Sorry folks for leaving you in the lurch for 9 months (I could've had a baby in that time, but I haven't), but my computer died about two days after my last update, and I only got the computer up and running in November. But why did I leave my update until now? Well, to answer that truthfully, I wasn't in the mood for updating my stories, but I'm in the mood now, and I have another three, maybe four new stories to put up. Yay me.

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Thank you so much for your reviews, and again, sorry for the long tedious wait. Hopefully I'll be able to update sooner. Fingers crossed Hope you enjoy this chapter. This one is not about Nuria and Donar, just about what's going on when they are talking. Enjoy. :)

Part 7: Intruder.

In Thierry's Office However…

Lord Thierry is sitting in his high back, black leather swivel chair with a pen up at his lips. He is looking through a contract, debating whether or not to sign it. If there is one thing that Thierry knows from experience, it's signing something without reading it first. Thierry may be blonde, but he's certainly not stupid.

This particular contract was sent by Aradia, the new Mother of the Maiden, Mother, Crone triangle. It was sent to ask Thierry if he would lease out some of his land for the Inner Circle to have their Samhain celebrations.

He is just about to put pen to paper to sign the contract, when there comes a knock on the heavy oak door.

"Come in." Thierry says, finally signing his name. The door opens and in walks Nilsson, looking as though he's seen better days. He also has a worried expression on his face.

"What is it Nilsson?" Thierry asks in an exasperated voice, not looking up from the desk. He picks up about twenty sheets of paper and is thumbing through them.

"There's an intruder on the grounds Sir." Nilsson says, looking at Thierry as though he might explode any second. Thierry's head snaps up and his expression is both surprised and horrific.

"Who? How?" Thierry finally says, pushing his chair over to the computer on his other desk. He switches it on and enters his password. The screen flickers to life, and he logs onto the mansion's security system. And there on the screen is a figure dressed entirely in black, skulking in the darkness. His can't be seen.

"We don't know Sir. Patrick saw the figure on camera five minutes ago Sir." Nilsson replies, now expressionless once more.

"Who is on Ground Duty tonight?" The Night Lord asks, not taking his eyes off the figure, now going around to the back if the mansion.

"Cameron Willis and Horace Blackthorn, Sir." The other made vampire replies.

"Call Rashel, Quinn, Keller, Galen, Ash, Delos, Jez and Morgead! Tell them to search the grounds and bring the intruder to me. I want to question him." Thierry looks at Nilsson. "I want you and Lupe on this too. And bring in those two idiots who are supposed to be doing their job to me."

"Yes Sir." Nilsson turns on his heel and walks out of Thierry's office. Thierry, meanwhile, looks at the computer screen, and clicks a button, the screen then changes and the intruder walks past another hidden camera.

"Who are you? And what are you doing here?" Thierry asks the screen.

Out on the grounds…

"I don't see anything, do you?" Ash asks Delos fifteen minutes later. Both of the Lamia vampires are silently walking the grounds, looking for the intruder.

"I don't see anything either, but I sense that there was someone here not long ago. Lamia, by the feel of it." The Prince replies, both vampires are walking past Thierry's outdoor pool.

"You know," Ash starts off. "This vampire could've just been one of Thierry's men." He looks around and bumps into Delos, who has suddenly stopped dead.

"Hey! What's wrong?" Ash asks, gathering himself up for a fight. "What'd you stop for?"

"Sshh!" Delos replies, holding up a hand to silence the older Lamia. "I think I hear something."

Five minutes go by, and Ash can't hear anything. And neither does Delos.

"Meow!" Ash says, breaking the silence, and causing Delos to jump out of his skin.

"Ash! You son of a bitch! Don't do that!" Delos gives Ash a massive punch on the arm. Ash meanwhile is nearly rolling on the ground, pissing himself laughing.

"Sorry." Ash breathes. "I couldn't help it!" Delos gives Ash a look that could kill.

"That wasn't funny you know!"

"Yes it was. You should've seen yourself. If you were a cat, you would've clung to that balcony above you! You jumped so high." Ash sniggers a bit more.

"Shut up Ash, or I'll personally see to it that you don't father any more children!" Delos hisses.

Ash abruptly stops laughing at that.

"Speaking of, Mare's pregnant." Delos stops dead again, turns around and faces Ash.

"Really?" At Ash's nod, he continues. "Maggie's pregnant as well."

Now it's Ash's turn to stop dead. He looks horrified.

"Don't look at me like that Ash Redfern. I'm a big boy; I can get my wife pregnant if I want to."

"No, it's not that. It's just, Morgead, Galen and Eric all told me that Jez, Keller and Thea are pregnant as well." Ash replies.

"So?" The other Redfern asks.

"So…don't you think it's kinda weird that the girls are pregnant again at the exact same time?"

"Where are you going with this Ash?" Delos asks suspiciously.

"Well, that last time the girls got pregnant, it was Deven who did it. You don't think that he had something to do with it this time?"

"I don't know. Maybe you should ask James, Quinn, David and Thierry if their soulmates are pregnant, and if they are, I think we need to have a word with Deven."

Back in Thierry's office…

"Thierry? Can I ask you something?" Ash asks, with his head down, a little ashamed of what he's gonna ask the Night Lord.

"What is it Ash?" The blonde replies.

"Is uh…is…is Hannah pregnant again?" Ash finally looks up into Thierry's old eyes.

"Yes, why?" The ancient vampire replies.

"Because all the other girls are too, we, that is to say me and Delos, have asked James, Quinn and David, and they say that Poppy, Rashel and Gillian are pregnant." Ash answers.

"What's wrong with that?" Thierry asks.

"Don't you think that's a bit odd? Do you not think that Deven might've done something?"

"He might have, but I don't think he has." Thierry replies indignantly.

"Maybe we should ask him?" Ash says, reverting back to his normal lazy self.

"An excellent idea. Thank you for volunteering Ash."

"Me? Why me?" Ash protests, his ever changing eyes open wide, his eyebrows in his hair.

"Did you find the intruder?" Thierry changes the subject, deliberately ignoring the younger vampire's protest.

"No one did. He must've already left when we got out there." Ash replies, still in shock that he has to ask Deven about the girls being pregnant.

"Alright. You are dismissed." The Elder going back to his paperwork, leaving Ash standing there gawking at him.