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"Peyton, honey, aren't you going to eat?" 'Tesla' asked halfway through dinner. I looked at Peyton as sat slumped in her seat, her plate untouched. She lifted her head and narrowed her eyes at the woman identical to her mother and the older woman frowned. "What's wrong?"

"Don't call me that," Peyton spoke, her voice almost at a growl. "Don't think you and father could lie to me, not even when I was seven and that car accident happened and you came into our lives."

"Peyton, what are you talking about?" Alexander spoke, putting down his fork.

"Rei has the right to know. My mother is dead..."

"Peyton, stop it right now," Alexander snapped standing up.

"Stop what? Stop telling the truth?" Peyton yelled as she slammed her fist into the table as she stood and I winced at the anger in her voice. "How can you have a clear conscious about what's best for your family when you're sleeping with Rei's mother while your wife lies in a coffin 6 feet underground on the farthest corner of this property?" The table went dead silent that the chirps of crickets reached them from the tree line about a half mile away.

"Peyton..."

"I don't want your excuses for lying to the whole family and your servants. Kuu and I would have been fine learning the truth a decade ago," Peyton spoke coldly as she walked back into the house.

"Dad...? What's going on?" Kuu asked shakily and Alexander hung his head and slumped into his seat while the woman stayed frozen and wide eyed.

I looked over at Rei and saw him shaking in his seat and saw something fall from his cheeks that shimmered in the setting sun. I walked over to him and pulled him to his feet and pulled him inside before he lost control. The house seemed gloomy as I half dragged Rei upstairs to the third floor to the room that Peyton had said was his.

"Why...?" I looked at him as he collapsed on the couch and I saw tears in his eyes. "Why did no one say anything...?"

"I don't know," I signed. "I found out when I went up to Peyton's tower and she told me not to say anything. It's a shrine of Tesla up there."

"I guess that explains why I always heard her crying when I was nearby in the forests. There were so many reminders of Tesla around this property, but I've been around here for years, checking up on Peyton after Kuu came to the academy... Why would she never tell me...?"

"Because they wanted to keep up illusions, thinking I didn't know the truth," Peyton came into the room quietly. "They thought that Kuu would go into uncontrollable hysterics while I'd go suicidal. I knew it was a lie the day she came home. She always had the underlings of cigarettes that she tried to hide by using moms perfume. Then I heard them in his personal study talking about it weeks later. Back then, I thought the same thing about how Kuu would react and let the lie continue. When you told me that you were that woman's son, I felt like I needed to tell you but was too afraid to do so when I learned what they did. Forgive me Rei."

"I... I understand," Rei stuttered as he sat up slowly. "Do you know exactly where Tesla's resting place is?"

"Would you like to go visit her?" Peyton whispered, smiling slightly and Rei stood up. "Get some warmer cloths on, and prepare for my rain so we can have some cover. The woods are a lot colder than you would think as well since there are not many houses up this way and meet me at my room. I have gear up in the tower for night walks to the shrine. It would also be nice of you have those guards make sure that no one else follows. I may know where every single camera is but I'm not perfect. Kuu isn't ready to know where she is." Then she walked out of the room.

-No One's POV-

Rei and Natsume entered Peyton's room wearing dark jeans, dark long sleeved shirts and dark light coats. Peyton stood by the mirror wearing black jeans tucked into knee high boots and also had on a crimson long sleeved top and a black coat. Strapped to her thigh was a sheathed blade. As soon as she saw the two males she nodded and moved the mirror and rushed them through then slipped in behind them and closed the entrance tightly.

"Move quickly," she called to them as she turned on a flashlight so they could see. "Let's hope the wolves are not awake tonight with the new smells around the property."

"Wolves?" Rei asked.

"They're common in this area and I've always thought of them as grave guardians since their cave is near Tesla. Now that I know about Alices, I think she had an animal Pheromone Alice like Luca." The two males nodded and sped up their pace to the tower and Peyton turned off the flashlight. "Don't move until I say", she whispered and they heard her moving around and several clicks and a thud.

"Peyton...?" Natsume whispered

"Over here," she whispered and they say her open one of the blackout curtains. "There is ladder here. The cameras don't reach this part of the house but you still have to be quick since there are several windows that look this way. As soon as you reach the ground, hide in those bushes until I get there. I need to get several things."

Rei went first and Natsume hurried after him. They climbed down as fast as they could and Natsume notices a rope to the side of the ladder. They reached the bottom and crouched in the bushes as several howls echoed around the trees.

