Prologue

3.5 years after the events of the epilogue of 'The Power of Draco'

With a movement of her hand, she pulled the gear shift and the car stopped halted by its breaks. Rose Long looked over to her passenger and wondered what he was thinking at this moment, they had stopped in front of a large palatial home, whose inhabitant could change both of their lives. They had left New York City for a two hour drive up to East Hampton in Suffolk Country, they had come for this moment, if everything would go as they wanted then Erin Hutchison's mother, Johnny's Grandmother would be living here and she would know where to find her. Rose had promised her son-in-law that she was going to help him find his mother and she would until they either knew where she was and were they could find her, or where she was buried.

"Are you okay?" Rose asked softly wishing that she wouldn't have to drive back home in the rain that was pouring down on the landscape. "Do you want me to go up there with you?"

Johnny shook his head not even sure if he wanted to do this right now, his eyes were still trained on the front door of the home. "I'm not sure, do you think she'll even know who I am?"

"She was a senior member of the Huntsclan, you'd have to have one hell of a memory to do that job correctly, so I'm sure that she would be able to see Erin in you," Rose supplied. "She'll love you honey"

He turned and looked over at her smiling. "Well then what are we waiting for?"

Steadying her breath she paused for a moment and considered what to do, and then she opened the door and jumped out of the car quickly slamming it behind her. Then not even waiting for Johnny she ran up the long walkway that divided the trimly cut manicured lawn, the heels of her black knee high boots clicked against the pavement as she ran to avoid the rain until she reached the safety of the front porch and the awning. She looked back and saw Johnny still in the car staring at her as if she had three heads, groaning as she caught her breath she realized that he was chickening out of this. How dangerous could a woman in her sixties be? The answer came to her in an ironic twist, Ms. Hutchison had been a senior member of the Huntsclan for thirty five years before she left. That was incredibly dangerous, but Rose could handle her, she after all had been the Huntsgirl and student of the Huntsman himself

She walked forward and pressed the door bell, her heart was beating fast as she saw a figure approaching the door through the stain glass on door itself. Finally her breath stopped when the door opened and a woman who looked to be in her mid sixties opened the door. Rose could see how this woman was her best friend's mother, she looked just like her separated by the fact that they had to be thirty years younger, and the fact that the woman's green eyes looked worn, and her hair was mostly gray with only tinges of black in it. She thought how stunning it could be that the this woman's looks were passed down to her children and grandchildren and only one of her great-grandchildren. Rose didn't need any confirmation that this was her, this was Erin's mother. "Uhm…would you happen to be Jackie Hutchison… Erin Hutchison's mother…?"

"Yes I am," Jackie replied her green eyes widening. "If you know her why didn't you go to her?"

Rose shook her head. "It's been a long time, I was a friend of hers…at the academy…"

That seemed to snap something in the woman's eyes, she reached forward and snatched Rose's arm pulling her into the home. When the door shut behind her she felt herself being pressed up back up against the door, and then her eyes bugged when she saw the woman had brandished a knife and it was now being held against her throat. "I am not going back! Neither is she!"

"Mrs. Hutchison! I'm not here to bring you back," Rose asked with panic in her voice. "I left myself, I knew Erin…I'm Rose did she ever talk about me, we were best friends, please you have to believe me, I'm just trying to find her"

Jackie's narrow face stoned up and her eyes narrowed. "I don't believe you, I'm not going sell her out, I told her I would keep her location a secret, tell me something that only she would know! Or I will kill you and ship you back to the Huntsman in pieces…"

"She had a boy, Johnny! Looked just like her, he's out in my car right now!" Rose explained feverishly.

Then her hand dropped and her grip that had held Rose to the wall dropped and the younger woman dropped to her feet. Rose thought the look on the woman's face was that as if she had seen a ghost, she put her hands on her hips and looked at Jackie. The woman had stowed the knife into the pocket of her jeans, and now she was looking down at the floor and the shock and surprised radiated from her. Rose took a minute to look around the home and she found it quite quaint, the giant fireplace in the living room was crackling, a large television was going with a news program. And most of all she found the heat in the room incredibly comforting.

