Dawn felt like she had been torn inside out after she gave birth. Tayle had been silent, standing ominously in front of the window, silhouetted, reminding Dawn of one of the Shadow Dancer's shadows. There constantly, but not really, Tayle was a very mysterious character, Dawn had come to realize. She didn't really know much about the Shadow Dancer, what made her so sad, she said it was losing her world. Her family. But, looking harder, Dawn had realized that the Shadows that had followed her around, were her family. What made her so upset? Why did she miss her home world so much that the fact that everyone that mattered to her was at her command didn't heal that hurt?

Dawn watched the Shadow Dancer as she gently rocked her new baby girl. Jason's daughter. Dawn smiled at the thought, Jason would be so happy. She looked down at the little girl, her father's eyes, hazel. Dawn smiled lovingly as the baby looked to her mother. Her tiny little fist stuck in her mouth, making little cooing noises. Dawn giggled a little. She always loved babies.

"What is her name?" Tayle asked, she had appeared beside Dawn. The Shadow Master was always gone when she and Jason discussed names. Dawn considered naming the baby after Jason's mother. Pamela Voorhees the Second… She enjoyed Jason's mother, but her name wasn't all that appealing. Dawn looked down on her child, trying to pin a name on the infant that suited her.

"Hope. I'll run it past the father before it becomes official." Dawn told Tayle. The Shadow Dancer slid away from Dawn and the infant and returned to her post in front of the window. Her arms reaching up to the sides of the window, leaning forward. She looked to be reaching for the sky.

The baby in Dawn's arms watched the Shadow Dancer in awe. Dawn tilted her head a little to the side, wondering why the baby took such sudden interest in the Grecian. Dawn's thoughts then wavered to Jason back at camp, wondering how he was.

Jason knew if something had gone wrong, Tayle would've come and told him. Yet he still was worried for Dawn. His child. He wondered what it was, a boy or a girl. He wasn't sure what he wanted it to be. It was girls and only girls who had loved him at all in his entire life. Both natural and unnatural. So he was pretty sure he wanted a daughter. He wondered what she looked like.

And I thought I'd be the one with a kid! He recalled Tayle's reply to finding out he was going to be a father.

Daddy Voorhees. He thought. Daddy. Him, a father, he now realized how outrageous the fact that he of all people, was becoming a father. How ironic. What a hypocrite. Jason smiled slightly behind his mask. He was different from the people he killed. He loved Dawn. Love was different from lust. He stood at the lake, watching the waters. Everything was calm, the storm had subsided, but the now dry air crackled with a new storm on the horizon, literally. Lightening struck angrily in the distance, so far, Jason could barely see it. But the flashes of light were very visible. He realized that the schools would be letting out soon. That meant trouble. Teenagers. Jason now had more on the line than ever, his family. Not just his mother's resting place, not just Dawn, everything. He had to live. Losing now wasn't an option.

As though on cue, three cars pulled up. Jason made a break for the woods, going to get more traps so he could guard Dawn's house better. Going past Cabin Three, Jason went to the weapon shack and picked up some bear traps and a 'No Trespassing' sign. He got to work setting the bear traps and setting up the sign on a tree to the right of the mouth of Dawn's drive way. There was the thought in the back of his mind that the warning would be ignored and Jason would have to kill near the future home of his hopefully baby girl.

Jason listened to the howled laughter of the intruders. Why didn't they just listen to the damn locals. Maybe if he went and killed some of the locals, they'd stress the fact that outsiders shouldn't come to the camp. Probably not, they'd probably just come for him. Jason heaved a sigh and went back to cabin three to await the fall of night.

Sitting alone in the cabin, he was so used to having Dawn around, it was almost uncomfortable without her around. Jason looked around and went down to the tunnels. Going towards the sharpener he heard the bells ring out. His head snapped up to watch them swing back and forth. Their ring was sweet yet unwanted, that meant people were close by in the woods. Too close for Jason's liking. Instead of sharpening his machete, he grabbed it less sharp then preferred and made his way up to the surface.

He threw the heavy trap door open with a swing of his arm and heaved himself up on the main floor of the cabin and kicked the trap door closed while leaving. Coming out into the woods, he ducked behind a tree and watched them approach, a girl and a guy. Jason gave a quiet growl and stalked after them silently, getting within killing distance, he beheaded them both in one great swipe of his machete. Once the bodies fell stiffly to the ground, he picked them up and took them to the lake, dumping them, he went back for the heads.

