Scarlett sat still as Alli and Lulu examined her to try and find out why she was able to be turned. So far they'd only been poking and prodding her. Finally Lulu came up with a brilliant solution.

"I think I know why you could be changed. Your weakness was your strength. Because you had so much human blood you were able to be turned." Said Lulu.

"So what am I now Granny Lu?" Scarlett asked, not sure what species she was.

"Well…you look like a vampire but you still shift on the full moon and from what I've heard, you finally shift regularly. I guess you're a hybrid but a different kind. Interesting."

"Well… the good thing is that she could live off blood alone or she could live off regular food." Said Alli.

"You my child…are a supernatural anomaly!" Said Lulu.

Scarlett transported home only to find Todd trying to calm down Dorian who was balled up in a corner crying. It'd only been three weeks since the war and things were anything but back to normal.

"No don't cry! It's going to be okay!" Said Todd.

"I want my daddy!" Said Dorian loudly

"But he's gone. Here, I'll take you to my daddy."

"No! I don't want your daddy I want mine! It's not fair. Why'd you get to keep yours and I can't? Your daddy isn't even nice like my daddy. He doesn't make me smoothies or collect leaves with me. I want my daddy!"

Scarlett saw Todd struggling to calm Dorian and down and she didn't know what to do. Gray was supposed to be watching them but he was pretending that his wound was hurting, even though it was almost completely healed up.

Scarlett transported to the costume shop where she walked in on Eli and Clare in a very compromising position. Her mom had her legs spread wide open and her dad's face was buried between her mother's thighs.

"Oh this is so gross!" Said Scarlett as she turned around and covered her eyes.

"Scarlett!" Said Clare, sounding shocked. "We..what…what are you doing here baby?"

"Never mind…just put some clothes on please!"

"Scarlett now…what you just walked in on between me and your mother was a beautiful thing." Said Eli with a devious chuckle.

"Okay Scarlett, we're dressed." Said Clare. "Now what is it?"

Scarlett peeked first before turning completely around. She didn't want to risk seeing anymore boobs or butts or her dad's weenie.

"Dorian is freaking out on Todd right now. He wants Fitz and Todd is trying to help but it's not working."

"Eli…do you want to handle this?" Asked Clare.

"Yeah."

Scarlett was alone with her mother. Things were awkward so she decided to go to Coyne Manor. She ended up right in Lucas' room. Surprising how she always thinks to go there first. He wasn't in it. She just decided to make herself comfortable. She laid her head on his pillow but there was something hard behind it. His journal…she presumed. It didn't even have a lock on it. She didn't want to be totally nosy but she could resist peeking. Before she could open it the door flew open and she was caught red handed.

"Well well well… looks like we have an intruder." Said Lucas

"I can explain." She said, placing the journal back behind his pillow.

"No explanation necessary. You're snooping around and reading my diary."

"Your diary?" She asked with a giggle.

"Yes, my diary. What, just because I'm a man I can't keep a diary? Why are you here?"

"Ouch!"

"You know what I mean. What's your reason for invading my room and reading my journal when you could have just come down to the dining room where everyone else is?"

"It just that…my house it loud. Dorian cries all the time, my niece and nephew cry all the time, Gray is pretending to still be hurt my father is drinking more and more everyday and Todd is happy go lucky. I just need a different atmosphere."

"Baby it ain't much better here. Fiona is crafting to deal with the loss so the entire first floor is decorated with these creepy miniature clown dolls. My dad checks the house at least fifteen times a day for any hybrids that might have been left over. My mother is stress eating and Jay well… he's turned to laced blood which I've always heard was a vice of his when he was my age."

Scarlett stayed in Lucas' room until night, talking, sleeping and talking some more until Holly J came up an told her that Clare was expecting her home in thirty seconds. She kissed her boyfriend goodbye and she made it home in time to get her normal seat at the dinner table. To her surprise things weren't as chaotic as before but they were nowhere near fine.

Once all the children were put to bed and Clare was in the shower Eli went into the kitchen and looked in the cabinet. He grabbed a bottle of whiskey and filled a glass up with it, right to the rim. He gulped it down and he had another glass. He was so intent on reaching the bottom of that bottle that he didn't even realize Todd standing behind him.

