Her father was dead? How could she not have known that? Her mother couldn't have told her? Furious Eve didn't know what to do with herself. She felt violent as she thought about some monster bleeding her father out just so he could shoot himself up with Hybrid blood to enhance his own strength. Would her family ever see peace? Growling she tried to hold on to her self control but felt the shift coming.

"You should go... I don't want to hurt you," she said in a rough voice. She wasn't sure if she was going to be able to stop the shift.

David stepped around her to look her in the eyes again, "I'm not leaving. I'm sorry Eve. I was careless. I didn't mean to upset you, I thought... well I shouldn't have thought your mother would have told you."

Rolling her shoulders Eve felt the muscles bunch and length in an attempt to shift to her more powerful form. She wasn't always fully in control, violence was the name of the game at that point and she didn't want to go there at the moment.

"David..."

Holding up his hands he shook his head, "It's not like I can't hold my own you know."

His grin went a long ways to soothe the beast she felt trying to break free from her control as she gave him a smile of her own as she sighed, "Now there's a fight that could be worth seeing."

Eve turned away from him, moving back to the broom she'd dropped. She wanted to shift and tear everything apart, let the beast control her and vent the emotions she didn't know how to handle. What more could Lycans take from her? Antigen haunted her still and it made her beyond angry.

"Eve, I'm sorry. I should have thought about this, considered you wouldn't know. I'm sorry."

Sweeping the broom she shook her head, trying to focus on something calming but it was hard to let go of the thoughts going through her head at the moment. Her mind was a mile away when she suddenly felt arms around her and she went stone still.

She was surprised by the fact that she'd been so distracted she hadn't heard David move up behind her and again by the fact that he currently had an arm wrapped around her shoulders from behind. "W-w-what are you doing, David?"

With a grin he glanced down at the dark haired beauty, "It's called a hug. I'm sure you've seen the gesture before."

"Yes… but… why?"

"It's a way to give comfort to someone. Just relax a moment," he said as he pulled her against his body, her stiffness awkward but she wasn't trying to bite him so he'd count that as lucky at this point.

Eve tipped her head to the side to look at David out of the corner of one eye, the black had receded as she looked at him. She hated that she was so awkward at this sort of thing, humans made it look easy but she'd never been treated like a normal being. Until she'd broken out of the labs she'd been Subject 2. Now… now she didn't know what she was most days.

Briefly squeezing her against him David released her after a short time during which she'd relaxed marginally but as soon as he stepped away she was straight as an arrow. He couldn't imagine what it was like for her, she knew no love or the touch of someone kind. She had been kept in a lab for the first part of her life. It angered him to no end that Lycans had treated her so but there was nothing he could do to change that. She'd gotten away from them, strong as she was it had been Eve who'd gotten herself and Selene out of that lab.

Swallowing the lump in her throat Eve rolled her shoulders before pushing the broom in her hands cross the floor, "What do you want from me, David? What good can I do your cause?"

He watched her for a moment and then sighed, "I want you to join us. Hiding is no way to live."

Eve turned to look at him, "David… hiding is… all I know at this point."

Frowning he nodded his head, "I know. You deserve more. Join us, we can give you a home and protection."

"Do I look like I need protection," she asked with an arched brow.

David shook his head, "No, you are doing well on your own. Come with me, Eve."

Her blue eyes searched his for a moment before she shook her head, "The Covens will never accept me."

He didn't flinch from her unyielding eyes. Not many looked him dead in the eyes these days, he was an elder now and most lowered their eyes which annoyed him just a little. Eve however didn't know the ways of the Coven, she was bold which only made him more attracted to her which he knew was a bad idea.

"Don't worry about the Coven. If they have an issue they can take it up with their elders," he said with a grin. With two of the three elders in her corner there shouldn't be too much of a problem but he knew she was still concerned.

Eve finally looked away from him, turning her attention to the chore she was attempting to complete. Part of her had said yes the moment he'd asked her to go with him. Part of her was cautious. She didn't know what it was like to live with others. Working at the bar had mainly been her attempt to begin to learn to blend in with people so she wasn't so bloody awkward all the time. She'd gotten a crash course there, drunks were bluntly honest and she'd learned quickly. There were still aspects of being around people that she didn't grasp but she was learning.

