The Three Fold Law

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Just before sunrise the clan turned into their human forms. Now that they had the option of going out and about during the daylight hours, none of them were ready to go into stone sleep.

They all stood on the parapets and watch the morning bath them in its radiance. All of them had earned this reward, by never giving up on humanity like one of theirs had.

"So, what do you guys want to do first?" Elisa chuckled at the stunned faces surrounding her.

"Wow." Lexington muttered.

Elisa looked up at her mate and saw that he too was in awe; she had seen it everyday with him, and had come to brush it off as the time she was separated from her only love. Now it wouldn't be, nothing would separate them until it was time for death to part them.

Once the other slowly came back to the moment, Angela answered her mother's question. "Is everything too much?"

Everyone laughed, but Elisa finally chuckled out, "maybe, but that doesn't mean we can't try."

"May I first suggest a change in attire?" Owen dutifully added.

The group nodded, and all left for their various bedrooms. Elisa walked in with her mate to what was to become their rooms in a matter of hours. "How fast do you think the others will get changed?"

"A few minutes at the most, my mate." Goliath grinned at the sound of those words.

His mate. His only true love. They were finally mated and one. Elisa was radiant as she unpacked the bag she had brought with her the night before.

For the first time in so long, she had taken a vacation from work to spend quality time with the Clan. On the first night of that vacation so much had happened so fast. Goliath worried that it was too much.

"Don't worry Big Guy. Yeah things went fast, but I'm not sorry for one bit of it. I love you, and I always have." Elisa turned around and smiled.

She knew his heart and his mind, and Goliath wouldn't have had it any other way. But, he would always worry for his new mate.

"Elisa …"

She turned and pulled him into her arms. How she loved looking up into those midnight black eyes. She just wanted to stand there lost in those eyes for the rest of their lives, but there were enjoyable things waiting for them to do. "Goliath, I love you. This is better than any of my wildest fantasies of becoming your mate."

"As it has been compared to mine. I love you more my mate … my Elisa." His deep voice still rumbled in his chest.

Elisa laid her hands on that chest and was lost for a moment in the feeling of the sound trembling through her hands. Then he swallowed her in his arms, running his fingers up and down her back. Goliath loved how relaxed and lost in abandon the action put Elisa. It was rare when all her worries left the lovely detective's face.

Outside of the bedroom the younger generations were listening in. Lex looked up to the others. "How long do you think they will be?"

"Let's just say take your time everyone." Brooklyn shook his head. He was happy for the pair, but a little on the jealous side too. When would he find a mate for himself?

Just over two hours later, the group slipped out into Manhattan. Now and again they caught glimpses of Dominique Destine … with MacBeth? No, that just couldn't be possible!

After a full day of shopping, sight seeing, eating out, and not once being harassed by Quarrymen, the group trekked home for a long sleep. At least the others drifted off to dreams the moment their heads touched the pillow. Elisa and Goliath were awake for over an hour longer before they finally collapsed from exhaustion.

The next day was a snow day for them all. MacBeth was called to inform him the college's classes were canceled for the day due to the weather. He didn't mind that at all. In fact he was glad to have more time with the female who had a tight hold on his old heart … and had such since even when he wasn't free to be with her.

Inside he hoped that she would stay with him. But, she had a business to run. So he was objective with his hope. "That was the school. It would seem that I have the day off."

"Well, it is so warm under these blankets. And I would really hate to lose any personnel to weather related accidents. Just give me a moment." Dominique smiled at her lover as she pulled out her cell phone. "Heather? It's Dominique. I'm fine. The weather has me pinned in (actually that was MacBeth holding her close – but that was something Heather had no business knowing). Just close down the offices for the day. Yes, I'm sure that they all will appreciate it. Goodbye Heather. There you are my King. We both have the day off, now what can we do with it?"

"I was thinking along the lines of keeping one another warm and satiated. That is unless you have any suggestions?" MacBeth cooed as he laid claim to her lips. To hold her so close for so long, it was better than in any of his erotic dreams of her.

Neither knew that the primary reason for their pleasurable activities the rest of the day had already been fulfilled with their first exploit. Nor did they know what it would bring about to the world.

A strange occurrence happened at that moment – what would have been only one split in all ways to became two. The magic that had been used on Dominique had touched the unborn child in a way that had been seen eons before by a female who had been gone … though never quiet forgotten.

In the shadowy world that was his prison, a true demon chuckled. Soon he would be free again, and then he would have the human for his mate.

"Who or what are you?" The trembling human asked. He was foolish enough to do business with this shadowy creature, but smart enough to fear the ancient one.

"An enemy of gargoyles … that is all that you need know for now. The time is not yet right to strike. But very soon … you will see. Leave me to my thoughts and return only when I summon you." The shadow growled.

John Castaway couldn't help but feel like he had just sold his soul to the devil. He wanted those gargoyles dead for what they had done to him and his ancestor. Still, something in his core told him that this new ally was worse than the blue demon he still wanted to kill so badly.

MacBeth cuddled his night wind close to his body. How right this felt … how whole this woman made him. This was a feeling he didn't want to lose. "Demona …"

"Demona is dead. My King … I know that you gave me that name, but that demon I was destroyed our lives so many times for so very long. I want her to die completely. Please, my King and only love." Dominique looked up to him with such a lonely longing in her eyes.

"Alright, my night wind. I'd do anything fer you. I don't want to go back to how things were before." MacBeth knew that it was a lot to set before the shaken woman.

There was a chance that once Puck's spell wore off that she would go back to hating him, and MacBeth dreaded that with all of his heart. That he would ever lose his red haired goddess.

Their bond that held them to life eternal also bonded their cores, making certain things a double pleasure neither had ever before imagined and making the idea of hiding their feelings from one another impossible in close contact.

Dominique soundly kissed his lips. And then opened her soul completely to him. This was a moment she wanted him to never question. "I love you my King. And I don't want this to end either. I only stayed away out of fear that you still hated me for the past that I cannot undo – no matter how badly I wish otherwise. Can we leave the past behind us forever?"

"I don't know for certain of things that have yet to pass, but I know that what has been done cannot change. We must let it go or we will suffer for eternity with it. I hate how our lives have been to now, night wind. I still love you as much as I did back when we young and foolish. Will ya marry me?"

Dominique gasped in shock. It had all come so fast. Could MacBeth too be under Puck's spell?

A barely noticeable voice in her heart said otherwise. And for once that positive voice that she had long ignored would be the one Dominique would follow. "Yes, my King. Yes. I will marry you!"

Happily, MacBeth took claim of her lips … sealing their vow and the fate of the world. And then she felt a strange feeling of not being herself. Could it mean?

She had only felt this feeling of off-ness when she had been carrying Angela's egg. So, quickly Dominique had conceived her future husband's child? How would MacBeth take the news – with loathing or joy?

It would be better to say it and get it over with. And the man had the right to know before he committed himself to her forever. And that was how Dominique knew it would be – forever. Their vows, even in a human church would be until death would part them. She was going to do all she could to keep her love alive and happy for so long as she lived.

"My King. I believe that I am with child. You feel the strange weariness and hunger towards all that is bitter. I have only felt it once before – when I was carrying my former mate's child." Dominique prepared herself for the worse, but received the better.

MacBeth laid her back and rested his hand on her belly with a mixture of joy and awe on his now younger face. "Then we had better get married sooner rather than later. So that our child won't have anything ill said of it. Hello wee one."

Dominique laughed at him as MacBeth put a tender kiss where their unborn child grew. Truly, they would be one forever.