"Daddy that stuff's not good for you." Said Todd matter of factly "Mommy says it's poison!"

"Don't worry. Daddy's strong enough to take it." He said, already beginning to slur his words.

"No you're not. You sound like you've had a stroke. No more for you!"

"Todd go back to bed."

"No daddy! You never come and tuck me in and read to me anymore so every night I come out to see why and you're always drinking that poison stuff. I'm starting to think you like it more than you like me!"

"That isn't true and you know it."

"It's because I'm different isn't it? It's because I have a tickle shield huh?"

Eli wanted to tell his son that he loved him just the same but he literally could not find the words. The liquor was working on him and he wasn't sure if he could even remember how to spell his own name. He got off the kitchen's stool to try and talk to his son but as soon as his feet touched the floor and he took one step he fell to the ground in a face plant. He busted his nose and Todd went running to the back yelling "Mommy Mommy! Daddy's been poisoned!" Clare came running to kitchen with her hair dripping wet and a robe on. Eli couldn't find the sobriety to raise his head.

"Baby, Daddy is going to be fine. Go back to bed okay?"

"Can I go to grandma's?" Asked Todd.

"Why?"

"I just want to go. I don't think I'm wanted very much right now."

Clare spied the mostly empty bottle of whiskey and she knew exactly what her husband's poison had been. He was on the floor, eyes shut and mumbling so she grabbed the glass and she broke it right beside his head. He jumped to life, startled and ready to attack. She was ready to do some attacking of her own. She'd tolerated his nightly drink up until this point but for him to get shit faced drunk while the children were home was not acceptable.

"What the hell did you do that for!" Yelled Eli.

"Why'd I do that? Because you're fucking passed out drunk in the middle of the kitchen floor Elijah!"

"Well so fucking what! Everybody is asleep!"

"Funny thing about kids...just because they are in bed doesn't mean they'll stay there and for some reason now Todd thinks he's not wanted! What did you say to him?"

"Nothing! I didn't say anything to him! He just thinks I don't like him anymore an…"

"Oh this is fucking wonderful! Look, sleep on the couch and get yourself together!"

"Get myself together? Is that a joke? It's real easy for you to say that when you don't have to listen to everybody else mourning."

"Well you think I don't feel sad for everybody we lost? You don't think I'm mad and frustrated and disturbed? You weren't the only one on that fucking battlefield Elijah and you weren't the only one who lost somebody dear to them! Instead of sinking to the bottom of a bottle of Jack why don't you try talking to somebody or helping! Fiona's baby was taken from her and you haven't even gone to see her and Adam in weeks!"

"I'm giving them space."

"Bullshit! You're sulking! We lost a lot of good people but we have to remember them fondly, move on and take care of the ones who actually did survive. Enjoy the sofa asshole."

Clare hadn't been this mad at Eli in a while. She threw the lumpiest pillow she could find in the living room for him to sleep on. She also gave him the thinnest blanket. That'd teach him a lesson. She transported to Cece and Bullfrog's where Todd was asleep in Bullfrog's lap while he read "There's an Alligator under my bed."

"Clare, I took good care of him for you. He was pretty down in the spirits, something happen?"

"He thinks Eli doesn't like him anymore because of his powers."

"Ah…"

"Eli was drunk and he didn't say the right thing when she should have so Todd took his silence as well, the answer to his question."

"Want me to talk to my son?"

"Yeah… I do. He's been living in the bottle lately. We just had a huge fight and I kicked him out…of the bedroom. I put him on the couch."

"Well a night of sofa sleeping and a hangover tomorrow might be the remedy he needs."

Clare gathered Todd into her arms and they transported back to their house where she lay him in his bed. He woke up and looked at her. She still couldn't believe how much of her own face she saw in his. Even down to his blond hair.

"Mama why doesn't daddy like me anymore?"

"He does baby. He loves you."

"No… I know he loves me but I don't think he likes me. He never wants to play games with me anymore or read to me. Is it something I did?"

