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Greeting Old Friends…Violently

Ashley was ready to go. She was mentally pumping herself up for the mission ahead. Her father was not going to be an easy capture, if their previous encounters were any indication. However, she was sure that she would bring him back. She had certain advantages that she didn't have last time…

She was making her way to the exit, when she heard someone calling for her. "Ash…Ashley, wait up." Will came up behind her, huffing and puffing from his jog to catch up.

Ashley sighed; she really did not need this at the moment. She needed to focus on what she had to do. "What do you want, Will?" Her tone was only slightly annoyed.

"Um, I just wanted to know how you are doing. It's been a pretty strange couple of days…" Will trailed off.

"Will, don't worry about me. I've had over a hundred years to deal with things and to make plans. I am not going to freak out and be useless, but right now I have things to do." Ashley told him. She started to leave, but Will would not let her go.

"I guess I hadn't really thought about that. You must have gotten very lonely in all that time." Will said with regret for his friend.

Ashley snorted. "Not really. There was a lot to do. I spent most of that time trying to screw up every pie the Cabal had their fingers in. It was kind of fun."

Will smiled a little. This was the line of questioning he had been trying to get to. "Yeah, you said something about that. It must have been hard to do, being just one person. Even Tesla and your dad had some difficulties and they had active defensive capabilities."

The last thing he said told Ashley everything she needed to know. "Okay, Will, let's get two things straight. Number one…donating DNA might make you a biological father, but it doesn't make you a dad. To be a dad you have to…oh I don't know, not murder hookers and actually be around. Number two, I know what you are doing and I am not going to give anything away. If I feel some information about my whereabouts and activities in the last century is important, I will let you know. Now if you don't mind I have to go." Ashley said as she stormed out.

He stared after her as she went. Will's suspicions were not confirmed, but they were stronger. There was definitely something Ashley had not told them, or at least she had neglected to so far…

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Magnus sat at her desk and stared out of her window. The view of the river was spectacular and with everything that was about to take place, a little time for retrospection wasn't going to hurt.

A few moments to herself, to come to terms with all the ups and downs of her life and then she could take up her work again.

She thought of her father. How sad he would be if he were there. Everything he had ever dreamed of had come true; a safe place for abnormals, and now it could all be lost. She would have to find him soon. They would need his help and now that the Cabal was gone he could be apart of he life.

Ashley would be gone for a little while at least, finding John. Helen hoped that she would be safe and she had promised she would. It was out of her hands now.

Despite it all, she felt peaceful.

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Ashley had been gone from the Sanctuary for almost thirty six hours and she was irritated. Her mother had told her it would probably take her a while to catch up to Druitt, but she knew things that her mother didn't.

She had set to work getting all her contacts on the job, looking for unusual deaths and strange occurrences involving a man of her father's description, before she had left home. They had given her sightings all over the world, all of which were for the same time period. Peachy. She was stationed in the area of the latest, a really disgusting bit of industrialized city, at the moment. She had been waiting for three hours and had nothing to show for it. It had been like that at every location she had been to.

Druitt probably knew someone was looking for him. After all he was smart, for a ghoul. He must have had his ear to the ground, but even so, everything that she knew about him made her think he would confront his stalker. She had been counting on that.

Ashley was not disappointed, because as she was about to leave her hiding place, a disturbance in air flow alerted her to another presence and she had no doubt of who it was. "You know spying, is very bad mannered." The person said.

The young woman spun to find John Druitt standing behind her. He had been wearing an evil smirk, until he glimpsed her face. Shock filled his gaze. That was enough to make her grin and she said, "Yeah, well forgive me for not taking lessons in manners from a man who murders prostitutes."

That made Druitt come back to himself. "Ah, but you're building up quite the body count yourself, my daughter. Or you were, before your death. If you were dead. That is something I am beginning to doubt."

"Oh, I was dead. All better now." Ashley managed to draw her gun before he could blink.

Druitt chuckled. She was brave. "I am going to assume you are reunited with your mother since the Cabal is gone. Their downfall is quite an interesting story if I do say so myself."

Ashley's blue eyes did not betray a hint of sadness, in fact, she almost looked thrilled. She did not say a word, though only gripped her gun tighter. "I killed Dana Whitcomb for you, my dear."

"Yeah, I wish I could feel bad about that. The woman was a sociopath and she got what she deserved." Ashley spat.

"The same could be said for me, if you'd like to kill me. Or at least if you'd like to try." The murderer said.

Ashley nearly laughed. "I fought my way back from death…taking you out…that's child's play."

"My, my…you have grown up." Druitt murmured.

"Yeah, I'm not the little girl you tried to feed to a lizard anymore…" Ashley began, but Druitt teleported away before she could finish. She dropped her gun arm and gritted her teeth. She then did something she wasn't supposed to be able to do.

She teleported after her father and when she caught him she threw him against a wall. "Not to mention we're on a little more even footing now." She taunted before she completely vamped out. She tore a power line out of the wall beside them careful not to touch the arcing blue electricity. Elongated nails dug into Druitt's flesh as Ashley gripped his neck hard and touched the power line to him. He could not even hear himself screaming.

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Druitt sat slumped against the wall, his body sore and clothes smoking slightly. If he had known what had awaited him in this dank, dirty city he would never have come. That was a lie, of course. He still would have come. His ego would not have stood for anything less. Even as the roaring in his head and violent impulses subsided, Druitt didn't know if he should be glad of his daughter tenacity or not.

She had tortured him for three hours and caused a city wide black out, before she had moved him here. Ashley had been a vampire the entire time. Now, she sat with her back to him. "Well, at least I know you listen. When I told you of Nikola's electroshock treatment, I did not mean for you to try it." He said.

Ashley did not turn around. She was distinctly embarrassed by her loss of control and was desperately trying to return to normal. At last, she felt her nails and fangs retract. She took a deep breath to make sure that she would not freak out again. She had needed the strength that being a vampire offered, but now Druitt was himself. "I didn't have time to think of another way to bring you back to your senses. I working on a tight schedule and Mom said that thing inside of you likes electricity."

"Am I to assume, that she knows of the methods which you have used to find and capture me?" Druitt asked.

"No. I'd prefer if it didn't come up. I told her I lost those powers…I didn't tell her that they came back." Ashley whispered.

Druitt dropped the subject. He was back in his right mind and he would not betray the person who had done that for him. Her secret was safe until she told it. "Alright, so what is the urgent matter that has lead to my near death by electrocution?"

"The Sanctuary is going to fall. The network is no longer in mom's control." Ashley explained.

"Oh, I see, and she wants my help to see that it doesn't." Druitt concluded.

Ashley grabbed his arm and teleported back to Old City from half way around the world. She continued the conversation as if nothing had happened. "No, she wants your help to see that it does."

She began to walk away expecting him to follow, until she turned back to him. "Think of it as an exercise in family bonding."

Alright there it is. Sorry it's a little short and it was late. This chpter felt a little stilted to me and I think that is because of the two primary characters relationship. Stilted is exactly how I would describe Druitt and Ashley. I originally thought about having Will find out about Ashley's powers, because he is of course a profiler and already figuring it out. There is just something so beautifully seymetrical about it being John though. Both he and Ashley have these horrible monsters inside of them and it just works. Please keep reading and if it isn't too much to ask, leave a review.