"How do you know my grandsons name?" Rose finally heard the other woman say meekly.

Rose turned back to Jackie with a flat look on her face. "He's my son in law, he married my daughter"

"That's great," Jackie sputtered with smile and faint laugh. "Y-You said that he was on in your car?"

She nodded, and pointed towards the door. "He would have been with me, if he didn't get scared at the last minute, I'm just trying to help him find Erin, his father didn't even tell him she existed, I did that…I promised him that I would help him find her, can you tell me?"

"I'd prefer to tell him myself," Jackie trained her eyes on Rose. "Can you get him to come in?"

Rose smiled. "I think I can try, and by the way, that's a nice grip you got on you"

This time when Rose had gone back outside of the house, she had the blessing of an umbrella to keep her shielded from the rain. She had to literally pull Johnny out of the car, he needed to meet his Grandmother, because that was the only way that she was going to tell them were to find Erin. With one of her hands she had a tight grip on Johnny's arm and the other she held the Umbrella over the two of them. Rose had to question if her son-in-law was ready for this right now, his life had stabilized dramatically since the war ended with the Huntsclan's virtual destruction. She looked over to him and grinned. "Easy, don't be so nervous…"

"Rose, I saw when she pulled you into the house, just image what she'll do with me if I piss her off." Johnny said with a shaky voice. "I don't know if I can do this right now!"

She stopped which caused him to stop. "You can do this, she'll tell you were you mom is, and besides that fact she's your grandmother, she'll love you unconditionally…"

"I guess your right" Johnny groaned. "Do I look like an adorable grandson?"

Rose laughed and winked at him. "Way too adorable, now come on she's waiting…"

Twins, who would have thought that he would be the father of twins? Eight months ago his wife had given birth to two twin boys. On top of that she had given him another girl a year after his first son was born. Jake laughed at the thought of his life now, he had three sons and two daughters, five kids, he always wanted a big family and now that he had one it was less gratifying then he had hoped. But it gave him and his wife something to do. And not to mention the fact that the was a grandfather before he hit forty, his daughter had given a birth to a boy six months after his first son was born, and last year she had given birth to another boy. He was one hell of a grandpa and father, and he wouldn't have asked for anything less.

Jake was leaning back in his recliner watching one of his favorite television shows when he heard a clatter come from the kitchen, David was probably into something. Chuckling he pulled himself out of the chair and turned the television off, before stretching his legs and making his way to the kitchen. The apartment that they now lived in was significantly larger than the one they had before they moved to the Isle of the Draco, and much larger than the one they actually lived in on the Isle. It had more than appropriate space for the size of his family with four bathrooms and six bedrooms including a guest bedroom and the master bedroom, and it encompassed the entire side of the apartment building that they lived in. When he finally made it to the kitchen, his thoughts were halted when he laid his eyes on his son, and then he grinned. Three year old David Jacob Long had spilled flour all over himself.

His son's large dark eyes locked onto his own, and then a childish giggle came from the boy as if he had done something really funny. "I'm sorry Daddy, I knock da' bowl off edge and it went all over me! Will Mommy be mad at me…?"

Jake shook his head, this was the child that Rose was carrying during the last days of the war, and he seemed to carry that same fire that he had seen before in his older daughter. With an amused laugh, he walked forward and sunk down to his haunches in front of the boy bringing his hands he light nuzzled the boy's dark hair causing white flour to fly off of his head.

"Buddy, I think its best that we don't tell Mommy about this," Jake looked at him grinning with delight. "I can keep it a secret if you can…"

David smiled and nodded his head emphatically and proudly "S-Sure I can! Do you want me to help you clean t-this up?"

Smiling at his son's lack of ability to pronounce some of his words, he shook his head and lightly patted him on the shoulder. "I've got it DJ, how 'bout you go get cleaned up…"

"Ok" David said with laughter in his voice running out of the kitchen, flour falling off his entire body. His father marveled in the fact of how much he looked himself, he had his black hair and eyes, but his complexion was that of his mothers.

