Ten years ago.
"Looks like we are in the mortal realm this time." Robin said as he bounced around Ari like a little kid.
"Yes my love, why did the portal have to open in an alleyway?" Ari said as he snatched Robin in to a tight hug as. They were on a much needed vacation to spend time with each other. Due to a misunderstanding the two of them had spent so much time apart to stop a war. So many nights apart with Ari either sleeping in his office or not sleeping at all. Leaving Robin alone more often than not.
"Hold on someone is here." Ari said as he carefully used his powers to scan the area and he got a ping.
"Over there." He said pointing to a dumpster. Robin carefully walked up to the dumpster. What he found when he moved the dumpster what he found was a red lump of fur.
"Ari not to call you dumb but it's just a lump of fur." Robin said
"Who are you what's do you want." The lump of fur said shakily, as a pair of purple eyes appeared.
"You're a shifter are you not? What are you doing here all alone?" Robin asked as he reached out to the lump of fur. "My name is Robin I'm a Sidhe and that over there his name is Ari he is a vampire but don't worry neither one of use is going to hurt you let's get you cleaned up." Robin said as he carefully picked up the small lump of fur.
It took almost five hours from the time they found a place where they could rest while they stayed in the mortal realm. "There you go little one all clean." Robin said as he slowly ran a brush down her fur taking care to get all the knots out of her fur. "You look so pretty do you have a name?" Robin asked.
"My name is Akeru and I'm lost." She said as she shifted into her two legged form, her voice was soft almost scared.
"How are you lost little Akeru?" Robin said as he pulled a blanket off the couch and wrapped it around her. "There you go that must feel better." He said
"My family is dead they got old and now I'm alone. They were the only ones who were nice to me." Akeru said as she snuggled deeper into the blanket.
"Shifters are immortal, just like the Fea and vampires so how did your family get old and you stay so young?" Robin asked.
"They were mortal. They found me when I was about 50 years old. I ended up here by accident as the portal home closed I broke my leg on something trying to get to it so I panicked and shifted into my fox form, since I looked like a kit and this family took me home and nursed me back to health. I was so grateful that I forgot that mortals are not used to my kind and I shifted back and pulled the one that would come to call himself my father into a hug. And to my surprise they were not afraid." Akeru rambled as she fought back yawns.
"Robin let her sleep you can pester her when she wakes up later." Ari said as he brought more blankets into the living room of the hotel room they had rented for there time there. Together Ari and Robin made a nest of blankets on the couch for her before they went to bed themselves.
