Kentucky Sometime Before 1954
Noah smiles as he follows a particularly beautiful butterfly around the woods. Jasper, Charlotte, and Peter left earlier to hunt and Noah remained behind as he chooses not to use violence now that he's allowed to make those sorts of choices. He makes it to a clearing filled with flowers and more butterflies.
Noah laughs and spins around in the field letting the butterflies land on his arms. This is why they left the wars.
Noah stumbles as he is pulled into a vision of the past, future, or both he can't tell. He is surrounded by other vampires, they are shouting orders, screaming in pain, it's all too confusing for him. It's snowing, or is it ash, or is it flower petals? "Noah! Omen! Save yourself! Kill them! I'm alright! Run!"
Noah whimpers in pain too lost in his visions to see the group of humans walking towards him in concern. "Excuse me sir, are you alright?" A young man asks.
"S..hem..sa..m?" Noah mumbles and looks up at them standing in front of him. Images come in and out of focus overlapping each other. A group of concerned teens, vampires covered in blood, and strange golden eyes.
"What did you say? Do you need some help?"
"Save myself. Kill them all. Run." Noah's eyes are glazed over as he rushes towards the scared frozen teens.
"Are you sure Noah is out here? We told him to stay at the house when we went out." Jasper asks Peter as they flashed through the forest.
"You know how my gift works Major. I just know shit and I know we need to get to Noah now."
The scent of blood grows stronger and they speed up to find the clearing Noah is sitting in. Five bodies completely ripped apart and Noah repeatedly hitting himself in the face and biting his arms. They rush over to him trying to stop him.
Jasper sits behind him and grabs his arms to restrain him causing Noah to bite at Jasper's arms instead.
They've seen Noah have an episode before and know they just have to wait it out, but it has never been this bad before. After several minutes Noah calms down and regains the ability to talk instead of hissing.
"Can you tell me what happened or do you need more time." He shakes the excess venom Noah drooled from his hands and tenderly rubs his face.
"I was following the butterflies daddy. They are so beautiful and they don't fear us like other animals."
They look for the butterflies expecting them to have flown off on the account of all the noise but are surprised. The bodies are covered in them.
Peter stands up and grabs a butterfly "I think they're unafraid because butterflies and vampires have one thing in common. We both drink blood."
"Then how did this happen?"
"I had a vision about a fight. One in the future or one we already fought. It got all muddled in my head daddy." Noah whines.
"It's alright baby. W know how much your gift affects you, but I've got some new rules for you. Number six is no wondering off without me, auntie Char, or uncle Pete. Number seven is tell daddy about visions that put baby in harm. Once we get back to the house you can add them to the rules board."
"Daddy how can they be rules if I didn't know I was going to have this vision?"
"I know you didn't know it was coming baby, but daddy was so worried when he found you. You can agree these two new rules will help daddy make sure this never happens again, right?"
"Yes daddy." Noah stops pouting and smiles at Jasper
Butterflies do this thing called mud-puddling where they hover over sources like feces, mud, blood, tears, etc. in search of nutrients they need like sodium and glucose.