Chapter 6

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The moment was purely surreal, the two points of his entire life were rushing to meet each other violently in an epic clash. Rose, he had always loved her, even through good times and bad, but when she had left seemingly into the unknown years ago he thought he would never see her again. He was just happy Alyssa wasn't at home to see this. Swopping down, he felt her warm figure hop off of his back. Quickly he transformed back into his human form to face her. All she could do was merely smile, her eyes followed him as he began to pace back and forth in front of her. She crossed her arms tighter around her chest and looked up to him.

"You know, no matter how much you walk like that it won't change the fact that I am here and the Huntsclan probably now knows your human identity since you attacked one of their hangers that was packed with security cameras," She said smiling. "What we need to do now is formulate a plan, any ideas Dragon boy?"

He placed his hand on his hip and looked at her. "Now, we're going to get something clear, in front of Alyssa, you are my old friend not her mother, I have not told her about you yet-"

"What," Her voice rose walking up to within an inch of him. "You haven't even told her about me yet!"

"No, I haven't but you-"

He didn't finish, as the stinging grip of her hand stung across his face as she slapped him viciously. The red mark on his cheek stung as he ran his hand up and down it. His eyes drew to hers, the regret and sadness of not telling Alyssa about Rose was now setting in. The tears in her eyes ran down her face as she looked at him. Without another word, he pulled her to him and tied his arms around her and kissed her ferociously. He couldn't help himself, he was lonely, and the years without her were manifesting themselves in his kiss.

Rose fell right into this amazing kiss, it was one of those things that he had a talent for, and when she broke off for air she sighed happily. "I'm sorry about that, but tell me why the hell you haven't you said something about me, you promised me Jake, remember?"

"You're going to have trust me when I say, that if I would have told her about you then something horrible would happen to her mind, she grew up hating the Huntsclan and to find out that her mother was the Huntsgirl would have done things to her, she's a moody girl sometimes." He said half smiling.

She nodded in silent agreement, somehow in her mind she knew that Jake would never tell Alyssa about her lineage, at least on her maternal side. For the moment she was happy to be near him again, over the years no one could do the things that he could to her. Compared to him she had never been this plunged into love. And she would gladly take that long plunge.

He began to kiss her neck slowly. "I've missed you…"

"Honey, you have no idea how mutual that feeling is" She said smiling at that feeling.

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She was so happy that school was over for today, all she had to do was get her Homework done, eat something and go to sleep. With a forceful tug she opened the door and entered the apartment. And for the first time today, Alyssa wondered what her dad had been doing. She rounded the corner of the hall and the smell of fresh coffee filled the air, and that was odd, her father only drank coffee in the morning, not at four o'clock in the afternoon. Tossing her backpack off and setting it down, she looked at her father who was staring at the coffeemaker, and then she looked over to the couch and something strange hit her in her mind. Alyssa felt that she had met this woman before, like a lost friend or something, and the woman apparently didn't notice her as she was too enthralled in some TV show.

"Oh, Lyss I thought you would have had detention or something?" Jake said grinning at her.

Rolling her eyes she shook her head and smiled at her dad. "I did, school gets out at three"

Chuckling, Jake poured some of the coffee that he was making into a mug that he had set out for himself. "I hope you don't mind, an old friend, dropped out of nowhere and we've been visiting each other, Alyssa, I'd like you to meet Rose, Rose come meet Alyssa…"

Turning her head, Rose took her daughter in, instead of grinning brightly like her brain was telling her too, she smiled and waved. She felt her breath hitch when she saw no Huntsclan mark on the girls wrist 'Oh thank the lord' she thought in relief. "It's nice to meet you…"

"Nice to meet you too" Alyssa said smiling.

Rose nervously brushed a lose strain of hair back behind her ear and returned the smile, she had to note how much that smile looked like hers at that age. "Thank you …"

Not saying another word, the young girl departed back into the hallway that led to her bedroom. Jake, who was watching the entire scene, felt electricity run through him. Almost the second after Alyssa and left, Rose got up from the couch and leaned over the kitchen counter confused. "Uh, Jake…I know this is great and all I was just wondering-"

"Was why she didn't receive the mark of the Huntsclan?" Jake said finishing her sentence

She nodded. "I mean I expected that, she is my daughter"

"Well she is also mine," Jake said. "And I think it might have something to with that same thing that happened with my mother, Dragon Powers skipped her generation, and it might have had the same affect in her accept it affected the Huntsclan part or her instead of the Dragon part"

That made sense at least. "That makes sense, thank goodness for that"

Jake smiled, nodded and took a sip of the coffee. "Want some?"

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He was furious that his trap hadn't worked at all, he was that close to getting rid of the American Dragon and his lineage. No matter how much he watched the video he could never get a picture of the assailants face that took the Huntsgirl away from the plane. But the Huntsman had a feeling he knew who it was, but he wasn't quite sure to believe it or now.

They needed to find her anyway possible, Rose was the key to finally destroying the twenty year old pain in the Huntsclan's side and he wasn't going to give her up so easily. He had ordered all of the hunters in the state to be on the lookout for her. And kill the person that kidnapped her from the plane. And he was going to make sure that he got her.

One way, or the other…

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