Author's Note

I do not own Twilight.


After the whole debacle with the Cullens, while Aro sulked and Caius threw knives at pictures of wolves and Marcus… did whatever it was Marcus did, a few of the guard had researched. The Cullens had created one of these half breeds, and Joham had created four, which left the possibility of there being more.

They had found more.

Three more.

One was now full grown, living with her father in Canada.

Two were yet children, living with their father in Wales.

Alec and Demetri had paid them a visit, had a rather amiable discussion about the entire situation, before…

Well, before.

They flew back to London, took the train to Cardiff, and ran from there. Alec already knew the way, leading them to an old, kind of dilapidated looking castle. Jane wrinkled her nose. "This is it?"

Alec banged the knocker against the wood. "This is it."

The door swung open. Behind it was a man so impossibly tall that the twins had to crane their heads back to look at him.

"Oh," he said, looking at Alec. "You returned. Do you need something more?"

Alec did his best impression at looking pathetic. "Our coven threw us out. We didn't know where else to go."

"You had better come in."


The entrance hall was huge, even huger than the castle in Volterra Jane judged. She and Alec followed the man, who had introduced himself as Draco Count, through to a large sitting room decorated with red furniture.

"Why come here?" he asked.

Alec ran a hand through his hair. Jane resisted the urge to roll her eyes. Overplaying it much?

"We haven't got anywhere else to go! No one else will take us, but we're too small to blend in without a vampire that… looks older."

That part was true. They were both halfway surprised the humans had yet to stop them.

"Ah. And of course, you remembered that I have children."

Alec bowed his head. "Yes."

Count pressed his lips into a tight line and studied them for a very long moment. "You may stay here for now, but not permanently. Either you find yourselves another arrangement or turn yourselves a babysitter."