Chapter 2

While Elizabeth and her new nephews and niece lived together, the three of them worked in the hospital with Elizabeth as they helped to take care of patients and managed the daycare center. As the turn of the century happened, Elizabeth's popularity increased as more and more hospitals were informed of a lovely brilliant young doctor and her three children. While the years went by, Elizabeth worked and became the only real mother figure Cory and Wyatt ever really had and together the four of them became a family. Elizabeth Roberts and the King brother's changed their names to match a single one and even though Lizette asked to take Elizabeth's, her new mother wanted her daughter's name as hers. Mathieu became Matthew and they were the now Matthew's family.

In 1716 they had gone to Scotland so Elizabeth could do a speech to other doctors nearly three times her age on a funding to try to construct a artificial heart but they were turned down. While in Jamestown, Elizabeth and her three kids walked together and came to a book store. Stocked with mainly historical novels and non-fiction Elizabeth wanted to go inside. They found the store manger dead on the ground; he was a handsome young man, probably mid twenties. Elizabeth knew he was dead and had been for a several hours- she also said that he was a vampire's meal based on the neck wounds on his left side. Lizette and her brothers went to the back to check for any others; they went outside, leaving Elizabeth alone and as Elizabeth reached out to touch his face, his eyes opened and she jumped back with her back against the desk.

Samuel Marsters blinked a couple times and felt his head, "What happened?" he asked as he pushed himself up to his knees and looked at Elizabeth and gave her this look that made her smile. To him, Elizabeth was the most beautiful creature in the world.

"You were dead sir," Elizabeth told him in her British accent. He looked at her, she smiled at him and he stood up and reached down to help her up. She accepted his hand was pulled to her feet.

He smiled, "I apologize, madam, that I startled you." He was a shy vampire with brown eyes and a charming smile and soft voice.

Elizabeth giggled, "I believe that I can accept your apology. Elizabeth Matthews MD," she said and he stepped back and shook her hand. Her dress was a little small but that was why he began to fall in love with her right when they first met; Elizabeth's hair was the same from forty-five years ago, the style of clothes had changed but now it wasn't so puffy and more elegant and she could wear it with more movement when she was working and running around the hospital as she saved lives.

Samuel wore trouser pants a little too big for him and a green shirt that had the sleeves rolled up; he kissed her hand as she pretended to blush. "Samuel Marsters, I own this store."

"It's a lovely store Mr. Marsters."

"Samuel Miss. Elizabeth," he corrected kindly and she smiled at him.

Then she told him the truth, "I have children looking for your killer if you're interested. My daughter is a great tracker."

He laughed and they linked arms as he walked her outside, "You have children? You must be older then I?"

Elizabeth nodded and told him of the night she met Lizette and her brothers in London of 1671. They rounded the corner and as they walked by a human couple… Samuel turned to go after them, but Elizabeth touched his arm and he turned back to her. Lizette, Cory, and Wyatt caught up with them and were introduced to Samuel Marsters and right away the three could tell that they were already in love and let them talk as they went off on their own… Lizette went back to the book store; she's always been fascinated with books, no matter what genre. She read all night and fell asleep just before dawn; Cory and Wyatt went back to the hotel that the hospital had given them for their stay in Scotland. Samuel and Elizabeth went back to the store and took Lizette home.

As progressively years went by the family of five became a well known one as they traveled across Europe but Lizette left when they went to France for about fifty years as they went from one hospital to another. During that time Elizabeth began tutoring Samuel about medicine and soon together, they were working together as doctors and Samuel's fame rose like Elizabeth's had. By the nineteen hundreds they had lived in more homes then fifty random families combined times two. Elizabeth and Samuel had legally married in 1720 and remarry every fifty years and in 1901, Elizabeth and Samuel stopped working and went to find Lizette again after nearly sixty years apart. They moved finally to New York and lived there, then to Boston, a small town in Florida and stayed in Texas for about ten years before going back north to New York again.

The Matthews doctors were offered a teaching job in Athens, Greece and they decided to take it because no where else wanted a married couple teaching students older then them although Samuel had been twenty-five when he was killed he did look younger then he was to humans. Athens had a fast pace medical school and along with teaching they practiced still at the hospitals. In 2003 Elizabeth had a patient who only knew his first name, Basil. The small five year old boy has freckles and short dark hair; his eyes were a beautiful blue and greenish colour. He had a smile that could light up a dark room and he had no family.

Elizabeth would stay up day and night trying to cure the boy of whatever he had but they couldn't figure it and out and finally after testing his blood, Elizabeth tasted it and cursed herself as she ran to the Dean's office and told him that Basil had chicken pox, a rare form that didn't show on the skin like normal CP does. The doctors had Basil cured within days and he would have been free to go, but no one came for him and after many days of deciding against better judgment Samuel announced that he wanted to adopt Basil and make him a Matthew and part of their family.

Elizabeth stared at her husband, "Are you sure Samuel?" she asked him, Lizette, Cory, and Wyatt stared at him.

Samuel nodded, "Elizabeth, we talking about taking in another, maybe a female to even them out," he teased his kids and they smirked at him. "But Basil will be placed in Greek foster care and the system here is better then the US's but not that much better. We can work this out, move less often, teach him as him as if he was our son." He said and Elizabeth looked at her daughter and sons.

Before she could open her mouth to ask what they thought Lizette stood up, "As oldest of all of you, I say we do it. I wouldn't mind having Basil in the family." She smiled and Elizabeth clapped her hands together

Lizette and her brothers all had a chance to spend time with the boy and they agreed that he was well adapted, smart, and playful and didn't seem like the type to say things he shouldn't. They took him home and said that they were his family now and he had no problem with accepting that and they were pleased with this so when the classes were over that summer, they went back to New York and enrolled Basil in a school where he stayed for three years until the Matthew's moved to Los Angeles where Elizabeth was offered a job starting at a salary that your typical doctor works twenty years to get. Samuel was just under her salary number when he got a job at a clinic about twenty miles away from his wife's hospital. Basil was enrolled into school for that September and the older three got into high school this time since it was the twenty-first century and it was normal for teenagers to be in school.

Start and ending as seniors they planned to have this be their final year as students so they could actually get to college and get out of the house and let Elizabeth and Samuel have a parent-like relationship with Basil Matthew.