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"Angela!" Alastor stared at his ex-wife in astonishment. "What are you doing here?"

"Stopping you from hurting my children any more than you already have." Daena ran over to Syrus. "I shouldn't have let Syrus come here for the summer. I never should have let my guard down when it came to you. I'm so sorry." She turned to look at her sons. "Zane, I'm sorry that I left you with this lunatic for years. I am responsible for what has been done to you."

"It's alright, Mom. I wasn't hurt, for the most part." Zane smiled a little.

"I hate to break up the reunion, but you have to leave." Alastor faced Angela. "There is no place for you in your sons' lives, now that they will both be vampires."

"I'm here to stop you from doing anymore harm." Angela drew out a dagger.

"What is Mom doing here?" he whispered to Daena.

"I was coming over here to help you, and I ran into her. I don't know how she found out, but she did."

Angela looked at Atticus, lying on the floor, and Alexis, putting pressure on his wounds. "What have you done?!" She stared at him angrily. "You may have killed this boy, and for what? Your pride?" She was yelling now.

Alastor pulled out a dagger. "I don't have to justify myself to you."

"No, you don't. The Slayers and other vampires may see it differently, though. You have broken the Code of Blood."

"I am the ruler of this region. I do not answer to anyone but myself!"

"Believe what you want. The Slayers are coming for you; I contacted them a few days ago." Angela smiled. "They should be here soon. If you're lucky, they will finish you off before the Council comes for you."

"Bitch!" Alastor snarled. Then he seemed to think of something else. "How did you know to contact the Slayers?"

Angela glanced over at Zane, her gaze softening. "Zane was worried about his brother, and he phoned me to tell me everything." She pulled out a knife and pointed it at him. "It seems you raised him well after all." She added with a smirk.

Alastor's scowl deepened. "He is a traitor to his kind! I will have my revenge on all of you!"

Daena watched him coldly. "You will not have your revenge. My clan is coming, and they are experts in vampire extermination. You have caused enough pain to last a lifetime; you shall die for it."

"Perhaps not, but you will die also!" Alastor hurled his dagger straight at Daena.

Cries of alarm rose from the rest of the people in the room. Syrus was the only one who reacted fast enough to stop the dagger.

It hit him in the chest.

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Zane watched in horror as Syrus fell back onto the floor. Daena and Alexis started screaming. Angela yelled, "Syrus!!" as she watched her youngest son fall; blood welled up from around the dagger and dripped onto the floor. Alastor laughed manically.

Zane pulled the dagger from Syrus's chest. Syrus winced horribly as the metal slid from his flesh. "Sorry." Said Zane softly. He clenched the knife in his hand, preparing himself. It has to be done; he's hurt too many people. I have to stop him.

There were loud bangs as Slayers burst into the room. The leader, presumably Daena's father, took one look at the scene and went straight for Alastor, taking out a sword as he did.

Alastor almost escaped out the window when the same dagger he threw at Syrus hit him in the back of the neck. Angela's struck him in the small of the back. He fell over the side, and hit the ground with a loud thud.

Two Slayers headed outside to make sure Alastor was dead. Another phoned an ambulance for Syrus, who was barely conscious, and Atticus, who was going into shock.

Daena was talking to her father, explaining that it was Alastor's fault, and that the other vampires in the room were victims. She was having a hard time convincing him of this fact.

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Zane watched as the paramedics carted Atticus and Syrus out to the waiting ambulance, an odd expression on his face. Angela went over and touched his shoulder. "It's over now, Zane. You and Syrus are safe."

"I killed my father."

"He was going to kill everyone in the room. He was evil, Zane, and he had to be stopped." She hugged him. "You had courage where I failed."

Zane looked at her, his eyes misty with unshed tears. "What do you mean?"

"I threw my knife to cripple him. I couldn't bring myself to kill the person I had once loved." She pressed her mouth into a thin line. "It takes great bravery to do what needs to be done, Zane."

"I still feel horrible." Zane leaned into her shoulder.

"You're in shock."

Alexis and Daena came over. "Wow, Zane. I didn't know you had such good aim." Daena smiled. "I'm sorry that your father turned out to be so evil."

"I should have seen that coming. Thanks for trying to protect Syrus."

Daena smiled ironically. "In the end, he ended up saving me. I'm not much of a protector, am I?"

Alexis managed a grin. "That's okay. Sometimes, it's nice to sit back and let the guys do all the work."

"Not too often." Angela put in. "otherwise they start thinking that they're in charge." They all laughed at that, even Zane.

Alexis looked at Zane. "What are you going to do now? You can't live here alone."

"He won't have to. He's going to come and live with Syrus and me until he's eighteen." His mother said with an assured air.

Zane smiled. "That answers that question." He gave his mother a kiss on the cheek. "I'd be honoured."

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Kind of a short chapter. R&R!

A/N: The Code of Blood is the book of rules that vampires live by. The Council is a panel of old, wise vampires who enforce the rules.