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Haley sat in her new therapist office to talk through her childhood traumas, her degrees in psychology and self diagnosis did not impress her older brother Marcus. Marcus Griffen was deeply proud of his sister but also concerned. Haley sighed she was somewhat of a child prodigy she was already a lawyer at age 23 she had just graduated, and no one in the audience looked prouder than her brother. He was also so proud of all my inventions and patent i had. She had missed him, 8 months ago after her other (half) brother Aiden Brigant came to visit Marcus said he had to go for a job. He up and moved to Brookhaven, Mississippi of all places. Aiden has asked him to work as security for Eric Northman, no one was more qualified given out background. Sometimes Eric Northman loans him to Pamela Ravencroft in Shreveport, Louisiana so he has a place there too. I mean Marcus isn't human at all he's full supernatural; whereas I am barely human maybe 2%, if that. The receptionist calls my name, and I come to meet my new supernatural therapist. I had just moved to Brookhaven per Marcus' request, and he had already done background research into supernatural therapists for me. He truly does want the best for me.

I sit down and cringe internally of bringing this woman up to speed in my life. It's been a hard road. "Hello I'm Doctor Melanie McClain, you must be Melanie Griffen." She says. I smile and think in this realm that's my name and i reach out to her mind and hear nothing amiss "Yes, that is my name it's nice to meet you." She gestures to the couch and i almost laugh out loud but contain it. "So Haley, I am a Supernatural Council Appointed therapist. There are a few of us out there they have bound us so that we cannot spill confidential details and we keep no files that can be stolen. I want you to be completely at east telling me about your life, it will never leave this office." She smiles at me "You may start wherever." I sigh and lower my head where to begin.

"I don't remember the moment I was born; however, that's the moment I imagine she hated me. Or maybe it was because I later discovered via my special talents that I wasn't actually the man who was her husband and raising me daughter. I would come to find I had not one but two fathers by some weird genetic supernatural randomness. See the woman who gave birth to me and her husband Peter had a fight and she went out and met a man I saw him in her mind he was quite something. She couldn't stay away from him through a series of events I'm sure you understand I happened. Later in the same evening the woman who gave birth to me met another man, he was very different he was strong and handsome authoritative but charming. She also slept with him, being as both men were supernatural that man is also my father." I look to make sure Melanie is with me so far. "It is interesting how you refer to her as the woman who gave birth to you and not your mother." Melanie observes. This time i can't help but laugh, "Lady, tip ice burg when i finish my story you won't have to ask why I don't call her that and never will." Melanie sits back in her chair and makes a continue gesture. Here I go again.

"She is one of those women who hates other women, who knew that apply to her child. She adored my older brother doted on his every needs, and called him her special boy. I knew she hated me from the first moment i remember, she used to slap me when I would use my powers to bring a toy to me." I pause " I didn't know what I was doing I was just a child." I begin to tear up. Dr. Melanie hands me a tissue. " Of course you didn't you did nothing wrong." I know this but thank her anyway, as i take the tissue, "When i was 4 years old I asked Peter why she thought he wasn't my daddy. She might have killed me if he hadn't grabbed her. Peter took my brother and I and left her, he told me that he would always be my father and sometimes people don't mean things that they think. He was always so kind to me, and that year that she went off was the best of my life. I was almost 6 when she returned and told him I wasn't his child and he couldn't have me and she wanted joint custody of my brother. She actually wanted full custody of him but when the divorce went through she didn't fight him for either of us. She submitted court documents saying I wasn't his child and requested a DNA test. He begged her to let me stay, and she told him she was taking me. I told him later she thought i ruined her life so she was going to destroy mine. He never looked more upset than when the results came back and he was not my biological father. His lawyer argued that he was on my birth certificate and he currently had legal custody. The battle went on until I was 6 when he was ordered to give me to her for her time, she wasn't given full custody. Peter had a great lawyer. That's when I heard in her year she had met some Vampires, she had paid them to glamour a shady agency who sells children for adoption. The Vampire glamoured the man to find the worst couple in their pile, she had sold me to a couple who wanted a child and not a baby." Tears were fully streaming down my face, and i glanced and Melanie had a few tears of her own. " I cried and said you can't do this you're my mommy. She turned to me eyes full of hatred and said I am not your mommy you are NOTHING to me. I was dragged away by a man as I screamed at her that he was a bad man and wanted to do bad things to me. That was the first of many times I got a new name, they called me Abbey. The agency gave them fake papers and the woman who gave birth to me was given a death certificate. I have never found out how much she paid the Vampires for their glamour, but it had to be a pretty penny." Melanie interjects, "So, do you dislike Vampires due to their involvement in your trauma. " I understand the question but I know where the blame for this goes. "No, they were paid a service they delivered. She is to blame I might go a round if I ever found our who the Vampire was with them; however, one bad Vampire doesn't make them all." Looking satisfied she sits back and does her continue gesture. "They moved me to a new state a small town in South Dakota." Melanie interjects again, "Where were you originally from and what your birth name?" I hesitate "My family tree originates in Louisiana, but my she hated it there and moved to Little Rock, Arkansas; but i remember a visit to Louisiana for Christmas one year I wanted to stay. I am... I don't ... I don't talk about my birth name. " I stammer "That's fine whenever you feel comfortable in our sessions we will see when you are ready to share,please continue your story." Melanie urges.