After disposing of those, Jason went to check out what he was up against. He couldn't get killed this time. He couldn't imagine the pain Dawn would go through if she were to return to the camp and find him dead. She would be so upset. So he had to plan even more carefully about what he was going to do. He watched them so careless and worry free. Glowering at them in anger. One of them felt his hot glare, they began to look around uncomfortably, but not being able to find a source of the anger, they shrugged carelessly and took a sip from their beer. Jason turned and left the campsite.

The nurse had come and took Dawn's daughter back to the nursery. Tayle was still not talking, not in English at least. She spoke in softly spoken Greek to the various shadows. That was when she realized she could see Tayle's servants. All of a sudden, why?

"Tayle." Dawn called her attention. The scarlet eyed Shadow Dancer, looked over at her shoulder at Dawn in question.

"Yes?" She replied. Dawn was quiet for a second, looking down at her lap, there was a baby there a few seconds ago…

"Why can I see them?" She asked. Tayle looked at the tall, thin shadow beside her, it rotated its head on its thin neck to return its master's gaze. Dawn wondered if that was a pet Tayle's father gave her or a fallen Olympian God.

"Once a person gets close to me, they can see them. Jason was able to see them. Speaking of Jason. If he isn't there when we get back. He probably got killed. Hermes was just telling me there was a group of teens in Crystal Lake. If he is dead, I'll go down into the lake and unleash him." Tayle told Dawn. The blonde's heart stopped a second.

"I miss him." Dawn said quietly. Tayle looked at Dawn. Knowing that feeling, never telling anyone that she did. Aphrodite told her that her love wasn't true, merely a trap. But she didn't listen. And she paid the full price. They all did. Every last god, mortal, half-god, animal and creature paid the full price. Except her, and that was why she had those episodes That's the real reason why Tayle refused to get close to anybody, because the last time she trusted someone, they stabbed her in the back.

But something in her, something in her told her that Jason and Dawn wouldn't hurt her, that they would help her. But why? Why was it a homicidal maniac and his possible Stockholm Syndrome suffering love interest? That was what made her wonder. Why was it the other killers that she trusted, hell she trusted Freddy Krueger with her back than an average human being of this world. But she wouldn't tell anyone that. She wouldn't tell anyone anything about her. She wouldn't make that mistake again. Tayle watched the shadow beside her, Hermes knew exactly what was going through his cousin's mind. He shook his head. Tayle saw this.

"Don't you dare tell me it's not my fault because you know it is." She hissed at him in Greek. Hermes gave her a meaningful look.

"It isn't we had no idea of what he had in store for our world. All Aphrodite knew was that he didn't truly love you. And none of our oracles could have known because he wasn't apart of our world. But you should have listened to us when we told you to stop seeing him because he wasn't a gods fearing man." Hermes told her. Tayle scoffed and looked away from him. He was right, she should've listened, but her stupid adolescent self was convinced he really loved her. His last words to her were 'live and learn.' Then he sent the Darkness after her. If Tayle ever met that bastard again, she'd let him have it, everything she had would be unleashed on him. That darkness she absorbed from his attack would be turned against its old master, hopefully tearing him to shreds. But she doubted the long awaited encounter would ever happen.

Dawn watched Tayle argue with the shadow beside her. The thought that the Shadow Master shouldn't be so open with her shadows in public, nor should she speak ancient Greek in public crossed her mind. Dawn sighed, hoping Jason would be okay.

Tayle watched the thunder clouds roll in, they swelled and billowed angrily in the sky. Lighting flashed, lighting up the Shadow Master's face eerily. Thunder clapped above, shaking the hospital. The lights in the hospital flickered. Tayle heard Dawn suck in a startled breathe. She hit the buzzer calling for the nurse. In a few moments a male nurse came, making Tayle feel uneasy.

"Can my daughter be brought in here if the power goes out?" Tayle listened to Dawn, then the nurse returning with a 'nothing is guaranteed' then left. Tayle scoffed, she always hated hospitals. She woke up in one after her home world was destroyed.

"Don't they have generators?" Tayle asked her. Dawn either shrugged or didn't say anything. Tayle closed her eyes, summoning Ares.

"Go watch out for Jason, assist him if he needs it, the last thing Dawn needs is Jason dead, whether he can come back or not." Tayle ordered him. The ex-God of War nodded and fazed through the wall fading slowly into the distance.

That was when the heavens opened up and the power flickered again. Tayle could feel Dawn's nervousness. Tayle looked over her shoulder at Dawn. She'd be leaving Dawn and Jason soon. The child was born, but there was still the matter with that mystery girl taking Dawn from Jason. Tayle didn't know how long it would take to be resolved. She may be there for several more months. She made a promise to Jason, and she wasn't going to let him down.