Jumping into a nest of vampires however was an entirely different situation. Eve wasn't sure she'd be able to hold her temper around those she knew could handle her outbursts, she wasn't as likely to kill a vampire with her strength as she was a human. They would know what she was and some would be afraid of her, she'd seen it in the brief time she'd been with David's coven while under his father's control. Some had been curious but others had been afraid of her. She'd been twelve or so at the time, she hadn't understood it then.

Being a Hybrid made her different, she was the first of her kind and while David had Corvinus blood in him now he had not been born that way and he did not have Lycan blood. She however had the immortal/vampire blood of her mother as well as the Lycan blood of her father. Being different made some fear her without ever knowing her. She'd learned that the hard way.

"David... I don't know. I've been running around in hiding all this time. Being out in the open seems, unwise."

He arched a brow at her, a little frustrated she didn't want to be with her own kind. But he had to remind himself, vampires were not her kind. She shared attributes of course but Eve was a species all her own at this point. Tipping his head he wondered a loud, "Are you afraid of them?"

Her head snapped up and she looked at him with brief anger, "No. Of course I'm not afraid of them. Vampires can't hurt me."

Well... they could cause her some serious damage but with her ability to withstand daylight and silver both she was hard to kill to say the least. Eve had that cocky confidence about herself, she knew she was tougher than anything currently out there.

"Then what is holding you back? Come with me, the Eastern Coven can be your home at least until you decide otherwise. You are free to come and go as you please, of course," he said hoping she'd decide in his favor. It was a risk to pull her in but he hadn't been able to stop thinking about her. As they battled Marius and discovered what he wanted from Eve David had a fear deep within him that she'd be found and bled dry just as Michael had been. A fear that had pushed him to go looking for her when he'd promised he wouldn't. Eve maybe able to defend herself but he'd still worried about her, she couldn't fend off a whole hoard of Lycans by herself.

Teeth worried her full lower lip as she looked at him with those baby blue eyes he remembered from the first time he'd met her, she was on the edge of saying yes he could feel it. Not wanting to seem too eager for her to join him David watched her with a carefully practiced passive face. She had to make the choice herself, if he attempted to push her she'd pull away.

"What is expected of me if I come with you?"

Blinking he thought about her question, he should have considered she was used to people using her for things. And wasn't he also wanting to use her? Use her image and hybrid status? He should have thought this through better. David spoke carefully, "Eve, I can't say there would be nothing expected of you. I wish I could. You are choosing a side, you are making a statement by choosing this and choosing to come out in the open again."

She thought about that as she absently swept the same spot on the floor, "A statement."

"By coming with me to the Coven you are saying you are with us. Of course it's your choice as to how long that stands but you are saying you'll fight with us, follow my order and help us against the Lycans as well as the humans still trying to wipe us all out," he said carefully. He wanted her to come too badly and he realized it too late to back out. Had he thought about his motives he might not have come at all. Did he want her to join the Coven purely for the good of the coven or did he want more than that?

A slender brow rose, "Follow your order? I can tell you right now, I would follow no other's order. Perhaps my mother but most likely not even hers."

He was a little surprised and it must have shown on his face because she smiled in a way that softened the features of her young face, "You have only ever been kind to me David. You protected me against the orders of your own father. You fought to get me back from the Antigen Lycans, you showed me kindness when no one else had ever done so."

And by doing so earned her trust as well as a few other things she didn't want to admit to or didn't have the understanding to admit to just yet. Eve chewed her lower lip for another moment and then shrugged, "I'm certainly not learning anything new here. I was already considering leaving in favor of somewhere else I could observe humans to learn from them. Perhaps this can be another way to learn." She'd desperately been trying to figure out how to fit in, how to seem more normal when she had little to no people skills.

"You'll come then? You'll join m...us?"

With a nod of her head she smiled a little, "I suppose so. Just where are we going?"