"No. Of course not. Daddy is just being stupid but I beat him up and now he's smart again."

"Ha ha! Mommy you're funny. I feel bad for Dorian. He cries all the time."

"Well he's sad about his daddy."

"I offer to share mine."

"Well Todd think of it this way. If your daddy died would you feel the same about sharing somebody else's daddy?"

"Heck no! It wouldn't be the same."

"Well that's how Dorian feels. We just have to remember to be nice to him and treat him like he's a part of the family because he is now."

"So he's my brother?"

"In one sense or another."

"Great… I gain another brother and I'm still the youngest."

"Goodnight my little angel."

"Night Mommy."

Clare went into the bedroom and lay down on the bed. She knew Eli was being invisible and lying in the bed so she kicked him where the ribs would be and there was a loud thud on the floor.

"Clare, what the fuck!"

"Couch, now!"

He groaned and left. She chuckled to herself. Maybe she'd considered letting him back into the bed tomorrow. Maybe…

Gray scratched the wound. It was healing and itching. He didn't want to scratch it too much because it would start bleeding. Before he had time to do too much of anything he heard a little whimper coming from the crib. He walked over. Sarah was patting Sterling's face trying to wake him up. Probably she they could start trouble. Gray picked her up and nipped it in the bud. She smiled at him and giggled, showing off the two teeth that were making their way through her bottom gums.

"Little girl why are you up so late?"

She reached for her bottle and he knew she must have been hungry. He looked in his mini fridge; got her out some formula and he put a bottle in the warmer.

"You know, I almost died. You were inches away from being an orphan. You don't even care do you?"

She smiled and leaned into him which she kicked her chubby legs and waited for her formula to be ready. He knew his pleas for sympathy had fallen on deaf ears and he preferred it that way. He fed her, burped her, changed her and put her back to sleep. An hour later her brother woke up and he did the same routine for him. Finally he got to go back to bed. That was until he got a phone call.

"Hello?"

"Hi this is Maria Del Rossi and I…"

"Who?"

"That's not important really. I just wanted to tell you that I found your license when I was hiking and I thought you might need it."

He checked his wallet and his license was gone. He hadn't even missed it.

"Well thanks… Um, do you live in the city?"

"Yes."

"Do you want to meet at the Dot?"

"Sure. How about noon?"

"Perfect. Um, thanks again."

He was grateful for good Samaritans.

Lucas held his arms open while Scarlett jumped out the window and into his arms. They weren't taking the car tonight because they were going to be going to a vampire club and parking was horrific. Instead they walked to the little underground spot. Peter was the owner.

"What are you doing here Coyne? Trying to get me killed by your daddy? If the war didn't do it he sure will if he finds out you're coming here." Said Peter

"Come on Pete! Please." Begged Lucas.

"Yeah Peter, please!" Said Scarlett

"A Coyne and a Goldsworthy in my club… I'm going to be so dead. Go on in but no drinking or drugging!"

"Thanks Peter!" Yelled Lucas as he entered into the club behind Scarlett who was already dancing.

It was packed and the DJ was fierce. All around were vampires feeding, human donating and people popping laced blood or downing the alcoholic blood. It was your average club. He held onto Scarlett's hips and he noticed what she had on. It was a bronze leather dress that hugged every curve in her body and stopped right under her ass. He'd never seen her in something so revealing (other than her bare skin) but he liked it.

As soon as they walked in there were too many eyes on her. Vampires weren't discreet about horniness. They fucked like rabbits usually and the sex was almost always nasty.

"Hello precious, what's the chance that I'll be sleeping in your bed tonight?" Asked a vampire.

"I'm with m.." Said Scarlett as she attempted to turn the vampire down.

"No chance because she's with me. Cool?"

"Alright alright."

He walked away and Lucas couldn't help but feel like coming to the club was a mistake, and with what Scarlett had on she'd have half the vampires and vampiresses wanting to jump in her pants er up her dress.

He watched her hips and ass sway from side to side as she danced to the slow grungy tune and he couldn't really blame them for wanting to fuck her. She was beautiful, no more than that she was sex and for the first time ever Lucas found himself extraordinarily jealous.

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