Sighing Jake looked at the scene in front of him, a stainless steel bowl was lying upside down with flour strewn out on all of its sides. Throwing his head up he resigned himself to thinking that he was raising boys, and one girl, which of course he was used to that, but boys were something different. They seemed to be more rambunctious, and rough housed a little bit more, Jake chuckled and stepped over to the mess that his son had created and walked towards the broom closet. Maybe he could get it cleaned up in time before Rose got home.

What had happened in that house was very surreal, what Erin's mother had just told herself and Johnny shocked her completely. She was alive, and doing very well according to Jackie, she had been married for seven years, and she had two more kids and son and a daughter. All of that failed to shock Johnny more than the thought of having a half little brother and sister somewhere. Rose on the other hand was not surprised, Erin had always been the one to need a family, and the only reason that Erin had left Johnny with his father was simply because she wouldn't have a choice but to turn over her son, or her family would pay. But that had all ended now, Paul had been dead for three years and the Huntsclan was disbanded regardless of all that had remained after the war.

The rain had cleared, she thanked god for that, and as she was walking side by side with her son in law back down the walk way, she could hear him breathing heavily. "How are you feeling?"

"A little overwhelmed," Johnny said. "I can't believe I'm a phone call or a car ride away from her"

Rose nodded. "I can't either, can you wait to meet your brother and sister?"

The young man chuckled. "Or my step-father, I can honestly say no, I just hope they like me"

"How can they not? Albeit you might be a little hard to explain but…" Rose stopped for a moment.

Johnny turned to her. "But what exactly…?"

"I mean if I were one of her kids, I might be a little jealous if mother had to share her love with a brother that I had never met" Rose said quietly as the approached the end of the walkway.

That made him white with fear, he would be intruding in on their lives and he could quite possibly shatter the glass that his mother had built around her life. He swallowed the lump in his throat as Rose broke off contact with him and walked around the front. Reaching forward he opened the door and in one fluid motion he seated himself in the car and quickly buckled his seatbelt. Johnny's mouth had gone completely dry, his grandmother had told him that his mom was living in Brooklyn with her family. She lived literally right across the river from the apartment he and his family lived in, ironic twists plagued his life and he hated it allot.

"So when do you think you'll go meet her?" Rose asked as she started up the car.

Johnny shook his head sighing. "I have no idea, I was thinking about this weekend, I take it you might want to come with me?"

"Are you crazy of course I would love too, I want to see the look on her face when I tell her that you married my daughter" Rose snickered and turned the steering wheel.

Erin Hutchinson couldn't believe what she had just heard from her mother, she had wanted to avoid all of her ties with the Huntsclan but she knew that it would come back to bite her one day, but it was what her mom had told her about the Huntsclan itself that frightened her. She didn't believe for one moment that Huntsclan had been disbanded and totally defeated, enough to the point where her old best friend and her son would go to her mother's house and ask about her. She set the phone in her hand down on the receiver slowly, and she stared off in the distance at far wall of her home. What was she going to do? Her husband and other kids didn't know about the magical world and her past in the Huntsclan, and telling them about the Huntsclan seemed the only way to logically explain the existence of Johnny. But the more the she thought about it, the more her sprits seemed to lift higher.

She couldn't wait to see what he had become, and how he had come to know Rose, for that matter she couldn't wait to see Rose again. With a laugh she wondered if her old friend had gotten old, she certainly hoped not, because that would mean she would be getting older. Folding her arms around her chest, she smiled brighter, this might work out well in the end. She really didn't know, but her mother had told her that he had grown into in impressive young man.

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An: / Well, this was honestly the best I thought I could do with a prologue, and to make it clear, yes Rose and Jake do have three more kids, two more boys and a girl, at that rate I could image if I was living in this universe, she had kids for every year since the last story. Johnny and Alyssa had another boy along with the one from the last story. They will be introduced in the next chapter, but now as I am writing this I'm wondering why I took the time to Introduce Rose and Jake's first son and why I didn't do that with Alyssa and Johnny's, I think I'll introduce them all in the next chapter. Anyway, do me a favor, and please review this, I can't wait to really get going on this story.