"What's this one from?" Jeremy asked, pointing to one of her scars.
Leila rolled over to check, which one he was pointing at in their favorite nighttime game now that little Lily was able to sleep through the night. "Oh, that one," she laughed, realizing that the one he was pointing to wasn't from hunting at all. "That one's from my early days with my car, back when I wasn't too good with motors, you know? Well, I was racing the highway near town when the motor ups and dies on me, throwing me like an angry horse and throwing something hard. Kyle carried me back home soon as he saw what'd happened." It had left her a nice scar right below her right shoulder blade, teaching her she still had a lot to learn about motors.
He picked her up and turned her to face him. "And what about this one?" He pointed at the one above her left breast.
"Hey, Puppy!" she snuggled next to him, "I think that's deviating from the normal game. Only one a night, 'member?"
Jeremy nodded and hugged her close, and she leaned up and kissed him, loving their other nighttime pastime and eager to get away from that scar. After three years, she still couldn't understand why D had saved her life like that, and, though he had asked before about that scar, she wasn't about to tell how she had gotten it.
Late that night, as unable to sleep more than three hours per go as she'd always been – a habit from her hunter days that she knew would never change – she got up and stood at their window, staring up at the moon and fingering the skin around that scar.
A/N: A little help. A)Should Mayerling have to kill a vampire who was once his friend andrefuse to continue hunting, should Charlotte and Mayerling see Dmitri watching other kids play, or should Mayerling and Charlotte decide that they don't want their son to be a hunter? and B) should I have Dmitri arrive at Leila's through D or through Mayerling's carriage needing repairs? Please tell me!