It had been four years since Victor had found Dinah again and nothing was perfect. Emma was now eight years old and had grown close to her father after he had returned to her life. Victor and Dinah often had fights over simple things, sometimes things almost as simple as taking out the garbage. Victor's pent up bloodlust would often turn to anger which he unfortunately took out on Dinah, luckily she was able to keep up with him and quite often got him under control. Other times when just fighting Dinah wasn't enough, he would disappear only to return days later, unwilling to explain to his frustrated mate why there was blood on his clothes. Dinah dealt with his ways, she knew that if she didn't he would be a lot more trouble than he already was.

3 years after that was when Erik Lehnsherr first appeared at their door. Dinah was home alone with Emma when she heard the knocking. She automatically knew who it was and why they were there so she quietly sent Emma to her room before opening the door, "can I help you?"

Erik smiled, "hello, my name is Erik Lehnsherr, I have come to speak with a man named Victor Creed, is he here?"

"I know why you're here Mr. Lehnsherr and no, Victor isn't here," Dinah said to him, her eyes narrowed.

"you must be Ms. Dinah Bizenghast, I understand that you and Mr. Creed are together is that right?"

"I don't see how that's any of your business."

"Dinah, what's going on?" Victor asked as he walked up to the house and saw Erik. "who are you?"

"my name is Erik Lehnsherr and I would like to talk to you about a business proposition."

Victor stopped in the doorway and wrapped an arm around Dinah's waist while still looking at Erik, "what kind of proposition?"

"Perhaps we could speak inside? You never know where there are prying ears."

Victor nodded and pulled Dinah to the side to let the elderly man into the house. "victor, don't listen to what he says, nothing good will come from working for him!" Dinah whispered to him but her mate ignored her. "Please Victor, listen to me for once in your life!"

"everything's gunna be fine, you worry too much."

"and you worry too little, you forget that I have seen these things happen and I don't want to watch them happen again! If you go with him, don't expect to come back and find me and Emma waiting for you."

Victor growled and grabbed her wrist as she tried to walk away, pulling her body close, "I'll hunt you down if you leave."

"listen closely Victor, I can deal with your disappearing act every once in awhile but that's because I only have a vague idea of what you do, with him, I know almost everything that he will make you do and like I said, I will not watch you do it again. Remember, last time I ran from somebody, it took you 3 years to find me and that was only because I decided to let your contact know that I was there. This time, you won't find me, I'll make sure of it."

Victor growled again before crashing his lips onto hers, "you can't escape me."

"watch me" was all Dinah said before she disappeared into the mirror hanging on the wall next to them.

Emma jumped as her mother seemed to jump out of the large mirror on her wall, "what's wrong mama?"

"your father, that's what."

Emma sighed, she knew that her parents were having problems lately, she wasn't completely ignorant for an 11 year old. "he just doesn't want us to go away again."

"I know but I can't stand around while he works for that man" Dinah said as she angrily paced her daughter's room.

"I know what you're afraid of mama, I saw it in my dream last night."

Dinah stopped pacing for a minute before she grabbed a suitcase out of the closet and quickly started packing Emma's clothes. "I already know that your father will accept his offer and when he says yes, we won't be here anymore. Finish packing your stuff, I have to go get mine."

Emma nodded as Dinah disappeared through the mirror again only to return a minute later wearing a pair of dark jeans, a black long-sleeve shirt with a low neck, and a pair of black boots. "come on, we're leaving and unfortunately, you can't talk to your daddy anymore."

"what about in my mind?"

Dinah was silent for a minute before she sighed, "alright, just don't ever tell him where we are, this is his punishment for the things he's going to do."

Emma nodded and grabbed her mother's hand, stepping into the mirror after her leaving nothing but an empty room.

Down the hall Erik had explained his proposition and Victor agreed after a moment of hesitation.

"you may bring your family with you if you like"

Victor shook his head, "Dinah already said that she isn't going to come."

"very well then, I shall see you in three days time then." Erik said and then left the house.

The large feral sighed before standing up and walking to the bedroom he shared with Dinah. When he opened the door he knew something was off, the drawers that held her clothes looked like they had been hastily opened and then not closed all the way, her staff, which she usually kept on the dresser, was missing, and the closet door was ajar. "Dinah?"

He looked all over the room and quickly discovered that all of her things were gone, all that was left was a necklace laying on the bed. Victor picked it up and saw that it was the silver ankh that he had given her shortly after he had found her again, lying under it was a note.

I know that you will be angry when you see this but know that I had to do this. Erik is like a reverse version of Stryker, where Stryker wanted to destroy all mutants, Erik wants all humans gone. You might like what he is doing but I just want you to know that if you stay with him, you will one day be put in front of the hardest decision of your life, stay with your beliefs, or kill your mate and child. Know that from now on we will be working on opposite sides, something I never wanted but you seem to always go against me lately, so what's one more thing. I'll see you again someday but neither of us will be the same. Remember that I love you.

~Dinah

Victor finished reading the note before letting out a loud roar that echoed through the house.

Here we go, chapter 2 of Darling I Do. I know you guys probably weren't expecting this stuff to happen so quickly but it did. Thanks to all my faithful fans, I love you all! ^^

~NightStalker