Disclaimer: And yet again I tell thee, I don't own any of Underworld. I only own the characters not originally in Underworld.

As Alyssa and Harold walked up the driveway of Alyssa's home the door swung open and Nanette stepped out. Her eyes opened wide when she saw Harold.

"Harold what on earth are you doing here? I though you stayed behind in London?"

Alyssa and Harold grinned at each other. "You know Alyssa asked me the same exact thing. You know what I told her," Alyssa and Harold walked up onto the porch, "I told her that I am your godfather, and I want to be here for you."

"That's good. I was beginning to miss having you around Harold," Nanette said as she hugged him.

"Are your parents in the house Nanette," Harold asked as he pulled away and looked towards the door.

"Yes they're in there. I'm sure they'll be glad to see you Harold; why don't you just go ahead inside? I want to talk to Alyssa for a minute, alone."

"Of course Nanette," Harold said as he nodded and walked into the house.

"What do you want to talk about Nanette? Don't tell me you're going to take sides with Mother and Father like you always do. Why don't you just go ahead and say it? I'm the bad seed, the black sheep," Alyssa growled.

"Come on Alyssa don't be like that! Mother and Father just worry about you, as do I. In fact I was leaving just now to come and find you."

"Did Mom and Dad send you to look for me Nanette," Alyssa grumbled.

"No they did not even know I was leaving the house. Alyssa can't you just try to be a little thankful that you have people who love you and don't want you to be hurt," Nanette whispered.

"I am grateful Nanette," Alyssa whispered and then her eyes blazed with fire, "But I hate it when you three treat me like a child! I have a news flash for all you; I am not a child anymore!!" Alyssa pushed past Nanette and stomped into the house.

"Alyssa wait!" Nanette ran after her and Alyssa stopped. "We do not try to treat you as a child Alyssa. We just want you to be safe. You are…are…oh how do I put this? You are spontaneous. You do things on a whim, you don't think about things before you act."

"Thank you very much for that Nanette. I think before I act. I just think differently than you, Mom and Dad."

"Alyssa can I ask you something without you getting mad at me," Nanette asked quietly.

"It all depends on what the question is Nanette," Alyssa whispered.

"Why, when we ask you to do something, you don't listen to me, Mom or Dad, but you listen to Harold? What is so different about us and him?"

"One he is my godfather and two he does not treat me like a child. He treats me like a grown woman who knows how to take care of herself. He does not make me feel stupid. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go to bed. We do have school tomorrow." Alyssa ran up the stairs leaving Nanette to gape at her retreating back.

The following morning Alyssa drover herself to school. 'It feels good to not have Nanette in the car with me. I love her, but sometimes she gets on my last nerves.' Alyssa thought to herself.

Alyssa pulled into a parking space, turned of the car, picked up her bag and slowly got out of the car. She stopped when she saw Sam standing a few feet away, leaning against his own car.

"Shit on a fucking stick," Alyssa hissed under her breath. She slung her bag over her shoulder, ducked her head and tried to walk quickly by Sam.

"Hey Alyssa, wait up," Sam exclaimed. Alyssa stopped and groaned. She turned to face him as he came up next to her.

"What the fuck do you want Sam," Alyssa asked quietly. Sam looked at her with wide eyes. "Whoa somebody's a little testy this morning aren't they," Sam laughed.

"I don't know Sam, why don't you tell me if I'm testy this morning? You can go ahead and keep on asking me stupid questions and then you can see how testy I can really be." Alyssa turned away from him and began to walk towards the school.

"Hey I just want to ask you something about last night Alyssa," Sam said as he ran to catch up with her, "Did you realize that a," he looked around then whispered, "A Lycan had been in the spot you had been standing in possibly only minutes before you showed up and could still have been close by?"

Alyssa rolled her eyes. "Yes Sam I realized that. I'm not stupid you know. Is that all you wanted to talk to me about Sam," Alyssa asked.

"Yeah I just found out from my folks last night that Marcus, the last vampire elder, is going to be coming to the United States in a few days. My parent's have offered him to stay in our home and he has accepted. He should be here by Friday. I was wondering if you would like to come and meet him."

Alyssa looked at Sam with wide eyes. "Marcus is coming here, to this town, on Friday," Alyssa whispered. Sam smiled and nodded his head.

"It is an honor that he is coming to the United States and it's an even greater honor that he will be staying in my parents home." Sam held his head up high.

"Um would you excuse me please Sam," Alyssa asked as she saw her sister get out of her car, "I have to go and talk to my sister." Sam watched her as she ran across the parking lot to talk to her sister.

"Nanette we need to talk," Alyssa said urgently as she grabbed Nanette's arm and looked around. Nanette looked at her quizzically.

"So now you want to talk? Neither last night nor this morning did you want to speak with me, Mother or Father. What changed your mind?"

"Okay I admit I was being a real bitch last night and this morning, but there is something I think you should know. Sam came up to me just now and told me something very disturbing. He said that Marcus is coming to the United States."

"Well it's not like he's coming here Alyssa. We don't have to worry about him until he does end up coming here."

"You see that's the thing Nanette! Marcus is coming to the United States and he is coming to this town! He's going to be staying with Sam and his parents at his home, and Sam has invited me to come over and meet him, Marcus," Alyssa hissed.

Nanette's eyes opened wide with shock. "Oh my God," she whispered. "I told you Nanette. This is not good," Alyssa groaned.

"He might be able to tell Mother and Father apart if they're together in a crowd, and Godfather Harold, but he can't identify us Nanette."

"How do you know that Alyssa," Nanette asked suspiciously.

"Well you see I kind of ran into him a few days before we left. He thought I was just another vampire. It seems that the elders too are deceived by the Vampire and Lycan blood in us."

By this time Nanette's eyes were so wide that Alyssa was afraid they would pop out of her head. "You…you met and talked to Marcus and you didn't tell any of us? Are you insane Alyssa!? You should have told us!"

Alyssa's eyes narrowed into slits. "I knew I couldn't tell you because you, Mother and Father would go fucking nuts! Kind of like you are now! I had a hard enough time telling Harold and then an even harder time making him promise he wouldn't tell any of you."

"You told Harold above us, your blood family!?"

"I told him because I knew that he would listen to me and not go fucking nuts at the thought that I had met big, bad, elder Marcus."

"Alyssa I think we need to tell Mom and Dad about this. We should just skip school and go straight home right now," Nanette said as she digged through her purse for her car keys.

"I can't believe this," Alyssa whispered.

"What?"

"Miss Faultless is going to skip school!? I can't believe that you of all people brought up skipping school! Usually that's my idea and you always refuse to do it because 'it just isn't right," Alyssa said mocking Nanette.

"Well this is important!" Nanette exclaimed.

"Well you know what? You can be the bad girl this time and skip school. I'm staying; I'll see you later." Alyssa turned and walked quickly away from her sister.

"Well it looks like once again I have to tell our parents what Alyssa found out," Nanette sighed as she got into her car and drove away.