AN: So I hope anyone who read the original story was able to find this. Like I said I plan on keeping the story pretty much the same only longer.
Hours after Therese has been given Sonja's child she sense it was clear enough for her to make her way back to her home. As Therese approached the boat that would return her to her home to Vail, she was followed by Noah who was there to see her off.
"So Lucian was able to escape?" asked Therese, though she did not sound surprised. "I thought as much."
"Yes" Noah answered. "It seems that Viktor did not anticipate Sonja's death giving him the strength to escape. But then I suppose he did not anticipate many things." he said staring down at the baby. "Many lycan's attacked the palace after this, I of course was far from the fighting by that time."
"And that's how it will stay." Said Therese sounding proud, before saying farewell to Noah and taking off on the boat to return home.
As Noah headed back he thought about the previous few hours. He had not participated in the fighting as usual. Because of this he was considered to be very weak, and good as nothing more than a servant or a low ranking gaurd. And that was how it was going to stay, he would not let the coven know what a strong warrior he truly was.
After Therese had reached the shore's of Vail she make her way up the path that took her to the manor she lived in on the edge of the village, Vail was a cloudy island, a full day of sunshine was very rare, but it was home (after all if the people needed sunshine for their crops they would simply use their powers). It was still quit early and the villagers would just be getting up. She wondered what they would say when they heard of Therese having left Vail and come back with an infant, who appeared to be neither a human, nor a vampire, nor a lycan.
"They'll figure it out somehow." she thought as she reached the large home she lived in. Her servants where there to greet her.
"My lady?" asked one of them.
"I know Ana I left in quite a hurry, I apologize." said Therese," I had some business to attend to." she said showing them the infant in her arms.
She watched as they stared in utter shock as they saw the baby in their mistresses arms.
"I need one of you to go to the carpenter and have him make up a cradle, then go to the seamstress and have them make up some cloth's, and then see if you cannot buy some milk from the goat merchant, she'll be getting hungry soon.
"Yes Ma'am" they said in a chorus.
As they headed out Therese glanced down at the infant in her arms and saw she was now awake. She stared up at her with large blue eye's ( like her father's), curiously. Therese just gently stroked the tuft of black hair that stuck out of her head. "I promise I will look after you and love you as my own, I will keep good on my promise." she said though she knew the child could not understand her. Children where rare to be born to Titanian's, only ten were born this century, so to have one was considered a true blessing. So she would have an adopted child, or ward she still wasn't entirely sure what to consider herself. It seemed everyone had some getting used to.
It was a few day's later that Therese was holding the small infant when she saw a letter had appeared on her bedside table.
"Well" she said to baby Sonja." It seems dear Noah has reported what has happened in the last few days since we left."
From what she read Lucian had called forth the other lycan's and laid siege to the palace. Leaving almost everyone dead. He and Viktor fought but Viktor somehow managed to survive, and Lucian and the others were now in hiding, their will undoubtedly be a war.
"Well, well, well." Said Therese "Much can happen in just a few days."
Over the next few weeks Therese fell into her role as guardian to Sonja very well. If she cried at night she would be the one to see to her. She would spend as much time as she could with her. Whenever her appearance changed enough she would have her portrait done.
Months went by and Therese would continue to get letter's from Noah. She would read them out loud to Sonja if they involved her father. When Sonja was old enough she would also begin her training to learn how to fight. Therese would keep nothing from her, she would always know of her parents and grandfather. Knowing, if she was anything like her mother, she would not wish to stand back and do nothing.
Over the next years she watched Sonja grow she now had a full mop of black hair, blue eye's like her father.
She watched her:
Sit up by herself.
Take her first steps.
Finally the day came when a large battle was to come up. Therese instructed Noah to come to Vail to wait it out.
"Well it's not like they'll notice I'm gone" he said jokingly when he arrived."Most of them don't even know my name."
"We know you name and that's what counts." said Therese when she greeted him, holding Sonja whom she had in her best infants dress. Seeing Noah smiled, which she did to only those she liked.
"Goodness" he said, "How time flies, I forgot she'd be so big."
"That's what infants do Noah." said Therese.
Later that evening Noah and Therese sat across from each other, Sonja sleeping in her cradle, as they spoke.
"Viktor has convinced everyone that it was lycan's who started the war, and that is why they must fight it, he makes it seem as though we were simply innocents that these wild beast have decided to attack."
"I see." said Therese sadly." And you are sure Viktor suspects nothing of you?"
"I'm sure." he said reasurringly. "As far as anyone knows I'm just living in my own world, they have no idea how often I listen in on their conversations."
"What if they are speaking in private, which they must due more often with a war going on." she asked.
"I find a way and make sure there is a place to stay hidden when I'm listening." he said in a rehearsed tone, indicating how many time's they had been over this.
"Good, and you keep being careful Noah, your like a son to me, I would be devastated if anything happened to you."
Noah only nodded.
He stayed for a few day's until it was safe for him to return.
"Farewell my lady's." he said to Therese who was holding Sonja, before he got on the waiting boat with the rower ready to take him back to the mainland.
"Farewell, Noah." said Therese before turning to go. She put Sonja over her shoulder, and had walked but ten feet when she heard it.
"No-eh" said a tiny voice.
Therese froze and looked at the baby in her arms.
"No-eh" she said again.
"Well. I take care of you for a year", you know him for less then a week." she said in mock jealousy." And this is how you repay me." she said then laughed at the girl.
Therese would not see Noah again for another nine years. By then Sonja had grown into a very lovely little girl. With long ebony-black hair and pale vampire skin she strongly resembled her mother.
Therese was a high ranking Titanian so that allowed her to get the Sonja the best training. Despite her young age she trained harder then most trainees on the island, she was a very determined little girl. Therese made sure she knew limitations when it came things she did, and knew right from wrong.
When they waited at the shore's to greet Noah, Sonja was dressed in her best dress, a dark blue dress in the traditional Titanian design.
"Well, well." said Noah upon seeing her. "It is very nice to see you again Sonja. Last time I did you were but this big." he said using his hand to exaggerate how small she was.
She laughed at his comment. Before greeting him.
"We are very pleased to have you here with us, and welcome you." she said making a small curtsy.
When Therese and Noah talked she would often notice Sonja peaking around corners looking at Noah. It seemed she had developed a girlish crush on the handsome vampire man.
"Well." Though Therese. "Noah sees her as nothing but a child now. But then he's not getting any older. In ten years or so perhaps he will see her differently."
But it was more than ten years. More like a century before Noah was able to return to the island. When he did he was stunned; Sonja now a grown woman, was beautiful, elegant, and strong.
She was clearly glad to see him. And greeted him in much the same fashion that Therese would. And was now able to speak to him in such a way. She was no longer a child, and the two spent much time speaking and he found himself drawn to her. She was not only beautiful, but clever and kind. He looked out into the court yard to see her training as she usually did. He could see determination in her much like her mother had.
When it was time for him to leave again, all were disappointed in different ways. And it was harder and harder for him to escape the coven over the next few centuries. And then one day in the early 21st century, Therese informed him and Sonja that she sensed it was time they return to the mainland, they had waited centuries after all for when it would be time for them to return. And that time was now.
AN: well there you have it a nice long chapter. PLEASE REVIEW. Those of you who have read my stories know that the less reviews I get the longer it takes me to write. Its called motivation people! And F.Y.I. I know there are a lot of you favoriting my stories, and if you can favorite you can review. SO REVIEW!