"I was beaten by this man and his wife for 6 years. Everyone in the town knew but he was the mayor so no one helped me. Then a man like no one I'd ever met came to town he was our substitute teacher. He glowed and i couldn't read his mind and he had a funny name. I instantly felt better around him, so one day i confided in him because he was the only one who i didn't know already knew. He told me that trails come into our lives and I had a purpose that one day all would be clear. Then he left, and never helped me when I found out many years later he was my great-grandfather I don't think i've hated anyone more in my life. Anyway, when I was 12 years old a took a beating so severe I almost died. My blood called out to my, it's weird but he's my second father, he was confused because he had heard I had died and I was too young for my blood to call to him. Among his people the blood call happens for females at 17 years old, and it's a singing call. Mine was that of pain, and he immediately sent out my brother Marcus to find me. " She looks at me quizzically and i feel the need to explain, "The blood call goes out to all in the family, on that side of the family I am the only girl and the youngest. I have several brothers but Marcus and I are the closest. I've always thought it was because he saved me. He came to the hospital and found me the doctors were saying I should be dead but my body was healing like they didn't understand. He came to me and i felt my blood sing to him. It's strange but every part of me was happy he was there. He told me he was my brother and my father sent him to me and wanted to know if I wanted to go with him. I never hesitated. We left and Abbey "died" in a explosion Marcus created in the room with the oxygen tank.

I then got a new name, for that realm Marcus and I don't disclose those names in this one. I was trained with my Father and brothers to be a warrior all while getting degrees online. I learned the language of my people and made my father and brothers proud on the battle field. I had more anger than most little girls and oddly without trying this was a good way for me to get it out. I lived in their realm and was perfectly happy. I met a boy my brothers said he wasn't good enough for me, which made me like him all the more. When we were 18 we went into battle which wasn't unusual nor our first but he had a different air about him he was angry for some reason. I was not only fierce in battle I have several powers i use. One of which is shielding others, his name was Ecbert and he fell in battle i reached him but it was too late to heal him. He blamed me and said i shielded my brothers over him. It never made sense to me because i was shielding them all he never should've fallen. He died in my arms... I think if he hadn't have died my brothers would've killed him for his words." Melanie says, "To lose your first love in that way must have been very difficult."

"It was, for a long time i believed it was my fault and I punished myself. I left the realm to go to another and joined the Hood." Melanie gasps, "You're a member of the hood!" I can't blame her reaction the hood deals with all kinds of injustices and takes on many bad people for the greater good, or it used to. "I was, I left. I was apart of the hood from 18-20, and i was in a relationship with Oliver McQueen during that time. I was I guess am still considered 'The Arrow' for my time in the hood." To say she looks astonished is an understatement. "I suppose you understand why I only speak to therapist bound by the council to never reveal anything about their patients. "Yes" Melanie says, "You are quite vague on some details but that one alone. Many people have wanted to find 'The Arrow' when the Hood comes calling. You have saved many people from them since you left." My head bows, "They are not what they used to be Oliver got too greedy and forgot the cause." I shake my head. "Anyway long story short at first our relationship was open. I have never... well i've not... I have trouble being physically intimate and i never have... had sex." I blurt out and hold up my hand. "I know it's silly I was never sexually assaulted or anything it's just like i have this block about it.. I've never been able to not freak out about it." Melanie grabs my hand, "There is nothing silly about it Haley. Those who should have protected you didn't from a young age. While you moved forward and have trust in others I would imagine that did not come naturally to you." I want to move on so I say, "Anyway the last 6 months we were together Oliver came to me and said he only wanted me and no one else. I was excited about that since I never saw anyone else, I just didn't mind if he was faithful as long as I knew he wasn't I was prepared. Growing up with Marcus and my Father that was the way things were really. I came home early from a class Oliver said he could use my help and was sad I had a test. I spoke to my professor and was able to take my exam early. I came home to my supposed best friend legs wrapped around Oliver's head in my house in MY bed. I was so upset and I never felt in danger from him that i didn't even reach out my mind when i screamed at them to get out I went into my kitchen and everything went sideways. Oliver followed me and hit me in the head... with my own frying pan. I somehow didn't lose consciousness, he told my friend he was going to take what was his he yelled that I owed him. I fought like an alley cat the moment the words clicked in my mind that he meant to rape me. Several members of the hood tried to help him contain me but I trained from the time I was 12-18 I knocked most of them out. I did kill two of them in self defense and several members of the hood helped me leave I had seen better days. I couldn't go to my brothers or my father because they would kill him, and I wished I had somewhere else to go. Somehow that wish took me to another realm to my other father."

I cover my hands with my face " I trained there and gained a few more skills from that side of my family I talked to Marcus and my other brothers daily. I met a new half brother, he and my father are good men. When i turned 22 I became enraged when my great- grandfather returned. I recognized him as the man who was my substitute teacher who never helped me. My father and brother were very angry when they found out my great grandfather left me there. They moved forward with a little less trust in their relationship but i want nothing to do with him. I left the realm and haven't been back since, I called Marcus and told him I wanted to finish Harvard Law at the university. I arrived in Massachusetts to find Marcus right there with me. Until he moved here, when i graduated he asked me to move here to I came." Melanie looks at the clock on the wall, "We don't have as much time as I would like for my observations Haley, but I will say the relationship with your brother Marcus is quite interesting. From what you have shared today he seems to be the person you place the most trust in." I don't hesitate, "He is." Melanie looks quite thoughtful. That's all we have time for today Haley I do look forward to our sessions. I shake her hand and wonder if I will bother coming back. Not that I didn't like her, I just hate spilling my life to someone else like this she doesn't give anything back she just listens. Maybe i'll give it a few more tries.