"Damn wolves," Rei muttered. "Too bad Luca isn't here to help."

"Yeah but I'm sure Peyton has a way," Natsume whispered.

"Yeah, that blade on her leg will be perfect."

The rope next to them shifted and they looked up and saw Peyton falling toward them, wearing a fur coat over her other one and a black back strapped to her back as she held the rope in her hands. She landed with a quiet thud next to them and sighed as she flexed her hands. She looked at the two males and they nodded, silently saying they were ready. Her eyes turned grey and the few clouds closed and grew then thunder clapped across the sky and started raining

"Rei, pull up your hood and start running. As soon as you reach the trees, there will be one that you can climb incase the wolves are nearby. Go!" she hissed and Rei disappeared. "Get ready Natsume, same deal, hood up and run to the tree. Now!"

Peyton pulled up her own hood and took a breath before following them as she made it start raining heavily behind her so that anyone at the windows would have a hard time seeing. She stopped under the tree and the two males landed next to her. She pulled off the backpack and handed it to Rei who pulled it on without a word as Peyton fixed her fur coat.

"Wolf skin?" Rei asked as he studied the hood. It was a wolf's head.

"I had to retire the sick Alpha," she shrugged as she pulled out her blade. "Stay close to me. The heavy rain will stay behind us but it will still rain above us."

-Natsume-

I studied Peyton as we ran through the forest, jumping over fallen trees while ducking under others. She reminded of the hunter from the Amercian movie, The Brothers Grimm, since the wolf skin looked almost identical. She looked great, all she needed as the magic axe that the hunter had and she would be set... Natsume shook his head and focused on where he was running. It was dark and Peyton had refused to turn on any flashlight. She ran ahead, looking like an expert as she'd jump over logs in seconds that Rei and I had to have help on. After a while, I felt the chill and told Peyton and she stopped and opened the backpack on Rei's back.

"Sorry, should had given you these easier," she whispered, slightly winded. They were wolf skins, similar to hers. "Mom had made these two a while ago, I remember her saying that even if someone felt the chill of the night, this would make that disappear immediately." I pulled mine on and felt warm seep into my body almost immediately. Peyton closed the backpack and held it while Rei pulled on the skin then handed it back to him. "I would wear it but that would confuses the wolves. I don't usually carry a bag but what's in there is for you two since you've never been in these woods while I was in them every night I was at this home. Are you guys good or do you need a break?"

"A break please," Rei whispered. "How far have we ran?"

"Several miles since we are close to half way there. Rest up, I'm gonna scout around and see of I can find a good friend of mine who lives out here," she whispered before kissing my cheek and disappearing into the woods.

"What do you think that means?" I asked Rei and he shrugged as he leaned against a tree. We heard howling nearby and I jumped at the proximity. "Damn, do you think we should have let her disappear like that?"

"These woods are more of her home than the mansion, she'll be fine..."

We heard fighting and growling in the distant also the sound of metal skidding across a rock. Rei moved closer to me and we stayed silent, and tried to breath as little as possible when the fighting got closer. I heard a yelp then a whine ten the fighting stopped and heard Peyton giggling. I frowned as I saw her enter the small clearing, breathing hard and her jeans torn across her right thigh revealing several gashes.

"What happened?" I demanded and was going to go to her when I heard a growl and a wolf entered the clearing.

It was black with a few lighter spots evey now and then. On its left hind leg was a mass of matted fur and was keeping its weigh off of it as it limped towards Peyton. Peyton growled at the wolf and it whined and lowered its head which went to her shoulder. Peyton made a yipping noise followed by a few growls and the wolf seemed to do the same thing then it laid down on the damp ground and Peyton scratched it behind the ears.

"Natsume, Rei, this is Migé (pronounced me-gey). He's the one I wanted to find," she smiled as she kept her weight on her left leg as the wolf licked the wound on her right.

"Was the one who hurt you?" I growled and she laughed as she shook her head.

"Wolf laws are different then our own. They always fight to show who is the dominate alpha. Migé here loves to try and prove he's stronger than me but always fails. He was lucky to mark me. Are you to ready?" she smiled.

"Am I allowed to bandage your leg?" I asked.

"Nope," she smiled. "Shows weakness to the pack, besides Migé's saliva has already made the blood clot. As the alpha wolf, he is gifted with that trait. He controls the pack when I'm not around."

I sighed as the wolf got back to his feet an we started running through the forest again.