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Marcus quietly crept into Electra's bedroom as she lay in the middle of the bed, curled into a tight ball while holding teddy bear to her chest. The position strangely reminded the vampire of another person they had brought in long, long ago who did the same thing when he had thought that world was nothing but filled with cruel beings without any kind hearts. Shaking his head with real disappointment, he made his way towards and sat down at the edge of the bed and waited.

It took a long while before she finally stopped crying and realized that someone was watching her. Pushing her hair from her tear stained face, she turned around and saw Marcus steadily regarding her with kind eyes as he reached out and gently wiped the tears away with his palm. He motioned to his lap silently with a beckoning motion. Electra crawled into his lap and buried her face into his chest, not caring that she could feel his cold skin through his clothes as he slowly rocked her back and forth like a little child while rubbing her back.

"I am deeply sorry apologize for the way my brother acted tonight with your friend." Marcus finally said. "No excuse can possibly be used for his lack of manners and awareness towards other people's feelings. And I feel that as a adopted father figure in your life, I should have been the one to go with you tonight to the movies, if I had been aware of what Caius was going to do."

Electra buried her face further into his robes. "They called me a bitch after what he had done to Jessy." She told him tearfully "I...just wanted to have a normal night with friends and for once since I had first arrived, live one night as a human being without the restrained of being around a secret world of vampires. I still have nightmares of that night when my son was killed by that vampire who wanted my blood."

"I know that it is still very hard for you to adjust to our world while still living in your own, sweetheart." Marcus replied. "Caius no longer knows how to behave properly like one because everything that he knew emotionally as a human, was burned away by the venom, leaving behind only the pain and scars of his past within him. Its very rare if he even shows a once of pity or something related to kindness, save to his late mate, towards anyone else."

She looked up at him. "But does that mean he has to act like the way he did with my classmate?"

Marcus smiled approvingly at the sharpness of her tone. It seemed that there was more to her then what meets that eye. He tapped a finger over her hand resting on chest. "Well, it wasn't right that they called such a bad name for one," He said slowly. "And secondly, Caius had been told by both Aro and myself before he had gone with you, to not do anything stupid that would hurt you. Obviously, he forgot that in his personal world of jealously with your friend. I am going to have a nice long talk with him when he get back from his night walk."

Electra sat up and vigorously scrubbed her wet cheeks with her sleeves. "I look like a total mess." She laughed shakily as she got off the bed and stretched her arms above her head. "I think I will take a hot shower and just go straight to bed tonight." She announced. Marcus nodded and stood up. He gave her a firm, but gentle hug.

"Don't worry yourself when you go to school. If they keep on calling you names or spread rumors about what happened tonight, then they are really not your friends and you need," He pointed to her beating heart. "Should find better people who you can trust and call a real friend."

Electra laughed softly. Marcus was surly someone who really did understand everything that was going on with her. And the good thing about him, was that he actually takes the time and the effort to sit down and listen to what she need to get out. If it wasn't for him showing her kindness the first time they had met back in Seattle, then she would have gladly jumped out the window at the motel they were staying at and been with her baby.

Marcus tilted his head to one side, his crimson eyes worried. "Is there something wrong, child?" He asked. "I hope I wasn't too blunt with what I just told you."

She quickly shook her head no. "Its all good, Marcus. I need to hear the truth from time to time." She answered while going over to her dresser and pulling open a drawer. "The truth hurts, but better to feel the pain from that then having someone lie to you all the time." She trotted off to the bathroom while Marcus went to the door and stuck his head out. Sexton was quietly talking with Felix and Demetri further down the hallway and they all went quite when they sensed him watching them. Marcus felt bad for getting angry at them for the failed night out, but sometimes, they had to be told the truth the hard way in order to better understand what was going on. Besides, someone had to teach them that allowing their master to act the way he did tonight, was not something that Marcus Volturi was going to allow to slip by without anything being done. He motioned for them to come into the bedroom.

"She is taking a bath and I would like the three of you to do guard duty tonight since your other master won't be returning until dawn."

All three respectfully bowed their heads while passing him by. Marcus shook his head in wonder. It had been a very long time since he had managed to allow his temper get the best of his better judgment, but he was sure after tonight, the trio would not allow any slip ups to happen anytime soon. Especially since he still needed to have that one and one talk with his younger brother concerning the girl once again.

Marcus slipped his hands into his robes and slowly took his time walking about the castle as he pondered on what he was going to say to him. If he was lazy about it and just gave him a light rehpermand, most likely Caius will not listen to him and just go into one of his foul tempers. But if he didn't say something that would really stick to his brain, then that too would go on the wayside as well.

"Perhaps I can get Aro to help on this matter." He said out loud with a finger in the air. "At least with him, Caius will actually listen to the both of us." With that thought in mind, Marcus hurried off to find his older brother in his private wing. He just hoped that he was willing to take some time out of his personal affairs with his wife by dawn to give Cauis the long awaited medicine that he needed in order to square up and act like a decent human being.