. As I felt her walls contract against me I knew how lucky I was to have this amazing woman in my life.

I don't know how long we had been sleeping before I heard the screams coming from Catherine's room. Luckily Cordy and I had gotten into the habit of getting dressed after we make love, which was most every night, so I was able to quickly run to her room, but honestly if my kids are in danger, I would run naked to save them. I burst into her room, ready to kill something, but she was alone, thrashing around in her bed, apparently having a nightmare. I was at her bedside in a second, gently shaking her awake.

"Catherine, sweetheart. Wake up." Her eyes fluttered opened.

"Daddy?" She mumbled sleepily.

"Yeah chipmunk, I'm here and so is mommy." She burst into tears as she wrapped her arms around me.

"You died again."

"It was just a dream."

"The vampires that got me today they staked you and you turned to dust like they did." She sobbed into my chest.

"Shhhh, its okay honey. It was just a bad dream. I'm right here. I'm not dead." She continued to sob. "Catherine, baby look at me." She raised her tear stained face to mine. "See, I'm right here." She finally calmed down. Cordy and I stayed with her until she fell back asleep, or so we thought.

"Can I sleep with you?" Came her small voice from her bed when we got to the door. I looked at Cordy and she nodded so I picked Catherine up and carried her to our room. She snuggled in between the two of us.

"Goodnight." She mumbled

"Goodnight." Cordy and I responded and my two girls drifted off to sleep.

I on the other hand wasn't able to fall back asleep due to the rhythmic snoring coming from my wife and daughter. It had been so long since Catherine had slept with us and I had forgotten that she was a crazy sleeper, just like her mother. After being kicked, and slapped numerous times, I finally gave up and ended up on the couch where I could enjoy peace and quiet, but I wouldn't have things any other way.

Well here it is, the first chapter. What did you think? Please review and let me know. Thanks for reading.